US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

Liberals shut down the postcard industry

the skit about the Teeve Torbes novel was pretty good

I think we can forgive President Trump his one declaration that didn't pan out.

On page 142, he writes: “I don’t think Grenator Dole is handling the pressure very well.” [ confused ] “Grenator”? I don’t know why the author felt he had to disguise the word “Senator”.. Anyway, he goes on to say: “Today, Dob Bole leaned over to me, and said, ‘If family values means stealing the taxpayers’ money and sniffing model glue, I’m way into family values!'”

John Kelly has Thoughts

Misgivings! Goodness me.

what's his excuse for not garroting Trump when he had the chance

Hope Hicks coming back to help change trump’s diapers

Reminds me of the time the garbage disposal obliterated my hand and then after the stump had healed I jammed that fucker right back in.

Spicer and Priebus back too

The self-loathing is strong with these ones.

How many times do you have to get a fistful of fishhooks removed from your stomach before you learn that swallowing a fistful of fishhooks is oh wait, you're doing that because you wish you were dead and don't know how to make that happen, you poor thing.

This should be fun.

Barr pushes back against Trump’s criticism of Justice Dept., says tweets ‘make it impossible for me to do my job’

By Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky
Feb. 13, 2020 at 3:34 p.m. CST

Attorney General William P. Barr pushed back hard Thursday against President Trump’s criticism of the Justice Department, saying, “I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody.”

In an interview with ABC News, Barr said presidential statements and tweets “about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending here, and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors and the department that we’re doing our work with integrity.”

The attorney general’s comments are almost certain to anger the president, who has heaped criticism on some current and former Justice Department officials over prosecutions and investigations involving the president’s former associates and alleged leaking by government officials. Barr said he was prepared to accept the consequences of speaking out against the president.

“I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me,” the attorney general said. He also noted that when he became attorney general last year, he pledged to resist intimidation from any quarter, whether Congress, the White House, or elsewhere.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barr-pushes-back-against-trumps-criticism-of-justice-dept-says-tweets-make-it-impossible-for-me-to-do-my-job/2020/02/13/7ff5f308-4e7c-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html

lmao

“I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody.”

Fuck Barr. He's just play-acting the role he knows Congress wants to see from him, while his actions will continue to roll over to Trump every goddamned time.

I'm sure he got Trump's permission to say this first, 100% kayfabe

maybe. the people in the administration tend to eventually get fed up. unlike the republicans in congress, who i guess are far away enough to continue to act like all is good.

I know this is exhausting to most of you but it is still funny that Trump ran on hiring "only the best people" and "draining the swamp" and now has to attack his own hires and make excuses for not firing them sooner about once a month

lol

This Barr interview is DeNiro in Goodfellas yelling at Johnny Roastbeef for buying his wife a Cadillac after the Lufthansa heist.

— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) February 13, 2020

Hahaha

It'll be great if the thing that takes down Barr is being slightly rude to Trump in an interview

Of course (as WaPo pointed out yesterday) Trump excoriated Obama for inappropriately trying to influence the DoJ in 2016.

narrator: this is surprising no one, and changes nothing, but still

OMG that tweet.

"I didn't do it, and who cares if I did?" Every time!

“The President has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case.” A.G. Barr This doesn’t mean that I do not have, as President, the legal right to do so, I do, but I have so far chosen not to!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2020

What is this tic that drives him to keep arguing the legality of his actions or potential actions? We all know you don't give a fuck, Donnie! And we all know that you don't give a fuck if we give a fuck! While you're in office, you're going to do whatever you're going to do and you're going to get away with it! I don't know why he's so obsessed with providing a pretext.

(burns down White House) No, but see, I'm president, so I'm allowed. Perfectly legal!

What is this tic that drives him to keep arguing the legality of his actions or potential actions?

it means a) I have already done this and b) by stating that I think it's legal you cannot claim that I knew I was breaking the law

I just mean that he flagrantly and joyfully breaks the law and he's been given a free pass to do so and the opinions of people who oppose that behavior don't matter to him and will have no impact on his decision to do so. Why bother with those appeals at all under those circumstances.

It's not like the bogus insistence that he's operating within the bounds of the law somehow absolves him of liability. It's just a weird, non sequitur aside for the sake of people he'd just as soon watch die in a car fire.

It's just the logical extension of the John Yoo memo defense--as long as the president can find one dildo who will say he can do something he has plausible deniability of abuse of power.

It's just a weird, non sequitur aside

The gentleman in question is a liar so pathological that he cannot state any number with accuracy. He is also an incessant braggart. Here, you see these two impulses sparking at once.

Escalation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/Border-Patrol-ICE-Sanctuary-Cities.html?emc=edit_na_20200214&ref=cta&nl=breaking-news&campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=21298&user_id=f0ef51a738774f8c6d037c5c6beb7573®i_id=101106615&fbclid=IwAR1XJ1QNcqeidEx85GOciwFNEXoLXqU-05nUI6XBvqxsqyrCVmXoVcGXgb0

please sic don't hurt em

xp this is not going to end well

Fucking scum of the earth

I admit it’s literally impossible to tell if Raymond is for or against shadowy above-the-law organisations that track citizens and weaponise their data against them

I guess I don't post here often enough for you to know that I am 100% against this shit.

sic is referring to your extended referrer url “in character”

god forbid someone records my click!!!

*sighs*

How did I miss that

https://www.nycbar.org/media-listing/media/detail/prosecution-of-roger-stone-and-related-actions-by-the-department-of-justice

i'm clicking on the other one just to make sic grind his teeth

think it's his gears yr grinding

Man upset he can’t bring cutout of Donald Trump to dialysis

^ So, the guy is allowed to bring an item that comforts him. He chooses to bring a photo of Trump. Presumably he is comforted. But suddenly this no longer comforts him and instead he must bring a small cardboard cutout of himself standing next to a Trump photo. This was his second choice. For comfort. So, now he is comforted, right? Nope. For unexplained reasons, this now gives him no comfort. He must have a life-size cutout of Trump. For comfort. The dialysis place objects and he insists they are trampling on his rights.

His son insists the Trump cutout takes up "no more space than a garbage can." Hmmm. Maybe I'd like his son. Hard to say.

he's from Florida. the dude's kid posted about it publicly on FB and I clowned him, and he private messaged me all butthurt.

i'm just loling at a 6 foot Trump cutout under dude's armpits

in bizarroworld trump matches and then donates a kindney.

i'd imagine his kidney is 85% stone at this point

https://jalopnik.com/trumps-attempt-to-roll-back-fuel-economy-standards-cont-1841697849

Why are we doing this again? We may not, in fact, be doing this in the end but if we don’t it’ll either be an almost inspiring story of how expertise prevailed over politics or a laughably incompetent attempt to impose bad public policy just because, pick your poison. Either way, I’m sure we’ll hear more from Trump about it, since Michigan is a swing state and the election is swiftly approaching. Whether the proposal dies or just remains in limbo, Trump will find someone to blame.

My guess is that Trump doesn't care a damn if fuel standards go up, down or sideways. Instead, he is loudly telling his base he's going to shit on the liberals who want to FORCE them to buy better mileage vehicles, when it's their God-given right to drive whatever the hell gas-gulping monster they feel like driving. This makes him a hero and once more proves he is the only politician who really understands them and is on their side of the culture war. If they get that message loud and clear, the actual fuel standards become irrelevant.