Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

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lookit that moist motherfucker

Trump to announce changes to Cuba policy in Miami https://t.co/0Ys8XVniKb via @usatoday

— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) June 10, 2017

Trump has learned bashing Official US Enemies is the easiest way to get the media off your back https://t.co/XtpFXTUK88

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 10, 2017

Ha. I'd scheduled a dinner with the buddy who wrote that USA Today story. He hates life right now.

A lugubrious story about Old Washington mourning Brzezinski and a vanished way of life.

He's incoherent in the best of circumstances, but it's not entirely clear he did agree to going under oath "100%." Listening to the whole clip, it sounds like he might just be asserting his confidence and misunderstanding the question (which he is prone to do). I wonder if he's stuck (relatively speaking) now that everyone has reported he did agree to testify under oath? He'll likely have to go under oath at some point anyway, for Mueller.

I was talking with my college friend, a former federal prosecutor who has been popping up on CNN and MSNBC, among other places. It's no surprise, but he predicts the Mueller investigation will be extremely thorough and take at least a year, and in the end, whenever that is and whatever he comes up with, any decision will probably still lie in the hands of GOP congress. Flipping in 2018 is vital.

Well yeah he cant bring charges against trump. Odds are he'll send some lower ppl to jail tho.

He needs to go to jail eventually.

This story cannot end with a quiet retirement in Mar a Lago

Hey, remember my confident assertions that Trump would never be president? Well, I'll also assert that he'll never ever ever ever do any jail time. And more importantly, he'll never ever ever ever ever lose his entire face and most of his extremities in a bizarre golfing accident and spend the rest of his life painfully carting around in some weird Captain Pike-esque life support contraption. I'm sorry, but no ott cosmic justice will ever ever ever be meted out.

Cars with diplomats’ plates rolled in succession toward the front steps, depositing assorted emissaries. A cluster of former government officials deftly avoided a shirtless, long-bearded man carrying a white umbrella in the shade.

Sometimes you dress boldly and it just doesn't work out

GOP is not going to do sxxt until that corporate tax cut happens and is signed into law. There is literally billions of dollars riding on making that happen and there are fat cats that have been putting up cash for years to make it happen. Even that Adleson guy that put up that huge amount of money for Romney years back they said could net a couple billion on such a cut. That's one guy and there are a cadre companies and individuals in the same boat.

You have to scroll down for it but it's a roffle.

Kellyanne Conway mocks West Wing colleagues at a British Embassy party, and @Hadas_Gold tells us all about it. https://t.co/bCxsrqBNs6

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 10, 2017

this administration is 100% white trash

(that was my instinctive response after reading that politico bit)

Talk shit at drunken parties, bad excuses afterward?

We're doomed--Despite federal job positions sitting vacant, 45 is moving faster on judicial nominations

https://newrepublic.com/article/143227/trumps-judicial-picks-keeping-republicans-happyand-quiet

David Dayen article and his tweet-- Trump nominating judges at 3x the rate of Obama at this point in 1st term

The right-wing Federalist Society had a list all ready for Trump and he has basically outsourced vetting to them. Obama took a long time in 2009 selecting and vetting names without having a liberal equivalent of the federalist Society he was willing to use and trust. Plus Obama was hurt by Senatorial blue-slip rules (allowing republicans to block possible nominees) and Obama's own desire to be centrist

Federalist Society executive vice-president Leonard Leo has effectively chosen the last three Republican Supreme Court nominees. And the group was essential in constructing lists of acceptable judges for Trump to choose from, along with the stalwart think tank, the Heritage Foundation. Other groups, like the Judicial Crisis Network, focus heavily on judges as well.

This architecture is much more brittle on the left. While the American Constitutional Society was created specifically as a counterweight to the Federalist Society, the network hasn’t gained nearly the same influence. Additional funding of liberal judicial groups might help,

Talk shit at EMBASSY parties. The real signifier of trash people of any hue is that they think their cousin's wedding reception is boring because they don't know anybody so they decide to make it about themselves as much as possible. Conway wasn't dishing to colleagues she hadn't seen in a while. She gathered a bunch of schmucks around her and held court because she's a fucking pathetic human being and she knows it.

Whenever I see her on tv now she seems sort of exhausted, maybe haunted by regret or even guilt. The only readon this is conspicuous is that no other almnus of the Trump campaign looks like that. They seem fine.

They seem fine to you?

maybe in the sense that they don't visibly look like they're impacted by a debilitating bowel obstruction

They seem like they're not distressed by the madness they've wrought. Kellyanne seems like, at some level below her awareness, she is distressed by a faint pang of moral instinct.

These are the types of observations that interest only me fwiw

she is distressed by a faint pang of moral instinct

Kellyanne more likely is distressed at over the mocking she received after her infamous "alternative facts" statement and her subsequent slippage from the media prominence she had earlier in the administration.

They do seem fine to me, inasmuch as if I were in their shoes I'd be a visibly nervous wreck and possibly stopping to barf every time I was on camera trying to justify the insanity.

I guess not everyone has the constitution to be an untroubled piece of shit.

Republicans, generally, are really good at living in an alternate universe where bullshit is the gospel truth. They rarely seem troubled by spouting stuff that is just totally untrue or made up. I can't really remember when it wasn't like that. I don't claim to understand it. I wasn't raised in a house with religion though. Maybe if you were raised Christian it's easier to understand.

They seem like they're not distressed by the madness they've wrought. Kellyanne seems like, at some level below her awareness, she is distressed by a faint pang of moral instinct.

― Treeship, Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:17 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think this is a wishful misreading of her, and it's easy to misread her since she seems to avoid the nasty confrontational behavior of many of trump's surrogates. but why would she suddenly now be having a faint pang of moral instinct this late in the game? and from her POV, and based on what is obviously her entire political philosophy of skewing right wing, why should she?

Hm, ol' Jeff's a little nervous suddenly.

JUST IN: Jeff Sessions sending a deputy in his place to appropriations hearing Tuesday, but will appear before Senate Intel June 13 pic.twitter.com/X2wMqj84fD

— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) June 10, 2017

others would be delicious (Flynn, esp Kush) but man a Session scalp might be the best get other than Trump himself.

Delegating a deputy to go to an appropriations hearing is not in any way a big deal especially when your party has the majority in congress

Yeah this is not unusual

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"If you guys could get Jeff Sessions, that would be beautiful."

These fuckin clowns

Off message here for Trump Jr. Says his father did tell Comey he hoped he let the Flynn investigation go. His dad says that's a lie. pic.twitter.com/oOhaFgZY4a

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 11, 2017

yeah I'm just over here wishing re Sessions

Delegating a deputy to go to an appropriations hearing is not in any way a big deal especially when your party has the majority in congress

― El Tomboto, Saturday, June 10, 2017 4:44 PM (two hours ago)

Yeah this is not unusual

― Οὖτις, Saturday, June 10, 2017 5:10 PM (two hours ago)

I admit, gentlemen, I was more referring to the tone of Sessions's explanation in said note re certain matters he wants to clear up, as it were.

No excuses Ned

Astounding!

feel like the Trumpspawn is like that movie Multiplicity where Donnie Jr is a copy of Trump Sr and Eric is the malformed copy of a copy

what would have been the repercussions for comey if he had complied with the request to drop the flynn investigation? would that have been an actionable breach of ethics or protocol or whatnot for comey or is that entirely within his purview with no need for sufficient cause? i don't see a big divide between obstructing justice and suggesting someone else obstruct justice on your behalf and take the fall for it, from a strictly moral pov, maybe even worse.

i think that's a really good point

Republicans, generally, are really good at living in an alternate universe where bullshit is the gospel truth. They rarely seem troubled by spouting stuff that is just totally untrue or made up. I can't really remember when it wasn't like that. I don't claim to understand it. I wasn't raised in a house with religion though. Maybe if you were raised Christian it's easier to understand.

It isn't.

Baptist maybe idk

Maybe if you were just raised dumb prob

Plenty of people who believe in God and worship him belong to the far left.

i feel that is less true than it used to be, at least in the USA? depending on how many Dorothy Day followers remain

Trump's state visit to England now on hold

Donald Trump has told Theresa May in a phone call he does not want to go ahead with a state visit to Britain until the British public supports him coming.

The US president said he did not want to come if there were large-scale protests and his remarks in effect put the visit on hold for some time.

Yeah, he shouldn't hold his breath.

Or maybe he, y'know, should.

In perpetuity.

If he didn't go where he wasn't wanted, how narrow does that make his potential ability to go anywhere?