no, i didn't know that the June 2019 US Politics thread was nasty

http://www.pajiba.com/assets_c/2018/08/MuellerHockey-thumb-700xauto-201135.jpg

Wow. The Office of Special Counsel finds that @KellyannePolls repeatedly violated the Hatch Act and **is recommending her removal from federal service.** pic.twitter.com/LMC258AF7g

— Alex Mallin (@alex_mallin) June 13, 2019

Nearly a year after Rep. Duncan Hunter suggested his wife was to blame for their indictment over the alleged misuse of $250,000 in campaign funds, Margaret Hunter headed to court to change her not guilty plea, which could pave the way for her to testify. https://t.co/HOz27ukfzq

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 13, 2019

Sadly, Conway is correct in her assessment that there’s no way the hatch act is going to affect her.

Official White House response:

*jerking-off gesture*

yup

This has inspired me to design a "jerking-off gesture" emoji, which journalists can just post in lieu of transcribing Trump's or his henchmen's answers to their questions:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D89bf5eXsAAnchK.jpg

the worst punishment for kellyanne in this matter is a sideways move to a superpac where she'll get paid 10x as much and still be on tv and in contact with the president in the exact same amounts

In the modern era we try to Fail Upward

unperson you have done a great thing

👋🍆🤑

If only there were a way to incorporate the attendant facial expression (eyelids at half-mast, disinterested and perhaps mildly crosseyed glare into the middle distance, pursed lips blowing raspberries, head retracted toward the shoulders creating a triple- or quadruple-chin).

Could just be a tiny closeup of Sarah Sanders’ normal facial expression

That's the one.

There used to be a GIF of Colin Farrell on a talk show making the jerk off hand gesture that I wanted to find and post on this thread and I actually got as far as typing "Colin Farrell jerkoff" into a browser on my work computer before my brain went "WHAT ARE YOU DOING"

(rechecks the thread title. nods.)

jackoffmotion.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uu2mRZG.jpg

lol

I thought the jerkoff emoji was ✊↔️

👋🍆🤑

Seems to be the way it's done.

The Hill reports:

President Trump bashed Sen. Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign after the California Democrat said her Justice Department would “have no choice” but to prosecute Trump if she were elected.

“Oh, give me a break. She’s running for president, she’s doing horribly, she’s way down in the polls,” Trump said. “I must say, Pocahontas is really cleaning her clock,” he added, referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) with a derisive nickname meant to mock her claims of Native American heritage.

Still, Trump acknowledged that he might adopt the same strategy if he were in Harris’s position. “I heard she made that statement,” Trump said. “And you know what? Who wouldn’t? Probably if I were running in her position, I’d make the same statement.”

game recognize game

My first reaction to the quote was 'here is a man who needs to be slapped hard. More than once.'

This just looks like “slapping wang to get rich”

close! intent was "might as well slap wang because i'm rich"

Hey, how's Trump's promised investigation of Hillary going again?

she's in jail i believe

pretty sure i've seen her mugshots in that orange jumpsuit

executed iirc, but only Fox mentioned it

It's bad enough that he's the worst human ever, but his tackiness and thorough, all-encompassing tastelessness is the cherry on top of this turd blossom.

I'm hard pressed to think of any rich person who has good taste, tbh

Oprah, sometimes

btw there is a NYC #ImpeachTrump Now rally in Foley Square, Saturday at noon.

oh i'm sure he'll be impeached by then

Like he said, if he were you he'd impeach him too.

That's a snappy campaign slogan.

President, Impeach thyself

selfpeach

so hey Pompeo ramping up vs Iran

It's too bad Alex Jones and the 9/11 nutters have discredited the term "false flag," because that's sure what these tanker attacks sound like.

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 13, 2019

Trump says Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving WH.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 13, 2019

this fucker is really gonna keep saying "pocahontas" isn't he

he's inconsistent in some things, but not in acting like a total dickwad

https://i.imgur.com/uu2mRZG.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/uu2mRZG.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/uu2mRZG.jpg
Trump says Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving WH.
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Trump says Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving WH.
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Trump says Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving WH.

What are the odds that there is no longer any such job as White House Press Secretary once she leaves? 50/50?

I'm not going to believe that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving as White House press secretary until she denies it herself.

— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) June 13, 2019

if you mean until after the election starts in earnest, I would put it at 90/10
i would imagine trump will use WH Press Secretary as his bully pulpit for reelection as of January 2020

yeah it hardly seems necessary to replace her. no one holds press conferences or answers questions; the entire media operation is trump tweeting

there is still no director of communications, either, since bill shine left on march 8.

So, the pompeo statement

1.) how would they have enough evidence to make an assessment yet. 2.) would they *dare* try some gulf of tonkin shit in 2019–really? 3.) is it possible iran is behind the attacks and 4.) even so the haste of the assessment is suspicious, no?