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

lol spicer saying "all of president obama's nominees past with republican support" re gorsuch

― marcos, Thursday, March 30, 2017 1:48 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf, no he did not

I cannot wait until the day when their ability to reshape anyone's conception of reality sputters out completely.

Democratic Senators asking for Trump/Azerbaijan investigation:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senators-ask-for-an-investigation-into-trump-dealings-in-azerbaijan?mbid=social_twitter

Rubio on the hacking charges today:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/30/marco-rubio-was-targeted-by-russian-infowar-ex-fbi-agent-reveals.html

"In July of 2016, shortly after I announced I would seek reelection to the United States Senate, former members of my presidential campaign team, who had access to the information of my presidential campaign, were targeted by IP addresses with an unknown location within Russia," Rubio said. "That effort was unsuccessful. I would also inform the committee that within the last 24 hours, at 10:45 a.m. yesterday, a second attempt was made against former members of my presidential campaign team… again targeted from an IP address from an unknown location in Russia. That effort was also unsuccessful."

And Carter Page, still not quite getting it down right:

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/847531310960840704

Carter Page interview on Fox, airing 6pm. From preview:

FOX: Were you paid by the Russians?
PAGE: Last year, I was not paid by the Russians

Oh and:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/spicer-announces-new-information-intelligence-committees

White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced Thursday that it would invite the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to review information discovered “in the ordinary course of business” related to a request two weeks ago.

The announcement came minutes after the New York Times reported that two White House officials provided House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) with material that purportedly showed that information related to President Donald Trump and his associates was incidentally collected by U.S. intelligence officials.

Good plan, turn an awkward situation into an opportunity to meddle with the Senate committee too.

OMG

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-certainly-james-comey-s-twitter-account-1793843641?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gizmodo_twitter

ya rly

if it was a White House person the twitter handles would be

BeveStannon

Scott Dourque

By senior year, Comey was a double major in religion and chemistry, writing a senior thesis on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and televangelist Jerry Falwell and on his way to the University of Chicago Law School

"Great men both!"

Anyway I like Wittes's thing at the end the best.

@jamestracker-notfbi

Ivan Gottasecret

"Great men both!"

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They both influenced MLK to some extent, so I think there's an argument to be made that Comey is basically MLK.

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

By senior year, Comey was a double major in religion and chemistry, writing a senior thesis on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and televangelist Jerry Falwell and on his way to the University of Chicago Law School

he could've said "Teillhard de Chardin and TV game show host Bob Barker" and it would've made as much sense

xpost Oh shit, I was thinking of Billy Graham (and then only in terms of organization). Evangelical zealots are so interchangeable in my brain.

Graham was yuge in the religion biz in the '50s

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, except for homos, abortionists, and feminists.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQacnto7wAM

lol I was just thinking I would love to see what Comey had to say about Falwell, and then the "influenced MLK" post came up and I almost did a spit take.

resign away, mr. wayward president

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVD5iqAcIbQ

What in the fuck, never link that again, anywhere.

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:17 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

of course! i mean MLK would've been a republican today

party of lincoln etc

Lincoln was tough on emigration, he wouldn't let those other states leave

lenny bruce is trenchant social commentary

anthrax cover of kansas is surprisingly faithful to the original

well how can you not be

Instant classic from The Onion: Mike Pence Asks Waiter To Remove Mrs. Butterworth From Table Until Wife Arrives

http://www.theonion.com/article/mike-pence-asks-waiter-remove-mrs-butterworth-tabl-55661

welp

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/gorsuch-manchin/index.html

ARGH

doesn't matter.

unless they have four votes apiece

ty

He has a record as a balanced, meticulous, and well respected jurist who understands the rule of law

haha

"I've decided to cast my vote for Gorsuch, but my 3 Super Votes will be for Garland"

yeah I know it won't break filibuster, just typical "rmde at Manchin"

Schumer's gonna filibuster, GOP won't have the 8 Dem votes needed for cloture, McConnell will invoke "nuclear option" (which I doubt Manchin and Heitkamp will support) and it will pass on party lines, Gorsuch will then get confirmed with 52 votes or thereabouts.

xp

this is all turning into a shitty 90s political 'thriller' flick

Meanwhile at the White House:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W3bF4ASGJWA/hqdefault.jpg

Anyway Trump is now just calling some people out directly:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/847559239149158401

If @RepMarkMeadows, @Jim_Jordan and @Raul_Labrador would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts & reform.

hope Jim writes back "ur mom was on board last nite"

lol

I have to say this is all turning out about as well as could be hoped

omg

http://static.srcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Star-Wars-7-Rumor-Emperor-Returning.jpg

Okay folks, it's fully on now:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-offers-to-testify-in-exchange-for-immunity-1490912959?mod=e2tw

Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to some of the most sensitive foreign-policy deliberations of the new administration and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees though his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

Mr. Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment.

ha -- news is moving so fast that I thought I was responding to that breaking bit several minutes ago