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

Waiting for either side of a standard press conference to address the other as "hey dumbass" repeatedly

This hearing, counter or at least parallel-productive GOP stuff aside, is like watching a surreal sequel to the Trump roast.

I cannot recall any elected official who was ever so obsessed with their opponent post-defeat. batshit insane. It must be love. challops.

― I Ate Four Bufords (Old Lunch), Monday, March 20, 2017 6:52 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they have no interest in governing

Not buying that. More like less interest in the process. Supreme Court nominee hearing is going on now too. He wants credit for that if the guys gets selected and for other stuff he is signing.

guy- Gorsuch

He needs it. Has he accomplished anything in his two months in office beyond sowing fear?

(And, tbf, steadily chipping away at his support?)

The role of Rick Santorum currently being played by Zosia Mamet on CNN right now

gained a few million twitter followers iirc

@elivalley
Alan Dershowitz pals around with the hero of American Nazism at Mar-a-Lago

He asked a number of visitors over the weekend what they thought of Neil Gorsuch, his Supreme Court nominee. He asked others about North Korea.

And he complained about leaks coming from inside the federal government, saying they were the bigger story than his recent claims about being wiretapped by former President Barack Obama at Trump Tower and “even going into the statutory authority of how to deal with them,” according to Alan Dershowitz, who was at Mar-a-Lago and spoke to the president at length there.

Trump told Dershowitz he’d seen him on TV saying that the reframed travel ban had a chance in the courts, and called him a “man of integrity,” with the two hashing out strategy to move the ban forward. (The Department of Justice is appealing the most recent injunctions.)

“He had some ideas on the Middle East he wanted to test out with me,” Dershowitz said, adding the president jokingly called him a “liberal Democrat” several times during their conversation.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-health-care-plan-aides-236266

Redolent of: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/12/is-steve-bannon-good-for-the-jews

frogbs otm

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/spicer-manafort-played-very-limited-role

One of our own is having fun:

https://twitter.com/max_read/status/843916762982899712

Meanwhile, oh Sean, if only you knew back in June...

https://twitter.com/seanspicer/status/757380714241331201

xp upper left is what he wore to an Infowars interview recently (today?)

can't shake "Yoko Ono" when i see that pic

lol

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/20/news/companies/trump-forbes-net-worth/index.html

do we actually believe he's a billionaire

sounds like his next reality show

"Do You Actually Believe I'm a Billionaire??"

hey guys, just so we're clear, this never happened, and anyone who says otherwise is just a crooked jealous kenyan sore loser soviet i mean sharia lawyer

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-announces-campaign-convention-manager-paul-j.-manafort

did anyone take in the full hearing today? i'm waiting for marcy wheeler's writeups. sad to say my eyes glaze over with this intel stuff

wtf is up with the times lately? the public editor got suckered by another patented right-wing smear campaign and chided one of their reporters for a twitter joke about bow wow. and they just ran an op-ed by complete moron -- to call her "unhinged" would be to suggest she was at any time attached to any recognizable frame -- louise mensch. because she's set herself up as the a-1 russia paranoid. it's fucked up.

(i've been skipping this thread, no doubt you've talked about this shit)

Hi, goole!

I don't read the Times anymore tbh

the public editor is actually a block of wood. the times has previous w louise mensch and never reveals her background afacit (i.e. tory mp and professional weirdo)

add murdoch fluffer

I read the Times and Post but not op eds and columnists.

I saw a hunk of of the hearing. Or rather, I saw enough of it to know that many of the same points were made again and again. I think the big takeaway:

1) Yes, there is an ongoing FBI investigation into Russian interference and people in Trump's circle.

2) After a whole day of this, the only way any of this Russian stuff could be dismissed by Trump Inc. is in the most literal way possible, i.e. "yes, they are investigating, but there is no proof yet." Even the GOP goobers grousing about leaks acknowledged all this other Russian stuff is also important.

3) If the point was to get all of this on the public record, mission accomplished, because hearing all the same stuff we've been talking about for months laid out in a public and official forum was I think an important step. That and concessions from both sides that this will go on for months, so no worry it will get swept aside.

So Ivanka's getting a West Wing office and wants a security clearance.

https://t.co/VlapFsfpZP

but NOT a government employee.. kushner must not be getting the babysitting job done properly.

Eh, isn't this the same arrangement Hillary had?

And she wasn't even a feminist fighter for women's rights, like Ivanka is.

Meantime:

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/843955312927358976

bill and donny might both be creeps with no impulse control but at least bill could do his fuckin job amirite

Who wants another "you stupid voter, you deserve everything coming!" rant?

http://dontgetmestarted-lindasharp.typepad.com/dont_get_me_started_with_/2017/03/what-will-it-take.html

I can see why theres a therapeutic use of just screaming a lot, but some of these get real close to the idea of "only good things should come to Good People" which is some rightwing shit.

hi alfred!

oh and fuck frank rich.

mensch has said that the russians killed breitbart. bipartisan credibility!

I liked the Frank Rich piece. Nothing he said wasn't true

This is interesting too:

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/843936365373018112
Admin official says White House was not informed DOJ gave Comey clearance to discuss Russia investigation today.

That piece was reactionary garbage. More excuses for the Democrats' failure to offer a counternarrative to right wing populism for people struggling under neoliberalism.

That is interesting. If the administration is trying to set up an excuse to oust Comey, I don't think that would look good for them.

I didn't see any excuses in it. He takes more craps on the Dems and the Clinton camp than he does on poor white people. Maybe we read different nymag.coms

The whole framing of who "deserves" sympathy reeks of the demographic hyperscrutinizing that sunk Clinton plus it's morally gross

I can't find our conspiracism thread but here's something:

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/hot-for-truther-inside-the-website-where-conspiracy-theorists-find-love

The whole framing of who "deserves" sympathy reeks of the demographic hyperscrutinizing that sunk Clinton plus it's morally gross

Yeah you definitely read a different article. Or didn't actually read it, which is my guess

too busy struggling under neoliberalism, tbf.

You guys, winning elections and enacting policies is all meaningless if we can't get these white people in Louisiana to vote in their own interest

some of these get real close to the idea of "only good things should come to Good People" which is some rightwing shit.

yeah that shit makes me uncomfortable too. not saying we need to be a big tent but geez.

Warms my heart!

https://twitter.com/ryanobles/status/843964642280034305

Healthy number of boos for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as he comes out to address Trump crowd in his home state.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/324902-freedom-caucus-chair-negotiations-over-on-obamacare-repeal-bill-wont-pass

this subplot is something, and im not exactly sure i understand what version of the bill the freedom caucus would accept but this infighting is good

Oh, we should have the biggest tent money can buy. And if you can't stand being in the same tent with the blacks and the gays then good, more room for us.

Fuck these people. Come on.

no, Ned, he misheard it: they were going WOO WOO WOO like at a college game

Might as well be.

"These people" xp

I blame the toxic Republican Party and media apparatus for preying on people who felt disenfranchised, channeling their anger toward racist scapegoats. Liberals need to learn to talk to these people, not cede vast swaths of America to hatemongering vultures.