I don’t link to TPM much because I figure everyone reads it, but I this is an important point:
Perhaps the White House had planned all along for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to make an appearance at today’s press briefing to rail against sanctuary cities. But the timing is consistent with what I’ve long feared will be the impulse for the Trump administration: When the going gets rough (failed Obamacare repeal, low poll numbers, etc), it will fall back on appeals to racism and xenophobia to regain political footing.
I assume that at some point, as Trump’s approval ratings sink lower, there will be some kind of international conflict he and Bannon provoke to get people (especially the media) to rally around Dear Leader.
N M
Sad but (too) true. Week of action (!) people.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Worked for Shrub, until it didn’t.
WereBear
What else they got?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WereBear: Nutting.
Major Major Major Major
I suspect that it merely appears that their fallback position is xenophobia and hatred when something goes wrong because something is always going wrong and their position is always xenophobia and hatred.
Corner Stone
Of course. This was squid ink.
PsiFighter37
You can only play that tune for so long before you’re left with only the 27%.
p.a.
Fallback position. Fall forward position. Fall right position. They never fall left…
? Martin
Also a lead-in to their strategy on tax reform. I do not think it will work.
p.a.
@PsiFighter37: If your 27% includes the .01%, you’ve got a shot.
hovercraft
@Major Major Major Major:
THIS!
It’s chicken and egg territory.
gkoutnik
I heard they were screening “Wag the Dog” at the WH…
aimai
Well…duh. Did we really think that they weren’t going to juice the stats and fuck the chicken every time things went bad for them? Attacking immigrants is the “threat level elmo” of the Trump regime as terrorism was the shtick of the Bush regime.
hovercraft
@gkoutnik:
Wag the Dog is much too subtle for this crew.
Jeffro
CULT! Yes!!
Jeffro
@p.a.: I think that is what they call “new math”
Unfortunately it’s the same as the “old math”…same as it ever was…
JWR
@hovercraft:
Double THIS! (Do I hear a third!)
mmeep
Provoke an international event? Already thinking about that.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/noam-chomsky-trump-could-stage-a-false-flag-terror-attack-and-change-the-country-instantly/
Start with the xenophobia, move on to Kristillnacht in “problem areas.”
NickM
It scares me too because the Russians and their client states can help whip something up.
gene108
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Shrub had the national psychic trauma of 9/11/01 to get people fighting mad and even then it took him over a year to close the sale of getting authorization to put troops on the ground.
We are not fighting mad right now.
I am not sure even a Republican Congress would just give him what he wants.
schrodingers_cat
Immigrant bashing is having the results T intends. Travel to the US is down, so are applications by international students. The doctor shortage in rural America is only going to get worse.
jacy
I found this really interesting — because WWC are all hopped up on heroin, refugees ARE taking their jobs……
SFAW
Any chance of convincing them Potsylvania has nukes, and Fearless Leader has them aimed at us? I figure it would take them a good year or two before they find it. And if they can’t find it, they can’t pre-emptively nuke it.
Of course, given this crew, they’ll probably say “Fuck it!” and nuke someone else, because they can.
Baud
Somewhat OT: Anyone else find it creepy how the media keeps talking in the most matter-of_fact way about how the Trump and the GOP will do horrible things to Americans to get Dems to the negotiating table?
PsiFighter37
@schrodingers_cat: But then there will be jobs for WWC right?!?
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I find it easier to think of them as enthusiasts, but for politics. Like (making something up) if there’s a plane crash and a bunch of deaths, sometimes you stumble onto a message board arguing about the pros and cons of the various navigation systems that model of plane can use. They just happen to be our media.
Raoul
@gene108: I think a Republican congress that just watched Trump “work his ass off” (his words, I believe) for some portions here and there across perhaps 17 days, for his signature legislation, and have it fail spectacularly, might — might! — make many in the GOP caucus just a bit shy about giving him what he’d want in terms of war powers.
I could be wrong, the GOP that has managed to slither into power the House are both craven and stupid.
And I certainly do worry that Rumpus Minimus will start a war to try for sympathy and power. But I feel as if at least some proportion more of the electorate has Rumpus’s number than they did Bush’s. Though lots of people seem to stand ready to want to be fooled over and over again.
Yarrow
I think because people are and have been talking about it as a tactic Trump might use, that if/when they do want to use it, it may be less effective. Plus there’s the recent example (Shrub) of how well it didn’t work, so I think there could be less support for it than they might expect.
SFAW
@jacy:
Maybe I’m old/clueless, but “hopped up” is not a phrase I would have associated with heroin.
Shana
Hubby tells me that the Senior PGA Championship Tournament is being held over Memorial Day Weekend at the Trump Golf Course in Virginia that the president* went to last weekend. Anyone know if there’s any demonstrations planned?
Lordwhorfin
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And they died droves ‘over there.’ God I hate these scum.
Lordwhorfin
@?BillinGlendaleCA: At least the Romans left some decent roads behind.
rikyrah
@Baud:
this is who they are.
rikyrah
Uh huh
Uh huh
Raw Story
✔
@RawStory
Unarmed legal resident in critical condition after ICE agents raided Chicago home and shot him: family http://ow.ly/1cwV30ajh4Q
3:59 PM – 27 Mar 2017
Raoul
@SFAW: My thought, too. Meth appears to be the hop-up.
Goku
@mmeep:
Fuck you Chomsky. Being against election interference domestically and abroad are not mutually exclusive positions to hold; its not hypocrisy. Self-righteous prick. If the coup ever comes, I hope he’s the first against the wall
jacy
@SFAW:
“hopped up” is family shorthand around my house for any kind of altered state. As my kids tell it, I was once so “hopped up” on Nyquil that I spent a day referring to Justin Timberlake as “Jason Timberland.” He has since always been known as Jason Timberland to our entire family……
Thru the Looking Glass...
@SFAW:
Baud
@Goku: I never understand these types of arguments. I mean, if their point is that Americans should learn from this and interfere less in other countries’ affairs, then say that. But their writing style always seems so vindictive.
danielx
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
And if you thought George and Dick’s Excellent Adventure was incompetently conceived and executed, wait until Trump decides to indulge in some military-style dick waving.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@rikyrah: @Baud:
Somehow that just feels right…
hovercraft
@Baud:
The media did that all through that Obama years, no matter how badly they behaved or how insane they got, the media kept asking democrats what they would concede to stop the republicans from blowing up the country/world. It’s the medias default position. Everyone knows that republicans are crazy, so it’s up to democrats to prevent them from acting on their insanity, if we don’t it’s our fault because as the responsible ones, we have an obligation to save them and us from them. I say bullshit, you don’t get to pretend that they are a legitimate party, and then when they get elected expect democrats to still do the heavy lifting.
The GOP and the media normalized complete obstruction, so now that it’s our turn, they want us to stop it? Fuck ’em.
They lied and obstructed their way into power, so it’s time to let show us they’ve got.
Baud
@Thru the Looking Glass…: That’s true, but the media actually doesn’t pitch it that way.
Baud
@hovercraft: I agree completely.
EBT
@gene108: I for one am ready to liberate red states, even if we have to use our biggest bombs to do so.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: you know how there’s a stereotype on the right that all lefties and liberals hate America?
That came from somewhere.
schrodingers_cat
@PsiFighter37: Sure, after they train to be doctors and scientists.
Mnemosyne
@gkoutnik:
Big problem with “Wag the Dog” — turned out that the group who Bill Clinton was accused of overexaggerating the danger of in order to distract the country from his liaison with Monica Lewinsky was al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
Now every time someone uses the phrase “wag the dog,” it makes me wonder what vital information is being ignored that will eventually come back and bite us in the ass because the Republicans were too feckless to pay attention.
hovercraft
Schiff Calls On Nunes To Recuse Himself From Russia Probe Over Trump Ties
………”After much consideration, and in light of the Chairman’s admission that he met with his source of information at the White House, I believe that the Chairman should recuse himself from any further involvement in the Russia investigation, as well as any involvement in oversight of matters pertaining to any incidental collection of the Trump transition, as he was also a key member of the transition team,” the ranking Democrat on the committee said in a statement late Monday……..
Jim
@Goku:
? It’s only ok for Americans?
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: They are almost salivating at the prospect of “revolution” that will conveniently sacrifice other people, they are not much better than the tea party types. Only thing that is different is they are away from the levers of power.
Thru the Looking Glass...
CBS Evening News leads w/ story about Jarod Kushner meeting the Russian bank VEB…
Good God… is there NO ONE in the Trump Admin who’s NOT in Putin’s hip pocket?
Jeffro
So I see the Trump and Ryan tax “plans” are now being floated, with the same ridiculous amount of benefits going to the rich…the only real difference being that Trump is willing to add some paltry bribes to the middle class and working poor to get them to go along with it.
Screw that – they oughta both go pound sand. No estate tax? That’s $300B that everyone else has to make up for
Looks like we’ve got our next big issue…
Major Major Major Major
@hovercraft: we got this with the 2016 post mortems too. Republican votes just fall from the sky and it’s the task of the democratic nominee and them alone to beat them back with (apparently) even more than a three million vote margin.
hovercraft
@Baud:
Would have been better if the english language wasn’t butchered ;-)
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Baud: Absolutely… enabling and normalizing… there does seem to be some greater attempts at honesty in some quarters, but still not enough…
Nunes now lying his Cheney off (on CBS Evening News)… followed by Spicer…
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: The Beltway media are the Republican base, overwhelmingly white and male and females like Whory Woodruff and Mrs Greenspan know which side of their bread is buttered.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: To be fair to Chomsky, he recognized that people had to vote for Hillary.
different-church-lady
The real problem will be when we have a genuine crisis that requires genuine presidential leadership, and the cupboard will be bare.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Jeffro:
isn’t tax ‘reform’ intertwined w/ healthcare, which those putzes just booted completely?
G’damned punters…
mmeep
@Goku:
Yeah, I get that. But despite the messenger, the message is valid.
Roger Moore
@hovercraft:
The Republicans are basically a bunch of domestic abusers, and the media are enabling them. “The Democrats made us crazy by not giving us everything we want” is about as reasonable as “she made me hit her”.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@schrodingers_cat:
Yeah, well, that’s what a majority of them voted for… for those who didn’t, complete sympathy.
Fair Economist
@Goku:
Those Clintons are fearsome – guess Bill was running US foreign policy over a year before he was elected.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Roger Moore:
That’s EXACTLY what it is…
schrodingers_cat
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Who are they? Immigrants, or WWC?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Just remember the “Deportation Force” will be very humane.
cokane
27% is trump’s floor, remember
Feebog
@Raoul:
Shouldn’t that be Rumpus Maximus?
Baud
@cokane: Bush actually hit 20%. The health care bill polled at 17%. We may see Trump cross the wingnut event horizon.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@schrodingers_cat:
The damn WWC.
Thru the Looking Glass...
Whoa… over at Politico:
Cheney: Russian meddling possibly ‘an act of war’
Damn… you get to the point where you’ve lost Dick Cheney… already… where do you go from here?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Feebog:
Dude’s got a biiiig arse.
Villago Delenda Est
@SFAW: Only blahs get “hopped up” on anything. Whites get “mellow”.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: The Republicans are the “daddy party”, but one hell of a mean drunk and abusive daddy.
hovercraft
@Roger Moore:
Bingo.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
The tourism industry will not be happy.
Mike J
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
Today when he was signing a law to make it legal to shoot hibernating bears, or to shoot bears from planes, he was complaining the desk was too small.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Villago Delenda Est:
No, they Get Small.
hovercraft
@cokane:
I think Twitler may test that “floor”, I know 27 is the crazification factor, but Twitler’s crazy may penetrate even to them. I’m betting it may distill down to a purer form of around 22%.
rikyrah
@hovercraft:
You are correct, and also correct in saying phuck ’em.
Nobody’s playing nice with these sociopaths.
Aleta
Family writing about a Goresuch ruling (at SF Chronicle) http://linkis.com/www.sfchronicle.com/EijUY
debbie
@Mike J:
That desk always looks empty to me. It’s clear except for whichever executive order he’s signed.
Kathleen
@Roger Moore: And if only Hillary had asked white Republican WWC’s how their day went they wouldn’t have thrown the voting booth at her.
Millard Filmore
@mmeep:
Whatever problems Russia had at the time, it is up to them to fix the situation. Exactly the same with us. The job of our politicians is to fix any holes that Russia exploited. Prosecuting traitors is not the same as going to war with Russia.
trollhattan
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Most foreign policy is crafted in Arkansas, so QED or something.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I respect him as a linguist but “at least he’s smarter than Susan Sarandon” is not a good bar for political thinking.
Jeffro
@debbie: higher ed too – awful lot of middle class parents gonna be unhappy when drastically fewer international students = much bigger tuition increases for American kids
TenguPhule
Domestic incident. Donny has more then enough home grown terrorists as followers who would be more then happy to try and clumsily frame an Illegal Mexican Muslim Liberal as the culprit.
magurakurin
@SFAW: or maybe not old enough
Word Origin and History for hophead Expand
n.
“opium addict,” 1911, from hop (n.2) + head (n.) in the drug sense
hophead
noun
1.
(slang, mainly US) a heroin or opium addict
Word Origin
C20: from obsolete slang hop opium; see hop ²
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: My standards have lowered.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
That’s not even good enough to be a bartender.
smintheus
C’mon, who in the world would it be news to that Trump and Co. rally their base by whipping up racism and xenophobia?
‘Maybe the sun was always planning to come up this morning, but I’ve long thought that whenever it did it would warm up the grass somewhat.’
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone: Insulting to squids.
Mike J
@debbie:
The signing desk is different from the desk in the oval.
A Ghost to Most
You’d think he’d want a small desk, to make his hands look bigger
Also, I see Nunes as fence jumper is becoming a thing.
Peale
@Jeffro: if I recall, it’s their estate tax in exchange for my mortgage interest deduction plus a consumption tax on imports. So it’s a wash.
rikyrah
Sir James The Second @JKH2
Just one receipt attached… Bernie holdouts attacking @Ossoff as a former staffer of “Corrupt” John Lewis. #NotMyRevolution I find it ironic…
BCHS Class of 1980
@Raoul: I think “strung out” works for H.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Many of us lowered our standards.
Baud!2020!!!
Major Major Major Major
@rikyrah: good lord, what’s that a clip of?
hovercraft
IF YOU’RE USING TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN PROMISES TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HE MIGHT DO, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG
The Atlantic’s David Graham thinks Donald Trump is well positioned to move to the left now, in the wake of the repeal-and-replace disaster:
… what if … Trump dodged a serious bullet on Friday, setting him up for a recovery? If that’s the case, Friday might even have perversely been the best day of Trump’s presidency so far—or at least the point where he hit rock-bottom, allowing him to turn things around.
Graham imagines that Trump could salvage his presidency by returning to what he espoused during the campaign:
… Looking forward, post-health-care tension threatens to drive a wedge between Trump and Paul Ryan’s agenda, which is in many ways anathema to the Trump coalition.
… Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan … were always an odd pair; they disagreed on a range of fundamental issues, especially entitlements (Ryan wants to cut them; Trump promised to preserve them)….
… a split with the speaker might be the best thing that could happen to Trump in political terms, freeing him up to pursue the deficit-bloating spending agenda he laid out during the campaign, rather than the far more austere and fiscally conservative one that Ryan desires.
Graham, to his credit, doesn’t believe Trump actually will move left…….
Trump’s agenda was never anything more than sucker’s bait. As a businessman or a politician, Trump doesn’t promise what he’d really like to deliver — he promises whatever will reel in the marks. Whatever Trump said during the campaign about Obamacare or Medicare or Medicaid or infrastructure should be taken as seriously as we take Trump University promotional material. As Trump frenemy Mark Cuban said:
“He’s like that guy who walks into the bar, and will say whatever it’ll take to get laid. Only in this case he’s not trying to fuck some girl. He’s trying to fuck the country.”
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: What we need to start doing is playing hardball with them. Prosecutions for corruption, espionage, and being outright enemies of the Constitution of the United States, for starters.
marv
Many, many thanks for posting this obvious truth
Baud
@hovercraft:
Mark Cuban is right.
I love this. Like no one remembers his campaign was all about hate. Oh but he talked about infrastructure…. Nuts.
schrodingers_cat
@hovercraft: You cannot awaken those who are just pretending to sleep, like our enabling prestige media bots.
hovercraft
@rikyrah:
These fucking people, they are not fit to lick John Lewis’s shoes. How dare they.
schrodingers_cat
@hovercraft: I remember BS supporters and their campaign against Booker too. They seem to have more in common with T supporters than they would like to admit.
Villago Delenda Est
@TenguPhule: Two words: Reichstag Fire.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Looks like a Reddit post.
Emma
@rikyrah: WTFingF?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: I saw that today on Reddit!
hovercraft
@Baud: Mark Cuban is right.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: I expect nothing less from The Intercept’s useful leftist idiots.
Doug R
Anyone notice the Keystone XL approval on the same day as the health care fail?
Baud
@Doug R: Yep.
Iowa Old Lady
@rikyrah: Do we call them Wingnuts too?
Major Major Major Major
@Doug R: good thing we didn’t elect that mean lady whose AIDS foundation takes money from oil producers.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Found it. It’s a month old post with only four comments, all of whom push back. Terrible person, but could be a troll. Not worth getting worked up over.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/5vig46/a_word_of_warning_with_jon_ossoff_the_special/?sort=confidence
amk
ebola!!!!!!!
fucking fifth columnists
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: good. Kind of the impression I got.
JMG
Do you folks really think this band of blunderers could execute a false flag operation without it harming only themselves? They might want to, but it’d leak out in the planning stage at the latest. I mean, we’re talking Devin “I could have snuck onto the White Grounds if I wanted to” Nunes here.
Another Scott
@Fair Economist: Forget it. He’s rolling.
Cheers,
Scott.
randy khan
@hovercraft:
I’m trying to figure out how Trump crafts a majority in Congress for that kind of spending without the support of the Republicans who support Ryan.
randy khan
@JMG:
Even a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut, but it’s hard to see.
Baud
@JMG: They’ll probably accidentally tweet out their plans.
randy khan
@Raoul:
It’s one thing to start a war. It’s another to lose it because none of the people who are supposed to be in charge are paying attention.
Major Major Major Major
@randy khan: he can’t. It’s easy to imagine a scenario where they execute a white socialism herrenvolk takeover & institute a one-party state, but it turns out a lot of republicans actually believe in their ‘principles’ and never learned that they’re supposed to be code for ‘n****r n****r n****r’.
Villago Delenda Est
@randy khan: The teabaggers in Congress want to eliminate all government spending except for Defense. The fools who voted for them don’t get that Medicare and Medicaid are government programs. Most of them don’t get that Social Security is a government program.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@randy khan: They have very small hands.
hovercraft
@schrodingers_cat:
We need a catchy name for them, they’re our equivalent of the Teahadists. @Iowa Old Lady: we need to run a contest to name them.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Right. I think what we’ll have to face is what we’ve always had to face, and that is voter suppression.
Frankensteinbeck
Put me down for ‘Xenophobia is the constant drumbeat of the Trump administration, and you’re just noticing it now because you’re actively looking for nonexistent strategy.’
@Kathleen:
As I understand it from our Progressive Betters, she should not have wasted time saying racism is bad, because only saying rich people are bad will work.
Even if they were right, that would just prove to me how deeply racism is the problem.
hovercraft
@randy khan:
He doesn’t, remember the Hastert Rule? They may not shout about it now that he’s a convicted felon, but the “principle” remains, any legislation must have the majority of the party. The Freedom caucus must oppose any and all spending except tax cuts, any attempt to pair them with infrastructure or anything else will lead to mutiny. He’s boxed in, ZEGS is boxed in. They are fucked.
Iowa Old Lady
@hovercraft: Assholes seems just fine to me.
Baud
@Frankensteinbeck:
They might have been right, and so are you.
efgoldman
@schrodingers_cat:
Without foreign students to pay the full boat (or have it paid by their governments) lots of schools will have to raise their already stratospheric tuition to mesosphere levels.
Frankensteinbeck
@hovercraft:
Which, as always, brings us back to what an utter obstructionist fucking asshole Boehner is, since even Hastert didn’t use that rule, and if Boehner hadn’t abused his speaker power in such an unprecedented and horrendous way, the Freedom Caucus would be laughed at as imperfect but crudely acceptable bills got passed with Democratic help.
Bill Arnold
@mmeep:
Ah, good, was wondering when N. Chomsky would get around to mentioning the possibility. Been worrying some of us for months.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: nonsense. All struggle is class struggle, dontcha know. I learned it from a very dead old white man and a very shouty old white man.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Major Major Major Major:
Heh. I try to stay away from my RWNJ brother’s Facebook feed—and he has been unusually quiet since the inauguration—but he posted some trivial piece of anti-Hillary bullshit today that for some reason got under my skin. I blacked out briefly, and when I came to I found that I had responded:
No response so far.
Citizen_X
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Not to mention, when I get to the point where I agree more with Dick Cheney than with Noam Chomsky…ai yi yi!
schrodingers_cat
@efgoldman: You forgot the worker bees of research universities, most graduate students in STEM disciplines and post-docs are not US citizens, either.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: My favorite part of the Communist Manifesto was when the proletariat teamed up will a real estate billionaire to oppress darker skinned proletariat.
efgoldman
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Barron?
Maybe?
Frankensteinbeck
@Citizen_X:
This didn’t surprise me, actually. Cheney is a neocon. American military sovereignty over the world is his religion. Russia compromising the president in their attempt to regain superpower status must disgust him.
Lurking Canadian
@Peale: Now, now, let’s not bicker and argue about who robbed whom. The important thing is to make sure the children of the rich never have to pay any taxes at all.
Major Major Major Major
@Frankensteinbeck: it should disgust anybody who loves this country or at least wants an America they can love. I am having a hard time filing the most vocal leftists into either category right now.
schrodingers_cat
@Frankensteinbeck: It disgusts me and I am not a neocon.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Dude, American intelligence collects metadata.
Metadata!!!
Whose side are you on?
schrodingers_cat
@Iowa Old Lady: Collaborators.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: as a digital librarian I was very excited when everybody learned that word and then swiftly disappointed when it quickly became meaningless.
Lurking Canadian
@hovercraft: As I understand it, Hastert’s rule was that legislation couldn’t be allowed to pass unless it commanded a majority of Reublican votes.
That’s bad enough.
Boehner’s rule was that legislation couldn’t be allowed to pass unless it could pass with ONLY Republican votes. That goes beyond “bad” to utterly fucked up.
hovercraft
@Steeplejack (tablet):
K-Thug is that you? You are shrill!
Omnes Omnibus
@Frankensteinbeck: Cheney is a stopped clock here and arguably correct for all the wrong reasons, but he ain’t wrong.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Citizen_X: Yup… kinda my point…
When Dick Cheney thinks something’s wrong…
Thru the Looking Glass...
@efgoldman: Give him & them time…
Steeplejack (tablet)
@hovercraft:
I feel shrill! But it felt so good to unload on my brother. I don’t think he will respond, because he knows from crazy forwarded e-mails and other crap in the past that I will go full debunking Snopes on his ass, with CC/public mode so that all his little comrades can feel the burn too.
Bill Arnold
@JMG:
Oh, I expect that they could do a lot of damage if lucky, but overall that they would fail spectacularly. It does not hurt to talk about the possibility though; reduces the likelihood that a plot will be formed if it’s on the radar for a lot of people.
If it were to happen, I would expect an attempt at something that would shut down most communications within the US for an extended period of time so that opposition would be disrupted. Disguised as “terrorism”. (There are a few obvious possibilities, that I assume emergency planners (FEMA etc) are familiar with.)
randy khan
@hovercraft: I clearly need a hash tag when I’m wondering about something that I’m not really wondering about.
Steeplejack (tablet)
Trump is tweeting! Four in the last hour. (Hat tip to Lawrence O’Donnell.)
Major Major Major Major
@randy khan: you could always just use normal-person words to indicate it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack (tablet): Go home, Donald; you’re drunk.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Major Major Major Major:
That’s crazy talk! Clearly a Wilmer protocol is called for.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Are you new to this blog?
randy khan
@Major Major Major Major: You’ve read enough of my posts. How likely is that?
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Omnes Omnibus:
The drinking is coming from inside the house!
randy khan
@Steeplejack (tablet):
Those are beautiful. The first two are like “lock her up” greatest hits.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
it was cute the first time O’Donnell had George Will on. Now it’s clear he’s just as boring and pompous partisan as he was back in the Brinkley days, however much he hates trump.
ETA: though I’d still take GWill over O’D’s previous guest, Eli Lake
Steeplejack (tablet)
@randy khan:
“That last studio album cratered. Let’s get a greatest-hits set out right away! And schedule an arena tour!”
amk
@Steeplejack (tablet): And here I thought it is awake only at 3 am. Dinging the kkk kaukus and ‘soliciting’ the dems. A twofer.
Bill Arnold
@Steeplejack (tablet):
Oy. Trump tweeted about the “Uranium to Russia” thing again and made me look it up. Kinda a medley of confusion and dishonesty.
For reference, here’s the NYTimes article on the subject (April 23 2015):
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal
Key point:
(bold mine).
Aleta
amk
jeez guyz, didn’t y’all vote for burn it all down?
Omnes Omnibus
@Aleta: Remain calm! All is well!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Yeesh. Obama aide Jim Messina tweets out a go fund me link for a former colleague who’s having a medical emergency. 90% of the replies are Wilmerites declaring it serves him right for serving the Slayer of Single Payer.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Aleta:
I liked that coming right after “as soon as ObamaCare folds—not long.”
Another Scott
@Aleta: He’s delusional. And insane.
The Democrats will make a deal with me …
Yes, Donnie, it’s all about you and your fee-fees. Keep it up!!
(groucho-roll-eyes.gif)
Cheers,
Scott.
randy khan
@Steeplejack (tablet): LOL.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t want to live in 1930s Germany.
Bill Arnold
@Steeplejack (tablet):
Those tweets, at this hour, might be a sign. (Of staff turmoil/shifts.)
(It’s like Kremlinology but more fun.)
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Bill Arnold:
Yeah, we don’t have to wait around to see who’s been airbrushed out of the photographs.
Aleta
@Steeplejack (tablet): Instead the whole world will be waiting around for the State Dept to answer questions.
Link may not work any more
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2017/03/27/state-department-press-room-goes-dark-at-least-for-now/
efgoldman
@Aleta:
Why would she take a pay cut?
Bill Arnold
@efgoldman:
Perhaps a promise (perhaps in writing) of post-gig Wingnut Welfare?
Aleta
@efgoldman: Perhaps Trump is offering her husband (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley) a position too?
Anyway, I wonder if it’s a reward for her:
Kay
Donald Trump is Tweeting that the Democrats “will” make a deal with him on health care because Obamacare is “folding”.
There’s that incredible charm and gift for persuasion again. He’s a real charmer, let me tell you. Honestly, if someone somewhere along the line had told this jerk to get lost the world would be a better place. Horrible, nasty person who actually isn’t good AT ALL at “dealmaking”. If anyone makes a “deal” with this slimy creep based on his threatening to destroy health care for 24 million people they’re a goddamned idiot.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@jacy:
ROFL, drug testing is finally reaching it’s logical conclusion. “What happens if no one can pass you incessant and constant tests because they like Kaiser rolls for breakfast. “
Bill Arnold
@Kay:
Kevin Drum was bizarrely trying to talk up a deal today; maybe tonight’s tweets will cure him. (He’s usually much more politically attuned than that; he has a lot of high-profile readers and should be more careful.)
Combining Obamacare and Trumpcare Might Save Health Insurance
Ian
@JWR: \THIRD!
Ian
@Goku:
I disagree with Chomsky, but he has a point. It is (IMHO) similar to Ward Churchill’s 2002 comments. They may be offensive, and non-topical, but one reaps what one sows.