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

dress in shark costumes

We'd sound like the gulls in FINDING NEMO.

BBC headline is that "trump ready to apologise for far right posts'. Why wouldn't you just apologise rather than signal readiness to apologise? It seems false. Plus we don't want him either way.

I'm preparing myself to not accept his apology.

"Sorry if some of you were offended..."

So basically:
WH is demanding about 80% of its initial asks on legal imm, 100% of its initial asks on border/asylum, and 20% (subject to change) of its initial asks on interior enforcement.https://t.co/urh8QbFRRf

— Dara Lind (@DLind) January 25, 2018

Missed that Meehan is not seeking re-election. That's something like, what, 32? 33 GOP Congressmen not seeking re-election? That's a record, I think.

Had a beer with a friend and his friend last night. HIs friend is in I think some kind of international banking/finance and said that from their perspective, they're predicting and planning for a full-on trade-war with China, which they're expecting Trump to push in his state of the union.

why stop at just trade war

BBC headline is that "trump ready to apologise for far right posts'. Why wouldn't you just apologise rather than signal readiness to apologise? It seems false. Plus we don't want him either way.

the president is having difficulty breathing, jig-is-up respiration like a season six Tony Soprano or nightclub Jake LaMotta

comes up for air in the ellipses of every run-on sentence

Mr. Trump said that when he retweeted the videos, which portrayed Muslims as violent attackers, he knew nothing about Britain First, the group that had originally posted them.

“If you are telling me they’re horrible people, horrible, racist people, I would certainly apologize, if you’d like me to do that,” Mr. Trump told Piers Morgan of the British broadcaster ITV, in an interview scheduled to air on Sunday.

“I am often the least racist person that anybody is going to meet,” he added.

great apology, the best

it’s 2018 and people with the last name falwell haven’t been laughed out of polite society

― maura

what is this "polite society" you speak of

"Other times I'm the MOST racist person anybody is going to meet! Crazy, huh?"

https://i.imgur.com/R1FJSh2.png

"ready to apologise" is preemptive. When he's not treated with sufficient deference by Britons (which he won't be), he can be all like "well I WAS ready to apologize, NOW I'm not gonna. Such haters. And losers too! Not many people know that America won a war against G. Britain!"

TBF, having never issued one, our beloved president has no idea how to construct an apology. It's like asking him to demonstrate an expression of care toward another human being, completely external to his lived experience.

"I'm sorry you actually thought I would have retweeted a racist organization on purpose, but that's what happens when you've got such terrible media in this country, I'm not gonna say we should treat them the way those vicious Muslims treated those beautiful, innocent kids in the video, but something has to be done, it's just terrible, more terrible than anyone could have possibly ever imagined..."

'ready to apologize' = would love to talk more about whether or not i am a good person or a great person for my willingness to apologize, which i don't even really have to do because i am often so not racist

So is the consensus still that mueller will wait until after midterms to bring hammer down (recommend impeachment)?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUegPbyWAAMYVRV.jpg:small

lol

best part about that Hannity thing is that Hannity was calling for Mueller to be fired in June, and we all know Trump watches Hannity, soooo.........

jig-is-up respiration like a season six Tony Soprano or nightclub Jake LaMotta

LaMotta lived to be 96

i met jake lamotta once. he was kind of like groot the tree-man. slow but when i shook his hand it was obvious that he could have crushed the bones in my hands into dust.

“I am often the least racist person that anybody is going to meet,” he added._

“I am often the least racist person that anybody is going to meet,” he added._

"What about Mike Pence?"
"No comparison. Mike... He's a great guy... Mike's the most racist person you'll meet. Not me."
"Bannon?"
"Way more racist than me. Yuge, yuge racist."
"Jayda Fransen?"
"Who? Oh her. Not much more racist than me, just a pinch. But definitely more racist, not less. More."

wow Scott under what circumstances?

at a fancy food show in philly i was at for work. he was selling his tomato sauce. there weren't a lot of people around him so i got to hang out with him a bit. he had like one handler guy. he mostly just nodded when people would talk to him. he was cool to look at.

old boxers are usually kinda sad because of what has happened to their melons but they are also very compelling to look at. they look like rock formations or ancient turtles or something. there is still a lot of power in them.

yeah I saw Chuck Wepner once, he moved like through molasses

I saw Jake at a comedy club (honoring his fellow Bronxer Larry Storch), but he was 90 and I didn't wanna bother him.

(he was just sitting there, not doing "my alcohol was 2% blood" jokes)

lol

You know, not to give credence to his dreams of youthful sport domination, but Trump reminds me of an old athlete. Let himself go, sort of lumbering, lingering brain damage, nice to kids, obsessed with the good old days and past prowess, owns a car dealership or two ...

that's entirely too generous

I could totally see a parallel universe where Trump made his money selling cheap-o kitchen grills that drain off the fat from meat.

http://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/04/AP_985702709324-640x480.jpg

in this universe he sold steaks

nice to kids

um

Well, not his own. The kind he can give back or kick out.

i support the alternate universe in all its flaws if it means trump spent most of his life getting punched in the head.

An alternate universe where he got distracted and thus got domed by propeller of his helicopter

god i just want all of this to end

We are in the alternate universe.

The President once had a solid right hook. He proudly recounted punching his 2nd grade teacher in the face, and then there is the story of him knocking out Donald Jr. in his dorm.

Terrible footwork though.

http://cnn.it/2nfqlMb

oops I meant

Trump mentioned fake news at Davos — here's how the room reacted. https://t.co/bQK0kpWzCq

— Meg Wagner (@megwagner) January 26, 2018

god i just want all of this to end

on that subject, I'm paywalled but this is beginning to make the rounds and seems less than great

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-chose-to-shield-a-top-adviser-accused-of-harassment-in-2008.html?

Trump whining about the "fake news" then immediately falsely claiming that the cameras in front of him are turning off is about as on-brand as you can get