US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

yes tlg!

If/when Trump does away with the position of CoS, it'll be like Home Alone except with Culkin just vegging out and mindlessly retweeting Fox News talking points while the Wet Bandits strip his house bare. Dude'll be dead in a week without an active handler (god willing).

we should be so lucky

In case my underlying point wasn't clear: I believe most random eight-year-olds are better equipped to care for their own basic needs over an extended period of time than is our current POTUS.

All of this was quite predictable to anyone not in Jared-will-save-Israel-la-la-land

https://www.axios.com/destroying-jared-kushner-a-play-in-5-acts-1519995606-a01f5811-6455-42d6-89cf-edd376c66a04.html

most 8 year olds don't wear diapers

The most amazing/horrifying thing about this story is that he will learn absolutely nothing from it, and will behave exactly the same way the next time things don't go his way for more than 24 hours in a row.

With global markets shaken by President Donald Trump's surprise decision to impose strict tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, the president went into battle mode on Friday: "Trade wars are good, and easy to win," he wrote on Twitter.

But the public show of confidence belies the fact that Trump's policy maneuver, which may ultimately harm U.S. companies and American consumers, was announced without any internal review by government lawyers or his own staff, according to a review of an internal White House document.

According to two officials, Trump's decision to launch a potential trade war was born out of anger at other simmering issues and the result of a broken internal process that has failed to deliver him consensus views that represent the best advice of his team.

On Wednesday evening, the president became "unglued," in the words of one official familiar with the president's state of mind.

Meanwhile, looks like Mueller is really closing on Kush. Also, Hicks reportedly kept a detailed daily diary!

On Wednesday evening, the president became "unglued,"

I wonder how they noticed

It's like suddenly noticing the jagged ceramic shards that have been littering your floor for the past year and commenting, 'huh, guess the vase broke.'

In re: Haberman-on-Hicks and everything else, this is not exactly solid journalism but also not a complete waste of time...

http://www.citjourno.org/maggie1

was announced without any internal review by government lawyers or his own staff...
...was born out of anger at other simmering issues and the result of a broken internal process that has failed to deliver him consensus views that represent the best advice of his team.

the office of the President holds too much power (regardless of how qualified/reckless the current holder of the office is)

out of curiosity have any yanks spotted TV coverage of the WV teachers' strike yet

only briefly and on the margins, but maybe I'm not watching enough TV

xpost Dunno, I don't even own a tv.

Seriously, though, I watch approximately zero tv news.

There was a story about it on the news last night. (I don't have cable; I get network channels through a digital antenna.)

I kind of wonder if Trump is working with people to work the market as with his Twitter, he can pretty much time to manipulate certain kinds of stocks.

he's actually weirdly not much of an investor himself.

http://splinternews.com/everyone-in-washington-is-having-a-lovely-time-1823459832

Roy Moore begs for help w/ legal fees. “My resources have been depleted and I have struggled to make ends meet.” https://t.co/BNwMKQhn0t

— Beth Reinhard (@bethreinhard) March 2, 2018

Has he conceded yet?

Ogre? Oh right, Moore, LOL.

When asked if they were going to cover the teachers’ wildcat strike:

We're doing a bit on it tonight.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 2, 2018

http://splinternews.com/everyone-in-washington-is-having-a-lovely-time-1823459832🕸

in further "just stoppin to save some lives before the paula abdul show" news

https://deadspin.com/report-donald-trump-didnt-actually-do-anything-to-free-1823464794

astounding piece of journalism here

looked to me like she blew the lid off of 'business as usual' to reveal the shocking news that political journalists and people in positions of political power know one another and aren't averse to socializing. they might even do a bit of mutual schmoozing and back-scratching, too.

I was actually already aware of the potomac trash gyre, its just the shape of where we are

I also appreciated the implication that this is unique to DC and not at all what goes on in New York City and its very real and important boroughs such as Brooklyn

It's just a thin layer of fauxphisticated NYC blogger snark spread on top of the same provincial attitudes that everyone else in the country expresses towards Washington as if the only people who try to ever make a living here are birthed from pods and/or brainwashed in expensive labs run by the MIC and its proxies. Fucking pisses me off.

Uh-oh, Tombot's gone native! (I kid, I kid.)

I'm in favor of Beltway denizens being photographed at awkward house parties, it's a quaint DC tradition like wearing button-down shirts to the office

tbf the author is a britishes who i think lives in DC

not that such things don't go on in NYC, but i myself have never hosted politicos here at my important brooklyn pied-à-terre

it's very tedious how the world writes about greater Washington like nobody's from there, nobody likes it there, and nothing happens there

i lived in dc for 10 years and the handful of times i interacted with the political machine it was laughably absurd. these people hosting parties with tommy-carrying churchill have no clue about how people live in dc or america at large and deserve to be utterly dragged forever

usually when I read accounts from normal people about their tenures working in thinktanks or anything like that in DC they describe it like they lived through the last reel of Society

mookie otm, those people deserve to be dragged far more intelligently and interestingly than that Instagram listicle or whatever that piece ought to be called.

Lewis Lapham surely wasn’t that good, these people make him look really good, do better

silby I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not

I’m not being sarcastic! It is tedious that that happens. I am from Arlington!

I’m pro-Washington.

i almost miss lewis lapham's boilerplate us politics --> fall of rome column

he was endlessly ahead of his time

I'm anti-Washington, and Tombot's fury reminds me of his "Chuck Schumer is the senator from NY, OF COURSE he munches Wall Street's ass for cash every waking moment and you shouldn't be remotely upset about it" take.

btw, some bipartisan bill writing on behalf of mega-banks here

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/crapo-instead-of-taking-on-gun-control-democrats-are-teaming-with-republicans-for-a-stealth-attack-on-wall-street-reform/

Josh Marshall introduced the word failson to lots of new people yesterday

Trump gave a failson dork carte blanche to run US foreign policy and he pursued a policy focused on coming up with a billion in personal loans to save the family business his idiocy helped destroy.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 3, 2018

btw does anyone have images of Putin's PowerPoint in his Supernuke speech the other day, with the animated missiles pointed at Florida?

https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/261323/rocket-312767.png

https://www.sixflags.com/sites/default/files/dsc_0367_1.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51blz0tgToL.jpg

I missed tombots stirring defense of ass eating

Take it to the gay thread, sailor.