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I couldn't really think of other Sopranos parallels cuz a bunch of those people are actually sort of sharp (or at least good at their jobs)

xp

what happened to spicey?? i haven't seen him around

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, July 11, 2017 3:40 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

according to Bannon, Spicer got too fat to be the public face of the Trump admin so they only let him do press conferences without cameras

Is that serious

define serious

Spicer is kind of an odd, portly dude, but he is 90s Brad Pitt compared to Bannon.

Neither Spicer nor deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders responded to queries about the changes to the briefings. Asked why the briefings are now routinely held off-camera, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in a text message “Sean got fatter,” and did not respond to a follow-up.

it's a joke, but Trump has also "joked" about how he has standards for people that visually represent him and they did hook up Spicey with a bad Trump suit in his first week on the job

Well, Bannon's definitely not doing press briefings, either xp

Spicer is the only member of this administration for whom I feel pity mixed with disdain rather than just disdain. He's a winner in my book, relatively speaking.

Nah fuck that guy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/07/11/russian-lawyer-says-no-one-put-her-up-to-meeting-with-trump/

“I think it was someone who wanted to look like they were a big shot," said Veselnitskaya. "Goldstone. I think he said he had something very important from the Kremlin to make it look like he is a big deal.”

But she said she wanted to talk about the Magnitsky sanctions. In the meeting with Trump, “We sat and talked to each other for a few minutes and it was clear we were talking about two different things.”

It's really looking like this Goldstone dude just lined up a meeting between a Russian who was looking for someone with political influence on one side, and someone who wanted to get some political dirt from the Russians, and stuck them in a meeting with the hopes something would come together?

jesus christ what a shitshow

Why in the world is Don Jr. being permitted to go on Hannity tonight? I mean yeah, moderator in your corner offering softball questions, but wouldn't his shifty lawyer be saying stfu for a while already?

I am wondering if conspiracy is still applicable here; if TrumpJ thought he was going in to get Clinton dirt from the Russian government, wouldn't that point towards a collusion attempt even if the person he ended up talking to didn't have the info he was looking for?

I know it's tenuous and not as sexy/hilarious as the "TrumpJ cuts off nose to spite face" circus that's been happening today but is there a legal reason why that line of inquiry wouldn't be worth pursuing?

Well, there is that scene in "A Few Good Men"

Kaffee: Oregano, Dave, it was ten dollars worth of oregano.
Dave: Yeah, well, your client thought it was marijuana.
Kaffee: My client's a moron, that's not against the law.
Dave: I got people to answer to just like you do. I'm gonna charge him.
Kaffee: With what, possession of a condiment?

"what are you talking about, all I did was go to Chris Hansen's house..."

i know the cultural refs here are mostly the last 20 years, but this is more like The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 11, 2017 3:41 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if we're doing Jimmy Breslin refs, they're more like The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight mixed with the 1962 Mets, minus all the lovability

lol godspeed you dumb idiots

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/gop-fund-trump-border-wall-240418

the treason cries def aren't helpful. even in a made-for-press quote

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, July 11, 2017 8:42 PM (fifty-three minutes ago)

it's closer to espionage but admittedly that's a less fun word to yell at ppl

Rampant speculation among WH advisers about who leaked on Don Jr to NYT..evidence-free blame shooting in all directions...no trust in there

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 11, 2017

Why does everyone involved with Trump look like a scene-stealer in a Coen brothers movie? pic.twitter.com/BOoJx0DOL4

— Jason Sinclair (@jlsinc) July 11, 2017

Thank you, Mr President, for cutting through the media's bullshit! pic.twitter.com/RPZnZErJ3i

— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) July 11, 2017

Just a random reminder, BTW, that the guy Trump wants to replace Comey at the FBI has hearings starting tomorrow.

Apparent implication: this was news to them too.

BREAKING: Robert Mueller's investigators plan to examine the meeting and emails Donald Trump Jr. disclosed https://t.co/hllBAhlYoc pic.twitter.com/DhxKlxFsnj

— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) July 11, 2017

that's ... not encouraging

granted they've only just begun the investigation but still

Really treasuring the image of Donald Trump Jr. reading these tweets and being like "that's right bitch, I won again." pic.twitter.com/tMz8GNidwG

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) July 11, 2017

this is happening right now on /r/the_donald right now, and i bet any money that jr has an account there.

xpost It could also be a basic confirmation of the obvious.

I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out.

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 11, 2017

Seriously, Hills is literally nothing right now. She is barely a public figure.

Weird, don't know why I posted that. Must have been a draft sitting in my app. Anyway, just heard an interesting and in these days wholy plausible theory, that maybe the information about Don Juniors email Communications originate from the Russians, a shot across the bow to Trump for not giving them what they want.

this moron:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/trump-russia-collusion.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0
The benefit of the doubt I extended to Trump was limited, but on a rather important subject: I thought that direct collusion between his inner circle and Russian officialdom during the 2016 campaign was relatively unlikely and the odds of ever finding proof of such a conspiracy vanishingly low.

But now that I've seen it I believe that the odds have increased!

The key thing to remember from the NYT stories is that it's three sources in the White House providing this info.

maybe FBI doesn't want to let on what it has

They think "but Hilary!" is a great defense because they assume the Left blindly adores and defends its "leaders" like the Right does.

Ah, speaking of!

Never a boring moment in Trump world: Roger Stone, on record, accuses Corey Lewandowski of leaking on Trump Jr. https://t.co/qgf2T4qFX1

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 11, 2017

xpost They are right about that to a certain extent.

Asked whether the administration was concerned about who had provided the New York Times with information and emails related to Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer, a frustrated White House official curtly waved away the question Tuesday.

“I’m not talking about Don Jr.,” the official said. “You can talk to Don Jr.’s people about Don Jr.”

Also I keep seeing reports on this

BREAKING: Leading Senate Republican says revised GOP health care bill will likely retain Obama tax boosts on wealthier Americans.

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 11, 2017

Doesn't that essentially kill it? Even if it somehow passes, what's the House going to do?

makes me think twice about pulling a left wing tea party if the result is being unable to accomplish a single thing

They are? I know of no one irl or online/media who would reflexively defend Hilary or anyone else against these sort of allegations. Any "but Hilary did it too!" retort, I'm just like "oh ok well then let's impeach her too then sure why not"

if 3 people in the campaign knew about this (presumably at least one of them not in the meeting, unless jr is one of the sources, which is possible i guess because he seems like he's got hundreds of chromosomes) then it beggars belief that trump himself did not know.

Well, they could just take the savings fromt the Medicaid cuts, and then roll them into their tax reform bill later this year? Same difference. But like, do they think that people will fall for that? If there's still 22 million losing insurance, they're going to be okay with it because it doesn't immediately go to the rich?

can Trump really be said to "know" anything

the price of atrocious neckties

What does it even mean to know something, anyway?

today's events keep reminding me of this episode of South Park:

http://tventhusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/southpark-cartmansucks.jpg

Granny it's obv. a new frontier but Dems by and large have given HRC and Obama both wide berths on any number of offenses that would have them jumping up and down had Dick Cheney or the Bushes committed them

err

http://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/south-park/clip-thumbnails/season-11/1102/south-park-s11e02c16-cartman-shows-picture-16x9.jpg?

I want to believe that Eric Trump is going around saying "I tried to tell dad that buttmunch would screw it up. I should be running the company anyway."

Billy Madison 2017

That Coen brothers tweet thread is a hoot. I'd post some, but it would probably be better to split off a casting call thread.