Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Like any of that is a surprise.

This to me is the more telling/true bit:

By Tuesday evening, the president was watching the coverage of his decision and frustrated no one was on TV defending him, a White House official said. He wanted surrogates out there beating the drum.

Instead, advisers were attacking each other for not realizing the gravity of the situation as events blew up. "How are you not defending your position for three solid hours on TV?" the White House aide said.

Two White House officials said there was little communications strategy in handling the firing, and that staffers were given talking points late Tuesday for hastily arranged media appearances. Aides soon circulated previous quotes from Schumer hitting Comey. After Schumer called for a special prosecutor, the White House huddled in press secretary Sean Spicer's office to devise a strategy and sent "fresh faces" to TV, one White House official said.

hey friends i just want to say yall are a bunch of swell folks and also

motherfuck this worthless cumstain, i hope he trips on his own shoes and falls face first into a pit of vipers.

right back atcha, and him

btw to clarify, i do not mind if the vipers are snakes or the dodge sports cars, either one would inflict large amounts of pain

Can we wait for the millions of spider eggs to hatch inside his skull first?

only if those spider eggs are full of vipers

trump: what is this itching inside my brain?
*little huevitos jostle around inside his big dumb head*
trump: of fuck its those spider eggs, i bet im gonna have a lot of spiders runnin around in my head now. sad!
*eggs crack open*
vipers: sike dickhead its us

I'm still hoping he strokes out while shitting and tweeting. That's the eternal memory that Trump deserves.

...his unarmored Android falling to the floor as he musters the words "Pussy Grab" with his final breaths...

elvis comeback special indeed

I think the only way Trump can truly win back the trust of the nation is a ride in an open-topped limousine past the book depository in Dallas

[joeks, newly-rogue-FBI]

it will encourage a lot of people to give him at least one shot, maybe two or three.

idk guys theres no magic bullet

https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/18359464_10154451128741406_6358186934874264248_o.jpg?oh=bbc4a03a75bd51970c614a9042e4ce1f&oe=59BCF095

lol

Personally, I have this fantasy where McMaster begins to really meditate on the title of his book and how it could apply to him in the context of history and the level of access he currently enjoys and the state of our government and the proximity between the White House Drain-O and the president's Tab supply.

boy, this Susan Huckabee Sanders is s piece of work.

I'm starting to think if there's no special prosecutor then we're probably done here.

Will try to put that out of my head somewhere between here and my job, I guess.

Until life starts to suck for GOP House and Senate, they'll stonewall.

Funny that Trump was so quick to push his 'good' press from last week out of the headlines

"President Trump is awake!" @foxandfriends host just announced, before reading his morning tweets

— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) May 10, 2017

joeks, newly-rogue-FBI

'newly' is a joek alright

responding to today's WSJ story:

@tinyrevolution
I find it totally plausible that Trump just got mad that Comey was on TV a lot and he doesn't like the competition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHRGX5abDw&feature

Well yeah listen to what he says here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHRGX5abDw

Q from @mitchellreports: Does Comey's firing cast a shadow over talks?

Russian FM jokes: “Was he fired? You are kidding! You are kidding!” pic.twitter.com/EqzHWjoken

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 10, 2017

good [unintelligible]!

i'm still of the mind that the russia stuff is largely a nothingburger. i think at most an investigation would reveal that trump was a useful idiot -- i'm not convinced he really had any personal involvement/knowledge of possible collusion

and i kinda think firing comey is just his way of making sure that the director of the FBI is one of his guys. like, the very fact that there ~could~ be an investigation of him---the president!---was threatening, so they found an excuse to ditch him. the substance of the investigation wasn't the issue, it was its very existence

that the optics/timing is bad might prove irrelevant. trump has played against traditional norms for his entire campaign/presidency and hasn't been too hampered by that strategy. his base loves it when he does the exact wrong thing, and the republicans fall in line, and the dems are ineffectual

BREAKING: Dan Heyman from @PNS_News has been arrested at the WV State Capitol by Capitol Police for trying to ask Secretary Price a question

— ACLU of WV (@ACLU_WV) May 9, 2017

xp if there was any investigation at all then trump is guilty of abstruction of justice--the cover-up is always easier to spot than the crime

that the optics/timing is bad might prove irrelevant. trump has played against traditional norms for his entire campaign/presidency and hasn't been too hampered by that strategy. his base loves it when he does the exact wrong thing, and the republicans fall in line, and the dems are ineffectual

I'm curious, what is his base saying about this?

That the name Comey sounds Muslim

You misspelled 'Moslem'.

'Mooslum' also acceptable.

lol: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/447471/james-comey-overdue-departure

I'm curious, what is his base saying about this?

― frogbs, Wednesday, May 10, 2017 8:22 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if r/the_d is to be believed, they're fucking loving it

Unsurprisingly, a lot of them are saying exactly this. I'll leave it to others to suss out the overlap:

Yam finally did something you guys wanted Obama to do last fall, why the long faces?

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 9, 2017 10:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Surely with it having come out that there were problems with the clearance with Flynn to the extent that they have, anybody who is forwarded for the FBI head position will have all eyes on procedures being followed as to their being vetted properly. Subsequently the idea that Trump could just position one of his guys there would be a no go.
Or are things already that twisted that that could be bypassed.

i don't think it will be too hard to get someone is who can pass vetting etc and be a 100% total shameless hack.

another total shameless hack, you mean

what is his base saying about this?

About damn time, drain the swamp, #winning, that's leadership, now he just needs to fire another thousand career bureaucraps, etc.

Also: haha about the stupid hipocrit libs - weren't they calling for Comey's head last year, now they're defending him. GAWD libtards're so stupid and hipocryticall

oh yay

NYMag reports that a source "close to the president" says that Rudy Giuliani is being considered to replace Comey: https://t.co/w6zthpA57s

— Jonah Bromwich 👾 (@Jonesieman) May 10, 2017

he, he

Whenever Trump chooses a toady he manages to find someone like Devin Nunes and Sean Spicer, complete morons. Every half-competent ally is eventually pushed out, either because they refuse to do something impossible, or because they get too much attention. In a way, the really interesting thing here is how badly Jeff Sessions misjudged the situation. Perhaps he will be the next to go?

kellyanne conway is starting to lose her magic : (

seems to have gotten some emergency Botox

they let her out of her room? haven't seen her in a minute

Mcconnell rejects call for special prosecutor

Other things the base are saying are what was upthread - now the next head of the FBI will have the balls to properly investigate Clinton, also investigate the BernieBros-vs-DNC case, also Pizzagate is Real.