US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

Good mourning! We're still less than 18 months into the goat show.

one more reason to sharpen a special gilded guillotine Just for ted cruz:

Senator Ted Cruz, whose higher political ambitions were dashed by Donald Trump in 2016, is apparently happy to work with the man who once called his wife ugly if it means helping out his own horrible friends.

After the White House announced on Thursday that Trump would pardon Dinesh D’Souza—the conservative commenter, unreformed racist, and peddler of conspiratorial home videos—the Daily Caller reported that Cruz played a substantial role in making his buddy’s felony conviction for illegal campaign donations go away.

Goat mourning!

meanwhile, in virginia:

Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state. He is also a pedophile, as he admitted to HuffPost on Thursday, who has bragged in website posts about raping his late ex-wife.

In a phone call, Larson confirmed that he created the now-defunct websites suiped.org and incelocalypse.today ― chat rooms that served as gathering places for pedophiles and violence-minded misogynists like himself. HuffPost contacted Larson after confirming that his campaign website shared an IP address with these forums, among others. His sites were terminated by their domain host on Tuesday.

On the phone, he was open about his pedophilia and seemingly unfazed about his long odds of attaining government office.

“A lot of people are tired of political correctness and being constrained by it,” he said. “People prefer when there’s an outsider who doesn’t have anything to lose and is willing to say what’s on a lot of people’s minds.”

When asked whether he’s a pedophile or just writes about pedophilia, he said, “It’s a mix of both. When people go over the top there’s a grain of truth to what they say.”

Asked whether there was a “grain of truth” in his essay about father-daughter incest and another about raping his ex-wife repeatedly, he said yes, offering that plenty of women have rape fantasies.

According to Larson’s campaign manifesto, his platform as a “quasi-neoreactionary libertarian” candidate includes protecting gun ownership rights, establishing free trade and protecting “benevolent white supremacy,” as well as legalizing incestuous marriage and child pornography.

In the manifesto, Larson called Nazi leader Adolf Hitler a “white supremacist hero.” He urged Congress to repeal the Violence Against Women Act, adding, “We need to switch to a system that classifies women as property, initially of their fathers and later of their husbands.” He also showed sympathy for men who identify as involuntary celibates, or incels, suggesting it is unfair that they “are forced to pay taxes for schools, welfare, and other support for other men’s children.”

more here if you can stomach it: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nathan-larson-congressional-candidate-pedophile_us_5b10916de4b0d5e89e1e4824

I'm starting to come around to the notion of just pulling the goddamn Band-Aid off already re: the wholesale dissolution of civilization.

(trigger warning for the rest of that story btw, it wanders into some pretty horrifying territory)

shit's starting to feel a little biblical

it's cool that in just a few months we've had both an honest-to-goodness nazi win a primary in illinois and now an actual paedophile rapist is out there seeking office

i was just gonna say blood meridian is starting to feel like a manual for american society

"wanders into"

xpost Your outlook seems a little overly-optimistic, tbh.

okay, "strides boldly and upsettingly"

This all sounds very Kaufmanesque...

Franz Kaufman

eichmannesque maybe

i'm gonna take the occam's razor view here but i'd be fucking delighted to be proved wrong

Roy Moore was before his time I guess

I've spent the last year and change reading a ton of stuff about the US of fifty years ago, which on the one hand has provided a lot of useful context for where we find ourselves currently but which on the other hand has not gone a long way toward convincing me that our species isn't essentially insane and driven toward self-immolation. In some ways, the Nixon era is starting to feel more and more like a more charming and cozy hellscape than the one we find ourselves in today.

I mean, it's still ultimately a choice on par with deciding which side of your body you want dipped in acid.

gotta be the left side for that authentic two-face vibe imo

The unmentioned catch being that your unblemished half still looks like Tommy Lee Jones.

still an improvement on what i'm working with now tbh

Breaking: Trump administration officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants in an effort to extend their life, a move that would represent an unprecedented intervention into U.S. energy markets.

— Jennifer A. Dlouhy (@jendlouhyhc) June 1, 2018

breaking: Trump administration bans movie streaming services in order to boost struggling VHS rentals .

your free market at work, folks

I predict that the Infrastructure Weeks of the near future will lead to interstate potholes filled with Trump steaks and crumbling bridges held together with Trump ties.

btw congrats to everyone who made money by the president leaking the jobs numbers ahead of time

I kinda support Trump overtly hatefucking the economy like he's been doing this week because I've long predicted that it would take him pissing off the moneyed elites before any real move to chuck him into the street would begin in earnest.

"This'll be the thing that finally takes him down!"

sounds like dirty socialism to me?

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/grieving-mother-after-meeting-trump-it-was-talking-toddler/amp

xxpost Yeah, I don't ever say that as a general thing. He's sitting pretty until and unless the people in/with power see him as more of a liability than an asset. If (not necessary when) that day comes, though, getcher popcorn.

.@FLOTUS will NOT be joining the president at Camp David this weekend, per her office.

(Mrs. Trump has joined him on 3 of the 5 trips he's taken there - last was Sept. 2017.)

Her office said this wk she's been working - holding staff mtgs on initiatives/long-term planning.

— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) June 1, 2018

shes dead

Being consoled by Donald Trump after suffering a tragedy is probably not unlike treating a wound by repeatedly jamming a knife directly into it.

I've spent the last year and change reading a ton of stuff about the US of fifty years ago, which on the one hand has provided a lot of useful context for where we find ourselves currently but which on the other hand has not gone a long way toward convincing me that our species isn't essentially insane and driven toward self-immolation.

― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch)

yeah, unfortunately trying to make sense of what's happened to the world in the past couple years has led me to delve really deep into history and in doing so i've found that all the positive values i believed in (democracy, reason, humanism, etc) were always lies.

I dgaf about Melaniagate generally speaking, but this is honestly starting to feel like Shelly Miscavige Mk 2.

I know, I'm just so exhausted that even totally reasonable speculation gives me dreaded OPPO DUMP flashbacks.

xposts

sneaky autocorrect tried to make me post "POOP DUMP".

xxpost Yeah, I don't ever say that as a general thing. He's sitting pretty until and unless the people in/with power see him as more of a liability than an asset. If (not necessary when) that day comes, though, getcher popcorn.

― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch)

i don't think the question has ever been whether he's an "asset". i mean let's be fair, we're talking about a coup, a Business Plot if you will. such things are fairly dangerous endeavours.

shes dead

Nah, her Win10 Fembot software updates didn't take.

Where's Melania? I want to go there

What the noble Bush 41 did with his pardons was so much worse than what Trump has done because Bush not only pardoned his criminal aides but did so to kill an investigation into Bush himself. Trump may abuse the pardon power that way in the future but has not yet done that. https://t.co/JdnGAIC9iz

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 1, 2018

my god, these stories

https://people.com/crime/donald-trump-meets-santa-fe-shooting-families-mom-confrontation/

Trump, 71, repeatedly called the gunman “wacky” while speaking at the gathering, at a Houston military base, according to Rhonda Hart.

“He kept calling him this wacky kid who was wearing a wacky trench coat,” says Hart, whose 14-year-old daughter, Kimberly Vaughan, was fatally shot along with nine others in the May 18 attack in Galveston County.

At that point, Hart recalls, “I raised my hand and said, ‘I have something to say here. Let’s just get to the mental health part.”

She then explained that her daughter had anxiety, Asperger’s syndrome and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and “took medicine daily.”

“I said, ‘The shooter might have been depressed, but he wasn’t wacky.’ But if that kid needed help, he needed to have proper access to it,” Hart says, “meaning you shouldn’t repeal the Affordable Care Act (one of Trump’s cardinal promises) and get them the help they need and take away the stigma of mental illness.”

She says she told Trump, “Mental illness needs to be addressed.”

“I said all that and he didn’t say anything,” she says. “He was just like, ‘Uhhhh …’ ”

I guess w/o Hope Hicks there's no one to give him a sheet of paper with "5. I hear you" on it

he was just living up to his promise to 'have a little fun'

"We are going to Dallas, we are going to Houston. We are going to have a little fun today. Thank you very much," President Trump says as he head to Texas to meet with the families of Santa Fe school shooting victims https://t.co/LJJOcM4YsX pic.twitter.com/2sDFcgdoCX

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 31, 2018

They told him he could come down the evacuation shute when they land at Dallas.

Of course he didn't respond to Ms. Hart's drag of a question. She was harshing his buzz.

Plus also it's real awkward to field inquiries about mental illness when you're a septuagenarian saddled with decades of unaddressed personality disorders.

North Korean envoy at White House hand delivering a letter from Kim Jong Un to Trump at the moment.

Kim and his advisors prob had a lot of fun cooking up just the right mix of vague promises and flattery, so he will swallow it whole.

stuffed with anthrax I hope

xp

that north korean letter in full

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg0CSwqUkAALbf3?format=jpg

jackietreehorn.jpg

summit back on

this is all so stupid

kim jong un's back on the "very honorable" list, eh?

hey remember when Obama bent the knee and assured wall street there would be zero retribution from his admin for their cratering of the world's economy? and then how corporate america spent the next 8 years whining about "uncertainty", implicitly (and some very explicitly) laying the blame for a sluggish recovery at this feet?

haha that was fun

I feel like such a fool for prematurely selling all my challenge coins.

More detail on propping up uneconomic coal plants.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/doe-plans-to-order-guaranteed-profits-for-coal-nuclear-power-plants#gs.LxHabMg

Quote from the heritage foundation at the end hopefully supports this theory:

I kinda support Trump overtly hatefucking the economy like he's been doing this week because I've long predicted that it would take him pissing off the moneyed elites before any real move to chuck him into the street would begin in earnest.

― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 June 2018 11:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink]

This story seems to fit our paranoid times. Raise the rhetoric, raise the blood pressure and seemingly some are going bang.

The blind fold detail with an immigrant worker is such a strange detail.

https://nypost.com/2018/06/01/paranoid-millionaire-charged-in-death-of-worker-hired-to-dig-personal-nuke-shelter/

What was on this guy's CD player? "Paranoid Chant" by the Minutemen.

Whomp whomp

new SCOOP from Singapore: The U.S. is trying to find a discreet way to pay for Kim Jong Un’s luxury five-start hotel: https://t.co/jk9WVgBYBc

— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) June 1, 2018

> Democracy Dies in Darkness

Or if you have adblock installed

(that link gives me a page containing just the Washington post banner)

Sure hope 'discreetly' means 'on the American taxpayer's dime'.

can this, or any of this, be corrected still?

open that shit in incognito/private mode, my guy

xxp

Are we paying for Kim's hookers too?

Are we paying to have some substance rubbed on anyone's face?

Donald Trump says his letter from Kim Jong-un was “a very nice letter”.

Eight minutes later, he says he hasn’t opened it yet. pic.twitter.com/ZOgqODlsY7

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) June 1, 2018

This is some kind of rodeo alright

they gave him a comedy oversized envelope. he likes it because it is yuge. the content does not matter to him, because he does not, and possibly cannot, read. he certainly cannot process anything he does read.

"Thank you Kim, the letter is very nice. Very interesting. I'm told it's for me! That's very generous."

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/cf/9c/13/cf9c138b4d1622d9382e96c72daa34b6.jpg

can this, or any of this, be corrected still?

well, good mourning!

lol

Don’t worry it’ll be over in 6 years

Don’t worry it’ll be over in 6 years

― flappy bird

don't even joke about that, i can't live through six more years of this shit

Don’t worry it’ll be over in 6 years

Florida will!

eh if the economy stays "strong", or even if it takes a hit following Dems taking back House or maybe Senate, allowing the GOP/ Trump/ complicit MSM to effectively place blame on them, i could easily see Trump winning again in 2020.

this is who we are now.

Fuck off, he lost by 3 points, you idiots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZIwwf1onKM

Yeah I wasn’t joking, he’s the incumbent. I remember 2004. Preparing myself now.

eh if the economy stays "strong", or even if it takes a hit following Dems taking back House or maybe Senate, allowing the GOP/ Trump/ complicit MSM to effectively place blame on them, i could easily see Trump winning again in 2020.

this is who we are now.

Although hey if your miserable fantasies come true you won’t have me to kick around any more, that’s for fucking sure.

Fuck off, he lost by 3 points, you idiots.

Killfiled

Here's the thing: how adversely have the lives of most Americans been affected by a Trump presidency at this point? People have become largely inured to the notion of corrupt politicians. They're all crooks, this is what they do, etc. If the actual lives and livelihoods of a significant number of citizens don't appreciably degrade over the next two and a half years, and in a way that is somehow easily attributable to Trump, I honestly don't know if Trump's status as one of the worst living humans is going to be enough to persuade people to rock the boat. Particularly if the Democrats don't offer a compelling alternative (and even more particularly if they think harping on Trump's awfulness should be a significant part of their messaging). I won't be surprised if a lot of right-leaning never-Trumpers hold their nose a second time. Because just like all of the GOP POS-es in Congress, they know that maintaining their control is about more than the paramecium-in-chief.

Clearly, I don't want Trump's reelection to happen (I will be leaving the country if it does), and I don't think it'll happen, but if he even survives that long (which is a super big if), I don't think his loss will be as decisive a rout as we might prefer.

FYI, it makes me almost physically ill to acknowledge pretty much any of that. But my blind optimism is pretty much depleted at this point.

how adversely have the lives of most Americans been affected by a Trump presidency at this point?

Having Republicans in charge of health care law and policy has already adversely affected large numbers of people and the repeal of the individual mandate will drive insurance premiums sky high next year. Trump's new tariffs will adversely affect many more. A lot of these affected people live in rural America. It will interesting to see how tribal loyalty withstands such direct hits.

the appointing of SCJ Gorsuch & the other lifetime-term federal district court judges may have a much more lasting effect on us than any straight policy tbqh.

I do want to stress that I was talking about Trump's perceived real-world impact in the present moment. I do think things will get a lot worse for a lot of American citizens over the next couple of years. It remains to be seen to what extent people hold Trump responsible (when we all know that it's really the fault of Clinton and Obama and Soros and CNN and the monster under the bed and spirit cooking and fluoridated water).

https://i.imgur.com/NakXoLE.jpg

Here's the thing: how adversely have the lives of most Americans been affected by a Trump presidency at this point?

― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch)

god jesus, what on earth is your bar for "adversely affected"? i mean, even if you're one of the approximately 40% of americans who are literally cartoon dogs in burning rooms - roseanne got her show cancelled! do you know what sort of a catastrophe that is?

also, anybody who is seriously speculating about the president being re-elected is catastrophizing and needs to talk to a therapist instead of trying to exacerbate the problem on internet message boards.

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers have for months quietly waged a campaign to keep the special counsel from trying to force him to answer questions in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice, asserting that he cannot be compelled to testify and arguing in a confidential letter that he could not possibly have committed obstruction because he has unfettered authority over all federal investigations.

ahahahaaaahshisbdinsnjaj

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/politics/trump-lawyers-memo-mueller-subpoena.html

“Ensuring that the office remains sacred and above the fray of shifting political winds and gamesmanship is of critical importance,” they wrote.

ahahahahhahahsboobsbosboabaobanbdobdonrono

I feel like the safest bet is to begin from the assumption that Trump absolutely could be reelected and then figure out how to prevent that from occurring. Telling ourselves that it couldn't possibly happen in a million years proved to be pretty ineffectual the last time around.

It's the absolute last goddamn thing in the world that I want to seriously consider, trust me, but if no one who's opposed to that outcome wants to confront the possibility, it feels like we're opening ourselves up to a very rude shock. History is replete with things that could never ever happen but that happened anyway.

Only one president in the last thirty years has lost re-election, so, yes, assume history is on his side and work to thwart it.

or, as OL said.

is it possible that we've all been misunderstanding trump this entire time?

when he says "NO OBSTRUCTION" we've all been taking it for granted that he's implying "...on my part"

but really what he means is "...because it doesn't exist, conceptually, for a president"

Only one president in the last thirty years has lost re-election, so, yes, assume history is on his side and work to thwart it.

or, as OL said.

tbf tho no president with polling data available has had this sustain level of lower approval ratings

The distinction between "hope for the best, prepare for the worst" and "the american people deserve this guy, after all, we elected him he won the electoral college" is an important one to me. and yeah anybody who sounds like they're taking the latter position is catastrophizing.

Blaming the dems for running a sad sack with a shitty message in 2020 when we haven't even made it through the midterms is also pathetic self-flagellating crap.

not blaming the dems, just preparing for the worst. and I fall into the former camp - not fatalistic, but I remember how crushed & shocked I was when Bush was re-elected when I never even considered the possibility. I’d say Trump is less likely than Bush to be re-elected, but who knows. It’s too early to say anyway

Blaming the dems for running a sad sack with a shitty message in 2020 when we haven't even made it through the midterms is also pathetic self-flagellating crap.

I want them to do better! But it doesn’t look like they learned anything from 2016. I hope they do soon

I don't want to have this discussion again, but we had ample evidence that Bush II would win a close re-election. Trump surprised me.

flappy, go use the pool! It's a beautiful day in most of the country.

It’s about to torrentially rain where I am. I could actually just go outside, it’ll be like going to the pool

See? You're already looking at the bright side.

it's swimtime in the USA

https://i.imgur.com/GrQdXnp.jpg

is it possible that we've all been misunderstanding trump this entire time?

when he says "NO OBSTRUCTION" we've all been taking it for granted that he's implying "...on my part"

but really what he means is "...because it doesn't exist, conceptually, for a president"

― obviously DLC (Karl Malone)

right, yes, yes, "when the president does it it's not illegal", we've been through this, can we skip directly to the part where you resign in disgrace please

not blaming the dems, just preparing for the worst. and I fall into the former camp - not fatalistic, but I remember how crushed & shocked I was when Bush was re-elected when I never even considered the possibility. I’d say Trump is less likely than Bush to be re-elected, but who knows. It’s too early to say anyway

― flappy bird

if it's too early to say, why on earth are you spending your valuable headspace speculating about what might or might not happen in 2020?

Font aficionados will be interested to know that the letterhead on John Dowd’s letter to Mueller was written in Comic Sans. https://t.co/SlisOfxwxj

— Amy Fiscus (@amyfiscus) June 2, 2018

oh jesus christ is nothing sacred

just to satisfy Tom, as with W, he'll win a pop majority next time

hell Biden could be the new Kerry

honestly if Biden somehow ran and won it might do even more harm in the long run don't @ me

You guys are fucking morons

hahahahahaha te amo tomboto

(FWIW I don't think even the Dem establishment is dumb enough to run Biden anyway)

well, unlike Simon or the Eagles, i don't believe in a long run

Simon.....how?

if it's too early to say, why on earth are you spending your valuable headspace speculating about what might or might not happen in 2020?

― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, June 2, 2018 5:27 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im twisted

The guys online I get all my news filtered though said that Dems are running midterm campaigns based exclusively on (get this) “Russia hysteria and Hamilton references” now clearly they have not learned the lessons that I have learned from 2016.

You know what Keynes said about the long run

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silby v otm

Only one president in the last thirty years has lost re-election

So, one in four.

One in five, surely :)

honestly if Biden somehow ran and won it might do even more harm in the long run don't @ me

― Simon H., Saturday, June 2, 2018 9:59 PM

otm. Biden will appoint SCOTUS justices and federal judges that believe in limiting class action law suits and reproductive rights. He'll sign dangerous executive orders that will allow administrators to bypass Obama federal regulations, and appoint Cabinet secretaries like Scott Pruitt. We gotta stop this dreadful thing from happening.

No, wait, you're right! God dammit, it's supposed to be 'one president in thirty-eight years'

personally i don't see how the democrats will ever unseat trump if they stick to their sinister conspiracy to run a manchin/lieberman ticket in 2020

Would thi8nk that anything that might go towards making possible Democratic voters stay home was a positive for teh Republicans and therefore something to be avoided.
Hoping that the pattern from elections throughout the year so far might carry over to the mid terms but think they do need more fo a reason to vote for Democrats rather than vote against Republicans because just abstaining is a factor that seems to have contributed heavily to 2016.

Clinton/Lieberman is what I've heard. The slogan will be 'Told you so you fucking idiots, now what are you going to do?' although Clinton worries it's too long.

i hear clinton is pushing for "We Don't Care About You" as a slogan. i don't know, could work, has that "refreshing honesty" thing going for it

Only one president in the last thirty years has lost re-election

Weirdly, we've somehow had two presidents in the last 30 years lose election!

also, her plan to conduct her entire campaign on twitter is really playing to her strengths

i've seen the democrats' 2020 draft platform, and it's a winner. it's got a twelve pages explaining thoroughly why george soros was not the architect of the holocaust. also a picture of obama's birth certificate. it's a slam dunk! they can't lose!

Here's an idea: what if the Democrats sneakily made peace with the North Koreans first! Then when Trump gets there they'd be all, sorry, we already made a peace treaty, you're too late. Then Trump would just sort of scratch his head and take credit, and the Dems will suddenly leap out of the Oval Office closet and yell, "it was us, we did it! We made the peace!" Trump will have a heart attack and die, everyone will love the Dems, and then they get the White House and mint a bunch of "in your face" challenge coins and give one to everyone (they can arrange them to be good for a free item off of McDonald's dollar menu, which will now include the McRib and the Shamrock Shake year-round) and people will love them forever and then they can officially and formally outlaw racism forever and fix the roads.

And then they'll lose the election the next time for outlawing racism and fixing the roads, because fuck you, I won't do what you tell me to, I want someone who tells it like it is, not someone who fixes things and outlaws racism.

also, i'm told by reliable sources, by which i mean the same people who keep telling me about the "pee tape", that clinton has already drafted her entire cabinet and will announce it at the same time she announces her candidacy. she believes this will show her strong work ethic, initiative, and her commitment to transparency. henry kissinger is going to make a great secretary of state!

*drums fingers impatiently on table*

https://media1.giphy.com/media/fpdql5AgW7ziM/480w_s.jpg

this thread is off to a dull start, if i'm honest

Exciting Ghouliani soundbite this morning!

"The president has no plans to pardon himself. Doesn't mean he can't!"

There are lots of things the president can go do to himself afaic.

Doesn't mean he won't!

I don’t want Biden to be the nominee either but what’s the basis for “he’ll appoint people like Scott Pruitt”?

That’s meant to be a joke.

Oh jeeeze. Yeah obviously now that I reread it. Sorry folks.

Melania not traveling to G7 next week, and not traveling to Singapore mid-June. Pretty strange, whatever is going on.

Or not strange at all if you figure she’s a rational person with the means to hire her own lawyers and has decided to GTFO while GTFOin’ is good, before the gasoline-soaked bag of manure she married catches fire.

idk why people assume she's any better than / "above" her husband considering she pushed birtherism publicly

I just assume she’d prefer to have some money left over. Separating now is a good risk management decision for her and Barron.

She's not going to leave. She went on TV and defended him over grab-em-by-the-pussy! They already lead completely separate lives anyway, so what would be the point.

and featuring pat nixon as martha mitchell

the only reason I hope she's not secretly dying is because it might give his poll numbers a sympathy boost

speaking of which

President Trump has 2nd highest "own party" job approval rating since World War II at day ~500, only behind Bush43 (after 9/11) (Source: Gallup) pic.twitter.com/cNhEAjMObO

— Bruce Mehlman (@bpmehlman) June 3, 2018

that's not so surprising given how much his party is shrinking/reshaping to where affiliation is congruent and coterminous with "approves of donald trump"

yes, though it further proves that "never Trump" republicans truly have no constituency

now show the graph of increasing partisan polarization

Or the graph of increasing amy poehlerization

or the pie chart of increasing your momification

Or the point on the graph that points out that pointing out the lack of a constituency for anti-Trump Republicans is worth anyone’s time in the back half of 2018, as if that was an insight

Elected Republicans: they don’t seem to have much in the way of principles! Film at fuck yourself

that's not so surprising given how much his party is shrinking/reshaping to where affiliation is congruent and coterminous with "approves of donald trump"

― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 4 June 2018 01:05 (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/wMPv8.jpg

People need to see this movie. (It's not quite the laff/riot "sequel to The Producers" it looks like, btw)

(Actually, that laff/riot reference was to a poster of the same file I didn't post, so ..)

More famously a play (which I've seen)

yeah the film is kinda crap

As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2018

hmmm

I don't think Cohen and Giuliani count as either numerous or legal scholars, but okay dude.

come for Melania gossip, stay for the Tiffany shade. from nymag:

This weekend she skipped a family trip to Camp David (which even Tiffany attended).

Wondering at what point even the hardcore 'who cares about Melania'-ers will begin to admit that this is strange.

It's strange but the simplest reason for it is probably the most likely - she doesn't want anything to do with being flotus when the potus defends his porn fling.

isn't the simplest explanation still being under the knife?

I mean, yeah, it's probably nothing more complicated than a separation. I just wonder how far down the 'everything is fine and I am fine and I love being flotus' robo-tweet rabbit hole it's going to get before the truth finally comes out.

i don't see what's strange about the first lady saying, in essence, "fuck this i quit".

I don't see what's strange about us saying, "Who gives a shit?"

^^^

personally i both give a shit in the sense that bad things (in this case, one assumes, some kind of marital rift) happening to the trumps is endlessly rewarding, but also do not give a shit in the sense that it will doubtless do no damage to trump's standing in the eyes of his supporters and does nothing to further any effort at advancing effective opposition to his administration

well, amusing rather than rewarding, i should say

I don't see what's strange about us saying, "Who gives a shit?"

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

true, we need to get this thread back to important and productive discussio....

hahahahahaha no i can't do it

I give a shit to the extent that Melania goes directly to Mueller and says 'let me tell u everything I know about the scrotal sac I am married to'.

never forget

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DezHKYvUcAUdoS8.jpg:large

Does this tweet seems suspicious to anyone else? pic.twitter.com/aviQcvMuFt

— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) June 4, 2018

I'll give you suspicious.

BREAKING: EPA aide tells House investigators she did personal tasks for Pruitt, was asked to help get used Trump hotel mattress.

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 4, 2018

um

i uh waht

I take this to read that it's a mattress Pruitt used IN a Trump hotel -- which is weird enough and begs questions -- but if it's Trump's mattress from a hotel, then even more uh.

I dunno, collecting any detritus which poses a grave public health hazard because it's been in direct physical contact with the body of Donald Trump seems well within the purview of the EPA.

doing things which fall within the purview of the epa seems distinctly out of character for scott pruitt tbf tho

Wondering at what point even the hardcore 'who cares about Melania'-ers will begin to admit that this is strange.

this is another thing I hate about this presidency, they're so shady and perpetually dishonest that it's turning everyone into truthers

A CNBC reporter mentioned seeing her last week around the West Wing or the like, so I've been skeptical if amused. Supposedly she's turning up at an event in the WH today.

could have been a ghost tbf

As for the mattress

https://www.apnews.com/a21259d0e3a4431791ee32813f838a59/Aide:-EPA's-Pruitt-sought-used-Trump-hotel-mattress

In a letter to committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, they say Hupp carried out personal errands for Pruitt. They include helping him find a place to live in Washington, D.C., and book a Rose Bowl trip. There also were discussions to secure a used mattress from the Trump hotel.

A CNBC reporter mentioned seeing her last week around the West Wing or the like, so I've been skeptical if amused. Supposedly she's turning up at an event in the WH today.

Said event is closed to the press, of course. I'll wait for a proof-of-life photo holding up USA Today.

my bet is at this point they are just letting the speculation continue until she shows up like nothing happened. Queue SHS being her horrible self and chastising the lame stream media for freaking out so much about it.

"Her nose has ALWAYS looked like that."

she's getting work done to look even more like him

not gonna lie that would be great

As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself

As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, Congress has the absolute right to define what is and isn't impeachable and in my view, any president who PARDONED themselves has committed an impeachable abuse of power.

Lucky for Trump, you aren't among the many Congresspeople who will look in the complete opposite direction when/if he decides to do so (although I look forward to several of them issuing very stern and completely inefficacious Maverick-esque statements condemning such an action).

xxp If Melania and Donald decided to pursue a whole Genesis P. Orridge/Lady Jaye thing I would totally be there for it.

too bad half of the people in Congress are sycophants for this idiot

and in my view, any president who PARDONED themselves has committed an impeachable abuse of power

But Aimless, what if the investigation was a total partisan WITCH HUNT led by totally Flawed, Compromised Democrats, and the president did nothing wrong, and the phony "Crimes" were just a distraction from doing the people's true business, which is MAGAing?

Huh? What then?

I mean, in such a circumstance the President has not only the right but the Duty to make the FAKE INVESTIGATION go away, so that he can get back to serving the pee, um, people.

brb, changing the DUMPLINGS! autoreplace to PARDON MYSELFs.

i am exasperated and ready to separate from civilization for a week. here are three things that nate silver said this morning:

1) In general, election-related punditry (i) is a few weeks behind the actual data, but once it catches up to the shift in the polls it both (ii) exaggerates swings and (iii) overestimates precision (underestimates uncertainty).Nate Silver added,

2) So instead of:

"Over several months, the House has gone from modestly favoring Democrats to more like a toss-up; it's a meaningful-ish change but a wide range of outcomes remain plausible"

We get:

"OMG a BLUE WAVE was ALL BUT ASSURED and now SUDDENLY Democrats are BLOWING IT!"

3) ou can also find examples of people erring in the other direction and denying that there's been *any* good news for the GOP.

Need to hold these 3 ideas in your head at once:

1. It's gotten a bit better for the GOP
2. It's still pretty good for Dems
3. Uncertainty is very high

don't know why i didn't just embed those tweets

uncertainty (and stakes) is high

this will dent GOP prospects, no matter what the outcome

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/04/immigration-dreamers-house-republicans-617945

they finally found someone who looks enough like Melania

https://www.politico.eu/article/melania-trump-conspiracy-to-return-to-public-eye-monday/

I don't see the resemblance myself.

https://am12.akamaized.net/med/cnt/uploads/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-11-at-10.31.04-PM-1200x785.jpg

I can't see how any republican would want Trump to stay where he is instead of mild mannered Pence - unless they enjoy how he attracts all attention to smoke screen their evildoing

There is also likely an extent to which the GOP recognizes that formally recognizing Trump's illegitimacy calls into question their own complicity/legitimacy/judgment. If your brain only recognizes the short-term consequences of your decisions, I guess doubling down on a dumb play makes sense.

It's not that they all like him, but the Republicans who dislike Trump are afraid of facing the anger of Trump voters, if they allow him to be removed from office. Besides, working with people you loathe is an integral part of politics.

Yeah I agree with Aimless re:

I can't see how any republican would want Trump to stay where he is instead of mild mannered Pence

They don't love Trump as much as they fear the thousands of froth-beflecked redhatters in their districts, who will call for their heads if they fail to bow down to the EmperOrange.

conspiracy nerds a-frothin'

There was an American witness.

Melania. https://t.co/wQOrGHGjL3

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 4, 2018

It's no surprise yet totally surreal to see liberals attacking Trump on North Korea **from the right**. The significance of the summit is not that it might restrain Kim Jong Un, but that it might restrain Trump from starting a catastrophic war.

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) June 4, 2018

There was that Pelosi comment (which was admittedly terrible and counter productive) about Trump’s cancellation letter and some pundits speculating that he’s “getting played” but is this honestly something lots of liberals are doing? I feel like people are more just worried he’s going to cancel it again.

I don't know is it actually beneficial that he goes through with it . Isn't it a kudos getting operation from North Korea.
Only benefit I can see coming from this is that Trump looks even more absurd tahn he does already when it doesn't go the way he want sit to.

Moon may go to the summit, in which case it will be a SK-NK affair

if you didn't read the Schwarz thread:

And if Trump is being duped by anyone, it's not Kim Jong-un, but Moon Jae-in. Everyone everywhere should support that duping, which could be incredibly good for Koreans and the world.

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) June 4, 2018

Who cares about the world, I'll bet they don't even have an America.

I agree w Schwartz re: support the duping, any semblance of an agreement that avoids returning to the rhetoric from 2017 should be supported. Hopeful that Trump is not talking about it in terms of it being a “long process” etc. problem is Schwarz endorses Tim Shorrock’s reporting in that thread and that guy has been overly optimistic.

on the lighter side

The Hill reports:

The Pentagon’s inspector general has officially launched an investigation into allegations of misconduct by former physician to the president Ronny Jackson, a spokesman confirmed Monday.

“What I can tell you is that the DoD Office of Inspector General has initiated an investigation into allegations related to Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Ronny L. Jackson,” inspector general spokeswoman Dwrena K. Allen said in a one-sentence email.

Jackson faces a slew of allegations that he drank on the job, overprescribed medications and created a hostile work environment. The unconfirmed accusations came to light after President Trump nominated Jackson to become secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Ronny L. Jackson

heh heh heh

Rear Admiral (Lower Half)

so he was a proctologist huh

Hey, the surgeon general would HAVE to be a proctologist to ensure that all the BS from this administration keeps flowing freely! (plays shitty political song on the piano while wearing a star-spangled porkpie hat and an expression of weary desperation)

Only benefit I can see coming from this is that Trump looks even more absurd tahn he does already when it doesn't go the way he want sit to.

Doesn't this just set him up to play the card of how victimized he is, how undermined by the deep state, how unfairly treated by the media? He and his crowd will never admit to having been played.

For people who do not read the canadian politics thread, some federal govt. actions that might be encouraging!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/steel-tariff-maple-syrup-toilet-paper-1.4686833

In retaliating against U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, Canada crafted a list of quirky, mismatched targets for its own tariffs that may look more like MacGyver's shopping list than a strategic plan to bring about a change to U.S. policy.

From pizza and quiche to strawberry jam, ketchup and mustard, the tariff target list Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland released today seems completely remote from steel and aluminum. (What does hair lacquer have in common with a steel girder?)

"This list was clearly drawn strategically to exert maximum pain politically for the president," said Maryscott Greenwood of the Canadian American Business Council.

"The idea is, you look at a map of the congressional districts of the United States, you look at which members of Congress are in leadership positions and then you look at the big industries in those districts and then you draw up your list accordingly," she said. "And this list was clearly drawn up with this in mind."

heh

those clever bastards

My Trump Home Mattress Collection by Serta is setting records--they are really phenomenal. You can order them at http://t.co/oeCVxEGZ

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2012

^^^ a real tweet

So sad.

Fox ad execs are having difficulty selling ads for Hannity and Laura Ingraham. “The pro-Trump thing isn’t working,” one staffer says. “We can’t monetize DACA and the wall and that right-wing shit.”https://t.co/4BfIq9Efxy

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) June 4, 2018

Ad revenue is not the only way to monetize supporting the Trump admin though...

good lede!

Hahah!

JUST IN: U.S. Special Counsel Mueller says ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has attempted to tamper with potential witness - court filing pic.twitter.com/9Dcxi9YGyw

— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) June 5, 2018

New filing: Mueller's team says there's "probable cause to believe that Manafort has violated 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b) by attempting to tamper with potential witnesses while on pretrial release and, accordingly, has violated the conditions of his release."https://t.co/qKYaCdarwO

— Ellis Kim (@elliskkim) June 5, 2018

Well, there goes any chance of getting him to cooperate, probably.

Good thing he wasn't deeply involved in the Trump campaign or anything.

I mean, I heard he just brought them coffee or something.

Love too hear about manaforts upcoming pardon

meanwhile, only a 148 or so of the nearly 290,000 documents seized from Michael Cohen are considered privileged.

Well, there goes any chance of getting him to cooperate, probably.

On the contrary, I think this concentrates the mind wonderfully.

witness tampering was manafort's plan D. now maybe he'll move on to plan E, flight to avoid prosecution.

I'd love to see him try it.

my guess is it's that, or else seek asylum in the Ukrainian embassy. the Russian embassy would just be too embarrassing.

Oh for dumb.

Rudy on Trump Dictating Statement: We didn't lie. It was a mistake! "It was a mistake. I swear to god, it was a mistake. The guy made a mistake." pic.twitter.com/2cAIl6vHKF

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 5, 2018

First time for everything, I guess.

Giuliani's position clarified: when I take an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, then I don't really need to bother about thinking carefully about what I say, because I can always "correct" it later on when someone notices my sworn testimony wasn't truthful. No big deal. I tell all my clients not to sweat about telling the truth under oath. Say whatever comes to mind. It's not like it matters.

It's increasingly difficult to argue convincingly that it does.

Hey, even Mister Rogers made mistakes, am I right?

This is something.

Amazing. CNN reporting Pompeo told Trump it would be "counterproductive" to allow Bolton to attend the Oval Office meeting with visiting North Korean official Kim Yong Chol. Non trivial probability Bolton doesn't last much longer. https://t.co/Ri5MCb9LMp

— Tom Wright (@thomaswright08) June 5, 2018

Cadet Bone Spurs cancels Philadelphia Eagles visit: http://wnep.com/2018/06/04/president-trump-cancels-philadelphia-eagles-visit-to-white-house/amp/

In response to Trump’s announcement, former Eagles receiver Torrey Smith, who was a member of the championship team and was traded during the off-season, called the move “a cowardly act.”

“So many lies smh Here are some facts 1. Not many people were going to go 2. No one refused to go simply because Trump ‘insists’ folks stand for the anthem 3. The President continues to spread the false narrative that players are anti military,” he said in one tweet.

Smith continued: “There are a lot of people on the team that have plenty of different views. The men and women that wanted to go should’ve been able to go. It’s a cowardly act to cancel the celebration because the majority of the people don’t want to see you. To make it about the anthem is foolish.”

This kind of validates that Jon Schwarz tweet Morbious shared upthread. Very dangerous for the Dems to demand that our insane president achieve an impossible and hawkish result out of the summit.

Democratic Senators to Trump: Any deal with N. Korea must completely dismantle Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs permanently—oh, and please keep us in the loop on plans before negotiations ­begin.https://t.co/SZD11H4wgY

— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) June 5, 2018

Some hilarity here as one Ted Cruz attempts to explain himself in a Twitter thread:

On the question of whether a president can pardon himself, we're seeing an abundance of knee-jerk partisanship and dishonest journalism.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 5, 2018

wonder how this Eagles thing is playing out in the swing state of Philadelphia

lmaooo

We have had many Championship teams recently at the White House including the Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Penguins, New England Patriots, Alabama and Clemson National Champions, and many others. National Anthem & more great music today at 3:00 P.M.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2018

....@NASCAR and Champion @MartinTruex_Jr were recently at the White House. It was a great day for a great sport!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2018

Featuring such hits as the National Anthem and more!

by Radiohead!

greeeat

A “pro-white” marcher in the Unite the Right Charlottesville rally was just elected to a Republican Party post in Washington state https://t.co/dNBg49HLbs

Via @KELLYWEILL

— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 5, 2018

The piece of paper certified that Allsup was now a precinct committee officer for the Whitman County, Washington Republican Party.

whit(e)man count(r)y morelike

whitman county is right next to moscow, mueller needs to look into this

btw FOX News showing images of Eagles players kneeling while praying and NOT during the anthem (in fact, none of them did) feels extra propagandish

the defeatism this month is really starting to piss me off. people looking at the approval polls as if they make a hen's lick of difference. it takes time and effort to hate somebody, and if people don't want to waste their time disapproving of the president this month, i'm not bothered by it. i know silver is only feeding us obsessives' demand for data, but data is, at this point, of no actual use, because it tells us absolutely nothing about what will happen in november. we have a president who thinks he's andrew jackson but is actually john quincy adams, and i'm not going to predict how it plays out, historical precedent is just as much cherry-picking as polls, but a bloodbath wouldn't surprise me.

i do think the whitman county thing is more important than tombot gives it credit for, because republican party policy is set in places where the republican party is powerful - on the west coast that's out east, places like whitman county in wa and malheur in or. it's the reverse of the problem the democratic party has re: gerrymandering - republicans in cities, which is to say the numerical majority of them, don't count for shit. what counts is the racists who only go to the cities to start street fights with antifa and then go home and elect somebody who believes what they believe to congress.

Presidential Job Approval Ratings for Barack Obama, 2010

Approve Disapprove No opinion
2010 Jun 28-Jul 4 46 45 9
2010 Jun 21-27 45 46 9
2010 Jun 14-20 47 45 8
2010 Jun 7-13 46 46 8

stop trying to make me feel sorry for jeff sessions you fuck

The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn’t tell me he was going to recuse himself...I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined...and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2018

They’re taking a leaf from the religious righr’s book: run for city council/school board and introduce boilerplate legislation c+p’d from [their right-wing think-tank of choice].

So many lives ruined :(

I might feel sorry for Jeff Sessions if someone ran him through a human-sized Veggetti slicer. Otherwise, nah.

xp okay who the hell is he referring to there? this is breaking my brain

I think we thought it was Hope Hicks? Because the media circus is obviously the worst thing that happened to her.

Always safe to assume that Little Lord Flatulence is referring to the one person in the world that he recognizes as real.

btw FOX News showing images of Eagles players kneeling while praying and NOT during the anthem (in fact, none of them did) feels extra propagandish

just to add to this I'm sure FOX will not offer any sort of retraction or clarification on this while CNN had to spend an entire day apologizing for implying that Trumps "animals" comment was directed at immigrants in general, even though it clearly was

i feel like if you're scrutinising trump's tweets for correlations to objective reality your brain might alreayd be broken tbh

(People of the future, please note that bizarro's post was written prior to the point when reality underwent a wholesale renovation during one of our quad-monthly Infrastructure Weeks and had a gaudy, 40-ft. high TRUMP bolted to its side.)

(We have as yet failed to recognize that our emperor has clearly been fully-dressed this whole time, but we'll come to our senses soon enough.)

ha ha ha like yeah sure there will be people in the future, get the fuck outta here with that crazy talk

I say 'people of the future', you say 'horribly mutated survivors of multiple apocalypses who only resemble us inasmuch as they're wearing our tattered skins to keep warm'. Let's stop splitting hairs.

WH official tells me -- last Thurs, the Eagles submitted 70+ names to attend. On Fri, Eagles tried to resked event for days when POTUS was gonna be in Singapore. On Mon, they said the group avail on pre-planned date wld be TWO or THREE players + owner + MASCOT.

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) June 5, 2018

You know you're hot when you can count an inanimate eagle costume among your supporters.

I didn't live through Nixon, obviously I could read about it but that wouldn't impart the same visceral sense, so: when Watergate was happening, how strong was the general level and sentiment of people agreeing that it was all a witch hunt

Xp Lol anyone whose been alive since like 1985 knows with this douchebag you keep EVERY receipt for future reference. [he still wont pay and you end up in court or writing off loss]. So lets see the player list iggles

I didn't live through Nixon, obviously I could read about it but that wouldn't impart the same visceral sense, so: when Watergate was happening, how strong was the general level and sentiment of people agreeing that it was all a witch hunt

I've not listened to all of this yet, but I think it is helpful in chronicling the era and the context http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/watergate.html

GOP didn't turn on Nixon (like, at all) until the Saturday Night Massacre, and even then it was just a handful of Senators

for most of 1973 it didn't register. It took the hearings over the summer and the Saturday Night Massacre later in the year to turn the tide.

i remember the Admin and its puppets declaring "One year of Watergate is enough"

I would say things are different now, and it's going to take something much more extreme to dislodge GOP support than the firing of Sessions/Rosenstein/Mueller which at best is only going to (maybe) sway the votes of Hucklberry Butchmeup and Grassley and Corker

House GOP caucus will clearly never turn on Trump, even if a live boy/dead girl is involved

That watergate podcast is so great. All the different forgotten individual players they focus on are fascinating in their own way. I didn’t live through it but really gives you a contextualized and convincing POV of what it felt like to see each new shoe drop. It seems framed to make you compare to what’s happening now for sure but doesn’t push that angle too heavy.

"Witch-Hunt" was used in the headline of a Woodward-Bernstein story in July '73

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/19/15659314/trump-nixon-watergate

That's WH staffers being quoted anonymously. To get "the people's" sentiment you might have to check Gallup.

I can't find the thread for congressional and state-level politicking, so I'll put this here -- Roger Wicker's Senate seat is up for re-election but isn't getting any ink because he's likely a lock. One of the "Dem" candidates is the venture-capitalist husband of actress Sela Ward -- he was a Republican in California who donated $5000 to Wicker last year but then registered to vote in MS last September. Speculation is that he's just there to fuck up the candidacies of actual Dems. (Primary is today.)

yeah, obviously staffers then and now have and will always call such things a witch hunt, what I'm specifically interested in is the level to which a large swath of the general public also agreed

(and obviously I learned about it in school, but in general, a lot of history is taught in schools as if everyone was on the "right side of history" and objections were scattered and inconsequential)

My understanding, katherine, based on Woodward-Bernstein's accounts and Mary McCarthy's invaluable little book is that the case was off the radar until well past the 1972 election, nearly a year and a half after the break-in occurred.

since he won a big landslide when the story was barely 4 months old, it took awhile to turn the 'Nixon Democrats.' But nearly everyone who voted for McGovern hated him, I think it's fair to say. Middle-aged Dems had hated him since they were teenagers.

The podcast makes the point and (plays clip) of McGovern ineffectiveky trying to make hay out of it during the election (I had previously assumed it never came up) but again was really early.

There's also just so much shit going on under the surface that no one knows about for sometimes decades. Was just this morning reading about Nixon employing Anna Chennault to sabotage the Vietnam peace talks prior to the '68 election. Can't wait to see what comes oozing out of our current era 20-30 years after the fact.

in 2018 conservatives would think Trump goons doing Watergate is "Cool"

guy's a maverick. plays by his own rules. any means necessary to keep illigetimate dems out of office and save our constityoooshun

hey just a little b & e to own the libs

Was just this morning reading about Nixon employing Anna Chennault to sabotage the Vietnam peace talks prior to the '68 election

That was a big o_O moment in the Burns doc.

Also worth noting that he was, at the same time, saying that he wouldn't dream of making any public statement that might endanger the possibility of a resolution. Such pure and undiluted sociopathy.

The real crime is all the norms he violated in the process.

Norm Crosby, Norm McDonald, etc.

Was wondering why everything seemed so quiet lately. Then I realized this thread was created.

waiting for prez tweet on the end of the Miss America swimsuit competition

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/390784-mcconnell-cancels-senates-august-recess

“Due to the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats of the president’s nominees, and the goal of passing appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled," McConnell said in a statement.

Turtle gonna Turtle

very canny of him to say "historic" rather than "unprecedented". hell, everything the Senate does goes into the historic record, so when they pass a resolution announcing that ice cream tastes good, it is "historic".

um

Letter from @LindseyGrahamSC to Dep AG Rosenstein:
1) Are you a witness in Mueller’s Investigation?
2) If not, why not?
3) If so, should you recuse yourself? pic.twitter.com/ni3rvov4dG

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 5, 2018

1) Are you a member of the Republican party?
2) If so, are you currently on fire?
3) If not, should you immolate yourself?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmmC%2BC.jpg/220px-ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmmC%2BC.jpg

I truly don't understand what Graham is trying to accomplish there, or why.

He is known to have no Trumpophilia. He's not even up for reelection this time; even if he's trying to avoid a challenge from the right no one will remember this stunt in 2020.

Is the DOJ's internal integrity his "ethics in gaming journalism"?

First, "if not, why not" is a question for Mueller to answer, not Rosenstein.

Next, the big difference between Sessions and Rosenstein is that Sessions was a member of the campaign who met with Russian officials numerous times during the period under investigation and who could conceivably become a subject of the investigation, while Rosenstein was a witness to various words and actions during events of interest to the investigators, but only incidentally, just as anyone might witness a car accident without having any connection to the drivers of the vehicles, and the police might take a statement from them without their being under suspicion.

Is the idea to tar everything so that supposedly there is no such thing as an objective witness. Try to make sure taht anybody who can be thought to have seen anything is enmired in a way that they would incriminate themselves,?

we are all potential witnesses in the Mueller investigation

I've seen some things.

maybe Graham thinks he can convince Trump to invade North Korea like he keeps saying he wants him to do if he has his back on this.

Most likely some hotshot on Graham's staff dreamed up this stunt and Lindsey thought it was clever enough to gain some attention and get him talked about approvingly by FOX News, conservative radio talk hosts, and retirees in feed caps. So, he had the letter written, read it, and signed his name to it.

thanks Aimless - not least for "retirees in feed caps."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asks-appeals-court-to-restore-his-power-to-block-critics-on-twitter

uses his time and leverage wisely, this guy

His butt, it hurts.

The Washington Post reports:

Three months after Scott Pruitt was sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, his executive scheduler emailed Dan Cathy, chairman and president of the fast food company Chick-fil-A, with an unusual request: Would Cathy meet with Pruitt to discuss “a potential business opportunity”?

A call was arranged, then canceled, and Pruitt eventually spoke with someone from the company’s legal department. Only then did he reveal the “opportunity” on his mind was a job for his wife, Marlyn. “The subject of that phone call was an expression of interest in his wife becoming a Chick-fil-A franchisee,” company representative Carrie Kurlander told The Washington Post via email.

Marlyn Pruitt never opened a restaurant. “Administrator Pruitt’s wife started, but did not complete, the Chick-fil-A franchisee application,” Kurlander said. But the revelation that Pruitt used his official position and EPA staff to try to line up work for his wife appears to open a new chapter in the ongoing saga of his questionable spending and management decisions, which so far have spawned a dozen federal probes.

Pruitt is like the guy who always tries to talk the cashier into letting him use her employee discount.

If you keep having to say it...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/05/sarah-huckabee-sanders-im-an-honest-person-625914

lmao "America hour" at the White House lasted all of 7 minutes

Next, the big difference between Sessions and Rosenstein is that Sessions was a member of the campaign who met with Russian officials numerous times during the period under investigation and who could conceivably become a subject of the investigation, while Rosenstein was a witness to various words and actions during events of interest to the investigators, but only incidentally, just as anyone might witness a car accident without having any connection to the drivers of the vehicles, and the police might take a statement from them without their being under suspicion.

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, June 5, 2018 7:04 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rosenstein is a witness, imo. he wrote that bullshit ass letter blaming comey's handling of hillary's case as pretext to fire him.

Trump unable to remember words to "God Bless America" at replacement event he commissioned to prove his patriotism: https://t.co/LrMPaCEnen pic.twitter.com/oCcWMX9g39

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) June 5, 2018

Who gives a swift shit

(no shade carne)

lol no doubt

trump has tony clifton mannerisms all through that god bless america video

As was said on Twitter, surely he's the chief negotiator.

Report: Dennis Rodman is going to Singapore for the summit https://t.co/dSOO0x9liV

— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) June 5, 2018

Donald Trump forgetting the words to "God Bless America" during the 7-minute "America Hour" that he had to schedule because an entire football team snubbed him seems like a scene that's going to be played in many future documentaries about the fall of the USA

looks like this is gonna happen
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/05/filemon-vela-vicente-gonzalez-democrats-daca-discharge-624869

xp It's cheap irony, good for a momentary amusement. Now, if he'd forgotten to wear his American flag lapel pin, I'm sure conservatives everywhere would be blasting him for his lack of patriotism, but this is entirely different.

lmao "America hour" at the White House lasted all of 7 minutes

apparently there's a new round of deficit hype going on

as a general rule if you hear someone talking about politics and, within 5 mins, it’s not clear what their ideology is they’re selling you one or all of 3 things, all of which are things only billionaires want:

—gutting social security
—gutting Medicare
—charter schools

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 5, 2018

From four years back, of course.

Dennis Rodman was either drunk or on drugs (delusional) when he said I wanted to go to North Korea with him. Glad I fired him on Apprentice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2014

lmao everything that's going to happen from now until the end of his presidency is buried somewhere in his tweets from 2010 to 2014

That McCain mocker from a few weeks back has been 86d

Kelly Sadler is out https://t.co/Aeq4a2XERK

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 5, 2018

The sad, beautiful young lives lost because of the partisan WITCH HU... oh, wait

Keith Ellison leaving Congress to run for MN attorney general, WTF?

Stepping stone to presidential run

If you're a D attorney general right now, elected or otherwise, you can get a lot of positive attention by suing the present presidential administration. Bob Ferguson in WA has sued the admin like 17 times already.

Ilhan Omar, who I loooove, running for MN5.

About right

Bewildered White House Press Watches Dueling Huckabee Sanderses Each Claim She The Only One Telling Truth https://t.co/lOYFUpVlNJ pic.twitter.com/QTIFndoO9e

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 5, 2018

Meanwhile, one of the funniest things out there is Jonah Goldberg and Seb Gorka endlessly insulting each other on Twitter for months now.

Seems about right

pic.twitter.com/JjaCcdiAXl

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 6, 2018

tucker really has that facial expression down pat

This is the best thing all year coming from a Sarah Sanders Press Conference.

A WH reporter for Playboy, @BrianKarem yells out "What color is the sky in the President's world?"

This guy deserves a raise!! pic.twitter.com/TLdWRAAGL6

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) June 5, 2018

Real troll would have asked the question outright instead of shouting it as she walked away but sure

In summary:

pic.twitter.com/ZPQ3K2mNM2

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) June 6, 2018

should've voted for Jill Stein:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has canceled the Senate’s normal month-long August recess, with a promise to push through the confirmations of more of President Trump’s nominees.

“Due to the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats of the president’s nominees, and the goal of passing appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled. Senators should expect to remain in session in August to pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president’s nominees,” McConnell said in a statement.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/mcconnell-cancels-august-senate-recess-to-push-through-more-trump-appointees

and a move to make it difficult for democrats to campaign in their districts for the midterms

*states

Well, for anyone.

this slate watergate podcast is pretty darn good, thanks for the link.

Well I...wait.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/state-department-heather-nauert-germany-israel/index.html

such a fine line between love and hate

I don't get the good mourning joke ;_;

Such skills

Trump wants Kim to commit to a nuclear disarmament timetable in next week's Singapore meeting, and might offer a follow-up session for Mar-a-Lago in the fall https://t.co/uReAfYBBis

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) June 6, 2018

Spokesperson Heather Nauert responds to the press. Can I just? Uh. Jeez. I'm sorry. I can't. I just can't. No. Really. I'm OK. Just leave me alone for a minute. I'll be alright.

yeah, obviously staffers then and now have and will always call such things a witch hunt, what I'm specifically interested in is the level to which a large swath of the general public also agreed

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine)

i know you've mentioned woodward and bernstein, but "the final days" is a generally underread book and reading it gives one a highly distinct sense of deja vu, i have found

...Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting. They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever. Fake News is really bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018

yea she's definitely dead

"merrily along" lol

i've never merrily walked to a meeting in my life, what's her secret

(apart from being a ghost)

Bourbon and Ambient.

wild turkey and the future sound of london

Bourbon and Ambient

Alfred just described the only "a box of ____ shipped to you every month" service I would actually subscribe to

melania was also at an event that they denied the press access to, so if you want to get your story out there, maybe make some changes you dumb fuck

love that the dude who pushed birtherism for years is now mad that people are coming up with conspiracy theories about his wife which he could easily debunk but chooses not to

Kansas is a sick place.

speaking of dumb fucks, james comey everyone

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-watchdog-finds-comey-defied-authority-fbi-director/story?id=55670834

The draft of Horowitz's wide-ranging report specifically called out Comey for ignoring objections from the Justice Department when he disclosed in a letter to Congress just days before the 2016 presidential election that FBI agents had reopened the Clinton probe, according to sources. Clinton has said that letter doomed her campaign.

Horowitz's draft report cited Comey for failing to consult with Lynch and other senior Justice Department officials before making his announcement on national TV. While saying there was no "clear evidence" that Clinton "intended to violate" the law, Comey insisted the former secretary of state was "extremely careless" in her "handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

"I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say," Comey said before cameras on July 5, 2016.

also discussed is dumb fuck bill clinton putting lynch on a box on this issue because of their tarmac meeting

Problems, problems.

BREAkING: new Guardian exclusive. Cambridge Analytica director 'met Assange to discuss US election & channeled cryptocurrency to Wikileaks’https://t.co/c24KXw3eFA

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) June 6, 2018

are we all too down in our nihilistic wormholes to discuss the primary results last night cuz Dem turnout shows no signs of abating, and Districts' across the country continue to flip/become competitive

speaking of dumb fucks, james comey everyone

but he's so honorable!

and tall!

Comey is a shitbag narcissist, game recognize game

are we all too down in our nihilistic wormholes to discuss the primary results last night cuz Dem turnout shows no signs of abating, and Districts' across the country continue to flip/become competitive

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:42 AM

I was going to post in the Democratic Party thread.

his guiding motivation has always been to develop/project/maintain his image as UPSTANDING G-MAN NUMBER ONE, and that's it.

xp

his reverence for david brooks informs his sophomoric political instincts that back up his bs g-man front

Comey is such a fucking doofus. one of the lowkey worst things about the Trump Debacle is this fucknut being rehabbed into a resistance hero.

*rehabbed as

Image search for a Comey/Guevara mashup yields zero results. So disappointed in the internet right now.

Comey's best trait is that he wrote copious notes following all his meetings with Trump, which, when you think about it, is pretty crappy to have as your best trait.

One of my bandmate spotted John Brennan at a carnival a few days ago, wearing shorts and riding the bumper cars with (one presumes) a grandchild. Incidentally Brennan and my dad were on a softball team together in the 1970s.

Kim Jong Un is going to love this. Rudy Giuliani: The N. Korean leader got “on his hands and knees and begged” for the summit to be held.@felschwartzhttps://t.co/0mm9K4n3bo

— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) June 6, 2018

Rudy is possibly the only person dumber than Trump

people made fun of Kim K but she managed to get Trump to actually do something decent, which is impressive

and I had the same thought:

I wouldn’t be surprised if part of this was a way to give a retroactive black eye to Obama for not pardoning her himself.

— T. (@RickyRawls) June 6, 2018

his motives were not to be decent though but rather to align himself with personalities he believes can benefit him in some way. xp

plus that xp

http://phillysketchfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Goat-Rodeo-Logo-300x300.jpg

xxxp

Hey, the Worm's got some assist.

Sebastian Gorka announces that he and Sean Hannity are heading to Singapore pic.twitter.com/UwV0uDLUnM

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) June 6, 2018

Grudges, he's got 'em

SCOOP: When Trudeau pressed Trump on national security justification for tariffs on Canada Trump responded: “didn’t you guys burn down the WH?” That was Britain during the War of 1812 https://t.co/tj4iHX7wPD

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 6, 2018

kinda wish Britain would do a repeat at the moment tbh

You burn down Buckingham Palace, we burn down the White House, deal?

As someone else pointed out, Canadians *do* take credit for that a lot so him citing it seems like fair game to me

Canada did something good once?

Long ago.

O ancient of days

If the War of 1812 did not happen we probably would not have the Star Spangled Banner, so Trump should be grateful and more patriotic.

that goat rodeo image upthread is a+++++

:D

speaking of dumb fucks, james comey everyone

good

this ought to be his legacy forever

btw throwing the election to Trump and then getting fired and smeared by him because you weren't sufficiently subservient is really the ultimate Donald Trump experience isn't it

p much

Fun times at the EPA.

Wow. EPA spox Jahan Wilcox to @elainaplott when she called for comment on this story: “You have a great day, you’re a piece of trash.” https://t.co/mXpa3Pcgug

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 6, 2018

How sweet!

I asked Scott Pruitt a quick question about the reports he tried to help his wife become a Chick-fil-A franchisee.

"With great change comes, I think, opposition...I love, she loves [Chick-fil-A]" pic.twitter.com/gND2tdMq1e

— Jessica Smith (@JessicaASmith8) June 6, 2018

Meantime, something new Stormy-wise...

New Stormy Daniels lawsuit claims her former lawyer betrayed her and "hatched a plan" with Trump attorney Michael Cohen to get the adult film actress to publicly deny she had an affair with President Trump. https://t.co/RvYitjrdOO

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 6, 2018

Attached to the Stormy Daniels lawsuit are text messages exchanged between Michael Cohen and Daniels’ former lawyer Keith Davidson.

They’re worth a read. More here: https://t.co/N3ioPrZXlW pic.twitter.com/vV4EkWtlzr

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 6, 2018

Further to which:

Wait what pic.twitter.com/WjNgHjhHE5

— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) June 6, 2018

So, it looks like Trump called in his fixer in to break the news to his wife that he was being sued as a result of his affair with a porn star.

— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) June 6, 2018

And as long as we're talking Trump and Cohen, how about a different Trump?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/ivanka-trump-putin-moscow-meeting-michael-cohen-tower?utm_term=.ltOOlN9Px#.lmeDQ6rPv

And what gifts were they bringing?

This one is the most intriguing. Who are “the wise men”? pic.twitter.com/Vqj5EcZ1pL

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 6, 2018

Can you call me please?

Please call me

U calling?

U up?

Hey

The concept of "wise men", who stand out of the limelight and quietly advise public figures based on their many decades of experience, is well-established in national politics, but knowing the identity of these particular "wise men" would be intriguing.

Also, Cohen calling Stormy's lawyer "pal"!

being considered a wise man in the trump admin is some real ‘tallest dwarf’ territory

I'm guessing this collection of Wise Men is comprised of...I'll be conservative and say maybe only like 40% former Celebrity Apprentice contestants.

OT but Lunch, what about Butthurt Brecht?

NEWS: Just told by senior EPA person that Sarah Greenwalt, senior counsel to Pruitt, has also resigned. Asking EPA public affairs for confirmation. Comes after another aide Millian Hupp also resigned today

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) June 6, 2018

A pizza guy made a delivery to a military base in Brooklyn. A military police officer at the base asked him for his immigration documents, then called ICE, which detained him. He has two kids. https://t.co/hUf2y3XcAE

— Josh Nathan-Kazis (@joshnathankazis) June 6, 2018

time to start doxxing ice agents imo

Not to diminish the awfulness of what happened, but you can get pizza delivered to a military base??

Only from Bombino's

Sure, sure.

Giuliani on Stormy Daniels: Melania Trump 'believes her husband' https://t.co/dr4RPPwUc3

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) June 6, 2018

the fact is no one actually gives a shit that Trump slept with a porn star. The GOP doesn't care, the Dems don't care, it won't sway votes. What does matter is legal fallout.

He's done so many worse things, this doesn't even register in the top 25. But I am rooting for plenty of legal fallout, involving revelations of illegal activity much slimier than just him cheating on his wife.

One of my bandmate spotted John Brennan at a carnival a few days ago, wearing shorts and riding the bumper cars with (one presumes) a grandchild. Incidentally Brennan and my dad were on a softball team together in the 1970s.

― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:43 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

many xps but I totally misread this as "John Brannon" and got way too excited/impressed for a second

this melania android they brought out today is pretty convincing!

it helps when the human melania was a longtime resident of the uncanny valley anyway

Don't know where else to post this. Scary

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/world/asia/china-guangzhou-consulate-sonic-attack.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=67100509&pgtype=Homepage

eh who needs state dept employees anyway, amirite? I mean what deals did they ever make

p clear that one of the communist regimes (probably Russia, would be my guess) have some freaky new sonic weapon in their spy arsenal

didn't something similar happen in cuba or something?

Yes, still going on IIRC

oh yeah http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article203221919.html

Although whenever I read one of these stories I think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwRvWpsiM2w

hawkwind were ahead of their time

jinx!

It makes me think that we haven't heard from Fred Durst in a while, just saying.

p clear that one of the communist regimes (probably Russia, would be my guess) have some freaky new sonic weapon in their spy arsenal

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 4:14 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Russia isn't communist any more iirc

were they ever

OT but Lunch, what about Butthurt Brecht?

― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 2:51 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As kind of a general guideline for life, I try whenever possible to draw emphasis to the butthole.

And yes, you can totally get pizza delivered to a military base. There's a procedure, and different bases/sections of bases have different clearance requirements. IME, the less secure parts of military bases are almost frighteningly easy to fuck around in (assuming you aren't very obviously trespassing).

(Join my 'two hellish years of high school stuck on a Navy base in rural IN' AMA already in progress.)

Unimpeachable logic. xp

Good thread re tariff impacts. Buckle up.

hello, Pennsylvanian in heavy manufacturing here, the supply chain situation is um, extremely not good and getting, uh, extremely not gooder https://t.co/VJ7HDxvztN

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 6, 2018

and...

the best part is watching all the people in my industry who were very MAGA for a year slowly lose their resolve about MAGAing and saying out loud maybe this guy doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing

Toomey rightly taken to task in those responses for being a spineless shitbag, it's too little/too late here

xpost Yeah I do love that. (But you snipped out the part burning Salena Zito as well.)

many xps but I totally misread this as "John Brannon" and got way too excited/impressed for a second

― I want to change my display name (dan m)

I did this as well

little boy: grandpa tell the story about how you stood up to president?@SenToomey ah yes. it was june 6. i questioned the tariffs as “disturbing”

— Paul A. Ticz (@MyPoliticsAcct) June 6, 2018

I’m super not into this sonic poisoner device wtf

https://gfycat.com/HarmfulImmaterialIndianpangolin

I'm laughing at this more than I probably should

https://gfycat.com/HarmfulImmaterialIndianpangolin

the best part is watching all the people in my industry who were very MAGA for a year slowly lose their resolve about MAGAing and saying out loud maybe this guy doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing

That's nice but it's only partway to sanity. They may retreat from full-throated Trumpitude but still think the other options are worse. All the same etc.

John Brannon

Did I say John Brennan? Actually it was John Barron. I mean Bannon. Crap. These cats need more different names

That's nice but it's only partway to sanity. They may retreat from full-throated Trumpitude but still think the other options are worse. All the same etc.

I'll take some realization over none.

I'm laughing at this more than I probably should

I'm not

have we covered this bizarre and hilarious clip from the fema hurricane season briefing today

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/8p2y7v/trump_in_inexplicably_decides_to_put_his_water/

Oops.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs https://t.co/UqxymTm12D

— Investigate Russia (@InvestigateRU) June 6, 2018

My stance has evolved

https://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Is-Texas-ready-for-another-Harvey-12972164.php#photo-15677013

Sixteen thousand people, many of them in Texas, for whatever reason that is. People went out in their boats to watch the hurricane,” Trump said. “That didn't work out too well. That didn't work out too well.”

When asked later to confirm if people were out on boats to gawk at the storm, Abbott said he had “no information one way or another about that.”

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According to sources close to him, all Trump needs to lend his stamp of approval to a new book is positive coverage of the book on Fox News. Trump associates and White House aides all acknowledged that it is rare he actually reads the book himself https://t.co/q5DfW1HvJK

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 6, 2018

Six months from now it'll say "Trump associates and White House aides all acknowledged that he cannot actually read above a second grade level, but that the greatest Americans have always communicated in pictograms."

(aide hands DJT an Executive Order) "Mr President, could you please draw one of your funny fuzzy caterpillars with this Magic Marker? It's for a friend."

a BIPARTISAN res to limit the president's tariff powers? Every Beltway pundit just creamed his/her pantaloons.

Oopsy.

On April 11, I called Trump’s favorite architect to ask about jobs he did in Eastern Europe that recently drew Mueller’s eye.

Within hours, John Fotiadis closed down his 10 yr old architecture firm, deleted his portfolio and left Twitter. He’s still MIA.https://t.co/1hSyqfbARP

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) June 7, 2018

(He's not totally truly MIA, but he is now working for a commercial architecture firm in Montvale, New Jersey, so make yer own jokes.)

Hahah!

Hey remember when Assange DM'd Hannity asking him to reach out on an encrypted app?

Tonight Hannity is freaking out about Mueller searching encrypted apps and "advised" all Mueller witnesses to "bash" their phones "into itsy bitsy pieces" pic.twitter.com/cZhaUqVNQk

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 7, 2018

The power team is upset!

Sebastian Gorka: "Dennis Rodman is nothing more than a clown who's looking for more publicity." pic.twitter.com/Z0vFLyFoIb

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) June 7, 2018

That's nice but it's only partway to sanity. They may retreat from full-throated Trumpitude but still think the other options are worse. All the same etc.

― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin)

as long as they can be persuaded that voting is futile and they should just stay home, i'll be happy

seb gorka not recognizing game : /

Was gonna say, that description makes Rodman sound like presidential material to me.

the day after this nightmare is over they're going to tell us it would be too "political" and "destructive" to investigate all the crimes and atrocities currently being committed

— Official Centrism (@pareene) June 6, 2018

Probably. On the other hand, tons of cases are already in court and are going to outlast his presidency, that stuff is going to have long-term consequences.

i have my doubts.

Too many constitutional issues have been raised and are going to require being addressed. Some people in trump’s circle are likely to go to jail. I doubt he will suffer any personal consequences himself.

Things are definitely going to be investigated tho. They already are.

I can already see the fight in 2018 being between "investigate and prosecute Trump's circle for the real crimes they have committed" and centrist "OMG you can't threaten to jail your political opponents, are we no better than they are", an argument which the latter side will win and then proceed to lose elections with

thx Obama

have we covered this bizarre and hilarious clip from the fema hurricane season briefing today

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/8p2y7v/trump_in_inexplicably_decides_to_put_his_water/

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seems like one of his macho posturing things. I don't need any water, I am the ship of the desert!

But Pence just mindlessly repeating the action. Were both bottles empty? Who knows. It just looks ridiculous when Pence monkey-do’s

Trump is going to retain the title President as long as he lives, which in itself is pretty revolting innit?
Would love to see him stripped of the title

re water, clearing the tabletop of clutter for a photo to be taken I believe.

Trump is going to retain the title President as long as he lives, which in itself is pretty revolting innit?
Would love to see him stripped of the title

― Stevolende,

Considering his diet and that he'll be, what, 78 when he leaves office in 2014 he won't live long

he's going to live to 120

^^^

these assholes always take FOREVER to die

As long as he's stuck in the middle of a human centipede for the last 50, I can live with it.

Get crackin', mad scientists.

no cracks about millenials allowed today

Your morning moment — these photos of newly elected Athens, GA, commissioner Mariah Parker being sworn in on a copy of Malcolm X’s autobiography. https://t.co/1FCID9gTjf pic.twitter.com/P0d0WGoVWU

— elizabeth catte (@elizabethcatte) June 6, 2018

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/391115-hannity-advises-witnesses-in-mueller-probe-smash-their-phones-to-little-itsy

"Maybe Mueller's witnesses, I don't know," Hannity said on air. "If I advised them to follow Hillary Clinton’s lead, delete all your emails and then acid-wash your emails and hard drives on the phones, then take your phones and bash them with a hammer to little itsy bitsy pieces, use BleachBit, remove the sim cards and then take the pieces and hand them over to Robert Mueller, and say, Hillary Rodham Clinton, this is equal justice under the law."

feel like it's maybe illegal to suggest this on air, but what do I know

nothing is true, everything is permitted - hillary clinton

I can already see the fight in 2018 being between "investigate and prosecute Trump's circle for the real crimes they have committed" and centrist "OMG you can't threaten to jail your political opponents, are we no better than they are", an argument which the latter side will win and then proceed to lose elections with

― frogbs

i'd agree that the fight is going to happen, but assuming an outcome is not really warranted. yeah, that's the way it turned out in 1974, that's the way it turned out in 2008. both of which are a pretty good argument for not letting it turn out that way this time. i'm a disgruntled centrist - i think compromise is good and desirable and the best possible basis for government. i'm also persuaded it's impossible right now. the natural tendency of elected representatives to forgive and compromise has been, and is likely to continue to be, checked by the refusal of the people who elected them to allow it.

lmao

.@morningmika just now 👀👀

"I know someone who spoke to Donald Trump recently about life in the White House and @realDonaldTrump biggest complaint was that he's not allowed to watch porn in the White House." pic.twitter.com/6jcs8TAkJc

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 7, 2018

Pruitt out?

who's stopping trump watching porn? does john kelly have him in a chastity belt or something?

LET POTUS MASTURBATE AGAIN #lpga

xp

I knew the '70s were back but man, even acid-washed emails

Appears Pruitt has resigned.

Really worth reading: WaPo got audio of Trump's closed-door FEMA "hurricane briefing," in which Trump just rambled about midterm polls, the economy, Foxconn, coal, the popularity of his cabinet, Air Force One, and aircraft technology, among other things. https://t.co/8tsaYtRULJ

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 7, 2018

where are you guys seeing this Pruitt news?

kinda would've preferred he stayed in tbh, his replacement isn't going to be any better and a distracted/embattled evil EPA head probably preferable to one who isn't. but idk maybe chaos at the dept is the best we can hope for.

at least the Senate won't confirm whatever shitbag replacement Trump nominates

'fuckin magnets, how do they work', exclaims brain-worm-riddled president

He then complained that the military was too frequently buying new and in his view, unnecessary, equipment — citing aircraft technology as an example.

“Part of it is, they want to have all new. Instead of having the system that throws the aircraft off the [ship], which was always steam,” he said. “They now have magnets. They’re using magnets instead of steam. . . . They spent hundreds of millions of dollars, I’m hearing not great things about it. It’s frankly ridiculous.”

man that mariah parker photo is awesome btw

xp

Love to hear the most incurious man alive deliver his autogenerated explanations of how things in the world function.

not seeing that Pruitt news anywhere. Where is anyone saying that?

instead of magnets why doesn't he talk about the f35, which doesn't fuckin work

It seems that the Japanese PM has quoted the wrong Trump tweet. pic.twitter.com/pAKlbf3wDb

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 2018

nah shinzo abe is famously consumed by hatred of arizona senator jeff flake

jeff flake (flake(FLAKE))

guys there's a new poll!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/poll-economic-satisfaction-under-trump-isn-t-helping-his-party-n880721

now let us all completely readjust our expectations since the last poll

Look, just tell me what to think, huh? Is that so much to ask?

Ah yes.

BREAKING: Trump on June 12 North Korea summit: “I don’t think I have to prepare that much. It’s about attitude.” per @justinsink

— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) June 7, 2018

Can we agree as a nation to not retaliate when another world leader inevitably beats him into a coma?

How in the world is Scott Pruitt only 50? He's well on his way to looking like Jeff Sessions; looks like a sphincter, if a sphincter could smirk.

Is that a trick question? Because he is a sphincter.

What?

(Trying to work a Wayne's World reference in there if it wasn't clear.)

So exacting!

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had his staff drive him to multiple Ritz-Carlton hotels in search if a particular lotion they sell, according to people familiar with his security detail. By @JDawsey1 @Eilperin @Brady_Dennis https://t.co/iNjvKJefBC

— Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth) June 7, 2018

Gee, wonder what Pruitt does with all that hotel lotion.

What do the simple folk do?

beautiful lotion lives ruined

welp

Pirro interviewed to be the DAG. Sessions resisted. When he resisted, Trump advisors told him if he didn't give her a hearing, Trump might end up giving her SCOTUS https://t.co/wI8My3hMiY

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 7, 2018

lol that news oughta keep Kennedy from retiring lol

Nobody tell him he can just expand the SC if he gets Congressional approval (if I have that right?)

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had his staff drive him to multiple Ritz-Carlton hotels in search if a particular lotion they sell, according to people familiar with his security detail.

I don't care what he does so long as this administration keeps stickin it to the elites!

that lady is an insane person! i just can't anymore

Gee, wonder what Pruitt does with all that hotel lotion.

― This Bobo Isn't Going to Honk Itself (Old Lunch),

it rubs the lotion on its skin

I’m just here for when it breaks that Pruitt had someone shopping for an old coin-operated magic fingers bedframe and a ceiling mirror

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 7, 2018

Nobody tell him he can just expand the SC if he gets Congressional approval (if I have that right?)

worked well for FDR

I'm sure rising suicide rates are fine and not for any particular reason

my off-the-cuff guess would be: increase in the availability of opioids + guns

Judiciary Act of 1789 called for six, but it waxed and waned until the Grand administration.

Trying to look at the bright side of this dark dark Pirro shit and hoping maybe that people will wake the fuck up someday soon and stop granting any legitimacy to sucking voids who are famous for simply being on the teevee. Preferably before The Situation is sworn in as Secretary of State.

(Who am I kidding, they won't and this country/world is uberfucked.)

and when do you expect this little scenario to happen?

wouldn't be worse than some people in the cabinet

I think climate change is more complex than global warming will make it hotter. It has to do with disruptions of atmospheric conditions,ocean patterns, jet streams and shit like that

— Vinny Guadagnino (@VINNYGUADAGNINO) December 29, 2017

Per my last tweet about global warming and ppl saying it’s bad when someone from “jersey shore” educates the president etc.I get the joke but why does having a summer shore house automatically make u stupid?No smart ppl ever partied with friends on weekends?

— Vinny Guadagnino (@VINNYGUADAGNINO) December 29, 2017

The Situation seems like a really nice and down to earth guy lately I'd take him over whoever is in there now tbh xxp

(I know that's Vinny, just couldn't resist)

Vinny 2020

my off-the-cuff guess would be: increase in the availability of opioids + guns

not to mention / in concert with generalized hopelessness over the future

MGTLGA

the situation's impulse in most conflicts seemed to be vigorous de-escalation, which was an interesting quality in a successful reality tv star and in a president would put him at least as high as jfk

not to mention / in concert with generalized hopelessness over the future

tbf this has always been with us

yes, but given the steady decline of stable career paths / increase in precarious work, I'm going to go ahead and assume it's getting worse.

I predicted a Chelsea-Situation election awhile ago

but unemployment is at an all time low ! surely that is all that matters and everyone is happy,right ? xp

Yeah, they're trying that "unemployment is low!" line in Canada too and everyone under 35 knows it's horseshit.

"why don't you love your shitty job?"

Why is Pruitt such a mega-creepster? And otm above, how is he only 50?

climate change denial is a helluva drug

Stephen Miller will overtake him easy

A tiny problem.

NEW: NYT: A White House economic analysis of President Trump’s trade agenda has concluded that Mr. Trump’s tariffs will hurt economic growth in the United States, according to several people familiar with the research. https://t.co/Gpwa2liOM8

— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) June 7, 2018

well, scrap that then!

By "that" do you mean the CEA, because there's no way he's abandoning this?

Everything. He's scrapping everything. Everything must go!

My own analysis of the White House economic analysis has concluded that 'a-doy'.

who knew macroeconimcs was so complicated

Rudy CAN fail.

Yikes. I asked @FLOTUS spokeswoman @StephGrisham45 about Giuliani saying that she believes her husband re Stormy Daniels. Response: “I don't believe Mrs. Trump has ever discussed her thoughts on anything with Mr. Giuliani.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 7, 2018

Melgiulianiagate

someone help! this person is choking!

did rudy's dumb ass get back from israel yet? he's obviously looking at psy group/black cube documents, right?

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. immigration authorities say they are temporarily transferring 1,600 detainees to federal prisons https://t.co/YYzuL2Vk5V pic.twitter.com/arzO0cUvjd

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 7, 2018

it would be really spooky if some of these for-profit prison owners just happened to donate to GOP candidates

Is that even legal

🤷‍♂️

Bit of an oddity.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/politics/justice-department-senate-intelligence-staffer/index.html

So is the plan to shift immigrants from sub-minimum wage work to slave labor?

Yes. Yes it is.

More Pruitt fun

oh my god: Scott Pruitt Made Public Servants Fetch His Protein Bars And Greek Yogurt https://t.co/0ycw7auC9L

— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 7, 2018

Like what is up with this guy?!? It's like Home Alone: White House Rulz.

Trump's gonna have to pardon a lot more of his peeps to make room for all those incomomg immagrants.

Well this isn't all further complicated, is it.

Breaking: Stormy Daniels’ former lawyer is counter-suing Daniels, Michael Avenatti and Michael Cohen https://t.co/P29v0GMOps

— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) June 7, 2018

(If he was just countersuing Avenatti and Daniels, that'd be one thing, but Cohen as well? No love lost.)

Oh well!

JUST POSTED: MANAFORT secretly steered https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1004890337381371904.4M to a company run by two journalists tasked with getting European pols to vouch for YANUKOVYCH. But the journos — @alanfriedmanit & Eckart Sager — dimed out Manafort when he asked them to lie to MUELLER. https://t.co/4OWG0u2CPb

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) June 8, 2018

NYT headline is that San Francisco is a “liberal city pushed to the right by urban ills.”

The article consists of quotes from interviews with “members of the San Francisco Republican Party” who were gathered at “an upscale sushi restaurant” to watch election results. pic.twitter.com/4BU77c9dc1

— Daniel Denvir (@DanielDenvir) June 7, 2018

lol

the SF mayor's race has turned out to be a ranked choice cliffhanger, first London Breed was winning, then when Jane Kim's 2nd place choices were counted Mark Leno pulled ahead, now it's almost a tie, with still many votes still to be registered. could be undecided for another week! no republican in sight