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do we think Trump has read Jeet Heer's piece on dominance politics and is now consciously putting into practice what had previously been instinct

No, because that implies consciousness.

Ha Ned I scanned the article as saying the APA was supporting this and I was whut?!

I think one of the things that has most confounded people about Trump's behavior is that we expect people to behave in a way that favors their best interests, but this is a man who might literally cut off his nose to spite his face if Sean Hannity suggested something untoward about his face.

xxp Heh, be that as it may, if Jeet Heer's analysis is anywhere near on point, Trump has probably played a masterstroke by doing a great big baboon shit on Sessions in public, and making him eat it

Working on major Trade Deal with the United Kingdom. Could be very big & exciting. JOBS! The E.U. is very protectionist with the U.S. STOP!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017

Trade deal with a unified group of nearly 30 countries...nah, fuck that, I'm going with a trade deal with one tiny, rapidly declining island nation.

Which is a fairly on-the-nose demonstration of my last post.

This NRO bit from McCarthy the other day is rather too long, granted, but I found it interesting because it's an attempt to try and piece together the timeline over the past few months:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449743/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-president-blame-mueller-affair

It's still NRO and McCarthy, of course, so tread warily, and so much of it feels like Monday morning quarterbacking. But a key thread is that a combination of impulsive decisions, attempts to cover one's back and more on the part of everyone involved -- Trump, Sessions, Comey, Rosenstein -- led to the current state of things, and that certainly makes basic sense from here.

Ah, the Terminator

SCOOP: Scaramucci to oust White House press aide Michael Short, offers ‘amnesty’ to others https://t.co/kQtNvlexDJ via @politico

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) July 25, 2017

Scaramucci plans to purge Reince loyalists. The list of those likely to lose their jobs is heavy w RNC folks. https://t.co/atAlTzXex2 pic.twitter.com/WzyWGMNkX1

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 25, 2017

uh what "image" does Priebus have except "shell-less snail'

This is going to end with Trump and the like three remaining people in his administration chasing one another around the WH in loincloths and trying to spear one another to death while Bannon's head slowly decomposes on a pike in the Oval Office.

great! how can we hasten that?

This Sessions thing is obviously to set up a "I just like to be a dick and fire people" defense for the Comey matter.

tbf that was his election platform

So noble!

Talking to Sessions allies this AM, all same advice: Do not resign. Too much at stake, for conservative DOJ agenda, also for Russia probe.

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 25, 2017

"also for Russia probe"?

slip of the tongue, they meant "also for coverup"

lol he's going to eat the shit

Light Comedy:

After 9 years of hating Donald J Trump, telling him "lol no one likes you" was the straw pic.twitter.com/MhZ6bXT1Dp

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 25, 2017

Hard to keep up. Wanted to post about a Trump press conference at 3:00 today, CNN says Manafort has been subpoenaed by the Senate to testify publicly.

I guess John McCain wants to be sure that, on his life's final scoreboard, he's killed more Americans than Vietnamese

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) July 25, 2017

VC flipped him it's been a long game for the past 40 years

> Working on major Trade Deal with the United Kingdom. Could be very big & exciting. JOBS!

just how big is the chlorine-washed-chicken market?

( https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/24/us-chlorinated-chicken-not-ruled-out-by-no-10-in-pursuit-of-trade-deals )

this Trump v Sessions thing is feeling a lot like Mayweather/MacGregor to me. who do you root for here.

xxp The Oldmanchurian Candidate

Lindsey Graham: "President Trump’s tweet today suggesting Attorney General Sessions pursue prosecution of a former political rival is highly inappropriate."

Trump has been immune to so much the past 18 months, but maybe the Senate's clubbiness will be...I've got to say it, I need the words...A BRIDGE TOO FAR!

when's the health care vote?

Senate doesn't convene til noon ET

Any word yet on, y'know, what they'll actually be voting on?

whether to continue being terrible people

killing us all

How terrible to be, how many to kill. To expand the politics of the possibility

NEWS: Vote plan as of now per 2 sources with @VaughnHillyard that ends with "skinny" repeal pic.twitter.com/aYqmB9F8iv

— Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) July 25, 2017

the freedom caucus are going to love skinny repeal

It's gotta be kind of a cool feeling, knowing you can tell a bunch of guys 'hey, guys, we're going to all vote on something today, not really sure what yet' and know that most of them are going to vote the same way on the thing that they don't even know they'll be voting for except that it's evil.

http://www.shescribes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/SKC_Brand_Logo.jpg

Appropriate bait for a bunch of cow fuckers.

So no medicaid cuts?

Profiles in courage

.@SpeakerRyan just now, asked about Sessions: Trump "decides who to hire and fire in the Executive Branch. That's his prerogative."

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 25, 2017

Rand's in

This morning, @SenateMajLdr informed me that the plan for today is to take up the 2015 clean repeal bill as I've urged.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 25, 2017

They are just kicking the can down the road, which is all the GOP is good for. So the Motion to Proceed will probably pass. Rand Paul will be told that it's clean repeal, Murkowski and Heller will be told it's BRCA with less medicaid cuts, in the end it's going to be skinny repeal that is going to be 'fixed' by the house. Who will then proceed to fuck the whole thing up again, once the freedom caucus get's back on it.

so if "skinny repeal" passes, taking out the individual and employer mandates, it will tend to drive up premiums because there won't be enough young/healthy people paying into the system to balance out the high risk pool, right? which is maybe the plan, to "let obamacare fail" (by mutilating it and refusing to fix it).

How big is the West Wing? How did Trump and Sessions avoid each other if they were both there yesterday? If you've ever gotten involved with someone you work with, you know that from the moment you break up, you run into them 20 times a day. Must be a big place, that White House.

in the end it's going to be skinny repeal that is going to be 'fixed' by the house. Who will then proceed to fuck the whole thing up again, once the freedom caucus get's back on it.

normally i'd agree about the dipshits in the freedom caucus, but in this case i can see them agreeing to sign on the bulk of it. if it takes away the individual mandate, they get to go home to the dipshits who voted them into office and say "if you don't like your health insurance, you don't have to keep it!", a sort of twisted version of obama's "if you like your health care plan you can keep it". "because of us the evil government can no longer force you to get health insurance! yay, some of you are going to needlessly die!" = something the freedom caucus might be willing to settle for

really hope Trump fires Sessions tbh

The Freedom Caucus never settles, though...

How big is the West Wing? How did Trump and Sessions avoid each other if they were both there yesterday?

Justice Dept HQ is a few blocks down Pennsylvania Ave.; presumably Sessions' bunker is there.

That's what I should have requested back in 1998--a classroom a few blocks down from the French portable.

This new White House communications director's reaction to a story **that identifies him as the source of the news** is...something. pic.twitter.com/geSbNYNH2l

— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) July 25, 2017

On the lighter side

Hilarious hot mic moment after the hearing ends. Unidentified male senator and Sen. Susan Collins discussing Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas)

— Niv Elis (@NivElis) July 25, 2017

Male Senator assure Collins: “You could beat the shit out of him." Collins remarks: “He’s so unattractive, it’s unbelievable."

— Niv Elis (@NivElis) July 25, 2017