Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

I know we're past this, but holy shit :

Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017

the MSM is spinning it by....quoting what the mayor actually said? What is Trump trying to imply here? That Khan just doesn't care about RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM and is trying to get his citizens killed??

.@lachlan & I asked Trump aides today if option to have lawyers vet Trump tweets was going anywhere. Answer: “LMFAO” https://t.co/tYx8nWLx3A pic.twitter.com/7HkgKSdrLW

— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) June 5, 2017

http://i.imgur.com/9LMr8mT.jpg

if anyone can vet trump's twitter it's Redfoo and SkyBlu

I didn't even know they had law degrees

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/what-trump-really-fears/528846/

But to those who believe he can weather the coming Comey assault, the biggest remaining X-factor in the Russia scandal is the recklessness and ineptitude that exists in certain segments of Trump’s orbit.

That pattern of behavior doesn’t just provide ammunition to his critics, it also unnerves the president’s allies. One Republican operative with extensive foreign-policy experience pointed to the reports of undisclosed contact between Trump’s aides and the Russians, and wondered if there might be more revelations to come. “If they’re stupid enough to be doing stuff like that, they’re also probably too stupid to realize that there are various (foreign) intelligence agencies … that have the goods on them,” he said. “They’re probably sitting on tapes—what if they get motive to release them?”

Meanwhile, the former campaign staffer went so far as to suggest Trump’s aides could have colluded with Russia without knowing it was illegal. “Is it possible that (Trump) was surrounded with people who didn’t even realize what they were doing was inappropriate? You’d have to be pretty stupid. But there are some pretty stupid people in the Trump camp.”

“You have to remember,” the staffer added, “these people were just kind of in the right place at the right time, and fell into running the country … I would almost compare it to the Keystone Kops. Just silly, maybe well-intentioned people who got lucky—or maybe unlucky depending on how things work out.”

well intentioned 👀

^^^

even "critics" still want to give the benefit of the doubt/exculpate themselves for aiding and abetting

guess I should specify "GOP critics" there

"nice kids, goofing around"

Meanwhile, the former campaign staffer went so far as to suggest Trump’s aides could have colluded with Russia without knowing it was illegal. “Is it possible that (Trump) was surrounded with people who didn’t even realize what they were doing was inappropriate? You’d have to be pretty stupid. But there are some pretty stupid people in the Trump camp.”

this is exactly what I've been saying all along. you really think if these guys were flat-out propositioned "we will help you win the election if you reduce sanctions and weaken NATO, by the way don't worry nobody's listening", they would say no thank you??

Roger Stone is p silly tbf but he is def not well intentioned

xp

I asked Trump aides today if option to have lawyers vet Trump tweets was going anywhere. Answer: “LMFAO”

Trump aides probably say "LMFAO" in conversation.

"Lim Fao?"

"Yes, Lim Fao."

Anyway, I honestly thought Reality Winner was the name of a horse at first.

speaking of stupid people, did we post the der spiegel piece here yet?

donald trump's triumph of stupidity

it's partly about trump and the paris accord, but it covers quite a bit else as well.

I didn't even know they had law degrees

Come on, look at those glasses, clearly smart!

http://a1.res.cloudinary.com/allamerican/image/fetch/t_face_s270/http://speakerdata2.s3.amazonaws.com/photo/image/814230/redfoo-sean-paul-grammys-2013-red-carpet-14.jpg

Trump’s Washington hotel received roughly https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/87185420585792307370,000 in payments linked to Saudi Arabia as part of a lobbying campaign https://t.co/wlzzWaXAlu

— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 5, 2017

i sometimes have this stupid daydream about a politician who decides to go for total transparency and livestreams their daily political interactions, meetings, votes, fundraising efforts, etc. but for total transparency you'd want to have some sort of communications or feedback mechanism so the people you represent would be able to comment or suggest things or criticize about the decisions that were being made, in real-time. it's something that i don't think (?) was really possible until relatively recently, technologically.

but god, what a fucking nightmare that would be. it'd just be a nonstop stream of people saying the dumbest shit imaginable and yelling in all caps at each other until everyone was permabanned.

on the other hand, the politician's life would be very boring and it would turn out that most people don't like to watch the equivalent of c-span coverage on a single politician's day-to-day activities, so maybe there'd just be a handful of elderly people watching and offering constructive feedback.

― Karl Malone, Monday, June 5, 2017 3:27 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shall I repost a Bulworth gif

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 5, 2017 3:28 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all my life has only been a prologue to this moment

― Karl Malone, Monday, June 5, 2017 3:34 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pitch it as a Black Mirror ep, Karl.

― godley and creamsicle (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, June 5, 2017 3:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i will, but only after i figure out how i can gradually increase the scale throughout the episode so that by the end the viewer of black mirror, sitting on the couch at home, is actually a de facto god with control of the lives of billions of people on a planet similar to earth, BUT the de facto god viewer decides to actually listen to the prayers of their subjects and it turns out that everyone is making really stupid prayers all the time, requests that could theoretically be fulfilled but with unintended consequences that would actually make their lives even more miserable, BUT only the de facto black mirror viewer god can understand that BUT the prayers are so annoying that they decide to grant the prayers anyway and just turn the alt-earth into a dystopian hellscape because that's what the people begged for, so give them what they want. possibly the show could scale up even more after that

― Karl Malone, Monday, June 5, 2017 3:50 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

BOOM i just made a million bucks, i am going to offer that idea to my congressman during the next town hall. bobby rush you are going to owe me big time after you hear this

― Karl Malone, Monday, June 5, 2017 3:53 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In a dystopian future, a religious right politician claims to follow the word of god. And then one day he starts hearing from god himself, who commands him to do more and more outlandish things, so much so that people figure he's nuts. His supporters abandon him and he's left alone and isolated, no friends, no family. People pass him on the street, he's homeless. He stops hearing the voice, stops receiving instruction. Then one day he decides he's had enough and kills himself. He wakes up in Hell, for having committed suicide, but the Devil tells him he's not done, he's really going places, and he has to spend an eternity running for office as Trump's vice presidential candidate.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, June 5, 2017 4:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0cG11lTS1E

That clearly is not a real movie. I was thinking more Grand Inquisitor with an even more ironic twist.

I have to credit the Intercept here -- they broke a story and then proceeded to ensure nobody will even want to leak something to them again.

Yeah. Jesus.

This is the first time a WH leaker was exposed that we know of right?

a contractor in georgia is not a wh leaker

xpost Uh, Reality Winner is many things, but is not WH staff. Or rather was not.

or do you mean white hat = wh?

didn't the leaker...print the documents from a govt computer instead of using a secure drop?

I'd like to believe Reality's siblings were Verisimilitude, Phenomenon, and Being.

xpost -- Skills!

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/what-trump-really-fears/528846/

“My fear is that a bunch of people were freelancing—doing things not thinking about the repercussions, but thinking Trump would be so impressed by it,” said one person close to the president. He said that with all the resources the government is putting toward the investigation, “they’re going to want a return.”

this article feels to me like people trying to get ahead of the news that yes, the campaign did, in fact, collude with russia to win the election. but wait.. wait.. wait.. he can still be president right? we can explain!

didn't the leaker...print the documents from a govt computer instead of using a secure drop?

i was watching cnn earlier & it seemed like this must have been the case from what they said.. the reporters brought the docs with them to the agency to confirm authenticity, agency people noted they had been photocopied from original printout, went through IT records to see who had printed that document and it was like 5 people.

Ugh. The Intercept of all publications failed to protect their source.

Why are you surprised

Amateur hour

waiting for Trump to tweet about Reality Winner and call her Reality Loser

Ugh

D

Meanwhile Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has displaced his lord and master.

*does this woman have a gofundme yet? Hate to see her get hit with jailtime for revealing that NSA document, which was totally in the public interest. There is so much public confusion about the actual nature of the russian "interference" and this was another small step toward clearing the air

my initial reaction was that DOJ/sessions is going to throw the book at her, and she will be pardoned out of federal prison when there is a new president

overreacting? i feel awful for her.

Who said you were overreacting?

Reality Leigh Winner is one of those neural network generated names right

xpost
i meant that i may be overreacting, sorry, not that anyone was saying i was. but i fear for the worst, definitely

This is heavy news that they finally have someone to trot out. Trump is gonna have her waterboarded live on Fox & Friends.

Ah. Yeah I think she is going to be aggressively prosecuted. It will look bad for Trump & co though--prosecuting someone who leaked a single document to journalists looks worse than going after someone who gave a ton of unsortes data to wikileaks imo.

*unsorted

The trick will be in successfully characterizing her prosecution as a consistent w/ the coverup.

It's kind of a bummer that the same intel people who are offended by trump and very much want him out are also super-serious about secrets and will advocate making an example out of her.

xp but trump already sent that certified letter