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

Clever, I'd say.

Note: (a) not all of our evidence will be mentioned/displayed tonight – that would be foolish; (b) we are not sure what CBS will include but we know a lot from the full interview will have to be cut bc of the time allowed; (c) tonight is not the end – it’s the beginning. #basta

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) March 25, 2018

@Old Lunch: Context: This is what liw wrote to me at the same time in another thread:

Are you though? Or is that you’re Tuomas two? A weird bald Scandinavian looking for love and cred in all the wrong places?

― lion in winter, 25. marts 2018 11:25 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm sorry that he is getting smacked in the face by Trump, but I'll 'direct snark' at any asshole who writes to me like that.

it gets my dander up when the "purity" cliche is trotted out re principle, whether you share it or not

tuomas was cool

btw the march was very touching. So was the march on climate change.

You really are Carol Kane’s character from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

We Are All Kaushtuppers Now

Whomp whomp

Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow confirms to me that Joe di Genova and his wife/law firm partner will not be joining the President’s legal team after all. “The President is disappointed that conflicts prevent [them] from joining the President's Special Counsel legal team.” https://t.co/9YHYuqtG0e

— Tamara Keith (@tamarakeithNPR) March 25, 2018

I guess 'sanity' counts as a conflict for those embedded in Trumpworld.

@Old Lunch it was meant as good-natured joshing tbh, I just didn't get why I was being invoked at all

Yeah, sorry, I was unnecessarily aggro. I've just seen people jumping on lion in winter lately and thought it was worth addressing some context.

Scholars all!

Told line-item veto was ruled unconstitutional, Mnuchin says: “Congress can pass a rule that allows them to do it.” Told Congress would have to pass a constitutional amendment, Mnuchin says on Fox: “We don’t need to get into a debate ... There are different ways of doing this.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 25, 2018

fred is bald? updating the .xls

Unconstitutional stuff- if youre rich they let you...wait, they dont?! Xp

You really are Carol Kane’s character from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

sorry, I can't afford Prestige TV (Carol Kane is great tho).

November will tell the tale.

More on lawyerly foolishness:

Trump had not closely researched di Genova or even consulted with top aides, including Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and White House counsel Donald McGahn, before hiring him.

Trump had hoped diGenova could serve as a surrogate in television interviews and play the role of attack dog in criticizing the Mueller probe.

Sekulow approached him two weeks ago about joining the team, but he and his wife run a law firm that represents clients with conflicting interests.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-another-blow-to-trumps-efforts-to-combat-russia-probe-digenova-will-no-longer-join-legal-team/2018/03/25/8ac8c8d2-3038-11e8-94fa-32d48460b955_story.html?utm_term=.d4211696d6bc

the endless cycle of people who want to be close to power thinking "it's gotta be a schtick to some degree he can't be that much of an idiot"......"oh wow he is that much of an idiot"

remember the only reason Vince McMahon isn't Secretary of State is because Trump thought he died in a car explosion.

what is Steven Seagal up to these days?

Last I saw he was in Russia of all places.

He has just launched a crypto currency, inevitably.

Seagold

Nice

Seagal also facing rape accusations.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/steven-seagal-accused-women-rape-sexual-assault/story?id=53854333

He’ll fit right in

whatever happened to kellyanne conway and stephen miller? do they do appearances?

they're still around. kellyanne was on tv the other day braying about something.

Stephen is busy shooting Reich propaganda

Wtf he's 32? He looks 46

Miller? He looks more like 26.

Not with that hairline

26 in Nazi years.

it's been interesting with Bannon, Miller, Conway, Trump, Etc etc how people on the left take much pleasure in being almost pathologically mean and focused on people's looks, there's definitely a glee there that I think is partially just feeling a license to be mean... also the "dotard" incident was the same, bring able to say "-tard" and get away with it

^^^otm

yup

if you call 'em on it they REALLY wanna argue about it, too

Is it really limited to "the left"? I see libs joking about Trump's heft pretty regularly.

liberals in being sanctimonious about appearance and perceived health shocker?

Is it really limited to "the left"? I see libs joking about Trump's heft pretty regularly.

i think to most people "the libs" are on "the left" and so are therefore included?

libs / the left are the same bucket whether real leftists like it (they don't) or not

I'm gonna spare us all a very silly argument and bow out early on this one.

from the second I saw Simon's "the left" post I saw this coming

Daniels interview transcript is up:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stormy-daniels-describes-her-alleged-affair-with-donald-trump-60-minutes-interview/

I saw KAC at Mass this evening. She still walks this earth FYI

Michael Avenatti: This is about the cover-up. This is about the extent that Mr. Cohen and the president have gone to intimidate this woman, to silence her, to threaten her, and to put her under their thumb. It is thuggish behavior from people in power. And it has no place in American democracy.

will evangelicals finally turn on trump now that he’s accused of having a gotti wannabe threaten a baby

(no)

Daniels: He was like, "Wow, you-- you are special. You remind me of my daughter."

Evangelicals don’t give a fuck. It’s only about abortion

The chances of evangelicals evincing concern about the child of a porn star, hmm, let me think on this...