sorry, wrong Thomas
― bread bags of courage (brownie), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
I'm not exactly surprised the GOP is tripling down on Trump at this point but Lindsay Graham's sudden and frequent bootlicking is very odd
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
tapes n tapes
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
bannon sucks but am i wrong in thinking he is the most likeable / charismatic / interesting person in the trump universe?
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
xp Trump has gotta have serious dirt on Graham
― sleeve, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Yeah, why assume Trump is the only one with a pee tape? We're so busy getting pissed off that we've lost track of all the people getting pissed on.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
wow bannon read another book
― maura, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
marcos: most interesting, I will grant. not most likeable (that's probably Haley) or most charismatic (maybe Ivanka?)
― dunsinane in the membrane (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
Bannon was fired from the WH but kept on advising Trump. For that matter, he kept on advising Beetbort when he was at the WH. I doubt he's off to wander the wilderness.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
(xp with the caveat that in Trumpverse we are sort of talking whether herpes is more likeable than scabies)
― dunsinane in the membrane (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
he is a reprehensible piece of shit but fwiw i would have a drink or smoke a joint w/ him and bullshit a little. i can't say the same for a lot of these people, esp trump himself
i had a dream the other night in which i had an opportunity to meet trump, but i had to go through a security check process w/ secret service and i had a little weed in my pocket. in the dream i ultimately decided that meeting donald trump was not worth ditching my little half gram of weed
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
Torrented Wolf Hall and looked up the end on Wikipedia
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
half gram of weed > potus trump
Yeah, why assume Trump is the only one with a pee tape? We're so busy getting pissed off that we've lost track of all the people getting pissed on.― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 10:15 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 10:15 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
To the tune of "American Pie"
My only sadness is the stain Bannon placed on Andrew Breitbart’s name.— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 9, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
AP:
President Donald Trump is getting his first medical checkup since taking office, a head-to-toe exam on Friday as questions swirl about the health and fitness of the oldest person ever elected to the nation’s highest office. In advance, the 71-year-old president has pushed back vigorously against suggestions he’s mentally unfit, declaring himself “a very stable genius.”
Trump will not undergo a psychiatric exam, the White House said. Officials did not address a different type of screening, assessments of cognitive status that examine neurologic functions including memory. Cognitive assessments aren’t routine in standard physicals, although they recently became covered in Medicare’s annual wellness visits for seniors.
Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, a Navy rear admiral who is the president’s official physician and director of the White House Medical Unit, is coordinating the exam. Jackson provided care for President Barack Obama, conducting and supervising the last of three physicals Obama had during his eight years in office.
so it won't be his Dr Nick
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
Trump's going to Davos this month -- I wonder who will have the nerve to give him an earful?https://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/9/16868996/donald-trump-davos-world-economic-forum-attend-2018
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
Serious q on that front: does he drive? Cos dont people that age have to retake cognitive/driving tests frequently so they dont mow everone down, Mr Burns styles?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
Surprised they haven't left yet
"Two of the most senior officials who are on the potential departure list are Don McGahn, the White House counsel, and HR McMaster, the national security adviser." Facing staffing exodus, Trump struggles to fill West Wing https://t.co/YdbeKXzofK— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 9, 2018
Even funnier detail:
In recent months, top advisers on foreign and domestic policy have announced their departures. Additional aides are expected to make their exit in the coming weeks. Chief of staff John Kelly has embarked upon an effort to fill the ranks by the end of January. But the absence of willing and qualified replacements, paired with a lengthy hiring process, make it unlikely he'll reach that goal.Kelly has been trying to take the reins of staffing in the West Wing since his elevation last summer. But the task has taken on heightened urgency."Kelly is eating bullets every day by himself and doesn't have a lot of help," said one person familiar with the personnel situation. "He needs reinforcements."
Kelly has been trying to take the reins of staffing in the West Wing since his elevation last summer. But the task has taken on heightened urgency.
"Kelly is eating bullets every day by himself and doesn't have a lot of help," said one person familiar with the personnel situation. "He needs reinforcements."
You wanted the job, dude.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
McMaster out is good news on the Avoiding War front, surely
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
not necessarily
While Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis are focused on diplomatic efforts to curb North Korea’s nuclear program, McMaster “is arguing more vocally, publicly and privately, that military options need to be considered,” The Wall Street Journal noted on Tuesday.
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
outside of the Mooch yea
he seems to be at least somewhat grounded in reality at least. I feel like he's the only one in that administration that isn't just blatantly lying all the time.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
wait misread you there, never mind
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
The replacement of course doesn't have to be approved by the Senate but I can't imagine anyone chomping at the bit to the third in twelve months.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
Oh, how my heart bleeds.
Bannon not hosting the Sirius show anymore either pic.twitter.com/NNCUavBIGe— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) January 9, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
There was a vid going around made by (iirc) The Apprentice crew of two scoops and Barron driving around listening to Taylor Swift.
OTOH:
https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/afp_mx9az.jpg?w=620
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/rf/image_large/Pub/p8/PalmBeachPost/2017/03/23/Images/newsEngin.18175730_19950703-trump-gas-02A.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
I don't think he drives tbh because I believe that you're required to be able to wrap your fingers at least 3/4 of the way around a standard-sized steering wheel and I doubt he would deign to wear the finger extensions favored by other stub-fingered motorists.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
See? He doesn't even realize that a car door isn't supposed to open that way. He's a total no-drive.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
there are moments now where following his fall that I'm feeling Bannon is this real-life, well fleshed-out asshole character that would slide nicely into The Wire, but then I remember... nah, he's all asshole.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link
Special kind of asshole.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:00 (six years ago) link
Back in the action!
New with @swin24: Steve Bannon plans to launch a new 501c4 group in the next month or so. A focus on China and trade policy, and no Mercer funding https://t.co/sgHOQj8VLQ— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) January 10, 2018
Or not.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
that man cannot take a bad photograph <3
― omar little, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
#wokeuplikethis
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
cooking meth has always been good to him, I don't see the shame in going back to your roots in a moment like this
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
Eh, "there but for the grace of god and all that..."
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/steve-bannon-170213050691.jpg
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
https://light-in-the-attic.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/release_image/14161/image/LITA117_Highres_Cover.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
I guess the seething why-not-me?! face predated the double-shirts
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
somewhere back there long before they laughed at his screenplays this guy suffered an indelible slight
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
What, looking like a buttface?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
Steve Bannon’s obsession with Shakespeare’s goriest play
Their first project had a working title: Andronicus. Synopsis: Titus is the leader of the Andronicii, beings of pure light who live somewhere in the Pleiades. They’re on a mission to save Earth, but their tragedy occurs upon entering the earthly plane; the Andronicii must assume human form, and all of the painful involvements of material being, thus ensuring their downfall.
That said, his involvement in financing the Julie Taymor adaptation is, aside from a penchant for quoting Marcus Aurelius, the only thing I like about Bannon.
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
― Sanpaku
Holy shit. Why is this so unnerving?
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
if Bannon flops in Washington, maybe Hollywood would take him back and finally produce another screenplay he and Jones completed together. The pitch: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus as a rap musical, set in South Central Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots.
Non political aside; the recent Coriolanus adaptation staring Ralph Fiennes and pre-fame Jessica Chastain in some post-Soviet Balkan civil war is pretty good.
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:07 (six years ago) link
This is fantastic http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-cohen-trumps-personal-attorney-files-lawsuits-fusion/story?id=52247639
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
^ pure gold. trump's lawyers are getting another big payday. the courts get yet another time-waster they must wade through. the public gets further fitful entertainment value from their litigious president. it's a win-lose-win situation!
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
He’s suing on his own behalf! I don’t know if trump knows he’s doing this - but trump isn’t named!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:57 (six years ago) link
if bannon focused on korea instead of china he'd be able to access their cutting-edge skincare. seems like a missed opportunity
― maura, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
Ohhhhhhhhh I hope these suits go to court. I hope I hope I hope.
'And if you'll turn your attention to the television, I will now play exhibit G, or what has been dubbed the Pee Tape, for reasons that should quickly become obvious.'
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link
'And I will remind the court that the president's people pretty much triple dog dared us into making this public record. And awaaaaaay we go!'
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
― treeship 2
dennis wilson?
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link