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

history’s biggest ‘aw diddums’ for these assholes

It will be fun when all of this reporting is autopsied a year (or god forbid seven) from now and none of the sources are Mark Felt institution-types motivated to keep mum. Every one of these clowns Trump let into the oval office is gonna be looking for a book deal.

The leaks are likely coming from Bannon as always. Or maybe Reince. But probably Bannon, who has been leaking from the start, may be cooperating, and actually has an ax to grind.

I think I read McGahan Priebus and Bannon have the same lawyer, so yeah its probably that guy

Just think, we had never heard of any of these people, except Trump who was a sideshow celebrity

*three years ago

three million years ago

three million trees ago. if you are clamoring for more books on these pricks you are part of the problem. maybe NYT just knows their audience too well. the hunger for Trump content is insatiable.

Is this bad?

EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump pressed senior aides last June to devise and carry out a campaign to discredit senior FBI officials after learning that those specific officials were likely to be witnesses against him. https://t.co/U7Qk3uTpGW

— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) January 26, 2018

I have to admit, it takes a certain amount of bravery to fuck with the FBI. Maybe bravery isn’t the word.

This sounds like it could be obstruction of justice though but I’m not a lawyer

https://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/review/primary_image/reviews/dragon-inn-2016/hero_Dragon-Inn-2016.jpg

i'm not really sure where to post this but i just got back from the movies and i submit that trump could and should be replaced by the blonde, pink-faced, asthmatic eunuch usurper villain of king hu's dragon inn (1967). he does a lot of squinting into the sun and yelling at people which seems in-character and also at the end he gets his head chopped off by an underling he'd tried to manipulate and exploit through clumsy, bullying manipulation. all in all this is basically how i prefer to imagine things going from here on out.

i'm with u

I’ve not checked rotten tomatoes nor am I fluent in cantonese but I’m willing to bet that is the best blurb/review ever written about that movie I’ve never seen

https://p1.pstatp.com/large/26eb00033ed5c6af1e73?123.jpg

"I've been treated very, very unfairly, and we're going to look into that"

The likeness is uncanny.

three million trees ago. if you are clamoring for more books on these pricks you are part of the problem. maybe NYT just knows their audience too well. the hunger for Trump content is insatiable.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, January 26, 2018 8:23 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think anyone said they were "clamoring for more books on these pricks." What does this mean? What does it have to do with NYT?

adam is doing his own thing

slate once again states the obvious like it's some new revelation

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/the-obstruction-case-is-getting-solid.html

That story about Dutch intelligence stumbling on the Russian hacking operation is crazy:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/dutch-agencies-provide-crucial-intel-about-russia-s-interference-in-us-elections%7Ea4561913

The Cozy Bear hackers are in a space in a university building near the Red Square. The group's composition varies, usually about ten people are active. The entrance is in a curved hallway. A security camera records who enters and who exits the room. The AIVD hackers manage to gain access to that camera. Not only can the intelligence service now see what the Russians are doing, they can also see who's doing it. Pictures are taken of every visitor. In Zoetermeer, these pictures are analyzed and compared to known Russian spies. Again, they've acquired information that will later prove to be vital.

Jimmy Kimmel is interviewing Stormy Daniels after the SOTU

and Maxine Waters is delivering her response on BET

options 4u

LBI shared the AIVD / Cozy Bear story earlier but he totally buried the lede imo

Shared it in the Trump-Russia collusion thread iirc

Oh that’s right. Amazing this shit is all public already. SIGINT bidness is supposed to stay out of the news for 25 years at least, clearly the world has moved on

The first head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) slammed President Trump and Republicans in a new interview, saying their environmental policies and denials of the threat posted by climate change are dangerous for the U.S.

“It’s a threat to the country,” William Ruckelshaus, the first head of the EPA who was appointed under former President Richard Nixon, told Huffington Post. “If you don’t step up and take care of real problems, and don’t do anything about it, lives will be sacrificed.”

“They certainly are killing everything,” he continued.

Ruckelshaus compared Trump’s EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, to Anne Gorsuch, the former EPA administrator under former President Ronald Reagan who was held in contempt of Congress after refusing to turn over records related to the mishandling of toxic waste.

“They don’t believe in the mission of the agency,” Ruckelshaus told Huffington Posy. “Neither one of them did. Anne Gorsuch did not, and I don’t think Pruitt does either. They think we’re over-regulating.”

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/371053-first-epa-chief-gop-climate-change-denial-a-threat-to-the-country

Ruckelshaus with the sick burns

A reminder: the awful Anne Gorsuch gave birth to an awful Gorsuch

speaking of toxic dynasties

no pun intended

Gorsuck

slate once again states the obvious like it's some new revelation

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/the-obstruction-case-is-getting-solid.html

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, January 27, 2018 1:14 PM (eight hours ago)

at some point slate seems to have ditched the #slatepitch approach in favor of "here's why it's bad that donald trump did this bad thing."

oh man

Oh...so NOW we know which organizations received political donations from the Mercer Family Foundation
This afternoon is going to be 🔥LIT🔥 pic.twitter.com/y4ASLGUPmr

— Alt_SeanSpicer'sMic🎙🤦🏻‍♀️🎙 (@Alt_Spicerlies) January 27, 2018

"sucess academy charter schools" [sic]

lmao

lol

“There is a cooling, and there’s a heating. I mean look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place. The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level.”

Oh my god, he doesn’t know that they ice caps melt in the summer and then freeze again in the winter, does he? No one has explained that to him yet and obviously he didn’t read any of the reports, not even the special unique one they make just for him that’s all pictures. jfc

i mean when has he exhibited curiosity toward anything not covered in cheap gold plating

(including glorification of himself in the “cheap gold plating” obv)

Speaking of immense mineral wealth, when he was elected I figured he’d be all about oil and gas exploration in the conveniently opened Northern Passage (its crazy, in the summers all the ice there magically melts for no reason now! No one has any idea why!!!!!!!!). He definitely supports it, or at least it’s important to the stooges that he appointed positions of power, but he doesn’t seem to have made it a personal issue. It’s just kind of surprising because it the mineral rights disputes up there seem perfect for him - lots of other countries with claims that he could provoke conflict with, an element later of science and statistics that he could completely abuse and ignore, a huge cash reward for whoever wins by fucking everyone over, etc

is anyone up there calling him names?

maybe someone can tell him it’s rife with sharks

but now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level. what a disgusting liar

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/sea-ice-extent-sinks-to-record-lows-at-both-poles

Seriously, he’s probably looking at the sea ice extent from this winter (when most of it re-solidifies) and comparing it to the summer, when it melts. He’s really that dumb. You have to think of the dumbest possible thing.

This is the dumbest apocalypse ever.

That’s not a giant meteor hurling toward earth, with an eta of 2 hours and 99.9999% chance of collision according to nasa! That is tv. It is a big tv screen showing a new movie that we haven’t seen. The Chinese have installed a big tv screen in the sky to scare us. I hope that I am on that tv screen

it's basically Mars Attacks! but the aliens are from here

I’m sure Piers Morgan quickly corrected him on this. He gets asked to be on television all the time so he must really deserve it

"people keep falsely saying New York is besieged by monsters. why just yesterday I saw fresh delicious Hi-C pouring through the streets. I am sure liberals will insist it's blood"

If #2020election were today, 52% of #Trump voters would “definitely” re-elect him (was 49% last April) @FoxNews #Poll https://t.co/YHLWBp4GFX pic.twitter.com/UtSal0fpp3

— Fox News Poll (@foxnewspoll) January 28, 2018

that seems extremely low

sure but remember that trump voters have a record of lying to polls

yeah i'd like to see how obama voters answered that in 2010

probably with non-sequiturs