Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Also apparently Trump was threatening to plant a negative story in the Enquirer? How can he even do that?

"The National Enquirer's Fervor for Trump", from the current New Yorker.

Meanwhile: https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060056858

The disclosure follows the administration's suggestions over several days that it supports reviewing climate science outside the normal peer-review process used by scientists.

It will be just like science, except better!

No more #FakeScience!

Weirdly specific tin hat tweets going around right now hinting that WaPo has proof (including audio) of Russia collusion, but that IC asked them to hold or spike it because the intelligence comes from another country. Who knows, right? But that would make Rosenstein's non sequitur press release about trusting foreign sources make some sense, and might also explain the weird "collusion isn't illegal" pre-emptive argument. Some thoughts on it here:

THREAD. Thanks for this. I have not heard the rumor, but it brings up an impt point re the tension bw classified info and public's interest: https://t.co/nVjcQBwHb2

— Asha Rangappa (@DeanAsha) June 30, 2017

shakey 1) is there a california politics thread? 2) is this fair https://theintercept.com/2017/06/30/california-single-payer-organizers-are-deceiving-their-supporters-its-time-to-stop/

STEELE!!!

“5 states that have declined to provide Kobach with their files make up nearly a quarter of all of the active voters in the United States” https://t.co/S373cV7Sxg

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 30, 2017

because the intelligence comes from another country

Schindler in particular has been beating this drum for a while.

The tone is histrionic but the core point re: Prop 98 is correct - funding is the huge issue and a ballot initiative would be required to make it work. The cynical assesaments of various factions' motivations, however, are not particularly relevant.

Xp

i cant stop thinking about kush's voice after hearing it last week

― marcos, Friday, June 30, 2017 4:36 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I intentionally avoided it and hope to never hear it. I just want to live in this world of mystery.

Meanwhile, worth noting, esp. since some of these are notably red states.

So far CA, KY, VA, MA, NC, MN, UT, OK, NY, TN & NM say they won't hand over sensitive voter data to Kris Kobach

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 30, 2017

I refuse to hear Kush as anything other than Gilbert Godfrey.

Alexandra Petri, excellent as always.

I stand with my colleagues in Congress to say: The president’s tweet is beneath the dignity of the office.

This is not making America great.

The president has at last done the unthinkable: He has insulted a morning television personality in crude and ghastly terms
and I must — in consequence of this hideous and vile breach of the dignity of the office — withdraw none of my support from his legislative agenda. (If you can call it a legislative agenda and not a ragtag collection of bad ideas quickly stapled together with a dead pigeon in the middle.)

...

Everything else the president has done is fine — the continued attacks on the media’s legitimacy, the carelessness toward history and diplomacy, the harmful rhetoric about Muslims, the — well, it is all fine. This is too much, though, and I am putting my foot down, here, on my way to vote against icebergs.

...

By God, this is not what George Washington would have wanted, and I am thus withdrawing my support for everything but the legislation Trump would like us to pass. His words are a shame, but it is too important that we end health insurance for indigent seniors in Ohio.

hot lead for anyone looking for work

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/politics/mike-pence-chief-of-staff-replacement/index.html

Okay, roffle indeed. They REALLY don't like Pence back at home.

Indiana's Secretary of State saying no to Pence-Kobach information request https://t.co/zIRMtWTX4H

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) June 30, 2017

I think secretaries of state in general are pissed off/offended by this bullshit because it calls them out as incompetent.

Weirdly specific tin hat tweets going around right now hinting that WaPo has proof (including audio) of Russia collusion, but that IC asked them to hold or spike it because the intelligence comes from another country. Who knows, right? But that would make Rosenstein's non sequitur press release about trusting foreign sources make some sense, and might also explain the weird "collusion isn't illegal" pre-emptive argument. Some thoughts on it here:

Am I misremembering or was the gist of the Washington Post story last week not that the intel taken to Obama was sourced from another country and that the CIA believed it was legit but the NSA had doubts (at least at the time), which contributed to Obama not going harder on it?

Indeed.

WH Dep Press Sec Sanders on states not turning over their data to Trump's election commission: "I think that’s mostly a political stunt.”

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 30, 2017

Ohio joins the "get stuffed" crowd: https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2017/06/30/ohio-says-it-wont-provide-confidential-voter-information-requested-by-trump-commission

fuck this idiot

Ho. Le. Cow. What a blunder. Kobach can't provide the information he himself requested in the letter. Oh my oh my. https://t.co/JXuKm2F9QP

— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) June 30, 2017

If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017

5th dimension!

how about you release your tax returns first?

If you can't fix it now, just smash it in the street and we'll fix it later! Or something!

Amazing. This is the DC bureau chief of the NY Post

A source tells me Trump ran around the West Wing yesterday asking staff what they thought of his tweet & admitting it wasn't presidential

— Gabby Morrongiello (@gabriellahope_) June 30, 2017

Per source, Trump walked up to staffers saying: "I know it wasn't presidential, but what did you think?" https://t.co/e7EcFVyUcV

— Gabby Morrongiello (@gabriellahope_) June 30, 2017

Also deep LOL at Kobach's idiocy there.

What would even happen if they repealed without replacing? The bill is a series of industry reforms that have gotten woven into every aspect of US healthcare.

any reports of what the west wingers said in response?

I'm sure the repeal-without-replace process would go very smooth, the smoothest

let's run government like a business, guys

"Sick burn, Mr. President."

^

if you're not failing you're not doing disruption enough to, disrupt.. and.. *burrp*

I know it wasn't presidential, but what did you think?

trump thoughtfully trying to offer us something better than "covfefe" for a july thread title. not saying we should take the bait necessarily, but still.

hahaha

that is pretty good as a thread title, I admit

Hey we might as well.

it's perfect

'I know it makes me look like an unhinged scrote who should probably be locked in a tiny cage for the good of humanity, but what did you think?'

I think you answered your own question, dipshit.

Okay, amazing. AMAZING.

I didn't think this quote was real — until I found it's actually on the website of the Republican Secretary of State of Mississippi pic.twitter.com/ExpRdWhMCi

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 30, 2017

bad ass

Mississippi Burn

Also this

22 states now won't hand over voter info to Kobach: CA, CT, IN, KY, MA, MN, NC, NM, ND, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 30, 2017

Adding up so quick that MS isn't on there yet, even.

In fact the only state which I think has said 'Sure!' is New Hampshire, which, LOL.

Sadly, NJ hasn't said no yet. Fortunately, I'm a registered Republican (it seemed funny when I was 18) so I probably won't get purged.

Looks like New Hampshire said "you can have the information that's already public but not all that other stuff you asked for" which is what a lot of these states are saying

Yeah, it's a useful cover. Regardless, I'll take that.

Oregon automatically adds people to voting rolls when they do basically any civic process, like basically if you look at a DMV you are registered to vote, so there's got to be some legal consent issues there?

kolbach should just download that huge RNC leak from a few weeks ago

Haha yes of course

Scott Walker's Advice to President Trump: 'Tweet More'https://t.co/pLoR1d0rTv

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 30, 2017

Moving to Maryland in late September. :)

Damn, that Hoseman statement makes me not quite as ashamed to live in Mississippi as I usually am.