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

If only this department had, like, a staff. That is not the secretary's wife. Are we to believe that if anyone in HUD needs a new desk chair they go to Mrs. Carson, because no one else is capable of dealing with it?

i guess i should stop being surprised by how fucking insane people are but still

They said that Christian voters who backed Trump had been derided as unthinking, unsophisticated hypocrites, but for many of them that only affirmed their resolve. One of the women said that her parents had come to the United States illegally from El Salvador and that she was born a short time later. Her father is now a citizen. She supports Mr. Trump and his hard-line plans on immigration.

I kinda believe that Ben Carson doesn't remember buying a $31,000 table

Next documentary up:

https://www.channel4.com/news/exposed-undercover-secrets-of-donald-trump-data-firm-cambridge-analytica

No lie about this, of course:

Mr Nix also belittled representatives on the House Intelligence Committee to whom he gave evidence in 2017. He claims Republican members asked just three questions. “After five minutes – done.”

“They’re politicians, they’re not technical. They don’t understand how it works,” he said.

trump is not going to like this because it implies all the things the campaign did (crimes) were somebody else's idea, and he's going to tweet that they were all his

BREAKING: *CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA SUSPENDS CEO ALEXANDER NIX

— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) March 20, 2018

Analytics pick Nix nixed etc

First Hicks Nixed, Now Nix in Bobby 3-Stix Russia Elect-Fix Up-Mix; Next: Dick Pix?

Fuck, I left out MI6

New: Johnson Joy, one of Ben Carson’s top officials at HUD, has resigned following our report this weekend. Two sources tell me he was escorted out by security this morning. https://t.co/JrPvHGjY8A

— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) March 20, 2018

hats off Moo that's p good

Johnson Joy?

This whole administration feels like an episode of Punk'd.

If only this department had, like, a staff. That is not the secretary's wife. Are we to believe that if anyone in HUD needs a new desk chair they go to Mrs. Carson, because no one else is capable of dealing with it?

Firing people who point out that you're doing something legal essentially legalizes whatever it was you were doing, from what I understand. It's like putting your fingers in your ears and scrunching your eyes shut and going 'la la la la'. Double jeopardy!

'doing something illegal'

duh

lol John Kennedy (R-LA) tamping down anti-Mueller tweets as mere talk: "The President grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

get that man some Beano

haha that's a good burn xp

Speaking of burns

Technically I didn't sleep with the POTUS 12 years ago. There was no sleeping (hehe) and he was just a goofy reality TV star. But I digress...People DO care that he lied about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it up, etc. And PS...I am NOT going anywhere. xoxoxo https://t.co/Js9sEnanIk

— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) March 20, 2018

hehe

PA GOP going ham on the court

Does 'desperately thrusting a flaccid wad of gristle in the general vicinity of a porn star's privates' count as 'sleeping with'?

Not if she's on the telly

...what?

Oh it's been a day.

Trump ignored warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Putin, including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating "DO NOT CONGRATULATE." https://t.co/vEcwhGeEMQ

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 20, 2018

lmao

tbf to trump, in the little picture version of the briefing they made for him the cartoon figure who is supposed to be waving his hands as in "no, don't congratulate putin, don't do it!" could be mistaken for someone exuberantly waving at putin and congratulating and praising him

"... let's see now, D-O-N-U-T ... C-O-N-G-R-- I gotta call Vlad, anyway."

that feels weirdly sinister to me but i'm getting more and more hackles up about putin every day

jabroney billionaire pritzker wins

Greaaaaaaaat.

Looks like Mariotti only needs another...200k+ votes to take the nomination!

I thought the video of Trump talking about congratulating Putin was glitching for a second but, no, he really did repeat himself three times within the span of about a minute and a half.

bump

he probably meant to congratulation MGMT for their upcoming album

benghazi!

http://www.newsweek.com/us-soldiers-killed-niger-wrong-equipment-not-supposed-be-there-report-says-854275

I am going to guess the operation was not brought to Trump's desk for fear over how he would pronounce "Niger"

Epic interview with lawyers representing Michael Cohen (and Trump) and Stormy Daniels. I can't imagine Trump would be feeling too great about his legal representation if this is the best they can do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1595&v=UNWqrAhaLhM

let's try this one

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

is Trump's official position that he never had an affair with or had anything to do with the NDA with Story Daniels? Because his "allies" seem to be really blowing that story out of the water

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/kentucky-gop-tweet-suggests-shooting-democrat/index.html

xp oh boy, here's trumps official position and it's a doozy:

https://nypost.com/2018/03/21/stormy-daniels-lawyer-trump-gave-that-soggy-titted-goon-the-deep-dicking-back-when-she-was-bangable/

oh aren't u a treat

he probably meant to congratulation MGMT for their upcoming album

kinda lol but mostly RAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH

is Trump's official position that he never had an affair with or had anything to do with the NDA with Story Daniels?

Yup. Trump operates by simple rules and he well understands the concept of denying everything, even when it makes him sound ridiculous or it is obvious he is lying, because admitting wrongdoing is dangerous when you habitually break laws and abrogate contracts for fun and profit. He's also had very good success by having his lawyers threaten people. Just because he's POTUS now it won't change these deeply ingrained habits.

somehow watched that whole CNN clip.... i really am not super invested in the stormy daniels saga but watching her competent and focused attorney dodge every butterfingered gambit by the clown friend of trump's clown attorney is pretty compelling.

I am going to guess the operation was not brought to Trump's desk for fear over how he would pronounce "Niger"

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, March 21, 2018 11:28 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you realize this joke still isn't funny when you frame it as someone else saying it right

It's incredibly lopsided to the point where the Trump lawyer basically admits several times to Trump team fuckups.

xp

Chris Coons (DE)
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
Joe Donnelly (IN)
Heidi Heitkamp (ND)
Doug Jones (AL)
Joe Manchin (WV)
Bob Menendez (NJ)
Bill Nelson (FL)
Jack Reed (RI)
Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)

“The 45 Senators who voted in favor of S.J.Res.54 today made a strong statement that U.S. support to the Saudis is not unconditional,” says Shireen Al-Adeimi, who was born in Yemen and now lives in Cambridge, where she has been organizing independently to build support for the Sanders-Lee bill. “However, this is by no means a celebration, as the 55 who opposed the bill have ensured that millions more Yemenis will suffer needlessly.”

http://inthesetimes.com/article/21001/Yemen-war-iraq-democrats-saudi-arabia-senate-menendez