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

This is from a real estate investment banker. When the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. report on Trump's base, they should go talk to people like this, who are by far the most powerful part of it. pic.twitter.com/KaWYRm2Ghi

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) June 14, 2018

The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in 8,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, 9,200,000. I won’t settle this case!...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2018

this doesn't seem suspicious to me

Seems easily checked

no settlement eh? let's get that deposition scheduled then.

the thought process must sadly go back to the Witch Hunt

...because I can't stop thinking about it, cause I'm scared shitless.

why must we keep talking about this thing that I keep talking about??

'the' thought process
synecdoche?

yeah seems like the singuuar being viewed as the general by the single minded person supposedly possessing the definite article.

but surely, No thought no process? or no process to the though anyway.

Looks like the IG report coming out today will not be the bombshell Trump was hoping it would be.

that oughtta shut him up for a while

Trump is going to treat it like a huge bombshell that validates everything he's ever said

what's actually in it is irrelevant

"slapstick corruption" is the single best phrase I have ever read to describe this administration

This is just such slapstick corruption from the Trump Foundation pic.twitter.com/aY8l1E2AJF

— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 14, 2018

The media is focusing on the leaked anti-Trump texts aspect of the report.

These are stunning texts for FBI officials to have written.

Lisa Page: “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”

Peter Strzok: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” https://t.co/AbfxwPeeow

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 14, 2018

not good

lmao good luck usa

there you go

yep. trump will never ever shut up about those texts until the day he dies, and neither will his base. it's going to be nauseating.

yup.

but her texts

the worst part is we won't even get the satisfaction of the destruction of the FBI out of this

It’s a repetition of how the election itself was covered for sure.

We've seen those texts already.

Yup.

Justice Dept finds no evidence of political bias by Strzok, Page: report https://t.co/z6nYPKr5oJ pic.twitter.com/QO5ZuVwpIG

— The Hill (@thehill) June 14, 2018

It doesn’t matter apparently

We've seen those texts already.

not the "we'll stop him" exchange. that's newly disclosed.

How will this be any different from other awful Trump tweet storms besides Tapper's high moral dudgeon?

cue the conversation about how none of this matters, they would have found something in the IG report to hone in on and complain about until the end of the days. all of that's true. just saying, we are never going to hear the end of "we'll stop him"

jake tapper and maggie haberman both ran with those texts as the big takeaway before the rest of the report was out in the open

Hahah HERE'S the news, if you ask me.

IG found that on numerous occasions, COMEY used a personal GMail account to conduct official FBI business, according to source briefed on the report.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 14, 2018

not that it was ever REALLY in doubt but i think its pretty clear that trump will not be impeached at this point

or like found guilty of anything

i'll be plenty happy with no second term at this point

It’s not just that we live in a simulation, it’s that we live in a simulation of Hillary Clinton’s personal idea of hell https://t.co/PsFI5BG5d1

— David Klion 🔥 (@DavidKlion) June 14, 2018

Err fun with formatting there

People routinely pretend that there haven’t already been indictments and guilty pleas in the investigation already.

Isn't no punishment of the most corrupt incumbency ever likely to lead to repetition though?
JUst hoping that there is some honesty in the near future and it's more than simply a brak in the new normal.

JUst hoping that there is some honesty in the near future and it's more than simply a brak in the new normal.

Do I know what about the USA? My Dad lived there for about 30 years.

did things get more or less normal during those 30 years

i don't even know wtf i'm talking about, disregard

how do you really stop a tyrant i wish we knowed

the pittsburgh post-gazette has fired its political cartoonist of 25 years, pretty obviously because of his anti-trump cartoons

We've undoubtedly reached the point where we can confidently refer to this as "situation normal", so all good, right?

Comey personal gmail news is some beyond ironic bullshit

Aaron Mate at the Nation argues it still ain't collusion yet.

https://www.thenation.com/article/mueller-indictments-still-dont-add-collusion/

Anyway, here's the report

https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download

Hmmm

Source briefed on the IG report says issue of alleged leaks to Rudy about Clinton investigation info isn't limited to what's in this report. More info to come on that later.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 14, 2018

My automatic response to what I'm sure will be thousands of smug invocations of 'we'll stop him' would be something like 'well, did they?'

Did they? Have they? Have they even slowed him? Has anyone hindered him more than he's hindered himself?

Aaron Mate piece is predictably awful, he’s been aggressively downplaying and moving goalposts throughout this whole thing though for whatever reason.