Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

So Caterpillar was raided by irs and FBI this morning. Supposed suspicious movement of funds between foreign subsidies including russia

subsidiaries*

sessions really doubling down on this being 'false', so either he's just very very committed to lying, or maybe the justice department and intelligence are trying to tank him

can't it be both

Morbz is this what living through Watergate was like cuz man, parallels seem eerie w so many potential rabbit holes/threads...

But there's total confidence don't you know

https://twitter.com/AP/status/837378370451222528

I take it back, this is better symbolism:

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/837379787874271232

President Trump tells pool reporters aboard the USS Gerald Ford that he has total confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

lol

Morbz is this what living through Watergate was like

i wuz about eleven, dingaling

it's more what Duck Soup is like

sessions really doubling down on this being 'false', so either he's just very very committed to lying, or maybe the justice department and intelligence are trying to tank him

tbh, it sounds like he was asked two questions he could say 'no' to while being technically correct without stopping to think whether "but I was technically correct!" would be a particularly solid defence when this came out. It is the only card he has to play and he is stuck with it though.

now we know why the Republican Congress tried to secretly dismantle the ethics committee?

Pish. Nothingburger distractions from the real news. Have we discussed the revelation that Spicer is the Easter Bunny?

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/in-the-loop/Images/spicerbunny.jpg?uuid=VmUOcpe2EeK2j9xcS0flGQ

shining-bear-costume.jpg

It looks like a much older version of Spicer confronting the giant rabbit from his nightmares, revealing the man inside is his younger self.

Either that or it's a still from the next episode of Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule

Are you sure that's not Sergey Kislyak?

A Republican bill to replace Obamacare is reportedly hidden somewhere on Capitol Hill — and on Thursday morning, legislators and reporters ended up on a bipartisan wild goose chase to find it.

Who needs the White House lawn Easter Egg hunt? Speaking of which:

Have we discussed the revelation that Spicer is the Easter Bunny?

Spoilers, man!

is this what living through Watergate was like

The sense of an administration carelessly criminal and now running to catch up with an out-of-control story is reminiscent. I'd say the pace so far is much faster than it was this early in Watergate, but the revelations so far are less numerous and less damning, because the details are still nebulous.

With Watergate things didn't really get serious until almost a year after the break-in, when Judge John Sirica held the burglars' feet to the fire with the threat of seriously long prison sentences and started getting them to cooperate. Even then, the Congressional investigations dragged out for months and months, with Nixon and his cronies denying, stonewalling and foot dragging every inch of the way.

Ironically, if Nixon had offered up some impressive human sacrifices, such as AG John Mitchell, early on, then he could have satisfied Congress, saved his own neck, and we'd only know about a quarter of Nixon's crimes compared with what came out.

As someone else said, "It's like watching 'All the President's Men' on ultra-fast-forward."

Morbz is this what living through Watergate was like cuz man, parallels seem eerie w so many potential rabbit holes/threads...

― Οὖτις, Thursday, March 2, 2017 2:21 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was not alive during watergate but i finished nixonland last week so i'm basically an expect, and: yes

there is Super 8 footage of me clinging to the White House fence in July '74. I'll be uploading it, well, never.

*expert

Sweet, I'mma wrap up this second volume of Branch's MLK biog and then plow through Perlstein's Goldwater and Nixon books. All this 50-year-old shit seems way too prescient.

NYT: President Trump said he had “total” confidence in his attorney general and wasn't aware of his contacts with Russia's ambassador

surely only one of these two clauses can be true

Why, though? Surely Trump can both threaten a man's livelihood for opposing asset forfeiture and simultaneously have no idea what asset forfeiture is. He contains multitudes.

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

l,r: trump, larry Appleton

seems about right

http://www.theonion.com/article/jeff-sessions-spits-face-fbi-interrogator-trying-g-55433

Sessions news conference in half an hour.

this the one where they're going to fire him? because we know what happens after the WH expresses complete confidence in someone

no spoilers please I've got this ep queued up on netflix for later

oh hell yea

oh it's sessions himself talking! that should be amusing. he's either going to really triple down on 'this is false' or recuse himself. I cannot see this guy resigning.

My prediction is that Sessions will respond with his trademark grace and humility, further reifying our sense of living in a just nation as only he can do.

That or some rhetorical equivalent of pointing at his thrusting crotch and saying SUCK THAT SHIT.

shouldn't he be pointing at his ass then

don't assume his biology is human

probably going to blame some negroes

Trump says he "wasn't aware" Sessions had the convo 38 minutes ago.

walkinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn back

George Will's semi-pan of Nixonland in the NYT is fun to revisit

“How did Nixonland end?” Perlstein asks in the book’s last line. “It has not ended yet.” But almost every page of Perlstein’s book illustrates the sharp contrast rather than a continuity with America today. It almost seems as though Perlstein, who was born in 1969, is reluctant to let go of the excitement he has experienced secondhand through the archives he has ransacked to such riveting effect.

“We Americans,” he says, “are not killing or trying to kill one another anymore for reasons of ideology, or at least for now. Remember this: This war has ratcheted down considerably. But it still simmers on.”

Not really. America has long since gone off the boil. The nation portrayed in Perlstein’s compulsively readable chronicle, the America of Spiro Agnew inciting “positive polarization” and the New Left laboring to “heighten the contradictions,” is long gone.

So exquisitely sensitive are Americans today, they worked themselves into a lather of disapproval when Hillary Clinton said that Lyndon Johnson as well as Martin Luther King was important in enacting civil rights legislation. There has not been a white male secretary of state for 11 years. Today a woman and an African-American are competing relatively civilly for the right to run for president against the center-right — more center than right — senator who occupies the seat once held by Goldwater. Whoever wins will not be president of Nixonland.

no that's the same interview xp

"not aware, total confidence"

TBF, 'not aware, total/zero confidence' describes pretty much every manager I've ever had.

"im totally not aware of my total confidence in sessions" xp

But none of them had the codes to America's nuclear arsenal, I don't think.

what are the chances he doesn't have the real launch codes

"1-2-3-4-5? Same as on my luggage!"

i just hope everyone learns their lesson from all this. taxes are theft; therefore, republicans should always get the benefit of the doubt

sequel to lag00n's famous caption

https://images.scribblelive.com/2017/3/2/6542387d-5ba2-4a5f-bcc8-473b14fd96db_800.jpg

session session about to start

Neat http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/fec-complaint-trump-filed-false-campaign-report-violation-election-law

He will recuse, apparently.