Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

there are laserdiscs however

jesus fucking christ, betsy de vos is the absolute worst

http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/dept-of-education-freezing-rules-designed-to-protect-students/533717825

trump's cabinet is like the golden state warriors of suck

if there were tapes that actually contradicted even a smidgen of what comey said, they'd have been released. also, there are no tapes

Motherfuck I dont understand how you lot deal with such a Lovecraftian mess of a healthcare system. I feel embarrased at how simple things are where I am. You can go to any GP you like, and take your prescription to any pharmacist you like. Theres a cap on most medicines so no one pays more than about $40 for a medicine (theres some exceptions of course). If you're prepared to wait, scan, tests and surgerys are free.

(sorry when I typed that out there wasnt so many new posts)

I just assumed reporters keep asking about tapes because they are trolling him. Of course there are no tapes. I mean, they're hustling to fake them as fast as possible, yeah, but they've been distracted, by making America great again and stuff.

omg take tapes is such a great idea, would love Trump "re-enacting" for a fake recording

FAKE TAPES

Wait, you think they'd make fake tapes!? geezus.

I kind of want that to happen now lol

Trump doing everyone's voices

https://youtu.be/Ov01CWw_Ykk

oh look, SC is looking into Jared, too.

Well the alternative to the ACA is to fucking get rid of insurance companies so I think they like most of it..

There are many alternatives, eg the preACA system that was in place for decades and which allowed ins cos to make billions each year. They did get a lil giddy at the prospect of millions more people basically being legally obligated to become their customers but that hasn't gone as they expected.

Isn't the AHCA essentially the "old system"? (No mandate, pre-existing conditions not guaranteed, no federal subsidies, etc.)

Xp to Josh-- I realize you mean "special counsel" but for a hot second I thought the Supreme Court was gonna decide whether Jared Kushner is constitutional.

I predict a split court, with Kennedy voting in the majority to say that Kushner is constitutional if you apply a strict "prep test"

Aside: I'm retrospectively glad I responded to the election by subscribing to WaPo rather than the NYT (having little preference beforehand).

same

altho I was def p pissed at the NYT during the election

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/the-politics-of-tragedies

I am cautiously optimistic about the Post's coverage of politics these days. I have a sub to it, WSJ, and The Week. My only exposure to nytimes is on the agonies/quiddities thread, and that's more than ample.

xxp same here

argh that was to Sanpaku

Anyway, it's all fun and games

KellyAnne Conway now chatting with Pelosi and Schumer on the field at the congressional baseball game #bipartisanship pic.twitter.com/p5QrFdj4e9

— Alex Moe (@AlexNBCNews) June 15, 2017

I have had a Washington Post subscription since approximately 1976. I did recently have to cut back the print edition to weekend-only, because they were piling up unread a bit too much. The decision still made me kinda sad, because if print-era creatures like me totally give up on print, then it is well and truly dead.

Some/most of us are stuck with whatever insurer our employer gives us, of course, which in my case has meant greater expense year by year, and/or fewer benefits.

re baseball yeah well Al Franken is good buddies w/ Sessions, whaddya expect

it's almost like there's other, perhaps bigger, problems with US healthcare than ins cos

Great piece on self destructive Trump paranoia:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/15/trump-russia-investigation-obsession-239614

Inbox: Bizarre statement from DAG Rosenstein pic.twitter.com/EVAUJpJWMP

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 16, 2017

rosenstein was on the hawaiian birth certificate hunt junket iirc

Striking how many respectable journalists are saying they have never seen anything like that statement before. Scans like it was written under pressure, but there are also renewed rumors of something big about to drop.

We need our end-of-business-day Friday bombshell.

oppo dump now kinda like having an abortion when the baby's two but ymmv

feel like at this point WaPo should just add another person to the list of people Mueller is investigating day by day, all members of Trump's cabinet, regardless of whether there's any meat to it, and jsut wait for Trump to finally have an aneurysm and die in the middle of his Oval Office (aka the toilet)

That's an especially weird statement because anonymous sources are usually identified with some specificity -- "inside the administration," or "high-ranking federal official" or whatever. They're almost never just "anonymous sources" who could be from anywhere. My knee-jerk read is that it's just an attempt to deflect the Russia stuff by suggesting that SOME OTHER COUNTRY is the one spreading all these terrible things about the president. But probably there's more to it than that.

it's the Albanians

Anonymous allegations coming from unknown allegators who may or may not have seen or not seen what might or might not be the PEE TAPE should under no circumstances not be regarded as non-untrustworthy despite what they may or may not say about the PEE TAPE.

We can neither confirm nor deny that if anything should be characterized as a "leak" of... I mean even if it may seem like a "golden" opportunity, you should "shower" it with skepticism...

alligators

allege-ators

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-chooses-family-event-planner-run-n-y-housing-programs-article-1.3251314

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dhs-rescinds-obama-era-dapa-policy-that-would-have-protected-illegal-immigrant-parents/article/2626175

has any other president settled a fraud case for $25,000,000 after winning the election, prior to inauguration? taxes are theft, remember. benghazi :)

it's the Albanians

Close.

Also, property is theft

btw it looks like about 200 'fans' made it thru security and into the stands for that congressional charity game

“The frustration he feels is he fully well knows there was no collusion with Russia. And yet, he’s been on the hot seat about it for six months,” said Barry Bennett, a top campaign aide who continues to have ties to the White House. “He’s been told, 'You’re not under investigation,' and yet he still wakes up every day to read he’s under investigation. It’s really hard to be accused of being a traitor and take your lawyer’s advice to shut up and not talk about it.”

But he said that Russia should hack Hilary's emails, and he used the hell out of those hacks without any second thought. Plus he led his crowds in chants of 'lock her up' even after she got cleared. Of course I feel no sympathy for him, but he fucking brought it on himself. Directly. And just indirectly, this motherfucking idiot brought a new degree of incivility to American politics, and guess what? Turns out he is the most thin-skinned of all. Asshole.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-chooses-family-event-planner-run-n-y-housing-programs-article-1.3251314

― 龜, Friday, 16 June 2017 03:51 (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man they're not even fucking trying anymore

She’s arranged tournaments at Trump golf courses, served as the liaison to the Trump family during his presidential campaign, and even arranged Eric Trump’s wedding.

Now President Trump has appointed longtime loyalist Lynne Patton — who has zero housing experience and claims a law degree the school says she never earned — to run the office that oversees federal housing programs in New York.

Patton was appointed Wednesday to head up the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Region II, which includes New York and New Jersey, where she’ll oversee distribution of billions of taxpayer dollars.

Patton’s tight relationship with the Trump clan dates back to 2009, when she began serving as the family’s “event planner.”

They would totally put a Trump family pet in charge of some agency or another if only every Trump family pet didn't wind up mysteriously and prematurely dead.

"event planner" is the new "community organizer"