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

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.

this part was especially damning

60 minutes: have you seen the really bad schools? maybe try to figure out what they're doing?
rich unqualified asshole: i have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming.
60 minutes: maybe you should!
rich unqualified asshole: maybe i should! yes.

just don't be smug about betsy devos and her vast inheritance

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/is-liberal-smugness-to-blame-for-our-political-climate.html

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-the-stormy-story-more-damaging-than-we-thought
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/swatgate-did-melania-trump-just-slap-the-president-hand-away/htCMxShs6xV3Mv1EOrwI8N/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/8/1747433/-New-details-about-Trump-s-visit-to-a-raunchy-Vegas-club-provide-hints-the-pee-pee-tape-might-be-real

http://ew.com/tv/2018/01/18/colbert-trump-forbes-spanking/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/8/1747433/-New-details-about-Trump-s-visit-to-a-raunchy-Vegas-club-provide-hints-the-pee-pee-tape-might-be-real

my biggest question surrounding this is how at least 3 people at daily kos (assuming the writer, editor, and illustrator are three different people) all agreed to use the words "pee pee"

but yeah, it'll be interesting to see how much people on the right care about this. if they care enough to actually not vote for him, i mean. after the access hollywood experience i no longer trust myself to know how conservatives feel about this stuff.

it'll be interesting to see how much people on the right care about this.

somewhere between "don't care at all" and "hell yeah, raw dogging porn stars is awesome, I wish I had his life"

yeah it's not interesting at all

no offense, Karl! We know how they (won't) respond.

There was the instance in September when Trump told a crowd in Florida, “Melania really wanted to be with us,” as the first lady stood at his side.

lol, how did I forget about this

President Trump has spoken twice in recent days with longtime CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow about succeeding Gary Cohn as the White House’s top economic adviser, according to three people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 12, 2018

That's exactly what this White House needs - more frothing-at-the-mouth cokeheads.

I still don't get how that's going to work, Kudlow's been screaming for the past few days about how the tariffs are terrible.

does Trump even get that network on his TV

Rosenstein's rather chipper.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/12/rosenstein-mueller-not-unguided-missle-interview/416388002/

just what trump needs, advice from the guy who wrote this in 2005:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2005/06/housing-bears-are-wrong-again-larry-kudlow/

Homebuilders led the stock parade this week with a fantastic 11 percent gain. This is a group that hedge funds and bubbleheads love to hate. All the bond bears have been dead wrong in predicting sky-high mortgage rates . So have all the bubbleheads who expect housing-price crashes in Las Vegas or Naples, Florida, to bring down the consumer, the rest of the economy, and the entire stock market.

is this his longest all caps tweet?

THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HAS, AFTER A 14 MONTH LONG IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION, FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION OR COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2018