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

xpost this feels like the final battle between Scar and Simba except both people are Scar

Trump introduces Marillyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin, as Marillyn Lockheed. Tells her of the F-35: “It’s stealth. You cannot see it. Is that correct? It better be correct.”

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) March 22, 2018

wow trump's new lawyer sounds great

The former United States attorney in Washington, Mr. diGenova has been on television in recent years more than he has been in court. He has appeared in only three federal criminal cases in the past two decades, according to the national database of federal court records, and has not filed an appearance in a federal criminal case in eight years.

trump has been labouring under the misapprehension that stealth fighters are invisible to the naked eye for, what, at least a year at this point? incredible

“I love the president,” Mr. Dowd said in a telephone interview. “I wish him the best of luck. I think he has a really good case.”

hahahahahaha

The former United States attorney in Washington, Mr. diGenova has been on television in recent years more than he has been in court. He has appeared in only three federal criminal cases in the past two decades, according to the national database of federal court records, and has not filed an appearance in a federal criminal case in eight years.

this blurb caught my eye - this the kind of moronic representation that gives you shitshows like the kobach trial. a bunch of 'lawyers' who have zero real court experience who get lit the fuck up once they set foot in a courtroom.

hoping for a scene of him throwing up outside the courtroom

Some speculation he’s replacing his legal team w more of a PR team to defend him on television, presmuedly after he fires Mueller.

that would be a gross miscalculation on Trump's part, so sounds legit

wow trump's new lawyer sounds great

The former United States attorney in Washington, Mr. diGenova has been on television in recent years more than he has been in court. He has appeared in only three federal criminal cases in the past two decades, according to the national database of federal court records, and has not filed an appearance in a federal criminal case in eight years.

― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, March 23, 2018 3:22 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's a "tv lawyer."

I zoomed in then used my CSI "enhance" filter. All I could see was WU-TANG CLA...

― yamnesia (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, March 23, 2018 9:39 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

We have a president who literally believes that we have planes that are literally invisible.

Remind me again how long I have to hold my breath before my spirit blessedly floats away from this cursed earth?

Background (or not, really) on the Iranian charges/sanctions - https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-iran-business-ties-trump-didnt-disclose

Scott Walker Just Got Shellacked By a Judge He Appointed
(Charlie Pierce at Esquire)

Trump introduces Marillyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin, as Marillyn Lockheed.

this is impossibly funny to me

i have some of the existential lurching terror at a bolton appointment, absolutely, but much less right now than i did during the december north korea twitter tantrums when i left the office every day half sure i'd look over my shoulder towards downtown at a mushroom cloud

Remind me again how long I have to hold my breath before my spirit blessedly floats away from this cursed earth?

After u see the flash, probly like 30 secs for every 10km from ground zero.xp

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those were not good days.

it's hard for me to even imagine the possibility of bolton and pompeo emerging from talking with north korea with any sort of good news. at least with tillerson i could conjure up an image of what his face would look like as he stepped toward the podium to announce some sort of deal. unlikely, but within the realm of possibility. when i try to conjure those kinds of positive outcome faces for bolton and pompeo, there's just a giant twitching bolton mustache where there eyes and noses and mouths should be

their

also, funny thing about trump's threatened veto of the spending package - either he vetos it and everyone hates him (again) and the government shuts down, or he doesn't veto it and he just reminded his base of all the ways that he failed them

i'm apartment hunting now, gaining a bias towards downtown so i'm incinerated sooner

he just reminded his base of all the ways that he failed them

he has never failed the base, how dare u, #maga

In a week I am losing my job in the financial district, so my post-mushroom-cloud survival time will get a bump!

(instant vaporization has its plusses, obv)

t/s: salaried employment vs an extra 15 seconds of terror at the end of your life

Probably what happened to my friend who worked in the WTC, xp

We have a president who literally believes that we have planes that are literally invisible.

Remind me again how long I have to hold my breath before my spirit blessedly floats away from this cursed earth?

― Toilet Paper Tube Bracelets -- Super Hero Themed? (Old Lunch), Friday, March 23, 2018 3:43 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's demanded that the wall be invisible like 5 separate times and nobody discusses how batshit fucking insane this is

he has never failed the base, how dare u, #maga

― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, March 23, 2018 11:06 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously. I'm convinced that this point that he could personally visit and burn down the homes of his most ardent supporters and his approval rating might fall to like the mid-30s at worst.

they should just stage an "unveiling" of the new, invisible border wall. Just tell him, sure, it's right there Mr. President. We finished it!

and if he tries to touch it, just tell him he can't, it's electrified and unsafe

the president's new wall. could work.

or make it electrified and unsafe, and let him touch it.

A valuable reminder that “the establishment” view of foreign affairs is completely crazy and terrible in its own way too. https://t.co/13809bcD5G

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 23, 2018

xp yes, better yet, *warn* him not to touch it

https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-21-at-3.18.40-PM-630x530.png

The failsafe for Bolton is that he is a pathological egomaniac and will, within weeks, clash fatally with the other pathological egomaniac in the White House and will probably have a shorter tenure than McMaster...if we survive that long.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) March 22, 2018

ever the optimist

Hadrian said precisely what I was thinking.

We have a president who literally believes that we have planes that are literally invisible.

"Yep, Mr. President, there's our new stealth plane! Right there!"

"Where? I can't see anything."

"EXACTLY."

he also still believes that Hillary Clinton poured bleach on her emails

Trump did say the Iraq war was bullshit. He has not bombed 7 countries yet. Yet you refer to him as the "insane clown president" Why? Are you a secret Rolling Stone neocon?

— Stash Prada (@StashPrada) March 21, 2018

Oh, and by the way...Trump, continuing and expanding Obama-era policies, has bombed at least seven countries, mostly by drone: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. https://t.co/8iTevow3mz

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 23, 2018

xps I am betting Bolton lasts a good long while—unless Kelly can outlast him. Trump's problem w/ his cabinet has more often to do with with his feeling restrained, or in the case of McMaster, "boring the shit out of me." If anything Bolton gives the president a chance to play wise statesman. Trump wants a sidekick to romp around in his comic-book world and now he's got one.

lmao

Lot of Trump friends and allies are dialing him in the last 24 hours telling him he's going to look bad if he signs the omnibus spending bill and that he will be played for something of a fool by Schumer, per two people with knowledge of the calls.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 23, 2018

^^ for sure - thats what Flynn was for

xpost damnit

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal) at 2:37 23 Mar 18

it's probably too early for me, what's the context? a leaked video re: Stormy?

I prefer not to work myself into a tizzy over Bolton, yet. We are now seven months from an election. Congressional self-preservation instincts will start working overtime fairly soon. That should help.

I'm just worried Trump's gonna start a war before an election because it worked for GWB before.. he's dumb enough to think it'll work for him too.

We really can't overstate how important the elections are. They loom so large that they are calling this budget (which may or may not even pass) the last major piece of legistation before the end of the year. And it's only the end of March/

Also, worth considering that Trump staff turnaround means loss of momentum, and none of these dudes are machiavellian evil geniuses like Rumsfeld or Cheney. These are short-range b-list grifters.

thank you aimless and josh, close to losing it at work and, i dunno, buying a one way ticket to some exotic place i've never been and fucking off all day

I'm just worried Trump's gonna start a war before an election because it worked for GWB before.. he's dumb enough to think it'll work for him too.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, March 23, 2018 12:46 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the problem is that it probably will "work"

GT trust your heart GTFO, just don't go to one of the exotic places we're gonna erase