Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

I hear you Treesh, but something is seriously wrong if nearly half of a country votes for a complete, utter idiot. Be it 'cathartic gesture' or not. I don't think catastrophic consequences are enough for alot of these people to change their mind, if they voted for him in the first place. Can't see them going 'ohhh he's bad after all!'. Nah, it'll be the libtards or media or 'but emails' fault.

We elected an idiot in November 1980 with devastating consequences. Many in his party thought he was an idiot. It doesn't matter. He signs their legislation.

this bill is a tax cut for millionaires and the vaporizing of Medicaid, the dream of the Ayn Rand-ites since 1964.

those are paid protestors, fakers, etc.

xp

― Οὖτις, Thursday, June 22, 2017 4:35 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ballers, shot callers

xxp That's more or less what I was getting at Shakey. It doesn't matter.

Trump's social media guy is suspicious!

Hmmmm🤔

Someone tried leaking to the NY Post that the White House is looking to replace my position😨

Dear Leaker,
You failed. ❌False

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) June 22, 2017

Reporters are mostly very stupid people who, once they get an idea in their heads ("Iowa = farms", "John McCain = maverick") will never, ever, ever let it go.

please don't forget to blame editors, who are generally much more complicit in keeping the status quo alive than bylines let on

otm

is this the place where i say i am not into seth abramson

Meanwhile, the libertarians are upset that this bill is (in their view) exactly the same as ACA, a view I find very hard to understand (even as some part of me hopes against hope that maybe somehow they're right!)

http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/22/the-senate-gops-new-health-care-bill-is

libertarians are the dumbest

Pediatricians announce Day of Action tomorrow:

American Academy of Pediatrics: "The bill fails children." pic.twitter.com/XLq8VowxoT

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 22, 2017

Here's one Republican not hiding what the GOP "healthcare" bill is really about: tax cuts for the affluent at the expense of the old & poor. https://t.co/fjUVfku8wN

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 23, 2017

libertarianism is astrology for dudes

It's so much dumber than astrology

the replies to John Faso are 100% negative, the most kind one i saw was someone who is going to "pray for his soul".

That's the dude that beat zephyr teachout by a verrry close margin

Time to make him a one-termer

Did we cover the disabled protesters at the capitol already? I bet at least a few US Capitol police went home really fucking hating the job today.

http://www.king5.com/news/wa-sen-murray-senate-majority-whip-have-testy-exchange-over-health-care/451273433

Worth watching

in case you missed it, Randy Bryce (the dude running against Paul Ryan) is so good, here he is punching right against *Jacobin* pic.twitter.com/fbAZsBi8JR

— christopher (@SpectatorCitizn) June 23, 2017

(screenshot not fake)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.026622737cb9

big report on RUSSIA

In early September, Johnson, Comey, and Monaco arrived on Capitol Hill in a caravan of black SUVs for a meeting with 12 key members of Congress, including the leadership of both parties.

The meeting devolved into a partisan squabble.

“The Dems were, ‘Hey, we have to tell the public,’ ” recalled one participant. But Republicans resisted, arguing that to warn the public that the election was under attack would further Russia’s aim of sapping confidence in the system.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) went further, officials said, voicing skepticism that the underlying intelligence truly supported the White House’s claims. Through a spokeswoman, McConnell declined to comment, citing the secrecy of that meeting.

Key Democrats were stunned by the GOP response and exasperated that the White House seemed willing to let Republican opposition block any pre-election move.

On Sept. 22, two California Democrats — Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam B. Schiff — did what they couldn’t get the White House to do. They issued a statement making clear that they had learned from intelligence briefings that Russia was directing a campaign to undermine the election, but they stopped short of saying to what end.

Basically Supreme Court seat what-can-we-do? shrug redux.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of etc

Richard Spencer and @Cernovich are calling each other losers https://t.co/GYJmQshS1j pic.twitter.com/YXO3lZaXP4

— Justin Green (@JGreenDC) June 23, 2017

Looks like Trump has the the requisite bipartisan cover to undo the Volcker Rule, among other things:

Strikingly, Powell got an amen from the only moderate Democrat on the panel who showed up for the hearing, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota. “Many current and former regulators publicly state the Volcker Rule is way too complicated,” she said. “It’s my experience when a rule is too complicated, there isn’t much compliance, so it doesn’t really get you what you need.” Add that to Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) — also on the banking committee and up for reelection next year in a red state — told me Wednesday that he’s keeping an open mind on Volcker changes, and you’ve got a germ of bipartisan agreement for rolling back the rule.

Well, I didn't tape him, eh, you never know what's happening when you see that the Obama administration or perhaps, longer than that, was doing all of this unmasking and surveillance and you read all about it and I've been reading about it for the last couple of months about the seriousness of the... and the horrible situation with surveillance all over the place and you've been hearing the word 'unmasking', a word you probably never heard before. So you never know what's out there, but I didn't tape and I don't have any tape and I didn't tape, but when he found out that I -you know- that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, who knows? I think his story may have changed, i mean, you'll have to take a look at that, because then he'll have to tell what actually took place at the events and my story didn't change, my story was always a straight story, my story was always the truth, but you'll have to determine for yourself whether or not his story changed but I did not tape.

fucking idiot

He sounds scared. But then he's looked like he realises he's toast since he met Obama after winning the election.

That's...a real quote? And not something generated by a half-functioning Trump quote neural network? Because holy fuck.

that's a transcript from his fox and friends interview this morning

you've been hearing the word 'unmasking', a word you probably never heard before

he really does have a 250-word vocabulary, doesn't he

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOOexF5c9A

"That was a smart way to keep Comey honest at the hearing."

"Uhhhh...well, it wasn't stupid."

but I didn't tape and I don't have any tape and I didn't tape

like i mean obviously this is of way way way less importance than the health care bill but holy fuck

yeah I'm kinda sick of this tape shit already

i'm kinda sick of this tape worm already

Trump talks like that babbling Miss America contestant in that youtube that time

These are the speech patterns I'd expect of someone whose brain had been dragged behind a car for a couple of hours before being plopped back into their skull.

I've pretty much avoided Fox & Friends until that clip. The interviewer bending over and trying to pull a diamond out of the giant pile Trump had just dumped on the floor was impressive.

lol can you imagine writing for a newspaper in a foreign country and having to translate that shit

translation is fake news

Was it Al Jazeera who said they were going to refer to the current admin as a rogue state or a paper in France?

and Huffington Post wasn't going to cover Trump in the politics section. wonder how that's going.

Wuz just thinking about this is all...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/close-al-jazeera-saudi-arabia-issues-qatar-with-13-demands-to-end-blockade

He's having fun again.

TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK pic.twitter.com/yuL0o0TBbT

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 23, 2017

(Says later, 'could be today, could be Monday.')

He doesn't have any tape but he was taped and also ball-gagged and maybe flogged and definitely spritzed with body fluids and that was all taped but he doesn't have any tape.

shut up with your vile fantasies for once

but I didn't tape and I don't have any tape and I didn't tape
and you hip hop and you don't stop

Benjamin Wittes

yeah I def want to listen to someone with #SupportTheDeepState in their bio