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

"gfh" = go.. fuck a hog?

but point taken Moo

Speaking about a series of recently lost policy fights — on gun reform, the tax bill, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and more — Warren told the annual gathering of progressive elected officials and advocates, “Just this week we lost the first round in the battle of a bad banking bill — a bill that would take the reins off of Wall Street’s most reckless actors and put as greater risk of another financial crisis. When I saw a handful of my Democratic colleagues vote for it, it felt like a stab in the heart. Not for me, but for all the homeowners who were cheated and all the taxpayers who bailed out those banks. That is wrong.”

While she was angry at Wall Street, she said, she felt most betrayed by her own colleagues. “It is so hard to fight against all the money and all the lobbying. It is so hard to fight when we fight and lose. It’s worse when some of our teammates don’t even show up for the fight,” she said.

While she started off with a nod to teachers mobilizing in West Virginia and Oklahoma, Warren spent most of her address describing how she got involved in politics — interviewing people experiencing bankruptcy for her first book, “As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America,” released in 1989. What Warren learned through that process, she said, was that “this isn’t a story about economics. This is a story about power: about who has it and who doesn’t. In this relationship between lender and borrower, the lender has the power.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/09/elizabeth-warren-wall-street-bank-deregulation-bill/

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/never-mind-the-north-korea-meeting-trump-was-just-babbling.html

EXTREMELY BORAT VOICE: My wife and girlfriend . . .

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/28870735_10156405974317259_3866691250633780537_n.jpg?oh=c706678bde8c21ac99759f25f7285230&oe=5B0859B7

“that, in the last week, Trump has confused North Korea with the other, extremely different South Korea, and demanded a laughably tiny $1 billion trade concession from China when he was supposed to demand $100 billion. ”

Outstanding

What a difference four days and an intervention makes.

A stone-faced Sam Nunberg leaves his grand jury testimony and refuses to answer questions, shakes his head when asked for comment. He escapes to a waiting white car, which zooms away

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 9, 2018

“that, in the last week, Trump has confused North Korea with the other, extremely different South Korea, and demanded a laughably tiny $1 billion trade concession from China when he was supposed to demand $100 billion. ”

Outstanding

― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, March 9, 2018 4:51 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Literally word for word except in billions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKHSAE1gIs

More fun

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-cohen-dismisses-claims-email-proof-trump-knew/story?id=53642094

Has anyone actually asked him *why* he paid $130K to Stormy?

Michael Avenatti, who provided the emails to ABC News, alleges that the use of Cohen’s Trump.org email further supports his position that Trump was aware of the payment to Daniels whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford.

"We're one step closer to demonstrating that the assertion by Cohen and the White House that President Trump knew nothing about this is ridiculous," Avenatti told ABC News’ Tom Llamas on Friday.

Cohen dismissed these allegations.

“Mr. Avenatti has clearly allowed his 15 minutes of fame to affect his ludicrous conclusions. The earth-shattering uncovered email between myself and the bank corroborates all my previous statements; which is I transferred money from one account at that bank into my LLC and then wired said funds to Ms. Clifford’s attorney in Beverly Hills, California. How Mr. Avenatti or the media at large believes this to be ‘breaking news’ is a mystery to me,” Cohen told ABC News.

When asked where the $130,000 sent to Daniels’ attorney came from, Cohen told ABC News “the funds were taken from my home equity line and transferred internally to my LLC account in the same bank.”

"I think this document seriously calls into question the prior representation of Mr. Cohen and the White House relating to the source of the monies paid to Ms. Clifford in an effort to silence her," Avenatti told NBC News, which first reported the use of the email. "We smell smoke."

When asked about this statement, Cohen responded: " “He should either evacuate the room he’s standing in or immediately seek the attention of an ENT doctor.”

I think the legal argument for Stormy is how can someone be a party to an agreement that they know nothing about?

this guy cohen's a real philanthropist huh?

reminds me of when Eddie Murphy "gave a lift" to that hooker. just doing a solid.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/one-night-with-stormy-daniels-the-hero-america-needs-w517692

"It was just weird to me, because I remember being on set years ago and we would hear him calling all the time – it was like a joke," Paige says. "She would put him on speakerphone and walk away and he'd still be talking." At the time, no one thought much about it, she says, because there wasn't much to it.

shockingly, it looks like mueller did not accept trump's deal to interview in exchange for closing the investigation within 60 days

President Trump is in discussions with a veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during the impeachment process about joining the White House to help deal with the special counsel inquiry, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The lawyer, Emmet T. Flood, met with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office this past week to discuss the possibility, according to the people. No final decision has been made, according to two of the people.

Should Mr. Flood come on board, the two people said, his main duties would be a day-to-day role helping the president navigate his dealings with the Justice Department.

Two people close to the president said that the overture to Mr. Flood did not indicate any new concerns about the inquiry. Still, it appears, at the least, to be an acknowledgment that the investigation is unlikely to end anytime soon.

looks like steve is making friends overseas

Marine Le Pen applauds Steve Bannon after his speech in front of the National Front’s party congress in Lille (screenshot) pic.twitter.com/pSugaQnh4b

— Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) March 10, 2018

bannon dressing up for the classy audience

lol what a shithead

they certainly deserve each other

I know a former journalism prof who looked like Le Pen

Bannon jumping in Jerry Lewis' gallo-grave as unappreciated, multi-shirted crank

funny clothes/liver but this is what he was saying

Bannon just told the crowd to let people call them racists. "Wear it as a badge of honor...because every day we get stronger, and they get weaker."

— Sarah Parnass (@WordsOfSarah) March 10, 2018

https://apnews.com/350053edb0a34f3482f2b2f6022284be/The-Latest:-Trump-says-2020-slogan-is-'Keep-America-great!

President Donald Trump says he’s decided on a slogan for his 2020 re-election campaign.

Trump says if he runs again — which is “almost positive” — that he can’t use his “Make America Great Again” tag line. That’s because he’ll already have spent years in office.

Trump says his new slogan will be “Keep America great!” with an exclamation point.

lol

dang mission accomplished already

I doubted his abilities but I guess that's egg on my face.

KAG!!!!!!!

#catswithfurballsforTrump

Bannon confuses me. He talks to the FN in favor of French identitiarianism...which has what to do with American identitarianism?

The best I can tell is that he wants to de-globalize the world so that he & his cronies can loot the USA without global eyes paying attention.

https://i.imgur.com/9sL7j0G.png

Apparently the president is off script and went after "sleepy-eyed Chuck Todd" and called him "a son of a bitch."

I think I may be stepping on DC's point, but we shouldn't rule out the possibility that this enormous racist doesn't like non-white people and sees their persecution as a positive goal independent of other concerns.

Some mild but potentially telling hilarity -- Trump venting this morning re: that Emmet Flood story, calling it false, etc; Haberman openly mocking the responses on Twitter, noting it's been widely confirmed, then adding this could just simply mean Flood turned him down. And if so and even he thinks it's a bad idea to get involved, then...

'make america greater', shurely - 'keep america great' suggests stasis dunnit?

he also suggested that the administration might just coast for the next two years because they've done so much winning already, so

"Let's not make America too great" has a nice ring to it.

Apparently the president is off script and went after "sleepy-eyed Chuck Todd" and called him "a son of a bitch."

surely he's just trying to start a fiddling contest

the NYT danced around what he called Maxine Waters; I can't find anything but "a very low IQ individual"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/10/politics/trump-waters-low-iq-individual/index.html

Disappointed that the Astros met w/Trump today.

did he deport any of them?

i am so glad that trump doesn't seem to care about baseball whatsoever

would be nice of Carlos Beltran and Carlos Correa hand delivered a personal 'fuck you' from the people of Puerto Rico

is the thought that Trump might have said something more racially disparaging and the press isn't widely reporting it? all I heard was "low IQ individual" as well, which is not much less offensive granted

nothing but respect for my MVP pic.twitter.com/3JyaaOA6nD

— Hannah Keyser (@HannahRKeyser) March 12, 2018

i can't recall the NYT's Aunt Tillie verbiage, it's hard to interpret their squeamishness

xp

you don't often get the actual ideology of "objective, neutral" reporters so directly. they worship power, that's it https://t.co/SzdysWNpQO

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) March 12, 2018

I am just amazed at how well Daniels and her lawyer have finessed all this.

NEW: Stormy Daniels says she will pay back 30,000 to be able to talk about President Trump, and disclose any text messages, photos or video she may have. https://t.co/CpEpdHVsbk

— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 12, 2018

she's savvy like J

ean Harlow

This is the America we deserve.

so it appears CNN is running with "DeVos looked like a dumbass on 60 Minutes". there was a teaser anyway.