Elizabeth Landers‏ @ElizLanders
From @barbarastarrcnn: the Joint Chiefs, including the Chairman, did not know Trump’s transgender ban was coming.

pacino wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:So getting back to that Boy Scout debacle

Turns out that Randall Stephenson, current BSOA president, is also the CEO of ATT
They've been trying to get the needed approval from Trump for the Time/Warner merger

so this looks even worse now, as he's using the Boy Scouts as pawn to fluff up the president and get approval to make gobs of money

The president is invited to speak at every jamboree. I saw Bush speak at the one I went to. Well he sent a video bc it rained the night he was supposed to come.

Obama, too. Trump simply lied about that.

i'm more disappointed it was explicitly political; it should've been stressed that it was to be non-political. Getting them to boo a former president and a former candidate is just pathetic.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Elizabeth Landers‏ @ElizLanders
From @barbarastarrcnn: the Joint Chiefs, including the Chairman, did not know Trump’s transgender ban was coming.

The governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback, is expected to be nominated as the United States ambassador at large for international religious freedom.

td11 wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:He deleted the tweet and said it was a general warning against all leakers but still randomly out Reinces handle at the end of the tweet.

What a dumbass.

Between this and the earlier Short firing story, it seems scaramucci gaslights media in an attempt to discredit them

Monkeyboy wrote:

td11 wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:He deleted the tweet and said it was a general warning against all leakers but still randomly out Reinces handle at the end of the tweet.

What a dumbass.

Between this and the earlier Short firing story, it seems scaramucci gaslights media in an attempt to discredit them

yeh, he's not dumb. He knows exactly what he's doing. This is the first guy Trump has put in charge that actually scares me by himself. He's going to get everyone in line much better than anyone else has done.

Remove the media and our democracy fails. It's really that simple.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

td11 wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:He deleted the tweet and said it was a general warning against all leakers but still randomly out Reinces handle at the end of the tweet.

What a dumbass.

Between this and the earlier Short firing story, it seems scaramucci gaslights media in an attempt to discredit them

yeh, he's not dumb. He knows exactly what he's doing. This is the first guy Trump has put in charge that actually scares me by himself. He's going to get everyone in line much better than anyone else has done.

Remove the media and our democracy fails. It's really that simple.

He didn't know his PFD was publicly available. He is an overmatched idiot who doesn't know what he's doing, much like his boss. He will not get everyone in line because the chaotic structure of the WH is a feature not a bug to Trump. There is no bigger plan. This isn't 8 dimensional chess. It's a clown car being driven by a narcissistic, vindictive moron, and Scaramucci is just another passenger.

Monkeyboy wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

td11 wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:He deleted the tweet and said it was a general warning against all leakers but still randomly out Reinces handle at the end of the tweet.

What a dumbass.

Between this and the earlier Short firing story, it seems scaramucci gaslights media in an attempt to discredit them

yeh, he's not dumb. He knows exactly what he's doing. This is the first guy Trump has put in charge that actually scares me by himself. He's going to get everyone in line much better than anyone else has done.

Remove the media and our democracy fails. It's really that simple.

He didn't know his PFD was publicly available. He is an overmatched idiot who doesn't know what he's doing, much like his boss. He will not get everyone in line because the chaotic structure of the WH is a feature not a bug to Trump. There is no bigger plan. This isn't 8 dimensional chess. It's a clown car being driven by a narcissistic, vindictive moron, and Scaramucci is just another passenger.

well if he stops the leaks, he'll have done more to help Trump than Priebus ever did. We'll see what happens. He does seem crazy, but it seems more by design than Trump. I don't think Trump is playing 8th dimensional chess, though Putin is clearly capable of it and I'm not so sure he's not still pulling some strings. Whatever happened to that backchannel?

jerseyhoya wrote:If he stops the leaks? Like leaks from the press shop are causing 1/100th of this administration's problems.

...

And even if the leaking and infighting stops (spoiler: it won't), he still won't have the first clue about helping to run the executive branch of government because he lacks basic knowledge.

pacino wrote:PA may pay for their budget:

Republicans who control the chamber unveiled their plan to close a $2 billion hole in the $32 billion state budget late Wednesday. It includes a mix of taxes and borrowing.

The proposal would borrow $1.3 billion against Pennsylvania’s annual share of the 1998 multistate settlement with tobacco companies. It would also introduce a new severance tax on Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling.

Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman emerged from closed-door talks Wednesday night to announce details of the GOP’s plan. He says the severance tax is expected to raise about $100 million each year.

The gas industry has long resisted a severance tax, saying it would harm the state’s competitiveness. GOP leaders have long rejected such a tax.

Gas drillers currently pay an impact fee, which is distributed among the state government and local communities where drilling takes place.

Corman also revealed new or higher taxes on consumers’ natural gas, electric and telecommunications bills. Corman says the new taxes will raise a total of about $550 million per year.

more borrowing bs but they started with a Shale tax!!!!