Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

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still waiting on the press conference to start (live video here for those who enjoy pain).

wonder if he'll take any questions.

"Oops. The comedian and humorist Kathy Griffin apologized after posting pictures of Donald Trump's head beheaded. CNN, where Kathy Griffin hosted an annual show at Christmas condemned these images, deeming them "sickening and offensive." The US news channel was pleased with the host's apology. Very moved, Kathy Griffin expressed his sincere regrets in video, saying to have understood that his photos had exceeded the limits and were too shocking. Donald Trump did not fail to stigmatize the brutality of these images recalling Jihadist terrorism."

stop posting

Jihadist terrorism? I just thought Salome / John the Baptist or Judith / Holofernes.

even frank fucking luntz knows what's up

Ahead of Trump's announcement, a majority of Americans in every state support staying in the #ParisAgreement.https://t.co/eSJRKoBfDH pic.twitter.com/wXzwrZ5tfT

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 1, 2017

Fuck Donald Trump

There is no reason to know either way, but I predict backlash. It is just such a pointless affront.

Talk about childish, he's like a little kid who knows he's a total fuck up and just doesn't give a shit, so wants to take everybody down with him. He's pissing in the world biggest pool.

if the backlash is focused on the environment, i hope the protests (if there are any) are better organized the two dueling science/climate change marches (March for Science on 4/22 and the People's Climate March on 4/29, with various environmental organizations squaring off against each other rather than, i don't know, uniting against the obvious clear present danger and just holding ONE FUCKING MARCH

good fucking LORD that was demoralizing

yeah that was weird/bad

It's really hard to feel anything other than loathing towards the US right now. No matter how many US'ers are disgusted with Trump and the GOP's actions, none of this should have been even remotely conceivable in the first place. And fuck seeking excuses for what is objectively the most powerful country in the world.

can you imagine the women's march if it would have devolved into one group of organizations who wanted to focus on access to reproductive health care holding, holding a march on january 14th, with a second group demanding that the focus be on ensuring equal wages and benefits in the workplace holding a separate march on the 21st?

alright, the feed is live.

we're a fully blown rogue state now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enGiN6AwgoU

Why is it that narcissistic shitbags seem so much better at overcoming the narcissism of small differences in their pursuit of evil?

None of the marches mean shit unless they take place in places other than Democratic stronghold cities. 10 people, 10,000 people, 100,000 people, it all matters not unless people turn out on election day and vote these assholes out.

why is pence introducing this like it's a celebration?

whatever he says, it will be historic. this will go down in history as just an obvious, stupid, STUPID mistake, just completely misguided, against the strong opposition of literally the entire world except for one political party in the midst of sheer madness

Honestly, there is very little about all these Russian investigations that weren't brought up months ago (go figure). People don't give a shit

I don't think either of these statements is true?

I don't know that people don't give a shit, but it's also not clear to me that a clear narrative of corruption is being presented in the same way that it was for, say, Watergate.

sleeve!!!!

go fuck yourself, troll

this isn't a fucking joke, asshole

there's a cheering section at this announcement. who are these people? they gave him an ovation

Honestly, there is very little about all these Russian investigations that weren't brought up months ago (go figure). People don't give a shit

Watergate took a year and a half to get going

All these characters, from Manafort to Page to Cohen to Stone, etc., people have been talking about them for months. Not to mention Trump himself, who was shady from day one. So yeah, some of the finer points of detail re: Flynn or Sessions are new, and the Comey twist is new, but there was enough to go on before the election. People. Do. Not. Give. A. Shit.

If people give a shit they will vote out the GOP. If they don't ... they don't. And I have my doubts, because they elected this fucking piece of shit in the first place.

Somewhere in Trump's sick mind he at least considered how he could use this as a bargaining chip. If we can let these totally, totally false Russian accusations go, maybe I won't hasten the extinction of life on earth. Sad!

These tweets worth reading: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/06/trump-identity-politics

Watergate took a year and a half to get going, fine. But we are well post Watergate, we know the drill, and in the meantime day after day Trump is fucking everything up. By the time we emerge from the other side, assuming anything even happens, someone will have to clean up all this shit he smeared all over everything.

Yes the pullout is damaging but the fact that it's TRUMP who's doing it taints climate-denialism by association...

Doesn't it? (Please say it does)

why is pence introducing this like it's a celebration?

there's a cheering section at this announcement. who are these people?

"Because fuck Obama" and "because liberal tears / liberal 'splodey heads" is really all the explanation needed, both for the pullout and for the air of celebration. It's just a big fat Culture War zing, and it didn't require marshaling a Senate vote, getting through a Federal court, or any of those pesky details.

Like, with no question there is tenfold times the shit going on as there was during Watergate, it's all right out there for even armchair investigators to see. Perjury, conflicts of interest. It's all right there. But there are serious things at stake here with global implications, you'd think it'd expedite things a bit.

The right is almost pure identity id at this point. There is no policy agenda, just hatred of "latte liberals," people of color, immigrants.

— sean. (@SeanMcElwee) May 31, 2017

they aren't being let go, they are sucking all the air out of Trump's presidency and hobbling congressional legislative agenda. In that sense it doesn't matter if the public at large "doesn't give a shit" (although I think they do, for the most part), what matters is that it is crippling him politically. Why do you think he's making such a big deal of this Paris Accord withdrawal? It's one of the few things left that he can do without Congress (I'm gonna let you guess what the others are - they aren't pretty either)

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here comes a litany of misleading lies from trump. this is revolting.

trump just criticized the paris accord for not promoting "clean coal" enough, which is one dumb thing, but also...doesn't his own budget cut funding for "clean coal"?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-budget-hits-renewables-hard-but-clean-coal-also-starves/article/2623937

his lies aren't even consistent

why start now

I wonder if they cancelled that Iowa rally because this was going to take its place

I'm gonna let you guess what the others are - they aren't pretty either

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^^^ bring it on

what matters is that it is crippling him politically

In what sense? Because from Trump through Sessions to Pruitt to whomever, they are still doing shitty horrible things, whether it has to go through congress or not. The only argument that can be made is that it could be even worse.

does everyone else think I should stop posting too?

Actually feel sick at the amount of stupidity in this speech. It's moronic!

In what sense? Because from Trump through Sessions to Pruitt to whomever, they are still doing shitty horrible things, whether it has to go through congress or not. The only argument that can be made is that it could be even worse.

that's the only argument to make! why is this not important??

Because the prospect of worse does not make terrible better!

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Josh, your basis for argument seems to be that if it's not good enough to get this administration thrown out now, it's not worth bothering with.