Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

that's a repbulican acting to remove another republican from a committee. Democrats don't have any reason to remove Schiff, the most senior democrat on the committee.

Of course, a limiting factor on Schiff's influence is the fact that Devin Nunes and committee republicans have final say over the direction they want to take in terms of investigations.

we'll see what happens with these rumors

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/has-a-sealed-indictment-been-issued-against-president-trump/

am seeing a lot of "well she was right once about X"

taking a shotgun blast approach to accusations does not equal journalism

— ಠ_ಠ (@MikeIsaac) May 14, 2017

FISC can't issue indictments—only a grand jury can. The House has the power of impeachment, which has nothing to do w any indictment. https://t.co/P7OWhsjoRy

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 14, 2017

am seeing a lot of "well she was right once about X"

taking a shotgun blast approach to accusations does not equal journalism

— ಠ_ಠ (@MikeIsaac) May 14, 2017

Mensch's blog today is impressive in that it packed more basic civics errors into two paragraphs than I saw when teaching 9th grade history.

— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) May 14, 2017

I have issued a FISA warrant to cover my bar tab

— Stefan Becket (@becket) May 14, 2017

Tom DeLonge is on the case, everyone

Claude Taylor clarified:

Sealed indictments out of Eastern District of Virginia-under Dana Boente. Trump, Manafort and Flynn-among others under sealed indictment.

I don't know enough about Claude Taylor to believe or disbelieve him, but Louise Mensch co-signing on this is enough to make me very skeptical.

yeah this guy seems like a real winner

This is an "actual attorney" attacking me by name after having blocked me. This is a violation of TOS. PLEASE REPORT pic.twitter.com/sjmOJKLmH5

— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) May 14, 2017

god these credulous idiots

yeah yeah, Kos, I know, but and all of this needs to be taken with a grain of salt but it's fun to think about

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/14/1662148/-Does-the-DOJ-have-a-sealed-indictment-issued-against-Trump-to-jumpstart-his-Impeachment

Maybe though

This thread

This will convict Ryan on RICO charges; as I have also exclusively reported this week, a RICO case exists against the GOP as a body.

I like that "exclusively". It seems to perfectly sum up the delusive element at play here.

These blog posts are like the Fyre Fest of political rumors

But i want it to be true

It would be cool if the left didn't validate the right's "FAKE NEWS" rhetoric

I hear that Trump has already fired himself as president. People are talking, yuuuuuge people.

re: "the left," I've only noticed libs credulously RTing this stuff

wish instead of firing himself he'd just immolate.
But I think the discomfort might not last long enough.

I'm not interested in parsing nametags

Xl

guys i heard trump is going to "break up the big banks"

is it impolitic to remark that however unbelievable lefty conspiracy theories are about sealed indictments may be, it's even more unbelievable that sergey kislyak was just in the oval office (just after they attacked the french election, and the president fired the fbi director), and the only reason we know that is because the russian press was allowed in, while our own press wasn't? there's a difference between delusion and enthusiasm, no? our national conversation isn't a battle between rational positions so much as a high school lunch room food fight. this still resonates i think

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/national-party-news/320907-dems-worry-too-much-about-upsetting-others-that-needs

These blog posts are like the Fyre Fest of political rumors

Let's just impeach him, and be legends, man!

there's a difference between delusion and enthusiasm, no?

one may easily be enthusiastic and delusional at the same time. manic episodes are notorious for combining these two elements.

the UK is taking solid steps to harness both -- free beer for voting!

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/you-can-free-beer-just-13032955

An interesting Twitter thread about how foreign travel may affect a cranky 70-year-old man addicted to sycophancy and routine:

So Trump is going on extended foreign travel this week. Some travel context that may influence what happens during his trip:

— Loren D Schulman (@LorenRaeDeJ) May 13, 2017

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

Not a surprise, it just looks like after all these years of trying, Trump has finally found a way to spend some time inside Ivanka.

Gross

...

Can they really not hire a new FBI agent without the Democrats?

No idea whether this is true or not (or whether it's been posted already--not following this thread closely lately), but it reminds me of a line in All the President's Men when Bernstein questions a staffer: "The White House was real paranoid about Teddy Kennedy."

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/penny_zps13cwuddj.jpg

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/09/trump-white-house-monitoring-elizabeth-warren-terror-builds-potential-2020-run.html

The part about "terror" seems like a stretch--monitoring closely, I believe.

The Trump folks think they're going to get to run in 2020?

I can give a high credence to a sealed indictment without believing anything will come of it.

Really, the ball's in Trump's court. He's in til 2019 until he does something that impinges upon the Fox news base. When Fox abandons Trump, then we can buy the case of champagne.

Totally in his court, he just keeping hitting the court officials with it.

he would only have one ball

...Just Like HITLER!

Whiskey bar in Portland for the win. pic.twitter.com/vQu2Q7TztP

— Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) May 13, 2017

that set of tweets about the travel issues is weird, do they think trump has no clue when it comes to international travel??

do they think trump has no clue when it comes to international travel??

They think (and rightly so) that Trump has no clue what international travel as President will demand/require of him.

That's not what the twitter thread is about. I read it all the way to the punchline ("the Nat Sec Advisor is the point person for anything that happens") and it sucked

Here is a short version that is also more accurate

"Trump is a freak show on eastern time. Watch what happens when he's 12+ hours off."

yeah i like the point someone made in reply: have seen cnn international?

Yeah fair point.

https://www.justsecurity.org/40870/misplaced-focus-collusion/

This deserved a link, given the low but not zero probability ILX might become the memory of the internet:

The most common words used to describe President Trump in the May 2017 Quinnipiac poll.
http://img.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2017/05/GraphicV2.png

https://www.radicalcandor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/snl-one-more-mission.jpg

"What's the word on the street?"

I am tired of being tired of pieces written in order to help us all focus on the "correct" things when trying to regard the enormity of this administration's nightmarishness.

Cmon Tombot don't you know Hilary lost for precisely one reason and only one thing can be important at a time because the world is easily comprehensible 1,200 words at a time