I lolled earlier when I saw the headline « Accusé d’être fou, Trump fait son propre éloge et se qualifie de «génie très stable »
"accused of being crazy" not *really* what's been said in English but still I lolled
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
we are all watching the gorilla channel
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
we are the gorilla channel
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
we are the 801
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
ich bin ein harambe
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
“1/2 term”?
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
wishful thinking. 1 termer, maybe
― akm, Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
that could be wishful if you read Newsweek's Joe Biden opinion piece
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
8 years baby
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
Mr. Ed was a stable genius too.
― failsun ra (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
that's pretty funny/clever.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
I Dream of Genius
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
nah i think he'll get life (no parole)
xpost
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
Well if Chait is worried about it then I think I'm... not at all:http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/republicans-weaponizing-the-law-against-trumps-enemies.html
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
This whiplash conversion among Never-Trumpers to "Dear Leader" collective—esp. in aftermath of getting their tax bill through—makes me worried that there is something more nefarious than "party before country" at play.
What kind of dirt is being leveraged on all these creeps?
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
they have no other alternative. trump is a horrific empty shell of a dipshit, but he also merely an amplification of the direction the republican party was heading toward anyway
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
sure, they could all revert to never-trumpism and support some polite looking godfearing midwestern white man who wants to ban abortions for president in 2020 or 2024. but they'd still have to deal with the fact that a huge portion of their base, maybe even the majority, clearly has more enthusiasm for a loudmouthed buffoon whose calling card is winning the race to the bottom before most others realized it was a competition. if trump doesn't run again, surely SOME other figure on the fringe will try to pick up where he left off, maybe ditching the Dumbest Person in the World bits and keeping the racism and xenophobia.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
I'm not so sure anymore. I recall reading last year that the risk entailed in accurately tracing Trump crimes back through Felix Sater et al is compromising countless other investigations, blowing hard earned, decades-long deep covers, exposing too many global financial institutions, etc.
Is it possible that the oligarchic reach is so pervasive that to disrupt it would destabilize markets and upset governments on a scale that discourages investigation?
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
Drain the swamp!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
so he's having some kind of kiss-the-ring summit in Camp David, to which Jeffy was not invited?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
too oligarchical to fail
― j., Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
if that were true, wouldn't democrats be just as concerned about it as republicans? most of them seem perfectly willing to criticize trump. the simpler answer is that republican politicians really are the opportunistic, bootlicking assholes that they have always appeared to me, at least during my lifetime.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Maybe many of them are.
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
Lindsey Graham won 56% of the vote in '14 SC primary. The runner-up had 15%. The president's approval rating hovers around 37%. Graham will not face another challenge until 2020. '
I smell gay tape.
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
FWIW, I haven't seen much of this Never-Trumper rush to kiss boots myself. Pretty much all the usual suspects are usual-suspecting.
Anyway, the Wolff himself:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-wolff-reflects-a-wild-week-trumps-anger-i-have-no-side-q-a-1072106
And I have zero reason to doubt this is how it went down:
I literally think you go in there and say, "I'm writing a book," and they go, "Oh. A book." It's like a cloak of invisibility. And then also they would do this thing that would be like, "Oh, this is off the record." And I would say, "I would like to use it for the book." And they would say, "Well, when does that come out?" And I would say, "Next year." "Oh, oh, yeah, OK, fine."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
Also, in response to a question about his sources apparently still in the WH and how Trump is allegedly reacting:
I hear that the president is very angry, or, let me be precise: I hear that he is truly bouncing off the walls.
I...like imagining this.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
And I mean, is he wrong?
I remember when the Murdoch book came out and Murdoch's guy [former News Corp. marketing and corporate affairs exec] Gary Ginsberg, called me, furious, and said, "What is this? The book is all about him!" I said, "It's a biography." And Ginsberg says, "But it's so personal." That's when I realized, these guys don't just not read books — they don't know what books are.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
Wasn't Graham a Never-Trumper? Yesterday he recommended Christopher Steele for criminal investigation.
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
I realize he has maintained a disapproving tone wrt Trump but this is pretty boot-kissy where it most counts
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
they could all revert to never-trumpism and support some polite looking godfearing midwestern white man who wants to ban abortions for president in 2020 or 2024.
I, for one, think abortions should have every right to run for president.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
i read wolff’s book overnight and the only part which stretched credulity was bannon claiming that he didn’t drink
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
I've seen a couple of people insist that's the case before -- Haberman among them -- so who knows? Maybe he doesn't! Maybe he looks fucked up naturally.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
i mean maybe he’s graduated from drinking regular-people alcohol and just drinks white spirit or huffs gasoline or something
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
palpatine didn't drink either afaik and he looked bad.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
"Do you drink?" "Only to excess".
https://www.you.tube.com/watch?v=t7w5S3Saqog
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
one thing about trump’s tweets from earlier today dismissively mentioning the ‘reagan playbook’ that whoever wrote them seems to have overlooked is that reagan was in serious mental decline...
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
along with the romney at dinner ambush picture, this is another iconic political photo of the 21st century, imo:
https://i.imgur.com/BBPCvZo.jpg
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
haunting
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
Think your question was just answered there, bizarro.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
huh i just noticed for the first time that bannon’s wearing his usual two-shirts uniform there
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
bonny two-shirts
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
Two shirts, no trousers. :(
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
dorky piggin it
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
I believe Bannon said he doesn't drink
― Moodles, Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
Bannon doesn't drink. He damages his brain by worshipping his own thinking.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
Guys what happens if Bannon primaries Trump
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
Trump would trounce Bannon in the primaries. But they'd 100% control the discourse.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
(l-r) donald j trump, stephen k bannon
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
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