Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

If there's any expository dialogue along the lines of "____________! What have you been up to the past few years?" I will be so pissed.

lol wrong thread

let's use that money to fund the Wall of Racism

Back to trump v palin: i think palin legit has a type of thought disorder. From psychcentral:

"A disturbance in one’s ability to generate a logical sequence of ideas, as indicated by disordered speech and/or writing.

There are different types of thought disorders. A flight of ideas refers to language that may be difficult to understand when it switches quickly from one unrelated idea to other. Circumstantiality refers to language that may be difficult to understand when it is long-winded and convoluted in reaching its goal. Word salad refers to words that are inappropriately strung together resulting in gibberish.

A thought disorder may be a symptom of many different mental disorders, but is most commonly associated with schizophrenia or some related psychotic disorder. A person with a thought disorder is usually someone who is suffering from something that is need of professional mental health help sooner rather than later.

oh good let's pathologize every prominent republican now, that'll work out great

I find that once startling and prevalent character trait of leaders is a certain blindness to their own faults - as if they have to believe they are magic for nothing to stand in their way

Comey has a v Billy Corgan-esque gait

the gait of the v tall awkward man

Violet Jynx, ISWDT with the Olivia Newton-John reference.

BTW all I meant about Palin was that she had actually _worked in a government_ before. Many of the current TrumpClump would be vastly better at this (and prob less dangerous in their ignorance) if they had even glancing familiarity with a government. Even if it were that of Wasilla, AK (pop. ~ 8,000). There are rules, there are norms, there are constraints.

I think a lot of them have an idea of governing that is "do whatever you want, we aren't into regulations here" so what qualifications to they need other than looking the other way - corporate anarchists

President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting.

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Mr. Trump added, “I’m not under investigation.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html?smid=tw-share

WASHINGTON — President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting.

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Mr. Trump added, “I’m not under investigation.”

jinx. you owe me a coke.

he's said that many more times than W said "I don't have anthrax."

no coke for you

xpost At least as many times as he's said, "those aren't genital warts."

I was listening to NOam Chomsky the other day who said something like "being freinds with russia is nto a bad thing - better that than having them as our enemies and going back to the cold war"

Also said he - "LOL says the planet that america is sad about another country influencing their election when USA ALWAYS tryin to influence election in ALL TOWNS OF EARTH!"

wow, both suggestion of collusion and admission of obstruction of justice, in just two paragraphs!

The photo with that Times story is amazing. (Including the attribution to "Russian Foreign Ministry.")

Russia probe reaches current White House official, people familiar with the case say. Our updated timeline: https://t.co/kIsj4vT3hh pic.twitter.com/Boayn86pUt

— Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) May 19, 2017

I am now really just waiting for Ashton Kutcher to show up so this will all finally make sense.

Who's the whitehouse official? Kushner?

“By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia’s actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia,” Mr. Spicer said. “The investigation would have always continued, and obviously, the termination of Comey would not have ended it. Once again, the real story is that our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified conversations.”

'our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified conversations in which our president leaked private and highly classified information'

A second person seems like a big deal. They lose the "it was just Flynn" defence.

I'm still laughing my ass off, darkly, at this story which I'm sure someone has already posted here

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

Who's the whitehouse official? Kushner?

I'd guess either Kushner or Bannon tbh

third time's the charm xp

bannon actually seems to me to be the one white house official who might not be hip-deep in russian intrigue

I'm just guessing tbh

Yeah, dude's such an isolationist nutcase I wouldn't be surprised if he objected to all of the Russia nonsense from the start.

Not because of any moral qualms, mind, but rather because AMERICA FIRST.

more breaking news in the washington post

Russia probe reaches current White House official, people familiar with the case say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-probe-reaches-current-white-house-official-people-familiar-with-the-case-say/2017/05/19/7685adba-3c99-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_fbiprobe-banner%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.808494e1bd2f

it's almost like NYT and WaPo are coordinating the timing of their reports

Comey sure does strike me as a showboating nutjob. Donald is a great judge of character, some say the greatest ever.

his in the air atm right? xp

The White House has acknowledged that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner had contacts with Russian officials. https://t.co/FXukIjmR5r

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) May 19, 2017

jared

innarestin' that the focus is on kushner towards the end of that piece...

I think being slagged off by Trump would make me feel as if I'd reached some sort of pinnacle in my development as a well-rounded and upstanding human being.

leaked by bannon to destroy his nemesis! (prob)

part of me has wondered if bannon is so chaotic evil that he's the mole and the best way to end the administrative state and then the USA and maybe everything is just. like. this.

A rare Bannon leak not involving Budweiser

not much less plausible than anything else going on at the moment tbh xp

A rare Bannon leak not involving multiple changes of underwear throughout the day.

A rare Bannon leak not involving Budweiser

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, May 19, 2017 3:46 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

didnt we decide his drink of choice is gin

Trump O'Clock came a lil early today

Yeah, only gin can do that to a body, right? Beer works differently

Man, even the docu-dramas that'll be made about this era will be dumb, too, won't they

didnt we decide his drink of choice is gin

methylated spirits surely

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DANkqbLUQAQX08l.jpg

Man, even the docu-dramas that'll be made about this era will be dumb, too, won't they

rights to the Clinton campaign-disaster history have already been sold