Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

if there's manila envelopes maybe he's planning a Budd Dwyer 2.0

The universe is rarely so generous.

Everyone's happy to own this

Alexander, on Murray's request for a hearing on AHCA: That bill isn't my jurisdiction; talk to SFC. "You might take it up with Sen. Hatch."

— Erin Mershon (@eemershon) June 13, 2017

Good luck with that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRt7tqlD-og

damn

Victory has a thousand fathers, but they're all insisting everyone else in their group get the paternity testing.

the press needs to start seriously pushing back on the new hallway interview restrictions

Ah, but no, for you see, it's for everyone's financial health

Incredible defense of cracking down on TV cameras from Senator Tim Scott: cameras could catch the PIN numbers of senators at ATM machines.

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) June 13, 2017

Anyway, I wouldn't want to make any juvenile associations based on the name of a certain Senator and the activity in which he was involved at the conclusion of this excerpt, and you shouldn't either, because that would be, as I said, juvenile. We are pure.

Here's what a Senate communications director told me about the Senate press rules changes. https://t.co/7lltv8Ee7H pic.twitter.com/ZWKDjSwk4x

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 13, 2017

The press has a very good reason to follow Idaho senators into the bathroom.

haha

I don't really care about the hallway restriction thing tbh, if you've seen recent footage it is pretty insane how clogged those halls are now that Trump has put everything into this hyper-aggressive news cycle/all scandal all the time reporting

otoh making Senators uncomfortable is a good thing so idk

They should restrict the number of Senators allowed in Congress, too.

keep in mind its still cool with Americans to bodyslam journalists apparently

how many times are you gonna make that joke today

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keep in mind its still cool with Americans to bodyslam journalists apparently

not really, he was charged and convicted

altho yr right re: voters, who have always been enamored of violent jerks

Crying all the way to congress.

how many times are you gonna make that joke today

Did I make that joke already? My bad if so, but don't remember doing so. It feels like it's been one long day for months.

I suggest Al Franken does a Judo Chop on Alex Jones

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brb gotta go chase senator crapo into the toilet *flush* you're WELCOME

crapo chap house

Makin' a quick trip to the bathroom for a Crapo and some Lindsay head, brb.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/766053468398292992/UMFSlHNB.jpg

Crapo, Capito. Capito, Crapo.

Never forget:
http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170116202235-donald-trump-inauguration-porta-potties-moos-pkg-erin-00015424-full-169.jpg

30 minutes til Sessions, 30 minutes til Sessions

Places everyone!
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m/l don't care about these hearings, he'll clam up about things that could implicate him, obfuscate about others, etc. They're gonna be p deferential to a former colleague, even a perjurious one.

did we discuss the PPP poll today
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2017/06/plurality-of-voters-think-trump-obstructed-justice.html

-42% of Trump voters think it's appropriate for GOP politicians to body slam reporters, compared to 45% who think it's inappropriate. By contrast only 6% of Clinton voters think it's ok for them to body slam reporters, to 89% who think it's inappropriate. Overall 22% of voters think it's ok for GOP politicians to body slam reporters, to 69% who think it's not.

calling Obama "right wing" is patently bullshit FYI

They're gonna be p deferential to a former colleague, even a perjurious one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/us/politics/jeff-sessions-senate-hearing-trump-russia.html

Should Sessions Expect Senatorial Courtesy? Not This Time

But who knows?

Saw an interesting contradiction today that hadn't occurred to me. Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, but was still involved with the Comey firing. So people said, aha, you said you would recuse, and others said, well, it had nothing to do with Russia, it had to do with his job, specifically how he mishandled the Clinton email situation. But ... in his confirmation hearing he promised to recuse himself from anything involving the Clinton email investigation!

Not that this matters. Not that anything matters anymore.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi believes President Donald Trump will “self-impeach” and that Democrats should wait for the Russia investigations — especially special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe — to play out before pushing to remove him from the Oval Office. Pelosi also believes that if Trump fired Mueller — which some Trump allies are encouraging the president to do — it would be enough to push Republicans to begin seriously considering acting against the president on their own.

Well, so much less work for her.

http://www.joemygod.com/2017/06/13/nancy-pelosi-predicts-trump-will-self-impeach/

crüt, i guess it all depends whether you're being deported or bombed, or otoh not being prosecuted for torture or being a Wall St robber baron.

yes those are the only metrics for determining where someone falls on a political spectrum, good job

problem with pelosi's strategy is that it'll probably take at least a year for the investigation to wrap up

Pelosi knows they need a majority first, then impeachment. Dem House leadership going hard after it now only gives the GOP ammo in the mid-terms and possibly allow them to hold onto their majority.

calling Obama "right wing" is patently bullshit FYI

― sexualing healing (crüt), Tuesday, June 13, 2017 1:14 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. the sheer number of helpful regulations and EOs that the trump admin has undone in the past few months has demonstrated that Obama actually did make the US a less shitty place for the past 8 years.

foreign affairs is a different story obv, but we've unfortunately yet to see what a truly non-interventionist US foreign policy looks like. Unless you count George Washington, I guess

idk, what do people expect to learn at this Sessions hearing? Does anyone think any new info is gonna come out? Seems like the most that can be hoped for is another unforced error like his first "I had no communications with the Russians" one (which has not amounted to much just yet)

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god I wish Trump would just fire Mueller already

calling Obama "right wing" is patently bullshit FYI

Obama was the president of a stubbornly capitalist country. Strike one.

Said country has an often-rapacious business climate and an insufficiently restrained financial sector; he failed to dismantle these root and branch. Strike two.

Said country has a definitely rapacious health care-industrial complex; he may have tried to nudge it a few inches toward humaneness, but he failed to completely replace it with a more enlightened system. Strike three.

He also permitted that country to retain a strong military with an apparent addiction to disastrous intervention. He utterly failed to convince the country at large to change this. Strike, um, four.

hey why is sessions willing to testify in the first place? seems easier to just refuse to

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anyone to the right of me is ipso facto right wing, strike seventy-eleven

Things to watch for:

Will Sessions throw Comey or Mueller under the bus?

Will he perjure himself or explain past perjuries?

Will he explain his Russia meetings?

Will he clarify his role in any further investigations?

Will Sessions throw Comey or Mueller under the bus?

not really sure what you mean here. Obviously Comey's persona non grata w the administration now. Dunno what he could say that would actually damage Mueller.

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nothing will happen. GOP/ right wing mediaverse will claim "win". half of electorate will shrug or bathe in lib tears.

For example, making disparaging remarks about their character, actions, or biases. Calling into question the validity of their work.

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Trump says Comey is a liar, will Sessions back this up?