Trump, August 2017: A great day at the White House!

at this point the line between firing and resigning is razor-thin anyway.

Wasn't one of the putative reasons Tillerson took the job to help ease Russian oil sanctions? Yeah...

c'mon that was just a conspiracy theory!

if things don't improve with kelly, tillerson will go imo. and...

Important point by @jonathanvswan - Kelly as the redline...he has all the ingredients necessary for success....https://t.co/eRSTz2EWQR pic.twitter.com/ww5IwJLnCn

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 1, 2017

Can't find a single person who worked on campaign or in WH who believes this chain of command following lasts long https://t.co/iTAoTSfeVk

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 1, 2017

"Javanka" = ew

Even in the offchance that Trump accidentally engineered a well-oiled administration, he would inevitably wreck it and insist that the oil could be even more viscous.

he would insist on using his hair oil

It's all-natural. The secret? He never washes it.

Re that Wheeler/Fox lawsuit and all

On the phone with Ed Butowsky, he tells me he suspended his own Twitter account temporarily because "people are so mean."

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) August 1, 2017

Jeff Sessions just put a military general in charge of federal prisons. pic.twitter.com/y3pBUHX7ia

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 1, 2017

seems like something he would do

Huckleberry still gravely concerned, also troubled, maybe even disappointed

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/01/trump-dictated-son-russia-meeting-response-lindsey-graham-reacts-241197?lo=ap_b1

this seth rich story seems like it's one of the most despicable things trump has done since announcing his candidacy.

that's the shit i was afraid of when he picked bannon to be chief strategist

every single day is the best day at the White House

was melania really replaced by a Melania android?

the correct term is Melandroid

There are actual several Melanias, depending on the purpose.

Like, Nanny Melania, First Lady Melania, and so on. The only real one is the sad Melania.

and you can detach the arms for different events - some of the arms don't fit well into small man hands

together they constitute a Melangia

haaaaaa

Re: that Sessions statement.

Give this administration an Inch and they will take a Milo.

the whole concept of alpha humans is so laughably stupid. you have alphas among animals that travel in packs. outside of that specific system to think of an "alpha" is just to say "I have a crush on the concept of power"

many xps, but my wife and I were just talking about this yesterday, how it's a dumb idea with literally no relation to how human beings operate. We're social animals, and we build complex systems that mostly rely on cooperation and mutual support, not on just listening to what the guy in charge says. And actual places with strongman rule are the worst-run least prosperous places on the planet. To approach the world as if everyone is either superior to you (and therefore you must defeat them) or inferior to you (and therefore you must grind them with your bootheel) is guaranteed to fail.

What you say is at odds with my narcissism, so you are wrong.

Does being fired or resigning from the current White House staff look better on a resumé?

If you're fired does it mean you have more visible ethics?
& resigning more out for yourself?

IIRC, either one is viable for use as a Fox pundit golden ticket.

This Robert Reich post is entertaining and as likely as anything else.

http://robertreich.org/post/163658444390

Powerful words from Jared Kushner. pic.twitter.com/IehdhJe7Dt

— CAFE (@cafedotcom) August 1, 2017

he is, however, against knowing stuff or learning from history, cuz that's for losers

Senator Incremental (D-NY)

Kirsten Gillibrand withdraws support for AIPAC's Israel Boycott bill: won't support it "in its current form" https://t.co/7pJlLA5flo

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 1, 2017

I truly believe that the future of negotiations is strategy.
I truly believe that the strategy of negotiations is the future.
I truly believe that strategy is the future of negotiations.

responding to public pressure, like an elected official is supposed to

xp

Re: that Reich post and the broadening view of Trump's instability, it's noteworthy on a completely anecdotal level that the distressingly blasé attitude in my workplace for months after the election (while I was melting down) has been shifting. Many of the people who were inclined to just shrug or disinclined to even address anything political are now all like, 'that guy is mentally ill'.

I think the GOP is starting to get pissed that Trump won't stop pushing O-care repeal

How people who have to work directly with the fucker couldn't have seen that rats had long ago chewed all the way through his wiring is beyond me, though.

Re tipsy's link, "former Republican member of Congress" who is contemptuous of DJT? Perhaps his name rhymes with Scoe Jarborough. Though I guess that is by no means the only possibility.

I think the GOP is starting to get pissed that Trump won't stop pushing O-care repeal

Senators launch bipartisan effort to shore up Obamacare

The bipartisan leadership of the Senate health committee will begin work in early September on legislation to “stabilize and strengthen the individual health insurance market” for 2018, and the committee’s influential chairman said Thursday that he has urged President Trump to continue paying subsidies to health insurance companies as work proceeds.

The announcement by the chairman, Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, was the first tangible indication of cooperation between the parties since Republican efforts to scrap the Affordable Care Act collapsed in the Senate last week.

I think mental illness is as good an explanation as any for what's going on, no more, no less.

Repeal is obviously dead now, it isn't going to happen.

xp

and starting a bill in committee - ie, normal legislative process - is a tacit admission that that is the case.

looking forward to all the GOP base foaming at the mouth about whatever compromise bill gets through, cuz it *definitely* won't please Cruz, Paul, Lee et al

and that's assuming there even is some compromise bill eventually

This is kinda the moment when the parents look down at the winded post-tantrum toddler lying on the floor and say, 'you finished?'

So has recess been reestablished or is that still in doubt? Would think that you couldn't necessarily depend on McConnell not to try to come back with more if it was still in doubt.
Would love to hear taht he is finished though. Like permanently.

xpost Immediately before the toddler gets his second wind, most likely.

Would love to hear taht he is finished though. Like permanently.

Thune has publicly stated this. They are "moving on" to tax reform.

Or are the Dems trying to make sure there is technically no recess to make sure that trump don't make arecess replacement of Sessions.
& God would love to see the back of him if it weren't likely to step up the firing of Mueller.

Is there anything positive about Sessions staying on other than that?

This Robert Reich post is entertaining and as likely as anything else.

http://robertreich.org/post/163658444390

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, August 1, 2017 8:31 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hope trump reads this. he'll become even more paranoid.

"Until somebody shows us a way to get that elusive 50th vote, I think it's over,” said Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the third-ranking Republican. “Maybe lightning will strike and something will come together but I'm not holding my breath."

Privately, Republican aides said there is essentially no chance McConnell will take another shot at repealing Obamacare soon. On Monday, there was discussion among Senate staffers of a “hard pivot to tax reform,” one Senate aide said.

Publicly, senators were only slightly more charitable to the president’s demand that the GOP put everything on hold until it passes a health care law.

“Do I think we should stay on health care until we get it done? I think it’s time to move on to something else. Come back to health care when we've had more time to get beyond the moment we’re in and see if we can’t put some wins on the board,” said Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a member of GOP leadership. “Tax reform, infrastructure are the kinds of things we ought to be looking at.”

Pressed to respond to Trump’s Twitter tirade against the Senate GOP, Blunt said: “What do you want me to say about that? Obviously we didn’t give up and we didn’t quit. We can come back to this at another time and I’m sure we will.”