Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

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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?

Well, keeping in mind we know no details, if police were not there the guy with a rifle on a baseball field surely would have shot more people. But that's what police are for, not yahoos with concealed carry.

xpost That seems like bullshit, unless he shouted that as he shot. For all we know it was a republican gunman who showed up to the wrong practice.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who was at the practice, told CNN "it would have been a massacre" had Capitol Police not been present.
"Nobody would have survived without the Capitol Hill police," Paul said on CNN. "It would have been a massacre without them."

Don't worry, the narrative will quickly be in place.

Trump-supporting Infowars blames the media for this morning's attack on Republican members of Congress. pic.twitter.com/gK18Q1DIfo

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) June 14, 2017

It seems like possibly an outrageous claim or irresponsible reporting, but it was literally the first thing I heard about the whole incident and I've been awake for just over half an hour, so I wondered if that was a popular theory at this stage.

"Aim for the late-middle-aged tubby white guys" doesn't exactly help here.

it's never a republican. it's either a terrorist or an isolated incident

White man with rifle tends to skew conservative or crazy, but who knows.

I think it was Alex Jones, that is my "theory."

Cool, so when Infowars spurs gun nuts into executing journalists, can we finally throw Alex Jones's ass in jail for approximately forever?