US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

That’s meant to be a joke.

Oh jeeeze. Yeah obviously now that I reread it. Sorry folks.

Melania not traveling to G7 next week, and not traveling to Singapore mid-June. Pretty strange, whatever is going on.

Or not strange at all if you figure she’s a rational person with the means to hire her own lawyers and has decided to GTFO while GTFOin’ is good, before the gasoline-soaked bag of manure she married catches fire.

idk why people assume she's any better than / "above" her husband considering she pushed birtherism publicly

I just assume she’d prefer to have some money left over. Separating now is a good risk management decision for her and Barron.

She's not going to leave. She went on TV and defended him over grab-em-by-the-pussy! They already lead completely separate lives anyway, so what would be the point.

and featuring pat nixon as martha mitchell

the only reason I hope she's not secretly dying is because it might give his poll numbers a sympathy boost

speaking of which

President Trump has 2nd highest "own party" job approval rating since World War II at day ~500, only behind Bush43 (after 9/11) (Source: Gallup) pic.twitter.com/cNhEAjMObO

— Bruce Mehlman (@bpmehlman) June 3, 2018

that's not so surprising given how much his party is shrinking/reshaping to where affiliation is congruent and coterminous with "approves of donald trump"

yes, though it further proves that "never Trump" republicans truly have no constituency

now show the graph of increasing partisan polarization

Or the graph of increasing amy poehlerization

or the pie chart of increasing your momification

Or the point on the graph that points out that pointing out the lack of a constituency for anti-Trump Republicans is worth anyone’s time in the back half of 2018, as if that was an insight

Elected Republicans: they don’t seem to have much in the way of principles! Film at fuck yourself

that's not so surprising given how much his party is shrinking/reshaping to where affiliation is congruent and coterminous with "approves of donald trump"

― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 4 June 2018 01:05 (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/wMPv8.jpg

People need to see this movie. (It's not quite the laff/riot "sequel to The Producers" it looks like, btw)

(Actually, that laff/riot reference was to a poster of the same file I didn't post, so ..)

More famously a play (which I've seen)

yeah the film is kinda crap

As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2018

hmmm

I don't think Cohen and Giuliani count as either numerous or legal scholars, but okay dude.

come for Melania gossip, stay for the Tiffany shade. from nymag:

This weekend she skipped a family trip to Camp David (which even Tiffany attended).

Wondering at what point even the hardcore 'who cares about Melania'-ers will begin to admit that this is strange.

It's strange but the simplest reason for it is probably the most likely - she doesn't want anything to do with being flotus when the potus defends his porn fling.

isn't the simplest explanation still being under the knife?

I mean, yeah, it's probably nothing more complicated than a separation. I just wonder how far down the 'everything is fine and I am fine and I love being flotus' robo-tweet rabbit hole it's going to get before the truth finally comes out.

i don't see what's strange about the first lady saying, in essence, "fuck this i quit".

I don't see what's strange about us saying, "Who gives a shit?"

^^^

personally i both give a shit in the sense that bad things (in this case, one assumes, some kind of marital rift) happening to the trumps is endlessly rewarding, but also do not give a shit in the sense that it will doubtless do no damage to trump's standing in the eyes of his supporters and does nothing to further any effort at advancing effective opposition to his administration

well, amusing rather than rewarding, i should say

I don't see what's strange about us saying, "Who gives a shit?"

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

true, we need to get this thread back to important and productive discussio....

hahahahahaha no i can't do it

I give a shit to the extent that Melania goes directly to Mueller and says 'let me tell u everything I know about the scrotal sac I am married to'.

never forget

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DezHKYvUcAUdoS8.jpg:large

Does this tweet seems suspicious to anyone else? pic.twitter.com/aviQcvMuFt

— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) June 4, 2018

I'll give you suspicious.

BREAKING: EPA aide tells House investigators she did personal tasks for Pruitt, was asked to help get used Trump hotel mattress.

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 4, 2018

um

i uh waht

I take this to read that it's a mattress Pruitt used IN a Trump hotel -- which is weird enough and begs questions -- but if it's Trump's mattress from a hotel, then even more uh.

I dunno, collecting any detritus which poses a grave public health hazard because it's been in direct physical contact with the body of Donald Trump seems well within the purview of the EPA.

doing things which fall within the purview of the epa seems distinctly out of character for scott pruitt tbf tho

Wondering at what point even the hardcore 'who cares about Melania'-ers will begin to admit that this is strange.

this is another thing I hate about this presidency, they're so shady and perpetually dishonest that it's turning everyone into truthers

A CNBC reporter mentioned seeing her last week around the West Wing or the like, so I've been skeptical if amused. Supposedly she's turning up at an event in the WH today.

could have been a ghost tbf

As for the mattress

https://www.apnews.com/a21259d0e3a4431791ee32813f838a59/Aide:-EPA's-Pruitt-sought-used-Trump-hotel-mattress

In a letter to committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, they say Hupp carried out personal errands for Pruitt. They include helping him find a place to live in Washington, D.C., and book a Rose Bowl trip. There also were discussions to secure a used mattress from the Trump hotel.

A CNBC reporter mentioned seeing her last week around the West Wing or the like, so I've been skeptical if amused. Supposedly she's turning up at an event in the WH today.

Said event is closed to the press, of course. I'll wait for a proof-of-life photo holding up USA Today.

my bet is at this point they are just letting the speculation continue until she shows up like nothing happened. Queue SHS being her horrible self and chastising the lame stream media for freaking out so much about it.