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

Executive time
Residence time
Circle time
Story time
Nap time
Snack time
Play time

Hammer time!

and yet no quiet time. funny that

Reagan's White House schedule was pretty gross too: "personal time" was basically "nap time."

White House adviser Stephen Miller was escorted off the set of CNN’s "State of the Union" on Sunday after a contentious interview with host Jake Tapper.

Two sources close to the situation told Business Insider that after the taping was done, Miller was politely asked to leave several times.

He ignored those requests and ultimately security was called and he was escorted out, the sources said.

CNN declined to comment on this story.

Miller's appearance on the cable network quickly went off the rails when Tapper pressed him on explosive claims about President Donald Trump that appeared in the book "Fire & Fury: Inside The Trump White House" by Michael Wolff.

http://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-miller-escorted-off-cnn-2018-1

Well worth a read:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-on-trumps-voter-fraud-commission-its-demise-was-inevitable/2018/01/07/b5c1bec8-f261-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html

thx, ned. distribution of commentary on that ruling, even by a party, is so needed.

Meantime

Friend of mine in the White House was laughing on the phone today about the Gorilla Channel. Says he wishes it was true so they could pipe in a fake Fox News feed and a fake twitter feed so POTUS thinks he's online when he's not.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 8, 2018

now showing on the gorilla channel

http://deadline.com/2018/01/trump-tower-on-fire-small-blaze-put-out-by-new-york-firefighters-1202238261/

Oprah.#ImWithHer

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018

lol

hoooooooo boy

the pics of OW schmoozing comfortably with weinstein should hopefully be enough to shutter this whole idea

what about the idea of Oprah schmoozing with Bill Kristol

i can't even tell who kristol is trying to troll

Oprah: Pro-regime change in Iraq (see her Oct. 9, 2002 show).#ImWithHer

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018

John Podhoretz, who was praising her last night.

phew good thing bill kristol’s conscience is clear when it comes to supporting war in iraq otherwise that would be a massively hypocritical statement

love too live in north korea - shs licking the boot

“The time in the morning is a mix of residence time and Oval Office time but he always has calls with staff, Hill members, cabinet members and foreign leaders during this time,” Sanders said in a statement to Axios. “The President is one of the hardest workers I’ve ever seen and puts in long hours and long days nearly every day of the week all year long. It has been noted by reporters many times that they wish he would slow down because they sometimes have trouble keeping up with him.”

It is true that we all have trouble keeping up with him.

FWIW, Oprah's Cecil B. DeMille award acceptance had the cadence of a political speech at times so I can see why facile minds may have been confused.

people on twitter who claim to know things are saying that people close to her are saying she intends to run. take that as seriously as you will.

oprah is our spartacus

I mean, who the fuck cares? let her run, let her win. the bar is as low as can be.

Give America a Car Again

she's like reverse polarity Trump. Self made, generous, kind, liked, female etc.

first stedman

For better or worse, Oprah is the only candidate I'd absolutely put money on to win if she ran in 2020. We might as well accept that presidential elections are just going to be a Battle of the Network Stars now that we've broken the (seventh) seal.

Josh, I believe the hot quip for that sentiment is "black is the new orange"

i'm sure she would win

#fuckthisworld

crossposting to the direction of the democratic party thread, but it's possibilities like this - Oprah runs for president and wins in a landslide - that make me think that neoliberalism is not quite thoroughly discredited yet among the democratic party. i have no idea what oprah's politics are (which you'd think would affect her chances of becoming president, but no, it doesn't actually matter much), but i'm pretty sure she would just take assemble a dreamteam of advisors from the clinton/obama era.

No slam on Oprah in particular, but worth keeping in mind one of the many unintended consequences of a Trump presidency: the bar has now been set so incredibly low that literally anyone is a more viable candidate for president.

michael moore was pushing oprah for president like 10+ years ago in one of his books

there's a guardian piece from 2015 that's been making the rounds that literally hails her as neoliberalism's brightest light lol

(XP to Karl)

There has always been something a little messianic about Oprah and a little overly-pious about her fanbase that's made me slightly uncomfortable. Reese Witherspoon's eyes were glazing over as she introduced her Glorious Leader at the Golden Globes last night.

But hey, she does at least seem concerned with the well-being of others, so Oprah '20.

this one, i guess?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers

god, if you're out there, i'm sorry that i worship baal, and also please don't make me get into a debate with friends on why they shouldn't vote for oprah for president of the united states

in a perfect world Oprah would just cool her heels and see what kind of candidate the Democratic Party can muster up as a nominee. I wouldn't like to see her getting in the way of someone like Gillibrand, for instance. but if the Dems step on their own dicks aggressively enough to nominate some garbage person like Cuomo or Tim Kaine then sure I'd be more than happy for her to swoop in like people were hoping Biden would swoop in last time and save us from Donnie Two-Terms.

'if' the Dems step on their own dicks

2020 is the biggest gimme in the history of gimmes. I don't see how the Dems could possibly fail to take advantage of that. But I'm sure they'll find a way.

Yeah but in case you forgot 2016 was also supposed to be the biggest gimme in the history of gimmes so

imagine a oprah/dr phil ticket

an

Dr Phil would at least make Pence cry in the vp debate

oh man, dr phil with a penetrating question, then a loooong silent shot of pence trying to compose himself enough to respond, and eventually being saved by wolf blitzer blurting out something

we're all going to die

Eventually.

By which I mean 'within the year'.

psyched for surgeon general dr oz

tom hanks VP

Rhonda Byrne for director of 'The Secret' Service