Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Covfefe: The Trump Year Vol. 17 (May to early June 2017) (793 pgs.)

just a bit of fun everyone be cool

Crib a lot from Marquez's The Autumn Of The Patriarch and The General In His Labyrinth.

― grawlix (unperson),

Flowers for Algernon

every time i imagine trump in the oval office i picture this for some reason

https://trillornottrill.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/burns.gif

Trump 5/21: Qatar is "strategic partner," pledges to sell them "beautiful weapons"

Trump 6/6: Qatar is terror hub https://t.co/aNWXaRixtb

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 6, 2017

every word of that tweet is boundlessly awful but trump tapping his 250-word vocabulary to describe weapons is particularly upsetting

You can keep negging Qatar all you want, Donnie, but it ain't goin' home with you.

how do you depict a central character who apparently has no inner life whatsoever tho

Imagine James Joyce answering the question

Remember how Laurence Sterne anticipated metafiction by running a whole page printed black? I can see a Joycean inner monologue of Trump that consists of 200 blank pages.

man the qatar world cup in 2022 is gonna be a doozy

nah jk we'll all be dead by then

russia 2018, qatar 2022 is that latest in a long list of extremely on the nose plot twists

remember when ilx was all knowingly 'lol it's like the end-of-season-finale!' over like news international phone tapping or whatever

little did we know in a couple of years every day would be a dogpile of end-of-season-finales

Three months after President Trump abruptly fired half of the nation’s 93 United States attorneys, following the resignations of the other half, he has yet to replace a single one.

“Dems are taking forever to approve my people,” the president said in a statement he released on Twitter Monday morning. “They are nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS! Want approvals.”

The problem is, the Democrats couldn’t obstruct any United States attorney nominations if they wanted to because Mr. Trump has not made any.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/opinion/us-attorneys-trump.html

sorry, meant to add an "..." between the first and second paragraphs there, as i removed some pieces for maximum ilx readability

http://www.avclub.com/article/hero-motorists-provide-endless-laughs-covfefe-lice-256347

"Mommy is taking forever to warm my milk up. She is nothing but an OBSTRUCTIONIST! Want baba!'

...by someone who threw away all the milk

I never knew before that feeling disgust toward a human being could be such a multivalent affair, with new and previously-unimagined layers of deep loathing revealing themselves daily and sometimes even hourly.

It's also just amazing to occasionally realize that there's absolutely nothing redeeming about the man. Like, even shit has utility. But this guy?

Oh I cannot wait

OMG, Bob Costa reports that in lieu of "war room," Trump intends to be "his own messenger" and will tweet WHILE Comey testifies. /1

— Sybill Trelawney (@SybilT2) June 6, 2017

I mean, he's done it before, obv. But this will be extra ridiculous.

As said tweeter notes further, anything Trump posts becomes admissable evidence down the line.

Has anyone actually explained to Trump that he isn't on WWE?

YES YES YES

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie comments on Trump’s tweets: “Twitter is a great tool when used the right way” https://t.co/gIGCxuywxI

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 6, 2017

It is, isn't it.

Has anyone actually explained to Trump that he isn't on WWE?

Hey man...maybe WE'RE all in WWE, and THAT is reality.

http://www.sickchirpse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Five-Bongs-One-Breath-.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/84/80/6a/84806afeb5e20a1dd2374e95b62a5c2b.gif

Does NED RAGGETT smoke weed? xp

He's so MAD at Sessions for RECUSING himself. Because that's what SAD LOSERS do. WINNERS do as much as possible to throw themselves under the BUS. Like dumb FUCKS.

This is interesting and also kinda disheartening: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/6/15740118/new-jersey-governor

Especially this part: The best opportunities for Democrats to win general elections come in states like New Jersey that are traditionally left-leaning. And yet it’s exactly these same blue states where the party’s establishment is also strongest, and therefore where they’re most capable of putting down the insurgents trying to fundamentally reshape the kinds of candidates the Democratic Party puts forward.

Take heart -- interesting things quietly happening in Nevada

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/6/15731622/nevada-medicaid-for-all

Four top law firms turned down requests to represent Trump

“The concerns were, ‘The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen,’”

CA statewide single-payer bill also just passed the state Senate and is now in the Assembly.

Kamala Harris has also endorsed single-payer on the national level

Here's the clip of Costa talking about Trump livetweeting Comey

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/trump-will-live-tweet-during-testimony-of-former-fbi-director-james-comey-report/

Twitter Chris Christie is a great tool when used the right way."

The greatest tool, bigly, etc.

a yes, being your own lawyer. real smart guys always act as their own lawyer. =|

“I was just talking to some White House officials this morning and their view is that the president himself wants to be the messenger, his own warrior, his own lawyer, his own spokesman,” Costa explained. “Some outside people, some surrogates will be available.”

CA statewide single-payer bill also just passed the state Senate and is now in the Assembly.

what are the chances this will become law?

re the Intercept-Reality story that Shakey and the rest of our journalism/security pundits weighed in on...

i don't buy the idea that the "crease" in the leaked doc was an important clue--they would have checked print records no matter what

— Max Read (@max_read) June 5, 2017

she printed the doc and emailed from work, more than enough for the feds to have identified. playing up the crease is dirty tricks

— Max Read (@max_read) June 5, 2017

took some arm-twisting in the Senate, and the Assembly has to actually find the money for it - which will be tricky (a committee review suggested a 15% payroll tax to cover the estimate $400 billion cost) so I dunno, hard to say. Dems have 2/3rds majorities in each chamber, and I don't see Brown vetoing it if the money is there, so it's possible. There's some question of whether federal funds could be used as well.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/01/california-senate-passes-single-payer-health-care-plan/

xp

was there a reason why she couldn't take screenshots of the documents and print those instead of the documents themselves

this thread from an infosec linux kernel dev is fair imo

It's about 10PM, my partner's in Tokyo, I've been to Ikea and hung a pair of curtains on my own. Of course I have thoughts on The Intercept.

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) June 6, 2017

in particular

Now yes *we* know that there are many other things to worry about, but when a user follows the documentation and loses anyway that's *bad*

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) June 6, 2017

If you have a page that encourages people to break the law, you owe it to them to provide enough information to help them assess the risks

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) June 6, 2017

so yes this is on the intercept

xposts i've been meaning to ask about that - what did the intercept do that revealed the source? as max mentioned, they didn't erase the crease, which would tip off investigators that it was printed somewhere and folded before it was provided to the intercept. ooook. was there anything else? i haven't seen anything else mentioned to demonstrate that the intercept fucked up. but then again i'm just fucking around drinking coffee here so maybe i missed something.

also can we just keep posting max tweets in here so we can pretend he still posts here regularly? miss having him here.

screenshots would have been traceable by document access records. apparently only 5 people accessed the docs.

thanks shakey re: CA healthcare. moving there this weekend, mah wife on the obamacare.

i don't know if "If you have a page that encourages people to break the law, you owe it to them to provide enough information to help them assess the risks" is damning enough for me.

screenshots would have been traceable by document access records. apparently only 5 people accessed the docs.

fair point; I was thinking that the accounting was for who printed the documents rather than accessed them (I've only skim-read the accounts of this so far)

i was reading the equivalent page at the NYT earlier. it's no better.

xpost caek beat me to it, but:

NYT tips on tips: https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/news-tips/
Intercept tips on tips: https://theintercept.com/leak/

anyways i think it's fair to put some blame on the intercept but i think the kneejerk reaction last night assigning 100% blame to them was way off

it sucks to blame the victim but it seems like she proceeded in a pretty stupid way