Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

There are so many people at the WH, guys, let's not jump to conclusions. Probably a gardener or something.

Separately, I have really had no opinion on Jim Harbaugh until now. Now I think he's A-OK:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/jim-harbaugh-politics-michigan-football-coach-trump-budget-214948

funny how Captain-Find-and-Prosecute-a-Leak is ok when the shoe is on the other foot

and in this case the leak wasn't even reporting any illegal activity that occurred!

The White House needs its facility clearance revoked, methinks

Huh.

https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/846398195529895938

JUST IN: Senate Judiciary Committee postpones vote on SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch until next Monday

Aren't they on recess then?

damn

These guys clearly flunked conspiracy class, lol.

the kabuki regarding gorsuch sounds so stupid to me. on slate's political podcast with the host of face the nation they were discussing what the dems will probably do - filibuster, but then allow dems to break ranks and vote for cloture. so they can say they 'filibustered' the 'moderates'/dems who want to vote for this fucker like the senator from colorado will say they were 'reasonable' and the nuclear option isnt invoked. a win win for everyone! except like, regular people.

best nuclear option is to kill'em all imo

The real reason for the near-extinction of mankind due to nuclear warfare those hundreds of years ago has been largely unknoen. Few clues survived other than transcripts from an obscure social group known as "ILXOR".

as best we can surmise, a casino thug named Trump usurped the Presidency, accumulated power, and escalated woekd tensions culminating in the Hen Fap wars, which led to an exchange of missiles with the leader of Russia, Don Henley.

where's the tax returns?

new personal best http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx

jared and russia, sitting in a tree . . . aspen, to be exact : )

http://www.ericrosenwaldphotography.com/awol-in-aspen

How nice, a shrine:

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/846401938728108033

Mystery buyer pays $2M for Trump's boyhood home, per @Woellert.

Queens property is now Trump Birth House LLC's.

Dow has been dropping for a week straight

They're bummed that tax reform is now on the ropes

For those alive at the time how does this feel in relation to Nixon...

Not in regards to how it ended but how it began prior to his re-election. Did it feel like ultimately there wasn't enough there, was there a lengthy period of anxiety as everything dragged on?

I know these are hardly apples to apples compares esp since the Dems held Congress then but kinda curious overall. Everytime i think the current GOP couldn't possibly transparently obfuscate the investigation further we get shit like Nunes last Wed

(Obv that won't be many of you lol)

Queens property is now Trump Birth House LLC's.

Some people have money to burn.

Nunes's office has had to put out a statement re another question -- why use the White House with its secure area for intelligence stuff instead of the one at the Capitol:

https://twitter.com/jessicaschulb/status/846410963398131715

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C78Mx2SWkAEgKlp.jpg:large

This is being treated skeptically, thus:

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/846412114218639360

If this source had access to these reports, I would bet good money he/she also has a courier card for SCI materials. So I call BS.

Xpost exclusive photo of the buyer

http://i67.tinypic.com/ix9nhj.jpg

As I've already noted a month ago so thereabouts, Watergate was a minor story, comparable to a paper cut or minor toothache. You were aware of it, it never quite faded away, and you were troubled by it, but it never seemed to go anywhere. The change came when the original burglars were convicted and Judge Sirica held long prison terms over their heads to compel their cooperation. Once they started naming names (even though it was to a grand jury) the story jumped back into prominence and accelerated steadily right up to Nixon's resignation.

yep, from June '72 til Feb or March of '73 Watergate did not catch fire, and was blasted regularly by the GOP as a partisan witchhunt. They even have Robards-as-Bradlee in the ATPM movie quote some poll along the lines of '2/3 of the public never heard of Watergate.'

man i wish i'd had the foresight to accumulate a couple of mil for trump's birth house and then have it bulldozed, burned, and the earth salted

yep, from June '72 til Feb or March of '73

Oddly enough...seems to be a similar timeline right about now.

jared and russia, sitting in a tree . . . aspen, to be exact : )

Gah, that makes me remember when aspen trees were involved in a "Republicans are massive hypocrites about information security" story. Scooter Libby wrote to Judy Miller, "Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."

And the sparrow flies at midnight.

ISn't there some plant lore about aspens related to vampires or possibly being the wood that the cross was made out of?

kelly green greenway, if i have my supplyside jesus gospels right

seems to be a similar timeline right about now.

except for the RussiaRussiaRussia omg-here's-the-smoking-gun beat since November...

Let us keep in mind that Nixon at the beginning of the Watergate news cycle and Trump at the beginning of RussiaRussiaRussiagate were distinctly different public figures in distinctly different contexts.

yes, that too

NYT: G.O.P. Weighs Less Ambitious Tax Plan After Health Bill Loss

ya think?

except for the RussiaRussiaRussia omg-here's-the-smoking-gun beat since November...

it's almost as if there are people behind the scenes trying to bury the investigation!

there's a difference between pressing to investigate and MY GOD A PREZ-ELECT'S TEAM HAS NEVER TALKED TO FURRINERS

I'm as sympathetic as anyone to calls for levelheaded temperance wrt Russiagate, but that's an impressively obtuse hot take.

I'm not gonna claim there was definitely treason, or even anything necessarily prosecutable, but between the admin's completely nonsensical explanation of why Flynn had to be let go and the fact that they're now pretending they don't remember who was the campaign manager for five months in the middle of 2016 it's pretty clear that something very strange is afoot, saying "oh it's the Dems own Benghazi" is pretty ridiculous IMO

yeah, i never said that last thing

"treason" still makes me chuckle

MY GOD A PREZ-ELECT'S TEAM HAS NEVER TALKED TO FURRINERS

Is anyone on this board pushing this angle? With or without "comedy" hillbilly accent?

hyperbole, dawg (see frogbs and several hundred others above)

Tbh I can't remember anybody itt acting like the issue is that the president-elect's team "talked to foreigners"? But maybe I'm missing a layer of your argument here.

maybe I'm missing a layer of your argument here.

Wouldn't there have to be a second layer to his ILX persona for that to be possible?

You might've missed the 'Clinton is awful' subtext.

They spoke to the Russian ambassador while it was obvious Russia was interfering in the election. There are people who are complaining about that, but it's not really the same as 'talking to foreigners'. Most of the scandals has come from them lying about it afterwards.

Do we have an accounting of all the non-Slavic furriners Team Trump spoke to prior to the election?

would anyone care? maybe he gave Heartthrob Trudeau the heads-up on the pipeline.

I heard he held secret high-level talks with Scotland on critical golfing issues

More fun!

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/846409374956507136

White House says it learned of Nunes' visit from press reports. This is very hard to believe.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C78M0s4XgAAHy82.jpg:large

I wonder whose cackle this was:

https://twitter.com/GlennThrush/status/846438195512446976

Read Spicer's claim Trump 'walked away' from 'bad' health care deal to senior WH staffer -- who laughed, laughed then laughed and said 'no.'

"treason" still makes me chuckle

If selling state secrets to a foreign power is considered treason, then it would be reasonable to consider selling US foreign policy in return for a sizable bribe as entering similar territory. The idea that Trump would be venal enough to accept cash or stock worth, let's say $50 million or upwards, in return for lifting sanctions doesn't seem utterly laughable to me. The status that money buys seems to be at the very center of his being and he appears to me to be arrogant enough to think he could do it and suffer no consequences.

The idea that, if this deal really happened, sufficient proof could be obtained to verify it seems to me extremely improbable. More than one Trump loyalist involved would have to testify to it and some damning documentary evidence would have to back them up. One may imagine it happening, but one may imagine endless things that will never come to pass.

In the meantime, stopping the republican agenda seems like a more fruitful area for us mere citizens to engage in.