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

btw throwing the election to Trump and then getting fired and smeared by him because you weren't sufficiently subservient is really the ultimate Donald Trump experience isn't it

p much

Fun times at the EPA.

Wow. EPA spox Jahan Wilcox to @elainaplott when she called for comment on this story: “You have a great day, you’re a piece of trash.” https://t.co/mXpa3Pcgug

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 6, 2018

How sweet!

I asked Scott Pruitt a quick question about the reports he tried to help his wife become a Chick-fil-A franchisee.

"With great change comes, I think, opposition...I love, she loves [Chick-fil-A]" pic.twitter.com/gND2tdMq1e

— Jessica Smith (@JessicaASmith8) June 6, 2018

Meantime, something new Stormy-wise...

New Stormy Daniels lawsuit claims her former lawyer betrayed her and "hatched a plan" with Trump attorney Michael Cohen to get the adult film actress to publicly deny she had an affair with President Trump. https://t.co/RvYitjrdOO

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 6, 2018

Attached to the Stormy Daniels lawsuit are text messages exchanged between Michael Cohen and Daniels’ former lawyer Keith Davidson.

They’re worth a read. More here: https://t.co/N3ioPrZXlW pic.twitter.com/vV4EkWtlzr

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 6, 2018

Further to which:

Wait what pic.twitter.com/WjNgHjhHE5

— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) June 6, 2018

So, it looks like Trump called in his fixer in to break the news to his wife that he was being sued as a result of his affair with a porn star.

— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) June 6, 2018

And as long as we're talking Trump and Cohen, how about a different Trump?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/ivanka-trump-putin-moscow-meeting-michael-cohen-tower?utm_term=.ltOOlN9Px#.lmeDQ6rPv

And what gifts were they bringing?

This one is the most intriguing. Who are “the wise men”? pic.twitter.com/Vqj5EcZ1pL

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 6, 2018

Can you call me please?

Please call me

U calling?

U up?

Hey

The concept of "wise men", who stand out of the limelight and quietly advise public figures based on their many decades of experience, is well-established in national politics, but knowing the identity of these particular "wise men" would be intriguing.

Also, Cohen calling Stormy's lawyer "pal"!

being considered a wise man in the trump admin is some real ‘tallest dwarf’ territory

I'm guessing this collection of Wise Men is comprised of...I'll be conservative and say maybe only like 40% former Celebrity Apprentice contestants.

OT but Lunch, what about Butthurt Brecht?

NEWS: Just told by senior EPA person that Sarah Greenwalt, senior counsel to Pruitt, has also resigned. Asking EPA public affairs for confirmation. Comes after another aide Millian Hupp also resigned today

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) June 6, 2018

A pizza guy made a delivery to a military base in Brooklyn. A military police officer at the base asked him for his immigration documents, then called ICE, which detained him. He has two kids. https://t.co/hUf2y3XcAE

— Josh Nathan-Kazis (@joshnathankazis) June 6, 2018

time to start doxxing ice agents imo

Not to diminish the awfulness of what happened, but you can get pizza delivered to a military base??

Only from Bombino's

Sure, sure.

Giuliani on Stormy Daniels: Melania Trump 'believes her husband' https://t.co/dr4RPPwUc3

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) June 6, 2018

the fact is no one actually gives a shit that Trump slept with a porn star. The GOP doesn't care, the Dems don't care, it won't sway votes. What does matter is legal fallout.

He's done so many worse things, this doesn't even register in the top 25. But I am rooting for plenty of legal fallout, involving revelations of illegal activity much slimier than just him cheating on his wife.

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.

― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:43 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

many xps but I totally misread this as "John Brannon" and got way too excited/impressed for a second

this melania android they brought out today is pretty convincing!

it helps when the human melania was a longtime resident of the uncanny valley anyway

Don't know where else to post this. Scary

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/world/asia/china-guangzhou-consulate-sonic-attack.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=67100509&pgtype=Homepage

eh who needs state dept employees anyway, amirite? I mean what deals did they ever make

p clear that one of the communist regimes (probably Russia, would be my guess) have some freaky new sonic weapon in their spy arsenal

didn't something similar happen in cuba or something?

Yes, still going on IIRC

oh yeah http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article203221919.html

Although whenever I read one of these stories I think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwRvWpsiM2w

hawkwind were ahead of their time

jinx!

It makes me think that we haven't heard from Fred Durst in a while, just saying.

p clear that one of the communist regimes (probably Russia, would be my guess) have some freaky new sonic weapon in their spy arsenal

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 4:14 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Russia isn't communist any more iirc

were they ever

OT but Lunch, what about Butthurt Brecht?

― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 2:51 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As kind of a general guideline for life, I try whenever possible to draw emphasis to the butthole.

And yes, you can totally get pizza delivered to a military base. There's a procedure, and different bases/sections of bases have different clearance requirements. IME, the less secure parts of military bases are almost frighteningly easy to fuck around in (assuming you aren't very obviously trespassing).

(Join my 'two hellish years of high school stuck on a Navy base in rural IN' AMA already in progress.)

Unimpeachable logic. xp

Good thread re tariff impacts. Buckle up.

hello, Pennsylvanian in heavy manufacturing here, the supply chain situation is um, extremely not good and getting, uh, extremely not gooder https://t.co/VJ7HDxvztN

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 6, 2018

and...

the best part is watching all the people in my industry who were very MAGA for a year slowly lose their resolve about MAGAing and saying out loud maybe this guy doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing

Toomey rightly taken to task in those responses for being a spineless shitbag, it's too little/too late here

xpost Yeah I do love that. (But you snipped out the part burning Salena Zito as well.)

many xps but I totally misread this as "John Brannon" and got way too excited/impressed for a second

― I want to change my display name (dan m)

I did this as well

little boy: grandpa tell the story about how you stood up to president?@SenToomey ah yes. it was june 6. i questioned the tariffs as “disturbing”

— Paul A. Ticz (@MyPoliticsAcct) June 6, 2018

I’m super not into this sonic poisoner device wtf

https://gfycat.com/HarmfulImmaterialIndianpangolin

I'm laughing at this more than I probably should