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

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.

lmao

"Your father Herman is looking down on you," Trump tells a worker who gave brief remarks. "He's very proud."

"He's still alive," the worker says.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 8, 2018

hey herman

https://i.imgur.com/ned6wDW.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8tzXFagaso

One fucking unreviewed study, christ

I got Mad Online about that study yesterday because it was clearly going to serve no purpose other than to provide ammo for local officials who would rather let the junkies die. Of course McCardle doesn’t say we should stop distributing Narcan, she’s just promoting the idea that it’s not worthwhile.

Also, McCardle suggests that people who repeatedly OD should be involuntarily detained, I thought she was a libertarian.

is this finally the move that gets the GOP pissed at Trump?

Flake threatening legislation to reverse the tariffs. yeah good luck buddy.

You can never assume that the results of one study, however well done, are correct. But these results look pretty robust.

citation needed

makes sense. if it's bad for their portfolios, and/or the bottom lines of their donors – they will get the fuck off their asses.

xpost

"Steel is steel. You don't have steel, you don't have a country."

Father of Parkland victim slams NRA videos:

"If this was put out by a terrorist organization, we would be raising the terror threat level in this country. Why are we letting this lobby have anything to do with DC? I don't understand it!" https://t.co/voYy9BhnvV pic.twitter.com/6fXW7qxVJx

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 7, 2018

And the much lighter note:

MEET THE ROCKET DOCKET: Manafort faces July trial in VA, ahead of DC trial set for Sept. Manafort's atty said he was envisioning a Nov. trial in VA. Judge retorted: 'U need to go back to the optometrist.' https://t.co/K9z15iI5yv

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) March 8, 2018

I'm imagining the judge typing it into their phone and holding it up to Manafort's lawyer's face

I thought of this immediately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPAY2LsKVEw

Key influence on US Steel policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz2DknROaI8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VrvhUU7Kok

so trump has agreed to meet kim jong un, "by May".

South Korea’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong (pictured above), said from the White House lawn Thursday that he had delivered a message to President Donald Trump, from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un: Kim, Chung said, was “committed to denuclearization” and would like to meet the President.

Trump, Chung said after meeting with him, had agreed to meet Kim “by May.”

“I told President Trump that in our meeting, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he’s committed to denuclearization,” Chung said. “Kim pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests.”

Chung continued: “He understands that the routine joint military exercises between the Republic of Korea and the United States must continue. And he expressed his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible.”

forgive me if i'm pessimistic about this, but if you were kim jong un, wouldn't you have all the motivation to antagonize trump during the meeting and aggressively raise north korea's demands? that way, either a) trump capitulates because he wants to be seen as a dealmaker, or b) denuclearization negotiations break down, with everyone freaking out about a possible military reaction from trump?

i guess the other possibility is for north korea to agree to a deal of some sort, and then do something to nullify it a month later (again).

i am seriously sort of already frightened for my life. might be a good weekend to go camping in the middle of nowhere.

North Korea has been seeking a summit with an American president for more than twenty years. It has literally been a top foreign policy goal of Pyongyang since Kim Jong Il invited Bill Clinton. (1/3)

— Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) March 9, 2018

or trump could finally do something right?

i do think that's a possibility too! but i get uneasy rolling the dice when there's a 20% chance of complete disaster unfolding

and i don't know how any sort of negotiation involving trump himself can be called anything but rolling the dice on this. he is legendarily dumb, brash, impulsive.

I am 100% in favor of a summit that benefits north korea that doesn't end in a nuclear holocaust for anybody

a holocaust would suck imo

http://youtu.be/X_gwnFSFzv0

Our guy is probably going to get a polonium milkshake

nuclear warfare means Liverpool won't win the Premiership

reminds me of the summit between Rufus T Firefly and Ambassador Trentino

ICYMI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Wh66FXZJQ

remember that kim jong un’s brother was assassinated when two escorts one of whom was a woman in a shirt saying LOL smeared a substance containing vx on his face

lol

http://www.funnysigns.net/files/drowning-lol.jpg

remember that kim jong un’s brother was assassinated when two escorts one of whom was a woman in a shirt saying LOL smeared a substance containing vx on his face

the really incredible part is that we aren't just constantly talking about this

remember tho that the world ended on december 21 2012 and we've all been living in a simulation controlled by extremely bad satirists ever since, there's been a lot to talk about

wonder how the_donald is taking the whole "blame video games" thing

video games are very bad bc they promote guns, which by the way are very good

— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) March 9, 2018

oof

a gem from the replies

True fact: SWAT teams have stopped more Twitch streams than school shootings.

— Michael Kelley (@mike_kelley) March 9, 2018

and i don't know how any sort of negotiation involving trump himself can be called anything but rolling the dice on this. he is legendarily dumb, brash, impulsive.

― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Thursday, March 8, 2018 5:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw regarding this, Trump is all of those things but i also think he gets extremely cowed by a lot of people in certain ways, or he's at least extremely willing to go along with their ideas. i assume California will be "East Korea" before summer.

'don't believe what the fake news media tells you, folks, juche is very good'

after being +1 on Rasmussen around a week ago, he's back to -10 there now.

'don't believe what the fake news media tells you, folks, juche is very good'

And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump lawyer Michael Cohn used Trump Org. email address while arranging deal with adult film star Stormy Daniels pic.twitter.com/0ksd4ph7BA

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 9, 2018

EXCLUSIVE: Trump lawyer Michael Cohn paid Stormy Daniels in bills which were each individually signed by Donald Trump.

There's probably a bulging file in Trump's desk with 'DIRTY DEALS AND CROOKED PLANS' scrawled across the front of it.

Michael Cohn is this guy

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S07E15/325925.jpg?b64lines=IE9oLCBjcmFwISBJIGNlcnRhaW5seQogc2hvdWxkbid0IGhhdmUgc2FpZCBpdAogd2FzIGlsbGVnYWwuIA==

Was listening to an exchange between an MSNBC person and stormys lawyer. Made the really good observation that stormy has her lawyer. And Trump's lawyer now has a lawyer. But there's really no client that Trump's lawyer was representing. It's a phantom client. Michael Cohen is pursuing all the stuff, and threatening to sue, and trying to push arbitration, to the benefit of a party as yet unnamed. I wonder who it could be?