Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

The committee has subpoenaed the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency for information about what is called “unmasking.” Republicans on the committee have been pushing for a thorough investigation of how the names of Trump campaign officials became exposed in classified intelligence reports based off intelligence community intercepts.

Those subpoenas seek information on requests made by former national security adviser Susan Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan and former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power for names to be unmasked in classified material.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-intelligence-committee-said-to-have-issued-seven-subpoenas-in-russia-probe-1496261435

the other four are unknown, but presumed to be flynn, page, stone, and manafort

the RNC's coming after Joe and Mika!

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55395/rnc-madness/

lol @ Mr. Jeopardy taking heat over this tweet

Barron Trump saw a very long necktie on a heap of expired deli meat in a dumpster. He thought it was his dad & his little heart is breaking

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) May 31, 2017

Better to leave Barron out of the donnybrook.

from the RNC morning joe thing:

http://i.imgur.com/KL51qpi.png

hmm, what else does al franken have on his plate that's possibly even bigger than the question of whether to share a stage with kathy griffin in July? i guess there are the trump investigations with the senate judiciary committee, but...nah, kathy griffin should definitely be his priority

This whole thing is so dumb. I mean yeah it's in bad taste and I agree she should've been fired for it but this whole "will the liberal violence ever end!" thing is so irritating, especially when white supremacists emboldened by Trump are literally murdering people on the street right now. I thought this was the party of "fuck you and your political correctness", the party who gleefully voted in a man who bragged about sexually assaulting women? Are you really so fragile to be trigged by Kathy Griffin, of all people?

of course not, they just see an opportunity to attack the enemy and get some more of those sweet sweeeeeet librul tears

And put a woman out of a job!

it's a win-win!

Pfft.

Intel Cmte aide says subpoenas on "unmasking" would have come from Nunes "acting separately" from Russia probe w/o consent of minority

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 31, 2017

I suppose that's his way of doing something while recused?

Uh, Portland gonna be fun on Sunday:

http://katu.com/news/local/marshman-feds-bringing-in-officers-for-sunday-patriot-prayer-joey-gibson-alt-right

Yay, the Feds will be here

Kathy Griffin should be fired for being unfunny, not for the bloody head.

a 'free speech' rally in defense of someone who murdered innocent people in cold blood is going to end well

local media keeps pointing out a guy who has been too fucking tired to be governor of Iowa is now our ambassador to China

good luck usa

these free speech rallies are just straight up trolling/librul tear gathering exercises

that being said I agree w the tactic of countering them with (hopefully larger) anti-fascist rallies

the head was the only funny thing she's done since Newsradio went off the air

Social Media Forensics
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The depoliticization of violence

In direct proportion to how the American understanding of political activity has been impoverished—shrunk down to a trip to the ballot box that a pitiful fraction of Americans will make once every four years—our investment of political significance into comparative trivialities has mushroomed to the point where even an act of horrifying, self-evident violence must be “explained” or “understood” by documenting where a killer clicked “like” on Facebook. Meanwhile, a pair of women remain terrorized, and two of three bystanders who attempted to stop a hate crime are dead.

librul tears is one thing but publicly supporting an insane murderer is nagl (trenchant social commentary)

the head was the only funny thing she's done since Newsradio went off the air

― akm, Thursday, June 1, 2017 12:17 AM (thirty-five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

worse yet, she had to use a convincing clone under another name to get the lols on Newsradio

David Axelrod's perfectly timed deadpan always makes me laugh (talking about Spicer and "covfefe"):

"He goes out there and says things that are laughable, and...people laugh."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lfXnVKMwgE

I can't reload this whole thread--I'm sure that's been posted today. I really enjoy dry, morbid humour; hate crudity, hate gross. Kathy Griffin's thing just isn't funny. I'm far from outraged or anything, just wish she blew up her career over a better joke. I self-censor myself on Facebook all the time. Whenever someone posts something and I think of a great line that's guaranteed to have people crowding around me and telling me I should die, I send it along in a private message. "This is what I was going to post--the little voice in my head said 'no.'"

Wish there was a thread for that

I mostly just don't get the point of it, plus am pretty much not a fan of Kathy Griffin, so it's kinda difficult to defend on anything but 'definitely not illegal, ffs' grounds.

I thought Sally Weaver was a great character. "Lay it on me, stringbean." I don't really know her outside of that.

Wish there was a thread for that

You're right, we've got one here...Facebook needs the same thing; a whole separate wall limited to friends who aren't going to go all apoplectic if you can't help making a connection between posts about their children and The Exorcist.

I hope no counter protesters show up to that Patriot Prayer rally and that the Patriots, bored now that nobody took their bait, just eat each other

fuckin' can't believe how low the limbo bar keeps going. "1950s" a goal now?

Wasn't the "patriot prayer" scheduled before the stabbing?

stabbings, plural

1950s? It is the first decade you can go back to that definitely had television, good highways and rural electricity, but also had Jim Crow laws and no federal civil rights enforcement. For some people that looks like the sweet spot to aim for. It's a shame about the constant Cold War fear of annihilation, but hey you can't have everything.

xxpost whether it was or it wasn't, i'm against free speech rallies where "free speech" is just a dog whistle for something sinister.

which isn't to say I don't think they have the right to assemble, but I don't have to feel sad if one of them gets run over by his own tractor on the way there

yes, of course. they are ghouls -- no argument from me there.

but it would be especially obscene -- unthinkable even -- if this was an event that was explicitly designed to be in support of this racist murderer

it probably will draw more people because of the tragedy though, which brought notoriety. so that's pretty heinous.

well the racist murderer apparently thinks he was standing his ground for freedom of speech when he slit throats

yeah

i know

WaPo: Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York

The MD compound was a SIGINT site Russian intelligence used to spy on DoD and IC facilities in the Chesapeake Bay region.

that pic might actually be the first thing i've seen/heard from Kathy Griffin that i liked

it's not funny, it's provocative and angry, which is fine by me

being unfunny on New Years is a TV tradition (Dick Clark, Shadoe Stevens? etc)

decapitrump is in bad taste, some might say, which is way worse than bad morals in 'merica

I'd like to think someone just woke up from a 15-year coma and the first thing they saw was this tweet https://t.co/8kMtV6z7fG

— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) May 31, 2017

Derp

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/politics/congress-investigating-jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-meeting/index.html

donald trump will never be president

he isn't. this is some sinister alternate reality.

Where Donna Martin didn't graduate

ORLY

BREAKING: @johncrudele reports DOJ granted warrants to conduct surveillance on certain journalists to find leakers https://t.co/PuA6A8WuwT

— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) June 1, 2017

People in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe. https://t.co/M7oK5Z6qwF

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2017

how is she not banned from everywhere yet

Honestly do wonder what would happen if Twitter suddenly up and died.

she was banned from the presidency twice iirc