US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

and a move to make it difficult for democrats to campaign in their districts for the midterms

*states

Well, for anyone.

this slate watergate podcast is pretty darn good, thanks for the link.

Well I...wait.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/state-department-heather-nauert-germany-israel/index.html

such a fine line between love and hate

I don't get the good mourning joke ;_;

Such skills

Trump wants Kim to commit to a nuclear disarmament timetable in next week's Singapore meeting, and might offer a follow-up session for Mar-a-Lago in the fall https://t.co/uReAfYBBis

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) June 6, 2018

Spokesperson Heather Nauert responds to the press. Can I just? Uh. Jeez. I'm sorry. I can't. I just can't. No. Really. I'm OK. Just leave me alone for a minute. I'll be alright.

yeah, obviously staffers then and now have and will always call such things a witch hunt, what I'm specifically interested in is the level to which a large swath of the general public also agreed

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine)

i know you've mentioned woodward and bernstein, but "the final days" is a generally underread book and reading it gives one a highly distinct sense of deja vu, i have found

...Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting. They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever. Fake News is really bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018

yea she's definitely dead

"merrily along" lol

i've never merrily walked to a meeting in my life, what's her secret

(apart from being a ghost)

Bourbon and Ambient.

wild turkey and the future sound of london

Bourbon and Ambient

Alfred just described the only "a box of ____ shipped to you every month" service I would actually subscribe to

melania was also at an event that they denied the press access to, so if you want to get your story out there, maybe make some changes you dumb fuck

love that the dude who pushed birtherism for years is now mad that people are coming up with conspiracy theories about his wife which he could easily debunk but chooses not to

Kansas is a sick place.

speaking of dumb fucks, james comey everyone

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-watchdog-finds-comey-defied-authority-fbi-director/story?id=55670834

The draft of Horowitz's wide-ranging report specifically called out Comey for ignoring objections from the Justice Department when he disclosed in a letter to Congress just days before the 2016 presidential election that FBI agents had reopened the Clinton probe, according to sources. Clinton has said that letter doomed her campaign.

Horowitz's draft report cited Comey for failing to consult with Lynch and other senior Justice Department officials before making his announcement on national TV. While saying there was no "clear evidence" that Clinton "intended to violate" the law, Comey insisted the former secretary of state was "extremely careless" in her "handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

"I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say," Comey said before cameras on July 5, 2016.

also discussed is dumb fuck bill clinton putting lynch on a box on this issue because of their tarmac meeting

Problems, problems.

BREAkING: new Guardian exclusive. Cambridge Analytica director 'met Assange to discuss US election & channeled cryptocurrency to Wikileaks’https://t.co/c24KXw3eFA

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) June 6, 2018

are we all too down in our nihilistic wormholes to discuss the primary results last night cuz Dem turnout shows no signs of abating, and Districts' across the country continue to flip/become competitive

speaking of dumb fucks, james comey everyone

but he's so honorable!

and tall!

Comey is a shitbag narcissist, game recognize game

are we all too down in our nihilistic wormholes to discuss the primary results last night cuz Dem turnout shows no signs of abating, and Districts' across the country continue to flip/become competitive

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:42 AM

I was going to post in the Democratic Party thread.

his guiding motivation has always been to develop/project/maintain his image as UPSTANDING G-MAN NUMBER ONE, and that's it.

xp

his reverence for david brooks informs his sophomoric political instincts that back up his bs g-man front

Comey is such a fucking doofus. one of the lowkey worst things about the Trump Debacle is this fucknut being rehabbed into a resistance hero.

*rehabbed as

Image search for a Comey/Guevara mashup yields zero results. So disappointed in the internet right now.

Comey's best trait is that he wrote copious notes following all his meetings with Trump, which, when you think about it, is pretty crappy to have as your best trait.

One of my bandmate spotted John Brennan at a carnival a few days ago, wearing shorts and riding the bumper cars with (one presumes) a grandchild. Incidentally Brennan and my dad were on a softball team together in the 1970s.

Kim Jong Un is going to love this. Rudy Giuliani: The N. Korean leader got “on his hands and knees and begged” for the summit to be held.@felschwartzhttps://t.co/0mm9K4n3bo

— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) June 6, 2018

Rudy is possibly the only person dumber than Trump

people made fun of Kim K but she managed to get Trump to actually do something decent, which is impressive

and I had the same thought:

I wouldn’t be surprised if part of this was a way to give a retroactive black eye to Obama for not pardoning her himself.

— T. (@RickyRawls) June 6, 2018

his motives were not to be decent though but rather to align himself with personalities he believes can benefit him in some way. xp

plus that xp

http://phillysketchfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Goat-Rodeo-Logo-300x300.jpg

xxxp

Hey, the Worm's got some assist.

Sebastian Gorka announces that he and Sean Hannity are heading to Singapore pic.twitter.com/UwV0uDLUnM

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) June 6, 2018

Grudges, he's got 'em

SCOOP: When Trudeau pressed Trump on national security justification for tariffs on Canada Trump responded: “didn’t you guys burn down the WH?” That was Britain during the War of 1812 https://t.co/tj4iHX7wPD

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 6, 2018

kinda wish Britain would do a repeat at the moment tbh

You burn down Buckingham Palace, we burn down the White House, deal?

As someone else pointed out, Canadians *do* take credit for that a lot so him citing it seems like fair game to me

Canada did something good once?

Long ago.

O ancient of days

If the War of 1812 did not happen we probably would not have the Star Spangled Banner, so Trump should be grateful and more patriotic.

that goat rodeo image upthread is a+++++

:D