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

you know, they care

shoring up the patriarchy imo

― gbx, Monday, March 26, 2018 12:13 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think gbx has the actual core ish there

― Hunt3r, Monday, March 26, 2018 12:22 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Closer, but the traditional order might be closer still - the 'patriarchy' still has a 'racial' (and religious) dimension in many places. A better word than traditionalism may be fascism.

Another useful Mariotti thread

1/ Last night’s @nytimes article by @maggieNYT and @nytmike deserves more attention. As they note, the only *personal* attorney Trump has working on the Mueller investigation. That’s really important, for two reasons.

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) March 26, 2018

Mariotti's basically repeating what Abramson said yesterday, except Abramson, if I read him correctly, characteristically made the additional implication en passant that Cobb, who represents "the White House" and not Trump, has essentially been telling Trump to cooperate and not fire Mueller in service to the interests of the Presidency qua office rather than occupant

Not a huge surprise, but the Pinkertons logo is terrifying

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Pinkerton_logo.svg/436px-Pinkerton_logo.svg.png

Those fuckers still exist??!!?

well I guess I found what I was thinking of

Last year, my @BuzzFeedNews colleagues and I documented three separate instances of people reporting to the police and FBI that they were physically threatened by people close to Trump. The incidents date back to the 1980s. https://t.co/E51BxB3GoVhttps://t.co/cVZu50nzZ7 pic.twitter.com/mDDtnO1mX3

— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) March 26, 2018

PINKERTON®: we'll stab you in the eye, motherfucker

https://www.pollstar.com/article/the-night-i-fired-donald-trump-41531

hell yeah, a contextless link to a two-and-a-half-year-old story, that's my kinda #content

Pinkerton logo = CBS + Un Chien Andalou

silby, check out the Sarah Jones article I posted earlier this morning

sounding a little fatigued this morning

― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Monday, March 26, 2018 1:46 PM (three hours ago)

Agreed

I wonder how he would react if the earth is ripped out from under his feet. Like if he gets dragged through the mud during an impeachment trial, gets impeached, divorced, defeated in a bunch of lawsuits, publicly humiliated to the extreme, and left for dead by former friends and allies.

wow @ that contextless article

exactly which article are we talking about here; the context for mine is that Stormy Daniels reported a similar threat made to her daughter

Moo Vaughn's Rolling Stones story

Separately, a little flashback to fifteen years ago. But if Bolton's back in the news, why not this guy too.

https://taskandpurpose.com/paul-bremer-iraq-war-ski-instructor/

Bremer, meanwhile, mostly kept his head down. Like the former commander-in-chief, he took up painting. (Though his wistful oils lack the musicality of W.’s best works, pieces like “Sunset with Man’s Best Friend” do carry a distinct emotional power.)

"Hello ladies and gentlemen, we are the Wistful Oils."

http://deadline.com/2018/03/stormy-daniels-biggest-60-minutes-ratings-since-barack-obama-michelle-post-election-20008-1202353291/

But who cares, right?

hell yeah, a contextless link to a two-and-a-half-year-old story, that's my kinda #content

― we gather in social groups and disorient ourselves (bizarro gazzara), Monday, March 26, 2018 3:13 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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makes me happy because there was also an excellent feature on Giannis Antetokounmpo who is quickly becoming my favorite NBA player ever

yeah idk bout y'all but i was watching 60 mins for Giannis

so apparently stormy daniels is suing cohen for defamation?

says who???

Well there's this

Here is amended complaint in Stormy Daniels v. Trump & Michael Cohen lawsuit https://t.co/vx190ESjEj

— Sam Levine (@srl) March 26, 2018

(And yes I got the joke etc.)

Here's a telling stat from today's brand new @CNN poll on Trump and 2018. This is Trump's approval rating among...

Voters somewhat/not enthusiastic to vote in 2018:
47% approve
47% disapprove

Voters extremely/very enthusiastic to vote in 2018:
38% approve
60% disapprove

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) March 26, 2018

Two more top attorneys have turned down Trump.

Tom Buchanan and Dan Webb confirmed to The Daily Beast that Trump reached out to them about representing him in the Russia probe, and that they couldn’t do it. https://t.co/7UTd3VrS9b

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 26, 2018

OT, but did Giannis bring his bell to the interview?

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tom

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for no man

is an island

in the stream

lolol

http://i64.tinypic.com/rm3fvc.jpg

^ that's just lovely

That guy’s podcast, by the way, is worth listening to. It’s called This Week in Atrocity.

wilbur ross just directed the census to include a citizenship question on the census form

Pay for play is alive and well.

For Elliott Broidy, Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign represented an unparalleled political and business opportunity.

An investor and defense contractor, Mr. Broidy became a top fund-raiser for Mr. Trump’s campaign when most elite Republican donors were keeping their distance, and Mr. Trump in turn overlooked the lingering whiff of scandal from Mr. Broidy’s 2009 guilty plea in a pension fund bribery case.

After Mr. Trump’s election, Mr. Broidy quickly capitalized, marketing his Trump connections to politicians and governments around the world, including some with unsavory records, according to interviews and documents obtained by The New York Times. Mr. Broidy suggested to clients and prospective customers of his Virginia-based defense contracting company, Circinus, that he could broker meetings with Mr. Trump, his administration and congressional allies.

Mr. Broidy’s ability to leverage his political connections to boost his business illuminates how Mr. Trump’s unorthodox approach to governing has spawned a new breed of access peddling in the swamp he vowed to drain.

'unorthodox'

Robbing me at gunpoint, eh? I must say, that's quite an unorthodox way of making a buck! But I truly admire your chutzpah.

just feel bad for mr. trump. everyone's ganging up on him. it's so unfair

The late Monday move from the Commerce Department, which it said came in response a request by the Justice Department, would restore a question about citizenship that has not appeared on the census since the 1950s. The administration said the data was necessary to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The state of California immediately challenged the plan in federal court.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla trashed the move as anti-immigrant.

"The citizenship question is the latest attempt by President Trump to stoke the fires of anti-immigrant hostility," Padilla said in a statement. "Now, in one fell swoop, the US Commerce Department has ignored its own protocols and years of preparation in a concerted effort to suppress a fair and accurate census count from our diverse communities. The administration's claim that it is simply seeking to protect voting rights is not only laughable, but contemptible."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/27/politics/census-commerce-department-immigration-california/index.html

The administration said the data was necessary to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

A particularly brazen flipping of the bird.

well it's not like anything matters anymore anyways

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/christopher-steele-mikhail-lesin-murder-putin-fbi?utm_term=.ow5mW3Pma#.sdpePqYeg

it is more likely that a camel can fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man will ever see justice

Pick an oligarch any oligarch, apparently. $28mil in properties is a couple, tho, wonder where those went.

Sarah Sanders said repeatedly today that every census since 1965 has included Q about immigration status, except 2010. That is false. The question hasn't been asked in a full census since 1950 out of fears of squirreling the results. For more: https://t.co/EFYI4JmTg3

— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) March 27, 2018

is it just me or are the lies getting more and more brazen?