Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Somethings gonna break.

He keeps obsessing over alleged "wiretaps" and "leaks" saying that's the problem, which suggests he is expecting some criminal behavior to be revealed and wants to prime the pump (TM) by encouraging his supporters to be reflexively hostile to any evidence against him.

And when the levee breaks he'll have no place to stay.

Yall know

Wouldn't you rather have a good relationship with Russia rather than a bad one?

That's the rationale.

― Karl Malone, Thursday, May 11, 2017 8:49 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is such a fun game to play. Wouldn't you rather have a good relationship with the arsonist who torched your home than a bad one? Wouldn't it be the best of all worlds, really, if you could be golfing buddies with your father's murderer? Peace and love. Peace and love.

Did he say he was going to fire Comey anyway to take attention away from the supposedly recused Sessions having suggested the firing? Once the initial version of the story fell through anyway.
Still sounds ridiculously un thought out. Would be great if the laughing gnome was forced to step down over his interference.

Chuckles aside, let's look at Trump policy that will hurt people, executed by one of the administration's few competent appointees.

It really can't be overstated what an evil little fuck this guys is.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/12/mandatory-minimum-drug-sentences-jeff-sessions-238295

JUst seen one of the satire shows talking about Trump's funders running private for profit prisons and needing to populate them. Can't think which it was but this odes seem to go along with that idea doesn't it?

the baby boomer death wave that's on the horizon can't reach the shore fast enough imo, the only thing that will stop these retrograde fucks for good is succumbing to entropy

Sessions is a gremlin.

Locking up black people is an end in itself to someone like Sessions. He doesn't need to be on the take from private prisons.

baby boomer death wave that's on the horizon can't reach the shore fast enough imo

otm. i expect the GOP will fund medicare just long enough to keep their blinkered army of racist zombies alive through maybe the 2026 midterms then they go full on Make America 1913 Again.

YES, do these old scumbags just run on pure fucking evil or what? Sessions has a face like a bleached catcher's mitt, so it's hard to believe his insides are any less decrepit. Die off already!

https://i.imgur.com/r9KsdGp.jpg

going to be another interesting day i feel

how is that not straight-up witness intimidation ffs

I think at this point, I'd put money on Trump ending up behind bars

"press briefings"

nah, he's a teetotaller xp

i'm all for making the misuse of inverted commas a capital crime tho, someone get jeff sessions on this stat

i haven't watched the whole holt interview, but isn't trump's contention that his meetings with comey involved comey trying to keep his job by reassuring trump that he wasn't under investigation?

so if there's tape of that it would be....very bad for both of them?

I think at this point, I'd put money on Trump ending up behind bars

Guantanamo hopefully.

the idea that something could be bad from trump is literally unthinkable for him

bad for trump, rather

going back to those trump tweetblurts carne asada posted for a sec, the one about surrogates not being able to keep up with trump's activity levels - he obviously thinks this is a good thing but what he's actually saying is that he has no coherent strategy or policies, so the people around him are basically covering for him constantly

i haven't watched the whole holt interview, but isn't trump's contention that his meetings with comey involved comey trying to keep his job by reassuring trump that he wasn't under investigation?

so if there's tape of that it would be....very bad for both of them?

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, May 12, 2017 1:40 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Did Comey know anything about his job being in danger before his actual firing. Don't think I've seen anything indicating that. He seemed to be in the middle of routine procedure trying to recruit new FBI staff at the time.
So the idea that he would book a dinner to beg to continue in a job that he had 7 more years of tenure in would be a bit odd wouldn't it?

oh I would agree, i think trump probably imagined the part about comey begging for his job. it's just, like, if that WAS the case, as trump envisioned it, then any tapes of that conversation would be damning for them both. and if the tapes were instead just trump asking comey repeatedly if he was under investigation, then it would bad for trump only.

he's just...so dumb

you'd think we'd have developed some natural insulation by now to protect against the white heat of his idiocy but nope it still burns every time

Isn't it illegal to intimidate a witness with blackmail? Isn't comey testifying before congress on tuesday?

reminds me of the story he often tells about Shinzo Abe coming off the plane and bestowing effusive praise upon him for saving him Ten Trillion Dollars on those airplanes.

Later at the press briefing:

"So you're not speaking with perfect accuracy?"

"Of course I am!"

etc.

Isn't it illegal to intimidate a witness with blackmail? Isn't comey testifying before congress on tuesday?

Yes and yes, and here we are.

I guarantee that intel services have dirt on Trump that they've kept under wraps either because it relates to the ongoing investigation or out of a general sense of propriety and respect for the office of the president. So this tack is kinda like putting a gun in your mouth and warning the bullets that if you go down you're taking them with you.

i think trump probably imagined the part about comey begging for his job.

the word "imagined" is giving him way too much credit here. listen to any interview with Trump, he's constantly "imagining" people praising him and being subservient even though those accounts get immediately refuted nearly every time.

Tweets are literally surreal, this is the fucking POTUS point-scoring with the YouTube comments section ffs.

the Plankton with a Hairpiece overrates his intellect:

We should be able to walk, chew gum and confirm an FBI director at the same time,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said.

Tweets are literally surreal, this is the fucking POTUS point-scoring with the YouTube comments section ffs.

― attention vampire (MatthewK)

as the GOP just fucking pretends it's not happening

I wonder what was said around that dinner table. Could surmise that 45 thought he was being clever and may have been dangling something in front of Comey that he wasn't aware of, since there was no indication prior to the firing taht his job was in danger.
So wonder what curllicues of verbal diarrhea 45 was coming out with to try to be more enthralling.
Or what hypotheticals would have been put across the table and not seen to be supposedly reflecting some level of reality.

Am also wondering about the reality of the dinner, was it ethical for Comey to meet with the subject of his investigation in that way at all

wondering if trump intends the "tapes" comment as a presidentially formed "joke" about the wiretaps he thinks comey installed for obama, which in his fevered brain is still the biggest story, crisis and shame in america.

I wonder what was said around that dinner table.

must we post the Romney-Trump photo again

welcome to your tape, mr comey

lol

of course it's really bad if bill clinton meets with loretta lynch in an airplane but if the sitting president invites the fbi director to "encourage" him to let the investigation go that's all fine and dandy

everyday of this presidency seems like a month

as humanity nears its end, things seem to slow down

imagining a comey aide swapping out the "tape" for one previously labelled "D.T. IN MOSCOW - KEEP UNDER WRAPS - URINE. " oh here you go mister president. "great, great, just in time, we're going live in thirty seconds... this'll show them!" yes mister president, i'm sure it will.

I'm really worried about this voting integrity commission. To what extent can the federal government usurp state laws governing elections? could Congress pass a nationwide voter ID law in addition to taking even more draconian measures (terminating early voting, restricting hours on election day, etc.)?

What was it that Nixon said about how if the President Does It, That Means It’s Not Illegal?

I'm really worried about this voting integrity commission. To what extent can the federal government usurp state laws governing elections? could Congress pass a nationwide voter ID law in addition to taking even more draconian measures (terminating early voting, restricting hours on election day, etc.)?

presumably though this would require 60 votes in the Senate though, right? which ain't happening.

terminating early voting

And this certainly isn't happening since it's becoming a preferred mode of voting for older people (ie, GOP's backbone).

What is the story on McCabe, been reminded that he was the guy who triggered that incident where the 2 republican heads of Intelligence councils rang around the press to undermine the New York Times story about campaign/Russia connections back in February. Is he going to continue the investigation validly?

yeah, I don't see how McCabe has any credibility after that. Rosenstein has lost his credibility too. I mean, is there anybody left who isn't compromised?