Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

any second now

right there, they just recognized it

https://media.tenor.com/images/0182954ec63c31727befcb89f50018e7/tenor.gif

lol

Senator Warner from the Intel committee with a few tweets...

Today we gave our intel community leaders an opportunity to clear up reports that POTUS attempted to interfere with the Russia investigation

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) June 7, 2017

Wittes Wittesing

https://lawfareblog.com/initial-comments-james-comeys-written-testimony

At the end:

But I will make three general observations based on this document alone.

First, Comey is describing here conduct that a society committed to the rule of law simply cannot accept in a president. We have spent a lot of time on this site over seven years now debating the marginal exertions of presidential power and their capacity for abuse. Should the president have the authority to detain people at Guantanamo? Incinerate suspected terrorists with flying robots? Use robust intelligence authorities directed at overseas non-citizens? These questions are all important, but this document is about a far more important question to the preservation of liberty in a society based on legal norms and rules: the abuse of the core functions of the presidency. It’s about whether we can trust the President—not the President in the abstract, but the particular embodiment of the presidency in the person of Donald J. Trump—to supervise the law enforcement apparatus of the United States in fashion consistent with his oath of office. I challenge anyone to read this document and come away with a confidently affirmative answer to that question.

Second, we are about to see a full-court press against Comey. I don’t know what it will look like. But the attack instinct always kicks in when a presidency is under siege. And Trump has the attack instinct in spades even when he’s not under siege. It is important to remember what the stakes are here. They are not about whether Comey was treated fairly. They are not about whether you like him. They are not about whether he handled the Clinton email investigation in the highest traditions of the FBI or the Justice Department. They are not about leaks. The stakes here are about whether what Comey is reporting in this document are true facts and, if so, what we need as a political society to do about the reality that we have a president who behaves this way and seeks to use the FBI in this fashion. It is critical, in other words, that people not change the subject or get distracted when others try to do so.

Finally, it is also critical—though probably fruitless to say—that we eschew partisanship in the conversation. Tomorrow, this document will be the discussion text when Comey faces a committee that, warts and all, has handled the Russia matter to date in a respectable and honorably bipartisan fashion. It is not too much to ask that members put aside party and respond as patriots to the fact that the former FBI director will swear an oath that these facts are true—and was fired after these interactions allegedly took place by a man who then told Lester Holt that “when I decided to just do it [fire Comey], I said to myself … this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story,” and boasted to the Russians the day after dismissing Comey that “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

The question they—and we—all face is simple: Do we care?

and the answer is... no

not those that it really matters to, anyway

we are about to see a full-court press against Comey. I don’t know what it will look like.

We shall be treated to the discovery that Comey masturbated frequently as a youth, and lied when, at the advanced age of seven, he was asked about a hatchet-mutilated cherry tree.

That rat bastard1

Much, much worse, he exhibited horrible judgment in not locking up Hillary Clinton and throwing away the key, and in insinuating she may have done something wrong only a few days before the election.

How on earth could Daddy Long Arms masturbate? Physiologically impossible

everything is possible thanks to the free market. all is permitted in norquist's bathtub (except tax cuts)

xpost
You know when insects rub their little legs together? They're masturbating

It feels really good to them

That Metalligher clip just reminded me of Chekhov's gun.

Caught a little bit of Hannity perusing Comey's opening statement. Every time he didn't like something he'd say, with a great flourish, "Stop right there."

I'm going to watch a period's worth (48 minutes) of tomorrow's testimony with my grade 3/4 class. A number of them are actually excited, but that will vanish within seconds as soon as the questioning starts.

Never forget that young conservatives were making fun of Buckley on one of those death cruises in 2006.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, June 7, 2017 4:43 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also never forget WF Buckley was a loathsome shithead disguising himself behind a bunch of upper crust affectations

it's june

the first lady still refuses to live in the white house

#maga#zine

Also never forget WF Buckley was a loathsome shithead disguising himself behind a bunch of upper crust affectations

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

I fought with a self-proclaimed liberal last winter who swallowed the bullshit about WFB "reading the John Birchers out of conservatism"

Also never forget WF Buckley was a loathsome shithead disguising himself behind a bunch of upper crust affectations

So what you're saying is

https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-01-2015/i62r9B.gif

"Wh-what you're saying, Mr. -- what is it? -- Shakedown, is that this, ah, concatenation of posts has driven you to post the vilest sort of calumnies against me."

money talks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt-GUAxmxdk

This did it better

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/firing-line/n9186?snl=1

garry wills, who started his career at national review in the '50s and knew WFB as well as anyone, said that buckley almost never finished a book in his life, even in college -- his entire pose as a well-read intellectual looking down his nose at the ignoramuses was just that, a pose

dope as hell

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/cold-opening/n9496?snl=1

#obstructor#supremelyassured

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/james-comeys-intellectual-history

has he figured it out yet

In October, 2003, Comey was asked, at his confirmation hearing to become the Deputy Attorney General, how he might handle a politically charged case implicating an Attorney General who refused to recuse himself. “I don’t care about politics,” he insisted. “I care about doing the right thing.” In a profile published that December in New York, Comey further smudged the lines of his political identity. He said that in his twenties he had been both a Communist and a Reaganite. “I’m not even sure how to characterize myself politically,” he went on. “Maybe at some point, I’ll have to figure it out.”

Comeyunist

cool thkx Obama:

Four years later, Obama reportedly considered Comey for a Supreme Court vacancy.

I came on to make fun of one of Trump's surrogates for saying there was a lot of "unclarity" in Comey's opening statement, but--lucky I checked--what do you know, it really is a word. Glad that's been claritied for me.

I guess if unclear is a word, then unclarity makes sense.

Toni Braxton's best ballad.

Sure does sound funny, though. I'm going to stick with ambiguity...

Unclear My Heart?

Reminds me of Fred Durst and "agreeance."

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Word-experts-in-agreeance-vindicate-Fred-Durst-2107460.php

Reminds me of No Diggity.

Lol @alfred's Buckley imitation

still remember the time a high school classmate used 'invidious' and i was all lol did u mean 'insidious'

"Hi, I'm Dana Milbank, and I'm stupid."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-pence-is-sounding-better-and-better/2017/06/06/c1bf0f52-4af3-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.52bbaa6e25ac

The contrast between the reckless president and his responsible understudy has me thinking, not for the first time, how much better things would be if Pence were president.

go to hell, you turgid lickspittle

Trump, at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this year, told attendees to pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger and his “Apprentice” ratings. Pence aimed higher. “Don’t so much pray for a cause as for country,” he said, paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln. “Just pray for America.”

Amen.

I can keep quoting.

"I say go
Pence says yes
Dim the lights
By the grandfather clock."

ohhh
catch that buzz
Pence is the prez
who brings the lolz

Was just at the grocery and forgot (somehow) to buy alcohol for tomorrow.

Is there gonna be a stream of this testimony so I can gasp along as I work

where are you? it'll be on every channel and the radio.

It'll be streaming on http://www.youtube.com

I guess NPR will have an online stream, then.

(My radio reception sucks and I don't have TV.)

I assume CNN et al will be free online. Possibly newspapers too.

Find it ironic that GOP reaction is largely yawn, nothing new, when that is only because this shit's been leaking for weeks.

I dont expect any bombshells or incriminating evidence tbh

Do we expect anything new?

I expect to get a full accounting of the length of Comey's arms.