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A.M. Links: Trump vs. Sessions, Scaramucci vs. Priebus

Damon Root | 7.27.2017 9:01 AM

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    President Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions via recess appointment when the Senate goes on break.

  • "President Donald Trump abruptly declared a ban on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military, catching the Pentagon flat-footed and unable to explain what it called Trump's 'guidance.' His proclamation, on Twitter rather than any formal announcement, drew bipartisan denunciations and threw currently serving transgender soldiers into limbo."
  • Incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has suggested that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus is involved in leaking information. "If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker," Scaramucci said, "let him do that."
  • Congress looks poised to pass a Russia sanctions bill.
  • Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    President Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions via recess appointment when the Senate goes on break.

    COULD HE FIND ANYONE WORSE?

    1. Anomalous   8 years ago

      Yeah. Chris Christie would be worse.

      1. Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting   8 years ago

        DC cocktail party buffets hardest hit.

        1. Dillinger   8 years ago

          New Jersey elevation +8 feet.

    2. Conchfritters   8 years ago

      Is Janet Reno still alive?

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        She was reported dead, but that's only because she was in Dr. Frankenstein's shop for repairs.

      2. Tom Bombadil   8 years ago

        Was she ever?

    3. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

      Rudy Guiliani might be worse. Sessions will be hard to out-worse though.

    4. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      Giuliani.

    5. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      Loretta Lynch. Eric Holder.

      1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

        FAST & FURIOUS! DERP! BLACK PANDAS IN PHILLY! BLOOP!

        1. Mmmmmmm   8 years ago

          Oh great you're off your meds.

          1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

            Anytime Holder is mentioned wingnuts say that. I was just saving loveconstitution1789 the trouble.

            1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

              I KNEW you were on meds.

        2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

          Is BLOOP that new boy band that Lynch was meeting with Slick Willey on the airport tarmac to talk about?

          1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

            How do you know the Big Dawg wasn't just trying to get in her pants? Ever hear of Occam's Razor?

            1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

              When you deal with the Clintons, corruption is the simplest answer.

              1. Hail Rataxes   8 years ago

                Social Contract get too hot for you bro?

            2. Eek Barba Durkle   8 years ago

              Ever hear of Occam's Razor?

              So when a guy whose entire career could be summed up with "dishonest corruption" has a secret meeting with the lady overseeing a criminal investigation of his wife (the lady being a long-time friend and attorney for the guy and his wife), an investigation that is killed in a COMPLETELY unprecedented publicly manner only a day or two later, you find the most reasonable, simplest explanation to be "an attempt at sex?"

              Yeah, but you're totally not a Democrat sockpuppet.

    6. Rufus The Monocled   8 years ago

      Hello.

      Jesus Christ Hillary.

      Go stick a vibrator in it and move the fuck on.

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        At this point, that would be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

        1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          +1 Steely Dan

      2. Rhywun   8 years ago

        They must be running out of money again.

        1. prolefeed   8 years ago

          Prediction: 230 pages of how it totally wasn't her fault, and the election was stolen, and a bunch of people, or every Trump voter really, voted against their best interests

          Best. Candidate. Ever.

          1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

            Dollars to doughnuts, she leaves out why she could not stand after the event and had to be carried by secret service to her awaiting van.

          2. TrickyVic (old school)   8 years ago

            That's what I'm expecting. It's definitely a piece to spin what happened in the way she want's it to be remembered.

            I think it's going to reinforce the notion that she can't ever accept blame for actions.

            1. prolefeed   8 years ago

              Prediction: she mentions the incident, in her version she was fine, maybe a lil dehydrated, the Secret Service was just being overprotected, she is in great health and nothing is her fault ever

              1. TrickyVic (old school)   8 years ago

                I was referring to the whole election process.

                I do like to point out that Hillary couldn't be honest about something as simple as cough when talking about her level of dishonesty. No lie to small.

          3. Ron   8 years ago

            230 pages with every third page blank and most of the stock bought by unions for private distribution but end up in forgoten stacks at a warehouse somewhere in Jersey

        2. RAHeinlein   8 years ago

          I am waiting for someone to look into actual sales of books by candidates. I find it hard to believe that these books actually have the sales (and accompanying high royalties) that are reported. More likely shell companies purchasing mass quantities to avoid campaign finance rules.

          1. TrickyVic (old school)   8 years ago

            She will donate them to the Clinton Foundation.

            1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

              Proceeds probably will go to the Clinton Foundation, and the book will then be a surprise runaway bestseller in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China...

  2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

    President Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions via recess appointment when the Senate goes on break.

    Oddly unsatisfying. I'd have gone with the boats.

  3. Aloysious   8 years ago

    Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.

    "Not My fault!!"

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      I guarantee no lessons were learned.

      1. Aloysious   8 years ago

        Maybe it would be better if it was titled, "It Takes a Village To Figure Out what Happened!"

    2. Tom Bombadil   8 years ago

      Publisher forgot the punctuation.

      Should be: "What Happened?"

      1. Zeb   8 years ago

        THat was my immediate thought too.

    3. Enjoy Every Sandwich   8 years ago

      "The Russians, in conjunction with The Saucer People, under the supervision of the Reverse Vampires, forced people to vote for Trump!"

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        Information caused voters to vote for Trump. Best politician's reason eva!

    4. Maven Houlihan   8 years ago

      Maybe "Wha' Happen??"

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyDjkPO8l0

    5. Veritas et Libertas   8 years ago

      New memoir titled "What Difference at this Point Does it Make"

      1. Unlabelable MJGreen   8 years ago

        I wonder how many book reviews will use that as the headline.

      2. Veritas et Libertas   8 years ago

        My personal guess is that many book reviews will center around some sort of unbreakable glass ceiling.

  4. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    His proclamation, on Twitter rather than any formal announcement, drew bipartisan denunciations and threw currently serving transgender soldiers into limbo.

    But it let the culture wars begin anew, just as congressmen and some senators begin gearing up for the midterms.

    1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

      soldiers into limbo

      Is that how Trump will find the trannies?

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        Trump needs to find a vehicle transmission?

      2. Tom Bombadil   8 years ago

        "soldiers into limbo"

        Their genitalia all akimbo.

        1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

          No genitalia will go ungrabbed.

          1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

            Not all genitalia is grabbable, especially if the grabee decides it's not there today.

          2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

            New Oprah show giveaway?

            You get your ____ grabbed and you get your ___ grabbed.

        2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          Innies become outies, and outies innies.

          1. Tom Bombadil   8 years ago

            Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
            It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world

            I was hoping for at least one kudo for using "akimbo" (and rhyming no less).
            Tough crowd.

            1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

              Your reward is this really old Blur song.

            2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

              I was amused.

              Sir, yes, Ma'am!

              1. Dillinger   8 years ago

                >>>Sir, yes, Ma'am!

                very. funny.

          2. Rhywun   8 years ago

            You know you're getting old when opposing taxpayer-funded sex-change operations is considered standing on the wrong side of history.

            1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

              It's a right!

            2. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

              This is the age where abortions are considered "reproductive rights", so, yeah.

              1. lap83   8 years ago

                Whoa, what if a biological male who identifies as a woman is someday able to grow a fetus. Will he be allowed to abort it?

                1. lap83   8 years ago

                  Or what if a man identifies as a woman after getting another woman pregnant? If he/she doesn't get a say in whether she aborts it, well, isn't that problematic?

      3. Enjoy Every Sandwich   8 years ago

        He'll use the Crocodile Dundee check.

    2. Rhywun   8 years ago

      It got Pelosi hissing and spitting on my morning news and that's all that counts.

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        She reverted to her native language, huh?

      2. Tom Bombadil   8 years ago

        Of course she's a Slytherin.

    3. cgr2727   8 years ago

      threw...soldiers into limbo.

      What about the drill sergeants? Won't anyone think of the drill sergeants? How were they supposed to harass recruits from Texas? "LGBTQ's" doesn't rhyme with "steers."

  5. Bee Tagger   8 years ago

    Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.

    A Rerun retrospective.

    1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      Leaves out many important events like numerous suspicious deaths for those scheduled to whistleblow on Clintons.

      1. Domestic Dissident   8 years ago

        Oh boy, now you've done it! Citizen Crusty, sparky, MJGreen, paranoid android, and all the rest of the liberal democrats will be jumping all over you within minutes.

        1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          What i love the most about Simple Mikey's attacks is that i don't have to change anything about my beliefs or comments for him to be hilariously, obviously, stupidly wrong.

        2. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

          What did I do now?

          1. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

            Shut up, Weigel!

          2. Unlabelable MJGreen   8 years ago

            You've maintained at least a loose grip on reality.

        3. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

          It's alright. People have been fighting back since 1789.

        4. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

          Mike, can you put together a ranked list for us of your most hated, most liberal commenters?

          1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

            Please, Mikey?

          2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

            It's going to be a pretty short list, since he believes that most of us are the same person, who apparently is willing to go to an unreasonable amount of trouble just to flame his stupid ass. Occam's Razor is a liberal democrat plot to that fucking guy.

            1. Zeb   8 years ago

              There are only 4 commenters. CitizenCrustexChipper, Weigal, Tulpa and Mike.

              Guess which one I am.

              1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

                Given your expressed preference for beer that tastes awful, i'm going with Mike.

              2. Voros McCracken   8 years ago

                "Guess which one I am"

                The lack of all caps isn't fooling anyone STEVE

    2. Mickey Rat   8 years ago

      Trying her hand at fiction now that her political career is done?

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        Speaking of fiction political career.... BOOM!

        I be here all da week.

    3. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

      That's dy-no-mite!

    4. TrickyVic (old school)   8 years ago

      Who did Russia undermine?

  6. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

    Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.

    I prefer Shit Happens.

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      Shit Happens, Especially When You're An Unlikable Harridan Who Alienates Key Demographics Your Party Took For Granted

      1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

        I acknowledge her unlikeability but Trump is a disgusting scumbag.

        1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

          If you look up disgusting scumbag in the dictionary, you see Hillary's picture.....BOOM!

          I be here all da week.

        2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          And so's Clinton. While i would hope that it couldn't get worse than the choice between Hillary and The Donald, i'm pretty sure that constant voting for the lesser of two evils will always end up a race between the two worst people in the country.

          Don't blame me, though. I voted for the guy who doesn't know where Aleppo is.

          1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

            Hillary doesn't belittle everyone that doesn't suck her dick like Trump does.

            1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

              I KNEW Hillary had underwear with dick holes in it.

            2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

              Not on Twitter, sure, but there are a ton of insider stories about her dishing out mushroom-slaps in private to people who have crossed her. There's a reason so many conspiracy theories about her are based on her vindictiveness, and it's not because she's a nice person who just has irrationally shady enemies.

              1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

                The media never discusses this. Even retired secret service agents discuss how bitch-in-private and vindictive she is.

                The other thing the media never discusses is why most people who know Trump don't have wheelbarrows full of bad shit to say about him. Ex-wives even.

                1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

                  Ex-wives have a financial incentive not to talk. Look at Fat Rush Limbaugh who has been in four-five sham marriages - his don't talk either.

                  1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

                    They get alimony, divorce maintenance, etc. no matter what.

                    Besides, a lefty book publisher would offer big money for a tell all.

                    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

                      You think a guy as rich and public as Trump doesn't have a "don't say bad stuff" clause in all his divorce agreements?

                    2. SKR   8 years ago

                      Plus ruining the ex's cash flow could impact those alimony payments.

                    3. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

                      Citizen X - #6|7.27.17 @ 9:52AM|#
                      You think a guy as rich and public as Trump doesn't have a "don't say bad stuff" clause in all his divorce agreements?

                      Not with Ivana. Not with Marla Maples.
                      Ivana

                      Marla Maples

                    4. TrickyVic (old school)   8 years ago

                      Trump historically has been a supporter of democrats. So the dem machine doesn't really want to dig into the history.

              2. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

                dishing out mushroom-slaps

                You broke my brain.

                1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

                  Citizen's the fungi today.

                2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

                  What did 5 fingers say to the face? Slap!

              3. Rhywun   8 years ago

                Here she is behind closed doors.

                1. Zeb   8 years ago

                  I really don't want to see her in a body suit, though. Otherwise, pretty on the nose.

            3. Eek Barba Durkle   8 years ago

              Hillary doesn't belittle everyone that doesn't suck her dick like Trump does.

              Hillary literally just lost an election because she called half the country 'deplorable' for not voting for her.

    2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      I prefer the title How I fucked up

    3. some guy   8 years ago

      What Happened: How I Snatched Defeat from the Gaping Maw of Victory.

      1. Scarecrow Repair & Chippering   8 years ago

        But enough talk of her Maw.

  7. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

    Bannon's Plan to Tax Top Earners 44% to Be Considered by GOP

    Bannon supports paying for middle-class tax cuts with a new top rate of 44 percent for those who make more than $5 million a year, according to a person familiar with his thinking. The lawmaker, who asked not to be named because discussions are private, said the rate pitched was 42 percent, which would be acceptable to some conservatives, as long as it's coupled with a low corporate rate and other changes like repealing the alternative minimum tax. The current top individual rate is 39.6 percent.

    1. Rhywun   8 years ago

      This sounds like some of that "reaching across the aisle" I keep hearing about whenever the GOP has control of Congress.

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        See, why didn't you use "reaching across the aisle" for Crusty's article about the teacher and mile-high sex?

    2. Scarecrow Repair & Chippering   8 years ago

      This nostalgia for the 1950s is getting out of hand. How soon before they go for 90+%?

  8. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    "If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker," Scaramucci said, "let him do that."

    GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT

    1. Tom Bombadil   8 years ago

      Brilliant choice for White House Communications Director. I'm looking forward to Mucci and his boss having some kind of twitter retard contest.

      1. Ska   8 years ago

        Twitter retard sounds redundant.

    2. bevis the lumberjack   8 years ago

      Yeah, because it's so easy to prove a negative.

      If Scaramucci wants to explain that he doesn't fuck goats, let him do that.

  9. Bee Tagger   8 years ago

    "If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker," Scaramucci said, "let him do that."

    If he didn't do anything wrong, he shouldn't care if I imply he did.

  10. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    Congress looks poised to pass a Russia sanctions bill.

    But will the Puppet-in-Chief sign it?

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      Yes, but he'll sign it via Tweet.

    2. Conchfritters   8 years ago

      Imagine if the US got sanctioned for every foreign election the CIA tried to rig (or just outright whacked the person we didn't want in power) we'd be even more broke than we are now.

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        When the US does it, it's in our best interests.

        Honestly, I actually don't have a problem with foreign officials "trying" to convince our politicians to end sanctions, etc.

        I have a problem with US politicians becoming so rich at growing government and taking bribes at the detriment of Americans.

        1. Zeb   8 years ago

          When the US does it, it's in our best interests.

          Well, somebody's interests anyway.

    3. Bee Tagger   8 years ago

      The Puppeting Chief would be a good job title.

  11. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

    "President Trump has discussed with confidants and advisers in recent days the possibility of installing a new attorney general through a recess appointment if Jeff Sessions leaves the job...."
    Ah, secret informants provide valuable info....again.

    Naw, everything Trump does is random.

  12. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

    MILE HIGH MISS UNVEILED First pics of physics teacher who had unprotected sex with a pupil in an aeroplane toilet as they flew home from a school trip

    1. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

      I'd hit it.

    2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      That boy would be a god when I was growing up.

    3. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

      Is that Gwyneth Paltrow?

      1. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

        No.

      2. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

        No Goop for you!

      3. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        Jesus Christ, shreek.

    4. Tom Bombadil   8 years ago

      She was just explaining how a piston engine works.

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        And how atoms get smashed at the Hadron Collider.

    5. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

      Crusty, you are the best.

      1. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

        Someone has to be the adult in here.

        1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

          Did you hire someone?

    6. Tom Bombadil   8 years ago

      Can't really blame her. Kid's nickname is "Perpetual Motion (sex) Machine."

    7. Unlabelable MJGreen   8 years ago

      The disgraced physics teacher

      "Disgraced" is a point of view, Anakin.

  13. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.

    If only everyone didn't already know.

  14. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

    A halal guide to mind-blowing sex is teaching Muslim women how to set the bed on fire

    Even at a slender 65 pages, The Muslimah Sex Manual: A Halal Guide to Mind Blowing Sex packs comprehensiveness. A handbook for Muslim women seeking satisfying love lives, the book starts with the basics?lessons on kissing, sending dirty texts, and the importance of foreplay. After that come chapters on sex positions, shower sex, bondage, and masochism.

    "You can be pure as snow and still be dirty in bed," says the manual. "What is amusing (in a sad way) is that many younger Muslims think that the practicing, masjid going, hijab/niqab wearing sisters have dull sex lives and never venture outside of the vanilla."

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      Fact: Muslim brides are required to remove all hair below the neck. I'd have thought more of you pervs would be into that.

      1. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

        Yes.

      2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        *researches conversions to Islam*

    2. Aloysious   8 years ago

      It takes sixty-five pages to say, "Practice, practice, practice"?

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        It's the same thing with shit like Cosmo. You want to know what guys want out of sex? It's not that complicated - a tube sock with Vaseline in it can figure it out.

        1. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

          That tube sock better put on some lipstick.

          1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

            Oh, NOW you decide to have standards?

    3. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      Not included are tips on how men can get Muslim women off.

      1. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

        Because that's irrelevant.

      2. Eek Barba Durkle   8 years ago

        Stones, mostly.

    4. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

      Is there a chapter on how to pleasure a woman with no clit?

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        Why does EVERYTHING have to be about Hillary with you!

    5. Unlabelable MJGreen   8 years ago

      Unless they're literally setting the bed on fire, this is not productive.

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        New movie-

        Die Hard: The burning bed

  15. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    On a personal note, second only to Shackleford's adoption at my urging of the use of "marriage recognition" instead of "legalized marriage" is Root's use of "titled" instead of "entitled" here.

    I appreciate their efforts to appease me and I accept this as Reason's apology.

    1. Scarecrow Repair & Chippering   8 years ago

      I accept this as Reason's apology

      Then you are a deluded collectivist. Damon Root wrote this, not the web site / magazine / foundation

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        If you're taking Eugene's comments seriously, you should probably recalibrate your sarcasmometer.

        1. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

          It's an apology for all those times Reason wrote "try and" instead of "try to".

          1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

            Welch wrote "would of" the other day. I very nearly canceled my subscription before i remembered i don't have one.

            1. Eek Barba Durkle   8 years ago

              Someone needs to alert the Commander And Chief.

        2. Scarecrow Repair & Chippering   8 years ago

          O come now! If I want to be offended by a broken sarcasmometer, I'll damned well ignore it all on my own.

  16. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

    New York Gov. Cuomo Makes Case for Federal Spending on Infrastructure Projects

    "If we're going to be serious about infrastructure, which this administration said they were going to be, the money's going to have to come from the federal government," Mr. Cuomo said on Wednesday.

    By contrast, Ms. Chao and other administration officials have said they want to rely on private financing for the bulk of their infrastructure plan, and have spoken readily of shifting some costs for major projects from the federal government down to the state and municipal level.

    1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      You could cut state welfare programs and use THAT money.

    2. Mickey Rat   8 years ago

      The feds should take spending advice from a an who got conned by Elon Musk.

  17. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

    'Police check' held subway for de Blasio ? despite City Hall fibs, evidence shows

    Documents reviewed by the Daily News show that despite vehement denials from his staff, Mayor de Blasio's Brooklyn-bound R train was indeed held in the station for him at the end of his press conference Tuesday.

    Fuck yo commute.

    1. Rufus The Monocled   8 years ago

      It's public...until bureaucrat shitheads need it. Then it suddenly becomes a temporary private venture.

      People who view public stuff like this in a positive light should realize they're secondary to the state when it matters most.

    2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      If other people have places they need to be on time, they should have thought of that before they didn't become Mayor.

      1. Rufus The Monocled   8 years ago

        You can just see a prog saying that.

        If you care about being on time so much you would have left three hours earlier! The Mayor has stuff to do to run OUR CITY and likely to table rules and regulations against the likes of you! Stop bitching. You won't get fired.

        Along those lines. Because progressives are retarded. WHY REASON WANTS TO SHARE A COCKTAIL WITH THEM IS BEYOND ME.

    3. Rhywun   8 years ago

      Three minutes is nothing but the fact they needed to lie about it speaks volumes. Will voters listen to it?

    4. Scarecrow Repair & Chippering   8 years ago

      Christie suddenly jealous.

  18. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    President Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions via recess appointment when the Senate goes on break.

    It'll be fun watching lefties defend someone they only months prior had referred to as an evil, bigoted, racist. And it will be nice to be rid of Sessions, provided the replacement is not named Giuliani. That said, their whole feud may be a farce anyhow. Time will tell.

    1. Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting   8 years ago

      It would not surprise me at all to see some sort of WWE-style swerve with all this--get the press chasing the latest bit of gossip, force lefties to feel sorry for Sessions, and then reveal that they were being played all along and Trump is just fine with him.

  19. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

    Incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has suggested that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus is involved in leaking information. "If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker," Scaramucci said, "let him do that."

    Mooooooooooooch!

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      Dude doesn't give a fuck, he's actively hostile to most of the Republican platform (which is going to blow up spectacularly probably very soon), he comes equipped with a perfect fed parasite neckname - The Mooch, and it's impossible to read about him without getting "Bohemian Rhapsody" stuck in your head. He might be the Perfect communications guy for this administration.

      1. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

        I am grateful for his presence, because somehow shit just became even more weird:

        After apparently accusing Reince Priebus last night in a tweet of leaking a financial disclosure form that hadn't even been leaked, Scaramucci called into New Day, perhaps after one too many cups of coffee. Speaking with Chris Cuomo for 30 minutes, The Mooch compared his relationship to the chief of staff to Cain and Abel, quoted Joe Paterno, moaned about leaks and slammed reporters.

        Thirty minutes! What communications expect speaks to a reporter, live on the air, for thirty minutes! It's bananas.

        1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          BEST C*MMUNICATIONS DIRECT*R EVAH!

          1. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

            WORST M*ME REV*VAL EVAH!

            1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

              I look forward to amsoc's eventual failed attempt at using said meme, whenever his unemployable ass gets out of bed.

  20. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled "What Happened".

    What happened? You are a lying, conniving, corrupt as the day is long cunt that ran a shoddy campaign that lost to a celebrity blowhard even though you outspent said blowhard by more than 2:1. I don't expect to see this in the memoir.

    1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

      Money spent is irrelevant. The Con Man got billions in free TV time from the Librul Media who ignored his corrupt money-laundering for Russian mobster past.

      1. Rufus The Monocled   8 years ago

        But Hillary using her foundation WHILE SERVING AS SOS, for power, privilege, shakedowns and probably money laundering is....?

        And no rational classical liberal.

        You're just a progressive moron.

        1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

          Suck Trump's dick, Rufus. He will let you know when to swallow.

          1. Sevo   8 years ago

            You LOST turd!
            Hahahahahhahhahha...

            1. Scarecrow Repair & Chippering   8 years ago

              Hasn't paid yet, I expect.

            2. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

              Imagine Sevo yelling that out of context.

              1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

                You don't yell at your poo?

                1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

                  Wait, shreek came out of Sevo's butt?

                  1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

                    You LOST turd!
                    Hahahahahhahhahha...

      2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        Haha. That was so funny. The media realized their mistake only days before the election.

        Hillary spent hundreds of Millions of stupid Democrat donor's money on commercials and she lost.

      3. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

        Money spent is irrelevant.

        Fuck that noise. Money buys elections.

        1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

          Except for Hillary. She had $900M in funding and lost.

          1. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

            Shut up. If you can't recognize humor then fuck off and don't reply to my comments, douche.

            1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

              What's your day job? Comedy is not your forte.

              1. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

                I can tell you that it's not being an intolerable bore who takes everything too seriously. You've got that job locked uptight.

                1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

                  I was just joking. Man, you take everything too seriously- you intolerable bore.

          2. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

            He is mocking the anti-Citizens United idiots.

            1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

              I was mocking Hillary. Its a win win win!

      4. Mickey Rat   8 years ago

        Nice to know that campaign money spent is irrelevent.

      5. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

        The Con Man got billions in free TV time from the Librul Media

        90% negative coverage compared to overwhelmingly positive coverage for Clinton. Your premise is incorrect. Cry me a river. And kindly fuck off.

        1. Eek Barba Durkle   8 years ago

          He's wrong about almost everything, but he's right about this. 100%. Trump flat the fuck out manipulated the media to be his advertising arm for the entirety of the election.

          Yeah, it was all negative coverage, and yeah it was INTENDED to stop him in his tracks.

          But Trump - as much as I despise him, and as low as my estimation of intelligence is - just walked the media like his fucking dog, for a year, until they helped him win the White House. He may be a half-wit dipshit asshole, but Trump knows how to manipulate the media FAR better than anyone actually IN the media or politics.

    2. Chipper Morning, Now #1   8 years ago

      Full title:
      What Happened...And Why Next Time Will Be Different

  21. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    catching the Pentagon flat-footed

    It hit 'em like a Boeing 757...

    1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      Damn, too soon!

    2. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

      President Donald Trump abruptly declared a ban on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military

      As to the ban, it is preferable to not have people in the military who deny objective reality because denying objective reality is insane. Treat it with psychotherapy, not surgery

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        Politics say that we need these people to fly multi-million dollar aircraft because then they can say they are flying in invulnerable jets immune to whitey's anti-aircraft missiles.

  22. Domestic Dissident   8 years ago

    Smashed hard drives seized from the home of shady Debbie Wasserman-Schultz aide Imram Awan.

    Despite what pathetic liberal democrat media lickspittle Citizen Crusty wants you to believe, this could very easily get much worse for the democrats. Thanks to these dipshits, this asshole may have had access to Top Secret classified information. There's also a question as to whether members of this guy's family are supporters of Hezbollah.

    1. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

      Dude, your rocker is straight up collapsed.

      1. Crusty Juggler :)   8 years ago

        That jelly bean keeps giving me the high hat!

    2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      Noticing that Mikey is retarded = "pathetic liberal democrat media lickspittle." Cool story, bro. I mean, i've never voted Democrat in my life, am dubious in the extreme about the truthfulness of media outlets in general, and don't even have a similar writing style to Crusty, but you do what you need to do in order to feel relevant.

      Also, i'm pretty sure the last person to use the word "lickspittle" died of old age in 1951. How old ARE you, anyway?

      1. Domestic Dissident   8 years ago

        I've never voted Democrat in my life

        You're a lying piece of shit.

        1. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

          Sorry X, Double Dummy knows your mind and your soul. He also has a BetaMax tape of your entire life.

        2. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

          If you're not a nostril-flaring wingnut you are a Democrat to Mikey.

        3. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          Oh Mikey, i know you want that to be true so badly, but that doesn't make it reality. Face it, you're not likeable across the entire political spectrum, you delusional retard.

      2. creech   8 years ago

        Pretty sure Rothbard used to call Ed Crane's supporters "Lickspittles, toadies and minions."

        1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          Sure, undermining my attempt to call Mikey old is a thing you could choose to do.

    3. TrickyVic (old school)   8 years ago

      Awan was recently arrested trying to flee the country.

      The DNC did more to interfere with the free election process than anything Russia did. But let's not talk about that. It makes the team look bad.

  23. Sevo   8 years ago

    "...His proclamation, on Twitter rather than any formal announcement,..."

    Maybe he can get Valerie to send an email on Friday afternoon. That's legally binding, isn't it?

  24. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   8 years ago

    Make sure to wipe that server with a cloth first ...

    1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   8 years ago

      Was supposed to be:

      Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.

      Make sure to wipe that server with a cloth first ...

      Late and effed up, what a way to start the morning ...

  25. Tom Bombadil   8 years ago

    " catching the Pentagon flat-footed"

    Improvise, adapt, overcome. Did these jokers never watch "Heartbreak Ridge"?

  26. Dillinger   8 years ago

    >>Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.

    editor forgot question mark.

  27. Domestic Dissident   8 years ago

    The CIA's favorite subcontractor Jeff Bezos has apparently passed Bill Gates and become the world's richest man.

    Congratulations bozo. Too bad all the money on planet earth still isn't going to make you immortal, no matter what you delusionally like to tell yourself.

    1. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

      If I cared enough, I would be worried about your safety. When is the last time someone stopped by for a wellness check?

    2. TrickyVic (old school)   8 years ago

      Bezos, the 99%er's favorite 1%er

  28. Robespierre Josef Stalin   8 years ago

    The wonderful thing about a Trump presidency is how I can wake up in the morning, brew myself some coffee, and then watch the hilarious incompetence of a government run by people who want to be in a cult, but can't quite get it together enough to be in one. It's like watching people who want to form a theme camp at Burning Man, but-- dangit-- the guy responsible for bringing the water jugs flaked. Too bad.

    1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      Funny, I was thinking that's exactly how the last 8 years went too.

    2. Sevo   8 years ago

      I find it terrific since I get to see the losers like commie kid shit their pants all day and every day!
      Hey, shitbag! You LOST!

  29. TrickyVic (old school)   8 years ago

    What I find amusing is dems, the left, ect. hate Sessions and want him removed. But if Trump does it. They will think it's treason.

  30. Brandybuck   8 years ago

    Have we ever had a more petulant child in office before? This president makes Jefferson Davis Hogg seem downright adult.

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      Most of 'em manage to keep their childish petulance hidden behind closed doors most of the time. Trump hides his childish petulance behind petulant childishness, that's all.

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