It's not even five freaking o'clock

[DemocratSinceBirth]

-and we learned Trump might have knocked up his housekeeper
-and we learned that Team Trump is going to try to undermine James Comey
-and we learned that Team Trump is going to try to undermine Rod Rosenstein
-and we learned General Kelly said Trump is "dishonorable"
-and we learned Trump is refusing an interview with Mueller
-and we learned Trump is reversing his stance on TPP


#this is not normal

[leftieNanner]

1. Not five freaking o'clock

Does that mean I can't have a cocktail yet?

I have to say that my consumption of alcohol has seriously increased since November 2016!

[revmclaren]

6. I picked the wrong year to give up alcohol!

My physical health is better but my mental state sucks.



Only 2018 - 2020

[forgotmylogin]

30. I picked the wrong year to give up popcorn!

Okay just kidding! I thought that was funny! I still love popcorn!

Good going to you!!

[Docreed2003]

32. Picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!

[kairos12]

36. and dont call me Shirley.

[calimary]

37. ROFL!

[raven mad]

42. surely you jest.......................... eom

[CTyankee]

13. I wondered if I was the only one here who has said this and done it...

I hold out til 4:30 and then have my first glass of Chardonnay. It puts me in a much better mood than I've been all day with this crazy man in the WH.

[leftieNanner]

15. I hear you!

I try to have the Chardonnay chilled and ready for Rachel at six.

[CTyankee]

17. About the drinking before 5 pm, my mother used to say "It's 5:00 somewhere."

I loved it...

P.s. she lived til the age of 94.

[leftieNanner]

19. My Mom Too!

I lost her 10 years ago at age 90.

She also said "If you don't have anything nice to say....." That one has been more difficult to follow lately.

Mom and Dad had a glass of wine or a dry martini almost every night with a few games of dominoes or cribbage.

[japple]

20. What great role models!!! Who was it that said "If you don't have anything

nice to say...sit by me"? Dorothy Parker?

[leftieNanner]

22. Just googled it

Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Teddy's daughter).

My parents were good people. Old time Republicans. They would be horrified to see what is happening now. Dad had a photo of Dubya on his desk for a while, but he got pretty disgusted and the picture disappeared quickly.

[japple]

28. Many of my late, great relatives were conservative and (probably) voted for republican

candidates, but most of them would be appalled to witness this current crop of GOPpers, esp. the Paul Ryans and Mitch McConnells. I must admit, however, that some of my cousins (both in Georgia and Texas) are fundies and foxxers, much to my dismay.
.

[dameatball]

47. Bingo. Except it's usualy a red.

[democratisphere]

29. 5:00 PM is now the new 4:00 PM in the drumpfian alternative facts universe

so you should be just fine!

[Sherman A1]

2. Trying to get all the important stuff done

On Thursday, so he can cut out early on Friday for a long weekend.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Reposted:

Link to tweet

[OldHippieChick]

23. Maybe I'm late to the party

but that's one of the funniest things I've read all day.

[Hoyt]

4. The evening is early. Reversing the TPP doesn't bother me other than we never should have reneged

in the first place.

You are right, "this is not normal." Of course, things haven't been normal since the run up to 2016 elections. It really wasn't normal on the Democratic side either, although nothing like the GOPers.

[Ilsa]

11. IQ45 will claim to have changed something to make it better for the US. nt

[BootinUp]

38. I agree! nt

[Farmer-Rick]

44. TPP is NAFTA on steroids

It allows corporations to bring suit against nations before tribunals of lawyers who work for those same corporations. It does NOT give this right to citizens, unions or environmental groups. It allows for NO appeal process. It allows corporations to sue over expected lost earnings, not actual lost profits just anticipated lost profits. If that minimum wage hike will cause a loss of profits for Nissan and Volkswagon factories in TN, then we get to pay a huge fine or change the law.

This is a loss of sovereignty and democracy on a scale never before implemented. I think it is one of the reasons some Dems split away from Hillary. It was the only thing I was glad about when Trump won.....(that of course was before we knew about all his crimes against our country)

If he signs up for TPP, he will lose another part of his so called base.

[guillaumeb]

5. Will Trump blame Obama, or Clinton?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. For knocking up his housekeeper ?

[guillaumeb]

9. Absolutely.

Trump never admits to being responsible for anything, so he needs someone, anyone, to blame.

[calimary]

41. Exactly. Remember, his close-to-the-heart motto is "the buck stops over there somewhere."

[guillaumeb]

57. Nice.

[madinmaryland]

12. The Clenis?

[Guilded Lilly]

8. And friends wonder why I do not want to leave my house on my day off!...

INFJ, born under the Sign of Cancer curling up in my protective shell!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Or as I call it, "Thursday." NT

[Vinca]

14. Do we know what "normal" is anymore??

[BumRushDaShow]

16. THIS

[Scurrilous]

18. You forgot Poland.

Mike Pence telling Israeli political leaders to lay off Poland over the Holocaust. Wow.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210483973

[rainin]

21. Reports of trump dangling pardons:

Scoop here from NBC: Mueller likely to report at least four "findings" on Trump and obstruction of justice, including dangling pardons to grand jury witnesses

Tweeted by Rachel Maddow

[BootinUp]

24. How much longer can this turd

Keep stinking?

[magicarpet]

25. This dude is from the dregs that American....

..... society could possibly offer. Scraping the bottom of the bottom - deep into the muck to come up with the likes of human garbage as tRdump.

[Docreed2003]

33. More like the turd that won't flush! Nt

[C_U_L8R]

26. What time is the tar and feathering?

That's what I want to know

[dchill]

27. That undermining team is going to be stretched as badly...

as the State Department.

[Achilleaze]

31. republican "values" are right out of the scuzzbucket

[Initech]

34. Every day is like peeling an onion.

The more layers you pull back, the more it stinks, and the more likely you are to cry as a result.

[Elwood P Dowd]

35. And this is just the daytime soap opera called

'The Manhattan Hillbillies'. The evening version, 'Spanky and Stormy' should be a doozy.

I was born in the 1940s when Truman was president. Never dreamed I would witness such a disaster in our White House.

[oberliner]

39. The woman in question emphatically denied the affair to the AP

There is zero evidence of this being true.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

43. "and we learned Trump might have knocked up his housekeeper ."

What part of "might have" don't you understand ?

[Blue_true]

40. I missed something, what is the reverse on TPP? nt

[Farmer-Rick]

45. Trump wants to sign up for it now.

I'm sure he will lose some of his base on that. Around here NAFTA and all those trade agreements Obama signed are the devil.

[Blue_true]

48. I read the news articles on it early this morning.

Trump is an idiot. Fortunately this country still have enough standing that TPP countries will still let us in. I was under the belief that TPP was actually good for farmers.

One thing that I think that a lot of Americans don't get, even politicians is that it is automation that is killing off millions of jobs, not trade deals. There was a CBS 60 Minutes piece a couple of years back where an venture capitalist pointed out the way to bring manufacturing back to America was to use smart machines, but he pointed out not a lot of jobs will come with that return.

Some here make the observation that historically automation has expanded the labor pool, even as it took some jobs. The issue that I have with that premise is that at no time in history but now have machines competed with the craft AND brain labor that humans provide, we are in unchartered waters.

[Farmer-Rick]

54. I re-read my post and it was unclear. The "around here" I meant was Trump land rural east TN

Sorry about the confusion. That's where I live.

But referring to the TPP, it is not good for America and it certainly isn't good for small organic farmers like me.

Yeah, if your an industrial grain farmer with 100s of thousands of acres who sells bushels of GMO, Round Up laced and pesticide drenched grains for pennies you need other countries to buy it all up from you. You need poorer countries who can't produce on your scale to eat up the chemical laced "farming" you do. But allowing other corporate farmers to come in and compete with smaller farmers here is a sure bet for the continued collapse of the American Small farming community.

It allows corporations to bring suit against nations before tribunals of lawyers who work for those same corporations, with NO conflict of interest regulations. It does NOT give this right to citizens, unions or environmental groups. It allows for NO appeal process. It allows corporations to sue over expected lost earnings, not actual lost profits just anticipated lost profits. If that minimum wage hike will cause a loss of profits for Nissan and Volkswagen factories in TN, then we get to pay a huge fine or change the law.

This is a loss of sovereignty and democracy on a scale never before seen in the US. It's neoliberal economics race to the bottom. I think it is one of the reasons some Dems split away from Hillary and Obama.

If he signs up for TPP, he will lose another part of his so called base. The people around here aren't as dumb as he thinks. They see how NAFTA and Obama's free trade deals were deals only for big corporation and not for them. They equate those free trade giveaways with Clinton and Obama and think the Dems are the ones promoting it. So, Trump will piss off those Trump voters if he sings the TPP.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

46. Don't forget the return of the sub-prime mortgages

Return to the bad old days.

[BobTheSubgenius]

49. I hear good things about opiods.

Just sayin'

[ananda]

50. And 45 is going to pardon Scooter Libby ..

.. for the Valerie Plame leak.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

51. That and a half dozen things happened after 5:00

[RKP5637]

52. He's not just an embarrassment to the US, but the entire planet! n/t

[Atman]

53. Isn't it GREAT!

It's proves he's not a regular politician like those other guys who actually know something about how government works! More power to him.

(Do I need the sarcasm font?)

[jimlup]

55. Well for trumplthinskin

it was a slow news day

[orleans]

56. you forgot how he might pardon scooter

and then today he did