Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

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)

xp

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

xp

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.

xp

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.

xp

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

maybe he will just admit everything.

ugh fuck this cracker ass motherfucker

So he's already perjured himself, right?

A wedge between Sessions and Trump - even a tiny one - would benefit humankind.

Sessions is genuinely dangerous. If he says something even slightly wrong or unTrumpian, he will be disowned and cast out to the cornfield with Comey et al.

So I'm glad he's talking; this increases the chances he will accidentally say something true, which T. needs to contradict via tweet. Or maybe he just strays slightly from the Trumpian line. Or he says something today that T. randomly decides isn't the case tomorrow.

I would have thought sessions was careful, but he's already proven himself careless.

Let's get EVERYBODY testifying, as often as possible. I personally don't care much about Russia; I just want these rabid dogs to be snarling at each other for a while; it distracts them from turning round and eating the people I care about.

he's stammering and stumbling over his words a lot

also i feel like everything he's saying is a lie. hopefully he'll trip himself up

Such a strong denial is just asking for trouble

exactly

i can't understand anything this asshole says, it's all buried in a thick impenetrable southern drawl

He's basically Sen. Tankerbell disguised as a Keebler elf

Let's get EVERYBODY testifying, as often as possible. I personally don't care much about Russia; I just want these rabid dogs to be snarling at each other for a while; it distracts them from turning round and eating the people I care about.

otm

lol moodles that's perfect

Sessions is def the most dangerous person in the administration so I would love to see him go down but not holding my breath

the near-perfect nexus of punchable voice + punchable face that is jeff sessions....pretty miraculous.

I don't know if he is most dangerous, but he does come off the most nefarious.

GTFO with turning the Russia inquiry into a platform for your drug program.

He's off on a wild tangent now

using this as a chance to go off about his new drug war gtfo

fucking asshole with a drug war hard on

hey he just wants to talk about the REAL ISSUES

is he recommending locking up pharma CEOs

cuz that's whose to blame for this opioid crap

Ah say son, what's the gag - I say, what's the gag, son? Gag, that is?

would watch if his testimony consisted entirely of Foghorn Leghorn lines

it doesn't?

speaking of Foghorn Leghorn he just said "Ah nevah -- nevah, that is..."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCOSaJ7UIAArBCD.jpg

dumber than a bag of hammers

For whatever dumb reason, my Foghorn-esque blustery southerner impression has always included the phrase, 'Why, that's horsefeathers, Jefferson!'. Ohhhh, what I wouldn't give to be among the committee today and bellow that at ol' Pruneface.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx98pskffOY

"i possibly had a meeting but I do not recall it" lmao

If your recall is that poor, MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

feinstein needs to retire