Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

(i realize the unlikeliness of this yes but trump was never going to win in the first place remember) best case scenario is trump corruption gets dug up shocking enough to wake enough of Fox Nation from their ideological stupor / filter bubbles of epistemic closure and face reality; if that means lame duck president pence, cool

there is no trump corruption which will wake fox nation from their ideological stupor - not trump secretly being a member of isis, not trump humping his daughter on the original constitution, not masterminding the dynamiting of the cancer wing of a childrens' hospital packed to the brim with doe-eyed sick kids

The only way Fox News fans are going to escape their bubble is death. Which should be arriving shortly for the vast majority of them.

on the plus side, House Republicans can be yoked to Trump by the Dems who campaign against them in 2018. I understand the political calculus of not wanting to separate yourself from the President but I think the smarter reps know they're all going down together.

and by "all" i don't mean of course that they're all going to lose, in fact there's a good chance the GOP retains the House, but it's a much more politically feasible path for Dems than impeachment.

Trump could get a yen for picking fights with
congress and in this way turn his voters against their local gop reps. This is the dream.

The only way Fox News fans are going to escape their bubble is death. Which should be arriving shortly for the vast majority of them.

if ever there was a reason to hope for the repeal of obamacare...

They're all on Medicare. Of the "keep the government out of my" variety

I'm sure many are having their coffins fitted with screens that will blare Hannity at their wormy skulls for all eternity

Their grandkids are going to auction the coffins, have their bodies cremated and scattered out of the car window while driving north to escape the searing droughts and rising floodwaters. God forbid we raise the estate tax.

I get the feeling a lot of old red state tax-me-not's are not clamoring with "take away my free health care ! take away medicare!!"

Unfairness seems to only work when its about ME

So Trump can destroy everyone else's health care but not MY "free" health care

Yes, that is how tribalism works.

Exactly. That's why one of the tea party talking points has always been how ObamaCare will bankrupt Medicare.

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BREAKING: Trump FBI Director Nominee Wray Is Partner at Law Firm Representing Russia's National Oil Company Rosneft https://t.co/02kg1LFRtz pic.twitter.com/wrpsUa7RxG

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 7, 2017

can't make this shit up

Newsweek flags: Christopher Wray's law firm advises Trump's trust, which holds his business assets https://t.co/zFgp0dZfvc pic.twitter.com/AcCGWU9UMM

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 2017

If you can keep getting away with it, why not?

Just sack up already and make Putin your FBI director, bruh.

Every time I've come across of people trying to handwave away such and such person's ties to Russia as not particularly consequential I'm forced to ask myself, HOW HARD IS IT TO FIND SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE FUCKING TIES TO RUSSIA?

I never realized the Whitehouse had no ethics rules but I guess it ifgures

For a while this farce has seemed gratuitous and unfunny, but Trump appointing Rosneft's lawyer to the head of the FBI crossed another line and is hilarious

BREKKE'S CRY
by Anne McCaffrey ©1977 and (in italics) Tania Opland ©2006

soprano: Don't leave me alone!
alto & baritone: A cry in the night of anguish heart-striking
soprano: Don't leave me alone!
alto & baritone: A cry in the night of soul killing fright

(soprano:)
Awakened in darkness (alto & baritone: terror! grief!)
Bursting with thoughts not our own (alto & baritone: terror! grief!)
Awakened in darkness (alto & baritone: terror! grief!)
(all:) Choking, burning, falling, dying...

ACLU's torture database is full of entirely redacted documents involving Christopher Wray. https://t.co/qWKf7gnbTL pic.twitter.com/o6Q9uwv9sD

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 7, 2017

E Pluribus Unum Bring It On

Also no media rollout or defense of the guy

what the fuck is even going on

it's taken like 150 minutes from the announcement until now for this guy to get dismantled, is that a new record

do we even know if the guy accepted the job or did Trump just tweet that shit assuming he'd would be honored to take the job?

I mean here's the thing the agents are barely going to pretend to work for an obvious dirtbag

And if he's got a torture background even less so

literally anything is possible, up to and including christopher wray being an entirely fictional creation

Is the info abt this law firm/comical conflicts of interest verified yet or is it just twitter spec

Is he part of the DARK UNIVERSE

we are all part of the dark universe now

https://s.faketrumptweet.com/j3n37g5u_idyrze_hmwiyj.png

there's a chris wray on twitter with the handle @marinegent1775 who has tweeted six times, mainly about women's volleyball, and has this image as his avatar:

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/766136247765102592/DHfxw6U8.jpg

can we pretend this is the new director of the federal bureau of investigation for a while?

100% that guy voted for trump

early and often, for sure

with his tits

Wonder what comey will wear for his big moment tomorrow. If it were me I'd try to look cool.

The moment calls for sunglasses and a cigarette.

boy scout uniform

are we sure timothy treadwell isn't alive and well and buff?

in a less bullshit world, clint watts would be interviewing for FBI director

http://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-last-minute-hacking-was-to-burn-president-hillary

Interesting-ish media news: US Weekly, which had run multiple "Melania is unhappy" stories, was sold to American Media (publishers of the National Enquirer). This is the new cover.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBuTUXvUAAAj0rj.jpg:large

Wonder what comey will wear for his big moment tomorrow.

- beer helmet
- vintage x-files t-shirt under voluminous, flapping-open tommy bahama shirt
- grey sweatsuit bottoms with fresh grass-stains on the ass and knees
- crocs

Lol

lol at ivanka's desperate defence of her personal brand

NPR had an interview with a 'former FBI agent and security consultant' re: wray that was totally fawning and pointless, so that was nice that they're doing good journalism

- beer helmet
- vintage x-files t-shirt under voluminous, flapping-open tommy bahama shirt
- grey sweatsuit bottoms with fresh grass-stains on the ass and knees
- crocs

otm

I don't know if anyone follows Dan rather's fb page but he has been going berserk with all this unprecedented crap going on - its like watching a dog who knows he's going to the park AND there's company coming over

Trump really gave himself participation trophies 3 yrs in a row at his own club. He doesn't acknowledge winners not named Trump in later yrs pic.twitter.com/fsqldIhqjk

— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) June 6, 2017

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