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

(as Maura said as well, I see)

The Master Negotiator digs are fun, but as already revealed in other areas, the real silver lining with this administration is that their cluelessness about or disinterest in following the rules makes it easier to stop or reverse many of their efforts.

xpost Yeah, but if there are settlements, or defamation damages or any stuff like that, that is going through the state. I'm not talking about Trump getting impeached for paying off a porn star. I'm talking about his humiliation, or Cohen getting disbarred, or fun stuff like that.

It's evidence of a pattern of behavior involving extramarital sexual relations, legal arrangements to cover up same, and the potential for blackmail, all of which may relate to matters relevant to the special counsel investigation.

Much as one might want it to be different, none of this makes a dime's worth of difference. Extramarital affairs don't qualify to undo a national election and 'the will of the people', nor does paying off the 'correspondent' of the affair to be quiet about it. Unless it can be proved that Trump was successfully blackmailed into committing a high crime or misdemeanor, then the potential for blackmail is similarly unavailing.

All this stuff can do is damage his reputation, which, if his reputation was susceptible to damage, would have been a heap of shit after the pussy grabbing video.

I'm talking about his humiliation

I hear that Trump talks a big game, but that he's really a half-termer in the sack.

Something I'd love to see a reporter ask Trump Org about:

1) Cohen formed EC LLC on Oct 17 2016
2) The contract provided for EC LLC to pay Stormy 30K by Oct 27 2016
3) Between Oct 17 & Oct 25, the Trump campaign made payments to Trump Org properties that add up to 29,999.72. pic.twitter.com/CMAxgl3Vn4

— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) March 8, 2018

28 cents off, fake news

Aimless, no, it won't persuade the deplorables, but John Edwards was brought down by his own Stormy Daniels.

Sometimes I think its pertinent to remember how few deplorables there actually are, and work on the rest who aren't beyond help

Nah

alternatively, the master negotiator in chief shaved $0.28 off payments to himself and the libs are TRIGGERED xxp

There's hiding in plain sight and then there's...

Erik Prince, under fresh scrutiny in the Russia probe over the Seychelles meeting, is hosting a fundraiser for .... none other than Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, perhaps the most Kremlin-friendly member of Congress. (via @rebeccagberg) https://t.co/tbeaYGJBdm

— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) March 8, 2018

this is all rather byzantine to me but i'm not sure i understand the implication of susan simpson's post there--that money to daniels was being funneled from the campaign itself to her through trump org properties?

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News’ Shannon Bream Wednesday that he “will consider” naming a second special counsel to probe the FBI and Justice Department’s investigations into possible collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.

“Well, I have great respect for Mr. Gowdy and Chairman Goodlatte, and we are going to consider seriously their recommendations,” Sessions told Bream in an interview that ran late Wednesday night. “I have appointed a person outside of Washington — many years at the Department of Justice — to look at all of the allegations that the House Judiciary Committee members sent to us and we are conducting that investigation.”

http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/07/sessions-considering-second-special-counsel/

what is that, confuse-a-cat?

fine, appoint a second counsel if it will shut them the fuck up. they're not going to find anything

as long as that counsel isn't, like, Nevin Dunes

They'll find HRC's missing emails that's what

Pretty sure you can clearly see them here:

https://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/653*367/bigfootstillpatterson123.jpg

Wait, this clears it up more:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4CcUMaoBnCk/maxresdefault.jpg

Thanks for adding that arrow. I was scanning the image and initially couldn't find the big red circle

that's Bill in costume hoping no one sees him burying envelopes.

Abolish ICE.

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/03/08/how-john-carrolls-latin-american-student-association-felt-when-border-patrol-agents-boarded-their-amtrak

its pertinent to remember how few deplorables there actually are

The 21% who consider Barack Obama the worst president since WWII is the bedrock of support. Trump could fuck Ivanka in the middle of 5th Avenue and support wouldn't drop further.

Quinnipiac U. poll, March 7, 2018

Donald Trump is the worst of the 13 presidents who have served since the end of World War II, 41 percent of American voters say, followed by 21 percent who list Barack Obama and 10 percent who cite Richard Nixon, in a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today.

Looking at the best president since 1945, 28 percent say Ronald Reagan. Another 24 percent list Barack Obama, with 10 percent each for Bill Clinton and John Kennedy.

President Trump is fifth on the list, with 7 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN- uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds.

Trailing Trump are Dwight Eisenhower, with 4 percent; Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter with 3 percent each; Lyndon Johnson, with 2 percent, and Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, all with 1 percent each. Gerald Ford scores less than 1 percent.

lol star power (JFK) and recency (poor LBJ and Ike)

Ah, role models.

WaPo: Sr. career DHS official who served jail time for alleged assault that left his wife w/ 2 broken ribs & substantial bruising around her neck & chest, handles “high volume” of classified information in his role as an intelligence briefer. https://t.co/eMChKDUBWR @eliseviebeck

— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) March 8, 2018

btw as he just rambled about "protecting our country" with tariffs, Yam included McKinley in a list of great presidents.

must have been the last portrait he passed

gotta stop eating those portraits mr president

speaking of "abolish ICE," ICE is detaining an arrested immigrant organizer friend.

they're asking the judge to refuse to allow her to post bond.

sign this letter, which will go to the judge considering whether or not to overrule ICE's request & grant her the bond for release.

https://action.mijente.net/petitions/release-immigrant-rights-activist-alejandra-pablos-from-detention

Here’s what we found: At least 187 Trump political appointees have been federal lobbyists, and despite President Trump’s campaign pledge to “drain the swamp,” many are now overseeing the industries they once lobbied on behalf of. We’ve also discovered ethics waivers that allow Trump staffers to work on subjects in which they have financial conflicts of interest. In addition, at least 254 appointees affiliated with Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and at least 125 staffers from prominent conservative think tanks are now working in the federal government, many of whom are on teams to repeal Obama-era regulations.

Drilling down even further, at least 35 Trump political appointees worked for or consulted with groups affiliated with the the billionaire libertarian brothers Charles and David Koch, who also have a network of advocacy groups, nonprofits, private companies and political action committees. At least 25 Trump appointees came from the influential Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank founded in 1973, and at least two came from Heritage Action, its related political nonprofit. Heritage says the Trump administration, in just its first year, has enacted nearly two-thirds of its 334 policy recommendations. We also found — for the first time — dozens of special-government employees, or SGEs, who work as paid consultants or experts for federal agencies while keeping their day jobs in the private sector.

https://www.propublica.org/article/what-we-found-in-trump-administration-drained-swamp-hundreds-of-ex-lobbyists-and-washington-dc-insiders

Donald Trump is the worst of the 13 presidents who have served since the end of World War II, 41 percent of American voters say, followed by 21 percent who list Barack Obama and 10 percent who cite Richard Nixon, in a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today.

George W Bush probably feels pretty proud about those numbers right now.

speaking of gwb he and rove were always talking about how they were emulating mcckinley

btw as he just rambled about "protecting our country" with tariffs, Yam included McKinley in a list of great presidents.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, March 8, 2018 5:05 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/books/review/the-triumph-of-william-mckinley-by-karl-rove.html

I can think of a good way for Rove, Bush, and Trump to emulate McKinley

heard rove on npr the other day talking about how abolishing the electoral college would be an awful idea

McKinley's on an lot of lists of good presidents (by which I mean "had goals and achieved them," not whether the goals hurt people); I'm still biased toward Gore Vidal's portrait of him as a grinning benign cardinal type who always got what he wanted.

God: I’m bored. What if Watergate and the Lewinsky scandal were happening at the same time but — get this — this time, everyone’s dumb as shit

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) March 8, 2018

Ha. otm.

JUST IN: Federal judge sets July 10 trial date for Manafort on tax and bank fraud charges pic.twitter.com/Kc0tomu3Jd

— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) March 8, 2018

Three month countdown. All sorts of things could happen!

(In almost assuredly unreleated news:

BREAKING: UK police update total number of people treated as a result of former Russian spy's poisoning to roughly 21.

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 8, 2018

No connection at all.)

Truly someone enjoying his life choices.

Paul Manafort arrived at a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia today to shouts of "traitor" and "you're selling America out to the Russians."

Manafort pleaded not guilty to an 18-count indictment in the special counsel's Russia probe. https://t.co/EA2vgQoqVW pic.twitter.com/1Sbwpyzqql

— ABC News (@ABC) March 8, 2018

And separately, pfft.

As Trump finishes announcing that his tariffs plan will be "very flexible" and allow him to add and drop countries, Gen. Mattis (who argued for national security exemptions) and Wilbur Ross (who pushed new tariffs) clinked water glasses pic.twitter.com/lDLjsFIqQz

— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) March 8, 2018

these motherfuckers

well i'm glad these decrepit fossils have unlocked their pinnacle moment of joy

is there audio? did anyone gasp or shout "you fuckers" at them?

how do we know they're drinking water

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXyb_F7VwAAbG4g.jpg:small

there she is

oh lord

needs to be deprived of moral hazard of ink so so much. did i type oxygen? i meant ink.