Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Ron Wyden going in right now

which is a true nickname in ways they don't intend

xpost

he's trying, i guess.

all the leaders of our intelligence community are unable to say anything, shockingly

I know a guy who's sort of this incredible narcissist, who shows people a lot of memes on his phone and sometimes weirdly claims that he created them, even though its stuff that's been shared tens of thousands of times

I imagine Trump's head works a bit like that.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/trump-comey-loyalty/index.html

Who needs competence when you have loyalty?

loyalty, loyalty, loyalty

martin heinrich seems frightened

What is the right way to interpret Trump’s statement that he coined the phrase “prime the pump” a few days ago?

My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.

otm

The best construction, which is how I read it, is not that he's claiming to have invented that phrase but to have invented its application to economic policy

Which is still stupid in a, how you say, huge way

Such a chill bro now

Sen. Steve Daines asks Sen. Ted Cruz how he's doing this morning. Cruz takes a sip of coffee and answers, "Just... living in the circus."

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) May 11, 2017

xxpost Except for the thing where complex phrases like 'economic policy' (let alone the broader concept described by the phrase) have, of course, never manifested within the mind of Donald J. Trump.

how big of an asshole is Mike Rogers? rumor has it he's gonna be the next FBI chief

let's not forget money-related endeavours is supposed to be where he's a viking

like, this is his alleged area of expertise and he's still performing at a level consistent with having only just suffered a serious head injury

fuck coffee, ted crux was 100% taking a sip of campbell's chunky soup when he said that

Xp yeah a part of that interview was me thinking no way has this child ever been allowed to run a functional business

shouldn't have used child as an insult, I like children and most of them are curious and multicompetent

"Just... living in the circus."

circus clown ridicules sole source of income

the civil war thing, the douglass thing, the steam thing, it's just unreal

there was a book once called "ronald reagan's reign of error" with quotes from ronnie that were either boneheaded or factually incorrect - they'd footnote each one to enlighten you - imagining such a book for trump is both too easy and impossible

i'd say these assholes all deserve each other except we are among the assholes

it is a circus tho, i heard someone filibustered by reading green eggs and ham for hours on end once

there was a book once called "ronald reagan's reign of error" with quotes from ronnie that were either boneheaded or factually incorrect - they'd footnote each one to enlighten you - imagining such a book for trump is both too easy and impossible

that trump error collection in full

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02850/library_2850120c.jpg

Ever the bold stance taker

Rubio doesn't rule out special prosecutor but says after Intel acts. "Maybe that will eventually happen. Maybe not." https://t.co/sBa2pmSOPK

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 11, 2017

xpost Was literally just about to say that I'm pretty sure I don't have the shelf space for the Trump trip-up encyclopedia.

rubio lining up the classic 'schrodinger's cat' response there

quantum politics, built for the needs of the 21st-century slippery shitbag

^^Best Bad Religion song

Hm hm hm

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/11/rosenstein-seeks-meeting-with-senate-intelligence-leaders-238268

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has requested to meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee, including committee chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and vice-chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.), sources told POLITICO.

Rosenstein was seen walking into the Senate Intelligence Committee space as the panel was holding a hearing on worldwide threats.

...

It’s unclear whether Rosenstein made the request to the committee unilaterally, or took his request through officials channels at the Department of Justice. He arrived with a security detail.

lmk when the Doctors' Plot begins

http://i.redd.it/h6mmntxppqwy.gif

Oops!

WH did not consult with NSA before letting Russian state media org TASS into Oval Office, per NSA Director Rogers

— Jessica Schulberg (@jessicaschulb) May 11, 2017

lmao

Rubio doesn't rule out special prosecutor but says after Intel acts. "Maybe that will eventually happen. Maybe not."

maybe fuck yourself, Marco!

"Good afternoon, Mr. American President. Please, accept normal microwave."

lol

Rubio doesn't rule out special prosecutor but says after Intel acts. "Maybe that will eventually happen. Maybe not."

awwww yeah I hadn't seen evidence of the Plankton with a Hairpiece's existence in months!

FBI staffed by grunge/alt-rock revival bands:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/10/new-fbi-boss-could-be-more-controversial-than-comey

It’s unclear if McCabe will be able to say anything to comfort FBI agents. One veteran agent in the FBI’s criminal division responded to a message from The Daily Beast this way: “Who cares, nothing matters, no one knows anything, everything sucks.”

*power chord*

.@POTUS is slated to meet with the Belgian prime minister & King of Belgium during his visit to Brussels later this month, per source

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) May 11, 2017

"You shake his hand first."

"No, you."

Over/under on the likelihood that the Oval Office is now bugged or that one of yesterday's visitors secured classified intel that was just lying around between like some takeout menus or that they swapped out Trump's phone with a replica that gives Russia a direct video feed of Trump's toilet tweeting seshes.

It’s unclear if McCabe will be able to say anything to comfort FBI agents. One veteran agent in the FBI’s criminal division responded to a message from The Daily Beast this way: “Crawling in my skin; these wounds, they will not heal.”

It’s unclear if McCabe will be able to say anything to comfort FBI agents. One veteran agent in the FBI’s criminal division responded to a message from The Daily Beast this way: http://33.media.tumblr.com/853c30dd79f1204b4bb071f414ea2649/tumblr_nnelqzIjOJ1qc3ju8o6_400.gif

Update on that earlier bit:

Meeting now in the Senate SCIF: Burr and Warner with ROSENTEIN and DANA BOENTE

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 11, 2017

(Boente being the temporary deputy AG handling Russian probe matters until Rosenstein arrived, and presumably still involved.)

SCIF referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Information_Facility

learned that from one of the last episodes of the americans!

Surely it's about time Jack Bauer had a crack at the top job

McCabe stated for the record today that they will not be updating the WH on the investigation. he'll probably get fired now

live look in at the senate SCIF

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Get_Smart-Cone-of-silence.jpg

the lack of sophistication on display in that economist interview is really something. he's even worse when he's pretending to know what he's talking about.

Maybe they're meeting about John Schindler and Rick Wilson's dump?