A.M. Links: Trump to Sign Executive Order on Energy Policy, Democrats Seek Recusal from Devin Nunes, Cyclone Debbie Strikes Australia

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  President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order today that will reverse executive orders signed by President Obama on energy policy and climate change.

• Democrats in the House of Representatives are calling on House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes to recuse himself from the investigation into possible connections between Russia and the Trump campaign.
• Uber's self-driving cars are back on the roads in Arizona after an accident last week.
• The Government Accountability Office "has agreed to review how classified information is kept secure at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida."
• Cyclone Debbie has struck the northeastern coast of Australia.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

[tap tap] Is this thing on?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

Did Reason fix its on-going comments issues?

Or is it a conspiracy?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Kind of, but comments still don't show up right away. Something's still fishy.

[Radioactive]

that would be the halibut...

[Chupacabra]

Your pet halibut, Eric?

[Rhywun]

So a reduction from yesterday's galactic level of crappiness back to the standard.

[$park? leftist poser]

Yes.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Cyclone Debbie has struck the northeastern coast of Australia.

There is literally nothing Down Under that won't kill you.

[$park? leftist poser]

Debbie Down Under is it?

[Radioactive]

Debbie Does Sydney? Oz porn!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Uber's self-driving cars are back on the roads in Arizona after an accident last week.

OMG THEY WON'T OBEY THE ORDER TO STAND DOWN.

[Conchfritters]

Have Uber cars reached sentience yet? They should have an actual robot behind the wheel, like the Johnny cab in Total Recall.

[Zeb]

They are an actual robot.

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order today that will reverse executive orders signed by President Obama on energy policy and climate change.

It's executive order reversals all the way down from here on.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Expect sea levels to rise as progressives produce rivers of tears.

[Citizen X - #6]

Cyclone Debbie has struck the northeastern coast of Australia.

Debbie Does Darwin?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Government Accountability Office "has agreed to review how classified information is kept secure at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida."

They just want an excuse to go down there to party with the Trumps.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Democrats in the House of Representatives are calling on House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes to recuse himself from the investigation into possible connections between Russia and the Trump campaign.

So they want to erect a fence between Nunes and the investigation?

[Ron]

they don't like leaks from team red or that confirm Trumps suspicions. Leaks from team Blue are okay though because they are honorable leaks.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

I heard Nunes met with Trump on his plane on the tarmac in Arizona.

[Citizen X - #6]

The Government Accountability Office "has agreed to review how classified information is kept secure at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida."

It's got big league security. The best. Believe me.

[Conchfritters]

Breaker one nine need a radio check.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

"Breaker one-nine, breaker one-nine. This is the bear in the air, officer Lyle Wallace calling Rubber Jerk in that rattlin' piece of black crap at your side door. Come on"!"

[Bee Tagger]

The Government Accountability Office "has agreed to review how classified information is kept secure at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida."

I would think the first step in keeping it secure is not letting the GAO get their hands on it.

[Memory Hole]

Impossibly divided over the Trump, the deficit, healthcare, and foreign policy, I think we'll look back at this time and realize we witnessed the death of the GOP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCWH2MmlHQE

http://reason.com/blog/2017/03.....nationwide

[$park? leftist poser]

we witnessed the death of the GOP.

Again? Damn, how many times can that thing die?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Democrats died after losing the White House in '04 and again losing just last year. And they'll both die again, many times over.

[$park? leftist poser]

That is not dead which can eternal lie...

[Memory Hole]

The voters who dominated the Republican primary don't give a shit about deficits or neo con foreign policy. I don't see how they square that shit. Plus, if they're dead I get to post this UGK song.

[$park? leftist poser]

Are you saying they only cared about voting R? And somehow that is a death knell?

[Memory Hole]

I'm saying the republicans who voted for Donald Trump in the presidential primary are some of the dumbest and confused motherfuckers on this planet.

[$park? leftist poser]

Oh, well then. Surely that means they won't vote R again. And surely calling them retards enough times will sap their will to vote.

[Memory Hole]

No man, they surely will vote R again and that's why the republican party we knew is dead. The balanced budget republican is dead. The repeal and don't replace Obamacare republican party is dead. The neoconservative republican party dead. The Jesus freak republican party is dying. This new creature is something else, it still has the R, but that's about it.

[$park? leftist poser]

So a Republican Party that never existed will no longer exist and it will be replaced by a Republican Party that is nothing like the one that never existed.

Sounds legit, carry on.

[John Titor]

So the Republican Party, which has always been historically defined as 'We're Not the Democrats', will continue to embrace the ideology of 'We're Not the Democrats.'

Truly, a substantial shift in the party's behaviour.

[Aloysious]

This time, it will be different.

[GILMORE?]

If you're a libertarian, who the fuck cares if its the "old" GOP or the "new" GOP?

if its simply slightly better on some things and slightly worse on others, i don't see how the death-metaphor applies.

[Conchfritters]

Yes, I see this as the point where Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming, Alabama, and Idaho all go Democat and never turn back.

[Random Axe Of Kindness]

what is dead may never die

[Memory Hole]

What the fuck? Will this comment post?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Only if you believe.

[Memory Hole]

Are you my fairy god mother?

[Jerryskids]

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order today that will reverse executive orders signed by President Obama on energy policy and climate change.

I thought he reversed all Obama's EO's on day one. Did a few slip through the cracks while he was busy repealing Obamacare and building the wall and putting Hillary behind bars that first day? He assured me this was going to be simple and easy and great and I was gonna love it! He had plans, man. Big, beautiful, world-class plans like nobody's ever seen before. I guess maybe his personal plans to MAGA mostly involved getting Donald Trump in the White House and, boom, mission accomplished? It's great for him, anyway, and isn't that all that's ever really mattered?

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Lena Dunham: 'P.C.' No Longer Means 'Political Correctness', It's Now 'Powerful Consideration'

The impressively woke actress, writer and producer argued that the now widely-derided term "P.C." needs to reclaim its power by changing its definition from "political correctness" to either "powerful consideration" or "proactive compassion."

[$park? leftist poser]

reclaim its power by changing its definition

This is what happens to every other word in the dictionary, time for PC to make its stand.

[Radioactive]

Prosaic Cunt?

[Gilbert Martin]

"The impressively woke actress..."

Impressively woke?

What the hell does that mean - that she's impressively overdosed on 5 hour energy drinks?

[Zeb]

I have an incredibly hard time imagining people using terms like "woke" seriously and unironically.

[Zeb]

Putrid Cunt.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

I'm about two years late on this, but I shall post anyway: The Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator.

[Citizen X - #6]

About Two Years Late was my nickname in college.

[But Enough About Me]

Huh. Small world.

[B.P.]

This is pretty great.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

"artisnal kale with quickened water."

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Three teenage burglars are shot dead by homeowner's son, 23, with an AR-15 after they burst in to Oklahoma house wearing masks and carrying a knife

Three masked teenagers who broke into a home in broad daylight armed with a knife and knuckle dusters were shot dead by the son of the property's owner.

The intruders, who were dressed in black and were wearing masks and gloves, were killed yesterday in the suburb of Broken Arrow in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

They were aged 16, 17 and 18.

[Gene]

Thankfully I would end up in prison if I chose to defend myself, praise Canada.

[Conchfritters]

If you are going to rob a home in Oklahoma, you are going to need to bring a bazooka, otherwise you are probably out gunned.

[Memory Hole]

Hard to judge this one on a moral level without having been there. Legally it's probably clearer.

[Juice]

I don't know. You break into someone's house wearing a mask and carrying a knife, fuck you if you get killed. Your fault.

[Gilbert Martin]

Exactly.

[Zeb]

Yeah. I'm OK with shooting anyone who breaks into a house with obvious ill intent. Fuck 'em.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Mother is so convinced that her eight-year-old son is the reincarnation of Lou Gehrig that she's written a book about it (and of course the film rights have been picked up already)

A young boy in California convinced his mother that he is the reincarnation of legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig after telling her that he 'used to be a tall baseball player'.

Christian Haupt, now eight and living with his family in Westlake Village, California, began telling his mother, Cathy Byrd, that he was once a 'tall baseball player' who died because his 'body stopped working' when he was two years old.

After his declarations, Byrd believed that her son could be the reincarnation of Gehrig, a baseball star from the 1920s and '30s who was diagnosed with ALS, a debilitating neurological disease later nicknamed after the athlete, at the age of 36 and died two years later in 1941.

[$park? leftist poser]

who died because his 'body stopped working' when he was two years old

Pretty sure Lou made it past two years old.

[Conchfritters]

Needs Oxford comma.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Trump Ally Giuliani to Aid Turkish Dealer in Sanctions Case

An Iranian-Turkish gold dealer hired two confidants of President Donald Trump to help defend him against U.S. charges of using his network of companies to circumvent federal sanctions on Iran and possibly bring an end to the case.

Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey were retained by a team representing Reza Zarrab. The lawyers won't be taking part in the trial, Zarrab's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said in a court filing. Zarrab had pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to go on trial in New York in October.

Get on this, Congress.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' Reimagined by Its Fans

When "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," one of television's most influential series, first turned up 20 years ago this month, it didn't just attract viewers, it also unleashed an army of would-be writers creating their own adventures about Buffy Summers, her friends Willow and Xander, and the vampires Spike and Angel, to name a few.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

'Buffy vs. Donald'

BY TERRI MEEKER, 56

Read the full work here.

Oversized chandeliers crowded the high ceiling, so many that it looked like a lighting fixture store. Perched near gold-tinted sofas and chairs were gold-encrusted tables laden with gigantic candelabras and huge crystal figures.

Dominating the entire room, in dead center, was a statue of Donald Drumpf himself. It was thirty feet high and made of gold, naturally. The statue was illuminated by spotlights and dozens of American flags encircled it.

"Scrooge McDuck called," Buffy mumbled. "He thinks you should dial it back a notch."

[Rhywun]

She was going to go with Chimpy McDrumpferson but thought that would be too much.

[John Titor]

The true resistance is in shitty fanfiction.

[Bender B. Rodriguez]

That was one big ass squirrel.

[Bender B. Rodriguez]

Yesterday, I sent an email to the webmaster email address listed on the Reason contact page. The return email came from https://dancingmammoth.com/ . The irony of their cover photo and tagline is unmistakable.

[Rhywun]

Wow. Are they trolling us again?

[Citizen X - #6]

"Is your website being managed like this? GOOD."

[Fatty Bolger]

The color scheme seems hauntingly familiar as well.

[Mickey Rat]

The most impressive thing about a dancing mammoth is not if it dances well, it is that it dances at all.

[Memory Hole]

Trump administration sought to block Sally Yates from testifying to Congress on Russia

Ms. Yates and other former intelligence officials had been asked to testify before the House Intelligence Committee this week, a hearing that was abruptly canceled by the panel's chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Yates was the deputy attorney general in the final years of the Obama administration, and served as the acting attorney general in the first days of the Trump administration.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/.....spartandhp

[chemjeff]

"The Government Accountability Office "has agreed to review how classified information is kept secure at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.""

Oh FFS. First we had Hillary storing classified info on her private server. Now we have Trump storing classified info on his private resort. What is so hard about keeping classified info on government systems and government property?

[Ron]

interesting how whole comment strings dissapear

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

^Tulpa