US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

xpost She's great, she was just barking up the wrong tree at first.

I admit I think very often about how bragging on live television about committing tax fraud apparently makes you immune from prosecution in the US.

Whomp whomp

I’ve personally apologized to @MichaelCohen212 4 referencing his private family in the public square. Regardless of disagreements, family members should be off-limits from attacks from representatives, senators & presidents, including myself. Let’s leave the Cohen family alone.

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) February 28, 2019

“let’s get off mothers...”

stocking up popcorn for this guy’s disbarment. handsome!

in the same way I want Bezos to prevail against blackmailers but otherwise have every penny taken & dispersed to social programs by antitrust investigators, I hope Cohen does not accept this apology at all, let alone if that will affect potential proceedings against Gaetz

"Matt is acting according to his competence"

I’ve personally apologized to @MichaelCohen212 4 referencing his private family in the public square. Regardless of disagreements, family members should be off-limits from attacks from representatives, senators & presidents, including myself. Let’s leave the Cohen family alone.
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) February 28, 2019

you can feel the flop sweat.

Something really significant just happened in Vietnam. The Trump-Kim lunch and signing ceremony appear to have been abruptly cancelled. https://t.co/rgQwoJIMqo

— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) February 28, 2019

no details posted

so joint signing ceremony and bilateral lunch appear canceled. "WH press pool has been loaded into vans in Potus motorcade awaiting departure from Metropole."

press conference in 25 mins

Significant change of plans here in Hanoi — Sarah Sanders just told the pool that negotiations are ongoing but will wrap up soon. The president’s press conference, scheduled for 4 p.m., will now be at 2 p.m. (It appears unlikely there will be a signing ceremony as scheduled.)

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 28, 2019

The White House isn’t offering details right now. Only saying POTUS will explain at the presser.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 28, 2019

is there really going to be a new conference at 11 pm pacific time?

*news

it's a good thing that our president is such a perfect human specimen with boundless stamina that he doesn't suffer any of the effects of jet lag.

Well there was supposed to be one at 1am Pacific xp

I've decided I don't really care, going to bed

Seriously, fuck NK and Trump, they should get an island together and pre-tape pay per view specials for their fans.

“sometimes you have to walk”

hahahahahahahahaha you suck

And sometimes you have to perp walk. Soon, I hope!

this fuckin' guy

“We spent all day with Kim Jong-un,” Trump said. “He’s quite a guy and quite a character. And our relationship is very strong.”

He even defended Kim over the death of US student Otto Warmbier, who had been sent back home from North Korea seriously ill in June 2017.

“He says he didn’t know about it and I will take him at his word,” Trump said, adding that North Korea was a big country and: “Those prisons are rough. They’re rough places and bad things happen.”

good morning!

HANOI, Vietnam — President Trump and Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, abruptly ended their second summit meeting on Thursday after talks collapsed with the two leaders failing to agree on any steps toward nuclear disarmament or measures to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

“Sometimes you have to walk,” Mr. Trump said at an afternoon news conference in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

and sometimes you have to walk because your former fixer who you paid to pay off people you slept with and threaten around 500 people on your behalf is telling everybody what a conman you are so you have to go back to the right time zone so you can watch your best friends on the television at a more convenient hour because they have the best ideas

Here's to hoping his walk is similar to the one taken by Dern at the end of Coming Home.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0a/Walk_%28song%29.jpg/220px-Walk_%28song%29.jpg

and pre-tape pay per view specials for their fans.

I misread this initially

Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2018

hahaha

part of me believes that Trump cut the summit short because he wants to go home and watch FOX News in light of the Cohen thing

I guess that's OK as long as we didn't declare war? Honestly this comes as somewhat of a relief

oh yeah that was definitly a part of it xp

Before ending the news conference to fly back to Washington, Mr. Trump tried to put a good face on the outcome. “This wasn’t a walkaway like you get up and walk out,” he said. “No, this was very friendly. We shook hands.”

Is it just me or is that the most sedate tweet we've ever gotten from President Babywave?

Heard some NPR talking heads the other day basically emphasize that a trade deal with China is absolutely essential for this idiot, since he didn't (really) get a fucking wall and NK has now fallen through and Venezuela (which he is only interested in for the most craven of reasons) is unlikely to end well.

Meanwhile, did I see that Pakistan shot down two Indian fighter planes? That seems like just the sort of international crisis Trump should really be pulled into.

President Trump called @mattgaetz last night from Hanoi to talk the Cohen testimony and the threats (since rescinded) Gaetz made about Cohen.
"I was happy to do it for you. You just keep killing it," Gaetz was heard telling him.
(Gaetz told me he doesn't discuss calls w/POTUS)

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 28, 2019

and pre-tape pay per view specials for their fans.

I misread this initially

― silverfish, Thursday, February 28, 2019 8:38 AM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahahahahahahaha! Thanks!

"You Just Keep Killing It" for March Title.

Was just about to suggest that.

I've always been fond of "Why would Michael do this to me?" though that's a pretty old quote at this point

Just a guess, but negotiations broke down when film fan Kim was forced by Trump to watch Bloodsport a second time, and stormed away saying, 'No No NO, for the last time, the action sucks, it's a horrible movie, and no one on earth is named Frank Dux!'

Paul LePage, everybody!

Speaking to the hosts of the WVOM morning show this week, former Governor Paul LePage lambasted a bill being considered by Maine’s legislature to join with other states to essentially bypass the Electoral College and ensure that the President is elected by the national popular vote.

“Actually what would happen if they do what they say they’re gonna do is white people will not have anything to say. It’s only going to be the minorities that would elect. It would be California, Texas, Florida,” said LePage.

The former governor, calling into the show from his home in Florida, also labeled the proposal “an insane process” and warned that “we’re gonna be forgotten people.”

...

LePage’s rhetoric continues a trend among Republicans of mainstreaming beliefs formerly relegated to the white supremacist fringe. In 2016, then-governor LePage held a press conference, ostensibly to apologize for leaving a vulgar and threatening voicemail, in which he announced that “the enemy right now” is “people of color or people of Hispanic origin.”

Since leaving office and leaving the state, LePage has continued to call in to conservative radio shows on a weekly basis. He has also repeatedly threatened to challenge Governor Janet Mills for re-election in 2022. Earlier this month, Maine Republican Party Chair Demi Kouzounas declared that LePage would soon move back to Maine and lead a political organization to “counteract the Maine People’s Alliance.”

What's wrong with being racey?

might be helpful for him to look up what the word 'minority' means

The unspoken subtext of which is 'white people increasingly have to cheat in order to have any chance of winning'. Which in turn is laden with the subtext that white people have only gotten this far by cheating like absolute motherfuckers.

pretty sure that's just the text and that text is eighth grade history books

no racial bones

Meadows tells CNN's @SunlenSerfaty "anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body" in response to questions about his Obama birther comments in 2012. Note: Obama had been president for 4 years at that point and Meadows said he should go "back to Kenya."

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) February 28, 2019

just using the word "racial" basically tells you "i am an old white racist person"

I love how it’s a mini-controversy that meadows supported birther shit for a while, when trump was the leader of the entire “movement” from the beginning to its bitter, bitter end

yeah, but welcome to our moment.... cf. billy bush, steve king...

(billy bush? bobby bush? bozo bush? i honestly can't remember)