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

xps to mick mylvaney

Can you paraphrase that I can’t watch

NEVER THOUGHT ID MEet a rRWAL LIVE JEW WHERE ARE YOUR HORNS
-—micktopher mulvaney

xpost -- Think the world's worst comedian dying on stage -- then multiply that by a thousand.

then divide by 20, and thats about how cringeworthy that was

...just to be clear, that means we're talking 50 times worst than the world's worst comedian dying on stage

worse

yes, i feel like that's the appropriate magnitude

i appreciate a really precise estimate with these things

so now there are trump dick pics

every picture of the president is a dick pic

a black mirror version of black mirror would have a president fucking a pig on live television and no one in the audience even really caring about it that much

hes just fucking it like it is

Yes, Black Mirror now seems quaint and a little naïve. Excuse me while I go die real quick.

Re: that crazy UAE/Trump/Nader/Prince stuff, ties into this from a while ago:

The NYT version of the Seychelles meeting adds new significance to this exchange during Erik Prince's congressional testimony.

He had insisted news accounts of the meeting were "fabricated" -- until he seemed to slip and acknowledge the existence of a transcript. pic.twitter.com/XVr3jhDhF8

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 7, 2018

lol what a dumbshit

I hate it when I lie ahead of myself

idk maybe he's assuming there was 'FISA abuse' going on and texts were intercepted?

The texts that didn’t exist....

i can't even keep track of who these weird dumbass grifters are anymore

Prince is a big fish.

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/shape-of-water-creature.jpg?w=500

Is this the Blackwater guy whose sister is Betsy Devos?

OK I knew about Prince and what a shitstain he is but I did NOT know that, somehow

oh that's the best part of this whole disgusting mess

"best"

This reminds me of Bill Clinton’s “rich, soft wanting” only funnier. https://t.co/01Dkqz8vNN

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) March 6, 2018

xp Prince is also the guy who met w/ Trump last year to propose a private intelligence agency at the service of the president

future Senator Erik Prince is going to awesome

Finally read the linked nyt piece on that Nader character and im tryna figure out his planning to visit mara lago in january and not envisioning an absolute swarm of fbi/mueller bees awaiting his deplaning.

cant tell if mara lago is a good drag name or not

I can't figure out why he would fly to Washington to go to Mar-A-Lago.

Prince deserves to die in a lake of fire, don't get me wrong, but that transcript of conversation doesn't seem that damning to me? He could easily have been saying "What hypothetical official is supposedly reading this hypothetical transcript?"

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/07/why-isnt-wall-street-freaking-out-about-trump-217228

as expected, it boils down to this:

If there is a unified field theory for why Trump’s highly unusual presidency doesn’t ruffle Wall Street, it’s this: Beyond all the noise and bluster, he’s mostly a standard-issue Republican. At the agency level, his appointees have championed fewer regulations on every conceivable industry, rolling back or postponing one Barack Obama-era restriction after another. Trump also signed a bill slashing the corporate tax rate nearly in half, fattening corporate profits, and unleashing dividend payments and stock buybacks, all of which help drive share prices higher.

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Part of the reason markets don’t react much to the North Korea talk, the senior trader said, is that there is really no way to model what an actual conflict would look like, so people just assume it won’t happen. “How can you even analyze a nuclear war?” the senior trader said. “There was a chance a few weeks ago that we were going to enter a nuclear war, and markets didn’t react to that. … And yes, that is pretty crazy.”

on one hand, several dozen of the world's major cities were obliterated in a nuclear war and are now mostly silent except for the occasional irradiated ghoul scavenging for food in the rubble

but on the other, i TOTALLY sold high just before all that happened! buy the dip!!

Mara Large-O would work better

windfallout

i rescreened mystic pizza a while back and mar-a-lago is in it (via lifestyle of the rich & famous)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osIL3M7os_o

Mara Large-O would work better

― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 9:04 AM (fifty-six minutes ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzolCu-QLw0

should we have a "rolling labor unrest" thread or something? Oklahoma teachers strike is happening, Kentucky may follow

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/could-west-virginia-s-wildcat-teachers-strike-spread

Kentucky is the one that would really blow my mind, kinda.

Also, this is probably completely coincidental, but 100s of thousands of Danish workers are probably going on strike next month, and I am wondering a bit if there are any parallels.

Labor specific thread may not be a bad idea, curious what other people think. There’s too much news right now, stuff is easily getting buried.

FWIW the most level-headed piece I've seen about the WVa strike comes from Sarah Jones at The Nation.

https://newrepublic.com/article/147307/cost-west-virginia-teachers-strike

Paging marcos, let's you and me go to this: http://fox8.com/2018/03/07/porn-star-stormy-daniels-to-appear-in-cleveland/

NB: Good work, machine generated news stories: "The porn star claims she had a sex with Trump years ago."

haha phil

one (1) sex

The Prince stuff is old news to Abramson-readers.

He's been under investigation by the Justice Dept since 2016 btw.

Abramson

noooooooope

Ah, the penny drops.

say what?