US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

Trump truly is a living, breathing second panel of the dinosaur comics, ending *everything* with an exclamation mark.

https://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/dinosaur-comic-strip.jpg

this again

“Our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent American values or American fairness so we’re going to take a strong look at that,” he told reporters as he met members of his Cabinet.

“We are going to take a strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts,” Trump said.

cool

“We are going to take a strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts,” Trump said.

RIP Donald Trump

i hope obama sues him for everything he's worth then, the bald flabby traitor

It would bring a certain kind of satisfaction if he actually did successfully get Congress to change libel laws... and then spent his entire post-presidential life embroiled in lawsuit after lawsuit from everybody he's ever lied about.

he's been obsessed with this for ages. classic entitled asshole constantly shocked and fuming at his aides - - - "you're telling me they're ALLOWED to say that about me?!" as a result, it's likely one of his most consistent political opinions. it's also something about which the overwhelming majority of the population does not care in the slightest.

Today Dutch press welcomed @petehoekstra as new ambassador to the Netherlands. In 2015 Hoekstra said Dutch"politicians are being burned" (not true). The only one who did get burned today is... Hoekstra himself. By refusing to answer our questions. pic.twitter.com/Dv2aalbhDP

— Roel Geeraedts (@RGjournalist) January 10, 2018

Follow-up on Hoekstra, this is from today lol

"this is the netherlands. you have to answer questions" lol

christ

what a fuckin dummy

".... thanks...."

something really beautiful about him just staring at the mantle detailing, believing this will all go away soon. it's like a steve carell character bit.

"How was your first day honey?"
"Good!"

mr. bannon is not mr. trump's only former campaign chairman feeling blue :(

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/cyprus-company-sues-ex-trump-campaign-manager-manafort-for-fraud-idUSKBN1EZ2FZ

Hm hm hm

NEWS: Mueller adds veteran cyber prosecutor to special counsel team https://t.co/omfac0Yd65

— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) January 10, 2018

anyone else on here feel irrationally embarrassed every time they encounter the name "Guccifer"?

something really beautiful about him just staring at the mantle detailing, believing this will all go away soon. it's like a steve carell character bit.

― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, January 10, 2018 7:16 PM (twenty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol. It's the best bit, just kind of plucking away at air there. I'd expect him to turn around and say:

"Hey who wants some pizza! It's on me!"

in 2019 the cyberprosecutor brought down the president

only the high speed prediction markets saw it coming

i think i need to live somewhere the politicians have to answer the questions

https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/ax0QQeY_700b.jpg

so how would you answer this question

filet of fish

christ

that has to be one of the most vile things you could eat

truly the man is a monster

sorry "filet-o-fish"

No, the political future of an ally and possible future U.S. senator had nothing to do with this exception

A hastily arranged airport rendezvous Tuesday ended with an announcement from President Donald Trump’s administration that the state of Florida is “off the table” for new offshore oil drilling, a declaration that brought both relief and protests of election-year politics.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott met with U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke at the airport in Tallahassee Tuesday afternoon. Both men emerged 20 minutes later to face waiting reporters, who had an hour’s notice of the meeting.

“As a result of our interest in making sure that there’s no drilling here, Florida will be taken off the table,” Scott said.

They can't legally say "of" fish

That declaration about changing the libel laws is such a beautiful distillation of the beauty that is Trump's tendency toward self-ownership-via-derangement. He honestly doesn't recognize himself as the most brazen offender wrt the behavior he's denouncing because said behavior is only a transgression (and possibly only exists) when he perceives himself as having been the victim of the transgression (which, as in this case, is often not even a real instance of the transgression he himself is way more guilty of having committed).

tl;dr, Whatta fuckin' dipshit.

Also in the 'hmm' file.

FBI Director Wray and Dep. AG Rosenstein met today with Senate Intel Cmte. Chairman Burr and Vice Chair Warner, Senate aide tells @NBCNews. https://t.co/d1HblRPdAs

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 10, 2018

(Especially since Burr/Warner are probably the most functional panel of them all.)

that has to be one of the most vile things you could eat

Then you don't wanna hear about what some aides cite as a normal dinner for him.

doodoo?

that's haute cuisine

Mueller adds veteran cyber prosecutor to special-counsel team

holy shit Barron changed teams...that's a cold shot to quote SRV

Then you don't wanna hear about what some aides cite as a normal dinner for him.

― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:51 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IIRC this too involves Filet-o-Fish as well as some resultant paste.

Such pleasant people all around!

Chuck Johnson sears Steve Bannon in column posted to GotNews, claiming that Bannon threatened to "shit down [his] neck" with mega donors pic.twitter.com/E0AwQzws0H

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) January 10, 2018

shit do not pass neck go directly to floor

chuck johnson, one of the few men who could make me side with steve bannon

also lol hoos

changing the libel laws

TBH I think when he started saying that, he obviously thought that when you're president you can just change laws.

GOP congresspeople are craven lickspittles who have caved to the Trumpgenda, of course, but that doesn't mean they're going to just start drafting/introducing/passing bills to repeal laws that Trump finds inconvenient. Trump and his crowd have no idea how lawmaking works, and obviously don't care.

When you've lived in a hermetically-sealed world for your entire life where you go 'waahh' and someone brings you your ba-ba, it can be difficult to adjust to the nuances of no longer being King Baby.

klosterman's looking well

lol that was my first thought as well

More fun:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-blow-up-over-comments-in-trump-book/2018/01/09/1afddebc-f199-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html?utm_term=.61a9891fa1a8

A person close to Bannon, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said “there is no mass exodus” at Breitbart and people were not entirely surprised by the news.

“It’s not personality-driven anymore,” the Bannon ally said of the website. “We get to focus on the agenda. When it’s about issues, Breitbart wins. We hopefully won’t have the cult of personality tearing us down.”

Bannon has told associates he plans to focus on creating a political operation in 2018, the person said, and is banking that Trump eventually will need him again and that congressional Republican leaders will eventually desert the president.

Congressional leaders will certainly try to abandon Trump at a point but let's hope those manacles hold and pull them down with the rest of the ship.

Trump says it 'seems unlikely' he'll give an interview in Mueller investigation, says, 'I'll see what happens' https://t.co/543U1PMZTm

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 10, 2018

He's been saying that a lot, should be his new campaign slogan: "TRUMP 2020: We'll See What Happens"

"Make America Look Into That, Believe Me"

that Pete Hoekstra clip is a thing of beauty

Meanwhile ICE is busy rounding people up

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/immigration-agents-target-7-eleven-stores-in-nationwide-sweep/2018/01/10/315dae76-f62b-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_icecrackdown-128pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.cf5004ce230b

many grateful americans will be rushing to fill those vaunted 7-11 jerbs taken by immigrants

reading the 7-eleven news i was struck by the incredible amount effort put forth to being such assholes

like wouldn’t actually rebuilding america put people to work long term? is trump trying to save high schoolers’ after school jobs?