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    My KinjaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/02/19 5:41pm

    If drinking keeps them too busy from enacting more racist homophobic policies I’ll buy a round. Better sloshed than scheming.

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      Mr.DuckSauceMy Kinja
      5/02/19 5:42pm

      Fuck that, they don’t even get the spit from my mouth after I drink that alcohol. They just get spit.

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      Sassinak11My Kinja
      5/02/19 10:33pm

      No.. being sloshed is how you get crappy policies because you stop giving a fuck. If they are going to get sloshed, then I want them to have alcohol poisoning and die (so they are not an additional tax burden)

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    Lee32476Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/02/19 8:00pm

    “Trump’s aides enjoyed $352 of Chopin vodka, $240 of Patron and $150 of Don Julio Blanco tequila (which they separated from his children at the border), and $96 of Woodford Reserve bourbon”

    These motherfuckers don’t even know how to drink like adults. All that vodka, which basically all taste the same and was probably mixed with fruit juice, like a 19 year old pledge, Patron and Don Julio, which barely make it off the well rail in a good tequila spot, and they drank less than a bill on the Woodford? That’s some freshman drinking. That bourbon was the best thing in the whole damn bar!

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      BlackMage2030Lee32476
      5/03/19 9:30am

      Hell, Woodford compared to many is a g’damn bargain basement bourbon. Couldn’t even go Whistle Pig?

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    Old white guyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/02/19 6:13pm

    Remember whenObama would go anywhere, we’d hear how much money was being wasted on lodgings and security, because he didn’t have the good fiscal sense to stay 100% at the White House, or at least be rich enough to own ranches and homes in various states, like good presidents should?

    Now just imagine that moral outrage on the right if Obama spent his vacations at places he owned and charged the government for housing his staff and security. Or if he had the audacity to own a golf club and require the secret service to rent carts to follow him.

    Yeah, that was back when republicans supposedly gave a damn about fiscal conservativism and proper oversight.  As opposed to “woohoo, we’re in power! Who cares!” 

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    Mercenary ChefStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/02/19 5:42pm

    “Mar-a-Lago, the dump with the suspect kitchen practices”

    Please keep pointing this out. Every time "Only the best people" tRump speaks I want to see this.

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      Sassinak11Mercenary Chef
      5/02/19 10:34pm

      When all you know are rats and pong scum... someone slightly less scummy... would be “the best”. Remember, it’s about perspective.

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    Ad_absurdum_per_asperaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/02/19 6:23pm

    Quite aside from both the ethics and the optics of the relationship with Mar-a-Lago, I thought alcohol was well known to be a specifically non-allowable expense for Federal employees and Federally funded contractors. (Usually true of state and lower government funding as well, I think).  Even when on official business, you’re supposed to pay your bar tab out of your own pocket rather than submitting it on your expense report, no?

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      MojoHannaAd_absurdum_per_aspera
      5/02/19 7:58pm

      Yes. Supposed to. However.......

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      kristinbytesAd_absurdum_per_aspera
      5/02/19 10:26pm

      Any time I’ve traveled for work (VA), I just get reimbursed a daily per diem of maybe $50 (it varies by location so DC would be higher than Pittsburgh) to cover food and incidentals like hotel room tip. So you could eat bring your own cheap ramen and a bottle of screw top wine and pocket the rest. Or you could go out for lobster and champagne and pick up the cost of anything extra.

      I don’t know how it works for other agencies but if I left a bar bill and they sent it to work, I’d likely be forced to pay it back and get in some serious trouble. But this is “the rules don’t apply to us” white house who think they should get their expenses paid as if they were investment bankers.

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    BlackMage2030Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/03/19 9:29am

    And this is why looking into Trump’s financials isn’t a political stunt. I loathe the folks who pull the “had Obama did <insert some fuck shit Trump did> he wouldn’t even be allowed to pack his shit” every time some crap Trump did comes to light (because no one’s getting paid for stating the obvious) but...dude. Rules on government expenses and per diem are real - think of that scandal with the Secret Service or the GSA in Las Vegas: those weren’t even kick-backs.

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    BiturbowagonStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/04/19 11:02am

    The lazy corrupt racist orange santorum-covered enemy of the people was worthy of impeachment and removal, the instant he became President, due to his violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

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    Splendid FairywrenStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/03/19 3:11pm

    As a lifelong public servant, I have never had alcohol paid for by the taxpayers.

    This is a puritan-ass country. Pay for alcohol and dances on your own dime.

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    C.M. AllenStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/02/19 5:28pm

    Something something emoluments, something something embezzlement, something something fraud. Yeah, that’s about the shape of Trump’s entire SOP.

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    JonsLegionStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/03/19 9:15am

    Set It On Fire. Bulldoze the Ashes into the ocean.

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