Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

they should put this in the dictionary under concern trolling. it really is the platonic example.

"People are beginning to say what are our leaders actually going to do?" he asked. "Just expressing sorrow, just talking and using words like solidarity simply isn't enough."

He also brought up internment during interviews on "Fox & Friends Sunday."

"What I said was that the call for internment will grow stronger," he explained. "For the prime minister to say 'enough is enough,' that is not going to satisfy people.

"People want action. For my own part, I'm concerned that if we do intern 3,500 people, we might create more masses within that community. And the reason I say this is, we did this with suspected IRA terrorists and what it led to were more recruits for the IRA."

Daniel Hannan, Morgan, Milo, Hopkins, Mensch now...

‘The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton’ premieres tonight at 9p ET on Fox News Channel! pic.twitter.com/mbZ0ErlGIC

— The Next Revolution (@NextRevFNC) June 4, 2017

so i guess the uk's post-brexit economy is going to rely solely on exporting our most appalling cunts to america, huh

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Kinda agree with eephus there. Some Rs saying "Yeah THIS is too much" is a necessary step toward sanity.

Screw that, the only thing it helps is the health of the GOP. Because given the GOP has been batshit rightwing for years, and treated Obama with nonstop disrespect at best, what do these "reasonable" people stand for, given there is virtually nothing reasonable in GOP platform/policy/practice? What is it that makes them align with the GOP? What do they think the GOP is or should be given it has been at least tolerant of totally bonkers bullshit for the better part of a decade+? What is the GOP doing right, as far as they are concerned, that keeps them in the GOP?

i like this account

A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/fJTemIxD2P

— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) June 5, 2017

yea I'd encourage everyone to unfollow Donald and just follow that

^

i ran across that yesterday (possibly via caek, i don't remember!)

pareene, caek both right - milking outrage at judges for base red meat points is the plan. tromp himself may or may not be a true believer, to the extent that he believes anything. But it's irrelevant what he "thinks," as long as liberal tears keep flowing

haha

George Conway, who recently took himself out of the running to lead Justice Dept. Civil Division, on president's travel ban Tweets. https://t.co/OQCSdzDD2t

— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) June 5, 2017

These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won't help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters. Sad. https://t.co/zVhcyfm8Hr

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 5, 2017

Insight into the inner circle:

Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech

The president also disappointed—and surprised—his own top national security officials by failing to include the language reaffirming the so-called Article 5 provision in his speech. National security adviser H.R. McMaster, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson all supported Trump doing so and had worked in the weeks leading up to the trip to make sure it was included in the speech.

“They had the right speech and it was cleared through McMaster,” said a source briefed by National Security Council officials in the immediate aftermath of the NATO meeting. “As late as that same morning, it was the right one.”

Added a senior White House official, “There was a fully coordinated other speech everybody else had worked on”—and it wasn’t the one Trump gave. “They didn’t know it had been removed,” said a third source of the Trump national security officials on hand for the ceremony. “It was only upon delivery.”

Dickhead is about to ramble about air traffic controllers? It's like the extent of his government knowledge is skimming Reagan's wikipedia entry.

it's insignificant and nonsensical but I check Trump's twitter multiple times per day yet I don't follow him just because I don't want to give him my follow.

I can't get over that Conway tweet.

any idea when the SC might be hearing/ruling on the travel ban? also, any idea which way the votes will go? my fantasy is that Gorsuch votes against it but I assume that's a pipe dream.

haha, same xxp

The more hardcore tribalists among the GOP seem about half a step away from being easily goaded into acts of grave self-harm that they think might spite the libruhls.
― Trockasturm Hoar The Ramming Battle Ceraton (Old Lunch), Monday, June 5, 2017 10:27 AM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

triggering libs by flooding the house and giving myself heat stroke on purpose https://t.co/BcHlkVVgly

— Alex Nichols (@Lowenaffchen) June 2, 2017

I can't get over that Conway tweet.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, June 5, 2017 11:59 AM (three minutes ago)

lol it's his first tweet in like 2 years

infrastructure week!

xpost He picked his moment! (And it was confirmed to be him, via several tweets from reporters who got said confirmation.)

pareene, caek both right - milking outrage at judges for base red meat points is the plan. tromp himself may or may not be a true believer, to the extent that he believes anything. But it's irrelevant what he "thinks," as long as liberal tears keep flowing

If and when there is another Isis attack in the US, Trump is going to blame the courts for preventing him from doing what he thought needed to be done. He will definitely do this even if the travel ban wouldn't have stopped the attack. i'm worried this play will be convincing to many people...

Won't anyone please think of all of the previous attacks that wouldn't have been in any way forestalled by the travel ban???

It's going to be a bullshit argument like all his argument but it could work to cement his image--among republicans--as a beleaguered would-be protector of the innocent.

You see this shift in public attitude after every attack. Anti-Islam/immigrant comments show up on new york times articles with hundreds of upvotes etc.

If and when there is another Isis attack in the US, Trump is going to blame the courts for preventing him from doing what he thought needed to be done.

i've pointlessly worried and whined about this for months, but if there is a big ISIS (or whoever else) attack in the US, i think it will trigger an even more violent and gross overreaction than 9/11 did, militarily, culturally, legislatively. blaming the courts for not allowing the travel ban would be just the tip of the iceberg

Screw that, the only thing it helps is the health of the GOP. Because given the GOP has been batshit rightwing for years, and treated Obama with nonstop disrespect at best, what do these "reasonable" people stand for, given there is virtually nothing reasonable in GOP platform/policy/practice?

This is just gonna be a place where we differ; some people think "Trump is what the GOP has been for 20 years but in louder clothes" and some people, including me, think Trump represents a qualitatively different level of awfulness and that it would be a damn good thing for both the GOP and the country for Republicans to reject it.

Yeah, they need to kick that regressive bigotry back in the closet where it belongs.

The biggest qualitative difference between 'the GOP-at-large' and 'Trump's GOP' is the willingness of the latter group to just say what they're thinking instead of couching it in more socially-acceptable finery.

some people think "Trump is what the GOP has been for 20 years but in louder clothes" and some people, including me, think Trump represents a qualitatively different level of awfulness and that it would be a damn good thing for both the GOP and the country for Republicans to reject it.

why can't it be "Trump is the culmination of thirty-seven years of GOP awfulness"? Don't regard him as an outlier.

I can't get over that Conway tweet.

Kellyanne Conway's husband.

I do regard him as an outlier, but "reasonable people may differ" as they say in liberal wimp school

he is def not an outlier, just a more openly ghoulish embodiment of the same reprehensible shit as always (including the more evil motherfuckers across the aisle)

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3f/2e/f8/3f2ef840c648d84efb7e05d6e22cd224.jpg

As others have notes, he's just a continuation, but he says the loud parts quiet and the quiet parts loud.

he's a comment section troll come to life. it's kind of awesome how perfectly he behaves and communicates like your standard discus 'conservative' dickhead, or it would be, if it weren't so absolutely horrifying

He's also, personally, a very deranged and fucked up individual who seems to thrive on spreading fear and chaos.

I wonder if the plan to privatize air traffic control and get away from ground based radar was run by the Pentagon or DHS. I know the answer but still.

he is genuinely one of the dumbest people around, every time i've ever seen him try to convey anything resembling gravity he comes off like someone who's bad at telling a ghost story and is trying to amp it up by talking more slowly. or something. i really do think the most damaging thing about his presidency will ultimately be the fact that the rest of the world now thinks we're not only assholes, but stupid assholes.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/what-will-liberals-do-if-trump-isnt-impeached

Compared to the erratic bully-in-chief, a portion of Americans (and an alarming number of reporters) would like nothing more than a tall no-nonsense rule-lover with a gun. These folks need to snap out of it. The FBI is one of the most regressive institutions in America, though it is little worse than three of Comey's other former employers: bomb-maker Lockheed Martin, Connecticut hedge fund behemoth Bridgewater, and the George W. Bush Department of Justice. When liberals and other centrists start salivating for a guy with that kind of resume, we are very far misled as a polity.

Trump must go, but we can't pluck a petal and expect the plant to wither. Whether impeachment or the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, (natural) death or bureaucratic coup, none of the options suggested or implied so far addresses the deep corruption and absurd dysfunction that now characterize the federal government. We are ruled by the worst among us, as is abundantly clear from any video of our leaders interacting with their constituents. The security services are no solution, but that's where liberal fantasies about the system fixing itself have come to rest. If, however, Trump proves resilient, and nothing in their book works, are the proceduralists prepared to pull the real emergency switch? Our Constitutional tradition has one restart button, and it doesn't belong to any branch of the government.

xpost "The call is totally, totally coming from inside the house. It's true. Sad!"

the fact that there are many liberals who respect Comey (or any FBI head) is completely disgusting

iberals and other centrists start salivating for a guy

Bullshit. Who are the liberals salivating over the long arms and droopy mien of James Comey? Names. Lumping libs with "centrists" is a tired trick.

xp: TBF, the 30% Trump budget cuts to the IC are win/win for the ideological Left, regardless of weather they're done or not, or they result in successful terrorist attacks or not.

Meantime, problems problems

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-05/kushners-hunting-hard-for-a-loan-to-pay-back-chinese-investors

i really do think the most damaging thing about his presidency will ultimately be the fact that the rest of the world now thinks we're not only assholes, but stupid assholes.

I'm saying nothing.

"now"

how quickly we forget the Iraq War.

He's not exactly the first stupid US president - he's probably the 4th in my lifetime.

xp: TBF, the 30% Trump budget cuts to the IC are win/win for the ideological Left, regardless of weather they're done or not, or they result in successful terrorist attacks or not.

right, because giving more money to the IC is definitely a good counter-terrorism strategy