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I’m ready to act; I have peen in hand.

Pen is in hand lol

dying @ the Akie Abe thing. finally someone figured out the proper way to deal with Trump.

Sessions news conference imminent.

btw I'm still amazed that the guy who "surprises people" with his vast knowledge of health care still thinks it only costs $12 a year and that you can keep that plan your whole life

"I know he hates me, but he didn't mean it, not really. I still love him, so I'm staying."

"let obamacare fail" = anothe r one of his "smart" bankruptcies?

I love the idea of GOP dismissing the President, their president, as a distraction.

Eh, the Keynote Address sounds pretty phonetic - I could read a speech in German but couldn't hold a conversation in it to save my life.

You can only pretend you don't smell a pile of shit for so long before you start to lose your poker face.

Ouch, after a few pertinent political questions Rosenstein calmly states that they're only answering questions about whatever the hell the press conference was about. So then someone asks if there are any questions and crickets. On the way out, someone shouts to Sessions "are you a zombie attorney general?" And someone else repeatedly asks "So will you not resign? Mr. Sessions, will you not resign?"

You can only pretend you don't smell a pile of shit for so long before you start to lose your poker face.

where are u playing poker, dude

white house

What a day!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury fines Exxon Mobil https://twitter.com/joshledermanAP/status/888040345199677440 million for violating Russia sanctions while Secretary of State Tillerson was CEO

— Josh Lederman (@joshledermanAP) July 20, 2017

🚨 Bloomberg: Mueller expands Russia investigation to include Trump's business transactions https://t.co/sbJM1eRUgF

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 20, 2017

But Trump told him not to do that! Bad! Sad! Glad!

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Re that Bloomberg piece

The roots of Mueller’s follow-the-money investigation lie in a wide-ranging money laundering probe launched by then-Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara last year, according to the person.

Yeah, minor detail there.

president diarrhea has no discernible mechanism for self-discipline, yet I wonder how he avoids cursing in public. the only time I remember him cursing was last year when he was talking about Cruz at one of his events…and so why wouldn't he throw a fuck or shit here and there when he gives no fucks about anything else? Only thing I can think of is that he has cared about being on tv for his entire life, and so maybe he developed self-control as such in his 30s, when it was marginally easier for him to learn… something.

xpost Might explain Bharara's very entertaining Twitter trolling. "I know something you don't know ..."

Tbf, almost every president has had a potty mouth, and to date there seem more instances of SNL cast members going blue on live TV than presidents.

Bloomberg: Mueller expands Russia investigation to include Trump's business transactions

This is the funniest shit ever. Guess Donnie has to fire him now! And that will be that!

xpost But most presidents have demonstrated some modicum of self-control, however illusory. I do agree that Trump's general ability to not curse or pull his weiner out on camera is weird given the extent to which he otherwise behaves like an untrained ape.

His general ability (afaict) not to fart in public is weird, too. Or shit his band. Or breathe.

I think it's probably part of what I consider to be his one true facility in life: conning the good people. Any good con man has to have some ability to present himself as something less broken and vile. It seems like when he's behind closed doors with people who he isn't actively trying to bilk, the mask slides right off.

*Nelson laugh*

Jim DeMint, who once said that the ACA would be Obama's Waterloo: "It’s very unlikely that we’re going to repeal Obamacare."

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 20, 2017

So, Little Jeff gonna stick around

it's really more like obama's 'dancing queen'

ha, cute

I'm sure he was brought up to believe that cursing is "trashy."

Well, when other people do it, at least.

Heaven forbid Donald Trump engage in any behavior that might be construed as 'trashy'.

Did Sessions do a closed hearing court session since the JUne open one? I thought he was on his way out already. But somebody here has pointed out taht none of the usual penalties are being undertaken and that was a couple of weeks back. I think he's done even more since tehn hasn't he?

At some point surely some level of control and authority has to be applied to this misrule. Surely?

I'm sure he was brought up to believe that cursing is "trashy."

I was going to argue that someone who talked about walking up to women and grabbing them by the pussy wouldn't shy away from some good old cursing but then I remembered my cousin, who once unironically said to me, "Nigga, I don't give a flip!" so there's really no telling.

Although he did say he moved in on a woman "like a bitch," didn't he? Wouldn't that count as cursing?

I've read accounts that he swears like a sailor when out of the public eye.

At a news conference ostensibly meant to announce the takedown of an illicit online marketplace, Sessions said he had the “honor of serving as attorney general,” and he planned “to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate.” Asked how he could keep working, having apparently lost President Trump’s confidence, Sessions responded: “We’re serving right now. The work we’re doing today is the kind of work that we intend to continue.

add sessions to the list of GOP people who dgaf and aren't scared of trump i guess

So I'll continue to continue to pretend
My life will never end,
And flowers never bend with the rainfall.

I'm not talking about behind closed doors with Billy Bush, other times when he is not aware of the camera or recording devices… but when he knows that he is "on." He doesn't care about how he behaves in 99% of instances when he's being watched, performing etc, so why wouldn't he curse in public, calling Comey or H Clinton and Mika B a cunt or asshole…or say "fuck the haters" at one of his rallies.

It can only be that he developed an instinct to not curse when he was on television, or doing deals with men he knew would disapprove, etc, when he was in his 30s and could still train himself to not do shit that would work against his interests. He clearly has not had that ability in many years, cognitive decline, etc.

He curses volcanically when he is not "on." Karen Pence is evidently deeply mortified whenever she must be in his presense.

"presence." Mrs. Pence loves "achilles last stand" btw.

Sessions said he had the “honor of serving as attorney general,”

i read that as "horror of serving as attorney general" at first.

Sessions knows Trump can't fire him

xp

which is too bad because Sessions is the person I would most appreciate Trump firing

yeah and a sessions who isn't scared of his boss seems bad for everyone

I thought the response to his behaviour during the open hearing where he refused to answer questions because of an uninvoked presidential privelege was to try to get him to a closed hearing. This in the wake of both of the non responsive people in the previous weeks sessions had been brought in privately where thy had both become more responsive.
Has he just been refusing to appear or found some other way of wriggling out of things.

Surely he should be ousted by the law he's supposed to be serving.

"the law"

there is no solution to the current predicament that is legal, rather than political

ie, there is no non-elected, non-partisan, apolitical authority to appeal to

Trump will, however, fire Mueller.

probably

maybe not immediately but I can see it happening at some point. Trump will also pardon anybody that happens to get charged, including himself

Revolution time?