Trump Surrogates Try to Explain Comey Firing, 2026 World Cup Bid Organizers Seek Trump Meeting, Betsy DeVos Booed at Commencement at HBCU: P.M. Links

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  White House

  Trump surrogates are trying to defend the president's termination of FBI Director James Comey. Asked about the firing, Russia President Vladimir Putin said it would have "no effect" on U.S.-Russian relations.

• The Senate unexpectedly rejected an attempt to repeal a regulation on methane emissions at drilling operations on public lands.
• The U.S. government posted a $182 billion surplus, according to data from the Treasury Department.
• Organizers for the U.S.-led bid for North America to host the 2026 World Cup are seeking a meeting with President Trump.
• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed while giving the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University.
• A fistfight broke out among passengers on a Southwest flight that had landed in Burbank.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump surrogates are trying to defend the president's termination of FBI Director James Comey.

I want to know how big the crowds were for it.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

Game 7s baby!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Do. Not. Want.

[Chipper Mourning Somali Roadz]

Is this a reference to some irrelevant Canadian team or are you a Caps fan?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Nah. Just like sports.

[Chipper Mourning Somali Roadz]

I hope you know I am just ragging on you cause I like you, Rufus, and cause I like Canada. I only make jokes about people I like and about people I don't like. But they are different kinds of jokes.

[DOOMco]

Trump surrogates are trying to defend the president's termination of FBI Director James Comey.

Rand Paul loves Trump!

[Homple]

What's to defend? Comey proved himself ignorant of the law, incompetent, corrupt or all three in his handling of the Hillary investigation.

He needed to be fired and Trump did it.

[Not a True MJG]

And in the classiest way possible.

[Homple]

WTF does "classy" have to do with getting rid of a corrupt but powerfull bureaucrat?

[Not a True MJG]

A classy person would know.

[Chipper Mourning Somali Roadz]

Who gives a shit why he got fired. What is really entertaining is how Trumpalos have this urgent need to defend everything Trump does. Please, explain to us why it is more civilized to eat pizza with a fork.

[Homple]

To be fair, there seem to be a lot of folks giving whole sewage treatment plants of shit why Comey got fired.

The intertubes, newspapers and the TeeVee are full of people exercised about why he was canned.

[Griffin3]

CNN beat it for at least 4 hours last night, like there wasn't any other news in the world. And I imagine they are still beating it today. I'll keep a record, if you like, sitting with my father in law at the hospital, so why not destroy my brain while I wait.

[Homple]

Keep CNN exposure below a half hour per day to avoid massive synapse disconnections

[MarkLastname]

Fork? How bourgeois. We urbane folks eat our pizza with a spoon.

[hello.]

"Sure, he didn't do anything wrong, but now watch some asshole come along and say he did nothing wrong!"

[Fist of Etiquette]

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed while giving the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University.

GET OFF THE STAGE YOU'RE NOT FUNNY.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Neither is the audience.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The U.S. government posted a $182 billion surplus, according to data from the Treasury Department.

We're back in the black, baby!

[Unicorn Abattoir]

yet we're still on a Highway to Hell.

[MarkLastname]

Or is black back in you?

[DOOMco]

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed while giving the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University.

Can't believe we have a woman as our Secretary of Education.

[Rufus The Monocled]

I know. It should be a transgender!

[Conchfritters]

I'm shocked they didn't lock the doors, prevent her from talking, and then assault her for simply being there.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Daytona Beach Proggies are a bit more refined than Berkley Proggies.

[DOOMco]

The U.S. government posted a $182 billion surplus, according to data from the Treasury Department.

The Trump-Clinton connection continues.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Considering it was for April, when tax season rolled up, any bragging about a surplus ought to be grounds for a strict mocking.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Organizers for the U.S.-led bid for North America to host the 2026 World Cup are seeking a meeting with President Trump.

Trump better know soccer ain't what it takes to make America great again. Let Canada or Mexico have it.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Make Canada or Mexico Great Again!

[Mickey Rat]

The World Cup would not want to Canada for the Men's tournament after the artificial turf controversy in the last Women's.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Senate unexpectedly rejected an attempt to repeal a regulation on methane emissions at drilling operations on public lands.

No one expects the RINO imposition.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A fistfight broke out among passengers on a Southwest flight that had landed in Burbank.

Come on, Krayewski.

[Aloysious]

The U.S. government posted a $182 billion surplus,

That money is going to be returned to the taxpayers, right?

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Don't worry, they'll go into deficit for about double that amount over the next few months.

[Jerryskids]

The adjusted deficit for the fiscal year to date was $373 billion compared with $314 billion the prior fiscal year period.

It's almost like nobody even bothers clicking on the links.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Deficits don't matter when there is a GOPer in the White House.

[Hello Clarice]

Whatever helps you sleep at night friend :).

[DOOMco]

this is the funniest thing you've ever said.

[Chipper Mourning Somali Roadz]

Buttplug can be pretty funny at times.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

So we're already at that level? Fabulous!

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

'It's a real possibility': Baywatch star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson reveals he may one day run for President of the United States

Get ready, jambronis and candyasses.

[Chipper Mourning Somali Roadz]

In order for the great prophecy to be fulfilled, Gatorade must first flow from the water fountains.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Bill O'Reilly 'slammed his wife into a wall and dragged her by the throat down a staircase after she caught him having phone sex while naked from the waist down', claim court documents

In Bill's defense, Porky Piggin' is pretty damn comfortable.

[Calidissident]

The O'Reilly-Ludacris feud from the early 2000s, when O'Reilly called for a boycott of him for his "disrespectful lyrics about women," looks even funnier in hindsight. Of course there were already accusations at that time, hence Ludacris's response in Number One Spot ("kiss the plaintiff and the wifey").

[Chipper Mourning Somali Roadz]

Can we please get an O'Reilly action figure based on this incident?

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

With "KungFu" grip?

[MarkLastname]

I don't think bow ties are that comfortable.

[Jerryskids]

Trump Surrogates Try to Explain

You can just stop right there. Everybody's trying to explain because nobody knows a damn thing about what Trump says or does or thinks, might as well consult some tea leaves or chicken entrails as to try to guess what any of it means.

[Not a True MJG]

Done and done.

[Conchfritters]

Why the heck would Putin care who our domestic law enforcement chief is? As a foreign leader I would be more concerned who the CIA monkey was, given in their election tampering in recent years in Yugoslavia, Ecuador, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Iraq, Haiti, Somalia, Honduras, Lybia, Syria, Ukraine (this is only in the last 17 years - I am sure there is a more complete list somewhere on the internets).

[mad.casual]

Asked about the firing, Russia President Vladimir Putin said it would have "no effect" on U.S.-Russian relations.

What we can't do with targeted messaging of fake news, we'll make up for in volume. Plan to have an explanation about the effect of seasonal closing of Mar a Lago on U.S.-Russia relations Mr. Putin.

[Random Axe Of Kindness]

Apparently a construction-themed party is racist
This isn't satire.
I hate everything.

[Meh.]

So to recap, celebrating Cinco de Mayo is cultural appropriation, but not celebrating it is racially insensitive?

Also, how are these misogynists getting away with having a frat?

[Conchfritters]

Yeah, everyone knows Friday nights are a terrible party night in college.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed while giving the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University.

Also, Water wet, Sky blue, Proggies unrepentant jerks, details at 11.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

"In an unrelated story, Bethune-Cookman's Pell Grants were eliminated today."

[BestUsedCarSales]

It's funny. She's a devil stealing all college away from all poor people. But she mentioned in the speech that she was proud of them currently expanding Pell Grant access.

From the outside it is humorous how someone so benign is so maligned.

[Conchfritters]

Between Amash's support of government healthcare and his calling for an independent investigation of Trump after Comey was fired, is it possible that the political doobie brothers have broken up? (no word on Massie and Rand have formed a new band)

[BestUsedCarSales]

From the Devos article:

"The appearance was so controversial in large part because of remarks she made calling historically black colleges and universities ? which were created because blacks couldn't attend white schools ? "pioneers" of school choice."

Things are like this reinforce the reality that I am a political radical. I look at that and can't even figure out what the possible issue could be with that statement.

[Brandybuck]

Budget surplus article. Quotes:

"The U.S. government had a $182 billion budget surplus in April"

"The fiscal 2017 year-to-date deficit was $344 billion"

How the hell can you have a budget surplus and a deficit at the same time?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Like many facts and statistics like these: technically.

For real, it's a comparison of one month versus YTD.

[DanO.]

Trump surrogates

Come on. We're all adults here. Those "surrogates" are pimps, prostitutes, hucksters, shysters and flimflam artists. I understand the concept of professional courtesy, but let's call a spade a spade, shall we? Thanks.

[MarkLastname]

"Those "surrogates" are pimps, prostitutes,..."
I didn't know your mom and dad voted for Trump?

[hello.]

let's call a spade a spade, shall we?

You're a retarded piece of shit.

Thanks.

Don't mention it.

[DRM]

So, you're saying that Trump surrogates are African-American, and that African-Americans are pimps, prostitutes, hucksters, shysters and flimflam artists?

[DanO.]

Oh dear. I've offended the partisans.