US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

As was said on Twitter, surely he's the chief negotiator.

Report: Dennis Rodman is going to Singapore for the summit https://t.co/dSOO0x9liV

— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) June 5, 2018

Donald Trump forgetting the words to "God Bless America" during the 7-minute "America Hour" that he had to schedule because an entire football team snubbed him seems like a scene that's going to be played in many future documentaries about the fall of the USA

looks like this is gonna happen
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/05/filemon-vela-vicente-gonzalez-democrats-daca-discharge-624869

xp It's cheap irony, good for a momentary amusement. Now, if he'd forgotten to wear his American flag lapel pin, I'm sure conservatives everywhere would be blasting him for his lack of patriotism, but this is entirely different.

lmao "America hour" at the White House lasted all of 7 minutes

apparently there's a new round of deficit hype going on

as a general rule if you hear someone talking about politics and, within 5 mins, it’s not clear what their ideology is they’re selling you one or all of 3 things, all of which are things only billionaires want:

—gutting social security
—gutting Medicare
—charter schools

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 5, 2018

From four years back, of course.

Dennis Rodman was either drunk or on drugs (delusional) when he said I wanted to go to North Korea with him. Glad I fired him on Apprentice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2014

lmao everything that's going to happen from now until the end of his presidency is buried somewhere in his tweets from 2010 to 2014

That McCain mocker from a few weeks back has been 86d

Kelly Sadler is out https://t.co/Aeq4a2XERK

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 5, 2018

The sad, beautiful young lives lost because of the partisan WITCH HU... oh, wait

Keith Ellison leaving Congress to run for MN attorney general, WTF?

Stepping stone to presidential run

If you're a D attorney general right now, elected or otherwise, you can get a lot of positive attention by suing the present presidential administration. Bob Ferguson in WA has sued the admin like 17 times already.

Ilhan Omar, who I loooove, running for MN5.

About right

Bewildered White House Press Watches Dueling Huckabee Sanderses Each Claim She The Only One Telling Truth https://t.co/lOYFUpVlNJ pic.twitter.com/QTIFndoO9e

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 5, 2018

Meanwhile, one of the funniest things out there is Jonah Goldberg and Seb Gorka endlessly insulting each other on Twitter for months now.

Seems about right

pic.twitter.com/JjaCcdiAXl

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 6, 2018

tucker really has that facial expression down pat

This is the best thing all year coming from a Sarah Sanders Press Conference.

A WH reporter for Playboy, @BrianKarem yells out "What color is the sky in the President's world?"

This guy deserves a raise!! pic.twitter.com/TLdWRAAGL6

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) June 5, 2018

Real troll would have asked the question outright instead of shouting it as she walked away but sure

In summary:

pic.twitter.com/ZPQ3K2mNM2

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) June 6, 2018

should've voted for Jill Stein:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has canceled the Senate’s normal month-long August recess, with a promise to push through the confirmations of more of President Trump’s nominees.

“Due to the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats of the president’s nominees, and the goal of passing appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled. Senators should expect to remain in session in August to pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president’s nominees,” McConnell said in a statement.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/mcconnell-cancels-august-senate-recess-to-push-through-more-trump-appointees

and a move to make it difficult for democrats to campaign in their districts for the midterms

*states

Well, for anyone.

this slate watergate podcast is pretty darn good, thanks for the link.

Well I...wait.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/state-department-heather-nauert-germany-israel/index.html

such a fine line between love and hate

I don't get the good mourning joke ;_;

Such skills

Trump wants Kim to commit to a nuclear disarmament timetable in next week's Singapore meeting, and might offer a follow-up session for Mar-a-Lago in the fall https://t.co/uReAfYBBis

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) June 6, 2018

Spokesperson Heather Nauert responds to the press. Can I just? Uh. Jeez. I'm sorry. I can't. I just can't. No. Really. I'm OK. Just leave me alone for a minute. I'll be alright.

yeah, obviously staffers then and now have and will always call such things a witch hunt, what I'm specifically interested in is the level to which a large swath of the general public also agreed

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine)

i know you've mentioned woodward and bernstein, but "the final days" is a generally underread book and reading it gives one a highly distinct sense of deja vu, i have found

...Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting. They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever. Fake News is really bad!

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

yea she's definitely dead

"merrily along" lol

i've never merrily walked to a meeting in my life, what's her secret

(apart from being a ghost)

Bourbon and Ambient.

wild turkey and the future sound of london

Bourbon and Ambient

Alfred just described the only "a box of ____ shipped to you every month" service I would actually subscribe to

melania was also at an event that they denied the press access to, so if you want to get your story out there, maybe make some changes you dumb fuck

love that the dude who pushed birtherism for years is now mad that people are coming up with conspiracy theories about his wife which he could easily debunk but chooses not to

Kansas is a sick place.

speaking of dumb fucks, james comey everyone

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-watchdog-finds-comey-defied-authority-fbi-director/story?id=55670834

The draft of Horowitz's wide-ranging report specifically called out Comey for ignoring objections from the Justice Department when he disclosed in a letter to Congress just days before the 2016 presidential election that FBI agents had reopened the Clinton probe, according to sources. Clinton has said that letter doomed her campaign.

Horowitz's draft report cited Comey for failing to consult with Lynch and other senior Justice Department officials before making his announcement on national TV. While saying there was no "clear evidence" that Clinton "intended to violate" the law, Comey insisted the former secretary of state was "extremely careless" in her "handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

"I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say," Comey said before cameras on July 5, 2016.

also discussed is dumb fuck bill clinton putting lynch on a box on this issue because of their tarmac meeting

Problems, problems.

BREAkING: new Guardian exclusive. Cambridge Analytica director 'met Assange to discuss US election & channeled cryptocurrency to Wikileaks’https://t.co/c24KXw3eFA

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) June 6, 2018

are we all too down in our nihilistic wormholes to discuss the primary results last night cuz Dem turnout shows no signs of abating, and Districts' across the country continue to flip/become competitive

speaking of dumb fucks, james comey everyone

but he's so honorable!

and tall!

Comey is a shitbag narcissist, game recognize game

are we all too down in our nihilistic wormholes to discuss the primary results last night cuz Dem turnout shows no signs of abating, and Districts' across the country continue to flip/become competitive

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:42 AM

I was going to post in the Democratic Party thread.

his guiding motivation has always been to develop/project/maintain his image as UPSTANDING G-MAN NUMBER ONE, and that's it.

xp

his reverence for david brooks informs his sophomoric political instincts that back up his bs g-man front