Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

What he said about the previous bill was "it's called great health care." No, of course he had no idea what was in it.

He is every worst quality of a used-car huckster writ large.

writ yuge.

If the GOP were smart, they would explicitly tie Trump's name to the healthcare bill (not just giving it a cutesy Trumpcare nickname but actually naming the bill after him). He would initially love it, and the public would then savage him rather than Congress once they realized how thoroughly they'd been powerfucked.

If Michael FLynn is found dead soon - conspiracy theories will fly

MSM silence on Dontcare:

http://fair.org/home/media-help-republicans-gut-obamacare-behind-closed-doors/

I can't remember hearing Sessions asked about that firing of the attorneys. Was he?
I'm not sure how much of the thing i missed. I turned it on and it was already underway.

Intensified coalition air strikes have killed at least 300 civilians in the Syrian northern city of Raqqa since March, as U.S.-backed forces close in on the stronghold of Islamic State forces, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Wednesday.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a U.S.-led coalition, began to attack Raqqa a week ago to take it from the jihadists. The SDF, supported by heavy coalition air strikes, have taken territory to the west, east and north of the city.

"Coalition air strikes have intensified around the city," said Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry.

"As the operation is gaining pace very rapidly, civilians are caught up in the city under the oppressive rule of ISIL, while facing extreme danger associated with movement due to excessive air strikes," he told reporters.

Karen Abuzayd, an American commissioner on the independent panel, said: "We have documented the deaths caused by the coalition air strikes only and we have about 300 deaths, 200 in one place, in al-Mansoura, one village."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-warcrimes-idUSKBN19511O

Meanwhile Mo Brooks of Alabama, who relishes going on Chris Hayes' show to boast about the number of undeserving poor people who'll lose their health care, has become a new darling on the right thanks to his service on the baseball diamond and his remarks on the Second Amendment.

The fact that it even needs to be asked after November 2016 isn't a good look, America.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/14/will-the-georgia-special-election-get-hacked-215255

PAPER BALLOTS

isn't digital everything awesome

analog voting really lets you appreciate more of the depth and warmth of democracy

How is it a moot point? As far as I know, no evidence of actual voting machines having been hacked is evident, although some problems at polls and technical failure of voting machines took place

The exploitation of the actual machines is possible, and will always be an ongoing concern because that's how technical systems work. It's a parallel issue with poll workers and election officials acting maliciously

tbh the real "hacking" evident in 2016 was the manipulation of public opinion via misinformation campaigns and voter suppression and those carry more weight in that they're institutional

jesus I need a copy editor

or a paper ballot

better be a pencil with an eraser

Meantime

SCOOP: Mueller just met with Senate Russia investigators - no comment as he left meeting

— Tom LoBianco (@tomlobianco) June 14, 2017

why am I seeing reports that calls to Congress re: AHCA have dropped dramatically?

Inclined to blame MSM for not providing adequate coverage, letting McConnell operate in the dark, cuz activist networks still seem to be cranking out the messaging as far as I can tell.

If office phones aren't ringing off the hook constantly, apparently it's fine to go back to fucking things over. The only signal is "no, don't do that" when a phone rings instead of actually listening to and respecting the content of the call and assuming those are real concerns

COunt on the Orange DIctator to order more attacks on the world to draw attention away from his scandals

p sure he's super-happy about this Alexandria attack, no further action necessary for today

I wonder if he assumed there were tapes of Comey's conversations because people had taped him doing his pussy grab speech?

son, in this family we politicize tragedy

— DougExeter (@DougExeter) June 14, 2017

Brack, in this family etc

I don't recommend shooting them as an effective tactic or as morally defensible, but I'm not gonna be sad when it happens.

yup

Not trying to invalidate y'alls reactions but any time a human shoots another human it represents a societal failure and makes me sad.

some of the sterling nominees for our courts

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55650/trump-judicial-nominees/

Heh: http://www.mediaite.com/online/a-year-ago-rand-paul-tweeted-that-2nd-amendment-exists-to-shoot-at-the-government/

This bit:

UPDATE 4:17 PM ET: Paul’s communications director, Sergio Gor, provided Mediaite with a statement about the tweet, noting that it was sent by a staffer:

“The tweet you reference was part of live tweeting of someone else’s speech and it was done by a staffer. Those are not Senator Paul’s words.”

How...convenient.

"Great staffer, John Barron by name. What?"

"yeah some guy I hired was just quoting and tacitly endorsing the viewpoint expressed in my name, what's the big deal? (Please don't shoot me)"

did someone say GOR

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/30Legends/50gorean/images/book-cover-art/01-tarnsman_of_gor.jpg

holy fucking shit, ladies and gentlemen. Here is your modern GOP:

Of the three nominees, Schiff may be the most extreme. He has already received attention for calling Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy a “judicial prostitute"; said he “strongly disagree[s]” with the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down statutes criminalizing sodomy; and criticized a school district for teaching that “homosexual families are the moral equivalent of heterosexual families,” arguing that it remains an open question. Shockingly, in May 2009, Schiff wrote that, for the same reason, he would have objected “to an anti-racism curriculum being taught in 1950s Arkansas.” Not to be outdone, Schiff provided his own take on Dred Scott—saying that the court’s dead-letter affirmation of slavery is no different from efforts to remedy segregation and increase diversity. In a 2011 law review article, Schiff said that Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld race-conscious college admissions programs to further student diversity, repeated the same mistakes of the Supreme Court’s most infamous decisions, including Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Korematsu.

Give the guy a break, it's not like the last sixty years happened or anything.

People are saying this is a big deal I don't even know anymore
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-is-investigating-trump-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice/2017/06/14/9ce02506-5131-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.22f036efdf07

Mueller officially investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice

The special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election is interviewing senior intelligence officials as part of a widening probe that now includes an examination of whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice, officials said.

...

Trump had received private assurances from former FBI Director James B. Comey starting in January that he was not personally under investigation. Officials say that changed shortly after Comey’s firing.

Whoops!

Minor details.

trump should fire him

http://fusion.kinja.com/i-bet-the-president-doesnt-have-the-balls-to-fire-rober-1796064271

bet these leaks are in response to trump's extremely smart and clever saber rattling earlier this week

Nobody knew that obstructive malfeasance could be so complicated.

An interesting read

https://www.wired.com/story/robert-mueller-special-counsel-investigation-team/

Meanwhile

JUST IN: Senate Intel Committee leaders release joint statement after meeting with Special Counsel Mueller pic.twitter.com/ApbFM6KIsO

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 14, 2017

I guess 'joint statement' means 'we each contributed a single word to the statement'.

Gotta start somewhere.

Ts: piss tape vs fire mueller

Hm hm hm

DNI Coats will testify in closed Senate Intel session tomorrow, sources tell @kasie & @frankthorp

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 14, 2017

Not trying to invalidate y'alls reactions but any time a human shoots another human it represents a societal failure and makes me sad.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, June 14, 2017 3:34 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree!

You have to admit it's a bit rich when a guy who's devoted a big chunk of his career to easing up gun regulations gets shot by someone who probably shouldn't be armed but is thanks to the shootees efforts.

well, yeah