"I was elected to serve the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." got honorable mention by a CNN Trumpeter yesterday as stupid Trump's best quote of the speech. Believe it or not.

To be fair, it's about time Parisians stopped receiving those Paris Agreement payments and paid for their own damn croissants.

So the Paris accord withdrawal helped Russia a bunch. I brought that up yesterday and just wanted to expand on it.

BIGGEST WINNERS
1. Saudi Arabiaa
2. Russia
3. China

Russia is still a freaking mysterious bastard. Never even a verbal attack, and they continue to taunt us militarily, politically and psychologically on a regular basis, while Trump takes pro-Russia actions over and over for nothing in return, except for Trump personally. And we WILL figure out exactly what those benefits are.

As for the others, let's keep in mind that Trump gunned hard for both China and SA during the campaign and for a lot of his private life. Then he has the "most productive meetings of his presidency with each of their leaders recently, yet was barely able to cite benefits to the US. It looks like he and Ivanka got a good amount out of the meetings though. Either way, Trump did full 180s on both countries right after each meeting.

BIGGEST LOSERS
1. Earth
2. America
3. Europe, particularly Germany and France.

Aside from the planet, which comes and goes from speeches depending on Trump's whims and opportunities, #2 is (accidentally?) the steady loser. #3 is a spite loser.

I hope some important people in the right places are keeping accurate track of all this mess. We can't count on GOP to get it right, or admit any of the events even occurred. They keep tripping over their own memories for some random reason.

WH asking Supreme Court to hear Muslim ban case. Thoughts? The Republican appointees on the Fourth Circuit case voted in favor of Trump, so it doesn't bode well for America. I have to imagine Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito are stone locks to vote in favor of the ban.

Did this thing get posted yet?...

How the Trump administration’s secret efforts to ease Russia sanctions fell short

Basically, there was a lot of hidden pressure in January to get rid of sanctions on Russia. Nothing new, just more of the same boring unimpeachable stuff I guess.

The biggest difference in this article however was that the 2 anonymous sources that Trump wants to attack were actually NAMED sources. Now he has to work even harder to discredit a couple more career professionals.

Yes? Like, everyone here in politardia could have told you Trump would be a disaster for the environment and they should have told his to **** off from the get-go. Amazing that these captains of industry fell for his shtick like Trump U students.

If it turns out that Gorsuch is proven beyond doubt to be a rubber stamp after it's also proven beyond doubt that 45* illegally stole the election while a private citizen last year, is there any path to Gorsuch removal? In other (best) words, who or what keeps SCOTUS Justices in check? (please for the love of God don't say Jefferson Beau****** Sessions)

Roberts won't vote for Muslim ban. He knows it will be seen as badly as Dredd Scott or Korematsu. Daddy sure can count on Alito though. What a POS.

Of course they should have refused. Their names lent legitimacy to a mean spirited, ignorant piece of **** who was never, ever going to be anything less than a disaster on everything.

Not so sure that France/Germany are losers here (or if so, there is a HUGE gap between loser #2 and loser #3). They're going to be looked at as the new "leaders of the free world" now.

False flag or real major terrorist attack (100+ dead) or getting assassinated.

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/stat...30964107644929

Sounds about right. Doesn't matter what actual positions are taken or the wisdom of doing something or not doing something, it's all about what the libs do.

138k jobs added in May. 180k had been projected.

2017's Feb-May jobs added number the lowest of any year since 2009. April and May still noted as "Preliminary", though.

Same sort of idea, but I thought this was a better approximation:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-change-denier

Journalist: You just left a climate change agreement. Do you have any position on whether humans cause climate change?
Trump Admin: no idea, let's stay on topic


The ultimate in post-policy politics.

Lord haw-haw says hi.

You have no idea what you are talking about. This was an historic accord on the level with the creation of NATO and historians of the future will judge this withdrawal as one of the worst political decisions of all time.

Wilbur Ross (Commerce Secretary) gave an interview on NPR this morning and cited millions and millions of job losses if we stayed in. He said those numbers weren't from the "administration," but rather, "a third party." Of course the utter ****ing hack interviewing him didn't bother to ask the name of this "third party," which I'd bet blind was some trash org like Heritage Foundation.

It's because Trump has no views on virtually anything. He doesn't like Obama. He was rude to the Europeans and they responded in kind. All those people are in favor of the Paris deal....which means he opposes it.

It was the Heritage Foundation.

Right. It's pretty indicative of the entire right wing who have turned over the entire movement to Milo, Breitbart, and an assortment of radio DJs and celebrity gossip columnists turned political radio and cable show hosts. What are their 'views' on really anything?

The whole movement is down to three things: don't tax me, resentfulness at everything that isn't part of the old fat white guy cultural gestalt, and nothing. Literally nothing else.

A good ole fashioned brain drain

Trump's one of a kind

Pol Pot was known for indiscriminately killing intellectuals.

If you can't describe the ****ing difference between weather and climate you should not be allowed within 100 miles of any decisions referring to the Paris Accord.

Americans love and revere stupidity like no other culture in history. It's so pathetic.

As your link points out the externalities are huge. And they're huge even if you don't count climate change.