US Politics, May 2018: How Broke Is He?

and you did it, you broke it

don't knock it till you've tried it

I just read that the organisers of the WHCD apologised on behalf of Wolf. Haven't heard what she said about that.

& I thought Trump was ok with Roasts since I did think it was one tool uused asa normalising device in the run up to the 2016 election having the TV roasting of him on whatever U.S. channel. It seemed to get endlessly reshown on one channel I have through cable. Found it revolting, can't remember who was involved celebrity wise but doesn't being involved serve as some form of advocacy for the monster that was created?
Nigel Farage was slipped into the Channel 4 celebration of was it the 70s or a specific year in there or possibly the whole series as a talking head. I thought that was a similar attempt at normalisation for a rather disgusting individual whose values should be inspected a lot more and wholesale rejected. Happened at about the same time i think, run up to the Brexit referendum.
Probably served similar purposes for both, serve up the negative individual as a 'normal' bloke with opinions and a sense of humour.

mmm, sounds like he thought "I'm Prez now, I don't have to do that anymore!" - I doubt he actually was OK with Roasts, or at least he probably was when he wasn't the target.

Mourning!

organisers of the WHCD

who the fuck even are these people

geniuses?

I thought Trump was ok with Roasts since I did think it was one tool uused asa normalising device in the run up to the 2016 election having the TV roasting of him on whatever U.S. channel.

This would be Comedy Central. In 2011.

Where famously the one thing comedians were not allowed to poke fun at was his purported worth.

curious how many more months of market stagnation the powers that be will tolerate before replacing mr. trump with mr. pence

I just learned that Richard Pryor performed at this thing in 1968. That WHCD apology is shit.

In today's episode of Mr. Turd's Wild Ride, the president argues you can't obstruct justice if you didn't break the law. Also, he did nothing wrong and it was all made up, especially collusion, which Mueller is definitely not looking into because he does not use that specific word.

So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were “leaked” to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see...you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/cf/9f/cacf9f86392afeac7d83fdd2291b53af.jpg

did he just scan the list for "did you do collusion" or what

He really has the skill of projecting max butthurt down to an art.

he plugs in those hairplugs every dawn and tweets his little heart away

Max Butthurt
http://images.dailykos.com/images/389542/story_image/trump-headroom_1_.jpg?1492309230

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/politics/questions-mueller-wants-to-ask-trump-russia.html

I hope this is on live tv when asked are questions are

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said on Monday that it would delay a decision to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico for another 30 days, giving key allies a reprieve as the White House tries to extract concessions from trading partners who have resisted those demands.

... The 25 percent tariffs on steel and 10 percent on aluminum were set to go into effect on Tuesday and had set off a global scramble by nations trying to secure permanent exemptions.

more Governance-by-Hostagetaking

wasn't it the WHCD where Obama sassed Trump over birtherism as he boiled, hence setting him on the path to the presidency?

lol at maxbutthurt.jpg

max still delivering off ilx lolz

RT if you believe trump needs to answer these questions!!!! pic.twitter.com/7pmd3tuFlg

— Max Read (@max_read) May 1, 2018

Ten journalists were just killed in Afghanistan. Please STFU about the White House correspondents dinner https://t.co/LhCxT0bqGA by @maassp

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) May 1, 2018

McCain announces he's not running for re-election...in his new book

"I'm freer than colleagues who will face the voters again. I can speak my mind without fearing the consequences much. And I can vote my conscience without worry."

looool

And I can vote voice my conscience and then cast a completely contradictory vote without worry.

Fixed it for ya there, Maverick.

never been much of a brain cancer stan but i'm willing to make an exception in mccain's case

co-sign

mccain announces own mortality, will not seek new term after his inevitable death

where's jar jar? has he flipped on 2scoops already?

too many nicknames dude, who is 'jar jar'

Jarold Kushner?

jarah juckabee jarders

i assumed it was just a reference to jar jar binks's pathetic blue-dog #DINO track record in the Galactic Senate

also gotta say i'm surprised that "Remember Sailor!" did not make it to the thread title but i've been listening to holland a lot so maybe it made more sense to me than others

modern bipartisanship: in addition to unending war and a secret surveillance state the two ruling parties also delight in trolling each other for fun and profit

triggering snowflakes on both sides

i had to read the comey book for work. this stuck out

On my plate, I had found a large cream-colored card describing the entire four-course menu in cursive script. Salad, shrimp scampi, chicken parmesan with pasta, and vanilla ice cream. The president began by admiring his own menu card, which he held up. “They write these things out one at a time, by hand,” he marveled, referring to the White House staff. “A calligrapher,” I replied, nodding. He looked quizzical. “They write them by hand,” he repeated.

That hurts so much ^^^

Just imagine if someone had hipped him to the existence of calligraphy before he was seventy. He could've really gone places with that wild scrawl of his. Places that aren't the White House.

welp. it's good imo. real good.

It's a ring-toss game

even his meals are the schmuck's idea of what a fancy bigshot richy mcrich would eat lol

white foods only
i bet the salad was egg

Nah, that’s a 12-year-old from flyover land going to Olive Garden with Mom when they are on daughter’s first junior high school shop in the nearest metro area and Mom says ‘no banana split’

i assumed it was just a reference to jar jar binks's pathetic blue-dog #DINO track record in the Galactic Senate

― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 10:47 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

played a key role in normalizing Palpatine as military strongman. he-sa is #complicit

On my plate, I had found a large cream-colored card describing the entire four-course menu in cursive script. Salad, shrimp scampi, chicken parmesan with pasta, and vanilla ice cream. The president began by admiring his own menu card, which he held up. “They write these things out one at a time, by hand,” he marveled, referring to the White House staff. “A calligrapher,” I replied, nodding. He looked quizzical. “They write them by hand,” he repeated.

L-R: Comey, Trump, Eric

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S09E12/801233.jpg?b64lines=

Gotta love those returning cast members.

NEW: Exclusive: Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer "raided" his office, took medical files. https://t.co/U4CW0Xv2H5

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 1, 2018

xpost

Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer 'raided' his office, took medical files

In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice and took all the president's medical records.

The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a "raid," took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.

In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt "raped, frightened and sad" when Keith Schiller and another "large man" came to his office to collect the president's records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump's bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.

...

Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president —known as a HIPAA release — which is a violation of patient privacy law. A person familiar with the matter said there was a letter to Bornstein from then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson, but didn't know if there was a release form attached.

Bornstein said the original and only copy of Trump's charts, including lab reports under Trump's name as well as under the pseudonyms his office used for Trump, were taken.

the EU meanwhile has hit back immediately, putting tarriffs on jeans, peanut butter and lol Harley Davidsons, totalling 6.4bn

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico responded to U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs by imposing wide-ranging “equivalent” measures, including on steel and farm products, the economy ministry said on Thursday.

The measures will be in place until the U.S. government eliminates its tariffs, the ministry said.

Mexico tambien

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/05/nothing-matters.gif

xp

I encourage the world to bring us to our fucking knees, tbh. It may be the only thing that'll get this revolution started in earnest.

Trump reportedly told Macron that he would maintain the ban until no Mercedes-Benz cars are seen on Fifth Avenue in New York.

We're in real 'cut off your nose to spite the libs (and incidentally everyone who shares a country with the libs)' territory at this point.

i feel like this is one of those things, like pulling out of NAFTA, where they'll be all like 'oh wait nvm' in about a week

Trump's pardons remind me of comic books where a super-villain goes around breaking other villains out of jail to form a team. I'm guessing Hastert is next?

McMansion dwelling republicans won't be happy about a Mercedes ban.

what? http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390009-trump-to-impose-total-ban-on-luxury-german-cars-report

― mookieproof, Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:50 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for now i'm saying "the hill dot com", but who knows any more.

everyone, it's ok, don't worry

~trade wars are good, and easy to win~

comic relief

Mitt Romney revealed Wednesday who he voted for in the 2016 presidential election. His wife, Ann Romney.

“I wrote in the name of a person who I admire deeply, who I think would be an excellent president,” the Republican U.S Senate candidate told the Deseret News and KSL editorial boards in response to a question. “I realized it wasn’t going to go anywhere, but nonetheless felt that I was putting in a very solid name.”

Romney/Romney 2020

romcom

Mitt Romney is like that We Are Expecting thread.

oof

do feel kind of bad for d'souza in that he can never tell if people spitting on him in public are critics or die-hard fans who didn't recognize him

— muscular baby (@Mobute) May 31, 2018

sweet

The Latest: President Trump says he's considering commuting the sentence of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and pardoning Martha Stewart. https://t.co/CrVlURaxmS

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 31, 2018

Blagojevich was also a contestant on Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” reality television show in 2010.

fuck this

pardons for celebrity & righty crooks unlimited

Trump, on his way to meet Santa Fe school shooting victims: "We are going to Dallas, we are going to Houston. We are going to have a little fun today." pic.twitter.com/nBmseVGvNM

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) May 31, 2018

I kinda feel like my wildest imaginings couldn't possibly measure up to the variety of outrageous ways his corpse will actually be desecrated irl.

US Politics, June 2018 "We'll see what happens "

it's still a fuckin goat rodeo y'all

^ otm

too many crazy, shitty quotes and actions to ever choose one. better to summarize in one all-encompassing goat rodeo.

if one of the shooting victims hits him in the head with a chair, the Secret Service will use restraint, right?

Somewhat for the irrationally angry thread, but I detest seeing any woman or poc fucking smiling in photo ops with him when he's visiting sites of tragedy.

this photo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/avzBp50th1eoF5s_L6htYc52RJk=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/75D27UPXPU26HJHOKTFQN7JDBY.jpg

He's broken the news about Mercedes' on Fifth Avenue

does trump have the authority to unilaterally appoint curt schilling to the baseball hall of fame? let's find out

Why would any American want a car from a shithole loser country like Germany anyway

he only pardons celebs

He's hoping to establish a precedent.

I kinda feel like my wildest imaginings couldn't possibly measure up to the variety of outrageous ways his corpse will actually be desecrated irl.

― My Favorte People Call Me Dad Soft Toddler (Old Lunch), Thursday, May 31, 2018 11:23 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good news
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-inauguration-charges-dismissed-because-170411777.html

That's great news.

O'Keefe. He's another one I hope to live long enough to see lashed to a raft and pushed out to sea.

Can you undo a pardon? If delivered for corrupt reasons or anything?
Or is the process of pardoning non-reversible.
& would that further hinge on being able to impeach the person doing the pardoning.

― Stevolende

you want to know if there's a precedent? sure. there's tons of precedents. here's one:

1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are retroactively annulled by Parliament.

Why would any American want a car from a shithole loser country like Germany Alabama anyway

― the salmon mousse (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 1 June 2018 3:54 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/31/615843930/listen-how-michael-cohen-protects-trump-by-making-legal-threats

Andrew McCarthy:

The selective, politicized prosecution of conservative author, producer, and activist Dinesh D’Souza was an exercise in gratuitous severity. President Trump’s pardon of D’Souza, announced today, is the remedy the Framers had in mind.

D’Souza was (and is) a strident anti-Obama critic. He committed a trivial campaign-finance violation. This is not to excuse the conduct; it is to reaffirm the principle that the punishment should fit the crime, and to observe that the conduct at issue is typically not treated as a crime at all. Routinely, misconduct of the kind engaged in by D’Souza is settled by payment of an administrative fine to the Federal Election Commission. In stark contrast, the Obama Justice Department not only selectively prosecuted D’Souza; prosecutors turned the case into a multiple felony indictment.

Saw a comment somewhere that at least he was a non-violent offender who already did time (right?). Someone like Joe Arpaio, that's much more stomach-churning.

Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) May 31, 2018

increasingly

it was always true

it is to reaffirm the principle that the punishment should fit the crime
i hope he agrees with this for all those black men in prison over a piddlepuff of weed then?

gonna stack some avocados

why do presidential pardons exist

fear of bureaucracy -- but faith in the decisions of the elite electorate -- in the constitutional religion

Pardons For Everyone At The Goat Rodeo!

We’re all stars in the dope rodeo

i believe that some of these things happened as described, and i believe that some of these things some did not happen as described

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

“Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

“Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said.

“I feel like Michael Corleone. I almost got out.”

When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.

“What else did you expect from McConnell?” he asked. “He won’t even give us a hearing on Merrick Garland.”

“I talk about it every time I’m asked,” he responded. “What else are we going to do? We’ve warned folks.” [about Russia]

He noted that Mr. Trump was already claiming that the election would be manipulated if Hillary Clinton won. “If I speak out more, he’ll just say it’s rigged,” Mr. Obama said.

The next day, Mr. Obama focused on cheering up his despondent staff. At one point, he sent a message to Mr. Rhodes saying, “There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth.”

“I don’t know,” he told aides. “Maybe this is what people want. I’ve got the economy set up well for him. No facts. No consequences. They can just have a cartoon.”

He added that “we’re about to find out just how resilient our institutions are, at home and around the world.”

Afterward, Mr. Obama called a few aides to the Oval Office to ruminate on the encounter. “I’m trying to place him in American history,” he said.

“He peddles” bull, Mr. Rhodes answered. “That character has always been part of the American story. You can see it right back to some of the characters in Huckleberry Finn.”

“Maybe,” Mr. Obama answered, “that’s the best we can hope for.”

June thread.