Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

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?

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

Eventually he'll be like Cheney, unable to travel outside the US for fear of arrest.

The Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and...uh...

Yeah, countries that can guarantee no protests. Totally in line with Wilbur Ross' comments about Saudi Arabia. They're not going to any pains to hide their preference for authoritarian states.

This and that cancelled visit to Milwaukee was it? They seem to be the first open acknowledgements that the protests bother him and interfere with business, no?

They also held their "Pittsburgh not Paris" rally in DC instead of Pittsburgh for the same reason.

Was wondering about that outside the US emphasis. Can he go around the US without not being wanted?

There was a news story a week ago, who knows maybe a month ago or a year ago or a day it all feels​ the same now, that he is actually reluctant to travel around the us. But really this might be the first public acknowledgment I've seen that people really don't like him.

The only reason he's even President is because getting to run his mouth in front of adoring crowds fed his giant ego, so what's the point of speaking in front of a hostile crowd?

I'm surprised the vacant-jobs story isn't getting more coverage, because it's getting worse day by day - not only are major positions staying unfilled, but nobody wants to receive an offer. I mean, can you image the crippling self-doubt that would set in if Team Trump called to offer you a job? "What? What kind of sleaze do you think I am, that I'd work for that guy? Oh, fuck - do other people see me that way, too?" *puts gun in mouth, pulls trigger*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-J8ypGTWxg

All the good sleezebags are already in the private sector

I dunno if Sparklepants is correct:

This is exactly right--if Democrats take House w/ any margin for errror, they will likely impeach Trump 1/https://t.co/0mAXXpRzyC

— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 11, 2017

Wow, going out on a limb there, huh?

On the plus side, that does offer a very appealing and yet productive anti-trump message. Trump and the GOP are the obstructions. Vote in Democrats, impeach Trump, finally get to work on jobs, health care and other things that matter.

I think that's more likely how the GOP will frame it, to fire up the base. I'm sure they will much prefer to run against the specter of Snowball Pelosi than talk about the achievements of the 115th Congress.

even by his standards this is notably incoherent

I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. Totally illegal? Very 'cowardly!'

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2017

Hah, after cancelled trip to UK for fear of protests. "Cowardly." That word means nothing in a court of law, let alone one with no jury to pursuade.

There are still times when I'm astonished that this is how the president of the United States is choosing to communicate. I don't feel like the "normalization" is setting in, it's more like a persistent reminder of how aberrant in every way all of this is.

i'm surprised his twitter hasn't been hacked yet

i mean besides by the russians

That Trump tweet is impressively doge-esque. No idea what the fuck he's even TRYING to say.

you wouldn't be able to tell if it was

@realDonaldTrump
Who hides my tummy tickler on a Saturday night? The tv screen is getting dim on the edges but I know a liar when I see one. The good voices are louder than the bad ones, you'll see!

*shrugs* that's our president

If I'm allowed a prediction after my poor showing wrt the election, I do think we will have sad occasion to see the first public display of a presidential penis (my money is currently on a disrobed Trump found playing in a fountain like a small child after a brain event of some sort).