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

Who wrote that the villain from cats and dogs xp

John R. Schindler is a never-Trump conservative who served a decade+ as a naval officer in the NSA, but got booted for texting a dick pic. He's no angel, but does seem to have contacts within the IC, and on Twitter is in a moderate camp between the loonies (Mench et al) and the rather late to the game major media.

Schindler may or may not still have contacts, but any of us monkeys could have written that essay.

Also interesting re NSC removals.

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/535725/

I should add it's hilarious Michael Anton is the one reduced to no-comment stuff about the type of thing he loves getting trashed.

A preview of my upcoming Observer bombshell:

"This was not the way it was supposed to turn out. Six months after a contentious election in which Trump's best defense against accusations of being a Russian puppet was 'no, you are,' with evidence of collision or worse piling up at a seemingly unsustainable pace, it's Putin, and not the American public, that has pulled the plug, dismissing the would-be enabler as an incompetent dud, and betting on a more contentious and traditional adversarial stance rather than continue hoping Trump could come through on years of winks, hints, and barely veiled messages that he would be a willing and able assistant to Putin's dreams of renewed global dominance.

And yet, it's Trump that should be most concerned. With Putin moving on, that leaves Trump behind. And what a behind he has! Ample, supple, like an enormous fruit loose in the giant khaki back-sack of his pants. Wobbling to and fro with every pendulum swing of the golf club, inspiring awes from those fortunate enough to be stationed behind his tee, the hypnotic slap of his butt-flesh against itself echoing like a human executive desk toy, the constant applause of two cheeks for the man setting them in motion ..."

so, do we get pee tape now

Ample, supple, like an enormous fruit loose in the giant khaki back-sack of his pants.

well there's next month's thread title

Are they blackmailing him or not?

no

Whew, good news:

Senate GOP leaders have openly flouted Trump’s attempts to steer them back to repealing and replacing the ACA, an endeavor that collapsed in failure last week. On Tuesday, McConnell laid out the rest of the Senate’s plans before adjourning for the summer recess. Health care was not among them.

Instead, Alexander signaled he would go around the president. He and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced they would hold fall hearings to shore up the individual health insurance markets. It was the most concrete sign yet of bipartisan work in the Senate on strengthening the existing health-care law, and it followed a proposal offered Monday by a bipartisan group of 43 House members.

whatever the Senate comes up with will die in the House, I expect, because Ryan won't bring up anything he needs Democratic votes to pass. Can't piss off the Freedom Caucus.

Quite remarkable that Congress not only pressured him to sign the sanctions under duress, but that he needs their explicit permission to change them. Like a child.

feel like we're close to Trump having this moment w/ a reporter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwU6ZcadU44

Let the fun begin

New: Congressional investigators set their sights on Donald Trump Jr.'s phone records https://t.co/aQv6BImL2U

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 2, 2017

Schindler is less of a loon than Mensch but he's spent months spouting the same bullshit about how Trump is invoking the WRATH OF THE DEEP STATE and ANY DAY NOW HE'S GOING DOWN, rinse and repeat.

Twitter grifters gonna Twitter grift.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

such beautiful numbers

What am I reading

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amp/trump-says-u-s-losing-afghan-war-tense-meeting-generals-n789006

To underscore his view that the veterans who fought in the war may be better positioned to advise him on an Afghanistan strategy, Trump compared the policy review process to the renovation of a famed New York restaurant in the 1980s, officials said.

Trump told his advisers that the restaurant, Manhattan's elite '21' Club, had shut its doors for a year and hired an expensive consultant to craft a plan for a renovation. After a year, Trump said, the consultant's only suggestion was that the restaurant needed a bigger kitchen.

Officials said Trump kept stressing the idea that lousy advice cost the owner a year of lost business and that talking to the restaurant's waiters instead might have yielded a better result. He also said the tendency is to assume if someone isn't a three-star general he doesn't know what he's talking about, and that in his own experience in business talking to low-ranking workers has gotten him better outcomes.

dear Hades

Separately: the fun bit? He says he's doing it because being pro-Trump was 'bad for business.'

Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich says he's doing a “big pivot” away from Trump: https://t.co/O2gTiCVBs4 pic.twitter.com/VKtCkgpfhA

— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 2, 2017

What if being president was as easy as being a drunk duffer at a high-class bar at 3 am when the owner wants to close and go home

Hannity always delivers the laughs, although I do wince every time when I get out of the car and think about how I could have instead devoted x number of minutes catching up on the dozens and dozens of CDs I have backlogged.

He was conspiratorially assuring his audience tonight that a) he can't say he everything he knows, but b) he does know people, and he does know things.

Those who need not worry: 1) Trump, 2) his administration.
Those who should be very worried: 1) Hillary Clinton, 2) DNC operatives who met with Ukrainians, 3) Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, 4) James Comey.

He did spare Barack Obama, Samantha Power, Zoë Baird, and Cristophe.

why

Had to cut to a commercial for one of the seven thousand suspect products he vouches for--Protect Your Parakeet from Identity Theft or some such.

it's really disturbing to me, how you view this situation as a spectator sport

?

he treats it like a particularly exciting baseball game

I'm not really sure what that means, or how I'm any different from most people who comment in this thread. Being from Canada, I'd a spectator, to a large extent, by default. I don't know how my average post differs from the average American post here. (I will review your own posts and try to decipher the subtleties of tone I'm missing.)

tbh I wish we could ban all non-US posters itt except for maybe darragh and LBI, so grain of salt etc.

/wishlist

i'm way fucking american and there are no exciting baseball games. that is all.

Trump threads get 3,000 posts per month. Guessing at least half of them are jokes, no?

someone tell John Oliver

xp half of them are shitty posts by Old Lunch

I'll stop now

ah good this is just what the thread needed

Guys guys, divided we stand.

after 17 years of ilx politics threads, the subjects finally begin to realize that they consist mainly of poor jokes and commentary and have a negligible effect on policy

tbh I wish we could ban all non-US posters itt

spoken like a true Trump

There needs to be a separate US politics board.

build the wall

Thanking u for the series of quality posts there, sleeve.

Be forewarned, everyone: I'm going to be carefully policing the Gino Vanelli thread over on ILM from this day forward.

I can't come up with a single joke about how we shouldn't be making jokes

I thought sleeve was british, fwiw.

In fairness...even though I shouldn't be...I do understand that it's easier for me to make jokes about Trump from another country. And I do understand the actual destruction his presidency involves (which can only get worse).

But I can't not be Canadian, can't not take an interest in American politics, and can't not make jokes. I'm 55, and won't be changing soon.

I have zero issues with people outside of the US weighing in on Trump. This nightmare affects all of us.

We wish it didnt, frankly.

I'm very serious about the separate politics board. I know I mostly post about politics now -- it's impossible to look away from what's happening -- but I still feel like vomiting whenever I read the word "Trump" and hate that he is the single most discussed individual on this messageboard I love, a place that turned me on to a ton of interesting music and ideas long before I even started posting.

give us your tired, your poor, your sucker US posters, waiting for prosperity to trickle down

Treeship: just dont read the politics threads then? Aside from this one, I dont. I hear theyre mostly full of you lot screeching past each other anyway.

If it was all on a separate board people could have the option to uncheck it on their SNA