Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

How on earth could Daddy Long Arms masturbate? Physiologically impossible

everything is possible thanks to the free market. all is permitted in norquist's bathtub (except tax cuts)

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You know when insects rub their little legs together? They're masturbating

It feels really good to them

That Metalligher clip just reminded me of Chekhov's gun.

Caught a little bit of Hannity perusing Comey's opening statement. Every time he didn't like something he'd say, with a great flourish, "Stop right there."

I'm going to watch a period's worth (48 minutes) of tomorrow's testimony with my grade 3/4 class. A number of them are actually excited, but that will vanish within seconds as soon as the questioning starts.

Never forget that young conservatives were making fun of Buckley on one of those death cruises in 2006.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, June 7, 2017 4:43 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also never forget WF Buckley was a loathsome shithead disguising himself behind a bunch of upper crust affectations

it's june

the first lady still refuses to live in the white house

#maga#zine

Also never forget WF Buckley was a loathsome shithead disguising himself behind a bunch of upper crust affectations

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

I fought with a self-proclaimed liberal last winter who swallowed the bullshit about WFB "reading the John Birchers out of conservatism"

Also never forget WF Buckley was a loathsome shithead disguising himself behind a bunch of upper crust affectations

So what you're saying is

https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-01-2015/i62r9B.gif

"Wh-what you're saying, Mr. -- what is it? -- Shakedown, is that this, ah, concatenation of posts has driven you to post the vilest sort of calumnies against me."

money talks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt-GUAxmxdk

This did it better

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/firing-line/n9186?snl=1

garry wills, who started his career at national review in the '50s and knew WFB as well as anyone, said that buckley almost never finished a book in his life, even in college -- his entire pose as a well-read intellectual looking down his nose at the ignoramuses was just that, a pose

dope as hell

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/cold-opening/n9496?snl=1

#obstructor#supremelyassured

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/james-comeys-intellectual-history

has he figured it out yet

In October, 2003, Comey was asked, at his confirmation hearing to become the Deputy Attorney General, how he might handle a politically charged case implicating an Attorney General who refused to recuse himself. “I don’t care about politics,” he insisted. “I care about doing the right thing.” In a profile published that December in New York, Comey further smudged the lines of his political identity. He said that in his twenties he had been both a Communist and a Reaganite. “I’m not even sure how to characterize myself politically,” he went on. “Maybe at some point, I’ll have to figure it out.”

Comeyunist

cool thkx Obama:

Four years later, Obama reportedly considered Comey for a Supreme Court vacancy.

I came on to make fun of one of Trump's surrogates for saying there was a lot of "unclarity" in Comey's opening statement, but--lucky I checked--what do you know, it really is a word. Glad that's been claritied for me.

I guess if unclear is a word, then unclarity makes sense.

Toni Braxton's best ballad.

Sure does sound funny, though. I'm going to stick with ambiguity...

Unclear My Heart?

Reminds me of Fred Durst and "agreeance."

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Word-experts-in-agreeance-vindicate-Fred-Durst-2107460.php

Reminds me of No Diggity.

Lol @alfred's Buckley imitation

still remember the time a high school classmate used 'invidious' and i was all lol did u mean 'insidious'

"Hi, I'm Dana Milbank, and I'm stupid."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-pence-is-sounding-better-and-better/2017/06/06/c1bf0f52-4af3-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.52bbaa6e25ac

The contrast between the reckless president and his responsible understudy has me thinking, not for the first time, how much better things would be if Pence were president.

go to hell, you turgid lickspittle

Trump, at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this year, told attendees to pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger and his “Apprentice” ratings. Pence aimed higher. “Don’t so much pray for a cause as for country,” he said, paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln. “Just pray for America.”

Amen.

I can keep quoting.

"I say go
Pence says yes
Dim the lights
By the grandfather clock."

ohhh
catch that buzz
Pence is the prez
who brings the lolz

Was just at the grocery and forgot (somehow) to buy alcohol for tomorrow.

Is there gonna be a stream of this testimony so I can gasp along as I work

where are you? it'll be on every channel and the radio.

It'll be streaming on http://www.youtube.com

I guess NPR will have an online stream, then.

(My radio reception sucks and I don't have TV.)

I assume CNN et al will be free online. Possibly newspapers too.

Find it ironic that GOP reaction is largely yawn, nothing new, when that is only because this shit's been leaking for weeks.

I dont expect any bombshells or incriminating evidence tbh

Do we expect anything new?

I expect to get a full accounting of the length of Comey's arms.

given past performance there's a small chance he fucks up his own testimony tho

I thought the dudes today outright refusing to answer certain yes/no questions for no legal reason was pretty interesting, I imagine there may or may not be stuff like that tomorrow. I suppose I am curious what the GOP peeps try to hit him with, or what the Dems draw out of such a cool customer. I'm not entirely sure why he wanted to testify in the first place, or why he feels to need to testify having released that detailed accounting. Maybe he has more to add. Maybe he's just a showboater. One twist is he can't fall back on the "I can't comment on an ongoing investigation line" anymore, can he?

I asked rhetorically earlier, but when was the last time a person in a position to know was asked if Trump himself was under investigation?

Afaik he can refuse to answer questions that might compromise mueller's investigation

i honestly don't think the odds of a bombshell are great, and am fine w/ news highlights, if that

Yeah me too

One potential area of inquiry is whether the Trump campaign (or Trump businesses) being under investigation is the same as Trump himself being under investigation.

Yeah but I am absolutely not going to be following any of this in real time. Did that back in 1987 and don't need to relive it.

This thread is more than real time enough for me.

During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.

I'm wondering what his reaction was like to make Comey feel he had to smooth things over like that unprompted, ha. I am imagining a defensive tantrum.

I get the feeling Trump and Comey met in the Black Lodge

Well, Comey apparently considered Trump "crazy," so that had to be based on something.

Afaik he can refuse to answer questions that might compromise mueller's investigation

But how would he know unless he was still wearing his FBI director hat? He has no formal/official responsibility to Mueller's investigation. Best he can do is what the dudes today did, and just say he's not comfortable talking about it, but even that doesn't make sense, because it implies he knows the extent or any details of Mueller's investigation. Right? He did meet with Mueller already, so perhaps Mueller gave him some guidance, which would free him up to stay mum. But again, why testify if all that stuff is in the released statement and he's not comfortable going beyond that? And for that matter, since he is slated for a closed door session (right?) what potentially classified or need-to-know stuff would he tell them this time that he had not told them before?