Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

singing "Na Na Hey Hey" was a lil more proactive than that. Doing nothing wd be an improvement. xxp

https://swingleft.org/

"Might have said this before but dont republicans venerate law enforcement? Shouldnt some trump voters be turned off by his flagrantly disrespectful treatment of comey?"

they are the world's biggest hypocrites. it's like a christian on sunday kinda thing. moral outrage when they feel like it. when it suits their own prejudices/fears/etc.

Trump probably had to often be reminded during poker that the face of the card should be facing him.

I'm kinda wondering if this is gonna be Spicer's last day

Emmett Rensin: If he's so dumb, why can't the Democrats outsmart him?

because the american public consists of fucking morons and dont respond to reasonable arguments?

otm

not going to re-litigate 2016. not going to re-litigate 2016.

yeah, we all know the answer is Nominate Someone Better

I would also add the media and politicians to the list of idiots above

looool

https://www.facebook.com/lisa.kadonaga/posts/10210450624714179

I blame Starkville and The Judds

okay, why are we still doing the thing where we call anybody who doesn't make their political decisions on a reasonable and dispassionate policy basis "stupid"? what is this, reddit?

btw Trump confirming that Comey is gonna start "leaking to the press" is pretty amazing, if he hadn't already shot both feet off this morning we might be asking "what do you think he's gonna leak, Donnie boy?"

a documentary about the trump administration:

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

Trump has an 84% approval rating among the GOP, Trump can continue this shit as long as that number holds up

84% is pretty low given he's only been in for 4 months, isn't it?

the biggest risk right now is if he has a stroke or something. the complete inability of the administration to reach anything resembling a stable equilibrium hurts and will keep hurting.

Senate Judiciary GOP & DEM leaders want briefings on the Russia investigation from Deputy AG Rosenstein and Acting FBI Director McCabe pic.twitter.com/4NoOSiT475

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 12, 2017

follow the money as Hal Holbrook said

• A member of the firm that developed the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York is a twice-convicted felon who spent a year in prison for stabbing a man and later scouted for Trump investments in Russia.

• An investor in the SoHo project was accused by Belgian authorities in 2011 in a $55 million money-laundering scheme.

• Three owners of Trump condos in Florida and Manhattan were accused in federal indictments of belonging to a Russian-American organized crime group and working for a major international crime boss based in Russia.

• A former mayor from Kazakhstan was accused in a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles in 2014 of hiding millions of dollars looted from his city, some of which was spent on three Trump SoHo units.

• A Ukrainian owner of two Trump condos in Florida was indicted in a money-laundering scheme involving a former prime minister of Ukraine.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55048/trump-russia-finances/

Trump has an 84% approval rating among the GOP, Trump can continue this shit as long as that number holds up

People keep saying this, and it does matter, but it also matters that his approval rating among Democrats is lower than anybody else's ever. He won his election, in part, because some Democrats and Dem-leaning independents voted for him. They won't do that again.

@tinyrevolution
We can be 98% sure Trump didn't collude with Russia because if he had he'd have already blurted it out to show how smart he is

lol

A source close to Comey told me this morning: “He hopes there are tapes. That would be perfect.”

— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) May 12, 2017

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/447589/trump-vs-russia-investigations

joshinchicago, you made me loll btw

you're talking about a very tiny slice of the pie. but a disturbingly powerful slice.

Their disproportionate power comes from the fact that the live and vote in extremely homogenous districts.

This means that their representatives live in quivering fear of Red-Hat wrath. (This holds even truer even when those congresspeople are, themselves, Red-Hatted.)

Personally I don't care whether what takes T. down is Russia, Rwanda, or Rhode Island. Just want him embarrassed and hampered and thwarted.

Their disproportionate power comes from the fact that the live and vote in extremely homogenous districts.

re tiny slice - i'm really talking about the Trump "supporters" who are hellbent on tax cuts. it's just the same 2-3% of Americans who always want tax cuts, most(?) of whom are probably embarrassed by Trump. that 35% die hard are in it for the racism and saddo libs

People keep saying this, and it does matter, but it also matters that his approval rating among Democrats is lower than anybody else's ever. He won his election, in part, because some Democrats and Dem-leaning independents voted for him. They won't do that again.

― Guayaquil (eephus!)

not go go all nate silver on this, but the other thing you need to make sure you look at is _how many republicans there are_. someone who grows disenchanted with trump is likely to also grow disenchanted with the entire republican party. a drop in the number of people who identify as republicans is probably going to be more significant than a drop in the republicans' approval of trump.

but yes, your point about disproportionate power & homogenous districts is also correct

someone who grows disenchanted with trump

the point is this isn't happening with the party faithful

This is good: https://twitter.com/TranslateRealDT

like I said a million posts ago, it's becoming clear that the GOP will countenance any crime, no matter how obvious or odious, in order to get their fuckin tax cut

so spicer not taking the opportunity to deny that trump has recordings seems...significant

source close to somebody says they hope something exists

Sean Spicer opened calmly and largely conceded the fact that the president said many untrue things this week. This is amazing.

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) May 12, 2017

"sometimes Uncle Don just likes to hear himself talk"

@tinyrevolution
We can be 98% sure Trump didn't collude with Russia because if he had he'd have already blurted it out to show how smart he is

lol, I am feeling this

the point is this isn't happening with the party faithful

― Οὖτις

right, which is why i look askance at the perpetual democratic nightmare that the republican party will somehow manage to disclaim all association with trump when things go south. things can't possibly "go south" enough for them to do that - the republicans are, for better or for worse, irrevocably the Party of Trump.

Though when you're slimy you tend to be able to wiggle out of things

come on @target -- just realized the two gallons of milk you sold me expire tomorrow

— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) March 17, 2014

get to chuggin', Sean

I feel so sad for him

Spicer indicates he feels personally victimized in this job.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 12, 2017

I mean talk about the perfect tee-up for McCarthy tomorrow.

the republicans are, for better or for worse, irrevocably the Party of Trump

you guys keep saying this but it's weirdly myopic. they were also the Party of Dubya, right up until he left office.

as soon as Trump's gone, it'll be like it never happened and none of them ever supported him, he wasn't a "real conservative" etc.

They sure were effective at erasing W from their history.

i must be the liberal elite because i didn't even know that you could buy milk at target.

the only thing you can't by at Target is ammo

ironic

Fun times!

Didn't take long: Ranking Dems on Judiciary and Oversight Committees ask WH counsel for tapes. https://t.co/ammxHDb3vc pic.twitter.com/A6HBf7zsM2

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) May 12, 2017

Especially since Spicer kept not answering the point

there are no tapes