Random Politics & Religion #20

Here's what one article says about why the officials were killed:


Suddenly Twitter rants against "facts I don't like" don't seem so dramatic.

Are they fake or are we just calling them fake because they make the leader look bad?

It’s not clear what false reports they allegedly made, and the NIS didn’t say how it got its information.

A lot of things related to germophobia are not intuitive. Cleanliness (especially of the hands) is an associated behavioral trait. Some germophobes will still handle some finger foods, but not anything that you would need to clean up after like greasy food or bbq wings.

Here's what one article says about why the officials were killed:

Suddenly Twitter rants against "facts I don't like" don't seem so dramatic.

(Newser) – North Korea executed five senior security officials with anti-aircraft guns because they made false reports that "enraged" leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea's spy agency said Monday. The comments by the National Intelligence Service in a private briefing to lawmakers come as Malaysia investigates the poisoning death of Kim's estranged elder half brother, Kim Jong Nam. South Korea believes Kim Jong Un ordered the hit. The spy agency told lawmakers that five North Korean officials in the department of recently purged state security chief Kim Won Hong were executed by anti-aircraft guns because of the false reports to Kim, said South Korean lawmaker Lee Cheol Woo. It's not clear what false reports they allegedly made, and the NIS didn't say how it got its information. ...

(Newser) – Sean Spicer recently held an abrupt meeting in which he berated his staffers about White House leaks that had been appearing in the media, ordering them to leave their phones at the door for a "phone check" in order to show they weren't hiding anything. We know this because news of this meeting immediately leaked, reports Politico, which cites "sources in the room." Spicer warned staffers against using encrypted texting apps to carry out their leaks—a message that was apparently not taken to heart, amid what Politico terms as a "pressure cooker environment" in which staffers are worried about saving their necks. Spicer's move comes after President Trump has voiced repeated frustration with such leaks, notes the Hill. Spicer, Politico notes, had no comment.

Spicer's Crackdown on Leaks Promptly Leaks
What happens in the White House is not staying in the White House

This administration needs a new press secretary.

This administration needs a new administration.

If age has shown me anything, it is that it can always get worse.
In other words, the next US president could end up being a Duckbill Platypus

A president that can't do anything to screw things up further? Count me in.

#Platypus4Pres

Alright.

First executive order; we aren't building a wall, we're building a moat. Alligators on the south moat polar bears in the north moat.

President Trump told a meeting of governors that reforming health care is "unbelievably complex," but pledged that a Republican alternative would be "very good."

Speaking to a bipartisan group in town for the National Governors Association meeting, Trump said that Republicans have to tackle health care reform before they can get to other subjects like tax reform because of the way the budget process works.

Trump said that while tax cuts would be "major and simple," health care reform was turning out to be difficult.

"I have to tell you, it's an unbelievably complex subject," he said. "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated."

The Affordable Care Act was passed in March of 2010 after more than a year of debate involving Congress and the White House. Health care accounts for more than one-sixth of the U.S. economy.

Trump also argued that recent polls which showed the law has become more popular were just a side effect of the American public realizing that the law would be ending soon. A recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 48% of Americans have a favorable view of the Affordable Care Act, the most popular it's been in 60 surveys the nonprofit has taken since 2010. Other polls show similar results.

"People hate it, but now they see that the end is coming and they're saying, 'Oh, maybe we love it,'" he said. "There's nothing to love. It's a disaster folks, OK? So you have to remember that."

You're out of touch !

We're going to be overrun with kittens at the rate the media keeps having them from their trump derangement syndrome.

I swear it's like the USA elected Zaphod Beeblebrox as their president.