Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

EVER!

Trump, confused by the request, hands over his entire collection of Girls Gone Wild

I know it's wrong but would get even more feelings of joy if ET ended up behind bars than if his old man did.

I do think that's wrong, I have come to see the adult sons as villains who were made so, who were broken by growing up with Trump, of whom there is nothing left but the unsatisfiable need to be asshole ENOUGH to prove themselves to dad. Nothing would satisfy Trump more than to see the sons in jail -- SEE? I TOLD YOU YOU WERE A PUSSY

yeah trump's not going to suddenly break down and cry, "you massacred my boy!" as he watched Eric driven off to a minimum security country club prison for a six month stretch.

Someone (here? elsewhere?) told that story of Eric - or Don Jr? - being picked up at his U Penn dorm by dad to go to a baseball game, and when his dad saw him in sweatpants he allegedly slapped him and told him to put on a suit.

Nov. 3:

As many of you know, I attended the University of Pennsylvania with Donald Trump Jr. I feel compelled to share this story before the election, in the hopes that it will shed a bit of light on the kind of person that Donald Trump is, and the kind of son that he raised.
I was hanging out in a freshman dorm with some friends, next door to Donald Jr.'s room. I walked out of the room to find Donald Trump at his son's door, there to pick him up for a baseball game. There were quite a few students standing around watching, trying to catch a glimpse of the famed real estate magnate. Don Jr. opened the door, wearing a Yankee jersey. Without saying a word, his father slapped him across the face, knocking him to the floor in front of all of his classmates. He simply said "put on a suit and meet me outside," and closed the door.
Donald Jr. was a drunk in college. Every memory I have of him is of him stumbling around campus falling over or passing out in public, with his arm in a sling from injuring himself while drinking. He absolutely despised his father, and hated the attention that his last name afforded him. His nickname was "Diaper Don," because of his tendency to fall asleep drunk in other people's beds and urinate. I always felt terrible for him.
I am voting for Hillary Clinton for a number of reasons, her opponent notwithstanding. However, in light of what I saw that day, it is clear to me that Donald Trump lacks the temperament and basic social decency to run our country.

Yeah this made a big impression on me, I find it almost impossible to disbelieve

Meanwhile, I think all those movies Mnuchin's had a hand in are going to his head

Treasury's Mnuchin: U.S. won't default on its debt https://t.co/TWW69j5Txo @donnaborak pic.twitter.com/E8vHvJZM69

— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) June 9, 2017

When asked what those backup plans would be, Mnuchin referred to them as "Treasury secretary super powers." https://t.co/K59V5iJAjg

— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) June 9, 2017

Post-Comey Day life is kind of hard to adjust to. Everything else seems sort of lackluster...

It's like watching bowling on T.V. the day after the Super Bowl.

I could have watched that all day.

Whomp whomp

FreedomWorks: 2015 "House bill sucked and [Senate] fixed it. We thought they were going to do the same" this time https://t.co/eMvwCg5jvj

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) June 9, 2017

planting these quotes in the press is Lee and Paul maneuvering for leverage

Natch.

Osoff up 7 points in GA

He might win but he won't win by 7

yeah there's no way he'll notch a margin that wide but its encouraging to see him picking off independent and GOP votes

Uh...

#BREAKING: Justice Department lawyers argue Trump can accept payments from foreign governments https://t.co/FSZzg7vT91 pic.twitter.com/wMAMF4Hwcx

— The Hill (@thehill) June 10, 2017

What a great leader. He sets a great example for all the federal employees required to follow the hatch act

Fucking asshole

Granny D spake truth, alas. Pussy tape didn't sink this dude; likely no he-said/he-said inside-baseball shit will either. We need bushels of rubles in a car trunk / boxes of upper-Midwest ballots in a dumpster. We'll get neither, but I like that this is distracting and diverting energy.

Meanwhile

find spending cuts to pay for a tax overhaul... I’d like to find some spending cuts. We’re spending us into oblivion."

Yeah you can cut Big Bird and Meals on Wheels all day and it doesn't get you shit, because the convenient bogeyman of "government spending" is something like 65% geezers and 30% military. If you're not cutting either of those you're not serious about cutting spending, you're just looking for Culture War zings about how you killed a poetry grant program.

a DISABLED LESBIAN poetry grant program.

fulla poetry about SPOTTED OWLS

http://i.imgur.com/OXOMo8g.png

Democratic mania creates democratic exhaustion, discouraging citizens from participating in the elections that truly matter.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/James_Kirchick_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-James_Kirchick_%28cropped%29.jpg

https://d3us2i0tqwa7m7.cloudfront.net/avatars/5207dafb3c914d360b003756/1376250004046_res_160x160.jpg

lookit that moist motherfucker

Trump to announce changes to Cuba policy in Miami https://t.co/0Ys8XVniKb via @usatoday

— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) June 10, 2017

Trump has learned bashing Official US Enemies is the easiest way to get the media off your back https://t.co/XtpFXTUK88

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 10, 2017

Ha. I'd scheduled a dinner with the buddy who wrote that USA Today story. He hates life right now.

A lugubrious story about Old Washington mourning Brzezinski and a vanished way of life.

He's incoherent in the best of circumstances, but it's not entirely clear he did agree to going under oath "100%." Listening to the whole clip, it sounds like he might just be asserting his confidence and misunderstanding the question (which he is prone to do). I wonder if he's stuck (relatively speaking) now that everyone has reported he did agree to testify under oath? He'll likely have to go under oath at some point anyway, for Mueller.

I was talking with my college friend, a former federal prosecutor who has been popping up on CNN and MSNBC, among other places. It's no surprise, but he predicts the Mueller investigation will be extremely thorough and take at least a year, and in the end, whenever that is and whatever he comes up with, any decision will probably still lie in the hands of GOP congress. Flipping in 2018 is vital.

Well yeah he cant bring charges against trump. Odds are he'll send some lower ppl to jail tho.

He needs to go to jail eventually.

This story cannot end with a quiet retirement in Mar a Lago

Hey, remember my confident assertions that Trump would never be president? Well, I'll also assert that he'll never ever ever ever do any jail time. And more importantly, he'll never ever ever ever ever lose his entire face and most of his extremities in a bizarre golfing accident and spend the rest of his life painfully carting around in some weird Captain Pike-esque life support contraption. I'm sorry, but no ott cosmic justice will ever ever ever be meted out.

Cars with diplomats’ plates rolled in succession toward the front steps, depositing assorted emissaries. A cluster of former government officials deftly avoided a shirtless, long-bearded man carrying a white umbrella in the shade.

Sometimes you dress boldly and it just doesn't work out

GOP is not going to do sxxt until that corporate tax cut happens and is signed into law. There is literally billions of dollars riding on making that happen and there are fat cats that have been putting up cash for years to make it happen. Even that Adleson guy that put up that huge amount of money for Romney years back they said could net a couple billion on such a cut. That's one guy and there are a cadre companies and individuals in the same boat.

You have to scroll down for it but it's a roffle.

Kellyanne Conway mocks West Wing colleagues at a British Embassy party, and @Hadas_Gold tells us all about it. https://t.co/bCxsrqBNs6

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 10, 2017

this administration is 100% white trash

(that was my instinctive response after reading that politico bit)

Talk shit at drunken parties, bad excuses afterward?

We're doomed--Despite federal job positions sitting vacant, 45 is moving faster on judicial nominations

https://newrepublic.com/article/143227/trumps-judicial-picks-keeping-republicans-happyand-quiet

David Dayen article and his tweet-- Trump nominating judges at 3x the rate of Obama at this point in 1st term

The right-wing Federalist Society had a list all ready for Trump and he has basically outsourced vetting to them. Obama took a long time in 2009 selecting and vetting names without having a liberal equivalent of the federalist Society he was willing to use and trust. Plus Obama was hurt by Senatorial blue-slip rules (allowing republicans to block possible nominees) and Obama's own desire to be centrist

Federalist Society executive vice-president Leonard Leo has effectively chosen the last three Republican Supreme Court nominees. And the group was essential in constructing lists of acceptable judges for Trump to choose from, along with the stalwart think tank, the Heritage Foundation. Other groups, like the Judicial Crisis Network, focus heavily on judges as well.

This architecture is much more brittle on the left. While the American Constitutional Society was created specifically as a counterweight to the Federalist Society, the network hasn’t gained nearly the same influence. Additional funding of liberal judicial groups might help,

Talk shit at EMBASSY parties. The real signifier of trash people of any hue is that they think their cousin's wedding reception is boring because they don't know anybody so they decide to make it about themselves as much as possible. Conway wasn't dishing to colleagues she hadn't seen in a while. She gathered a bunch of schmucks around her and held court because she's a fucking pathetic human being and she knows it.

Whenever I see her on tv now she seems sort of exhausted, maybe haunted by regret or even guilt. The only readon this is conspicuous is that no other almnus of the Trump campaign looks like that. They seem fine.

They seem fine to you?

maybe in the sense that they don't visibly look like they're impacted by a debilitating bowel obstruction

They seem like they're not distressed by the madness they've wrought. Kellyanne seems like, at some level below her awareness, she is distressed by a faint pang of moral instinct.

These are the types of observations that interest only me fwiw

she is distressed by a faint pang of moral instinct

Kellyanne more likely is distressed at over the mocking she received after her infamous "alternative facts" statement and her subsequent slippage from the media prominence she had earlier in the administration.

They do seem fine to me, inasmuch as if I were in their shoes I'd be a visibly nervous wreck and possibly stopping to barf every time I was on camera trying to justify the insanity.

I guess not everyone has the constitution to be an untroubled piece of shit.

Republicans, generally, are really good at living in an alternate universe where bullshit is the gospel truth. They rarely seem troubled by spouting stuff that is just totally untrue or made up. I can't really remember when it wasn't like that. I don't claim to understand it. I wasn't raised in a house with religion though. Maybe if you were raised Christian it's easier to understand.