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

nothing is true, everything is permitted - hillary clinton

I can already see the fight in 2018 being between "investigate and prosecute Trump's circle for the real crimes they have committed" and centrist "OMG you can't threaten to jail your political opponents, are we no better than they are", an argument which the latter side will win and then proceed to lose elections with

― frogbs

i'd agree that the fight is going to happen, but assuming an outcome is not really warranted. yeah, that's the way it turned out in 1974, that's the way it turned out in 2008. both of which are a pretty good argument for not letting it turn out that way this time. i'm a disgruntled centrist - i think compromise is good and desirable and the best possible basis for government. i'm also persuaded it's impossible right now. the natural tendency of elected representatives to forgive and compromise has been, and is likely to continue to be, checked by the refusal of the people who elected them to allow it.

lmao

.@morningmika just now 👀👀

"I know someone who spoke to Donald Trump recently about life in the White House and @realDonaldTrump biggest complaint was that he's not allowed to watch porn in the White House." pic.twitter.com/6jcs8TAkJc

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 7, 2018

Pruitt out?

who's stopping trump watching porn? does john kelly have him in a chastity belt or something?

LET POTUS MASTURBATE AGAIN #lpga

xp

I knew the '70s were back but man, even acid-washed emails

Appears Pruitt has resigned.

Really worth reading: WaPo got audio of Trump's closed-door FEMA "hurricane briefing," in which Trump just rambled about midterm polls, the economy, Foxconn, coal, the popularity of his cabinet, Air Force One, and aircraft technology, among other things. https://t.co/8tsaYtRULJ

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 7, 2018

where are you guys seeing this Pruitt news?

kinda would've preferred he stayed in tbh, his replacement isn't going to be any better and a distracted/embattled evil EPA head probably preferable to one who isn't. but idk maybe chaos at the dept is the best we can hope for.

at least the Senate won't confirm whatever shitbag replacement Trump nominates

'fuckin magnets, how do they work', exclaims brain-worm-riddled president

He then complained that the military was too frequently buying new and in his view, unnecessary, equipment — citing aircraft technology as an example.

“Part of it is, they want to have all new. Instead of having the system that throws the aircraft off the [ship], which was always steam,” he said. “They now have magnets. They’re using magnets instead of steam. . . . They spent hundreds of millions of dollars, I’m hearing not great things about it. It’s frankly ridiculous.”

man that mariah parker photo is awesome btw

xp

Love to hear the most incurious man alive deliver his autogenerated explanations of how things in the world function.

not seeing that Pruitt news anywhere. Where is anyone saying that?

instead of magnets why doesn't he talk about the f35, which doesn't fuckin work

It seems that the Japanese PM has quoted the wrong Trump tweet. pic.twitter.com/pAKlbf3wDb

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 2018

nah shinzo abe is famously consumed by hatred of arizona senator jeff flake

jeff flake (flake(FLAKE))

guys there's a new poll!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/poll-economic-satisfaction-under-trump-isn-t-helping-his-party-n880721

now let us all completely readjust our expectations since the last poll

Look, just tell me what to think, huh? Is that so much to ask?

Ah yes.

BREAKING: Trump on June 12 North Korea summit: “I don’t think I have to prepare that much. It’s about attitude.” per @justinsink

— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) June 7, 2018

Can we agree as a nation to not retaliate when another world leader inevitably beats him into a coma?

How in the world is Scott Pruitt only 50? He's well on his way to looking like Jeff Sessions; looks like a sphincter, if a sphincter could smirk.

Is that a trick question? Because he is a sphincter.

What?

(Trying to work a Wayne's World reference in there if it wasn't clear.)

So exacting!

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had his staff drive him to multiple Ritz-Carlton hotels in search if a particular lotion they sell, according to people familiar with his security detail. By @JDawsey1 @Eilperin @Brady_Dennis https://t.co/iNjvKJefBC

— Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth) June 7, 2018

Gee, wonder what Pruitt does with all that hotel lotion.

What do the simple folk do?

beautiful lotion lives ruined

welp

Pirro interviewed to be the DAG. Sessions resisted. When he resisted, Trump advisors told him if he didn't give her a hearing, Trump might end up giving her SCOTUS https://t.co/wI8My3hMiY

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 7, 2018

lol that news oughta keep Kennedy from retiring lol

Nobody tell him he can just expand the SC if he gets Congressional approval (if I have that right?)

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had his staff drive him to multiple Ritz-Carlton hotels in search if a particular lotion they sell, according to people familiar with his security detail.

I don't care what he does so long as this administration keeps stickin it to the elites!

that lady is an insane person! i just can't anymore

Gee, wonder what Pruitt does with all that hotel lotion.

― This Bobo Isn't Going to Honk Itself (Old Lunch),

it rubs the lotion on its skin

I’m just here for when it breaks that Pruitt had someone shopping for an old coin-operated magic fingers bedframe and a ceiling mirror

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 7, 2018

Nobody tell him he can just expand the SC if he gets Congressional approval (if I have that right?)

worked well for FDR

I'm sure rising suicide rates are fine and not for any particular reason

my off-the-cuff guess would be: increase in the availability of opioids + guns

Judiciary Act of 1789 called for six, but it waxed and waned until the Grand administration.

Trying to look at the bright side of this dark dark Pirro shit and hoping maybe that people will wake the fuck up someday soon and stop granting any legitimacy to sucking voids who are famous for simply being on the teevee. Preferably before The Situation is sworn in as Secretary of State.

(Who am I kidding, they won't and this country/world is uberfucked.)

and when do you expect this little scenario to happen?

wouldn't be worse than some people in the cabinet

I think climate change is more complex than global warming will make it hotter. It has to do with disruptions of atmospheric conditions,ocean patterns, jet streams and shit like that

— Vinny Guadagnino (@VINNYGUADAGNINO) December 29, 2017

Per my last tweet about global warming and ppl saying it’s bad when someone from “jersey shore” educates the president etc.I get the joke but why does having a summer shore house automatically make u stupid?No smart ppl ever partied with friends on weekends?

— Vinny Guadagnino (@VINNYGUADAGNINO) December 29, 2017

The Situation seems like a really nice and down to earth guy lately I'd take him over whoever is in there now tbh xxp

(I know that's Vinny, just couldn't resist)