Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

Trump's probably calling around right now trying to figure out how to fire him.

I'm waiting patiently for my Saturday Night Massacre.

eh I'm too sober for it

When it happens, I know Schoolly-D will spring back into action and write a song about it.

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i am exactly ready for it

Am i reading this right that this is nwo a fait accompli "The previously unreported assets were included in updated disclosure reports certified by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Thursday as part of the “ordinary review process,” according to Kushner’s filing."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/kushner-adds-at-least-10m-in-assets-to-revised-disclosure/2017/07/21/972ddf56-6e71-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_story.html?tid=ss_fb-bottom&utm_term=.ea95ea93e3b3

in which case are there any checks and balances further up that would penalise him for non declaration.

apparently the resigning Government Ethics Chief said that people should watch out for the WH ignoring the normal line of sucession for his role because they might try to replace him with somebody far more lenient towards them. I'm not sure how concrete a role that position is in terms of final say, if it is a guide or one that actually has the power to penalise or if that penalising lies elsewhere. Or if the WH just has plain sailing since it can ignore anything along the lines of expecting it to conform to norms unless somebody is willing to actually take it to task. In which case it will probably just pardon itself and say get with the new program or something. Disgusting really.

are there any checks and balances further up that would penalise him

Bitter laugh. As with so many things, every potential mechanism for penalizing these mousefuckers is controlled by them.

The solution is electoral defeat.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/343164-trump-launches-all-out-assault-on-mueller-probe?rnd=1500739275

whoo!

I wish lazy Beltway reporters would stop comparing Mueller to Kenneth Starr.

I love this joke-ass defense that because some attorneys might've voted Democratic at some point that this is a witch hunt.

Also Sekulow has easily the most smackable face since Steven Miller.

Is the librul newsmedia really doing that? Maybe it's best I look to ILX for my up-to-the-minute scoop on Donnie Two Scoops. But we're all gonna die soon, aren't we?

^xp to Soto

Front page NYT story. Mueller is best compared with Robert Fiske.

TRUMP: Well, Napoleon finished a little bit bad. But I asked that. So I asked the president, so what about Napoleon? He said: "No, no, no. What he did was incredible. He designed Paris." [garbled] The street grid, the way they work, you know, the spokes.

Lol he mixed up Napoleon with Napoleon III

The bakery at Trump Tower makes the best napoleons. I love frogs!

Scaramouche is making the Sunday-morning rounds on TV.

Once again reiterated his love for the boss; now explaining why the American people love him too.

Lol he mixed up Napoleon with Napoleon III

Waiting for him to mix up Napoleon with Napoleon Dynamite.

My favorite Trump threat is when he threatens to do something with information he may or may not have at some unspecified later date. it's just the worst bluff. Shit like "Mueller is totally corrupt and totally crooked with his conflicts of interest, he's destroying the country! When the time is right, we'll share what we know! You'll shit your pants!"

Yeah, OK there, buddy.

By the way, in the fire and brimstone department, what happens when the inevitable goes down and Mueller is fired, there's a replay (maybe) of the Saturday night massacre and others go with him, and ... nothing happens? Congress just shakes its head with disappointment and moves on with its shitty agenda. Is there any reason to really believe this can't happen?

There is no reason to believe it can't happen.

Hilarious bit with Scaramucci this morning. He tells Jake Tapper that someone told him yesterday that if the Russians had really wanted to hack the election, no one ever would have known--they're good enough that they wouldn't have left traces. Tapper expresses some incredulity about this vague, suspicious source, and Scaramucci basically says "Okay, okay--it was the president."

How far down into lack of anything having a meaning do things have to go before somebody steps forward to try to form a basis for meaning. or was taht the whole idea of removing the previous meaning.

Is this idiot going to leave the country with not only him being somebody nobody can believe but the role he represents being totally devoid of trust.
Is there something that can be built on left?

Hahaha

It's already late in the game. We have already digested and accepted the President's confession, on national television, that he fired the Director of the FBI to stop an investigation that might implicate him. These Grassley subpoenas can't give much hope that there will be a come-to-Jesus moment.

I think on that xpost front we are in an even more precarious position than we think. Let's say Trump doesn't make it and Pence becomes president. Pence has been a true believer, you think he's going to shit talk Trump? If he did, he comes off just as disingenuous and dishonest. And if he sticks the Trump route, he comes off ... disingenuous and dishonest. Same with Paul Ryan, if that came to pass. And then the next presidentially election, if it's not Trump, would the GOP support a candidate, Pence or otherwise, that was anti-Trump? Could they? Trump's stink will have a heck of a half-life. We're going to be stuck in this anti-fact, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes tumult for some time.

Yeah it does seem like just a month or two ago there was an opening albeit narrow for a small coalition to step up and open up some distance from him w/o having to pay a heavy political price. But a lot of chips have been pushed into the pot in recent weeks.

Zap:

Jared, Paul, etc: Trump's promises to bail you out if you commit perjury may fail: courts could well toss out pardons by a co-conspirator!

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 23, 2017

we've been stuck here for some time, decades, as the laws of mathematics (and ethics) have been suspended to pursue the overriding priority of the GOP's main donors -- tax cuts (for the rich)

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The GOP spinelessness is baffling when you ask what is really at stake for any of these guys. That they would have to take a "demotion" from electoral politics to private practice or lobbying that pays 20x as much? Those congressional lapel pins must make a man feel mighty special.

I get the feeling a lot of career politicians - and I'm including the usual suspects in the appointee talent pools for both sides - really need to feel like they make more than a paycheck, they like the attention and the trappings of power. They also aren't that good at "real jobs" where you have to bring in business for the firm.

.@brianstelter: Trump lies about voter fraud and wire tapping. @KellyannePolls: "He doesn’t think he’s lying about those issues."

— Rob Tornoe (@RobTornoe) July 23, 2017

I don't see how anyone can even humor the idea that the president can pardon himself. So he could be convicted of murder and just pardon himself? That's dictatorial.

Watching Matt Kuchar at the British Open makes me think that at some point, some staffer's going to whisper to Scaramucci that "They're not saying 'Moooooooooooch,' sir--they're booing."

the scaramucci quote that kills me is "A person that's going to be super, super tough on Russia is President Donald J. Trump."

i think it was mentioned upthread and it's become shockingly easy to just digest these bits of information and then move on without really thinking too much about it, but just ponder this one for a minute:

By midday Sunday, Scaramucci had outed Trump as an anonymous source who called him questioning whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election at all (“I won’t tell you who,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” and followed up moments later with, “How about it was the President”).

to be fair, Trump did call himself his most trusted advisor.

Haven't heard Scaramucci talk yet but due to his hair style and permanently sarcastic facial expression I am envisioning Joe Pesci.

Even before I heard him speak I had already bought three used cars from him.

cuban / bush 2020

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/07/23/jeb-bush-and-cuban-rip-trump-central-park-rally/9I7BZoaz7wL5NWJajloJKM/story.html

nowhere to go but up!

Gaaahhhhh, Tapper's interview with Saul Goodman the Mooch is skin-crawling. All I can say is that I'm super glad Trump hired the dude because he isn't going to convince any among the unconvinced, and I can totally see why Spicer quit because he's likely to send the faithful off in droves.

they should just get David Miscavige after this guy runs his course

ha, otm. that's exactly who the guy reminds me of, that sort of hyper confident snake oil salesman.

will that is such a genius concept. please let's work together to make this happen, the thing this admin is missing to be perfect is the CoS

Trump's tweetarrheia yesterday must have really exhausted him - we've heard nothing from him for 18 hours now.

honestly surprised there isn't more explicit overlap with CoS & GOP/ Trump people. such a natural fit.

cuban / bush 2020

imo the shocking moderate turn of the GOP following a potential failure of Trump's presidency will manifest as the Cyberdemon/LePage 2020 ticket

The Trump dementia hypothesis is rapidly gaining credibility for me.

tbf the cyberdemon's military credentials and considerable height would actually make him a pretty solid GOP pick in a "typical" election cycle. though iirc he's been dogged by some noncommittal statements about abortion that hurt him with the base?