Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Here's another question: WTF, Flynn?! Were you that hard up for cash?

Both the Centcom and SOCOM Commanders won't be happy w/ this as it was THEIR plan Flynn was screwing with. Treason is not too strong a word. https://t.co/x0dIUA5WAZ

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) May 18, 2017

The comments on that are interesting.

fucking lol at this being the "if I did a tenth of what she did" guy

EXCLUSIVE: Trump family had "blind spot when it came to Flynn," per source. New details re mtg where Flynn asked for & was granted NSA job. pic.twitter.com/PK4J6nISU4

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) May 18, 2017

V. Delicious if J-Red & Ivanka were the sparks for all this...

i actually saw a hunky republican who didn't sound dumb on pbs tonight. it was quite a shock. and he didn't support trump during the election. AND he's a fighter pilot. they should totally run him for prez after this nightmare is over:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kinzinger

well, you know, hunky for a republican. he wasn't 80. or a member of the tea party.

https://moderateinthemiddle.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/154ztoy.jpg

I hope the whole GOP gets herpes in the center of their asses

I want more scandals like this: Dutch king reveals double life as an airline pilot for KLM

Ha. I bet Prince Phillip hates him.

This smarmy asshole:

... watch: rep. @farenthold tells @katyturnbc "russia is not our enemy on all fronts." pic.twitter.com/alWeGuR68g

— fake nick ramsey (@nick_ramsey) May 17, 2017

the flynn/turkey revelation is wild. goes way beyond espionage. and it was deliberate. as illegal/stupid etc as trump's disclosure of intel was i put it in the same category as everything else about trump: dangerously stupid. but the flynn thing is different.

Is this thing of the 'President has the ability to declassify information as he sees fit' actually a more involved process, not just announcing things at random? Or has there been any other instance of doing that without any element of damage limitation?

as i understand it the entire concept of classification is a power that flows from the president so he can break the rules willy nilly as he likes. however the disclosure of those docs might break OTHER rules, not strictly to do with classification, i.e. aid and comfort to an enemy, etc

Obviously every previous president has had some training in state craft even if simply by having to go through the process of election to previous roles. During which they have presumably picked up some idea of sensitivity of data and the idea of protocols by which data is shared. So those things would run through their heads before they actually did share whatever. & they would know that only certain things would be shared in pretty extreme circumstances so probably would not go ahead and just blurt it out on a locker room talk level.

...you do remember who you're talking about, right?

Hope things return to the idea of the Presidency being a point reached through prior experience and people don't think bypassing that is a good idea again. Would be good if the electorate learned from experience. JUst not sure what this guy having been elected opens the gates for.
But people were probably saying that about Obama. just not people really worth listening to because of prior agendas.

tbf it's more like a point reached through prior "experience"

is America great again yet

president hatch will be the greatest president yet

good [unintelligible]!

president hatch will be the greatest president yet

http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/styles/rectangle_960x480/public/2x01-JackLockeHatch.jpg?itok=optQNmjz×tamp=1427304691

full of promise, fails to deliver - sounds presidential alright

Charlie Dent said on CNN moments ago that of course Kevin McCarthy was making a joke -- "he's a funny man, a facetious guy."

The "joke" is among the least damning things in there. LOL at "we never said that." "But we have you on tape." "Oh in that case I was just joking, man, where's your sense of humor."

Has "I was just joking" ever held up as a defense in court?

i remember it not coming across brilliantly in the dahmer trial

doubling back a bit I will go on record as thinking it would be a bad development for us all if donald trump started carrying on a secret double life as an airline pilot. maybe just lock him up in a very elaborate flight simulator in the white house basement, where he can go "vrrrrroooom!!!'' and press all the colorful buttons at no risk to anyone. for the next three and a half years, say.

There have been a number of documented shots of him sitting behind the wheel going "vroom."

And we're off!

With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special councel appointed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2017

This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2017

'special councel' ffs

Just let Trump be Trump.

yeah man keep on tweeting

after a couple of days of suspiciously uncharacteristic activity on trump's twitter he's presumably managed to find his phone's hiding place, presumably tucked away somewhere he'd never think to look, like the bottom of bowl of fresh salad or tucked inside a folder of briefings

ps4 is a special console

I am certain that the people among his people who know anything explained in great detail the seriousness of the appointment of a special councel (sp?) and the importance of reining in any extemporaneous public statements. I'm surprised he made it through the night before his narcissism pinched off an upper decker into his toilet of self-governance.

sometimes metaphors can be too vivid

Yes I remember that about the Clintons: the conspicuous lack of investigation into their crimes.

(Remember when a talking point at the Republican debates was "We're awesome because none of us is under investigation by the FBI"?)

Roger Ailes is dead, @DRUDGE_REPORT announced with statement from his wife pic.twitter.com/TGeMZQD0xA

— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) May 18, 2017

The world was never made for one as disgusting as you

It begins.

(Forgive me if I get a little Shakey, but I'm not exactly shedding a tear.)

death: the time-honoured method of escaping justice

seriously though, hillary's goons must have finally got to him

good fucking riddance

i'm going to write it into my will that when i die my wife will give the news to matt drudge as an exclusive

Podestaaaaa! What'd you do this time, you rascal!

Worth noting this

By the twitching of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

tick tick tick tick tick tick tick

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) May 18, 2017

Again, Wittes (Lawfare guy) and Comey are close friends, and he tweeted something similar shortly before news of the Comey memo broke, so something's up.

Meanwhile, Alfred's congressman again

GOP @RepCurbelo says "we need this independent counsel," Congress "also has to allocate additional resources" & "appoint a select committee"

— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) May 18, 2017

xpost I think he's just worried about lyme disease

(Forgive me if I get a little Shakey, but I'm not exactly shedding a tear.)

When things like this happen, WE ARE ALL SHAKEY.

haa xp