Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

I love your use of the GOP interpretation of "scandal"

Yes, it was the GOP who perverted the term 'scandal' by making it about affairs and sexual harassment

As another poster said in sharing it, "yeah pretty sure that's not how it works"

JUST IN: Trump’s lawyers are postponing filing a Comey complaint, source says, in a bid to stop antagonizing Mueller https://t.co/V3RULKiOGU pic.twitter.com/wOYoStsEkC

— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) June 28, 2017

If they really cared they would sent Muller an Edible Arrangement.

Hold up, wtf re: Spicer tweet. Is that real? I don't follow, that's some crazy up is down shit.

It is indeed real.

Problems problems

"We just simply don’t know how to govern,” says Rep. Steve Womack (R., Ark.), on the stalled GOP agenda. https://t.co/iW20yjQZle

— Capital Journal (@WSJPolitics) June 28, 2017

what an ass

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/339570-chaffetz-calls-for-2500-legislator-housing-stipend

$174k salary a year isn't enough huh

Meanwhile, of all people

Paul LePage just told reporters at the White House that he doesn't support Senate health care bill

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) June 28, 2017

the man whom Charles Pierce calls the human bowling jacket opposes it!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-28/trump-s-commerce-chief-cut-off-in-berlin-as-german-patience-ends

The U.S. commerce secretary was cut off in mid-speech during a video feed to an event hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, underscoring how German patience with attacks on the country’s trade surplus is fraying.

Attendees at the Christian Democratic Union’s business conference in Berlin laughed and clapped when organizers faded out Wilbur Ross after about 20 minutes for overstepping his time limit. Merkel, who had been craning her neck on the podium to watch Ross speak on a screen behind her, then took the floor to close out the evening.

“That was the U.S. secretary of commerce, who had promised us a 10-minute statement,” Werner M. Bahlsen, head of the CDU Economic Council, told the audience Tuesday evening. “As you saw, he spoke a bit slowly, so it took a bit longer. Now we look forward to the chancellor’s speech.”

In church/state news, they dedicated a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Arkansas state capitol, and it lasted just a few hours:

http://www.joemygod.com/2017/06/28/arkansas-man-arrested-filming-destroying-ten-commandment-monument-installed-yesterday/

Sadly, the guy who destroyed it is unwell.

Vayss unt meeenss of stopping u talk

A quote from another Kansas senator

Roberts on how do u address differences between mods and conservatives: "Even porcupines make love."

— Robert King (@rking_19) June 28, 2017

Hm hm hm

Walking into the Senate GOP lunch just now: CMS chief Seema Verma

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) June 28, 2017

Of note here: Verma met earlier w/ Alaska Senators Murkowski and Sullivan. She closed the deal w/ a lot of wary House Rs.... https://t.co/4AgimodZdK

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) June 28, 2017

The Mouse has spoken (I think)

WHOA. Vice is **retracting** that story on Trump and the Disney Hall of Presidents. https://t.co/ohClDOazVG pic.twitter.com/djWej9nDpX

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) June 28, 2017

don't fuck with the Mouse House

vice sucks

Sounds like today is immigrant criminal scapegoating day at the white house

every day is immigrant criminal scapegoating day

^^^ the best Sheryl Crow song imo

Were those Vice pieces edited by the guy who was using interns as drug mules?

The Mouse has spoken (I think)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 17:44 (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Time what it takes to type WHOA. Assume caps lock for efficiency. Assume you have your every need met from the minimum age at which you can type WHOA such that all of your days are spent attaining a type speed for that one phrase that outstrips any known human keyboard interface achievement otherwhere recorded or observed. Assume in this that you are fed, watered, thirdparty toileted at the relevant stance the better to constantly batter out this one awed expression second following minute following hour following day following season following life. Assume keyboards swapped into place with the practiced aggressive ruthless sterility of formula one tyre changes, assume steroidal implants into wrists and caffeinated dietary patterns and artificial lighting and the minimum of sleep required and supernormally elongated lifespan needed in order to be able to definitively state to the satisfaction of the mcwhirter apotheosis that in your terrible, artificial, bloodless and idiot existence you had eked out the greatest possible number of typed instances of WHOA not just on record but that could in any posited reality be realised.

Work out, from the total, what the least of these WHOAs was worth as an individual WOAH taken against all of the WOAHs possible in this imaginary WOAH maximising existence. Take this WOAH as a base standard for utter insignificance against all the WOAHs possible in a lifetime.

The WOAH at the start of the tweet posted above is that WOAH administered via homeopathy, the shittiest, least deserving WOAH of ours or any other time, truly a WOAH that will do the opposite of echoing through the ages, a WOAH that will exist in history as the complete blackhole absence of the meaning it presumably intended to convey, the typing of WOAH as an intro to such a radically underwhelming mousefart of nothing content is the work of a master satirist operating on a quantum physical scale and one can only fear what magic and havok might be wrought if the worst implications of such inversion of meaning and language can be brought to bear on the natural plane of existence inhabited by all known matter.

Man, "Campus Utility Meter Data (2017 WHOA Remix)" fucking sucks.

how confident are we that mcconnell doesn't have some kind of secret back-door loophole where they're gonna pass bcra at 11:59 friday night

dmac you have unresolved inner WHOA v WOAH conflict

in awe

Ffs xp

11 activists have just entered Tom Cottons office to demand TrumpCare meeting in Russell Senate building pic.twitter.com/ALEWAlWpdy

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) June 28, 2017

Also my friend Marta, who I've mentioned on here before who has a daughter, Caroline, with Rhett Syndrome, appeared and spoke yesterday at a press conference with Nancy Pelosi and other Congressional Democrats: https://www.facebook.com/marta.conner/posts/10155726701044410

Here is a video of a raven tearing the beating heart out of a pigeon on an NYC subway platform. Feel free to use it as a metaphor for something legislative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlog3s9QAeI

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170627151838-0627-sarah-huckabee-sanders-large-tease.jpg

perfect cross between Trump and a Melanie Hutsell SNL character

I feel great!

Trump's own advisers are struggling to convince him Russia still poses a threat, senior admin officials tell CNN.https://t.co/xsnRqbhLD4

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 28, 2017

"NSA Director Mike Rogers expressed frustration to lawmakers about his inability to convince the President to accept US intelligence." https://t.co/wjp2tZFgba

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 28, 2017

Negotiation!

Sen @RandPaul says he spoke at GOP lunch about how he wants to change bill.

Q: How was it received?

Rand: "Not very well, lead balloon"

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 28, 2017

But the huckster's gotta keep on

Trump promises "big surprise" on stalled health-care bill https://t.co/1wD27AjtKL

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 28, 2017

Surprise in this case being the satisfying fart he appears to be letting out.

but if Russia annexes more countries or gains allies counter to the US, I can still build more Trump hotels in those countries because Russians like me, right?

But the donors!

NEW: Key Republicans want to remove tax cuts for top earners from their health care bill. https://t.co/hdUllXyfz2

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 28, 2017

but the tax cut IS the bill. do you see?

Weird scenes inside the goldmine

Ann Coulter: Hannity Would Endorse Communism If Trump Implemented It https://t.co/RIeyXe4N1k pic.twitter.com/g2TOScNre8

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 28, 2017

ugh coulter so vile

In the latest chapter of the ongoing feud, Coulter penned a column arguing that Trump’s stocking the White House halls with Goldman Sachs executives will alienate his base of support — an act of political suicide tantamount to “voluntarily getting an AIDS transfusion.”

With his bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act in deep trouble, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, raised an alternate possibility on Tuesday evening: Either Republicans come together in the days ahead, or he may have to work with Democrats to shore up the deteriorating health law.

This reminds me of '80s cartoon episodes when the good guys needed COBRA, Skeletor, or Megatron's help to destroy some world-historic force.

Key Republicans want to remove tax cuts for top earners from their health care bill.

This makes no sense. Without the tax cuts, they don't need to enact the unpopular benefit cuts. If they're ideologically committed to benefit cuts and pass those alone, they lose the ability to get the tax cuts through reconciliation. If there's no benefit cuts and no tax cuts, the bill is just ... nothing? Or does it just come down to "we removed the individual mandate and replaced it with you have to wait six months to get insurance if you're uninsured, we otherwise leave ACA mostly alone, and we're gonna call that repeal and replace?"

Mitch conveniently eliding the fact that any health care bill getting mostly Democrat votes in the Senate would die in the House.

Coulter penned a column arguing that Trump’s stocking the White House halls with Goldman Sachs executives will alienate his base of support — an act of political suicide tantamount to “voluntarily getting an AIDS transfusion.”

The way this is written, one could be uncertain as to which act is an act of political suicide - Coulter penning the column, or Trump stocking the halls?

Coulter is vile, sure (so's the Trumpster), but recent history suggests that Trump may have a better feel for his base of support than anyone in the commentariat does. Everybody who has said "THIS is the thing that will lose him support" has been wrong.

Well, except for the part where he's been steadily losing support.

Sean is above it all

Ann, u fall in and out of love with Christie Romney Trump and how many others. Frankly you just bore me. https://t.co/ERf1TUUk8U

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 28, 2017

Haha I love that this now has legs

Donald Trump's personal lawyer is now himself facing investigation by two state AGs https://t.co/FFEpfeq4xI

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) June 28, 2017

they just have competing angles on ideological inconsistency xp

Trump's loss of support from his base would appear to be not so much about anything he's done, but is more about his not accomplishing anything at all.

I wonder who hat man is.

From inside Trump's fundraiser, attendees wave to and toast the protesters yelling at them from the sidewalk pic.twitter.com/5jYyZtVbog

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 28, 2017

He could lose 100% of his support, but he's still president so ...