Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

I'd prefer Lemongrab at this point in our reality

Is the dinner that Trump mentioned in the interview the same one that was about a week after he was sworn in as president back in January? Does that put any different slant on whether Comey was going to stay on as FBI director. Does Trump know that it's normally a 10 year appointment and does this tie in further with him thinking that as President, everything else is under his immediate command?

It just sounded from the interview as though this dinner was more recent.

Also does Carter Page have any credibility left? I'm getting Chris Hayes shows late so only just seeing that he was teh studio guest on Thursday night.

& I've seen Adam Schiff on several things this week and unfortunately keep seeing Andy Kaufman in his face. He seems a good guy but I wonder if that undermines anything?

I trust that Sessions's brutal sentencing standards will be applied to the current administration when the time comes.

Also does Carter Page have any credibility left?

'left'

Yeah I guess presupposing he had any at a previous time is far fetched, but he was appearing on at least a couple of news programmes a few months back.

the current line on Comey is that he'll testify only if it is in a public forum

good [unintelligible] !

xpost and if someone beatboxes for him

before everyone gets carried away with all this trump and russia hoax, let's get back to first principles, please

lying about a bj is a far greater crime than securing russian assistance in a US election

attempting to provide affordable healthcare is a far greater crime than firing law enforcement officials who are investigating you

religious values outweigh science

deficit spending is good for the economy, but only when republicans do it

tax cuts for the wealthy are more important than healthcare or infrastructure

thank you

This guy gets it

forgot 'hillary is crooked'

so crooked

Erick Erickson had an illuminating op-ed in the Times today about how "the Comey affair" is no bigs

Just a bit of threatening a witness

Was it him? It was probably written before Thursday if so. Yesterday he posted a Twitter thread pretty much saying 'this is ALLLLL fucked.'

1. Some game theory for @EsotericCD whose twitter handle comes up on my phone when I type "game theory"

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 12, 2017

And some Mike Allen fun

https://www.axios.com/top-republicans-demoralized-and-dumbfounded-but-publicly-defend-trump-2405906415.html

Elected Republican officials are publicly defending Trump but privately are dumbfounded, disgusted and demoralized by this turn of events.

We haven't had a single conversation with a top Republican that doesn't reflect this. The worries are manifold:

This kills momentum on legislating, and unifies Democrats in opposition to everything they want to do.
This makes it easier for Democrats to recruit quality candidates and raise money for the off-year elections.
It sours swing voters.
It puts them on the defensive at home. They want to talk tax reform and deregulation -- not secret tapes and Russian intrigue.
But mainly it reinforces their greatest fear: Trump will never change. They keep praying he'll discipline himself enough to get some big things done. Yet they brace for more of this.

Pobrecitos.

Of course, none of those five reasons appear to be 'he's doing longterm damage to the country itself.'

They keep praying he'll discipline himself enough to get some big things done.

Have they even heard of Trump's Taj Mahal casino? That's Trump's idea of doing a big thing and an accurate indicator of how well he does big things.

a faint glimmer of hope in all this tragicomic madness -- if given their increasingly shrinking deplorable base, the only way the shameless cheaters in the GOP can "elect" a president anymore is by running someone as godawful as comrade combover, congress just might end up all gummed up dealing with his/her incompetence / venality anyways

. . . which of course they'd allege is a feature not a bug since the government that governs least governs best, but still!

They're just perverse contrarians. A stupid way for the world to end.

ha, just saw this ad for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDonPK5bJoM

I admit I'm amused

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/us/politics/richard-burr-trump-investigating-russia.html

Still, Mr. Burr’s distaste for the news media is well known at the Capitol.

On at least one occasion, he climbed out of an office window to avoid reporters, while carrying his dry cleaning, according to a senior Republican aide who has spoken to him about the episode.

“It was further than I thought,” Mr. Burr remembered of the descent, according to the aide.

He now occupies a second-floor space in the Russell Senate Office Building. It is not clear precisely how or why he chose to take this escape route — or, in fact, if this was the office in question.

“I understand from him that he did jump out a window once with his dry cleaning,” a Burr spokeswoman, Becca Glover Watkins, said in an email, “but I don’t know the circumstances.”

And another fun read. He really can't let it go, can he

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/us/politics/election-is-over-but-trump-still-cant-seem-to-get-past-it.html

In the small dining room next to the Oval Office where he works much of the time, President Trump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election. The counties he won are blotchy red and span most of the nation.

Mr. Trump sometimes hands the maps out to visitors as a kind of parting gift, and a framed portrait-size version was hung on a wall in the West Wing last week. In conversations, the president dwells on the map and its import, reminding visitors about how wrong the polls were and inflating the scope of his victory.

At the root of Mr. Trump’s unpredictable presidency, according to people close to him, is a deep frustration about attacks on his legitimacy, and a worry that Washington does not see him as he sees himself.

As he careens from one controversy to another, many of them of his own making — like his abrupt decision to fire the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, who was leading an investigation into the president’s associates — Mr. Trump seems determined to prove that he won the election on his own. It was not Russian interference. It was not Mr. Comey’s actions in the case involving Hillary Clinton’s emails. It was not a fluke of the Electoral College system. It was all him.

xp Dr. Northam is a medical doctor, so we can be certain that "narcissistic maniac" was offered in a diagnostic sense.

jesus, that ad is america 2017 in a nutshell, isn't it?

i feel like every person that visits or encounters trump needs to hand him a little laminated copy of something like this. i'm assuming those ones that break it down to the county level and then adjust size for population would just confuse him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/how-election-maps-lie/img/us-vs-cartogram-600.jpg?c=722

oops wrong year obv

joke's on me FAKE MAPS

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_pH39rUAAACu3Y.jpg:large

or

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_l3korUMAEZaTN.jpg:large

These are really the best as always, though it's a shame they've never been able to squeeze in AK and HI.

And some Mike Allen fun

https://www.axios.com/top-republicans-demoralized-and-dumbfounded-but-publicly-defend-trump-2405906415.html

aka back to October 2016.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/countycartrb1024.png

^ 2016 Presidential election as a Splatoon match

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Metallica_-_Load_cover.jpg

For pure righteous catharsis:

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/11/tom-macarthur-town-hall-angry-man-calls-him-single-greatest-threat-his-family

right-teous

I'd seen that being shared, but I finally watched it an hour ago and it gave me life.

So is there anything to stop Comey from testifying in public?

Nothing at all stops Comey from issuing a public statement any time he feels like it, but a statement is not testimony. Any public appearance before a congressional committee to testify under oath would require approval from the committee chair, and such an invitation is subject to numerous political considerations.

November 7th is the next uniform election date in Texas. It's an odd year (and how) so that's when Cornyn's Senate seat would likely be voted on. Not sure who the Dems would run... one of the Castro brothers, Wendy Davis, Leticia Van de Putte? Whoever it is will get soundly beaten by the Republican candidate.

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, May 12, 2017 11:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is going to be massively interesting. I can already hear Abbot licking his chops because this puts Texas Dems in a very awkward position. One of their best prospects, Beto O'Rourke, has already registered candidacy for '18 against Cruz. The Castros have both said they wouldn't challenge him, possibly because they've each been mooted as possibly contenders to unseat Cornyn when he came up for reelection in 2020. Davis and Ven de Putte are possibilities, I guess, but whomever it ends up being will end up having to scramble to put together what will unfortunately be a losing campaign.

Oh, and in other Cornyn news...

http://www.khou.com/news/local/tsu-cancels-speech-by-gop-sen-john-cornyn-amid-outcry/439207227

God, I hope.

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/13/dead-man-lying/

Conveniently omits the fact that nixon faced Dem majorities in both houses of congress

Lucian K. Truscott IV, who wrote that Salon piece, is getting way ahead of the facts and makes up stuff, e.g. "everyone knows Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice", to which he stupidly adds that 'all that is lacking is evidence'.

Everyone knows Trump is a dickhole, all that's missing is a law making being a dickhole illegal.

"there'd be no ILXOR.COM"....etc etc

"this is the end for Trump" is the new "the GOP is finished"

things that yer liable
to read from the libruls
it ain't necessarily so

The standard issue cartoon of a wealthy person is a white-moustached man in a top hat and tails, such as adorns the Monopoly game box. I may need your guidance, morbs, on what cartoon figure you think represents 'the libruls'.