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

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

many xposts no worries alfred, and i'm sure you're right - i need to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt on stuff like that. i don't know why i look to a hypocrite and expect them to change this far into the game.

"in-depth investigation"

the house intel investigation is, of course, the most authoritative and respected of the multiple trump-related investigations.

how many typos can you spot in the first sentence of the US house of representatives intelligence committee final report on "alleged" heavily-indebted kremlin puppet d. trump?

Following a more than yearlong, bipartisan investigation into Russia active measures targeting the 2016 U.S. election, the House Intelligence Committee has completed a draft report of 150+ pages, with 600+ citations.

https://www.scribd.com/document/373668853/House-Intelligence-Committee-closes-the-Russia-investigation#from_embed

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/12/news/companies/trump-qualcomm-broadcom-deal/index.html

thanks trump!

That sounds similar to something that happened in Aus a few years back where Huawei were blocked from some big wifi chip deal here (defense tender maybe?) cos they were worried about nat security.

good for my local economy, not sure about broader ramifications

going through old files, i found smeltitanddealtit.gif

https://i.imgur.com/juIg6cj.gif

ty. irl lol.

:D

Fuck Kudlow, bring in Jim Cramer. Burn it all down.

omfg karl XD

Well that was quick.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump ousts Tillerson, replaces him with Pompeo as secretary of state. Story with @AshleyRParker https://t.co/MhQAQqkMyk

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) March 13, 2018

Fuck, here comes Cotton to the CIA.

That is very bad

Apparently not:

BREAKING: President Trump says CIA chief Pompeo to become Sec. of State, thanks Tillerson for his service, and elevates Gina Haspel to top CIA post. https://t.co/JqlOHLpp1U pic.twitter.com/AnOuIgyCXZ

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 13, 2018

Now who Haspel is I don't know. Not a familiar name.

Jessica Chastain will play her in the Trump biopic

no idea but i'll bet she's a fucking monster

Yup!

Some background on new CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel and her role overseeing the torture of 2 alleged terrorists at a black site in Thailand https://t.co/KNFRRkPW5w

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 13, 2018

She's a peach:

Haspel ran a "black site" CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002.[6][7] The site was codenamed "Cat’s Eye" and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no longer authorized methods.[8][9] Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a "large box", had his head slammed against a wall and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence.[10]

is this because Tillerson came out against Russia for that spy who got poisoned in the UK?

oh noes i hope she doesn't bring the cia into disrepute

xpost Has to be said that that is NOT good timing in terms of public image, yes.

Pretty sure it's because Tillerson called him a moron all those months ago

FWIW

Tillerson knew he was fired before he made his comments about Putin yesterday

— Sam Stein (@samstein) March 13, 2018

a fucking moron, please xp

Hmmm.

Another long-time Trump aide is out: John McEntee, an original Trumper among w Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino, was escorted out of the White House on Monday https://t.co/haIhsITOxp

— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) March 13, 2018

wow — McEntee is Trump’s personal aide https://t.co/01WGXjEMMW

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) March 13, 2018

he had the best hair of any of'em too!

hey guess who has the worst take on Stormy Daniels

At what point does the non-stop "news" coverage of a porn star evolve from barely-relevant clickbait to indefensible abuse of the First Lady? Feels like we're there. @andersoncooper @60Minutes @CNN

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 11, 2018