Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

It's definitely starting to get some play, but yeah, would be extremely stupid too. (Thus, of course he'd do it.)

Yes, the innocent man with nothing to hide should totally continue to overreach and block every possible route towards clearing his name. I can think of nothing that would make him look more innocent.

we need to get Barron in an "i'm with stupid" shirt asap.

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

It would look super guilty and would be another instance of obstruction, I'm just not sure there would be any consequences.

xxp

Its like he is trying to Out-Nixon Nixon

Yeah, it's increasingly clear that if Congress is unwilling to hold his/her feet to the fire, the president can basically do whatever the fuck he/she wants.

Interesting read

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/yall-sent-me-to-washington-at-an-interesting-time/529944/

Even more interesting anecdote

The men paused under a poster of Bobby Knight, the firebrand former Hoosier basketball coach, who endorsed Trump before the Indiana primary and campaigned for him through November, when Trump took the state by nearly 20 percentage points. The picture reminded Banks of a slightly unflattering story about the president.

“When I met the president for the first time in the Oval Office, I had to get the obligatory photo behind the desk, and I asked if the vice president could be in the picture too,” Banks recalled. “The president asked me, ‘Did Bobby Knight or Mike Pence do me more good in Indiana?’ I said, ‘Definitely Bobby Knight.’

“I don’t know if Pence appreciated that. But the president looked at him and said, ‘See, I knew it!’”

But the president looked at him and said, ‘Mike, you're a real piece of shit!’”

um are we just glossing over maryland suing the president?? seems big?!

It seems like we are entering a new time period where what was once huge news is now not

trump will just settle out of court with maryland, everything will be fine

It seems like we are entering a new time period where what was once huge news is now not

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Monday, June 12, 2017 9:10 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

truth

we're definitely already there. the President shared highly sensitive counterintelligence information with diplomats from a country that unequivocally committed cyberterrorism to affect the outcome of our most recent election, and it's basically been 100% forgotten about.

Canada has never looked more inviting

It's like if every day you woke up and you were a different animal living on a different planet. The first couple dozen times it'd blow your mind but eventually you're just like, yep, guess today's the day I'm a penguin on Rigel-7, let's get it over with.

Yeah, it's increasingly clear that if Congress is unwilling to hold his/her feet to the fire, the president can basically do whatever the fuck he/she wants.

exactly, which is why I've stopped being outraged by Trump himself. his entire life philosophy has been "if you can get away with it, do it" and the people who are supposed to be running checks on him are letting him get away with literally everything. you don't put a plate of cookies in front of a 4-year old and get outraged when he devours them all and starts burrowing through the walls.

Congressional GOP is doing a lot of work for Trump to undermine the basic functioning of democracy and checks. They've been working at this for a long time, but we are quickly reaching a point where it cannot be repaired.

Really the most depressing thing is that not only did Trump win, Congress is also Republican controlled, AND Trump can nominate a supreme court justice to make sure social progress is reversed on all fronts. I don't think the founding fathers would be pleased.

why wouldn't they be? Parties gain majorities all the time, as much as the framers abjured the idea of political factions (and Jefferson loved them).

I guess its one of those "ah what can ya do that's democracy for ya! win some lose some!" in two years it will all be democrat again as the pendulum swings back

i wouldnt be so sure

&they'll be blamed for the horror show situation they inherited and unable to build on previous progress which has been dismantled. Innit?

Someone in an earlier thread posited that Trump's election marked the end of the American experiment. I might go a step further and posit that Trump's election marks the beginning of the end of America as a functional democracy (although I'm sure many would argue that the beginning began much earlier than that). I mean, there's still a chance to salvage it but no one in a position to do so seems interested in doing so. Once you've basically established that there are no real controls in place for the guy at the top, you either need to make some sweeping changes or accept that the system is broken.

Congress has been bought by lobbyists for so long its hard to imagine how the US govt isn't just the democratic face of a larger capitalist body which has had control all along

i am going to the opening of that Trumpesque Julius Caesar in Central Park tonight. I have low expectations.

if you're looking for a smaller scale option of NYC theater that doesn't, shall we say, strive for subtlety, here's one for you:
https://www.faust3theturdcoming.com/

" "Faust 3: The Turd Coming, or The Fart of the Deal" by Paul David Young, a political satire of the Trump fiasco performed by an ensemble of four clowns, will have its world premiere June 11 to 26 in The Meeting Room of Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, presented by Skylight Productions. Augustus Heagerty directs.

The play presents a Faustian bargain between the populace, and their chosen king, a deceptive, Mephisophelean clown figure. Although the clown is offensive, vulgar, and evil, the people agree to sign away their future on the gamble that the clown will improve their lives. They are shat upon instead. In sermon-like tweets, the clown king communicates his predatory intentions, based on perversions of the Beatitudes ("BLESSED ARE THE RICH FOR THEY DESERVE IT ALL") and other parts of the Gospels. The sensitive ego of the clown king leads to nuclear war and worldwide devastation. The script adapts and mangles Goethe's "Faust" (Parts 1 and 2) and the Gospels in the King James translation, as well as bits of Yeats, Shakespeare, Christmas carols, Stephen Foster, John Donne, Heiner Müller, Julia Ward Howe, Abel Meeropol, and others.

The performance will take place in the found environment of the Meeting Room, a landmarked Neo-Renaissance sanctuary designed by architect Stanford White and sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, with the largest collection of John Lafarge stained glass windows in the world, all paid for by the Rockefellers of Standard Oil. The actors will use microphones as they move about the space, speaking directly to the live audience. With demonic evangelism, they will also sing, dance, and perform tricks and mock religious rituals while celebrating the clown king. Music will include drums, melodica, recorded music (classical to pop), Christian anthems, Christmas Carols and computer-generated sound.

Congress has been bought by lobbyists for so long its hard to imagine how the US govt isn't just the democratic face of a larger capitalist body

That was one of the most viscerally pleasurable things about the Occupy movement. I saw those hedge-fund guys looking out the windows at the marchers and those motherfuckers were scared.

Anyway

JUST IN: Attorney General Sessions will testify publicly to Senate Intelligence Committee at 2:30pm Tuesday, panel says.

— Ed O'Keefe (@edatpost) June 12, 2017

Cool, another opportunity to perjure himself without any subsequent consequence.

Just in case anyone had forgotten that the attorney general demonstrably perjured himself previously. NBD.

That thing on Banks includes his opinion of Paul Ryan as "wonky and thoughtful," and welp

One of those descriptors is accurate, if not in quite the same way it was intended.

Apparently an actual quote just now?

"Never has there been a president....with few exceptions...whose passed more legislation, whose done more things that I have --" Trump

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 12, 2017

he certainly has done things

if/when he is under oath someone should ask him if he's passed any legislation and just pop him for perjury right there

'are your hands of average dimensions for a man of your height'

Ryan is W&T, its just his goal is to return to Ayn Rand's imagined paradise of pre-New Deal America. The robber baron era.

Presidents portrayed as Julius Caesar in U.S. productions: Lincoln, Reagan, Clinton, GWB, Obama, Trump. (Caesar died in all of them.)

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 12, 2017

Caesar died for somebody's sins but not mine!

want to congratulate the julius caesar actors for wearing suits in 95 degree heat

should've worn a toga and sandals

gonna guess that's a more accurate portrayal trump's attire during sunday morning brunch

This guy.

WH Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to Trump: “We thank you for the opportunity and blessing to serve your agenda” https://t.co/L7DEdZUjV3

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 12, 2017

you don't put a plate of cookies in front of a 4-year old and get outraged when he devours them all and starts burrowing through the walls.

many of the people who gave him the plate of cookies are entirely happy at the results, but the people who live on the other side of those walls are mad both at the 4-year old and his enablers.

consistency is the newt gingrich of small minds

I will never get over this...it hasn't even been a month. pic.twitter.com/5r0K4shUAW

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) June 12, 2017

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin..." etc.

yes I was calling newt gingrich a hobgoblin thaaaat's the joke

"Never has there been a president....with few exceptions...whose passed more legislation, whose done more things that I have --" Trump
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 12, 2017

From the start of this thing, he's been like a toddler testing his boundaries and finding that there are none. Feel like he's been taking tentative steps lately toward lies that are increasingly untethered from reality. Like, not just self-serving bullshit that is likely to fool credulous saps who haven't done their research but patchy fabrications that don't even have the whiff of possible truth. He's like half a step away from declaring that he's a different person altogether or that he lives inside a basketball.

"A foolish consistency is the Newtgoblin..."

Gallup: Trump approval falls to twenty three points underwater at 36-59, his lowest since March and second worst approval of his presidency. pic.twitter.com/CJcY6LQjfD

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) June 12, 2017