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

Actually, if the reports are to be believed, there's a lot of intragovernmental divisiveness re: manipulation of the US election and its ultimate fruits. They aren't crowing about the age of Trump like they were before.

Here's what Devin Nunes said today to the press when asked about Trump's Russia connections:

“I'm sure some of you are in contact with the Russian embassy so be careful what you ask for here, because if we get —if we start getting transcripts of any of you or other Americans talking to the press, then we can, do you want us to conduct an investigation on you or other Americans because you were talking to the Russian embassy? I just think we need to be careful.”

in America, everyone is president!

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/stainlesssteelrat/images/c/ca/The-stainless-steel-rat-for-president.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120309134823

Idk Old Lunch. Seems like the most fortunate outcome in a general sense, for the Russians, is chaos in America. Always has been, always will be. And chaos is all ensuing. America is the laughing stock of the world right now. It's a spectacular fall from grace, one the world hasn't seen before - if that's too rich then at least a tumble into complete idiodicy for all people living right now. Trumps unpredictability may be a nuisance, but the sheer brain baking stupidity of having a complete tool as president of the USA is a priceless gift to nearly every country, and especially Russia.

Russia can basically do whatever it wants now, with no fear of reprisal or counter-action from the US, so that's gotta be a win for Putin.

SERIOUSLY? Has no one riffed on

https://secure.netflix.com/us/boxshots/tv_sdp_s/70157284.jpg

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/pence-used-personal-email-state-business----and-hacked/98604904/

Vice President Mike Pence routinely used a private email account to conduct public business as governor of Indiana, at times discussing sensitive matters and homeland security issues.

Emails released to IndyStar in response to a public records request show Pence communicated via his personal AOL account with top advisers on topics ranging from security gates at the governor’s residence to the state’s response to terror attacks across the globe. In one email, Pence’s top state homeland security adviser relayed an update from the FBI regarding the arrests of several men on federal terror-related charges.

But his emails.

Oh and just for lulz

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/images/rem_ad.jpg

The precedent was set when he got a pass for his Iraq vote and Hillary didn't. Acts don't matter as much as the identity of the perpetrator does.

These people are the most brazen hypocrites in the history of hypocrisy.

We'e overlooking the fact that he used his apparently still-active _AOL_ account to do this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C59HZPDWYAMfu0u.jpg

hypocrisy

You mean like the hundreds of foreign guest-worker permits at Trump businesses, the Trump ties and MAGA hats made in China, or the charges of "unprecedented obstruction"?

Yawn. As Conway would say, we litigated this through the election and no one cares.

total witch hunt. where's the birth certificate? bill ayers wrote dreams from my father

http://www.superyachttimes.com/yacht-news/trump-princess-donald-trump-s-128m-motor-yacht-that-was-never-built/

Remember the three inch fish?

It is simply unimaginable how much fun Putin must be having checking the news every single day. Trump being elected and the whole ongoing shitshow must have rescued him from the claws of a looming mid life crisis. I'ts just too good. Like getting everything your greedy self as a kid asked from Santa, and more! Every day is Xmas day at the the Kremlin nowadays, I assume.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, March 2, 2017 6:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually, if the reports are to be believed, there's a lot of intragovernmental divisiveness re: manipulation of the US election and its ultimate fruits. They aren't crowing about the age of Trump like they were before.

― The Flautist of Flatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, March 2, 2017 6:34 PM

dueling pundit ass-pulling-out-of belief; mahvelous, guys

Al Franken was just on NPR saying he's "not yet" decided whether Sessh needs to resign he just wants him to come back to the Senate and answer some more questions.

ie, he wants to force him to resign.

does his signature read TRUUUMP?

http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/trump1-720x416.jpg

Total witch hunt, dude.

izzat @ me? God, yer smart

Idk Old Lunch. Seems like the most fortunate outcome in a general sense, for the Russians, is chaos in America. Always has been, always will be. And chaos is all ensuing. America is the laughing stock of the world right now. It's a spectacular fall from grace, one the world hasn't seen before - if that's too rich then at least a tumble into complete idiodicy for all people living right now. Trumps unpredictability may be a nuisance, but the sheer brain baking stupidity of having a complete tool as president of the USA is a priceless gift to nearly every country, and especially Russia.

^^^^^^

America is the laughing stock of the world right now. It's a spectacular fall from grace, one the world hasn't seen before

^^^^ especially this, I mean we had Dubya and Reagan but...

The stupidity, venality and hypocrisy of the right are not winning issues for the Democrats or the left - you cannot hang someone by the things they openly embrace.

this obsession of his that everything is an attempt to distract from the fact that the democrats lost the election is so weird.

We've been a laughing stock since January 1981. I'm not sure why we should care about an image when we keep electing morons and finks.

Carter Page was just interviewed by Chris Hayes. Bug eyed, weasely bald man; on the verge of hysterical nervous laughter through the whole thing.

that carter page interview was wild, like he is easily the most suspicious-seeming person i have ever seen on cable news

Sotosyn otfm

re Watergate, Jon Schwarz on the Senate's 1973-style leverage:

There is currently no permanent deputy attorney general, just Acting Attorney General Dana Boente, a former U.S. Attorney who stepped in after Sally Yates, an Obama appointee, was fired. However, Donald Trump’s nominee, U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosenstein, will undergo confirmation hearings with the Senate Judiciary Committee this month.

And those Judiciary Committee members can now ask Rosenstein to commit to naming a special prosecutor before voting whether to send his nomination to the full Senate....

There is direct historical precedence for this. In 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, President Nixon nominated Elliot Richardson, then his secretary of defense, to be attorney general. Judiciary Committee members demanded that Richardson commit to appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Nixon. In fact, they went even further: Richardson was pressured to name who specifically he would appoint before the vote was held, and then both Richardson and his choice — one-time Solicitor General Archibald Cox — were questioned by the committee about the degree of independence Cox would have to pursue the investigation.

Only then did the committee vote to confirm Richardson, in May 1973. And once in office, he did appoint Cox. Richardson only served until that October, when he resigned in the famous “Saturday Night Massacre” rather than follow orders from Nixon to fire Cox, who had subpoenaed White House audio recordings. Solicitor General Robert Bork ended up in charge, and fired Cox.

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/sessionss-recusal-gives-senators-powerful-leverage-to-demand-russia-special-prosecutor/

Hayes used every reporter instinct in his body to suppress laughter.

just befuddled as to why page would even do that insane interview unless someone had a gun to his head

Idk man. It's weird.

We've been a laughing stock since January 1981. I'm not sure why we should care about an image when we keep electing morons and finks.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

reiterating that this is OTMFM, speaking as someone who was 14 in January 1981

like, the first thing that happened in my family was that Reagan killed CETA, which destroyed the budget of the NGO my stepfather worked for. it was personal, and still is.

Xpost Morbs, that was @Trump.

koch brothers' father makes his fortune in RUSSIA laying stalin's oil pipelines, ayn rand comes from RUSSIA to rot the brains of white men who think libertarianism is more legit than FDR, putin of RUSSIA has his friends overpay for bankrupt donnie's properties. i'm beginning to see a pattern

what a country

koch brothers' father makes his fortune in RUSSIA laying stalin's oil pipelines, ayn rand comes from RUSSIA to rot the brains of white men who think libertarianism is more legit than FDR, putin of RUSSIA has his friends overpay for bankrupt donnie's properties. i'm beginning to see a pattern

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, March 2, 2017

how does it feel
to be in looooove

has this been linked yet:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeff-sessions-used-political-funds-for-republican-convention-expenses-1488509301

don't think so, damn

can anybody un-paywall that

here's a truncated version:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sessions-used-his-political-funds-for-rnc-trip-where-he-talked-to-russian-ambassador-2017-03-02

so this is obv a new development cos I couldn't find anything else on it, but uhhh I am going to take a sleep aid now cos I can't pull an all night again......

guessing the press decided to let them perjure themselves further before dropping? most of this seems to come from campaign records .......

the narrative that he was speaking in his capacity as a Senator was like a piece of chewing gum holding a shoe together even prior to this

u should go to sleep but here is a good breakdown of the timelines around Session's 2nd meeting w/the spymaster:

https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/837405299833176066

If the WSJ turns on the Trump administration and starts to join the media pigpile, maybe that other Murdoch bastion, FOX News, will stop licking Trump's toes and do a bit of honest reporting, too. Maybe. One may hope at least.

also J.D. Gordon and Carter Page now also reported meeting with russians? and one of flynn's meetings happened at trump towers?

from that Twitter:

And (here it is), on the same day that #Sessions met w/Kislyak, Russia suddenly became optimistic about building good relations w/the US, 8/

this whole Russia thing is like almost being caught cheating on your wife and thinking you got away with it only to have her keep coming back home to check up on you every few hours and moving the mistress to a new hiding spot each time

what