Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

yes -several times i have half-typed and erased the thought that there should be waves of massive protests going on right now, women's march levels. there's a new reason to do it nearly every week. there is a big climate march coming up at the end of april (https://peoplesclimate.org/), which is great, but the relative silence in the streets right now is disheartening.

dude this *just happened* it takes time to mobilize millions of people on the same day

oh, i meant over the last several weeks. basically every weekend since the women's march! the current sessions thing is bad but no worse than the fact that he was appointed in the first place, as djp mentioned earlier. same with devos, pruitt, etc. the muslim ban prompted protests but only for the day or two before the courts stepped in.

the muslim ban prompted protests but only for the day or two before the courts stepped in.

this is not accurate

i was just at a rally in NYC on presidents day. it was well attended

wanna donate to that peoplesclimate thing but a little wary of entering my credit card info is that being paranoid

alright, i was mistaken, the people are in the streets everywhere. i was wondering what that fuss was out on my sidewalk but my window is all the way over there

Good roundup here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/03/02/daily-202-trump-s-russia-headache-gets-worse-as-sessions-struggles-to-spin-undisclosed-meetings/58b745cae9b69b1406c75d1b/

lol

"I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign," he said in a statement. "I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false."

I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false.
I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false.
I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/schiff-doj-235615

to discuss issues of the campaign

"Hello, Mr. Ambassador. I asked to meet with you today to get your opinion on how many 30 second spots to run in South Florida in October, and while we're at it, what do you think is the best approach to taking Pennsylvania's Third District?"

Haha http://www.vox.com/2017/3/2/14792196/gop-obamacare-bill-search

alright, i was mistaken, the people are in the streets everywhere. i was wondering what that fuss was out on my sidewalk but my window is all the way over there

I meant that protests lasted longer than "one or two days" - the court decision(s) didn't come that quickly and protests persisted up until it was struck down by the 9th circuit. The order was issued on Jan 27th, the TRO wasn't issued until February 3rd, and the Circuit Court ruling didn't come until Feb 9th. There were nationwide protests all through that time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_against_Executive_Order_13769

to discuss issues of the campaign

Oh, THAT campaign. I thought you meant the campaign to KILL MOOSE AND SQUIRREL

I guess I shouldn't say "struck down" (since it wasn't) but you know what I mean, the 9th circuit upheld the restraining order and basically killed its implementation.

xp

lol YMP

I didn't not didn't have communications with the Russians. triple negative, liberals, sorry, J-Sesh is clean!

So Caterpillar was raided by irs and FBI this morning. Supposed suspicious movement of funds between foreign subsidies including russia

subsidiaries*

sessions really doubling down on this being 'false', so either he's just very very committed to lying, or maybe the justice department and intelligence are trying to tank him

can't it be both

Morbz is this what living through Watergate was like cuz man, parallels seem eerie w so many potential rabbit holes/threads...

But there's total confidence don't you know

https://twitter.com/AP/status/837378370451222528

I take it back, this is better symbolism:

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/837379787874271232

President Trump tells pool reporters aboard the USS Gerald Ford that he has total confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

lol

Morbz is this what living through Watergate was like

i wuz about eleven, dingaling

it's more what Duck Soup is like

sessions really doubling down on this being 'false', so either he's just very very committed to lying, or maybe the justice department and intelligence are trying to tank him

tbh, it sounds like he was asked two questions he could say 'no' to while being technically correct without stopping to think whether "but I was technically correct!" would be a particularly solid defence when this came out. It is the only card he has to play and he is stuck with it though.

now we know why the Republican Congress tried to secretly dismantle the ethics committee?

Pish. Nothingburger distractions from the real news. Have we discussed the revelation that Spicer is the Easter Bunny?

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/in-the-loop/Images/spicerbunny.jpg?uuid=VmUOcpe2EeK2j9xcS0flGQ

shining-bear-costume.jpg

It looks like a much older version of Spicer confronting the giant rabbit from his nightmares, revealing the man inside is his younger self.

Either that or it's a still from the next episode of Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule

Are you sure that's not Sergey Kislyak?

A Republican bill to replace Obamacare is reportedly hidden somewhere on Capitol Hill — and on Thursday morning, legislators and reporters ended up on a bipartisan wild goose chase to find it.

Who needs the White House lawn Easter Egg hunt? Speaking of which:

Have we discussed the revelation that Spicer is the Easter Bunny?

Spoilers, man!

is this what living through Watergate was like

The sense of an administration carelessly criminal and now running to catch up with an out-of-control story is reminiscent. I'd say the pace so far is much faster than it was this early in Watergate, but the revelations so far are less numerous and less damning, because the details are still nebulous.

With Watergate things didn't really get serious until almost a year after the break-in, when Judge John Sirica held the burglars' feet to the fire with the threat of seriously long prison sentences and started getting them to cooperate. Even then, the Congressional investigations dragged out for months and months, with Nixon and his cronies denying, stonewalling and foot dragging every inch of the way.

Ironically, if Nixon had offered up some impressive human sacrifices, such as AG John Mitchell, early on, then he could have satisfied Congress, saved his own neck, and we'd only know about a quarter of Nixon's crimes compared with what came out.

As someone else said, "It's like watching 'All the President's Men' on ultra-fast-forward."

Morbz is this what living through Watergate was like cuz man, parallels seem eerie w so many potential rabbit holes/threads...

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i was not alive during watergate but i finished nixonland last week so i'm basically an expect, and: yes

there is Super 8 footage of me clinging to the White House fence in July '74. I'll be uploading it, well, never.

*expert

Sweet, I'mma wrap up this second volume of Branch's MLK biog and then plow through Perlstein's Goldwater and Nixon books. All this 50-year-old shit seems way too prescient.

NYT: President Trump said he had “total” confidence in his attorney general and wasn't aware of his contacts with Russia's ambassador

surely only one of these two clauses can be true

Why, though? Surely Trump can both threaten a man's livelihood for opposing asset forfeiture and simultaneously have no idea what asset forfeiture is. He contains multitudes.

https://i.imgur.com/zcspVAO.jpg

l,r: trump, larry Appleton

seems about right

http://www.theonion.com/article/jeff-sessions-spits-face-fbi-interrogator-trying-g-55433

Sessions news conference in half an hour.

this the one where they're going to fire him? because we know what happens after the WH expresses complete confidence in someone

no spoilers please I've got this ep queued up on netflix for later

oh hell yea