Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Rand Paul is the same way - you get some occasional (and usually completely ineffectual) grandstanding against his party on some nat'l security shit (usually either motivated by privacy concerns or isolationism) but on the whole the dude is an awful legislator, offering full-throated support of the most heinous aspects of his party's agenda.

maybe I shouldn't be surprised that Morbz is rapidly approaching the event horizon where the far left flips to the far right

stfu

Meanwhile . . . https://www.propublica.org/article/any-half-decent-hacker-could-break-into-mar-a-lago

Two weeks ago, on a sparkling spring morning, we went trawling along Florida’s coastal waterway. But not for fish.

We parked a 17-foot motor boat in a lagoon about 800 feet from the back lawn of The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach and pointed a 2-foot wireless antenna that resembled a potato gun toward the club. Within a minute, we spotted three weakly encrypted Wi-Fi networks. We could have hacked them in less than five minutes, but we refrained.

A few days later, we drove through the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with the same antenna and aimed it at the clubhouse. We identified two open Wi-Fi networks that anyone could join without a password. We resisted the temptation.

We have also visited two of President Donald Trump’s other family-run retreats, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., and a golf club in Sterling, Virginia. Our inspections found weak and open Wi-Fi networks, wireless printers without passwords, servers with outdated and vulnerable software, and unencrypted login pages to back-end databases containing sensitive information.

The risks posed by the lax security, experts say, go well beyond simple digital snooping. Sophisticated attackers could take advantage of vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi networks to take over devices like computers or smart phones and use them to record conversations involving anyone on the premises.

"rapidly approaching"?

I'm being generous

paul & amash both = stop clocks. i guess the difference is amash is probably a little smarter than an actual clock.

hey now Rand Paul is a DOCTOR!

*stopped

lol i r dumb too

H Rodham Clinton is a doorstop

yeah i guess he did technically go to medical school right? god, he just comes across so obnoxious and dumb. and i kinda thought he might be a guy who'd stand up a little to trump (like amash), but he's really gone down the rabbit hole of 'everyone's out to get the poor orange baby'

Like these are people who would never ever ever ever ever have held the positions they currently hold if they hadn't been appointed by a lunatic know-nothing. They're clinging tenaciously.

― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch)

god it's been years since i thought of powdered toast man

i would be comfortable saying that rand paul is a smart guy. not good on policy or even "principled" (a backhanded compliment he'd probably like), but listening to him talk you can tell he's at least thoughtful some of the time

Oh good, Trump has added grotesque self-pity to his repertoire.

also that video of him addressing a bunch of crazed evangelicals after Obama came out for marriage equality saying "ahh didn't think Obama's vee-yoooos on marriage could get any gaaayer" makes me want to run over him with a car

I have often scanned streaming channels hoping against hope that the Powdered Toast Man episode would somehow pop up. it never does.

xp

Oh good, Trump has added grotesque self-pity to his repertoire.

"added"?

Rand Paul said that?

Or Trump?

They're all beneath contempt

Hi! What have I missed?

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/333838-senate-intel-panel-asks-comey-to-testify-publicly

where is that thread where we voted on whether trump would be impeached by the midterms? i may want to reconsider my vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkr-Ihs6xQ

CNN's Pamela Brown: The source I spoke to said Comey did not do this with President Obama in part because he had fewer one on one conversations with the president, and as the source said, in Comey’s view, there was no need to document the conversations with people that are truthful or situations that are routine.

H Rodham Clinton is a doorstop

morbsbot appears to be malfunctioning particularly badly today, someone reboot pls

Comey thought Trump was "crazy" so that probably also had something to do with it

@ Treesh

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2012/05/14/nr-rand-paul-obama-gay.cnn

fucking makes my skin crawl

(fuck rand paul, in case that wasn't clear)

ah, So u persecute Justin Amash just because he has different beliefs? Do Tell. (shakey gets mad at me) Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it

that vid not playing try this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wi7bmXFU70

(fuck rand paul, in case that wasn't clear)

oh i hear you. and he's prob not actually 'dumb', but just so undeservedly smug.

Haberman's got some good stuff today. First, state of play:

There is a shift in the senate, per ppl close to talks - concern moving among Rs to rip the Comey bandaid off quick before leg agenda sinks

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 17, 2017

They could subpoena quickly https://t.co/71VYCMr3oX

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 17, 2017

Second: she and Thrush were at the Coast Guard ceremony, and:

One friend/relative on bus line after ceremony complaining that potus was supposed to make the grads feel good. "Not tell us how he feels."

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 17, 2017

"It could have been worse," another man says. "I'm sure that's true," the first man says.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 17, 2017

it's too late to save their legislative agenda, there is no "quick resolution" to this

esp when Trump's liable to make it worse within the next 24 hrs, as is his wont

Senate Judiciary now wants documents

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2017/live-updates/trump-white-house/trump-comey-and-russia-how-key-washington-players-are-reacting/senate-judiciary-committee-also-asks-fbi-for-documents/?utm_term=.e2dd36328f89

coast guard commencement speech roundup: http://taskandpurpose.com/trump-coast-guard-graduation-speech

you get some occasional (and usually completely ineffectual) grandstanding against his party on some nat'l security shit (usually either motivated by privacy concerns or isolationism)

Oh, heavens. If Dem leaders did a little 'grandstanding' on some NS shit or privacy concerns, maybe i'd have a tad more respect for the party.

More profiles in courage!

"I’m not saying the news articles are wrong. I’m not saying that they are right," @marcorubio said, urging patience. https://t.co/2CneK29glw

— Alex Leary (@learyreports) May 17, 2017

Meantime, how's that healthcare talk coming along

Hatch says he's open to keeping ACA's individual mandate via @axios https://t.co/R8m0Iylz5Z

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 17, 2017

2018 democratic congressional majority doesn't indict benedict donald and the lot of the koch/mercer/bradley/scaife/olin/coors/ALEC traitors in exchange for passing medicare / social security for all forever or gtfo

Democrats will waste this leverage, guaranteed.

don't think we're gonna have a congressional majority that soon, even with the crazy shit going on now

Hm hm hm

Per @FEC filing: VP @mike_pence has formed a new political action committee, the "Great America Committee" https://t.co/oykOemLmn2

— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) May 17, 2017

Per @rebeccaballhaus, this is a legal move to move Pence assets -- donor files, email lists -- from Indiana to the federal level. https://t.co/I73IDxoCIp

— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) May 17, 2017

Probably means nothing...so far.

Not since Einstein

.@SenJohnMcCain reacts to reporters' string of questions on if a special prosecutor is needed to investigate Pres. Trump's ties to Russia pic.twitter.com/Xb8xbQWqp2

— Tom Williams (@pennstatetom) May 17, 2017

don't think we're gonna have a congressional majority that soon, even with the crazy shit going on now

fwiw

3 generic ballots out this week: Democrats +8 avg. with an expanding lead. Even at this point, the poll question has been fairly predictive. pic.twitter.com/Yo8UNSW3Ke

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) May 17, 2017

iirc something like +4 D is consistent with taking back the house?

Oh, heavens. If Dem leaders did a little 'grandstanding' on some NS shit or privacy concerns, maybe i'd have a tad more respect for the party.

you mean like when Pelosi voted against extending the Patriot Act

why do I even bother

xp

yeah the house is the doable one since everyone is always up for re-election. but iirc the 2018 senate outlook is much bleaker? i'd love to be wrong

senate is v unlikely bc way more dem seats up than rep

Dems have p much no chance of taking the Senate in 2018, much less getting the 2/3rds required for impeachment. Which is why Trump will not be removed from office - the GOP in the Senate votes won't be there.

VP @mike_pence has formed a new political action committee, the "Great America Committee"

http://www.themeparkreview.com/parks/pimages/Six_Flags_Great_America/1978_Marriotts_Great_America_Park_Brochure_-_Marks_Postcard_Paradise/gam_looney_tunes_790x600.jpg

currently we're looking at a likely scenario of the GOP losing the House, which would mean impeachment proceedings that would then die in the Senate. Things could change, of course.