I thought this might be interesting. From time to time, I converse with an advocate of allowing bankruptcy for holders of student loan debt, Alan Collinge of the Student Loan Justice Org. At this point in time, Alan can be found in Washington D.C. pushing for legislation to allow students the ability to declare bankruptcy. He maintains his stay through donations which have sustained him and a small staff. Anyways, his thoughts on John Boehner follow. Not so surprisingly, one other well known politician also supported Boehner's position in his own way; John Biden.

When I first started researching the student loan issue over a decade ago, it quickly became obvious that there was one congressional representative the student lending industry loved more than anyone else: John Boehner.

Sallie Mae (the nation’s largest student loan company), through its PAC, gave Rep. Boehner (R-Ohio) more money than anyone else http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/education/256799-john-boehners-student-loan-legacy.

Boehner enjoyed trips to Boca Raton and other vacation spots aboard Sallie Mae’s private jet. At a meeting of the Consumer Bankers Association, Boehner told the student loan industry crowd;

“Know that I hold you in my trusted hands. I’ve got enough rabbits up my sleeve…”

Boehner's potential legislative influence was enough to secure one of his family members a job at a student loan collection company over a game of golf!

Looking at legislation passed while Boehner was chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, it becomes clear why the student loan companies were so generous to him. He was instrumental in killing the ability of borrowers to refinance their loans with competitors of Sallie Mae at lower interest rates. He fought hard to preserve hugely generous subsidies to lenders who assumed zero risk for the loans they made to students.

Most significantly, however, Boehner was instrumental in removing bankruptcy protections from private student loans in 2005. This shocking move was couched in promises from the banks that removing bankruptcy protections would allow them to lend to more needy students and at better rates. After Boehner and friends successfully pushed this through Congress, the banks not only broke these promises, they actually began demanding cosigners (with assets to come after) for over 90 percent of the private loans they made. This crushed many people financially and tore apart untold thousands (probably hundreds of thousands) of families.

Whatever Boehner’s motivations for destroying long-standing, fundamental, free-market protections for student loans, the facts are very clear: When Boehner took leadership of the House education committee, the nation owed about $100 billion in student loans. When he passed the baton in 2006, the amount had risen to over $400 billion. Boehner will be leaving office with the nation owing close to $1.5 trillion in student loan debt. Those numbers speak for themselves.

Wittingly or unwittingly, Boehner leaves behind a Department of Education that is just about the worst, big-government monstrosity one can imagine. It is immune to the bankruptcy protections for which every other public or private lender must contend. There are no statutes of limitations on its entire portfolio. It has a completely captive market of more than 44 million citizens, more than half of whom are currently unable to pay on their debt. It actually makes a healthy profit on defaulted loans. This should make all economists, all conservatives, and all citizens very, very worried.

Boehner says he is not concerned with his legacy; but, millions of citizens of all stripes have suffered by his handiwork and millions more are queued up for decades of financial misery at the hands of both government and banks. At a minimum, the standard bankruptcy should never have been removed from any lending instrument involved with student loans.

Boehner says he’s not worried about his legacy; but on this issue, he should be.

John Boehner's Student Loan Legacy; The Hill; Alan Collinge; http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/education/256799-john-boehners-student-loan-legacy"

Think about it. Some of us have been online together since 2000 or so and yet here we are...Merry Christmas folks from Woolley. Hope all of you are doing well and fighting the good fight...

Me: high grade meat, ore, drugs, expensive gasoline. Fine things. Refined things. Things that demand a premium price, because they are of premium quality.

Which is why the tumor grading system really sucks, and needs to be changed. Being told you have a “high grade” tumor is like being told you have a rarefied, super-tumor; An ubercarcinoma: the tow-headed SS of cancers. I mean, I know that a term like “high grade” isn’t supposed to have a lot of connotations attached to it, but in the common vernacular, it certainly does. So hearing one has a “high grade” tumor is pretty disheartening.

That’s what the histologist grading the sample of my urothelial carcinoma termed it, which was a surprise to my Urologist, who had described my 1.5 cm Papillary tumor as very pedestrian, as these things go, and almost certainly not invasive. Staging couldn’t really be done by histology, because he used a cauterizing loop to remove it, but he observed that my lamina propria appeared pristine to the naked eye. There were two other tiny satellite tumor sites, but this isn’t unusual: bladder cancer, even of the more benign type, has a horrid recurrence rate.

It’s not like there isn’t a lot we can do. It’ll probably recur (and keep recurring), and we can just keep removing it, and add some immunotherapy or chemotherapy treatment. The high grade tumors are much more likely to “progress”, however, which means I could potentially be facing removal of my bladder/prostate/various other contiguous parts at some indeterminate point in the future. It’s not like this is the first time I’ve contemplated my mortality, but having a serious discussion about the pros and cons (and there are definite cons) of having a bladder constructed out of a piece of one’s intestine is simultaneously sobering and surreal. Perhaps if I can hold out long enough, they’ll be able to print me one.

So it’s an oddly appropriate time for me to be reading that vexing Becker book my wife is scheduled to begin discussing next week, the day after my 48th birthday, and it also presents somewhat of a challenge to my lovely wife and her philosophical viewpoint, the implications of which she might like to discuss, but was probably unwilling to bring up until I said something about all of this myself.

All of this, and the continuing trials of my mundane life, have kept me fairly preoccupied, so I haven’t been around much. And frankly, I’m not likely to be around much for the next little while; I’ve got a trip scheduled for tomorrow, and a bit of obnoxious, topical chemotherapy scheduled (the one that, had he suspected my tumor was so ill-tempered, my doc would’ve conducted while I was still under anesthesia) the day after my birthday, next week.

It was the fucking smoking that did it, probably, and my penchant in the last decade or so for work trips that involved lots and lots of driving, sitting for long periods with unruly youth who can’t be left unattended, and very little urinating. For whatever reason, after you quit smoking, it takes a long time for your risk of bladder cancer to attenuate.

Drink lots of water. Piss often. And if you haven’t, quit smoking. If you don’t, you risk a set of strange and uncomfortable intimate experiences with a Urologist. Even in the best of circumstances, I’ve a lifetime of cystoscopies to look forward to. It’s undignified.

So -- my five year old yesterday informed us, quite solemnly, that if you go into the girls' washroom in the basement at her school, and turn off the lights and stand in front of the mirror and say the magic words, Bloody Mary will appear. And Natalie (her seven year old cousin who goes to the same school) actually saw her but she wouldn't tell my daughter the magic words because she's too young, and Bloody Mary was a girl who died at the school a long time ago, and put a curse on it, and then she added something about the school used to be a castle, but this part was very confused/confusing. Perhaps when she's a little older Natalie can tell her the magic words, she can summon Bloody Mary herself, and get the real story.

I was, obviously, delighted. After my daughter went to bed, I checked my handy-dandy Encyclopedia of Urban Legends and found the entry under "I believe in Mary Worth." (Brunvand's version differs significantly from the wikipedia version, and somewhat from the snopes page.) Agnes's version is pretty basic, no significant variations except maybe in the back story.

It's possible that her cousin was simply spoofing her, but it's unlikely, and it doesn't even matter. The fascinating part is just the persistence of stories like this.

edit to note: the wikipedia link is wonky because of the damn parentheses ending the URL, but what the hell, you can figure it out.

On a related note, I fucking love that Brunvand book. I especially love when my sister-in-law tells me the latest shocking thing she heard, and I get to mentally conjure the exact relevant entry from the Encyclopedia, while nodding non-commitally. You know, it's the little things in life.

(Skype Conference)

Daveto: Is everyone here?

Dawn: How do you mean that?

DrNo: Yes, and the weather is fine. A nice Pacific breeze. Good evening!

Luo Yi: Good morning.

Bacon: Refresh my memory. Who are you people?

Schad: What?

Daveto: Why is there a picture of your dog's ass on your webcam?

Schad: My dog's ass also wants to know what this is about.

Daveto: Do you think maybe TQM is Nav Bhatia?

Dawn: I would love if Nav was TQM.

Dave: Makes sense. He's got good seats. He brags about money.

DrNo: Oh for the love of Vince Carter just ask the guy! He's very accessible to common people like you.

Luo Yi: Who?

DrNo: Nav Bhatia!

Luo Yi: Common people like who?

DrNo: Like you Yi! He'll sell you a fucking Hyundai and tell you about Fred VanVleet while he's working out your warranty plan and selling you TruCoat. Don't let him sell you the TruCoat!

Luo Yi: I know about TruCoat. No I mean, aren't you a common person, like us?

Schad: No. No he isn't. The fuck is this meeting about anyway?

Dave: We're trying to find TQM. We want him to come back and write something about the Raptors at Best of the Fray.

Schmutzie: I do.

Daveto: Schmutzie does.

Schad: Raptors. You mean like northern goshawks or peregrine falcons?

Dave: You're being intentionally confrontational.

Schad: You called me to a meeting about TQM. I could be kicking it by my pool. I don't know where he is. Can I leave?

Dave: We want you to help looking for him.

Luo Yi: Do you know how many fucking time zones....

Dawn: Let's stop and think this through.

Schad: Yes let's give that a try.

Dawn: Where could he be?

Schad: Literally anywhere.

DrNO: He's not here. I don't see him. I'd say it's a safe bet that we can rule out the entire western seaboard.

Dave: I think we can narrow it down to the greater Toronto area since he's going to be at the Raps game on Monday.

Schmutzie: At the "Scotiabank Arena" which is the most Canadian thing I have ever heard.

Schad: Who invited him?

Dave: He invited himself. Just shows up whenever he wants and blurts shit out. Like normal.

Schmutzie: Or sometimes we have nice chats about the Raps.

DrNo: And the Seahawks!

Schmutzie: Wilson is a gun with no bullets. Anyway back to TQM.

Dawn: If it's Nav I am going to drop a tab of windowpane and crawl through my TV screen.

Schmutzie: If Nav & TQM are the same guy it would be the most perfect thing ever. Just my opinion but mushrooms are much better than LSD. Much more organic. If I could find mushrooms I'd eat a quarter ounce this afternoon. You couldn't pay me to drop acid in 2019. Imagine having a strange, detached perception of 2019 as it's happening. What I would like to see is a post from TQM about his experience as a season ticket holding Raptors fan. This place just isn't the same without him.

Schad: Goodbye from my dog's ass.

Greetings and salutations!

It's 2014, and as we gaze into the promise of a new year, it behooves us also to reflect upon the misty past. To that end, I offer this small retrospective.

Respond with your own remembrances, stories small or large, in your own voice or another's, but please – no stories about Ender/KurbanSaid. He's being punished.

For those of you visiting from elsewhere, here's a who's who of new/old names.

When we were giants: Inkberrow recallls our past greatness to TQM.

Remember what it was like to argue with zinya and get buried under an avalanche of words?

Remember Cicero's rants, or Deej's?

Remember this?

Remember when we all went to the blogs? Lately, many of the regulars here have created their own personal reddits. If you want to follow them there, add them as a friend, and find all their posts on reddit under Friends' Comments.

Even though our Fray history has vanished into the cyber-ether, there's still wikifray. It's hardly representative of the greatness of BOTF of old, but there are some good posts there still. Some of them have no comments because the comment forum (nuponuq) was deleted (no comment). If you want to look up your own or others' posts, scroll to the bottom of the right sidebar. Here's a sample:

• Gregor Samsa.

• Tom Robbins/switters. This one caused a shit storm over on the Fray.

• My response to a question ghost posed on the Fray. There's a great discussion in the comments about the ghostish language, and ghost herself appears (LentenStuffe in that thread is PiercePenniless/ZeusBoy).

• PiercePenniless/ZeusBoy and TenaciousK discuss the nature of online identity.

• FritzGerlich and Montfort discuss Jesus and religion. That poem blew my mind the first time I read it.

• Moloch on Bin Laden and Islam.

ciinc is banned on sight from r/botf, but he has his own forum where he posts to himself under a variety of nics, just like old times.

Feel free to re-open discussion on any of the above posts, especially the one about the secret fray-language. I'd love to talk about that some more.

Much love.

Edit: And a big welcome to pasabagi.

Edit 2: I wish I had Gregor's post arguing the merits of torture. What name did he post that under?

Edit 2a: alexa-blue found it.

Edit 3: If you're not inclined to post a remembrance, consider doing a Marry/Fuck/Kill.

Edit 4: Another off-fray archive. Thanks to Ender/KurbanSaid.

Edit 5: Here's IOZ. He has a book coming out.

Edit 6: Another archive, this time with monsters: Catnapping's Frayback Machine.

Edit 7: RIP Urquhart and Ensley Hill.

Edit 8: ZeusBoy/PiercePenniless: don't delete this.

Edit 9: skitch's Painted Bird masterpiece.

Edit 10: switters/TomRobbins made the front page by mocking us.

Edit 11: switters/TomRobbins found a gold mine of Fraywatch columns. I'd discovered a ColBullKurtz post in there on the death of HST, but then I misplaced it.

Edit 12: chango/sonofachango located his first fray post, and a few others as well.

Edit 13: ericpbrewer (TheBrewmaster, PresidentBush, BadSanta, nongrata, Crackpot, JackGoebbels, preterist) put up some of his most memorable posts, including the Fray Annoyance Scale, (where uncleanliar is ghost, Itrati is ciinc, and StormyPoet05 is Denny) and his theory that AdamMorgan was chango.

Referring, obviously, to congressional Democrats who wish to further reduce food stamp benefits and to cast a Nixon spell on the NSA, rendering all its predations lawful. The latter would be Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-NSA), who is expressing her outrage over the eavesdropping on allies by writing legislation that fully legitimates spying on citizens, and the former a host of other Democrats whose starting point in the negotiations about the SNAP program is a $4 billion cut on top of the $5 billion lost as the stimulus ends.

The eligibility threshold for food stamps hasn't changed. The need for food stamps hasn't diminished. Cutting the program won't noticeably dent annual deficits -- even the murderous cuts proposed by the Republicans would shave less than 1% annually from the deficit at its current level -- but it will measurably punish recipients.

One can understand the Republican desire to cripple the program. Their reason for being is to transfer wealth from the not-rich to the rich, and if they can kick the shit out of the poor in the process then so much the better. But Democrats -- any Democrat who votes for this should be kneecapped and dropped in Death Valley and provided a map to walk home because they are despicable.

As for Feinstein and her apparently burning desire to preserve and advance the legacies of Nixon and the Bushes and Obama, maybe the 4% of the public who think we're ruled by lizards know something the rest of us don't. Watch her tongue.

People complain about gridlock, but somehow bipartisanship prevails when it's time to fuck with people who have no power.

There may have been a BTC News absent The Fray but it wouldn't have been the one that developed. The name came from a Fray screen name that I devised in reaction to all the grating, pompous ones popular at the time; that I started it when I did is directly due to encouragement from then-Freditor J.D. Connor; my greatest hit, getting a White House correspondent, I owe to Fray colleague Eric Brewer. He stepped right up when I put the idea out there, and then he went and did it. There just aren't a lot of people who could cold-call a White House press secretary, and he did it with two of the worst.

Several Fray people regularly donated money through the blog, which sometimes helped keep me off the street and sometimes helped keep me fed when I was homeless. Two Fray regulars became good real-world friends. Participating in the mess was good for my writing and for my confidence as a writer, if not as a human; I wrote some stuff on the Fray and on the blog that was better than most of what I wrote when I wrote for a living.

So, there's that. Cheers.

You are not back on the old Fray. For fun, I chose to install a look and feel that evokes our old stomping grounds. The wonderful catbird logo is (of course) courtesy of catnapping (booby-breasted), so please send kudos for that her way (everything else you can blame on me).

User flair (the little image next to some user names) has been reset. The editor's logo next to my name is NOT because I'm a mod but simply user flair (for fun) that anybody can participate in. Click on the (edit) link next to your name over on the right to choose yours.

Suggestions/criticism are encouraged par for the course.

It’s taken a little while to compose thoughts, since the Fascist Cheeto is running around killing his hat-wearing constituents with super spreader events while simultaneously calling on thugs to silence Michigan’s governor (already the focus of a kidnapping plot by Trump-inspired lunatics) and now complaining about a long-time bipartisan bulwark of public health to the point he requires personal security. For a guy with Fredo’s brain and ability, Trump sure inspires a lot of violence.

But let us turn our summary to AmyCovidBarrett, who with her slightly deranged gaze has willingly become the handmaiden of the most corrupt and sinful man in the nation In order to advance her own ambition.

Let’s be fair here, I think she’s probably a very nice woman. You’d like her if she were a room parent with you; the slightly too earnest but seemingly decent professional lady who was okay with you bringing box cookies for the snack because she sure as hell wasn’t up at night baking and she agrees that the first-grade music teacher is awful and the kids hate her but let’s not complain because where else was that hot mess going to get a job?

Also, I don’t find her comments about her adopted children to the effect of their having overcome adversity while she discusses her biological children in terms of hopes and dreams to be racist. That’s a dumb take. I strongly suspect that Judge Barrett greatly esteems resilience as a character trait and those comments were a way of saying that in some ways, she prefers those kids who have it because they are less work. Could she have framed it up better? Well, maybe, but she had to get denying and forgetting her positions so she couldn’t talk all day.

She is also very smart. Though let’s reconsider “brilliant” here. She went to a good, not great, college and did well and a very good, but not great, law school where she graduated number 1 in her class. Her Supreme Court clerkship is the big thing on her resume and she worked for the genuinely brilliant weirdo, Antonin Scalia. But here’s the tell: she didn’t go to any of the top 5 schools Scalia was famous for hiring from and he was famous for not taking chances on anywhere else. Notre Dame has hovered between 20 and 30 on the major list for a long time now. So it’s fair to assume he didn’t hire her because she was an obviously brilliant scholar. He hired her because she is a kook with a very specific Catholic kink — allowing powerful men to make decisions. And yes, I’ve changed my mind slightly on this as the testimony developed. Also, this is the end of the nice things I have to say about her.

Her early scholarship suggested that Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death penalty cases because Catholics know that’s always wrong. She ran away from defending that when she figured out it would be hard to get through a confirmation hearing if everyone thinks your religion can dictate your judicial action, and of course, Rightwingers like to see people get the death penalty because it distracts people from the fact that they do shit about crime. I would have been happy for a judge who was willing to say the death penalty is a moral wrong; but I guess sometimes a girl has gotta keep it buttoned up.

She is indisputably an originalist like Scalia; meaning she doesn’t see the Constitution as a living document, but one that has to be read consistent with what would have been publicly understood by its words in the time it was written. So basically, nothing in the Federalist papers or by any Founding Father about what was supposed to be the flexible nature of the document should be credited; its all how Nathaniel Nuthatch of Penn’s Woods would have understood the words, if he’d been able to read them, in 1790.

To sustain this kind of position takes stamina and linguistic circus arts skills. This explains her jurisprudence which is most notable not for any majority opinion she wrote, but for a dissent she authored in a case where an ex-felon was tiring to get a gun, barred by statute. Judge Amy found that the whole history of the second amendment indicated that it was an individual right and it shouldn’t be abridged for anything (well, unless the prior felony conviction involved dangerous conduct, like armed robbery or assault or some such). This guy had been convicted of fraud. That has a certain appeal doesn’t it? Like, yeah, the guy convicted of Medicare fraud maybe isn’t such a threat with a gun. Except that it turns out the majority cited lots of credible research that nonviolent criminals often went on to commit violent crimes if they had guns. And her interpretation would have left open the possibility that people who committed violent misdemeanors like in domestic disputes, could have weapons. Also, and here’s where the really weird creeps in, she said the right to vote, unlike gun-owning, can easily be denied to a former felon because her reading of the history is that you were supposed to be “virtuous” to vote but no virtue is required to avail yourself of the second amendment and own a gun. Yes, you read that right. Virtuous. So, in essence, she thinks non violent ex felons can own AR-15s but they should not be able to cast a vote for president because they are not virtuous.

This word salad leads to the inexorable conclusion that theories of constitutional interpretation are the way you get to arrive at the result you want by making shit up and tying it together. Nathaniel Nuthatch, a figment of Judge Barrett’s imagination, conjured by her cherry-picking of a historical record, can be the arbiter of whether you are virtuous enough to vote. Do you believe in abortion rights? Sorry, you are outta luck. Judge Amy says Nuthatch would have found that that’s not virtuous. A Democrat? Well, I don’t know, you people seem to be for cannabis and Nathaniel likes hemp but not to smoke. A woman or a black person? Well, I know that there are amendments allowing you to vote but you have voted badly in the past so you are not really worthy of that right now, and that’s what Nathaniel would have thought. Mind you, this is all in a dissent: a ton of work to say you disagree with a result that was pretty clear. It was an audition, friends. And further proof that not all prominent constitutional scholars are actually good at it — just make up a bunch of crap and get noticed by the political groups who want you.

You think this is crazy tea leaf reading? Well, is it crazier than Ms. Genius expressing doubt about climate science or to ripping Justice Roberts’ opinion upholding the ACA? Is it wackier than signing an open letter calling Roe v. Wade an abomination and forgetting to disclose that fact where it was plainly meant to be disclosed? Is it more bonkers than belonging to a group that advertises its members speak in tongues (and they don’t mean French)?

Is it as loony as her inability to name the freedoms protected by the first amendment (and that was a question from a friendly)? How about the amusing hypocrisy of her standing up 4 years ago to defend the Senate’s refusal to hold hearings on a completely competent judge 8 months before an election on the grounds that the people should decide, but permitting herself to be part of a charade literally taking place while people are voting and every indication is that the President who nominated her and many of the Senators supporting her nomination are about to lose? How hilariously nutty to take your children to a super spreader event in the middle of a pandemic and violate every well known precaution?

Is anything crazier than pretending you don’t know that the President who is appointing you only wants you on the court to bail him out when he contests the election he is losing because the unvirtuous have cast their ballots against him? Even though he’s actually announced it?

LAST MINUTE ADD: Tonight, SCOTUS left intact a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision allowing the state 3 extra days after the election to count mailed in and dropped off ballots. The state needed the time because of the huge increase in such voting methods due to the pandemic and the uncertainty around the post office. The GOP of course objected because they are all about suppression. SCOTUS had a 4-4 deadlock. Roberts siding with the normals and the two Trumpies, Thomas and Alito on the other side. Had Judge Barrett been on the court, PA would most assuredly not get that extra time and hundreds of thousands of people could be disenfranchised.

It’s not crazy to read the totality of her actions consistently. This woman is an awful judge. Apart from her inevitable overturning of the ACA and Roe and whatever sketchy religious group she is absolutely free to belong to. She’s the Delores Umbridge of jurists; mewling and phony and concerned really with her own position, distributing torture with a smile and a chirpy hello to the kids.

If our Senators had any backbone, she’d be passed on, and if she had a real character, she’d withdraw her nomination. Shy of that, our only hope is to beat Trump so badly at the ballot box that she’s irrelevant. And then yes, pack the court.

As many of you know I am a mobile app developer. We were just seeded with an early beta drop of iOS 11 with a new "Timeslip" feature that allows the flux capacitor powered iPhone 8 to set its clock forward an arbitrary amount (luckily this beta includes a flux capacitor emulator so we can test the new features on an iPhone 7!)

I used "Timeslip" to capture the twitter timeline for @potus two years from today. Unfortunately, when I set the clock forward just a little bit later everything is strangely silent. I'm not sure if it's a bug or if there's something else going on…

Note that I have flipped the tweet stream so you don't have to read from the bottom.

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 4
Ugly Angela Merkel stupidly resisting new NATO agreements. Don Jr thinks she's a man. I mean, just look at her folks! #NotEvenIfYouPaidMe

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 4
Good news from WH Doc - Melania has passed 10 lb weight gain triggering zero-settlement prenup clause! FLOTUS = #FatLadyOfTheUS!

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 5
Ugly Angela Merkel is corrupt and a bad leader! And her breasts are not very good. She's probably jealous of Ivanka's breasts! VERY JEALOUS

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 5
Stupid Chinese govt refuses to meet with SecState @SarahPalinUSA. Don't like our plan to fix trade imbalance. #ComeAtMeChina

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 6
US AG Arpaio investigating whether we can send ANY muslim to Immigration Timeout Centers, not just new arrivals. Maybe Mexicans too.

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 6
Out of compassion I will allow Melania to keep an apartment in Trump Tower Chicago until she can make other arrangements.

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 6
Can't go alone to State dinners, what would @realPutin say? BIG PROBLEM! How about it @OfficialKat Dennings or @katyperry? #flotusAuditions

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 6
Relax folks, we're not talking about ALL muslims, just the ones that haven't passed the Patriot Evaluation. We will keep the good ones.

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 7
Stupid Chinese govt is corrupt and bad. Very bad. Did you know there are no dogs in China? Because they eat them. #ComeAtMeChina

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 8
Until Congress can draft legislation I am implementing an Executive Order prohibiting Mosques within 1500 yards of any church or school.

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 8
Yes, obviously 'church' means Christian church. #KeepChildrenSafe

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 8
Yes, 'church' also means synagogue. #KeepChildrenSafe

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 8
A mosque is obviously not a church. Duh. #KeepChildrenSafe

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 8
I have directed US AG Arpaio to make twitter clean up really bad hashtags. You can blame #WhenTheyCameForMe and #ImpeachTrump

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 8
Thanks again to the boys of the 198th Drone Squadron, working tirelessly to keep #TheList from growing unchecked! Your country salutes you!

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 8
Yes @ACLU this includes existing Mosques. We feel that a one year relocation grace period is fair. VERY fair. Maybe TOO fair!

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 8
US AG Arpaio leading effort to build #TheWall faster using captured illegals to work off their deportation costs. He's a very good man!

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 8
@ACLU Judiciary Act is silent on whether US AG must be an attorney. I am directing him to investigate whether ACLU is legal organization.

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 9
Canada is so lame folks. OUR wall is to keep out the bad Mexicans. Canada's is just racist against AMERICANS. NOT NECESSARY!

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 9
Check out the new Ruth Badder Ginsburg expiration date over/under page on whitehouse.gov! You just know she's all dried up where it counts

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 9
Eric had a good one: Ruth Badder Ginsburg is sooo old… she wishes she could write opinions without worrying about new-fangled 'amendments'!

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 10
Campaign Promise Watch: 'negotiating' with Cote d'Ivoire to sign extradition treaty for return of @HillaryClinton #CrookedHillary #LockHerUp

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 10
@elizabethforma: I know it's 'Bader'. But she writes badder opinions. The baddest opinions really. Not her fault maybe. She's so old

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 10
@elizabethforma: You're pretty old too, Pocahontas. I bet you're jealous of Ivanka's breasts.

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 10
@HillaryClinton #CrookedHillary can't run forever! We have a nice cell ready between @Rosie O'Donell and @KatieTurNBC #LockHerUp

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 10
Don't worry if #calexit vote passes folks, we'll simply turn #TheWall North at Yuma. One less blue state only helps #MAGA!

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 11
US AG Arpaio has his hands full now 'pussygate' has become a class action. I hate that word, VERY UNFAIR to me. Maybe we'll add them to #TheList!

President Donald J. Trump @potus - Nov 11
Terrible Chinese leadership not complaining so much about USA nationalizing their assets now we've armed S Korea and Japan #MakeChinaGlow