Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

who was asking about this upthread?

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/russians-used-bernie-bros-as-unwitting-agents-in-disinformation-campaign-senate-intel-witness/

reliable spreader

Yr mom, etc.

who was asking about this upthread?

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/russians-used-bernie-bros-as-unwitting-agents-in-disinformation-campaign-senate-intel-witness/

― Οὖτις, 31. marts 2017 17:36 (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was clear all along. And it should probably also be clear who the 'overeager journalists' are.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

"Mike Flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt (excuse for big election loss), by media & Dems, of historic proportion!"

Is Trump going to start taking credit for starting the HUGEST witch hunt?

http://www.clickhole.com/article/bad-timing-gops-legislative-agenda-has-been-stalle-5853

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michael-flynn-immunity-turned-down-rejected-senate-intel-committee-trump-russia-a7660696.html

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?????

I vaguely checked Twitter and right, left, doesn't matter, I'm seeing absolute incredulity and mockery of Spicer across the board for today. My favorite comment I stumbled across was from John Podhoretz of all people -- 'like watching a bad magician.'

is there a good spicer clip to watch. or do i have to watch the whole thing?

you can watch any press briefing he's done really they are all bad

press getting a little less patient this week though

just watch a few minutes from today's for example

i've watched them before i just didn't know if there was some head-shaking moment like the other day.

Spicer is like the personification of the weakness and fear inside of Trump.

they are funny, the press are fairly generous in their questions, earnestly trying to spin out something cohesive from trump's random bullshit claims, but spicer acts all incredulous and annoyed that they don't think trump's claims are self-explanatory

that stop shaking your head moment from the other day, and the russian salad dressing remark, were peak-level bad even for Spicer

McCaskill a "no" on Gorsuch: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/claire-mccaskill-neil-gorsuch-filibuster-236763

This crew of clods:

https://mobile.twitter.com/justinsink/status/847899898724986880

after @MajorCBS asks about Flynn, Trump leaves signing ceremony without signing executive orders. Pence went and picked it up from desk

I vaguely checked Twitter and right, left, doesn't matter, I'm seeing absolute incredulity and mockery of Spicer across the board for today. My favorite comment I stumbled across was from John Podhoretz of all people -- 'like watching a bad magician.'

from an anonymous soul on another forum, I'm choosing "the guy in the zombie movie trying to hide that he was bitten an hour ago"

though that JPod line made me think of Patton Oswalt's "angry magician" bit and I'm seeing a commonality there too. "Okay? OKAY?! Okay."

McCaskill a "no" on Gorsuch: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/claire-mccaskill-neil-gorsuch-filibuster-236763

― Οὖτις, Friday, March 31, 2017 5:05 PM (

they smell blood; they may even think, "Shit, at this rate Trump may not even be around to nominate another justice."

can't believe Feinstein is still mum about her vote wtf more angry phone calls from me comin her way I guess

I heard ~one minute today of Rush Limbaugh wheezing about "leftist hacks at the FBI."

like, leftists are hacking the FBI, or the FBI is filled with leftists?

can't believe Feinstein is still mum about her vote wtf more angry phone calls from me comin her way I guess

― Οὖτις, Friday, March 31, 2017 9:19 PM (thirty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I dont know what glue she's sniffing if she thinks she's still running for re-election

If Democrats can secure five more votes to deny Gorsuch the 60 votes he needs to advance, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is likely to gut the supermajority requirement on Supreme Court nominees using the “nuclear option.”

Is this true though? It's 'nuclear' not just so much because it's a Big Thing to do, but because it's mutually assured destruction. No one's ever had the huevos to do this before, I'm not sure Repubs staring down the barrel of a historically unpopular president heading into 2018 (and then 2020) want to be handing the Democrats fast-track powers

the FBI is filled with leftists. if only J Edgar were still here. xxp

I'm not sure Repubs staring down the barrel of a historically unpopular president heading into 2018 (and then 2020) want to be handing the Democrats fast-track powers

long-term planning, a thing the GOP is good at

they will totally do it, this is their only hope of altering the balance of the Court for a generation, and the only victory they will be able to claim for this legislative session.

oh yea they will definitely do it

Will there ever be another SC justice confirmed when different parties control the Senate and Executive, or did the Garland blockade end that?

yeah Garland blockade was basically the nail in that coffin

worth noting that the nominees prior to that were increasingly getting approved along strict party lines tho

where's the tax returns?

wow at that video where Trump hustles out of the executive order signing when he's asked about immunity for Flynn...

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/847941360401485826

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKJv_LNIE1A

How do you get to this level without learning the first thing about how not to appear INCREDIBLY guilty? I'm agnostic about who might've done what or even if anything illegal ever occurred, but these dudes are convincing no one with this behavior.

I've managed to avoid any direct audio or video of him until now, it's still fucking impossible to wrap my head around Trump being the President.

we have some serious affirmative action for silver spooners in this country

chait goes in

Krauthammer himself has been a paraplegic since the age of 22. That’s an expensive medical condition. Probably he has group insurance through the Washington Post or another institution with which he’s affiliated, allowing him to spread the cost of his expensive medical care onto a risk pool that includes healthier, cheaper-to-cover people. Or perhaps he has a different arrangement. I do not for one moment resent that my insurance helps cover either childbirth or mechanized wheelchairs, even though I personally need neither service, and nothing Krauthammer says would make me reconsider.

It is callous enough that Republicans apply their every-man-for-himself logic to health care, and land on the belief that those fortunate enough to be blessed with good health should not be burdened with the cost of paying for the medical needs of others. But when the advocate of this argument himself has expensive medical needs, the callousness rises to a level of solipsistic barbarism. A paraplegic man resents having to pay for women who need help breastfeeding their babies. Why should those women have to buy insurance that covers wheelchairs?

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/could-michael-flynn-turn-on-trump

ryan lizza on the immunity story. i'm still unclear i guess on what exactly flynn wants immunity for - aside from the logan act, what laws has he broken? i guess that's what we don't know yet

"Although Flynn’s lawyer, Robert Kelner of Covington & Burling, refused to comment for the article, he tweeted out a statement teasing that “General Flynn certainly has a story tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit.”

"As an experienced lawyer, Kelner will know that the Justice Department would never grant immunity for testimony on these terms. Prosecutors would first require that Flynn submit to what’s called a proffer session in which Flynn would agree to tell everything he knows in exchange for the prosecutors agreeing not to use his statement against him. Only after the prosecutors heard what Flynn could offer in terms of evidence against others, and had an opportunity to assess his credibility, would they be willing to discuss any grants of immunity or a cooperation deal. At a minimum, the prosecutors would require Flynn’s lawyer to make a proffer outlining the information that Flynn could provide.

"The fact that Flynn and his lawyer have made his offer publicly suggests that he has nothing good to give the prosecutors (either because he cannot incriminate others or is unwilling to do so). If he had something good, Flynn and his lawyer would approach the prosecutors quietly, go through the proffer process in confidence, and reach a deal. Why? Because prosecutors have an interest in keeping their investigation secret, and Flynn’s lawyer knows that...."

https://www.justsecurity.org/39426/explainer-flynns-request-immunity/

We're applying logic and reason to these people because why?

threat of imprisonment sometimes brings clarity

I think I choose to believe Flynn's lawyer is also a dumbass

Hm hm hm:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/847936144499146753

BREAKING: US investigators are looking into whether Trump campaign reps helped Russian intel carry out cyberattacks

And hooray!

https://apnews.com/992ae77585fc4956b29328e49a926c62/Trump's-approach-to-intel-agencies-shows-anxiety,-distrust

Officials have expressed an interest in having more raw intelligence sent to the president for his daily briefings instead of an analysis of information compiled by the agencies, according to current and former U.S. officials. The change would have given his White House advisers more control about the assessments given to him and sidelined some of the conclusions made by intelligence professionals.

I just hope we get a new suffix out of this. So sick of -gates

my money's on -tape for Pisstape

Hope Donnie finds the remote in prison so he can watch his fav shows