Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

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

on the other front, someone has something to prove

The U.S.-led coalition conducted a strike in Palmyra, Syria last night. That is well west of the Euphrates. Flouting Russia's warning.

— HansNichols (@HansNichols) June 23, 2017

so cool we're slowly being dragged into a proxy war against Russia, it's just like old times

i'm ready for the Rambo 3 reboot

On Oct. 7, the administration offered its first public comment on Russia’s “active measures,” in a three-paragraph statement issued by Johnson and Clapper. Comey had initially agreed to attach his name, as well, officials said, but changed his mind at the last minute, saying that it was too close to the election for the bureau to be involved.

...

The statement was issued around 3:30 p.m., timed for maximum media coverage. Instead, it was quickly drowned out. At 4 p.m., The Post published a story about crude comments Trump had made about women that were captured on an “Access Hollywood” tape. Half an hour later, WikiLeaks published its first batch of emails stolen from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

(a side lol at comey worrying that it was too close for the election for the FBI to be involved.)

i can't remember - was it ever confirmed that WikiLeaks timed the publishing of the Podesta emails to counter the press coverage of the Russian interference statement? or is it just assumed?

i think they knew trickling out bit by bit would generate more damaging headlines

Wasn't the first batch of emails released less than one hour after The Washington Post published the Trump pussy-grab video? And then spread out to have maximum effect on the election

That Marci Wheeler piece is interesting, not only for its description of how the focus of the Washington Post reporting over the last year has helped to (inaccurately) shape the narrative on this story, but also for the bit about the planting of cyberweapons in Russia's infrastructure.

Also this: “Whatever else this article is designed to do, I think, it is designed to be a threat to Putin, from long gone Obama officials.”

I appreciated the Wheeler piece giving some context to some of the breathless retelling of this sort of stuff..

as much as the press has been killing the game lately, its really just the highest form of access journalism being perfected.

Nunes must be happy everybody forgot about him huh