Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

lol so what is Trump's travel schedule for next week - is he gonna be in Israel while Comey's testifying in the House?

Probably an advance team locating all the KFCs right now.

I'm torn. The stock market doing shitty is not a good thing for anyone, but if Stumbletrump gets blamed ...

Source: Major newspaper has a big Trump story coming in the next 24-48 hours that may be even more damaging than the Comey/Flynn story.

i can't believe these bastards got me to believe in the BIG DUMP again but there u go

never change GOP

Seventy-nine percent of GOP voters approve of the job he is doing, while only 16 percent disapprove

stock market doing shitty is probably a v good thing tbph

absolutely mind boggling he can pick the replacement of the guy he fired in oder to obstruct an investigation.

i can't believe these bastards got me to believe in the BIG DUMP again but there u go

To be fair, it's been a full week already, yes?

Trump's diaper is def full

yeah but Hillary's emails!

Milwaukee Co. Sheriff Clarke taking appointment to asst. sec. of Homeland Security in D.C. per WISN radio just now.
— Nick Penzenstadler (@npenzenstadler) May 17, 2017

fuck these people to death

meanwhile, watch this space i guess

http://county.milwaukee.gov/CountyElectionCommission/UpcomingElectionDates.htm

a GOP president who leaked classified info in the oval office to the russians

^truly: not enough info to give a fuck.

Molly Ball‏
@mollyesque
Asked a longtime House GOP staffer where things are headed. "This is like Reservoir Dogs. Everyone ends up dead on the floor."

absolutely mind boggling he can pick the replacement of the guy he fired in oder to obstruct an investigation.

He can if the Senate rolls over like a tame puppy and lets him

Milwaukee Co. Sheriff Clarke taking appointment to asst. sec. of Homeland Security in D.C. per WISN radio just now.

This guy is seriously the worst of the worst, but I was worried about him being tapped for FBI chief! Honestly, I'd rather have him sitting in an office with nice letterhead biding time until he gets a Fox News slot (2 years max) than actually continuing to oversee police and inmates in Wisconsin.

http://rickwells.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/450-sheriff-david-clarke-940.png

this guy should not be anywhere near anything important . WTF

Big scoop from @JenniferJJacobs: Trump rules out moving US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Was campaign pledge. https://t.co/sMSp4Ept5C

— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) May 17, 2017

Trump rules out moving US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Maybe he's saving it for a slow new day.

another president fakehair headfake

Nikki Haley lolz

the best part of the Trump admin is that any random official can shift US policy on a dime https://t.co/EcIIhg3mTU

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) May 17, 2017

This guy is seriously the worst of the worst, but I was worried about him being tapped for FBI chief! Honestly, I'd rather have him sitting in an office with nice letterhead biding time until he gets a Fox News slot (2 years max) than actually continuing to oversee police and inmates in Wisconsin.

would tend to agree with this

sucks to have his crimes validated with a promotion but if it keeps him off the streets that's a good thing

let's move all the terrible people in the trump administration where they can do as little harm as possible

Well they're about to send a lot of them overseas. Sadly, they want to come back.

so many people today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsyQ06YZVQc

Juliette Kayyem: “For those of you I'm just meeting, Clarke is taking my old position under Obama. I am floored. And feel for my career staff.”

Worrywarts worry:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-comey-testify-congress-reaction-238496

Republicans quickly split into factions — from defending Trump and blaming the media on one end, to calling for a special prosecutor and even raising the specter of impeachment on the other — as they responded to news that Trump allegedly pressured the former FBI director to drop the agency's investigation of Trump's ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Many others demanded that Comey testify and turn over private memos documenting his conversations with Trump.

Privately, Republicans are plainly distressed and even panicked over what a prolonged scandal could mean for their agenda and grip on power. Some wonder if Trump will still be president next year, while others are frustrated that the White House hasn't done more damage control. Chatter has begun about what a President Mike Pence might look like.

And many lawmakers don't want to defend Trump publicly because they don't know what damaging revelation will come next.

for tracer hand:

Violence is never an appropriate response to free speech. We support the rights of people everywhere to free expression & peaceful protest. pic.twitter.com/MEm4jSmCXV

— Heather Nauert (@statedeptspox) May 17, 2017

this guy should not be anywhere near anything important . WTF

Dude looks like Ted Nugent's guitar tech.

Het leven is te kort om slechte boeken te lezen en kan geen slechte saaie muziek horen.
pecificiteit al ingegrepen is of plotseling barstte in plaats van geleidelijk. Je kan er al zijn.

sorry but thats gibberish

Dude looks like Ted Nugent's guitar tech.

Het leven is te kort om slechte boeken te lezen en kan geen slechte saaie muziek horen.
pecificiteit al ingegrepen is of plotseling barstte in plaats van geleidelijk. Je kan er al zijn.

― Violet Jynx, Wednesday, May 17, 2017 4:26 PM

OTM

He looks like a WWF villain.

I work with a dude who was a cop in Milwaukee for 15 years and he said something like "I haven't heard a single story about Clarke that made him out to be anything less than completely insane"

ok. so i don't see why you can't say the guy is horrible on some issues and good on others.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, May 17, 2017 1:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i want this embossed on a plaque and bolted to morbs's desk. maybe all of our desks, sometimes.

re: flipping congress: i stand by this post from last month:

don't think they have much of shot in either chamber, but reducing the GOP margins would be genuinely useful in its own right - many more situations like the health care debacle ahead, with ryan and mitch counting every single vote and trying to placate all their different and hopelessly contradictory GOP constituencies. happy to see that get even just a little harder for them.

i suppose there's a VERY tiny chance that if the senate could be brought within one vote (including pence) then a very enterprising schumer could get susan collins to jump to 'independent' in exchange for chairpersonships a la jeffords. i've pooh-poohed that scenario before, but only because getting several people to do that at once is a LOT harder than when you just need one. collins is probably the only shot since it'd be political suicide for epople not from maine, last bastion of the old-fashioned liberal republican, whose other senator is also an "I" caucusing with the democrats.

― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:54 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mind you i think clinging to a jeffords scenario is just a notch or two above fantasizing about the 25th amendment (which folks in these threads have done a good job rebutting). but it's sorta kinda closer to reality. if you like, throw in the possibility of a purple-state GOP senator (say, colorado's cory gardner) leaving office unexpectedly, due to health or scandal or deciding to travel the world and write a novel, and the seat getting filled by a Dem. anything could happen!

the most important thing imho is that the worse trump's numbers get and the more scandals he attracts, the harder a time it is for those GOP congresspeople not in 100% secure seats - obviously is a great many of them thanks to gerrymandering, but still. their town halls are consumed by constituent anger, TV appearances intended to talk up legislation is burned through with questions about the president. late nights in the office bleakly staring at the numbers through the bottom of a glass of scotch. go against the president and they will be primaried by a red-hat loon. support the president through thick and thin and the small portion of their republican constituents who haven't drunk the kool-aid are enough to tip the margins and hand the seat to a democrat. this is a good situation imo.

"Donald Trump kyngur pissa" as new campaign slogan

not that it matters but it's 86 degrees in New York City on May 17. high in the 90s tomorrow. let's cut some taxes and pray for the best : )

the problem w/ flipping the senate is that your opportunities are so limited you'd need to basically sweep the board to have any shot. obv that doesn't apply to the house so i'm not sure why ppl are so cynical about dems ability to flip? they're polling amazing on generic ballot (ok, can't predict the future), and incumbent's party almost always experiences waves against them at midterms (even popular presidents). it's not a sure thing (gerrymandering, poor midterm turnout for dem voters) but it's not super unlikely imo.

voter suppression, too

go against the president and they will be primaried by a red-hat loon. support the president through thick and thin and the small portion of their republican constituents who haven't drunk the kool-aid

This scenario is what the anonymous "longtime GOP staffer" cited in a tweet upthread was probably thinking of when they compared the situation to "Reservoir Dogs, where everyone ends up on the floor dead."

I think I'd be OK if everyone in the GOP ended up dead.

don't worry they will

if they lose the special elections in GA and/or MT GOP apparatus is going to start to freak out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1xmXOP3lhM

xposts thanks caek :) would be nice if it came from higher up, like tillerson, but it's something i guess

lol Trump is scheduled to meet the Pope while Comey testifies in the House next Wed.

Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho): “What I’m worried about is, in the early 1970s, politicians like me were standing around saying, ‘Nixon’s okay, he didn’t do anything,’ and look what it led to,” he said. “And every day there is something that adds on to it.”

Genuinely shocked at level of reflectiveness here tbh

If Trump were a praying man ...

Actually, given this Pope, who knows what might come out of this.

the problem w/ flipping the senate is that your opportunities are so limited you'd need to basically sweep the board to have any shot. obv that doesn't apply to the house so i'm not sure why ppl are so cynical about dems ability to flip? they're polling amazing on generic ballot (ok, can't predict the future), and incumbent's party almost always experiences waves against them at midterms (even popular presidents). it's not a sure thing (gerrymandering, poor midterm turnout for dem voters) but it's not super unlikely imo.

― Mordy

lack of leadership and vision mostly, as well as astonishingly poor strategic vision over the past 25 years. it's eminently doable, but distrusting the democrats' ability to do it is reasonable, if not always helpful.

Oh hey, more of this

Full quote from senior White House official on Trump threat to leave #NATO right here: pic.twitter.com/RTbOq2vg1w

— Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) May 17, 2017

this is good:

Two sources tell me D.C. police are using video to identify the body guards who instigated the melee and plan to pursue arrest warrants.

— Aaron C. Davis (@byaaroncdavis) May 17, 2017

"Two sources tell me D.C. police are using video to identify the body guards who instigated the melee and plan to pursue arrest warrants."

same guy says "concerned" is "among the weakest of state dept's stock condemnations"

Re: NATO. That's just Trump desperately trying to change the headlines. Too vague a threat to do the trick. It will be noticed by NATO allies, and make them freak out, but for domestic consumption it will be drowned out by Comey/Russia.