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

I really feel like most of the people working for this administration who aren't ignorant grifters like Pruitt or Zinke or Carson are striving to hold down blood puke most of the time. But it can be hard to differentiate sycophants from believers in this town.

I just don't understand how, if it's/he's as bad as it seems, more ambivalent/ambiguous/seemingly not insanely ideologue folks like Rex and McMaster and Cohn and other exes haven't been more outspoken. They're so fucking coy and elliptical. It would help to have someone (other than Omarosa) come out of this fucking mess and confirm that yes, we are not going nuts, it's a total shitshow, and here are some specific examples.

I doubt that one of these people coming out will do more than simply confirming our suspicions.

Heck, these are not even suspicions anymore. We know what we are dealing with.

i'm not really sure how what you propose would help or what it would accomplish. there's plenty of evidence already out there that the administration is a total shitshow, with specific examples. this hasn't done a great deal to keep me from going nuts, truth be told.

kind of a wild example right here

very normal habit picked up in the process of doing normal legal things https://t.co/RlCNCfowUj

— Official Centrism (@pareene) June 10, 2018

Those fucking embroidered '45's on his cuffs...

he is 6

or 8. he's 6 to 8 years old.

also, don't mean to trash talk one of the victims here but you're a real piece of shit reginald young jr

One of his colleagues, Reginald Young Jr., who worked as a senior records management analyst, said that during over two decades of government service, he had never been asked to do such a thing.

“We had to endure this under the Trump administration,” Young said. “I’m looking at my director, and saying, ‘Are you guys serious?’ We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”

ok, this is a little long but can we make entire excerpt the july thread title

Lartey said the papers he received included newspaper clips on which Trump had scribbled notes, or circled words; invitations; and letters from constituents or lawmakers on the Hill, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

“I had a letter from Schumer — he tore it up,” he said. “It was the craziest thing ever. He ripped papers into tiny pieces.”

Lartey did not work alone. He said his entire department was dedicated to the task of taping paper back together in the opening months of the Trump administration.

This to me reeks of the habit of a man very used to hiding his tracks.

Had a very dark thought today that our boi trump is assigned to devalue the US currency enough that Russia can swoop in and buy the eastern seaboard up with cash but that would be crazy right

:)

lmao

As an eastern property owner I welcome our new Russian overlords

A Canadian perspective on Trump's tantrum

i'm gonna arm myself like one of those Red Dawn kids

so deNiro said "f Trump" twice on the Tonys last night. Odds that there will be a response tweet?

inevitable

lmao Trump wants out of Singapore as soon as possible

this whole thing is just gonna be a dumb photo op isn't it

it depends what the "touch and feel" tell him

pros: it's a business-friendly police state
cons: full of foreigners

The root of Trump's tendency toward isolationism is that every country is weirdly full of foreigners. Where are all the Americans, Singapore? Sad!

what the fucking fuck at everything in that article

Lartey, 54, and Young, 48, were career government officials who worked together in records management until this spring, when both were abruptly terminated from their jobs. Both are now unemployed and still full of questions about why they were stripped of their badges with no explanation and marched off of the White House grounds by Secret Service.

Irene Porada, the head of human resources who personally terminated both men, did not respond to an email requesting comment. A White House spokesman also did not respond to a request for comment about the terminations.

Celebrating birthday, a bit early. pic.twitter.com/laVLNs7J2j

— Vivian Balakrishnan (@VivianBala) June 11, 2018

lmao they're literally throwing him a birthday party to keep him happy

nothing but respect for my president piss baby

Don't Russia and China also have huge stockpiles of gold (xpost to that devaluing the USD).

the biggest country that can tank the USD imo is the Saudis. they've been propping it up using it as the currency for oil deals since the 70s. also assume china could fuck us hard if they stop buying our bonds. (almost typo'd to 'bongs')

please god rudy just do as he asks i'm begging you

Mr. Giuliani: my client deserves an apology for your sexist, disgusting, comments about her and women in general. I strongly suggest you provide one. Are you really taking the position that you have not viewed porn in the last year? Ever hear of something called an IP address?...

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) June 11, 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/10/a-fox-news-host-has-accidentally-referred-to-the-highly-anticipated-summit-between-president-donald-trump-and-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-as-a-meeting-of-two-dictators

Another Huntsman briefly inspires hope and then immediately dashes it.

I will be first in line to purchase Avenatti's book, Baiting Deadfalls for Dummies (To Fall Into) (Over and Over Again).

BREAKING: Trump administration will stop granting asylum to victims of domestic abuse and gang violence. Tens of thousands impacted. Story coming shortly.

— Evan Halper (@evanhalper) June 11, 2018

Instead of asylum they'll be given guns and sent back home to take care of business.

^ awesome action movie premise, tbf

kind of lol but mostly i wanna die now

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free and tell them to f-off I'm going golfing.”

Hope this is just the start of sudden heart attacks in this administration

The fact that I am having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S., say the haters & losers. We have our hostages, testing, research and all missle launches have stoped, and these pundits, who have called me wrong from the beginning, have nothing else they can say! We will be fine!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2018

Who is saying having the meeting is a major loss? WTF does that even mean!?

'stoped'?

Larry Kudlow had a heart attack.

all missle launches have stoped

things we have

• hostages
• testing
• research and all missle launches have stoped

all missle launches have stoped! just look in the tunk.

https://cartoonessays.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/ralph-for-prez.jpg?w=660

https://m0vie.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/xfiles-kitsunegari1.jpg

Next?

We will be fine! is the secret crown jewel of that tweet

weird handshake. also kind of odd that trump appeared to say so much to kim during the handshake, since it seems very unclear that he speaks fluent english?

best variant of this joke I've seen

tbh im not hopeful that the warlike backwater shithole country will denuke but maybe kim jong un can talk some sense into trump

— chunky are law (@See_Em_Play) June 12, 2018

weird handshake. also kind of odd that trump appeared to say so much to kim during the handshake, since it seems very unclear that he speaks fluent english?

Maybe he was briefed in advance that if he tried his muscleman squeeze on Kim, a North Korean goon would leap out and chop Trump's hand off at the wrist? And I don't think he ever considers whether the person he's talking to understands English or not.

it seems very unclear that he speaks fluent english?

yeah but kim prob has enough for both of them

Didn't Kim go to college in the UK?