Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

McMaster shows too plainly that he understands Trump doesn't know what he's talking about and he doesn't sufficiently sugar-coat his corrections of Trump's errors.

It is so audacious and yet utterly predictable that they would try to blame the Flynn situation on Obama. That sort of non-logic has so much potential. "Trumpcare failed because we were forced to come up with something to replace the failing ACA, blame Obama." Etc.

This administration is failing because the founding fathers had the gall to create this country in the first place. Sad!

we all deserve what we have coming to us for the original sin of taxing the *job creators* glory be upon them

blaming obama for not stopping them from shooting themselves in the foot/face? yeah ok. 'he did our homework but he didn't do it good enough fuck him he's a monster'

McMaster's volunteerism going sour is not just predictably bad news for foreign policy (diplomatic and the other kind) but also bodes ill for the hundreds of vacancies remaining in the executive branch with no nominations - anybody qualified who might have been looking at McMaster's move as an encouragement to "take one for the team" is now less likely to do so.

Having talked to some colleagues who were around at the tail end of the last GOP admin, almost none of those folks (the prior Republican appointed officials) are interested in coming back. The executive branch will be lucky if it remains staffed by mostly "acting" roles for the entire term. That might not be an entirely terrible precedent, either.

is McMaster the kind of guy who will have the balls to resign or will he just swallow Trumps shit like a good soldier?

I predict that when McMcaster discovers that he cannot put Trump's house in order, no matter how valiantly he tries, he will undergo the seven stages of grief, then resign.

blaming obama for not stopping them from shooting themselves in the foot/face? yeah ok. 'he did our homework but he didn't do it good enough fuck him he's a monster'

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, May 8, 2017 1:03 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not even 'he didn't do it good enough'. 'What an asshole that guy is for failing to explicitly state that his advice wasn't a joke.'

jokes on all of us, lol

'He told us not to hire him, knowing wed do the opposite of what he said! Because no means yes and yes means no"

anything good happening in the Yates hearing?

er...testimony?

questions starting now

Feinstein confirming that Obama warned Trump about Flynn

Every time they reiterate the facts in these things, a) it demonstrates that they've been paying attention to all the same tin-hat stuff as us and b) it further embarasses and humiliates Trump. Not that he cares, but his place as a suspect laughing stock is secure in the books. Assuming anyone will be reading by the time he's gone.

sally yates is extremely attractive

Yates implying pretty strongly that there was collusion

Sort of the first bombshell: Graham asked Clapper if he still did not know of any evidence that Trump campaign colluded with Russians. He said no. He asked the same question of Yates, and she said she couldn't say because classified.

getting pretty nervous for the senate version of the AHCA

This is a useful state of play re that:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-senate-republicans-health-care_us_5910ad87e4b0104c73511162?9q

something will pass the Senate but reconciliation rules and Senate perogatives mean it will look p different from the House bill. Whether or not Meadows can keep the Freedom Caucus united behind it, who knows

fuck these asholes and thier stupid quesions about leaks and unmasking

i'm taking only limited comfort in the "senate bill will have to go back to the House" scenario because i think the landscape looks different when the thing arrives already having passed the other house. whichever ""moderates"" were iffy about voting for something controversial that might not ever become law are off the hook of that particular worry, and maybe at least some freedom caucus types are less likely to be hardliners over the last 2% when 98% of what they want is in front of them.

that still leaves the question is how much the senate bill looks like 98% of what the freedom caucus wants, but i don't think we'll see as much of the "ryan caught between two irreconcilable factions" problem that we saw with version 1.0. idk, i mean it could still be a big clusterfuck but i'm not ready to be totally sanguine about it.

xps The Freedom Caucus loves to shit in the sandbox, while the Senate loves to stand on its assumed dignity, so this will be a very pertinent question.

John McCain wrote a pro-human-rights editorial in the NYT, lol

american foreign policy: a play in four acts pic.twitter.com/W84M4bgNFr

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) May 8, 2017

from the current vantage point I would say it looks likely some form of repeal is going to pass and become law. it won't be as odious as the House bill but it will still be bad, and Dems should try to kneecap it at every turn. But there's a lot of moving parts here, and it's going to drag on for months, so it's difficult to predict specifics.

xp

what a weird way to pronounce Riiiiiiiischa

lol of course all they want to talk about leaks and unmasking

I will go ahead and predict that I probably won't live out what would've otherwise been the natural span of my life because of today's federal-level scrotes. The precise means of my abbreviated life, though, could be any number of things. Don't stop believin'!

lol of course all they want to talk about leaks and unmasking

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/mask-depicting-british-airways-ceo-willie-walsh-is-placed-into-a-mens-picture-id102622861

xpost I guess one could argue that the human lifespan has been artificially prolonged by things like access to adequate healthcare, so this is a more authentic, salt of the earth direction we're heading in. It's like the Blue Collar Healthcare Tour.

Lol and Cornyn complaining that Susan Rice is not testifying, because she needs to answer a lot of questions.

at, not and.

ok this has been 2/3rds about unmasking so far, the GOP does not give one shit about foreign interference

Color me shocked!

Republicans will probably brag about the extent to which they've been compromised by foreign agents in future elections.

lol no shit

Cornyn now grilling Yates for not upholding the Muslim ban

digging into foreign interference gains the GOP little or nothing, politically speaking, and because governing the country is essentially hard work with meager political payback, unmasking and soft-on-terror accusations look the most promising to today's GOP.

Have they gotten around to asking Yates why she's at a hearing instead of in the kitchen making delicious baked goods for her husband?

No one who self-identifies as a republican can die soon or violently enough to suit me at this point.

Cornyn now grilling Yates for not upholding the Muslim ban

― frogbs, Monday, May 8, 2017 3:53 PM (three minutes ago)

yeah that was some bullshit grandstanding

Ted Cruz, right back to leaks.

So she's being reprimanded for believing in and trying to support the constitution?
Was hoping her appearance was going to set things straighter but now looks like bent rules.

cruz now ugh

cruz is looking especially gruesome today

ted cruz is a fucking scumbag

fucking piece of shit with the EO crap

yates just sonned him on the statutes

so cool nothing at all coming from this except a bunch of idiotic memes & talking points about leaks

Cruz has...gained a bit of weight since the primaries last year.