US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

As if every nanosecond of Trump's life hasn't been meticulously documented over the past two years.

feel like "tweets don't fail me now" might be a good January thread title

by the foreign powers who have tapped his unsecured personal phone xp

Asked whether the White House had a plan in place for when Mueller closes in, the spokesman Hogan Gidley declined to comment.

Hogan Gidley! Add that one to the list of awesome names in this epic satirical novel.

what happened in Wisconsin, even the slightly watered down version that passed, was some buuuuullshit, and people like tammy baldwin need to speak out more forcefully about it than this:

“I do believe that the legislature is overreaching and really just disrespecting the voters of my state,” the senator said.

She added later, referring to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is retiring from that chamber soon: “I hope that Speaker Ryan is still as invested as he ever was in the success of Wisconsin, so I think he absolutely should speak up about this.”

yeah! that'll show them!

?!?!?!!??!!

btw they're doing this in michigan now, too

WI and MI voted for Trump. This is their reward.

GOP is basically a stalker now

yum!

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g5xZgnRvBqQ/XAXHcUdZjVI/AAAAAAABA1o/NFQuXZMIzLQeBb90HvEoQPA0iT5F8QO6gCLcBGAs/s1600/2012-02-15-Banana_Republican_0203-thumb.jpg

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former AG Barr as new Trump AG...?

as in Roseanne?

Secretary of Agriculture Dan Connor.

I honestly don't remember Barr at all from his first time around.

I remember him vaguely; I have trouble distinguishing the Poppy appointees from the late Reagan-era ones like Dick Thornburgh.

how delightful:

Barr's two-day confirmation hearing was "unusually placid" and he received a good reception from both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.[8] Asked whether he thought a constitutional right to privacy included the right to an abortion, Barr responded that he believed the constitution was not originally intended to create a right to abortion; that Roe v. Wade was thus wrongly decided; and that abortion should be a "legitimate issue for state legislators".[8] Committee Chairman, Senator Joe Biden, though disagreeing with Barr, responded that it was the "first candid answer" he had heard from a nominee on a question that witnesses would normally evade.[9] Barr was approved unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Chairman Biden hailed Barr as "a throwback to the days when we actually had attorneys general that would talk to you."[9]

The media described Barr as staunchly conservative.[10] The New York Times described the "central theme" of his tenure to be: "his contention that violent crime can be reduced only by expanding Federal and state prisons to jail habitual violent offenders."[10] At the same time, reporters consistently described Barr as affable with a dry, self-deprecating wit.[1

seems like he wouldn't fire mueller? i think a draconian, law-and-order reaganite is probably on the higher end of what we could hope for in a trump AG

yup

not quite a dyed-in-the-wool racist keelber elf or totally unqualified lickspittle

(still bad, obviously)

Also: I assume Barr and Mueller are colleagues and contemporaries.

it doesn't matter who the AG is now re: Mueller imo. With the Dems in Congress and all the court filings and cases in motion, his stuff will come out even if he was summarily fired right this minute

yeah the time to fire Mueller was 10 minutes after he was appointed

Did some digging re Barr and Mueller and found this very interesting little tidbit from Chase Untermeyer's published diaries being in GHWB's White House:

https://books.google.com/books?id=lBZDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=%22bill+barr%22+mueller&source=bl&ots=rZtNkWb2Ts&sig=9HakJ6dCVDSeNUifwL3-qbNplAc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJhO6b8YvfAhXBwMQHHViwCII4ChDoATACegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=%22bill%20barr%22%20mueller&f=false

"an intensely handsome fellow"

"intensely handsome"!

Seeing names like Robert Novak seared my retinas.

no wonder Comey wanted to hug and kiss him so much

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Rough_Boys.jpg/220px-Rough_Boys.jpg

Wonder who Barr wanted instead. Doesn't mean they didn't get along later.

gonna check my uni library for these diaries!

I do love this bit from Untermeyer's Wikipedia entry:

Untermeyer is the author of When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration, a memoir of the opening two years of the Reagan Administration; Inside Reagan's Navy: The Pentagon Journals, describing his service at the Navy Department; and How Important People Act: Behaving Yourself in Public.

His website has more fun re that last point. I presume our current president was not a client.

In an informal and fun atmosphere, Ambassador Chase Untermeyer shares valuable tips and techniques on how to act in public. These include how to make conversation with total strangers at a reception or banquet; how to sit on stage; how to give a talk; how to attend a funeral or other solemn occasion; how to take a tour; how to run a meeting; how to deal with the press; and how best to represent your company or firm in another country and culture.

Unlike professional training programs on “motivation” and “leadership” that speak in generalities, the “How Important People Act” seminar arms you with dozens of very practical things you can start using immediately to act with confidence and competence in public

dying @ this

he's like the Henry Higgins of Important People

"Why Can't The Americans Learn to Sit?"

I also appreciate that if you go to his site, you'll find you can choose from his resume, his very short bio, his short bio or his full bio. Or his wife.

"How to Sit on Your Wife -- And Asking Her Permission!"

"How To Be Buried."

This is the world Ross Douthat wants:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7XIHlAuYvk

BTW you should go back to that diary link just for the attempt at humor between him, Bush and the Gorbachevs, as well as the revelation that the chapter is called "The Case of the Missing Earrings." Why the hell hasn't there been a parody film of this guy yet.

Joy! My library's got it.

I await the blogpost

WI and MI voted for Trump. This is their reward.

― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, December 6, 2018 11:09 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You are full of it if you think the Wisconsin state legislature would be acting one bit differently if Clinton had done 2% better and won here. On the contrary -- if Wisconsin were really "Trump Country" as some people like to think, the legislature here wouldn't be so damn scared of the public.

whoa there are Wisconsin ilxors

where you from exactly

Illinois ain't exactly deep blue (even if it looks that way on paper), but the only place I've seen actual Trump signs and Republican candidate signs in large numbers has been right outside Milwaukee, between there and Madison.

The entire country is basically the same, rural (red/outer suburbs) and blue (urban areas/inner suburbs)

find the nearest university and walk 20 miles to the left, and you'll find a trump sign

trump is on the far left, claims ilxor dot com poster ‘karl malone’

So...about Bob Barr...

how soon we forget the only actually funny Trump nickname

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-may-replace-jim-mattis-new-nickname-moderate-dog-2018-9

oops wrong thread