US Politics, February 2018: Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots

Why is everybody commending Gowdy et al for "standing up to the President" in affirming that the Nunes memo has nothing to do with Russia? Seems as likely to be a pretext for plausible deniability when Trump shitcans Rosentein. Then they'll be able to say that it wasn't obstruction to fire Rosenstein, that he was fired for some other made-up reason?

really "implausible deniability" but whatever none of this is plausible

Seems likely that the memo did nothing but get a bunch of Pizzagate types turnt up and I can see a few of these "never Trump, well ok sometimes Trump" people trying to read the room a bit with their subsequent reactions.

it just strikes me as odd that suddenly they have reading-the-room chops when for a full year now they've been playing to an audience of one

so the NYT is reporting that trump's advisors are advising him against doing an interview with mueller. not sure why this is push-alert worthy, since of course his lawyers wouldn't want him to do it.

cos they're lol afraid he'll get caught lying being the main reason given.

you're right. that's not surprising at all. the Mueller investigation is just a subject the NYT knows people are eager to read about and there is not a surplus of news there, given how tight a ship Mueller has been running, so the NYT pushes out whatever meager scraps are available as if they meant more than they do.

Remember when he was alone in a room with Pelosi and Schumer for a few min and suddenly they were his best friends?

The thing about the Trump/Mueller 'please no interview' news is that it's reflective of a split between Cobb and Dowd -- worth remembering that Cobb represents the executive branch as such where Dowd/Sekulow represent Trump personally. As the story notes, Cobb's happy to cooperate/share info etc, where Dowd/Sekulow are going "ARRRGH NO."

it's also newsworthy because the alternative is p much subpoena, grand jury

sorry for posting online while I was hungry

it’s ok silbs

silby ntm

(near the money)

Nearly everyone in America supports as many people who aren’t specifically them dying prematurely, preferably as soon as possible

I'm in America and I can see a lot of problems being solved by a significant number of people who aren't me dying prematurely, probably as soon as possible

the gall of these sanctimonious house knuckleheads who boast that they keep sending budgets to the Senate that then get ignored, refusing to acknowledge that maybe the fact that these budgets are a hundred percent partisan and devised entirely by Republicans often in secret might be part of the problem.

I thought Donald Trump was 100% innocent and that this whole Russia thing was just a witch hunt....why wouldn't he testify?

He would and really wants to! It's just these lawyers, what can you do? (shrugs)

i am a fool clinging to false hope based on a naive understanding of america's supposed core values but nevertheless

https://www.wired.com/story/bob-muellers-investigation-is-largerand-further-alongthan-you-think/

His lawyers are concerned that the president, who has a history of making false statements and contradicting himself, could be charged with lying to investigators.

I could have saved him so much money and just told him this myself.

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-03-11-1457709578-5978124-TrumpNYP-thumb.jpg

I could have saved him so much money and just told him this myself.

― Josh in Chicago,

he could've kept you on retainer

omg i never knew about that. dying

xpsot

GIRLFRIEND IN CANADA CONFIDES: TRACER'S THE ONLY ONE FOR ME

https://envisioningtheamericandream.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/trump-marla-maples-post-1990-swscan06132.jpg

i wonder if "john barron" set up the meeting between the post and that acting-school pal

Donald seems like he would be a very generous and tender lover, someone intensely concerned with his partner's pleasure and willing to suppress his own desires in the service of creating a space where two souls might truly be conjoined in ecstasy. Or like someone who would pay someone to tell the Post what an awesome lay he is as cover for the fact that he accidentally poops himself whenever he's aroused.

I flagged your post btw

Justifiably.

She kept an autographed copy of Trump's book, "The Art of the Deal," at her bedside.

oh man I just realized Martin Shkreli modeled his entire look after that NY Post cover

Shortly to be nominated as HHS secretary btw

Because Republican are expert at disaster relief!.

The mission for the Federal Emergency Management Agency was clear: Hurricane Maria had torn through Puerto Rico, and hungry people needed food. Thirty million meals needed to be delivered as soon as possible.

For this huge task, FEMA tapped Tiffany Brown, an Atlanta entrepreneur with no experience in large-scale disaster relief and at least five canceled government contracts in her past. FEMA awarded her $156 million for the job, and Ms. Brown, who is the sole owner and employee of her company, Tribute Contracting LLC, set out to find some help.

Ms. Brown, who is adept at navigating the federal contracting system, hired a wedding caterer in Atlanta with a staff of 11 to freeze-dry wild mushrooms and rice, chicken and rice, and vegetable soup. She found a nonprofit in Texas that had shipped food aid overseas and domestically, including to a Houston food bank after Hurricane Harvey.

By the time 18.5 million meals were due, Tribute had delivered only 50,000. And FEMA inspectors discovered a problem: The food had been packaged separately from the pouches used to heat them. FEMA’s solicitation required “self-heating meals.”

“Do not ship another meal. Your contract is terminated,” Carolyn Ward, the FEMA contracting officer who handled Tribute’s agreement, wrote to Ms. Brown in an email dated Oct. 19 that Ms. Brown provided to The New York Times. “This is a logistical nightmare.”

Heckuva job, Brownie

hired a wedding caterer
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what this country needs is more SMRT BIZNESS PPL in charge i tell you what

I wonder how many millions of people will have to die before we call off this war on people who actually know what they're doing.

What does an 'expert' know about anything, besides everything within their area of expertise?

So (because I am nosy about this sort of thing) I checked Tribute Contracting's entries in the Federal procurement database.

More than half their contracts (32/62) are with the prison system.

https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/search.do?q=tribute+contracting+CONTRACTING_AGENCY_NAME%3A%22FEDERAL+PRISON+SYSTEM%22&s=FPDS.GOV&templateName=1.5.1&indexName=awardfull

when "run government like a business" meets "run a business like a tv show"

Having waiters go from cell to cell with traysful of canapés and pot stickers is certainly a novel way to feed the prison population.

Actually in prison we call them "pot shivvers"

They might as well have hired the Fyre Festival dude. For sure he could land a prison catering contract. He might eve have personal incentive to improve the quality.

kind of weird for Trump to tweet out condolences for the family of Edwin Jackson, a Colts linebacker that he couldn't pick out of a lineup...

So disgraceful that a person illegally in our country killed @Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson. This is just one of many such preventable tragedies. We must get the Dems to get tough on the Border, and with illegal immigration, FAST!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2018

oh

Of course the first vehicular homicide in recorded history was committed by an undocumented immigrant, of course it was.

We cannot let this happen a second time. Build that wall!

I've been telling people for ages that Tuesdays are bad news and just look: rain. Sad!

he is literally saying that immigrants are bad drivers isn't he

I wasn't able to tease that much nuance out of it personally, but I guess it could be inferred from what I interpreted as 'my xenophobia and racism, let me show them to you'.

God, he really is just the worst thing that could've happened to this country short of its wholesale destruction (still to come!).

if somebody said in my home what the president of the united states says on twitter on the reg i would take them aside and have a little talk with them and explain that they need to be more respectful. it wouldn't be comfortable and i wouldn't want to do it but i would have no choice. but i'm not able to do that with trump, none of us are, he just barges into our mental space every day and says whatever toxic, vile shit he pleases.

Apparently "less government" not working so well in The OK.

Oklahoma now has 91 school districts that can only afford to open schools four days per week; drunk drivers in the state can keep their licenses bc there are no bureaucrats to take them away. Remind me about the SW/Sun Belt growth model everyone’s touting? https://t.co/gQofRvZlcn

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) February 6, 2018