Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

You bleed just to know you're alive

I didn't know that Ailes was a hemophiliac.

lol @ this Trump press conf, he can barely read his prepared statement

i hope a story drops during this press conference and all the journalists run out to make calls and he's left there alone, panting and sniffing at the microphone

haha

Ha, didn't realize it was a joint conference with the Colombian president. The press corps should just direct questions to that guy.

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Only women (haters) bleed.

"President Santos, what's it like to be a competent head of state?"

Why is he having this press conference? He's not going to take questions, is he?

Maybe the Wittes intimation is that Trump actually is a witch, and that he's been telling the truth all along.

he's taking questions

I didn't know that Ailes was a hemophiliac.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, May 18, 2017 3:13 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i haven't read the stories but subdural bleeds lasting for days are not uncommon, esp in old farts

No, I actually heard on the news that he was a hemophiliac!

oh good Christ, Joe L is actually gonna get it

One reason to think Lieberman would be a great FBI director is he has never stopped telling gigantic lies about Iraq having WMD

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) May 17, 2017

WaPo: Comey practiced extensively for his conversations with Trump—concerned he would cross legal/ethical boundaries https://t.co/JM03LAWHru

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 18, 2017

No, I actually heard on the news that he was a hemophiliac!

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, May 18, 2017 3:21 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, my b!

Does Trump think he is talking to the president of Venezuela? Or did I mishear?

someone ping me if a WH journalist has it in them to ask santos advice from a "divided nation"

rehire Comey IMO

barring everything else, dude is showing a deadly amount of competence in his dealings with Trump

Trump is weirdly subdued, tired. Slagging off Comey at the moment.

Trump must be scared, he's sticking to the talking points.

"There has been no collusion between myself and my campaign." - Trump at presser

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) May 18, 2017

someone ping me if a WH journalist has it in them to ask santos advice from a "divided nation"

pinging you

literally just happened

President Trump says, "Believe me, there's no collusion. Russia is fine." https://t.co/I1CD3Zi2cU https://t.co/8lbVd4bGm4

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) May 18, 2017

It's totally fine!

lol sweet

lmao at the quote in that O'Brien tweet

aaaand that's it

i have not colluded with myself at any point.

i've never even met donald trump!

SCOOP: GOP leaders haven't sent the Obamacare repeal bill to the Senate and they may have to vote on it again.https://t.co/Sr6rGt5pYf

— Kevin Whitelaw (@KevinWhitelaw1) May 18, 2017

o_O

again i'm left wondering if trump knows what 'collusion' means

if caeks tweet is true Jesus how incompetent are these guys?

ahahahahahaha what

House Speaker Paul Ryan hasn’t yet sent the bill to the Senate because there’s a chance that parts of it may need to be redone, depending on how the Congressional Budget Office estimates its effects. House leaders want to make sure the bill conforms with Senate rules for reconciliation, a mechanism that allows Senate Republicans to pass the bill with a simple majority.

Republicans had rushed to vote on the health bill so the Senate could get a quick start on it, even before the CBO had finished analyzing a series of last-minute changes. The CBO is expected to release an updated estimate next week.

"Unaware," said Representative Jeff Denham of California, with noticeable surprise Thursday, when advised that his party leaders still hadn’t sent the bill over to the Senate. Denham was one of the House Republicans who ended up voting for the measure, after earlier in the week opposing it.

"I am on the whip team and we have a lot of conversations, but we have not had that one. So I am going to look into it," said Denham, a member of the party’s vote-counting team.

At least they haven't been distracted by anything!

When does the CBO score come down? I want to say it arrived faster the first time around.

And yes, they are they incompetent, but that's what happens when you offer solutions in search of a problem. Step one, repeal Obamacare! Step two, um, come up with a replacement plan.

i wish someone would ask him "why did you urge comey to back off the flynn investigation?". he's probably dumb enough to answer.

U.S. officials tell NBC News Flynn's intervention in military plan the Turks opposed *did* delay the Raqqa operation https://t.co/mXI9jiPRkk

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 18, 2017

http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/monday-may-15th-deep-tweet

When does the CBO score come down? I want to say it arrived faster the first time around.

And yes, they are they incompetent, but that's what happens when you offer solutions in search of a problem. Step one, repeal Obamacare! Step two, um, come up with a replacement plan.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, May 18, 2017 8:52 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"next week" - not sure when exactly

http://i.imgur.com/EtuKSjS.gif

did any press ask trump what he thought about erdogan's goons kicking the shit out of americans?

I didn't know that Ailes was a hemophiliac.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, May 18, 2017 3:13 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i haven't read the stories but subdural bleeds lasting for days are not uncommon, esp in old farts

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, May 18, 2017 4:21 PM (forty-one minutes ago)

i was just reviewing neuro last week and subdural hematoma was the first thing i thought too. textbook case!

re: that Flynn/Turkey/Raqqa thing, Ilan Goldenberg had a good concise summary of the situation last night (now confirmed by Obama admin as Ned's NBC link reports):

Ilan Goldenberg‏ @ilangoldenberg
1. This Flynn Raqqa story is complicated but HUGE!! it borders on treasonous
2. Obama team has plan to take Raqqa. want to move quickly because a lot of the scariest terror plotting against western targets is there
3. Turks hate the plan because they don't want Kurds going to Raqqa
4. Obama team asks Trump team for OK to move. Flynn says no
5. But unbeknownst to Obama team, Flynn is under investigation for taking money from the Turks & not disclosing it
6. And the Trump team already knows he's under investigation
7. The plan to take Raqqa gets delayed for months and now finally underway
8. I guess no real harm comes of it. Not like ISIS is plotting to blow up airplanes with laptops or anything like that
9. There were reasonable policy reasons to wait on Raqqa as Kurds are not the ideal force to retake it
10. But it's hard to not look at these facts & suspect that Turkish money may have played a role
11. In short: Flynn may have put Americans at greater risk of terror attack because he was taking $$$ from foreign gov't

we're now in that 2-3pm pacific time sweet spot where all the news drops and I cant get a fucking thing done at work

when was the last time the us executed someone for treason

i believe it was some of the people in this story, which is absolely nuts and insane and 100% worth reading https://www.damninteresting.com/operation-pastorius/

xxp same here