"When I said wiretapping, it was in quotes. Because a wiretapping is, you know today it is different than wiretapping. It is just a good description. But wiretapping was in quotes. What I'm talking about is surveillance," he told Time's Washington bureau chief Michael Scherer. "And today, Devin Nunes just had a news conference. Now probably got obliterated by what's happened in London. But just had a news conference, and here it is one of those things. The other one, election, I said we are going to win, we won. And many other things. And I think this is going to be very interesting."
And despite sinking approval ratings that show he is losing some of his core support – driven in large part by voters belief that Trump isn't honest – the president says he isn't worried about his credibility.
"Hey look, in the meantime, I guess, I can't be doing so badly," he said, "because I'm president, and you're not."
After Texas A&M University elected its first openly gay student president, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took a break from national politics on Wednesday to question if his alma mater's election process was rigged in the name of diversity.
In an editorial published Wednesday in the Houston Chronicle, the former Texas governor called the election victory of 21-year-old junior Bobby Brooks a "mockery of due process and transparency" and suggested the university's decision was based on a "quest for diversity."
"At worst, the [student government association] allowed an election to be stolen outright," Perry wrote.
Perry's 850-word letter comes two days after the traditionally conservative school elected Brooks as its first openly gay student body president. Brooks lost the popular vote but won the election after his opponent, Robert McIntosh, was disqualified by the student government and the university's judicial court based on reports that his campaign didn't provide receipts for glow sticks used in a Facebook campaign video.
He also alleged that a series of the voter intimidation complaints made against McIntosh were submitted by Brooks' supporters in "a series of dirty campaign tactics."
"Brooks' presidency is being treated as a victory for 'diversity.' It is difficult to escape the perception that this quest for 'diversity' is the real reason the election outcome was overturned," Perry wrote. "Does the principle of 'diversity' override and supersede all other values of our Aggie Honor Code?"
In a statement to NBC News, Texas A&M pushed back against Perry's op-ed and said McIntosh's disqualification represents the school's commitment to accountability.
"To suggest that the same decision of disqualification would not have been made if the roles were reversed is to deny the Texas A&M of today where accountability applies to all," said Texas A&M spokesperson Amy Smith.
I don't think those glasses are working, mang.
I have to assume that student government at colleges throughout the US is more or less the same (or at least mine was like this); filled with spoiled rich kids or poli sci overachievers who take things way too seriously, are completely humorless about it, and take to their fainting couches over the smallest of issues. It's just a whole bunch of wasted time and bullshit that is completely meaningless the minute you step off of campus. Why would Rick Perry even bother?
Doesn't Mr. Perry have a really important job he should be doing?
He probably just forgot about it.
Fun fact: The kid who got the most votes, but whose election was overturned due to voter intimidation and expense rules violations, is the son of one of Secretary Perry's biggest donors.
Yes, the dude who was disqualified had voter intimidation complaints against him that were all withdrawn. It's a whole *thing* and nobody is really sure if anything actually happened or if those people were complaining fruitlessly.
Were he not disqualified, he almost certainly would have won.
He was disqualified for going over the maximum election budget, which he claimed he did not because the glow sticks used in his video were surplus from a charity event; the rules are fairly explicit you have to mark fair market value for all election materials. I *think* the bigger thing is that the fine associated with not claiming the glowsticks properly pushed him over the edge, but I'd have to go confirm.
After Texas A&M University elected its first openly gay student president, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took a break from national politics on Wednesday to question if his alma mater's election process was rigged in the name of diversity.
In an editorial published Wednesday in the Houston Chronicle, the former Texas governor called the election victory of 21-year-old junior Bobby Brooks a "mockery of due process and transparency" and suggested the university's decision was based on a "quest for diversity."
"At worst, the [student government association] allowed an election to be stolen outright," Perry wrote.
Perry's 850-word letter comes two days after the traditionally conservative school elected Brooks as its first openly gay student body president. Brooks lost the popular vote but won the election after his opponent, Robert McIntosh, was disqualified by the student government and the university's judicial court based on reports that his campaign didn't provide receipts for glow sticks used in a Facebook campaign video.
He also alleged that a series of the voter intimidation complaints made against McIntosh were submitted by Brooks' supporters in "a series of dirty campaign tactics."
"Brooks' presidency is being treated as a victory for 'diversity.' It is difficult to escape the perception that this quest for 'diversity' is the real reason the election outcome was overturned," Perry wrote. "Does the principle of 'diversity' override and supersede all other values of our Aggie Honor Code?"
In a statement to NBC News, Texas A&M pushed back against Perry's op-ed and said McIntosh's disqualification represents the school's commitment to accountability.
"To suggest that the same decision of disqualification would not have been made if the roles were reversed is to deny the Texas A&M of today where accountability applies to all," said Texas A&M spokesperson Amy Smith.
I don't think those glasses are working, mang.
So there was an election where one side won the most votes, but obscure and possibly unjust rules combined with inappropriate and unjustified interference by authorities caused the other candidate to be installed to office instead...
After Texas A&M University elected its first openly gay student president, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took a break from national politics on Wednesday to question if his alma mater's election process was rigged in the name of diversity.
In an editorial published Wednesday in the Houston Chronicle, the former Texas governor called the election victory of 21-year-old junior Bobby Brooks a "mockery of due process and transparency" and suggested the university's decision was based on a "quest for diversity."
"At worst, the [student government association] allowed an election to be stolen outright," Perry wrote.
Perry's 850-word letter comes two days after the traditionally conservative school elected Brooks as its first openly gay student body president. Brooks lost the popular vote but won the election after his opponent, Robert McIntosh, was disqualified by the student government and the university's judicial court based on reports that his campaign didn't provide receipts for glow sticks used in a Facebook campaign video.
He also alleged that a series of the voter intimidation complaints made against McIntosh were submitted by Brooks' supporters in "a series of dirty campaign tactics."
"Brooks' presidency is being treated as a victory for 'diversity.' It is difficult to escape the perception that this quest for 'diversity' is the real reason the election outcome was overturned," Perry wrote. "Does the principle of 'diversity' override and supersede all other values of our Aggie Honor Code?"
In a statement to NBC News, Texas A&M pushed back against Perry's op-ed and said McIntosh's disqualification represents the school's commitment to accountability.
"To suggest that the same decision of disqualification would not have been made if the roles were reversed is to deny the Texas A&M of today where accountability applies to all," said Texas A&M spokesperson Amy Smith.
I don't think those glasses are working, mang.
So there was an election where one side won the most votes, but obscure and possibly unjust rules combined with inappropriate and unjustified interference by authorities caused the other candidate to be installed to office instead...
You don't say....
The rule that caused him to be DQ'd wasn't exactly "obscure", as going over the budgetary limits disqualifies at least one person every year.
"When I said wiretapping, it was in quotes. Because a wiretapping is, you know today it is different than wiretapping. It is just a good description. But wiretapping was in quotes. What I'm talking about is surveillance," he told Time's Washington bureau chief Michael Scherer. "And today, Devin Nunes just had a news conference. Now probably got obliterated by what's happened in London. But just had a news conference, and here it is one of those things. The other one, election, I said we are going to win, we won. And many other things. And I think this is going to be very interesting."
And despite sinking approval ratings that show he is losing some of his core support – driven in large part by voters belief that Trump isn't honest – the president says he isn't worried about his credibility.
"Hey look, in the meantime, I guess, I can't be doing so badly," he said, "because I'm president, and you're not."
"When I said wiretapping, it was in quotes. Because a wiretapping is, you know today it is different than wiretapping. It is just a good description. But wiretapping was in quotes. What I'm talking about is surveillance," he told Time's Washington bureau chief Michael Scherer. "And today, Devin Nunes just had a news conference. Now probably got obliterated by what's happened in London. But just had a news conference, and here it is one of those things. The other one, election, I said we are going to win, we won. And many other things. And I think this is going to be very interesting."
And despite sinking approval ratings that show he is losing some of his core support – driven in large part by voters belief that Trump isn't honest – the president says he isn't worried about his credibility.
"Hey look, in the meantime, I guess, I can't be doing so badly," he said, "because I'm president, and you're not."
The U.S. Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding for the next year, offering the most precise estimate yet of the escalating costs for travel and protection resulting from the unusually complicated lifestyle of the Trump family, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
Nearly half of the additional money, $26.8 million, would pay to protect President Trump’s family and private home in New York’s Trump Tower, the documents show, while $33 million would be spent on travel costs incurred by “the president, vice president and other visiting heads of state."
This part in particular:
A person familiar with internal Secret Service budget discussions said the requests for additional funding, prepared in late February, were rejected by the Office of Management and Budget, an arm of the White House. That means the agency will probably have to divert other spending to handle the additional burden.
The U.S. Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding for the next year, offering the most precise estimate yet of the escalating costs for travel and protection resulting from the unusually complicated lifestyle of the Trump family, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
Nearly half of the additional money, $26.8 million, would pay to protect President Trump’s family and private home in New York’s Trump Tower, the documents show, while $33 million would be spent on travel costs incurred by “the president, vice president and other visiting heads of state."
This part in particular:
A person familiar with internal Secret Service budget discussions said the requests for additional funding, prepared in late February, were rejected by the Office of Management and Budget, an arm of the White House. That means the agency will probably have to divert other spending to handle the additional burden.
So what happens when the Secret Service runs out of money?
The U.S. Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding for the next year, offering the most precise estimate yet of the escalating costs for travel and protection resulting from the unusually complicated lifestyle of the Trump family, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
Nearly half of the additional money, $26.8 million, would pay to protect President Trump’s family and private home in New York’s Trump Tower, the documents show, while $33 million would be spent on travel costs incurred by “the president, vice president and other visiting heads of state."
This part in particular:
A person familiar with internal Secret Service budget discussions said the requests for additional funding, prepared in late February, were rejected by the Office of Management and Budget, an arm of the White House. That means the agency will probably have to divert other spending to handle the additional burden.
So what happens when the Secret Service runs out of money?
Well, if they take that 60 million out of their anti-counterfeiting budget, it kind of solves itself.
I mean, that was a request for additional money. Best case? They tell him that they really can't afford to cover both his weekend trips and securing blocks in the middle of NYC (I'm still not sure fire they do that, long term), and confine him to stewing in the white house
I mean, that was a request for additional money. Best case? They tell him that they really can't afford to cover both his weekend trips and securing blocks in the middle of NYC (I'm still not sure fire they do that, long term), and confine him to stewing in the white house
I dont think Trump would stand for that, he'd tell them to just get the money however they need to and then head off to wherever he wants to go. I wonder where the Summer White House will be. Probably Florida. Its Mar a Lago.
And if they take it out of then anti-counterfeiting budget....I sense a new business opportunity...
Yes, the dude who was disqualified had voter intimidation complaints against him that were all withdrawn. It's a whole *thing* and nobody is really sure if anything actually happened or if those people were complaining fruitlessly.
Were he not disqualified, he almost certainly would have won.
He was disqualified for going over the maximum election budget, which he claimed he did not because the glow sticks used in his video were surplus from a charity event; the rules are fairly explicit you have to mark fair market value for all election materials. I *think* the bigger thing is that the fine associated with not claiming the glowsticks properly pushed him over the edge, but I'd have to go confirm.
This is totally irrelevant to the topic.
Perry taking the time to comment is just hilariously stupid.
I'm a longhorn but my best friend and my girlfriend both went to A&M and everyone there hates the guy.
They wanted to name the Academic Building after him. After a guy that graduated with a C GPA.
Yes, the dude who was disqualified had voter intimidation complaints against him that were all withdrawn. It's a whole *thing* and nobody is really sure if anything actually happened or if those people were complaining fruitlessly.
Were he not disqualified, he almost certainly would have won.
He was disqualified for going over the maximum election budget, which he claimed he did not because the glow sticks used in his video were surplus from a charity event; the rules are fairly explicit you have to mark fair market value for all election materials. I *think* the bigger thing is that the fine associated with not claiming the glowsticks properly pushed him over the edge, but I'd have to go confirm.
This is totally irrelevant to the topic.
Perry taking the time to comment is just hilariously stupid.
I'm a longhorn but my best friend and my girlfriend both went to A&M and everyone there hates the guy.
They wanted to name the Academic Building after him. After a guy that graduated with a C GPA.
Oh yeah I hate Perry and the Academic building thing was bullshit, but if the thread is gonna somehow shift into something I have pretty solid info on I feel like responding.
Also, Longhorn, *hiss*
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After Texas A&M University elected its first openly gay student president, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took a break from national politics on Wednesday to question if his alma mater's election process was rigged in the name of diversity.
In an editorial published Wednesday in the Houston Chronicle, the former Texas governor called the election victory of 21-year-old junior Bobby Brooks a "mockery of due process and transparency" and suggested the university's decision was based on a "quest for diversity."
"At worst, the [student government association] allowed an election to be stolen outright," Perry wrote.
Perry's 850-word letter comes two days after the traditionally conservative school elected Brooks as its first openly gay student body president. Brooks lost the popular vote but won the election after his opponent, Robert McIntosh, was disqualified by the student government and the university's judicial court based on reports that his campaign didn't provide receipts for glow sticks used in a Facebook campaign video.
He also alleged that a series of the voter intimidation complaints made against McIntosh were submitted by Brooks' supporters in "a series of dirty campaign tactics."
"Brooks' presidency is being treated as a victory for 'diversity.' It is difficult to escape the perception that this quest for 'diversity' is the real reason the election outcome was overturned," Perry wrote. "Does the principle of 'diversity' override and supersede all other values of our Aggie Honor Code?"
In a statement to NBC News, Texas A&M pushed back against Perry's op-ed and said McIntosh's disqualification represents the school's commitment to accountability.
"To suggest that the same decision of disqualification would not have been made if the roles were reversed is to deny the Texas A&M of today where accountability applies to all," said Texas A&M spokesperson Amy Smith.
I don't think those glasses are working, mang.
I have to assume that student government at colleges throughout the US is more or less the same (or at least mine was like this); filled with spoiled rich kids or poli sci overachievers who take things way too seriously, are completely humorless about it, and take to their fainting couches over the smallest of issues. It's just a whole bunch of wasted time and bullshit that is completely meaningless the minute you step off of campus. Why would Rick Perry even bother?
Yes, the dude who was disqualified had voter intimidation complaints against him that were all withdrawn. It's a whole *thing* and nobody is really sure if anything actually happened or if those people were complaining fruitlessly.
Were he not disqualified, he almost certainly would have won.
He was disqualified for going over the maximum election budget, which he claimed he did not because the glow sticks used in his video were surplus from a charity event; the rules are fairly explicit you have to mark fair market value for all election materials. I *think* the bigger thing is that the fine associated with not claiming the glowsticks properly pushed him over the edge, but I'd have to go confirm.
This is totally irrelevant to the topic.
Perry taking the time to comment is just hilariously stupid.
I'm a longhorn but my best friend and my girlfriend both went to A&M and everyone there hates the guy.
They wanted to name the Academic Building after him. After a guy that graduated with a C GPA.
Oh yeah I hate Perry and the Academic building thing was bullshit, but if the thread is gonna somehow shift into something I have pretty solid info on I feel like responding.
Also, Longhorn, *hiss*
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the gossip I hear about A&M through my girlfriend (who works at Rudder btw) is just hilarious
But Republican lawmakers and senior congressional aides said in recent interviews they’re running out of patience with Mattis' staffing decisions, which have disappointed Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee hoping to see their ideological allies elevated to senior levels in the Defense Department. Others are grumbling about Mattis’ refusal to advocate a bigger increase in the defense budget, which defense hawks believe was gutted disastrously under President Barack Obama.
“He certainly has got a tough job, but it sometimes feels like he forgets that we won the election,” said one aide to a GOP senator on the Armed Services Committee, who declined to speak on the record for fear of publicly alienating the defense secretary.
“We’ve waited eight years for this, to be able to fill these posts with Republicans,” said another top GOP Hill staffer. “We know Trump isn’t part of the establishment and that it’s going to be a bit different, but it should go without saying that a Republican administration is expected to staff federal agencies with Republicans.”
Fucking scum, your priority should be to staff positions with the best possible person not your allies and not people who are just registered R.
I know this isn't what you mean but if I'm a Democratic President incoming in 2021 I'm purging as many fucking Republicans from the executive branch as possible. Comey is living proof that throwing the other side a bone with an appointment as an act of good faith can come back to bite you and it bit the Democrats in the worst possible way.
yeah it's sometimes hard to differentiate between things that are beyond the pale and things that are only frustrating because you're not the ones in power. With a dem controlled gov't I'd want to do a purge as well and would feel very ok with it. To a certain extent that's just the deal when it comes to government.
Fuck what the state is going through wants! Fuck state's rights until it's about guns or marriage!
God I absolutely fucking loathe the GOP.
Also, I guess fuck the coal industry?
This is pretty much a default position; even if it wasn't horrible for the environment (both in mining and application), coal is simply inferior to other energy sources both in cost and efficiency.
So Mnuchin at least has enough awareness of how money works that he wants the debt ceiling done.
At least it's more than his ideas about genetics:
“This guy’s got more stamina than anybody I’ve ever met,” Mnuchin said of Trump. “I mean, I thought I was in good shape. I traveled with him all the time… I mean, it’s unbelievable. He’ s constantly doing things.”
Allen asked Mnuchin how that’s possible, given that the 70-year-old Trump is known to enjoy fast food and admits he doesn’t exercise.
“He’s got perfect genes,” Mnuchin said of Trump. “He has incredible energy, and he’s unbelievably healthy.”
Over/under on one of them spouting racial "science" has to be like May 10, right?
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
After Texas A&M University elected its first openly gay student president, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took a break from national politics on Wednesday to question if his alma mater's election process was rigged in the name of diversity.
I don't think I quantify my anger at a senior fucking government official going out of his way to punch down at a private individual (Who's a college student for christ sakes!?) because they're a member of a minority group and happened to become school president of said government official's alma mater.
Like, I may literally have to go punch something right now? That's so petty, and mean, and cruel. And it accomplishes literally nothing besides opening up said student to even more harassment than they were likely to already get.
After Texas A&M University elected its first openly gay student president, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took a break from national politics on Wednesday to question if his alma mater's election process was rigged in the name of diversity.
I don't think I quantify my anger at a senior fucking government official going out of his way to punch down at a private individual (Who's a college student for christ sakes!?) because they're a member of a minority group and happened to become school president of said government official's alma mater.
Like, I may literally have to go punch something right now? That's so petty, and mean, and cruel. And it accomplishes literally nothing besides opening up said student to even more harassment than they were likely to already get.
Fuck. You.
That's their thing. It looks like it was a personal thing because he was incredibly petty and wanted a family member/friend to win, but this also furthers the right's agenda of invalidating every accomplishment by someone that isn't a white male. It revs up their base to continue to complain about how unfairly they perceive themselves as being treated so they can ignore reality. It feels like something Bannon would tell someone to do.
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I have to assume that student government at colleges throughout the US is more or less the same (or at least mine was like this); filled with spoiled rich kids or poli sci overachievers who take things way too seriously, are completely humorless about it, and take to their fainting couches over the smallest of issues. It's just a whole bunch of wasted time and bullshit that is completely meaningless the minute you step off of campus. Why would Rick Perry even bother?
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
He probably just forgot about it.
Fun fact: The kid who got the most votes, but whose election was overturned due to voter intimidation and expense rules violations, is the son of one of Secretary Perry's biggest donors.
Weird coincidence, that.
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So there was an election where one side won the most votes, but obscure and possibly unjust rules combined with inappropriate and unjustified interference by authorities caused the other candidate to be installed to office instead...
You don't say....
The rule that caused him to be DQ'd wasn't exactly "obscure", as going over the budgetary limits disqualifies at least one person every year.
At least he isn't Chevy Chase.
And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
This part in particular:
So what happens when the Secret Service runs out of money?
Well, if they take that 60 million out of their anti-counterfeiting budget, it kind of solves itself.
I dont think Trump would stand for that, he'd tell them to just get the money however they need to and then head off to wherever he wants to go. I wonder where the Summer White House will be. Probably Florida. Its Mar a Lago.
And if they take it out of then anti-counterfeiting budget....I sense a new business opportunity...
Perry taking the time to comment is just hilariously stupid.
I'm a longhorn but my best friend and my girlfriend both went to A&M and everyone there hates the guy.
They wanted to name the Academic Building after him. After a guy that graduated with a C GPA.
Oh yeah I hate Perry and the Academic building thing was bullshit, but if the thread is gonna somehow shift into something I have pretty solid info on I feel like responding.
Also, Longhorn, *hiss*
Fuck what the state is going through wants! Fuck state's rights until it's about guns or marriage!
God I absolutely fucking loathe the GOP.
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the gossip I hear about A&M through my girlfriend (who works at Rudder btw) is just hilarious
yeah it's sometimes hard to differentiate between things that are beyond the pale and things that are only frustrating because you're not the ones in power. With a dem controlled gov't I'd want to do a purge as well and would feel very ok with it. To a certain extent that's just the deal when it comes to government.
really funny to me
Campaign finance, it's important.
Also, I guess fuck the coal industry?
This is pretty much a default position; even if it wasn't horrible for the environment (both in mining and application), coal is simply inferior to other energy sources both in cost and efficiency.
Actually, if I remember right, this is federal level only, the state and local governments can still give Keystone XL holy hell if they wanted to.
Also perry's comment was dumb but we're not gonna get into the weeds of rules for school elections here.
At least it's more than his ideas about genetics:
Over/under on one of them spouting racial "science" has to be like May 10, right?
I think it might.
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Like, I may literally have to go punch something right now? That's so petty, and mean, and cruel. And it accomplishes literally nothing besides opening up said student to even more harassment than they were likely to already get.
Fuck. You.
Did SIG stutter?
Anyone know who this guy is? I assume he's the one who was responsible for scrambling Kelly-Anne Connway, et al?
IIRC, he was actually born in Russia?
EDIT: Yeah he was. And apparently he was the one who wrote that Holocaust Remembrance Day speech that didn't actually mention the jews