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

have we done this one yet

A White House staffer wrote his encrypted email password on White House letterhead and then left it at a bus stop https://t.co/7cpgAuflMw pic.twitter.com/qJ1Xsqg0G7

— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) March 17, 2018

dang I wish "Bus stop" by the Volebeats was on youtube

sure, cause the last three posts on the canpoli threat aren't mocking trump's justin fibs and simon's last contribution isn't a pathetic hope for the ontario ndp party not to be milquetoast. it is, it will be. and it's a shame. but like i said, it's either hand-wringing or hand-rubbing.

― lion in winter, Sunday, March 18, 2018 12:08 AM (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just saw this and not sure exactly what you're saying here. What is the right response to Trump making shit up about Canada's 'brutal' trade practices, in the context of renegotiating existing trade agreements, though? Being able to have a dark lol about it is a way to relieve real stress about something that could have a very real impact on Canadians, esp for someone who lives and works in the US on a NAFTA visa most of the year.

DEVELOPING: Two injured after another explosion in Austin, Texas. https://t.co/5HP3GBiDAs pic.twitter.com/G5GElXu2i5

— ABC News (@ABC) March 19, 2018

http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/379005-house-intel-republican-panel-did-not-investigate-collusion

https://youtu.be/9S6Uacb0mR0?t=2m39s

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/what-hope-hicks-learned-in-washington.html

Ivanka understands that her father is gonna be dead in ten years.

he still won't step aside

Weekend At Donnie's

From the Hicks article linked by Maura:

no matter how dead any of the eccentrics or maniacs or divas appeared to be, how far away from the president their status as fired or resigned or never-hired-in-the-first-place should have logically rendered them, nobody was ever truly gone. The people who were problems on the campaign or on the inside continued to be problems. The president’s taste for the other and the new was so established that the most driven among them knew that all they had to do was wait for an opening, or shrewdly create one — a weakened staffer, a particularly demoralizing news cycle — and they could worm their way back in.

tough piece to get through but mostly worth it so far? ugh @ the tabloid tailing service bit. this pic is great

https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/16/magazine/16-hope-hicks-04.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg

I like how the piece ends with the assumption -- which she apparently holds -- that she will stay loyal and hopefully escape further attention.

I...doubt that.

thread title really doing some good work this month

her favorite emoji being the “see-no-evil” monkey seems appropriate

“He doesn’t trust any men and never has. He doesn’t like men, you see. He has no male friends. I was just with one of them the other day, someone who’s described as one of his closest friends, and he doesn’t know him very well. But a small number of women, including his longtime assistant back in New York, he really listens to them — especially if he’s not banging them. "

Not sure what thread for this: https://www.politico.eu/article/wto-donald-trump-protectionism-brussels-fears-trump-wants-the-wto-to-fail/

"The EU’s bigger fear is that Trump’s ultimate goal is to kill off the World Trade Organization and rip up the current rule book that underpins global trade networks."

Today, Martosko is the political editor of the Daily Mail.

This sentence makes a lot more sense to UK readers when you add "US" before "political".

lol @ idea that Trump has any "ultimate goal" beyond getting his ego stroked in the next 5 minutes

had the same reaction. he doesn't give a fuck abt the WTO but I'm sure has whisperers who'd like to go after it

wheeeee we're all gonna die

Bush’s own chief WH ethics lawyer says appointing John Bolton as nat’l security advisor “is an invitation to war, perhaps nuclear war” pic.twitter.com/SuCnm2j4Ys

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 16, 2018

Painter is such an odd presence on TV. I can't figure out if his accent is impenetrable, he has a speech impediment, or both.

good ol' dick painter

he's working on running for senate from MN

Can’t see him as a serious candidate, but has to be good to have an outspoken Trump critic running on the Republican side.

It looked like Painter had a frozen face or half a face like a stroke survivor when i first saw him on tv. Still not sure what the story is on him.

enh I'd prefer for all "never-Trumpers" to be publicly humiliated. Let Republicanism and Trumpism remain inseparable indefinitely. xp

^^yes

donald trump, richard nixon, george WMD bush -- people who vote for men like that are immune to "public" humiliation. that's how the GOP/Kochs keep increasing their ranks in our government imho

don't forget ronald "fuckin" reagan

the republicans have nominated more frauds and jokes in the last few decades than most countries manage in a century

so yr saying they "get shit done"?

all kinds of shit

@turndeaux: “Certain lefties: lol I can’t believe liberals are idolizing the FBI, but also hey somebody should really look into this white supremacist bombing spree“

i have no idea who this turndeaux fella is but are all his takes this fucking boneheaded?

The FBI is not immune to the clannishness and lawlessness that can infest any group of police or law enforcement agents; it's proved that on countless occasions. But they're what we have to investigate federal crimes, and when those crimes occur, I naturally hope they'll succeed in doing their job correctly.

dude I'd trust literally anyone on Earth before I'd trust Trump and his people. FBI, KGB, OMD, TMI...

would you trust your cat sitting to Jim Comey

like, what if he investigated your cat's emails

not so much some libs worship the FBI as it is worshipping the rule of law

all these carrier law enforcement people are just making all this shit up and Trump is totally honest with nothing to hide at all .

Jeb Lund on what to do when Mueller's out

https://www.50statesofblue.com/2018/03/mueller-firing-trump-plan/

otm. plus it's incomprehension that the anti-commie / pro-cop republicans are vilifying the FBI to cover for trump's kremlin treason / incompetence. he should just quit already, declare victory on the swamp, and broadcast trump-tv from trump tower / bedminster / mara-a-lago and leave the reality-based community out of it

xpost

quick question(s): does anyone know -- is the president legally allowed to hide his income taxes from the public for the years when he's in office? or is the IRS obligated to publish whatever BS he files for his first year in office?

So bizarre that both conservatives and liberals in the US demonstrate their tribal affiliation by zinging liberals.

all these carrier law enforcement people are just making all this shit up and Trump is totally honest with nothing to hide at all .

Deep state. Drain the swamp.

Trump purging the FBI of the people who won’t do whatever he wants might be bad for leftism (and everybody) down the line.

further laser-like insight, thx

Jeb Lund on what to do when Mueller's out

https://www.50statesofblue.com/2018/03/mueller-firing-trump-plan/

― Simon H., Monday, March 19, 2018 4:50 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also, for safekeeping:

https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/search/

i saw *the death of stalin* this weekend and it was a helpful reminder that while we may have a buffoon in power surrounded by double dealing sycophants, at least none of them have secret police death squads at their disposal

give it time