Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

They're going to use taxpayer money to pay for them, I don't see why he'd even try to stiff them.

xp: lol

I retain faith he'll try and find a way.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/20/trump-administration-lawyers-fees-238631

I feel like any self-aware person getting involved with Trump in any fashion would be well-advised to put an attorney on retainer pretty much immediately.

You are quite right, Trockasturm Hoar The Ramming Battle Ceraton !

xpost We have to have a new thread tomorrow, it'll be June.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 2:14 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is no way out of here. It'll be June soon.

It won't be June if we re-name the month Trumpo in honor of oru emperoro, such as with augustus and july ceaser

I refuse to celebrate my mother's birthday in Trumpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dgSoYFz1U0

lol pic.twitter.com/hNzLTibsSq

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) May 31, 2017

Now we're doing horse / It's June

nice

https://d2ppvlu71ri8gs.cloudfront.net/items/0Q182B1u0w3k3n1l392L/what_a_moron.png

Trump approval rating at 39%, 43% now support his impeachment

It awesome it's been 39 percent or lower for a while.

He hasn't had a single poll with a net-positive approval rating in forever either. Not even Rasmussen, where he's like -14 now.

I wouldn't be surprised if he goes his entire presidency w out ever getting a net positive

It awesome = it seems

Confirmed: Andrew Weissmann, head of DOJ fraud unit, to join special counsel Robert Mueller's team. Weissman used to be top lawyer @FBI

— Carrie Johnson (@johnson_carrie) May 31, 2017

xpost It you

I worship Jesus, not Mother Earth. He calls us all to be good stewards of the planet, but doesn't mean I have to care about global warming.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 31, 2017

this fuckin guy

Jesus implores us all to be good stewards of our desiccated hellscape

https://giphy.com/gifs/planet-of-the-apes-movie-sci-fi-130GUUmUDJh8yY

ugh Andrew Weissman was head of the Enron task force, who fucked up every single case they had under his leadership. Skilling and Lay were convicted after Kathy Ruemmler and co took over for him. xp

hey maybe he'll get it right this time lol

The committee has subpoenaed the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency for information about what is called “unmasking.” Republicans on the committee have been pushing for a thorough investigation of how the names of Trump campaign officials became exposed in classified intelligence reports based off intelligence community intercepts.

Those subpoenas seek information on requests made by former national security adviser Susan Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan and former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power for names to be unmasked in classified material.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-intelligence-committee-said-to-have-issued-seven-subpoenas-in-russia-probe-1496261435

the other four are unknown, but presumed to be flynn, page, stone, and manafort

the RNC's coming after Joe and Mika!

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55395/rnc-madness/

lol @ Mr. Jeopardy taking heat over this tweet

Barron Trump saw a very long necktie on a heap of expired deli meat in a dumpster. He thought it was his dad & his little heart is breaking

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) May 31, 2017

Better to leave Barron out of the donnybrook.

from the RNC morning joe thing:

http://i.imgur.com/KL51qpi.png

hmm, what else does al franken have on his plate that's possibly even bigger than the question of whether to share a stage with kathy griffin in July? i guess there are the trump investigations with the senate judiciary committee, but...nah, kathy griffin should definitely be his priority

This whole thing is so dumb. I mean yeah it's in bad taste and I agree she should've been fired for it but this whole "will the liberal violence ever end!" thing is so irritating, especially when white supremacists emboldened by Trump are literally murdering people on the street right now. I thought this was the party of "fuck you and your political correctness", the party who gleefully voted in a man who bragged about sexually assaulting women? Are you really so fragile to be trigged by Kathy Griffin, of all people?

of course not, they just see an opportunity to attack the enemy and get some more of those sweet sweeeeeet librul tears

And put a woman out of a job!

it's a win-win!

Pfft.

Intel Cmte aide says subpoenas on "unmasking" would have come from Nunes "acting separately" from Russia probe w/o consent of minority

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 31, 2017

I suppose that's his way of doing something while recused?

Uh, Portland gonna be fun on Sunday:

http://katu.com/news/local/marshman-feds-bringing-in-officers-for-sunday-patriot-prayer-joey-gibson-alt-right

Yay, the Feds will be here

Kathy Griffin should be fired for being unfunny, not for the bloody head.

a 'free speech' rally in defense of someone who murdered innocent people in cold blood is going to end well

local media keeps pointing out a guy who has been too fucking tired to be governor of Iowa is now our ambassador to China

good luck usa

these free speech rallies are just straight up trolling/librul tear gathering exercises

that being said I agree w the tactic of countering them with (hopefully larger) anti-fascist rallies

the head was the only funny thing she's done since Newsradio went off the air

Social Media Forensics
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The depoliticization of violence

In direct proportion to how the American understanding of political activity has been impoverished—shrunk down to a trip to the ballot box that a pitiful fraction of Americans will make once every four years—our investment of political significance into comparative trivialities has mushroomed to the point where even an act of horrifying, self-evident violence must be “explained” or “understood” by documenting where a killer clicked “like” on Facebook. Meanwhile, a pair of women remain terrorized, and two of three bystanders who attempted to stop a hate crime are dead.

librul tears is one thing but publicly supporting an insane murderer is nagl (trenchant social commentary)

the head was the only funny thing she's done since Newsradio went off the air

― akm, Thursday, June 1, 2017 12:17 AM (thirty-five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

worse yet, she had to use a convincing clone under another name to get the lols on Newsradio

David Axelrod's perfectly timed deadpan always makes me laugh (talking about Spicer and "covfefe"):

"He goes out there and says things that are laughable, and...people laugh."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lfXnVKMwgE

I can't reload this whole thread--I'm sure that's been posted today. I really enjoy dry, morbid humour; hate crudity, hate gross. Kathy Griffin's thing just isn't funny. I'm far from outraged or anything, just wish she blew up her career over a better joke. I self-censor myself on Facebook all the time. Whenever someone posts something and I think of a great line that's guaranteed to have people crowding around me and telling me I should die, I send it along in a private message. "This is what I was going to post--the little voice in my head said 'no.'"

Wish there was a thread for that

I mostly just don't get the point of it, plus am pretty much not a fan of Kathy Griffin, so it's kinda difficult to defend on anything but 'definitely not illegal, ffs' grounds.

I thought Sally Weaver was a great character. "Lay it on me, stringbean." I don't really know her outside of that.