Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

this man has never read a book, why would you think he'd read legislation?

i haven't read it either but i know the gist

he needs his briefings turned into picture books with his name mentioned throughout to keep his attention

Who knew screwing over poor people would be so complicated?

he's fine with fucking people over as long as he doesn't have to think about it. mostly prefers not thinking about things at all if he can help it.

maybe Melania switched the TV over to MSNBC

maybe he thought about all of the people who would lose insurance because of AHCA and started to feel bad about all the people who would die because of what he had done, the misery that could be attributed to his actions, and decided that it was worth taking the time to craft a bill that would actually improve the lives of people instead of making it worse.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry, sorry, sorry about that, you gotta dream sometimes

Fox News describing Session's testimony as "fiery"

ok

did he burn a cross?

there is the theory that our reality is some ebeneezer scrooge/it's a wonderful life type parallel reality wherein the real donald trump is being made to see what chaos would result if he were to continue on the path of greed and spite. in this scenario he could wake up tomorrow a middle aged real estate mogul and reform his ways and never become president, in which case the ACA is safe

xp

We're living in the version of A Christmas Carol where Scrooge not only doesn't change but also goes out of his way to fuck over those weak, loser ghosts.

Ayn Rand's underrated retelling

Did anybody bring up the firing of the attorneys? I don't remember hearing that.
Would like to know what the coherent plan was if there's still nobody replacing them.
Especially if Bharara was directly told that he would be kept on.

Really hope there is going to be a further grilling of the gnome, though with people like Cotton involved it won't be as thorough as one might like.
One taht featured Harris, Heinrich and King and no apologists would be most good.

Senate hallway interview ban reversed

lies will still ring in the hallways of the Capitol

Let's dial it down a notch, there, Pollyanna.

I feel like I can no longer understand a lot of whats coming up in this thread anymore. It feels like 10 metric buttloads of Probably Irrelevant Shite are constantly being churned in the air above the government and obfuscating a bunch of Actual Evil Things happening but we have no idea because... covfefe and russians.

One of which may be pretty bad.

Well of course. It just feels like such a barrage.

It's either by design or a byproduct of thorough incompetence (or a little of both).

The GOP is happy to have Trump/Russia run interference while they pass a hard right orgy of bad legislation.

I can't win. My birthday is George W. Bush's birthday. My anniversary is this motherfucker's birthday.

this motherfucker = trump

Amusing...

Nearly 200 congressional Democrats to sue Trump, alleging that he improperly took payments from foreign nations https://t.co/SZ14Qmaqod

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 14, 2017

Trump w/the "I wanna hit that" look in that pic.

Useful series of tweets from yesterday here.

1/ Surprise guest speaker over lunch at the #AALS Criminal Justice mid-year meeting just now: Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein.

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) June 12, 2017

crying

http://observer.com/2017/06/imagined-dialogue-for-james-comey-hearing/

Steve Scalise has reportedly been shot.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/14/virginia-gop-baseball-practice-shooting-multiple-people-shot.html

what the hell

I had a huge post about something else I just deleted, because wow.

what the fuck is wrong with people

god bless the NRA

don't bring a baseball bat to a gunfight i guess

http://scalise.house.gov/issues/2nd-amendment

see, it's what he wd've wanted

This guy is a dick who spoke at a white supremacist rally, but I don't want to gloat in his ironic misfortune just yet. Thankfully it sounds like no one was killed besides the shooter. But as for Scalise, if the shooter was, say, not a Republican gun nut, he becomes a right-wing martyr, and allows opposition to Republicans to be painted as violent extremists. (Which we all know will stick better than when the Dems try to do that for right-wing nuts.)

I got a glimpse of the shooter which meant he also could see me if he looked in my direction. At that point I ran around home plate.

This guy is a dick who spoke at a white supremacist rally, but

solid start

I could probably start describing a host of GOPers that way.

the saddest truthbomb

About 50 shots were fired, congressional sources said.

i would say i hope this ruins Trump's birthday at least, but if you go to his Twitter page right now balloons start ascending.

"I feel like I can no longer understand a lot of whats coming up in this thread anymore. It feels like 10 metric buttloads of Probably Irrelevant Shite are constantly being churned in the air above the government and obfuscating a bunch of Actual Evil Things happening but we have no idea because... covfefe and russians."

covfefe means ADHD

I think it's a walk-and-chew-gum thing. Personally I feel like I can _both_ oppose evil AND snark about trivia. YMMV.

And in my AD(H)D-tainted experience, it's impossible for me to NOT simultaneously walk and chew gum and sing a song and jot down a grocery list and spin a plate on my nose.

But that's neither here nor there.

Only reason capital police were at the practice is because I guess Scalise is in the line of succession, under Paul Ryan maybe?

p sure i heard one of Scalise's colleagues/eyewitness slip in a joke about how the Democrat team usually beat them

grace under fire

ya gotta get up pret-ty early in the morning to shoot a congressional baseball player

not to make light of the misfortune but I suppose these were the same people who support loosening gun control laws?

http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Steve_Scalise_Gun_Control.htm

Note - Police were there with guns to "protect " but that's no use if you have already been shot

I turned on the TV just as an anchor was quoting someone saying that the shooter's goal was to kill as many Republican lawmakers as possible. Anyone know who might have said that?