US Politics November 2017

Uh he didn’t really, he felt the need to point out the women he molested were Trump voters

yes but he didn’t go off on a tear about how LeBron hates America or something. If it was a rally instead of a press conference I suppose it would have gotten really weird.

xp that's relevant. he's suggesting that the allegations aren't true. "I do have to say" is the reversal from the first sentiment - it's been a long time and many races and it has never come up before now, and all the women are trump voters (ideologically motivated). i think "All you can do is you have to do what you have to do" means despite not really believing it he feels like he is obligated to use it to make political hay.

oh lol nm i thought that was a quote about franken carry on

Hell of a read.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-sexual-harassment_us_5a1487fae4b03dec8248bc55?een

Jesus!! That labyrinthine process involved just to lodge a complaint is really unforgivable and scans as explicitly set up to protect powerful men and keep their disgusting attacks secret.

Another great day!

Roy Moore mentions Alabama "always stands up for its rights," including the "Civil War conflict."

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) November 22, 2017

this fkn guy

So ... Murkowski is a yes now? Hope there's some horse trading going on and she's only saying that because she knows enough others will say no.

Doubt it

https://i.imgur.com/R7ecHFD.jpg

The Trump White House tried to block public access to visitor logs of five federal offices working directly for the president even though they were subject to public disclosure through the Freedom of Information Act. Property of the People, a Washington-based transparency group, successfully sued the administration to release the data and provided the documents to ProPublica. You can search them below.

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/jared-kushner-horizons-are-collapsing-within-the-west-wing

Despite Kushner’s efforts to project confidence about Robert Mueller’s probe, he expressed worry after the indictments of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates about how far the investigation could go. “Do you think they’ll get the president?” Kushner asked a friend, according to a person briefed on the conversation.

That kind of poorly sourced rumor is not really trustworthy, but I'll choose to trust it anyway :)

I think the tax bill is gonna pass

xpost There's a lot of pretty juicy stuff here, too:

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/21/565654507/journalist-investigating-trump-and-russia-says-full-picture-is-one-of-collusion

Maybe we'll get tax bill, the end of net neutrality *and* Roy Moore just in time for the holidays!

“Do you think they’ll get the president?” Kushner asked a friend, tugging anxiously at his own collar and visibly perspiring

"So, uh, do you know if they're looking at, erm, anyone else? Like, you know, the president, or, um ... anybody else?"

It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017

...LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It’s a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017

meanwhile fucking kids is nbd

IT WAS ME

kind of shocked to say i cannot find one single image of Doctor Doom calling someone an "ungrateful fool."

“Do you think they’ll get the president?” Kushner asked a friend, tugging anxiously at his own collar and visibly perspiring

https://usercontent2.hubstatic.com/4924935_f520.jpg
"I don't get no respect..."

xp - have this file photo I found instead

the caption is ‘washington, november 18: white house chief of staff john f kelly (left) looks on as president donald j trump prepares to send a tweet’

https://pics.me.me/do-not-fool-doctor-doom-toots-as-he-pleases-27299746.png

ha stevie that’s pretty much exactly what i had in mind

"IT WAS ME. Too bad! Ungrateful fool!"

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/entertainment/20100318_hottub-5scarface.nocrop.w670.h377.jpg

ha stevie that’s pretty much exactly what i had in mind

I did worry after I posted it that I had a well-earned "That's the jooooke" coming my way

the po’ faced absurdity of Donald J. Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/22/trumps-team-insists-he-has-a-full-schedule-an-hour-before-he-goes-golfing/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.3539159614c8

this is pretty amusing. the series of tweets about "meetings" all gathered together kind of sums him up really.

this guy really likes to golf, huh?

you would be too if you could complete 18 holes in 12 shots like trump can

the idea of him coming back from golfing or the spa or whatever and composing a tweet about "big meetings!" or "very important meetings!" really betrays a venal, casual and i guess juvenile mixture of disregard and contempt for his role which would be amusing if it wasn't so worrying.

But not surprising

not in the slightest.

lolll BG well done

the idea of him coming back from golfing or the spa or whatever and composing a tweet about "big meetings!" or "very important meetings!" really betrays a venal, casual and i guess juvenile mixture of disregard and contempt for his role which would be amusing if it wasn't so worrying.

See, I disagree; I read it as desperate insecurity and a massive inferiority complex. He knows he's a piece of shit, he knows he's not up to the job, but he's certainly not going to let everyone else know he knows it, so he bluffs. "I'm doing very important work!" Meanwhile, he's running off to the golf course for a few hours' relief from the reality of his own incompetence.

one of these days we're gonna nail trump psychoanalysis, I can feel it

the golf thing, and the compulsion to visit his own resorts, is pretty fuckin weird. it reminds me of how hugh hefner would only ever stay in his own mansion or at "playboy clubs" that he had built in various cities. what does he derive from this? is there a weird compulsion we don't know about? does he not "trust" the white house in some way?

my questions, Simon, to clarify, are less about psychoanalysis and more about purely salacious gossip-mongering. there should be vicious, tawdry rumours about what he does at these clubs

"He knows he's a piece of shit, he knows he's not up to the job,"

He doesn't think this imo.

He's not capable of that sort of self-reflection

how hugh hefner would only ever stay in his own mansion or at "playboy clubs"

Well, I mean ...

Trump just wants to be in a place where he can show off and pretend he is in control.

let’s not forget that the trump org gets paid every time trump stays at his own properties too - all the comforts of home and with pocket money provided by the taxpayer

tapps everywhere in the whitehouse

Democratic Sen. Tom Carper says White House economic adviser Gary Cohn faked a bad connection to get President Trump off the phone so they could have a conversation on tax reform without him https://t.co/qcUnSEsysl

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 22, 2017

Like, of all the periods when the span of my life could've transpired, why did it have to overlap with a period where the federal government is morphing into a late-period Zucker-Abrams-Zucker production? I could've been comfortably interred in the ground for the past fifty years instead of bearing witness to this.

At some point, every warrior eventually runs out of arrows. His armor wears thin yet grows heavier still. He must lay down his weary helmeted head for rest.

Even Coriolanus was forced to retreat — at the behest of his mother.

Not so Donald Trump.

Not a weary drop of blood pumps through the man’s veins. He wears his thick armor light as skin. His bottomless quiver is never empty.

Ironic, since his quivering bottom is somehow always emptying.