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

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

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.

Ties right into the common observation that he sits on every chair like it's a toilet.

I get that Wolff apparently has some credibility issues, but given everything we know, given that this entire year and change has been punctuated by daily (often multiple times daily) doses of Trumpian WTF-ery, why would anyone with his level of access need to do anything more than directly transcribe what he's heard/recorded? Attempting to out-sensationalize that gaggle of fucksticks would be a very steep climb and not even worth the effort. It's like being accused of overstating how wet the ocean is after spending a year floating around in it. It's the wettest ever, no need to exaggerate.

And this kinda confirms it.

Incredulous, I often asked Michael about his near-weekly visits to roam the White House unsupervised:

Me: 'So what do they THINK you are doing?'

Him (typing, typing): 'I have no idea. No one asks'

— Janice Min (@janicemin) January 4, 2018

The victories continue...

#BREAKING: Trump tells GOP senators he doesn't expect physical 2,200-mile wall to be part of immigration deal https://t.co/aAFMMmxMuf pic.twitter.com/VTOSfcUKCJ

— The Hill (@thehill) January 4, 2018

so hard to imagine a trump white house where nobody knows what's going on. xp

wait no it's not

what are the odds his annual physical actually takes place? Or takes place to completion, without him storming out or firing the doctor or something?

Senator John Cornyn everyone

aggressive senate fashion pic.twitter.com/sJNJrBkIFs

— Jim Newell (@jim_newell) January 4, 2018

xpost I'm glad you explained what you meant by 'to completion'.

It's absolutely astonishing that this article (which is not exactly fawning) is what got Wolff his access:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/donald-trump-conversation-politics-dark-898465

Seriously, every day the question "Just how stupid are these people?" has a new answer.

they liked the cover

that was probably enough

Him (typing, typing)

lol

wolff in the white house:

https://i.imgur.com/a8Fehku.jpg

Earlier in the day, I'd met with Trump at a taping of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! at the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, where he was the single guest for the evening (musicians The Weeknd and Belly canceled upon learning of his appearance). "Have you ever seen anything like this?" he asked. He meant this, the Trump phenomenon. Circumventing any chance that I might dampen the sentiment, he quickly answered his own question: "No one ever has."

His son-in-law, New York Observer owner Jared Kushner, married to his daughter Ivanka and also a real estate scion — but clearly a more modest and tempered fellow, a wisp next to his beefsteak father-in-law — offered that they may have reached 100 percent name recognition. In other words, Trump could be the most famous man in the world right now. "I may be," says Trump, almost philosophically, and referencing the many people who have told him they've never seen anything like this. "Bill O'Reilly said in his lifetime this is the greatest phenomenon he's ever seen."

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1:58 PM - Jan 4, 2018

I misread that as "shit-in-pot policy"

this is the greatest phenomenon he's ever seen

"donald trump" replacing "benedict arnold" is truly historic

xpost Six of one...

now being rushed to stores for tomorrow morning.

lmao

leggoooo

Hmm. (Worth noting Gaetz has been complaining about the Mueller probe forever, so, two birds, one stone?)

Rep. @mattgaetz, who's been one of Trump's strongest allies in the House, blasts DOJ over the new marijuana guidelines. pic.twitter.com/W7xN2IeuxU

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 4, 2018

loooool after receiving a cease and desist order from Trump's attorney the publisher of Michael Wolf's book has decided to release it four days earlier than expected.

boy 2018 is off to a fine start huh

dooH niboR

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-welfare/trump-push-to-scale-back-welfare-programs-has-republicans-on-edge-idUSKBN1ET1AG

makes sense for them, i'm not sure how a political book could be more hyped than right now

And you thought the beat slowed down

Pessimistically, I can't help feeling that more woes for Trump just ups the odds of some kind of military 'distraction' down the line. Only this time it won't be bombing a Sudanese pharmaceutical company, it will be nuking Pyongyang...

he does seem legitimately interested in re-election, which strikes me as an incentive to keep a bellicose peace rather than *actually* lurch into war

Being at war has traditionally been a great way to get the incumbent reelected (Nixon, GWB).

going to war creates jobs (and vacancies!), why do u hate jobs

i guess it depends when it starts and what the optics are.

a war that involves an actual nuke that kills millions will elevate him to hitler-level war criminal p much immediately, even with some of his staunchest supporters imo

not if they deserved it

yeah if there's one thing the american people have an appetite for, it's acknowledging the war crimes of their leaders xp

So Truman is seen as a Hitler-level war criminal then?

4real, nuclear devastation in our massively-online era would be communicated worldwide, to everyone, immediately, and maybe i'm just a naive chump but i really don't think that images of a flattened pyongyang and reports of literally millions dead would suddenly make trump ~more~ electable

are you guys being obtuse on purpose

Not really.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-department-looking-into-hillary-clintons-emails-again

The Remix

i suppose i should clarify that i'm talking about the impulsive preemptive strike that everyone's worried about, not necessarily a "we've been at war with this nation for a minute" that might have some popular support

but again: i think it was many years before anyone in the US had anything close to a sense of the devastation of hiroshima/nagasaki

Wait - so are these theoretical dead people white, or not? Asking for a friend.

He isn't going to nuke anyone, he doesn't have to.

maybe so! but i was responding to this (and similar sentiments):

Pessimistically, I can't help feeling that more woes for Trump just ups the odds of some kind of military 'distraction' down the line. Only this time it won't be bombing a Sudanese pharmaceutical company, it will be nuking Pyongyang...

― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, January 4, 2018 4:18 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the unthinkable human cost aside, nuking NK as a "distraction" would not be good for trump politically

trump won the presidency by doing everything that conventional wisdom held would not be good for him politically

still inclined to believe that impulsively murdering millions of people with a nuclear weapon isn't really the same as being dumber and more boorish than most politicians but w/e

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and nuke everybody and I wouldn’t lose voters.

It wouldn't be sold as a "distraction" it'll be sold as "America standing tall, not taking crap from bullies." And we don't really have much of a history with this. Lots of people today think the Japanese bombing was justified, whether because "they started it" or "it saved lives in the long run by bringing the war to a quick end."

idk, been thinking about this lately: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/pretending-it-isnt-there

most ppl seem to really underestimate just how unthinkably horrifying a modern nuke would be, orders of magnitude worse than what we did to japan

dunno why i'm hobby-horsing this today, sorry yall