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

i mean does trump want to run again or does he just like the excuse of 'campaigning' in order to have ego-boosting rallies with his true believers

also, it's january 4 and this thread is almost at 600 posts. good lord

It would be easy to fabricate a case - we saw that NK had loaded a warhead onto a missile and was hours away from launching at X. Who would know it was a lie? It's extremely unlikely, but justification wouldn't be a problem - fallout would be (radiation and political).

Here we go. You can buy it (and read it) tomorrow. Thank you, Mr. President.

— Michael Wolff (@MichaelWolffNYC) January 4, 2018

can't really believe we're having a debate about the optics of preemptive nuclear strikes, but gbx otm

Seeing a report that the current head of the NSA, Mike Rogers, has announced he'll be retiring.

i guess i worry about the instincts of a person who has demonstrably responded to any criticism by lashing back as hard as he can, often with terrible political consequences for him and his party, and then brags to others about having that impulse

it's not hard for anyone to look back at the brief history of nuclear weapons and conclude that a pre-emptive strike never, ever makes sense for any reason. that's mutually assured destruction. but does anyone think that trump has even the most cursory knowledge of truman, WWII, escalation, cuban missile crisis, détente, SALT, etc? he literally doesn't know.

Whomp whomp

SCOOP: The Mercers split from Steve Bannon was so complete — & so bitter — that they cut off funding for Bannon's private security detail. More juicy details TK as we update our story. https://t.co/SXrjOD3miD

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) January 4, 2018

nyt: now with "juicy details TK"

MSNBC’s Katy Tur just revealed the sordid details of how Trump seduced friends’ wives

xpost As it's in reference to Bannon, they could be using 'juicy' literally.

I wouldn't call puss "juicy"

Typo

Whoops!

EXCLUSIVE: Mueller's Investigation reveals details of how Trump had WH counsel lobby Sessions not to recuse; how a WH lawyer tried to mislead the president about whether he could fire Comey; Preibus notes corroborate some of Comey's claims. https://t.co/OxhitbBfg2

— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) January 5, 2018

Wow. McGahn lobbied Sessions to remain in charge of the inquiry, but "Mr. McGahn was unsuccessful, and the president erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials, saying he needed his attorney general to protect him." https://t.co/M4XIkww3yT

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 5, 2018

It’s like he’s never heard the “...and while i am AN attorney, I am not YOUR attorney...” speil/joke before.

What is a speil

xp re: Ned's quoted tweets: two very small pieces of a much, much larger puzzle that Mueller must piece together successfully, if his report is to critically wound the prez. but they fit right in with all the other pieces we've seen so far, pointing to obstruction of justice.

My opinion is that indulging in obstruction of justice would not take down trump all by itself (sad!). It must be seen as the final step in a pattern of criminal activity by his campaign, and his staff, with Trump fully and knowingly complicit. iow, something too big to be dismissed as an aberration or ignorant mistake.

What is a speil

― y'know, LIBS! libertarians, libertines, even liberians and librarians (Hunt3r), 5. januar 2018 02:05 (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's 'mirror' in Danish

I put a speil on you
and now
ur dane

spiel = story

It's 'game' in Danish.

apologies if this was already posted:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/03/bannon-trump-white-house-alliance-322624

CORRECTION: An earlier version of the story misidentified the fictional character name Bannon uses to refer to Jared Kushner as Frodo, a “Lord of the Rings” reference, rather than Fredo, a reference to “The Godfather.”

xp who the fuck cares about what the fuck anything is in danish

According to Wikipedia the population of Denmark on Jan. 1 2017 was estimated at 5,748,769. One assumes the great majority of Danes speak Danish and consequently would care what the fuck anything is in danish.

There is evidence for the presence of one or more Danes on ILX.

'Anything' is 'hvad som helst' in Danish.

lol

some have cheese

Weak, low energy, and some might say, sad:

I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018

sloppy steves for lunch, kids

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

Levels? Ready Killer One...

Yam is gonna order a Sloppy Steve w/ extra mayo.

The Urban Dictionary definition of Sloppy Steve is one for the ages...

really wish i hadn't looked that up.

One day, someone will write a kids' picture book with the main characters Lyin' Ted, Sloppy Steve and Little Marco.

when you want to write a really killer tweet proving you’re not an idiot but you also don’t know the difference between curated and cultivated https://t.co/Jsc8vKCDIr

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 5, 2018

XP Or the worst early Springsteen song.

A few months ago I dreamt Trump thought I was a spy and nicknamed me Nosy O’Donnell.

your dream nickname is much more clever than actual trump nicknames

It’s Frodos all the way down, right?

Alternating Frodos, Fredos, and Faygos.

More like Fraud-os amirite, sad!

https://d2ffutrenqvap3.cloudfront.net/items/0c2i103I2w0s102Y3p03/Wolff%20on%20Stephen%20Miller.jpg

i'm not sure wolff needs to be throwing shade about sentence construction here...

Governor Skeleton is angry with his bud Trump.

Irl lol’ing at “Nosy O’Donnell”

misread that as Governor Skeletor and thought "to be honest how would he even be worse?"

auto correct :(

Maybe not the most important thing in the world but the excerpt above is really crappily written -- I suppose Wolff had to do it in a hurry, it reads like first draft and probably is

Well, now that collusion with Russia is proving to be a total hoax and the only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia, the Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable. They should try winning an election. Sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018

eephus that's what i was trying to say