Day 15: Republicans reveal their agenda

It seems that the agenda can be summed up in three words: repeal, repeal, repeal. Nobody in the GOP is having an original thought other than "repeal". All of the legislation they're pushing (except for Religious Freedom fuckery) is based around undoing protections for consumers, workers, the environment, and the economy. None of it is based around any meaningful desire to improve anything, and none of them have an original thought in their head.

There's been a lot of talk happening this week, and today was when talk solidified into action. Here's what I've found.

• Immigration order cancelled 100,000 visas. Yup, that's right. Go ahead and fuck over 100,000 people. Note that each of those visas cost at least $250 if not a lot more, which isn't chump change to most people.
• Vaguely-worded immigration order looks set to kill tourism. This was one really poorly-worded order.
• The immigration order was just barred nation-wide by a Seattle judge. From what I read, it sounds like the entire order was stayed (correction: only most of it is stayed: more detailed report including text of order). This is the most wide-reaching judicial response to date. White House response at 10:05 pm EST: "At the earliest possible time, the Department of Justice intends to file an emergency stay of this outrageous order and defend the executive order of the President, which we believe is lawful and appropriate. The president’s order is intended to protect the homeland and he has the constitutional authority and responsibility to protect the American people." Good luck with that. Every court has ruled against you so far.
• Congress kills stream-protection rule. The Obama administration had, after a lot of effort, updated a 1970's era environmental regulation that was so vaguely-worded it was unenforceable, giving it some teeth. Of course, Republicans don't care how polluted waterways become from mining operations.
• Kellyanne Conway is at it again with her "alternative facts", making up a massacre that never happened to justify immigration ban. I swear, the point of this is to keep the media busy debunking stupidity so that other crap they do gets less reporting.
• US announces new sanctions on Iran, following up on their earlier declaration that Iran was "on notice".
• Congress axes a financial disclosure rule for mining and oil companies. Hmm. I wonder who benefits from this?
• Completely going against his promise to "be tough on Wall St", Trump signed an executive order beginning to dismantle regulations on Wall St. Is anybody surprised? These are the rules that have kept things running more smoothly since the GFC in 2008, and they're on the chopping block, because it's too hard for Wall St to make money without doing incredibly shady things.
• Trump also set the Fiduciary Rule in his sights, shelving it for 6 months. You know, the one that says that anybody looking after your money has to have your best interests in mind, rather than their own? This one was even widely supported by industry, and is a significant step backwards, reeking of kleptocracy. The entire memorandum reads like bullshit, and that's being unkind to bulls. (Original text)
• You know how Republicans like to dismiss protesters as "paid protesters"? Looks like they're projecting! They're paying people to support DeVos for the cabinet position.
• Senate launches an investigation into Russian electoral involvement. However, because it's being run by the Republicans in a committee where they have a majority, don't expect them to actually look into anything important.
• The new CIA deputy director is an expert at torture. Literally. Does that make you feel safer?

Two weeks down, and already 40% of people want Trump impeached.