Looks like Trump has the the requisite bipartisan cover to undo the Volcker Rule, among other things:
Strikingly, Powell got an amen from the only moderate Democrat on the panel who showed up for the hearing, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota. “Many current and former regulators publicly state the Volcker Rule is way too complicated,” she said. “It’s my experience when a rule is too complicated, there isn’t much compliance, so it doesn’t really get you what you need.” Add that to Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) — also on the banking committee and up for reelection next year in a red state — told me Wednesday that he’s keeping an open mind on Volcker changes, and you’ve got a germ of bipartisan agreement for rolling back the rule.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
Well, I didn't tape him, eh, you never know what's happening when you see that the Obama administration or perhaps, longer than that, was doing all of this unmasking and surveillance and you read all about it and I've been reading about it for the last couple of months about the seriousness of the... and the horrible situation with surveillance all over the place and you've been hearing the word 'unmasking', a word you probably never heard before. So you never know what's out there, but I didn't tape and I don't have any tape and I didn't tape, but when he found out that I -you know- that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, who knows? I think his story may have changed, i mean, you'll have to take a look at that, because then he'll have to tell what actually took place at the events and my story didn't change, my story was always a straight story, my story was always the truth, but you'll have to determine for yourself whether or not his story changed but I did not tape.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
fucking idiot
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
He sounds scared. But then he's looked like he realises he's toast since he met Obama after winning the election.
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
That's...a real quote? And not something generated by a half-functioning Trump quote neural network? Because holy fuck.
― you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
that's a transcript from his fox and friends interview this morning
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
you've been hearing the word 'unmasking', a word you probably never heard before
he really does have a 250-word vocabulary, doesn't he
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOOexF5c9A
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
"That was a smart way to keep Comey honest at the hearing."
"Uhhhh...well, it wasn't stupid."
― President Keyes, Friday, 23 June 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
but I didn't tape and I don't have any tape and I didn't tape
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
like i mean obviously this is of way way way less importance than the health care bill but holy fuck
yeah I'm kinda sick of this tape shit already
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
i'm kinda sick of this tape worm already
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
Trump talks like that babbling Miss America contestant in that youtube that time
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
These are the speech patterns I'd expect of someone whose brain had been dragged behind a car for a couple of hours before being plopped back into their skull.
― you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
I've pretty much avoided Fox & Friends until that clip. The interviewer bending over and trying to pull a diamond out of the giant pile Trump had just dumped on the floor was impressive.
― President Keyes, Friday, 23 June 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
lol can you imagine writing for a newspaper in a foreign country and having to translate that shit
― frogbs, Friday, 23 June 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
translation is fake news
― President Keyes, Friday, 23 June 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Was it Al Jazeera who said they were going to refer to the current admin as a rogue state or a paper in France?
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
and Huffington Post wasn't going to cover Trump in the politics section. wonder how that's going.
― President Keyes, Friday, 23 June 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
Wuz just thinking about this is all...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/close-al-jazeera-saudi-arabia-issues-qatar-with-13-demands-to-end-blockade
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
He's having fun again.
TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK pic.twitter.com/yuL0o0TBbT— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 23, 2017
(Says later, 'could be today, could be Monday.')
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 June 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
He doesn't have any tape but he was taped and also ball-gagged and maybe flogged and definitely spritzed with body fluids and that was all taped but he doesn't have any tape.
― you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
shut up with your vile fantasies for once
― sleeve, Friday, 23 June 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
but I didn't tape and I don't have any tape and I didn't tapeand you hip hop and you don't stop
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
Benjamin Wittes
yeah I def want to listen to someone with #SupportTheDeepState in their bio
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
ya, i'm pretty sick of these "omg huge drop comin'" teaser posts. fucking lazy ass way of trying to get clicks.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
the only drop that matters is the pee tape
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
need a steady stream of intel on that
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
meanwhile, least surprising thing ever, but
The net neutrality debate is a case in point. The biggest campaign fundraisers for the Clinton campaign — Democratic lobbyists such as Ingrid Duran, Vincent Roberti, Steve Elmendorf, Al Mottur, and Arshi Siddiqui — are now lobbying on behalf of AT&T, Verizon, or Comcast on net neutrality. These companies dominate the telecom industry, which is working with the Trump administration to unwind one of President Barack Obama’s biggest accomplishments.
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/23/democratic-lobbyists-donald-trump-mottur-podesta-comcast-prudential/
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
Wittes at least is maybe 3/3 for this stuff. No one else has delivered.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
This Washington Post story is despair-inducing.
― maura, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
agreed
It's the connect-the-dots type of story that crafts a narrative out of all of the events the public only learned about in a piecemeal fashion. Seeing everything spelled out is depressing
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
I thought I'd gotten over my frustration with Obama in 2011 and 2013.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
for some reason i can't get around the washpo paywall this time. guess i'll have to read a summary of it elsewhere.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
ask the Russians how to get through it
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 June 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
incognito window always works for me xp
― marcos, Friday, 23 June 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
wait, never mind. i've hacked the mainframe. i'm in
― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
now i can depress myself more with the real stuff rather than second hand. fuck yeah!
Due to my close relationship with Jeff Bezos the WaPo is $4 a month
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
oh shit, is there a discount for prime subscribers? makes sense. so much synergy, i feel it in the loins. does the washington post cover what an asshole he is, or do they kind of look the other way?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
you get six free months with prime iirc, then the discount
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
feel like in the end the Obama admin will be known for proving that "when they go low, we go high" doesn't work in real life
― frogbs, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/prime/#/
on the bottom of all the amazon/whole foods article they had a little tag with (Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, also owns the Washington Post)
I chuckled
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
kudos to Kerry wanting to go all-out on the Russia sanctions though
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
(that was an x-post back to frogs)
we're going to look back on this moment with pride from our new country the united states of russia in 2022.
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
― frogbs, Friday, June 23, 2017 11:13 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not when reduced to a facile catchphrase, anyway. It assumes of its audience a basic understanding of why one approach might be preferable to the other, which is I think a faulty assumption wrt our aimlessly-aggrieved and undereducated populace.
― you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
going high doesn't mean sitting on your hands because someone might accuse you of being partisan
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
Marcy Wheeler's analysis has a lot of quotes from the piece if you can't access Washington Post.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/06/23/the-compartments-in-wapos-russian-hack-opus/
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 23 June 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link