Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

Some amazing photos coming out of the G20 conference:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEJPN9GXkAAg6Wu.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEO19QAVoAM8PV7.jpg

speaking of beadles (and small hands)

― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, July 8, 2017 7:53 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does everyone turn into a fucking gibbering moron when 'satirising' trump seriously

sorry that's a little bit strong but come on folks

when trying to satirize someone, one must strive to achieve a certain resemblance to one's subject, or risk one's audience not recognizing who you are making fun of. hence, one must, in satirizing Trump, perforce sound like a gibbering moron to some extent.

I thought beadle small hands was a decent - at worst- effort for the thread tbph

i kinda liked the beadles

Had we seen this yet

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html

All sorts of fun details there.

A couple of good Washington Post pieces:

Republicans thought they could force 2018 Democrats to cut deals, but Trump keeps sliding in polls

Republicans increasingly uncertain of a legislative victory before August

sorry that's a little bit strong but come on folks

― imago, Saturday, July 8, 2017 7:18 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's aight sure nobody gives a shit about what you said

The IC is going to go postal.

well there's always a silver lining

believe it or not, making the IC angry isn't really a policy justification

if nobody else is going to give you credit for using perforce correctly in a sentence, well, I suppose I must.

(Aimless curtseys to El Tomboto)

"Yeah...we MET with some Russians, but we figured it was probably just the Democrats trying to set us up."

52 Republicazn senators shld be ashamed that we have not passed health reform by now WE WONT BE ASHAMED WE WILL GO FROM MAJORITY TO MINORITY

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 9, 2017

I love being ruled by 86 year olds

So tweets like that ... is there a serious contingent of old cranky GOPers like Grassley and, I don't know, McCain, who are just so clearly discomfited by what's going on yet feel totally compelled to go along with it anyway? Like, if its a bad idea, why wait until it fails to complain? Or for that matter, why complain but just do it anyway? They're just complete cowards, right, but you'd think decades of experience would have taught them how to better navigate through this shit, unless this situation was truly never imagined. When they bump into true believers, old coots like Corwyn and young assholes like Gowdy alike, can they just not believe their ears, or at they (like apparently Hatch) just totally not listening? A shithead like McConnell, has he been rubbing his hands with glee since election day, or secretly panicking that his grand plan will be undone by dicks like Cruz and morons like Trump? It's a shame we'll likely never get an honest accounting from these dummies when the dust has settled in a couple of decades.

everybody but trump knows this is nowhere, la la la

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/08/haley-russia-election-meddling-240323

Making the rounds:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/australian-journalists-searing-assessment-of-trump-strikes-a-chord-around-the-world-in-viral-video-20170709-gx7t5a.html

Milkshake Duck

If only he could bring such powerful condemnation to the antisemitic cultural marxism conspiracy theory he advocates https://t.co/5WOiQ3lCM6

— Eleanor Robertson (@marrowing) July 9, 2017

That @marrowing thread is a fun one

Hey if a white imperialist antisemite wants to make himself look good by shitting on Donnie Two Scoops who am I to argue!

Thank you @SenatorDole, very kind! pic.twitter.com/cXrYiK46Qq

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017

so was bob dole always this bad or is he confused because he's 94

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 5 hours ago

Sanctions were not discussed at my meeting with President Putin. Nothing will be done until the Ukrainian & Syrian problems are solved!

i believe this, actually

Bob Dole worked in a different era, so he was not always that bad, but he always had the potential to be that bad, if circumstances had allowed it.

(Ron Howard narrator voice) the circumstances allowed it.

Bob Dole should've been president in '96.

v weird to imagine the universe where dole was still president in 2004

He's not dead yet and its the GOP. What will come first, the first centenarian prez or first female prez?

xxp

i think there's an interesting argument that hw bush and/or dole winning against clinton probably would have been better for keeping the GOP a more moderate party and the democrats mightve started saying "we cant win being the gop-lite like clinton!" but it's such a depressing thought

lol burn

.@realDonaldTrump's performance at the #G20 shows he "has no desire and no capacity to lead the world": @CUhlmann https://t.co/0ithCHSWyK pic.twitter.com/iW0X78UNVZ

— ABC News (@abcnews) July 9, 2017

i think there's an interesting argument that hw bush and/or dole winning against clinton probably would have been better for keeping the GOP a more moderate party and the democrats mightve started saying "we cant win being the gop-lite like clinton!" but it's such a depressing thought

The argument is stronger with Poppy Bush winning reelection (and it delays Dems losing House and Senate).

Counterfactuals are endless fun for the whole Internet

So this Times story that just broke. Is this it?

I don't know what it is yet, but I'm going to predict that no, it isn't it

Go to http://www.nytimes.com

dude don't do that to people

President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it.

The meeting was also attended by his campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Mr. Manafort and Mr. Kushner only recently disclosed the meeting, though not its content, in confidential government documents described to The New York Times.

The Times reported the existence of the meeting on Saturday. But in subsequent interviews, the advisers and others revealed the motivation behind it.

The meeting — at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican nomination — points to the central question in federal investigations of the Kremlin’s meddling in the presidential election: whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. The accounts of the meeting represent the first public indication that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept Russian help.

It's not "it" but it is hilarious

Nothing substantial gets dropped on a sunday afternoon

my god they are so dumb

Seeing it described like that, and that Donald Jr was allowed to be involved, makes me think they probably weren't capable of actually colluding. But sure seems as if they tried to. And a fun question is why Manafort and Kushner all of a sudden disclosed the meeting. Sure seems like something else is about to drop.

Again, Coen Bros movie, not LeCarre novel

Treesh I wasn't trying to be bad at the internet, I was just expressing the frustration that no matter what it is, it won't be the thing that takes trump down

Kushner could quite honestly be out over this. This is fucking stupid, and he is the only one of the three still involved in the administration.

but if kushner is out, who will take the lead on

peace in the middle east
opiod crisis
running government like a business
criminal justice reform
dipomacy with china and mexico
reforming VA healthcare

i mean, that's like the work of at least two normal people, right

Sorry karl i am at work otherwise i would have summarized it

"it" will be GOP politicos suffering via Yam, and we might be a year or more away. so plz don't do that treesh

xpost oh no need! i headed to NYT a couple seconds after sending that post, i just wanted to be pre-emptively trenchant

because everybody loooooves that! :)

This article sounds like attempted "collusion" which is the word we keep hearing