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

the manbaby likes him, is why

I like that ingraham quote about *pruitt's* judgment making trump look bad, as if president piss baby has no ability to get rid of him at any time

manbaby would never exercise such poor judgment

White House counsel McGahn recused his office from Mueller probe https://t.co/F9bGOZj4Ei

— Laura Walker 🍸🦈 (@LauraWalkerKC) June 13, 2018

White House Counsel Don McGahn recused his entire staff last summer from working on the Russia investigation because many of his office’s lawyers played significant roles in key episodes at the center of the probe, former White House attorney Ty Cobb said on Wednesday.

McGahn made the decision to halt his staff’s interactions with Special Counsel Robert Mueller because many of his own attorneys “had been significant participants” surrounding the firings of national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James Comey, Cobb said.

What does that mean though and why is Cobb even talking about it?

He doesn't work there any more, he can say whatever.

This happened last year though right? I'm just not sure what the significance of this is.

yeah why is something that happened a year ago being referenced now

huh

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/392117-sherrod-brown-tops-gop-challenger-by-17-points-in-ohio-senate-poll

Another similarity between the Trump White House and media companies https://t.co/cQSmcgV6g3

— David Uberti (@DavidUberti) June 13, 2018

I'm amazed Pruitt had lasted this long

Leaving him in place is just another form of trolling libs / collecting libtears. The line on Pruitt is that even if his spending on perks may LOOK a trifle lavish, he's saving America much more money than that by cutting excessive, job-killing regulations.

Also whatabout whatabout whatabout. Blah blah thousand-dollar toilet blah blah $500 hammer blah blah welfare queens

Mari Stull, a former food and beverage lobbyist-turned-wine blogger under the name “Vino Vixen,” has reviewed the social media pages of State Department staffers for signs of ideological deviation. She has researched the names of government officials to determine whether they signed off on Obama-era policies — though signing off does not mean officials personally endorsed them but merely cleared them through the bureaucratic chain. And she has inquired about Americans employed by international agencies, including the World Health Organization and the United Nations, asking their colleagues when they were hired and by whom, according the officials.

“She is actively making lists and gathering intel,” said one of the sources, a senior diplomat. Stull was named in April as a senior advisor to the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs, which manages U.S. diplomatic relations with the United Nations and other international institutions.

Her probing, along with a highly secretive management style, has become so uncomfortable that at least three senior officials are poised to leave the bureau, according to the sources. Officials there have warned some Americans employed by the U.N. to sidestep traditional meet-and-greet sessions with the department’s upper management to avoid drawing attention to themselves.

“She is gunning for American citizens in the U.N. to see if they are toeing the line,” the diplomatic source added.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/13/trumps-vino-vixen-compiles-loyalty-list-of-u-s-employees-at-u-n-state-mari-stull-political-appointee-state-department-international-organization-united-nations-political-retribution-chaos-dysfunction/

lmao

Trump claims, preposterously, that parents of Korean War veterans came up to him during the 2016 campaign and said, "when you can, we'd love our son to be brought back home -- you know, the remains."

The Korean War ended in 1953. pic.twitter.com/f4HEHZ22YM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 13, 2018

Whomp whomp.

BREAKING NEWS: Sarah Sanders and Raj Shah are preparing to leave the White House - CBS News, citing sources

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 14, 2018

xp lol TRUMP: OTHER PEOPLE HAVE DONE SOME REALLY BAD THINGS

FOX NEWS ALERT

Just doing the arithmetic for the exquisite fun of it - let's say an 18 year old was killed in Korea in 1953, thus born in 1935, to, say, 18 year old parents born in 1917, who would now be 101 years old. I'm impressed they realised that Trump was the man to bring the 65 year old remains back, and even more impressed that the North Koreans have taken care of the remains for that long.

don't worry right wing, i've got you covered - korean war never really "ended", and there were two american soldiers killed on the DMZ in the 80s in firefights with north korea, trump could have talked to the parents of one of those guys, trump talks to many people, many people have said he is the smartest and never lies to us

lol my dad (87) was fresh outta school and serving not in theater in 52, so i’m... “holy crap even trump has to know the math, because he wouldnt even _need_ fuckin math” but as usual, NOPE.

Shuckabee disputing the report, might be one of those planted stories

Says she's thinking about the end of the year, so plenty of time to mysteriously change her mind.

Also worth noting

White House source will not confirm the CBS news report, but is willing to throw Mercedes under the bus.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 14, 2018

Mmm...cult? Nah.

Complacency is our enemy. Anyone that does not embrace the @realDonaldTrump agenda of making America great again will be making a mistake.

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) June 14, 2018

Starting to get some handout photos from our tour with @HHSGov.

Here’s the Trump mural I mentioned to @chrislhayes inside the shelter for incarcerated child migrants.

Also their beds and the towels they shower with. pic.twitter.com/EPEQ1VGAAF

— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) June 14, 2018

Holy shiiiit

Well, I can officially say I've never wished harder for our president to peacefully pass away in his sleep tonight. Or just right now, if he doesn't feel like waiting that long to bow out.

That chairwoman tweet gettin a hell of a ratio

Our govt has been doing this to kids for years, cept we lock em up in malaria-riddled 3rd world tent cities and leave them there for 10years :(

someone tell turnbull to mention this to Trump, it'll seriously improve relations

Trumble, please.

lol i had forgotten about Trumble!

Okay this is hilarious.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/13/white-house-hill-job-fair-645592

It'll eventually just be Trump and Stephen Miller, Big & Little Edie-ing it in a crumbling White House full of raccoons.

lmao

fuck these clowns

the quote in that mural is from THE ART OF THE DEAL.

worth noting that apparently there are murals of other presidents around the facility; their images are paired with pro immigration quotes

time for this motherfucker and his faithful pull a jim jones/ peeps temple

this probably isn't the place for this, there probably isn't a place for this, but i woke up at 2 am thinkin bout things and wrote this blog post. it's probably bullshit but all writing on politics is these days, isn't it?

http://shoutinginabucket.blogspot.com/2018/06/democracy-has-failed.html

#BREAKING Major military exercises 'suspended indefinitely' on Korean peninsula: US official pic.twitter.com/37FtPqrxH8

— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 14, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/us/nicholas-bukoski-sanders-kamala-threat.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

The defendant said he did not have access to a firearm because his “parents won’t purchase a firearm based on his history and the strict gun laws in Maryland,” and said that he “probably won’t be able to get one,” the memo said.

whoa. weird. really weird. what the hell

The kind of pathetic that quickly shifts into horrible.

“I don’t want to kill people unless I absolutely need to,” the defendant reportedly said.

“My heart is messed up and evil, and part of me wants to see people suffer, goddammit,” it read. “Anyway, good luck and Godspeed finding my presents. This will be my only message.”

jfc

“I am intending to send the message that gun control, bomb control, or any other kind of weapons control will not stop attacks, it is an issue of the heart.”

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The defendant said he did not have access to a firearm because his “parents won’t purchase a firearm based on his history and the strict gun laws in Maryland,” and said that he “probably won’t be able to get one,” the memo said.

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Hmmmm

The final bit about how he was arrested for robbery at knifepoint earlier this year already tells me this guy has general problems.

*Stringer Bell voice* https://t.co/SDjRc6a5s5 pic.twitter.com/qe85bts7Qq

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 14, 2018

At what point does 4chan get considered as a radicalizing terrorist cell?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-files-suit-against-president-trump-alleging-his-charity-engaged-in-illegal-conduct/2018/06/14/c3cbf71e-6fc9-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html?utm_term=.e6f7d9711f7a

How will his base spin this pose?

Even Kim Jong-Un looks like he’s thinking ‘Um, are you supposed to be doing that’ pic.twitter.com/DPwqt8Moe5

— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) June 14, 2018

pic.twitter.com/FZu7ZTEIiO

— whataboutism advocate (@NormsRespecter) June 14, 2018

lmao

"In addition, in 2012, a Trump golf club agreed to pay $158,000 to settle a lawsuit with a man who was denied a $1 million hole-in-one prize during a tournament at the club. The Trump Foundation paid the money instead of the club, Underwood said."