US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

i don't know if trump and bannon will make up, but the RIP Bannon stuff seems very premature to me. sorry to bring up my close family as anecdotal evidence again, but they not only read breitbart, but they also track down books influenced by bannon or directly connected to him, like "the fourth turning" and shit. bannon really does hold a lot of influence with a loooooooot of very impressionable people. there are a lot of people who WANT the apocalypse to happen (via a global war with Islam), and bannon is maybe the most powerful person in the united states who supports that vision. he's not going away.

Pretty much as was tweeted

.@SenCoryGardner on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' #marijuana policy change: "I will be holding all nominations for the Department of Justice. The people of Colorado deserve answers." pic.twitter.com/BnVEkA54ag

— CSPAN (@cspan) January 4, 2018

Cory Gardner for secretary of the bongzilla

From Fire and Fury, here's Trump on his friends' wives --> pic.twitter.com/9imNBaSqm1

— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) January 3, 2018

Feel sad for them, why don't you?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/04/retiring-members-congress-2018-216209

I'm sending Booker's office some Doritos rn

xp the problem with creating an environment of "whether or not it's true, it sure SOUNDS true" is that applies to you too

xp I mean Gardner's office. Shit.

xxxpost That person clearly doesn't understand how a highlighter works. So annoying to look at.

lol i thought the same thing

i would have gone with a single vertical highlighted line in the margin

Like...I've often said as much in my patented hyperbolic fashion, but is it actually possible that Donald Trump is the worst living American who hasn't (as far as we know) murdered anyone with his own hands? Not sure what metrics to use in measuring someone's awfulness quotient, but I think 'never positively contributing to humanity in any way' and 'exerting considerable effort to be a human bag of shit in pretty much every arena' go a long way in that regard.

how dare u he created jerrrrrrbs

jeerrrrrrbbbbbbs

he created gerbils

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-jim-jordan-jeff-sessions-resign-mueller-2018-1

cassidy on the new book: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/michael-wolffs-withering-portrait-of-president-donald-trump

Holy shit the phone prank is so evil.

Dude from Colorado, is his pro pot stance so firm since CO has seen so much, er, green since legalization?

It's been a success on all fronts

especially the getting blazed front

Rep. Gregg Harper (MS-3) bails out after this term.

CNN:
Harper became the 44th member of the current House -- including more than two dozen Republicans -- to announce that he will retire, campaign for other office or resign by the end of the current term. This means that more than one tenth of the chamber is planning to leave.

For Republicans, it's the sixth committee chair this cycle to retire or run for another office.

catching up here but wolff is a grifter and a scumbag (i know people who have been personally affected by his bullshit—read BURN RATE if you want the kind-to-him version of his dot-com era antics), and he's also been comically wrong about The Future Of Journalism while sucking up to the people who've helped turn it into a shambles.

in other words, he fits right in with the trump white house

memories http://tktk.gawker.com/we-have-a-few-more-blurbs-for-michael-wolffs-new-book-1707802934

our caligula has his seneca

US publisher Henry Holt is understood to be in discussions to move forward publication of the book after receiving the cease-and-desist letter from Trump’s lawyers. About 250,000 copies of the book have already been shipped, but they are supposed to be held under strict embargo until Tuesday.

Although lifting the embargo is complicated, the publisher could now direct booksellers to immediately place the book on sale, a source with knowledge of discussions said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/04/trump-lawyers-book-steve-bannon-white-house

Fucking weird anyone would grant this dude access anywhere anymore. “All press is good press” kind of breaks doen when you’ve already monopolized the world’s attention.

all these idiots are super-susceptible to flattery from anyone who they perceive as 'like them'

we're dealing with an inherited aristocracy (in well-funded denial that it's an aristocratic class) afflicted by dunning-kruger effect

i definitely just pre-ordered the book

In Wolff’s account, the battle lines inside the White House were clearly drawn. Bannon, Reince Priebus, who served as chief of staff before Kelly, and Donald McGahn, the White House counsel, were adamantly opposed to firing Comey. “McGahn tried to explain that in fact Comey himself was not running the Russia investigation, that without Comey the investigation would proceed anyway,” Wolff writes. In an Oval Office meeting, Bannon told Trump, “This Russian story is a third-tier story, but you fire Comey and it’ll be the biggest story in the world.”

Ranged on the other side of the issue, according to Wolff, were some of Trump’s cronies outside the White House, including Chris Christie and Rudolph Giuliani, who “encouraged him to take the view that the DOJ was resolved against him; it was all part of a holdover Obama plot.” Even more important, Wolff goes on, was the concern of Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, “channeled through his son and daughter-in-law, that the Kushner family [business] dealings were getting wrapped up in the pursuit of Trump.” As the President considered whether to get rid of Comey, Jared and Ivanka “encouraged him, arguing the once possibly charmable Comey was now a dangerous and uncontrollable player whose profit would inevitably be their loss.”

reince priebus: temporarily the smartest guy in the room, somehow, a memoir

if ever a book screamed to be torrented, this is it

that was my plan tbh

Meantime

DENVER (AP) - US attorney in Colorado: No change to marijuana enforcement despite Attorney General Jeff Sessions' shift on pot policy

— Josh Lederman (@joshledermanAP) January 4, 2018

Posting this because that's one ugly freezeframe

Trump on Bannon calling him a “great man”: He changed his tune pretty quick, didn’t he? https://t.co/4x80pGARj6 pic.twitter.com/xXqTZJWyPz

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) January 4, 2018

This one's something as well.

Just In: When asked if Steve Bannon betrayed him, President Trump said, "he called me a great man last night" although he hasn't talked to him.

Adding Bannon "changed his tune pretty quick" since the many revelations in @MichaelWolffNYC's upcoming book. pic.twitter.com/U0h79LfFeL

— errol barnett (@errolbarnett) January 4, 2018

any image of trump is a graven image

really want a push to have him put on the penny

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/be/02/00/be0200e6eb6785ea7bbda8ab938d51aa--jungles.jpg

an echo

Garry Wills on anxiety, political discontent, police brutality, the "forgotten American," and "false news" in 1968. From Nixon Agonistes. pic.twitter.com/IXXb5F1SDf

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) January 4, 2018

Nixon Agonistes is a great book btw

Why did they think this was a good idea.

New header image pic.twitter.com/2GCBflU1Hp

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 4, 2018

I kept waiting for that call to be made. https://t.co/RGm2SqLbKx

— Michael Wolff (@MichaelWolffNYC) January 4, 2018

These Trump screencaps need to stop, I'm freely wetting myself at this point with all the laughing.

Another confirmation on the dinner story reported by Wolff

So I was one of the 6 guests at the Bannon-Ailes dinner party in January 2017 and every word I've seen from the book about it is absolutely accurate. It was an astonishing night... pic.twitter.com/I4vgOrHOYb

— Janice Min (@janicemin) January 4, 2018

Was going to start/propose a new thread, "Pictures of Trump where it looks like he's pooping," but EVERY picture of him, he looks like he's pooping.

I simply cannot imagine why that would be the case. I simply cannot.

Yes, yes of course

On CNN, Atty. Mark Geragos says he has it on 'good authority' that Steve Bannon is considering a defamation suit against President Trump.

— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) January 4, 2018

screencaps of trump making the exact same expression as pokey minch https://lparchive.org/Mother-3/Update%2034/21-62.png