if you're sucking your own cock it's best to relax, not tighten, your asshole btw
(erm, so I've heard. From a friend.)
― deez nuts roasting on an open fire (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
Getcha hot takes here
Wouldn’t it be funny if Trump & Bannon cooked this one up together as a decoy for some bombshell policy initiative?— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 3, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 January 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link
Fun times amidst the maggots.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/03/bannon-endorsement-trump-republicans-263753
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 January 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
read that as 'coked this one up'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 January 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
Lol
One Republican senator joined many Democrats at a private congressional briefing about Trump’s mental health by a Yale psychiatrist, @anniekarni reports https://t.co/M7pjx8pfPp— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) January 4, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
Apparently they met with Ryan to get reassurance that the DOJ wouldn't be refunded if they didn't conply5with Nunes' document request.
― Moodles, Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
*comply with
...defunded?
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
Apparently that's something congress can do
― Moodles, Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
The Congress has the power to simply not fund an institution that is not being obedient. The DOJ has to be confronted, at some point, with reality that Congress is not going to tolerate being kept in the dark and being told lies. https://t.co/CaTaO6011e pic.twitter.com/sBUsC6AN1u— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 4, 2018
― Moodles, Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
Newt, with Jeffersonian wisdom.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:43 (six years ago) link
what about the refunding though
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
I don't think this would actually happen, and it would backfire massively if it did, but Rosenstein was apparently concerned enough to seek reassurances from Ryan.
― Moodles, Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
This @jdawsey1/@AshleyRParker WaPo piece says Bannon has alienated Rebekah Mercer https://t.co/jlscrwPfuh pic.twitter.com/Zgz5kNGw9a— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 4, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
ya i was saying you said re-funded
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
RIP bannon's presidential run
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
RIP big ban
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
Can we finally stop hearing about this shithead now?
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:35 (six years ago) link
i think we're going to be hearing a lot more from him
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
although, i guess i was thinking of it in terms of trump v bannon. but i suppose it's more like trump + FOX v bannon, which does tilt the scales against him a bit.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
BREAKING - Attorneys for President Trump send Steve Bannon a cease and desist letter citing the non disclosure agreement he signed during the campaign https://t.co/jDybwQenJ2— John Santucci (@JTSantucci) January 4, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
i've always been curious about what would happen if someone decided to say To hell with the NDA....
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
The funny thing is that it’s kinda aimed at the wrong person. It’s Wolff’s work that caused all this.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
Trump devours you like warm cottage cheese.
xpost
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
Here's where we see if blusterbear Bannon turns tail or goes ham.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
i finally got around to reading the rest of the Wolff piece a few minutes ago. it does irritate me when people put paraphrased remarks within quotation marks, but i agree with the interpretation that it's probably mostly on the mark, given that no one from the white house has really disputed any specific parts of it (that i've seen, at least).
there's these really damning passages, like:
As soon as the campaign team had stepped into the White House, Walsh saw, it had gone from managing Trump to the expectation of being managed by him. Yet the president, while proposing the most radical departure from governing and policy norms in several generations, had few specific ideas about how to turn his themes and vitriol into policy. And making suggestions to him was deeply complicated. Here, arguably, was the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: He didn’t process information in any conventional sense. He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate. He trusted his own expertise — no matter how paltry or irrelevant — more than anyone else’s. He was often confident, but he was just as often paralyzed, less a savant than a figure of sputtering and dangerous insecurities, whose instinctive response was to lash out and behave as if his gut, however confused, was in fact in some clear and forceful way telling him what to do. It was, said Walsh, “like trying to figure out what a child wants.”
and what's amazing is that i've never really seen anyone really dispute this characterization of trump, either. even his defenders. this dude does not read. he doesn't like the big words. he doesn't pay attention. he gets distracted. some people close to him call him childish, outright, and most of the others don't say anything or brag about how good he is at sinking putts from 30 feet away. but no one really chimes in with an anecdote about how trump is actually really interested in a certain policy, or the good idea that he had that one time in that one meeting, or that he really likes kafka or something. there's just nothing there.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
Couldn't such an NDA-related lawsuit claiming slander open the door for some sort of discovery proceedings? That is, it's not slander if it's true, which would lead to all sorts of dirt aired in public. Right?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
IIRC, that's precisely how a lot of Church of Scientology dirt wound up on the record.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
Yeah. They got a lot of crazy stuff from L. Ron's suppressed memoir, so to prove slander they would have had to produce it and other documents. Which no way were they going to do.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
I mean, every move the WH has done today has been to basically shout at the world "Please look at it further and take it seriously." Wolff must not believe his luck at this point.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:14 (six years ago) link
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2018
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link
Yep Twitter Trump has been boring today - no threatening to nuke the Palestinians or anything. Sad.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:57 (six years ago) link
xp you got it, big guy
― j., Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:57 (six years ago) link
I'm probably late to this interpretation but lately I'm getting a strong "SIEG HEIL!" vibe from the MAGA! exhortations.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:08 (six years ago) link
And Bannon is the Ernst Rohm of the WH administration
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:15 (six years ago) link
of note:
Changes to Presidential Job Approval Tracking and Reporting
Beginning in 2018, Gallup will start updating presidential job approval on a weekly basis, rather than on a daily basis. We are making this change largely because the source for these daily data, the Gallup Daily tracking program -- made possible by a client-supported commitment to daily interviewing on a wide variety of well-being metrics -- is shifting from telephone surveys to reporting mail surveys on a monthly basis.Gallup remains committed to tracking presidential approval using probability-based, telephone interviewing, but is reducing the sample size from 3,500 to 1,500 U.S. adults per week. As a result, Gallup will aggregate and report presidential job approval each week, rather than daily, beginning on Jan. 8 at 1 p.m. ET. We will continue to report subgroup differences for presidential job approval using the large sample sizes collected each month.The Gallup Poll Social Series surveys conducted each month, other standalone surveys, and periodic updates of other Gallup trends and measures throughout the year will continue as they have with no change.
Gallup remains committed to tracking presidential approval using probability-based, telephone interviewing, but is reducing the sample size from 3,500 to 1,500 U.S. adults per week. As a result, Gallup will aggregate and report presidential job approval each week, rather than daily, beginning on Jan. 8 at 1 p.m. ET. We will continue to report subgroup differences for presidential job approval using the large sample sizes collected each month.
The Gallup Poll Social Series surveys conducted each month, other standalone surveys, and periodic updates of other Gallup trends and measures throughout the year will continue as they have with no change.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 January 2018 06:24 (six years ago) link
xp sic semper Strasseris
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 4 January 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link
Wolff has the explosive quotes taped, so the access journos newly worried abt the sanctity of journalism can relaxhttps://t.co/CfBrE6Kksf— Heidi N Moore (@moorehn) January 4, 2018
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
More golden quotes from the Wolff book here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-wolff-my-insane-year-inside-trumps-white-house-1071504
"There was more: Everybody was painfully aware of the increasing pace of his repetitions. It used to be inside of 30 minutes he'd repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories — now it was within 10 minutes. Indeed, many of his tweets were the product of his repetitions — he just couldn't stop saying something."
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
Okay, okay, I'll preorder the fucking thing already.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
The way that closes is killer
Hoping for the best, with their personal futures as well as the country's future depending on it, my indelible impression of talking to them and observing them through much of the first year of his presidency, is that they all — 100 percent — came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job.At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
i hope rosenstein highlighted all the damning evidence about nunes
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/03/politics/rod-rosenstein-house-intel-russia/index.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:07 (six years ago) link
damn, if he's got recordings
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
also the skepticism about this Wolff piece is odd to me in that it reads pretty much exactly like.... every other fucking thing I've ever read about the Trump White House
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
tbf Wolff himself doesn't exactly have a glowing rep
― Simon H., Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
yeah you're right that is fairbut I guess I was expecting this fantastical thing when most of the behavior an the dynamics between the various factions seemed very in line with a dozen storieslike, I don't know maybe people are still struggling with THIS IS THE GUY HE'S JUST A DUMB ASSHOLE, there's nothing there and there's some need for there to be
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
Dumb is one thing, actively falling apart is another.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
Put them together and what've you got.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
The nature of the comedy, it was soon clear, was that here was a group of ambitious men and women who had reached the pinnacle of power, a high-ranking White House appointment — with the punchline that Donald Trump was president.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-wolff-my-insane-year-inside-trumps-white-house-1071504
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
I genuinely believe 95% of the carping about Wolff is professional jealousy and nothing more. Oh, Michael Wolff has an exaggerated sense of his own importance, and touts his proximity to power at every opportunity? This separates him from every other big-name journalist exactly how? Also, scumbags he made sound like assholes in his work later shouted "I never said that"? Oh, THAT'S never happened before. I find it perfectly plausible that Trump could golf with Boehner, give a talk about Boehner, then in a meeting say "Who's John Boehner?" Why? Because he thought it would be advantageous to Donald Trump to do each of those things, at the moment that he did them, and that was all his canary's brain needed to know. Every political and/or business journalist in America would act exactly like Wolff if given half a chance, and they're just pissed that a guy who looks like a cross between Roy Cohn and Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu pulled off what they couldn't.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link