Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

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'.

"the President cannot imagine that Russia is pleased." pic.twitter.com/qpo4idM6Mg

— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) May 14, 2017

whoa hueg

lucian truscott otm

The President has his finger on the pulse of Russian displeasure

But does Russioan displeasure have its finger on the President?

But does Russioan displeasure have its finger on in the President?

Fixed.

I think Russia's displeasure is mostly about how the president has yet to permit the third finger

"finger"

David Roberts finally typed up his twttier thread and expanded into a proper form(this is the Theory of Mind one):

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/12/15621140/interpret-trump

It's pretty good.

"twitter thread expanded upon" -> Vox link is a great way to get me to never read something

the man whose twitter thread expanded

Vox link is a great way to get me to never read something

You remember how Matt Christman said Turnip was effectively an exposed nerve and nothing else? This agrees with and expands upon that.

Is McCabe's turning down of further resources suspect after Comey had apparently sought them?
After the February NY Times undermining story I'd hate to find out he was a stooge to the WH just trying to appear tough.

Also wondered if Schiff was in a position where he could be fired by the President. Though that would probably make guilt look too obvious even for the orange one. Hasn't stopped him before though.

Adam Schiff? The President cannot fire an elected member of congress. Barack Obama would've canned Mitch McConnell long ago if that were possible.

Also wondered if Schiff was in a position where he could be fired by the President.

Lol

That is removed from the Committee on Intelligence or forced out of it. Presumably coercion is a crime in itself.
Maybe it was those puppy eyes of his but I just wondered if he was vulnerable. Seems to be doing an ok job despite adversity.

Again, he can't be forced out. I'd imagine even GOP colleagues would mind.

I need to find out more about the election to and deselection from that committee. Would like to know how an obstructive member would be removed etc.

@DougHenwood
This is some low-rent shit: “Republican governors to meet at Trump National Doral resort near Miami”

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2017/05/republican-governors-to-meet-at-trump-national-doral-resort-near-miami.html

I think Nancy Pelosi is the one who can 'fire' Schiff.

Note the meeting rooms: Ivanka A, B, C.