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

yes sir!

lol sleeve wtf ? i got used to him saying that everyday now xp

Hi sleeve very root in these threads what can you do?

(No beefs with sleeve but he's been p vocal about his distaste for my own Trump-related posts. It's a touchy subject, I geddit.)

‘beef sleeve’ is def a euphemism for something utterly vile on urbandictionary but i’m not checkin

lol

phew, feel safer now. no longer interested in president trump's tax returns, nor his response to the russians just hacking the mexican election

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-russia-usa/russia-meddling-in-mexican-election-white-house-aide-mcmaster-idUSKBN1EW0UD

Image too big, but has to be seen. And has to be fake, right?

yeah already debunked

Transcript in full

Miller: Jake, what I care about is having three minutes to tell the truth about the President of the United States.

Tapper: You had plenty of time. I let you give like a three-minute filibuster at the very top.

Miller: You gave me two minutes.

Tapper: Stephen. Okay. Thanks for coming.

Miller: You should be ashamed of yourself, honestly.

Tapper: This is the reason they don't put you out on TV, okay. This is the reason.

Miller: No, Jake, you brought me on to talk about the Camp David summit and you -

Tapper: First of all, I had plenty of questions about immigration, but you kept telling the same story over and over.

Miller: Because you’re asking about the salacious – (inaudible)

Miller (cont.): Look that’s all you want to talk about and you don’t have any interest in talking about –

Tapper: I had plenty of questions but you kept on repeating yourself and kept on not letting me ask my questions.

Miller: Really, because you’re (inaudible) calling me a factotum.

Tapper: After you spent the entire interview attacking CNN and (inaudible), OK, so don’t act all offended.

Miller: I'm not acting offended. I am offended. I'm offended by you and I'm offended by your network.

look at all these fuckin white cops

On behalf of the American people, THANK YOU to our incredible law enforcement officers. As President of the United States - I will fight for you, and I will never, ever let you down. Now, more than ever, we must support the men and women in blue! #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay pic.twitter.com/Qb4uxB4JRm

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2018

we could pay them more instead of cutting the corporate tax rate for starters

or maybe train them properly so they don’t needlessly murder hundreds if not thousands of citizens of cItizens every year while acting like an occupying army

how? "why release tapes when I'm a writer?" - because the Trump administration denies everything and attacks your character, a little bit of proof would go a long way

Trump denies that it was him on the Billy Bush tapes or John Barron voicemails, why would you suddenly take this proof as more definitive

trump may think that but does anyone else?

Everyone who automatically thinks whatever Trump says.

I think even the "deplorables" accept it's him in the Bush tapes

who is Wolff supposed to be trying to convince?

we could pay them more instead of cutting the corporate tax rate for starters

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, January 9, 2018 5:26 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or hire other people to do the jobs the police are manifestly unsuited for like dealing with mental illness, domestic disputes, etc.

Since Google is shit for important research of this sort, can anyone find a prior reference to anyone in the history of the English language self-identifying as a 'stable genius'? And, if so, the amount of time that lapsed between the obvious red flag of the utterance and the time that they were committed to a psychiatric hospital and/or began their killing spree?

or hire other people to do the jobs the police are manifestly unsuited for like dealing with mental illness, domestic disputes, etc.

and help fund that through legal weed sales taxes

Miller: Jake, what I care about is having three minutes to tell the truth about the President of the United States.

Tapper: You had plenty of time. I let you give like a three-minute filibuster at the very top.

Miller: You gave me two minutes.

lol fuck this guy. I WANT THREE MINUTES. I gave you three. YOU ONLY GAVE ME TWO.

That's pretty low on the 'reasons why fuck Stephen Miller' list.

not quite the same but there is recent precedent in the uk of a leader repeatedly professing strong and stable leadership in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary

https://cdn-03.independent.ie/incoming/article35806061.ece/c1427/AUTOCROP/w620/27may.jpg

There is no gain playing by the rules with Trump. We've had a year+ of people playing by the rules. By any standard, Trump should not be president. But here we are, so the more writers like Wolff who just do not give a fuck the better, I say. As that GQ essay above opined, Wolff is an unscrupulous, ethically dubious sleeze, which is what made him the perfect person to get this dirt and write a book. God knows, any number of reporters and idiots have/had access to the same dirt - as citizens we witness it regularly! - but those other reporters and idiots have reasons for not going the name-names in public Wolff route. So screw "proof," it would just get twisted and discredited and devalued. As Trump himself knows, sometimes the threat of recordings is more effective than actual recordings.

That's pretty low on the 'reasons why fuck Stephen Miller' list.

Girl, let me give you a bulleted list of arguments for why you should rethink that restraining order.

lots of O_O in this:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-resubmits-nominees-stalled-in-2017

probably more o_O

Miller: Because you’re asking about the salacious – (inaudible)

good for Jake Tapper, asking the touch questions about Salacious Crumb

***tough questions

never gonna happen for a whole lot of reasons but it'd be nice if leftists would start infiltrating law enforcement the way white nationalists have, if for no other reason than to monkeywrench it.

"Hey! You there! What are you doing with that side-screen TV?"

"Uh, liberating it from the oppression of the ruling classes and redistributing it to the proletariat?"

"Just so. Carry on, mate!"

*wide-screen

Trump also renominated GOP Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to be the ambassador at large for international religious freedom.

whew I worried Trump wouldn't have anything worthy of Brownback's talents

has mr. trump announced yet whom he's appointing to oversee the russian sanctions?

Hmmm

NEWS: Dianne Feinstein unilaterally releases Fusion GPS co-founder's full testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. https://t.co/dP4LPTRoKt

— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) January 9, 2018

Congrats to the WH reporters who had a chance today to ask Trump anything at all and went with "Can you beat Oprah?"

— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) January 9, 2018

Trump also renominated GOP Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to be the ambassador at large for international religious freedom.

whew I worried Trump wouldn't have anything worthy of Brownback's talents

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 9, 2018 1:06 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

should've made brownback the ambassador to The Sun

the astronomical body, not the rag

Read that as "trump also reanimated GOP" and i was, no the GOP is still undead, which is unfair for the other undead, really.

Seriously. The GOP has no interest in brains.

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf

Fusion GPS testimony

(As I linked earlier.)

My bad I didn't notice

Matt Yglesias points out this on p 175:

"Essentially what he told me was they had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source and that -- that they -- my understanding was that they believed Chris at this point -- that they believed Chris's information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization."

and p 175-176:

"We had been really careful -- I was really careful throughout this process to not ask a lot of specific sourcing questions. There are some things I know that I just don't feel comfortable sharing because obviously it's been in the news a lot lately that people who get in the way of the Russian tend to get hurt"

seth abramson has started a pretty comprehensive liveblog thread of his read from here

(THREAD) BREAKING: In an extraordinary move, Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) has *unilaterally* released the transcript of Fusion GPS's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

What follows is a live-read of the transcript by a former criminal defense attorney. Hope you'll share. pic.twitter.com/6R40eHmYqM

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 9, 2018

not relevant to that thread but

Seth Abramson = (Eric Garland + Louise Mensch) - cocaine psychosis

— maple cocaine (@historyinflicks) January 8, 2018