Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

He sounds scared. But then he's looked like he realises he's toast since he met Obama after winning the election.

That's...a real quote? And not something generated by a half-functioning Trump quote neural network? Because holy fuck.

that's a transcript from his fox and friends interview this morning

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOOexF5c9A

"That was a smart way to keep Comey honest at the hearing."

"Uhhhh...well, it wasn't stupid."

but I didn't tape and I don't have any tape and I didn't tape

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

i'm kinda sick of this tape worm already

Trump talks like that babbling Miss America contestant in that youtube that time

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.

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.

lol can you imagine writing for a newspaper in a foreign country and having to translate that shit

translation is fake news

Was it Al Jazeera who said they were going to refer to the current admin as a rogue state or a paper in France?

and Huffington Post wasn't going to cover Trump in the politics section. wonder how that's going.

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

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.')

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.

shut up with your vile fantasies for once

but I didn't tape and I don't have any tape and I didn't tape
and you hip hop and you don't stop

Benjamin Wittes

yeah I def want to listen to someone with #SupportTheDeepState in their bio

ya, i'm pretty sick of these "omg huge drop comin'" teaser posts. fucking lazy ass way of trying to get clicks.

the only drop that matters is the pee tape

need a steady stream of intel on that

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/

Wittes at least is maybe 3/3 for this stuff. No one else has delivered.

This Washington Post story is despair-inducing.

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

I thought I'd gotten over my frustration with Obama in 2011 and 2013.

for some reason i can't get around the washpo paywall this time. guess i'll have to read a summary of it elsewhere.

ask the Russians how to get through it

incognito window always works for me xp

wait, never mind. i've hacked the mainframe. i'm in

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

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?

you get six free months with prime iirc, then the discount

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

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

kudos to Kerry wanting to go all-out on the Russia sanctions though

(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.

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, 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.

going high doesn't mean sitting on your hands because someone might accuse you of being partisan

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/

Obama has always been a chump, away with him

Meantime

Here we go: Sandoval and Heller with joint presser on Medicaid today in Vegas.

— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) June 23, 2017

Sandoval: "This will kill NV. Over to you, Dean."
Heller: "I should oppose?"
Sandoval: "Must I draw you a picture?"
Heller: "Ok. I'm a no."

— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) June 23, 2017