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

Misread that as 'triggers the ibs'. I think I need some new contacts.

that too though

man we're really powering through the bodily secretions itt today huh

donnie both-ends

When she raised her concern about her mother’s disapproval to Trump, he replied, “What, that old hag?” (McDougal, hurt, pointed out that Trump and her mother were close in age.)

lol

I mean, even disregarding everything else, the similarities between Trump Jr. and Gob...

🤦‍♀️

irony of trump's base being essentially identical with the people who clinton's infidelities made physically, reflexively ill

that graf needs subbing but i think u get it

pic.twitter.com/lAIasLxFZA

— Soviet Sergey (@SovietSergey) February 16, 2018

oof

It's grim fun to remember the second Republican debate, where everyone was so frckin smug about "no one here is being investigated by the FBI."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/16/more-than-40-percent-of-trumps-cabinet-level-picks-have-faced-ethical-or-other-controversies/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_fix-ethics-920a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.76c8c517ce54

Now that the gaze is turned on these mousefuckers, apparently being investigated is no big deal; in fact it's indicative of how committed to freedom you are. The Swamp is conspiring to bring down these valiant defenders of freedom1!!!eleven!.

Rubio: "None of our candidates is under FBI investigation."

Jeb!: "Here's the problem. If she gets elected, she's under investigation with the FBI right now."

Spicer: "tough to get excited about someone under FBI investigation."

Priebus: "Dems struggle to choose between a self-declared socialist & someone who's under FBI investigation"

Conway: "we've not nominated someone under FBI investigation"

Wow, we sure did dodge a bullet there. We almost elected someone who allegedly mishandled classified information!

'Telly-telly' is mine now.

romney has had a firmware upgrade folks

I am running for United States Senate to serve the people of Utah and bring Utah's values to Washington. pic.twitter.com/TDkas6gD2p

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) February 16, 2018

irl lol @ "24 grandchildren" damn mitt

the romney factory has ramped up production in recent years

"bring Utah's values to Washington"

http://thebrickbookofmormon.com/beta/05/02/09.jpg

You laugh at 24 grandkids, but there have been some close elections these days, every vote counts! You could breed your own voting block.

Regarding all those infidelity accusations, I don't see why most of these women don't go even more public and detailed. They are not going to be sued, because that would involve all sorts of discovery and testimony under oath. If you're a pornstar or a Playmate of the Year who had a public affair with married Trump, what's left to be ashamed of? I guess there's the threat of violence from the usual suspects.

These 'distraction' stories have me upping Mike Bloomberg's suspicion of the likelihood of Yam's reelection from 55% to 60%

God Bless the Resistance

Well, if you publicly air an affair with Trump, you're obviously a liar and will be branded as such. And not even the good kind of liar whose ceaseless stream of untruths is totally copacetic. I'm talking about the bad kind of liar, the kind who says things that are true but unsavory to the good liars.

We need an upgrade on 'Yam' I think. He seems to have totally dispelled with the bronzer in recent months and now looks more like, I dunno, a soggy baozi?

'Telly-telly' is mine now.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, February 16, 2018 10:36 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

presumably he wanted to watch Kojak

Well, if you publicly air an affair with Trump, you're obviously a liar and will be branded as such

it seems like team trump hasn't even pushed back particularly hard on this - the feeling seems to be more 'yeah you know as well as we do that committed infidelity, who gives a shit'

wonder if they'll constantly ask Melania why she's sticking with Donald the same way they did to Hillary

when was the last time melania was interviewed tho

Would love for her to do a prime time interview. In Slovenian.

god I know this gets lost in the nonstop circus that has been the last two years but Melania Trump going on TV and claiming that her signature First Lady initiative would be "cyberbullying" is just the most amazing thing

if you publicly air an affair with Trump, you're obviously a liar

Bizarro is right. There are actually three responses, and all of them work out just fine for Trump.

1. Who cares? We don't need the president to be a national pastor or moral exemplar, we need a fighter with cojones who will Get Shit Done.

2. Whataboutism. Where was this outrage back when Bill Clinton told Juanita Broaddrick to "put some ice on that" or stained the sacred Blue Dress?

3. Deniability. Well, he denies it, and what is this anyway - a witch hunt? Where is the due process? We're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Guilt by accusation is the new McCarthyism blah blah blah; lives and careers are being destroyed over a mere allegation.

Again, he's covered no matter which path one chooses. I'm not saying it's a bad story to keep in the public eye, I just don't see it damaging Trump significantly.

alphas gonna alpha folks, what are u gonna do

the only way i could see this maybe damaging trump even a little is if it turned out that he's actually totally asexual and has been paying women to pretend they've slept with him

it's not going to matter one whit unless it was revealed he was fucking kids. and even then...

xpost lol, otm. Any scandal with the potential to compromise his support will have to be something that his base finds repulsive or pathetic rather than something they themselves would love to get in on.

Which is why I don't understand why people aren't consistently trying to get more mileage out of old clips of Trump saying complimentary things about various Dems. Inexcusable!

"i do not condone the President fucking little kids and obviously it's an unhelpful distraction when we're trying to accomplish so much for the American people"

-House Speaker Paul Ryan

when your guiding philosophy is "let the big dogs eat" sexual assault, wanton infidelity and even shooting sprees are not really off-message

lol guys his approval rating is steadily going up, this is gonna do nothing just like everything else

I mean the guy raped and beat his wife because he got bad hair implants, do you seriously think something's gonna come out that's worse than that

god I know this gets lost in the nonstop circus that has been the last two years but Melania Trump going on TV and claiming that her signature First Lady initiative would be "cyberbullying" is just the most amazing thing

lol i'd forgotten about this - still can't work out whether it's an exquisitely-barbed swing at her husband or just catastrophic obliviousness

either way she doesn't seem to have done much to advance the cause

i suspect she's never once actually given a second thought to cyber-bullying and instead it was simply a WH-concocted troll

sounds like a something straight from the brain of that rascal Stephen Miller

Given the 'fox not even pretending to guard the henhouse that he actually overtly intends to treat like an all-you-can-eat buffet' nature of this administration, I can only imagine that Melania has years if not decades of hardcore cyberbullying under her belt.

careful, melania successfully sued the daily mail for suggesting she was involved in hardcore stuff below the belt

SCOOP: Rod Rosenstein will announce multiple indictments during his press conference this afternoon, I'm told by two sources at the DOJ

— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) February 16, 2018

beat ya to it Ned

anyway I'm hopin for Don Jr. but it's probably gonna be Hillary

What a bunch of sad sacks you all are today

Whaddaya wanna bet that NYer piece winds up putting David Pecker on Mueller’s interview docket

beat ya to it Ned

Punk.

A little more about that.

BREAKING: 13 Russians, 3 Russian entities indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe https://t.co/FUVWUZgECX

— CNBC (@CNBC) February 16, 2018

The Russian defendants are being charged with crimes for alleged activities intended to help Trump and hurt Clinton, including creating fake social media personas and organizing rallies in the U.S.: pic.twitter.com/GAiP2U30vS

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 16, 2018

lmao

Kaverzina! What a Chatty Cathy. https://t.co/6nwK0ix8Wf pic.twitter.com/jna2UDouHR

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 16, 2018

The prosecutors allege the Russians even wired money to an American to cover the cost of building "a cage large enough to hold an actress depicting Clinton in a prison uniform." pic.twitter.com/soowFD78Lw

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 16, 2018