Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

This and that cancelled visit to Milwaukee was it? They seem to be the first open acknowledgements that the protests bother him and interfere with business, no?

They also held their "Pittsburgh not Paris" rally in DC instead of Pittsburgh for the same reason.

Was wondering about that outside the US emphasis. Can he go around the US without not being wanted?

There was a news story a week ago, who knows maybe a month ago or a year ago or a day it all feels​ the same now, that he is actually reluctant to travel around the us. But really this might be the first public acknowledgment I've seen that people really don't like him.

The only reason he's even President is because getting to run his mouth in front of adoring crowds fed his giant ego, so what's the point of speaking in front of a hostile crowd?

I'm surprised the vacant-jobs story isn't getting more coverage, because it's getting worse day by day - not only are major positions staying unfilled, but nobody wants to receive an offer. I mean, can you image the crippling self-doubt that would set in if Team Trump called to offer you a job? "What? What kind of sleaze do you think I am, that I'd work for that guy? Oh, fuck - do other people see me that way, too?" *puts gun in mouth, pulls trigger*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-J8ypGTWxg

All the good sleezebags are already in the private sector

I dunno if Sparklepants is correct:

This is exactly right--if Democrats take House w/ any margin for errror, they will likely impeach Trump 1/https://t.co/0mAXXpRzyC

— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 11, 2017

Wow, going out on a limb there, huh?

On the plus side, that does offer a very appealing and yet productive anti-trump message. Trump and the GOP are the obstructions. Vote in Democrats, impeach Trump, finally get to work on jobs, health care and other things that matter.

I think that's more likely how the GOP will frame it, to fire up the base. I'm sure they will much prefer to run against the specter of Snowball Pelosi than talk about the achievements of the 115th Congress.

even by his standards this is notably incoherent

I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. Totally illegal? Very 'cowardly!'

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2017

Hah, after cancelled trip to UK for fear of protests. "Cowardly." That word means nothing in a court of law, let alone one with no jury to pursuade.

There are still times when I'm astonished that this is how the president of the United States is choosing to communicate. I don't feel like the "normalization" is setting in, it's more like a persistent reminder of how aberrant in every way all of this is.

i'm surprised his twitter hasn't been hacked yet

i mean besides by the russians

That Trump tweet is impressively doge-esque. No idea what the fuck he's even TRYING to say.

you wouldn't be able to tell if it was

@realDonaldTrump
Who hides my tummy tickler on a Saturday night? The tv screen is getting dim on the edges but I know a liar when I see one. The good voices are louder than the bad ones, you'll see!

*shrugs* that's our president

If I'm allowed a prediction after my poor showing wrt the election, I do think we will have sad occasion to see the first public display of a presidential penis (my money is currently on a disrobed Trump found playing in a fountain like a small child after a brain event of some sort).

I don't think he knows what prevalent means.

I guess the tweet may be related to this -- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/us/politics/comey-fake-news-twitter-posobiec.html. They're running with the Comey-is-a-leaker thing, now adding to it the and-lied-under-oath-about-it thing. The idea I guess being that Comey was the real leaker all along, was undermining Trump from the beginning, etc etc.

I don't think he knows what prevalent means.

I think he meant "relevant." But who knows? He was always stupid and now he's senile as well.

i think he means "frequent" or "numerous"

He means covfefe

don't well all tombot? DON'T WE ALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQc4A-XBzBY

so weird to hear that song at its actual speed

Oh, sure, this is a smashing idea Dianne

http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/337323-dem-we-need-investigate-whether-lynch-gave-cover-to-clinton

that's stupid. Isn't there a statute of limitations on these things?

This is kinda amazing

Trump's private lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, has counseled White House staff and exerted influence over legal strategy https://t.co/0yjxsdBYeR

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 11, 2017

Legal Twitter is going nuts over this bit:

His visits to the White House have raised questions about the blurry line between public and private interests for a president facing legal issues. Mr. Kasowitz in recent days has advised White House aides to discuss the inquiry into Russia’s interference in last year’s election as little as possible, two people involved said. He told aides gathered in one meeting who had asked whether it was time to hire private lawyers that it was not yet necessary, according to another person with direct knowledge.

Seeing everything from 'grounds for disbarment' to the assumption that this advice is being given so underlings can be more easily thrown under the bus.

Meantime, well, okay then

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/7/15674380/obamacare-kentucky-trump-ahca

In southeastern Kentucky, the Obamacare enrollees I interviewed were disappointed — but they also weren’t mad that their Congress member, Hal Rogers, voted to pass it. They talked about all the other good things he had done for the area in his decades of service. They gave him the benefit of the doubt, expecting that he must have cast his vote to improve the economy or solve a budget issue.

This includes Kathy Oller, an Obamacare enrollment worker who supported Trump in the 2016 election. She feels let down by the Republican health care plan — “If they take the expanded Medicaid away, it really, really is gonna kill Kentuckians because they won’t have health insurance,” she says — and she’s already seeing other ways that Trump health policies are hurting Kentucky. Obamacare sign-ups, she said, were slower this year, as people in Kentucky were confused about whether the health care law still existed.

But Oller doesn’t regret her vote for Trump — “I don’t have regrets,” she says plainly — and she trusts that Rogers, whom she has also voted for, knows what he’s doing. She gets most her news from his weekly emails to constituents; she cites his arguments for why the law needs to be repealed.

This sentiment felt ubiquitous in Corbin. Obamacare enrollees I interviewed didn’t like the Republican plan, but they still trusted the Republican Party to do the right thing on health care.

They felt like they had picked a side, and now they were going to stick with it.

Michael Martin, a 47-year-old Obamacare enrollee, says he thought of Rep. Rogers’s AHCA vote as “a trade-off for all the other stuff he’s done. He’s brought jobs in. One of the places where I worked was one of the places he brought in.”

Martin likes his Obamacare coverage. He used to have a federal contracting job but is currently unemployed. He pays $77 each month and gets a $341 monthly subsidy from the government. He’s currently in treatment for thyroid cancer, which was diagnosed when he was on the Medicaid expansion about a year ago. He had a bypass surgery a few years ago, when he had insurance at work, and worries about that being categorized as a preexisting condition.

Martin has kept up with the health care debate. When we met in mid-May, he told me he was waiting for the new CBO number that would come out the next week. What he saw online made him think the new bill would be a raw deal for him.

“I saw a chart on the internet that showed the estimates of how much a person with preexisting cancer or cardiac problems would have to pay,” he says. “I fall into those categories. If you add them together, I’m like a double risk. The number was really up there, the premium.”

Martin wouldn’t tell me whom he voted for in the 2016 election; the people I met generally seemed more reticent to talk about which candidate they favored during this trip. But he did say he’d supported Rogers in the past and was currently puzzling over his Congress member’s vote. He wasn’t necessarily mad, more confused. I asked him whether he thought Rogers had the best interests of Kentuckians at heart.

“He’s gotta know, right?” Martin responded. “Well, he’s gotta know, but I can’t see the reasoning why he voted ‘yes,’ you know?”

I keep having to tell myself that some people are actually that earnest.

Ned, that story breaks my heart.

Me too. It also infuriates me. The disdain these Republican legislators must have for their constituents is impossible to fathom.

fuck em. it just sucks that other ppl have to suffer when the GOP get is way

gets its

If you don't have internet, and the only 24 hour talk station is the local sports/right wing radio option, you may have never heard of Ayn Rand or libertarian/trickle-down economics or the Koch Brothers. There's just the Republicans, who the good ole boys support because they don't look down on those flying confederate flags, and those weird Democrats, who are just trying to sneak transvestites into your ladies' bathrooms.

If Tom Steyer (etc.) had spent their political contributions setting up another Air America that targeted these folks, focused on class awareness, with, yes, sports/entertainment programming in the evenings, and country music bumpers, this might not be the situation.

Right now, the Left is 2-3 decades behind, but the very fact that Trump's message, with its class signifiers, was successful suggests to me that there's a hunger for programming and knowledge that acknowledges class in a matter of fact way. Even if your own issues run more to identity politics, one can't win broadly on the Left without using the language of class.

It's astounding to me that so many people do not grasp why it's so important to the GOP to pass AHCA. The thought process seems to end at "must be some good reason for it" and never lands on massive tax breaks for millionaires.

One reason "Wealthcare" is a better name than "Trumpcare".

why do we do this pic.twitter.com/e4Dtm7uu1n

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 11, 2017

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCEpGhXVoAABjUD.jpg

xp why do we do what

Sexualize/belittle/trivialize serious issues.

Oh is it just the pic posted subsequently? This

We trivialise serious issues because not everyone takes every issue equally seriously and not everyone even takes serious issues equally seriously and even at that some people can agree that an issue is serious while either still reserving a level of distance, relativity, separation or sense of differing respective value from others that allows them to inhabit a place where the agreed serious issue can still be the object of humour or further still the act of trivialisation of what everybody would if called upon to do so by an appropriately serious person agree is a very serious issue may in itself be for some people a coping mechanism with regard to that serious issue

If Trump's sleaze bag lawyer told me not to get a lawyer, I would get a lawyer that day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/06/11/bharara-says-trumps-contacts-made-him-uncomfortable-before-he-was-fired/

Oh, and just because:
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2017-06-05/AP/Trump_Hotels_99479-0fcb1.jpg&w=1484

"huh-duh!"

http://www.cornel1801.com/disney/Pinocchio-1940/pictures/5/what-s-he-think-i-look-like-a-jackass.jpg

I think we broke darragh