US Politics November 2017

tho tbf it also sounds okay to the kind of guy who thinks he's my voice

stopped clock

NEW: WH responds to Bush41 calling POTUS a "blowhard". Calls Iraq "greatest foreign policy mistakes in American history". via/ @NoahGrayCNN pic.twitter.com/XQ2f1JK81C

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) November 4, 2017

Impending death clears the mind.

where's the tax returns?

what is the name for a society built upon a commonly shared respect for facts?

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

He doesn’t know the difference between 41 and 43 right

Rand Paul was just beat up by his neighbor?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/04/sen-rand-paul-assaulted-his-kentucky-home-man-arrested/832663001/

so who would be the best kind of aggrieved constituent for him to have been assaulted by, politically

A woman

Reported elsewhere it's his neighbor.

Yeah, not a rando

sounds like a Bowling Green massacre

p sure any major military contractor doesn't like Paul v much

otoh no major military contractor has ever actually suffered so much as a broken fingernail from his posturing nonsense

Such people don't like unfriendly rhetoric even if it is ineffectual, e.g. Wall Street turning on Obama because he made grumpy noises while he ensured that they paid not a jot for their Subprime Era crimes.

"don't just suck me off, tell me how much you like it"

Trump: I came here to see the pokemons.
Abe: They aren't real.
Trump: Just show them to me. pic.twitter.com/mlkjCVhYmg

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) November 5, 2017

is...did...I...just... https://t.co/TGgP7YDbGi pic.twitter.com/9y6p8LGSm5

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) November 5, 2017

It's funny the way that qualities I'd find charming in a three-year-old make me want this septuagenarian to go to sleep and never wake up.

Donald Trump, forever lobbing katanas at ballistic missiles

Looks like Flynn and his idiot son are next

Please let this happen while Trump is still overseas

Sounds like this shoe is finally dropping.

EXCLUSIVE: Special Counsel Robert Mueller has enough evidence to bring charges in Michael Flynn investigation https://t.co/8TD2rrfPiw pic.twitter.com/0WSRPX1Kd7

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 5, 2017

Oh I should clarify. It’s Flynn’s idiot son, not Trump’s

You know what's weird? I heard that apparently Michael Flynn's son is actually named Michael Flynn. Not Michael Flynn Jr., just Michael Flynn. I think he informally goes by Jr.

This winter: Indictment Mondays!!

xp Is that weird? I share the same name as my father and grandfather and none of us have a suffix.

maybe it's not weird?

You're only a junior if your full name is exactly like your dad's, including middle name.

The Jr. thing is very American. So given that he is American, I suppose it's weird.

Flynn the Elder, Flynn the Younger, Flynn the Eskimo...

Flynn Jr. is currently posting jubilantly on Twitter about a woman being punched.

flynn the traitor. tomorrow's gonna be interesting

That would be his twitter, @mflynnjr

Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary in the Trump administration, shares business interests with Vladimir Putin’s immediate family, and he failed to clearly disclose those interests when he was being confirmed for his cabinet position.

Ross — a billionaire industrialist — retains an interest in a shipping company, Navigator Holdings, that was partially owned by his former investment company. One of Navigator’s most important business relationships is with a Russian energy firm controlled, in turn, by Putin’s son-in-law and other members of the Russian president’s inner circle.

Some of the details of Ross’s continuing financial holdings — much of which were not disclosed during his confirmation process — are revealed in a trove of more than 7 million internal documents of Appleby, a Bermuda-based law firm, that was leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. The documents consist of emails, presentations and other electronic data. These were then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists — a global network that won the Pulitzer Prize this year for its work on the Panama Papers — and its international media partners. NBC News was given access to some of the leaked documents, which the ICIJ calls the “Paradise Papers.”

...Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said members of Congress who were part of Ross’ confirmation hearings were under the impression that Ross had divested all of his interests in Navigator. Furthermore, he said, they were unaware of Navigator’s close ties to Russia.

“I am astonished and appalled because I feel misled,” said Blumenthal. “Our committee was misled, the American people were misled by the concealment of those companies.” Blumenthal said he will call for the inspector general of the Commerce Department to launch an investigation.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/leaked-documents-show-commerce-secretary-concealed-ties-putin-cronies-n817711

good luck blumenthal

Donald Trump found in a dog's ear pic.twitter.com/q0K6sdpg1G

— Faces in Things (@FacesPics) November 4, 2017

well that’s a uniquely upsetting image

Here's a tweedledum-fat profile picture of him to clear your mind:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/11/05/us/06PREXY/06PREXY-superJumbo.jpg

At this rate this may be the first president with his first Lil' Scoot. Lil' Scoot One.

OK, I know the URL refers to the plane behind him but the fact that the Times tagged that photo "06PREXY-superJumbo" is cracking me up.

Ha, that was my thought, too!

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Sen. Rand Paul is recovering from five broken ribs and bruises to his lungs, and it is unclear when he will return to Washington, aides said Sunday, signaling that injuries he sustained Friday are far more severe than initially thought.

Fat Trump is fat, but he ain't no William Howard Taft.

give him time

hmmmm grown adults doing fat jokes, cool

William Howard Taft was no joke.

if you switch the first letters of his name around, it is a joke, albeit an oblique one: Hilliam Toward Waft

hmmmm grown adults doing fat jokes, cool

Mmmmm grown adults doing utopia, cool.

re TX: "This isn't a guns situation."

Oh this is funny:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bannon-protegee-gets-a-new-job-in-the-white-houseand-its-not-going-well

Donald Trump’s special assistant Julia Hahn has a new job in the White House—and, so far, it’s not going according to plan.

After Steve Bannon was ousted from the Trump White House in mid-August, his former Breitbart employee and fellow Donald Trump aide Seb Gorka wasn’t far behind. Next, White House official Andrew Surabian, a Bannon adviser and Trump campaign vet, left the West Wing to go join the former chief strategist’s outside political operation.

That left Hahn, a former Breitbart staffer and Bannon protégée, to fend for herself in a White House that appeared to be shedding Breitbart alumni and Bannon-associated personnel.

...

Hahn also still works closely with Miller, particularly when pitching outlets on immigration-related stories. And recently, the two of them have been talking to journalists at conservative publications, trying to sell them on a possible deal framework that the White House has been preparing on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the President Barack Obama- era program ended by Donald Trump that give legal protections to undocumented minors.

...

But Miller and Hahn have had trouble making the sale. Though President Trump is supportive of their approach, the deal does not include the White House’s promised border wall. Beyond that, some conservative reporters have flat-out told the White House that they will not get behind any deal that includes DACA protections, and that they don’t believe Miller and Hahn are selling a “poison pill” at all.

This includes Hahn’s former employer.

Meantime, the Rand Paul story...is strange.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/06/562289911/sen-rand-paul-recovering-from-broken-ribs-after-assault