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

xp Trump has gotta have serious dirt on Graham

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.

wow bannon read another book

marcos: most interesting, I will grant. not most likeable (that's probably Haley) or most charismatic (maybe Ivanka?)

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.

(xp with the caveat that in Trumpverse we are sort of talking whether herpes is more likeable than scabies)

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

wow bannon read another book

Torrented Wolf Hall and looked up the end on Wikipedia

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

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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

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

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

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?

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."

You wanted the job, dude.

McMaster out is good news on the Avoiding War front, surely

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.

bannon sucks but am i wrong in thinking he is the most likeable / charismatic / interesting person in the trump universe?

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.

wait misread you there, never mind

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.

Oh, how my heart bleeds.

Bannon not hosting the Sirius show anymore either pic.twitter.com/NNCUavBIGe

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) January 9, 2018

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?

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

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/rf/image_large/Pub/p8/PalmBeachPost/2017/03/23/Images/newsEngin.18175730_19950703-trump-gas-02A.jpg

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.

See? He doesn't even realize that a car door isn't supposed to open that way. He's a total no-drive.

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.

Special kind of asshole.

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.

that man cannot take a bad photograph <3

#wokeuplikethis

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

Eh, "there but for the grace of god and all that..."

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/steve-bannon-170213050691.jpg

https://light-in-the-attic.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/release_image/14161/image/LITA117_Highres_Cover.jpg

I guess the seething why-not-me?! face predated the double-shirts

somewhere back there long before they laughed at his screenplays this guy suffered an indelible slight

What, looking like a buttface?

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.

Eh, "there but for the grace of god and all that..."

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/steve-bannon-170213050691.jpg

― Sanpaku

Holy shit. Why is this so unnerving?

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.

This is fantastic
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-cohen-trumps-personal-attorney-files-lawsuits-fusion/story?id=52247639

^ 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!

He’s suing on his own behalf! I don’t know if trump knows he’s doing this - but trump isn’t named!

if bannon focused on korea instead of china he'd be able to access their cutting-edge skincare. seems like a missed opportunity

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.'

'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!'

Holy shit. Why is this so unnerving?

― treeship 2

dennis wilson?

The potential horror of aging? From unusually handsome young man to permanent 3-day bender drunk (who doesn't drink afaik?) in like 30 years is scary

Bannon blows mad rails

The potential horror of aging? From unusually handsome young man to permanent 3-day bender drunk (who doesn't drink afaik?) in like 30 years is scary

― albvivertine

look, it's just that the low resolution of the picture obscures his bad skin. there's pictures of jackson c. frank where he looks fine too.

he still looks bitterly angry tho. carry that around all yr life and you too can age decades.