Nothing to see here:
After his much-publicized, two-and a quarter-hour meeting early this month with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Germany, President Trump met informally with the Russian leader for an additional hour later the same day.
The second meeting, unreported at the time, took place at a dinner for G-20 leaders, a senior administration official said. Halfway through the meal, Trump left his own seat to occupy a chair next to Putin. Trump was alone, and Putin was attended only by his official interpreter.
The encounter underscores the extent to which Trump was eager throughout the summit to cultivate a friendship with Putin. During last year’s campaign, Trump spoke admiringly of Putin and at times seemed captivated by him.
Meeting each other face-to-face for the first time in Hamburg, the two presidents seemed to have a chemistry in their more formal bilateral session, evidenced by the fact that it dragged on for more than two hours.
***The administration official spoke on condition of anonymity to confirm the session, first reported Monday by Ian Bremmer, president of the New York-based Eurasia Group, in a newsletter to group clients. Bremmer said in a telephone interview that he was told by two participants who witnessed it at the dinner, which was attended only by leaders attending the summit and some of their spouses.
Rogue president.
TenguPhule
How many Bothans died when Trump leaked their names to the Emperor?
Tom Levenson
If a president wanted to commit treason, this is how he’d do it.
rikyrah
Pitiful ?
Now we know what sent the Spooks over the edge after the G20
Baud
Maybe Alaskans shouldn’t have stopped worrying.
Izabela
I’m thinking this can only speed up leaks out of the intelligence community about what they know, because there seems no way that any thinking member of the community can stand to see an obviously compromised and possibly incompetent president go on like this.
Bobby Thomson
At least we’ll get a hard test of whether Cleek’s Law applies to national sovereignty.
Mustang Bobby
“So, Vlad, what do you think of my daughter?”
“Она милая.”
“She’s yours for $500 and the mid-terms.”
Jumbo76
Putin: “You’re welcome.”
japa21
Which explains why the two of them were together.
Tazj
Locker room talk and a little bromance, what’s wrong with that?
jl
@Baud: I’m concerned that the Trump administration is co-opting the core Baud messages. You asleep, or more likely, passed-out, at the wheel again?
Josh Marshall’s twitter says that Fox News is running the chyron: ‘Trump: eventually we’ll get something done’.
Is the Baud campaign gong to sit there and do nothing until they steal “We still have time to mess this up’?
O. Felix Culpa
No words. I don’t speak Russian. Yet.
Quinerly
Phillip Rucker of WAPO said his sources described the discussion between Putin and Trump as “animated.” The other leaders in attendance witnessing the meeting were “befuddled.”
BruceFromOhio
Where are all those ‘tree of freedom needs blood’ guys when you need them?
Mike in NC
Putin gets to name the next Supreme Court nominee.
Baud
@jl:
I have to be me.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Judging by their elected officials and crime statistics, Alaskans will fit right in with the Kremlin as birds of a feather.
Baud
@Mike in NC: That actually might be an improvement.
lamh36
Uh huh…who wants to bet this changes as the hours roll by…smh
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/887448623595868163
TenguPhule
@Baud:
You’re supposed to be naked and mopping with mustard.
O. Felix Culpa
@Quinerly: Befuddled. Bewitched. Bothered. And Bewildered. By treason playing out before their very eyes.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Tom Levenson: When the President commits treason, it’s not treason; to paraphrase Richard Nixon.
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
All of them, Katie.
raven
I eat more chicken than any man ever seen. . .
p.a.
Weren’t talking policy. Were talking process; how much harder Donnie has it corrupting an established democracy than Vlad had with a nascent one. Once the form is in place, the policy takes care of itself.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Look at the bright side, we’ll be getting rid of the Palin clan.
TenguPhule
@Bobby Thomson:
I was told there would be no education on this blog.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
I’m peeved at some jackass at Lawfare who’s been wringing his hands about how horrible and evil leaks are and how they’re going to be the downfall of the IC. Has he been paying any attention to current events? In what universe is leaking information about treason worse than actually committing treason?
WaterGirl
@Mike in NC: I would like to be able to roll my eyes and say you have gone to far. I would like to be able to do that, but I can’t.
raven
Well, he got one thing right:
zhena gogolia
@Mike in NC:
Seems to me he named the last one. In effect.
jl
By this time, should be obvious that Trump wants to do big favors for Russia, with nothing in return. We just don’t know the exact arrangements and planning of it, or maybe Trump is just the most gigantic fool imaginable and none were really needed.
That should have been obvious since reports that one of the first things he tried to do was, quietly start getting sanctions lifted in return for exactly nothing at all, but the sinister Deep State bureaucracy stopped him.
So, not sure how this news adds any new angle to the mess.
zhena gogolia
@raven:
Hmmm . . . I wonder which thing you mean?
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
When I am president for life, Lawfare idiots will be legitimate drone targets. Among others.
mai naem mobile
So it’s not her emails but his meetings. Lock this mofo up.
Baud
@TenguPhule: Every week since John turned me on to it.
Quinerly
@O. Felix Culpa:
Kinda shocking it took this long to leak. If I’m understanding correctly someone from the WH leaked to Ian Bremmer.
WaterGirl
Great post title, Cole.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Do you use French’s or the fancy stuff?
jl
We already knew that the Trumpsters have wanted quiet and confidential chit-chats with their Russian BFFs for a very long time.
They certainly have flunkies like Farage and Assaunge who are eager to be go betweens.
Baud
@lamh36:
It was NOT a date. Just friends having a nice dinner together.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Trumps is holding his sixth 2020 re-election campaign rally soon. But Baud was supposed to come around and buy the old gang some beers at the QuickStop last week, but he never showed. Baud is ignoring his base again.
Major Major Major Major
@raven: I saw that! Hilarious. Sounds like something he must’ve said before noon, when he was drunk enough that he’d say it within earshot of a concerned party but not too drunk to say it coherently.
raven
@Major Major Major Major: Some of us talk that way all the time!
jl
@Baud: Damn, you are right. Trump firmly put Putin in the ‘friend-zone’. Putin’s on notice and won’t try anything fresh now. Glad we have such a clever president.
frosty
@raven: Nice one! Go Howlin’ Wolf!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
He was off getting mustard. Priorities man!
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Same as this guy.
BruceFromOhio
@raven: blind pig, acorn.
Mike in NC
Per NY Times, no official US Goverment record of this meeting exists, which every Republican in Congress will find an excuse for.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
TenguPhule
@Mike in NC:
“Good luck showing us proof of treason when we work so hard to make sure there isn’t any to find of it!”
Mark my words, this is gonna end in tumbrels.
Major Major Major Major
@raven: yeah but we aren’t inexplicably important!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Elitist! How will you ever win over salt of the earth(he may just smell earthy) types like jl?
raven
@frosty: This is a friend of mine at Newport in 66 with the Wolf!
Quinerly
Trump nominating Jon Huntsman as ambassador to Russia.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
The traditional BJ way, hookers and blow.
TenguPhule
@raven:
Paul Ryan objects to that last one, he was not born in a petri dish.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: that’s where the mopping comes in.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: we’re a hookers and meth blog now.
Captain C
@Mustang Bobby:
“But only if you let me nail her first.
Mike in NC
Holy shit, now White House denies meeting ever took place.
Hey, these Trump guys sure enjoy their meetings. Most places I worked at had meetings the employees would seek to avoid.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: pee hookers and meth.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: I think that only applies if you’re from U$C.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: Whoa, the Stang at night!
raven
@TenguPhule: Hatched
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: oh, good.
MomSense
@TenguPhule:
They’re assholes but Wittes has broken a few stories thanks to his association with Comey so I’ve added him to my watchlist. He had an article the other night about the first of presumably many cases by people who were exposed by wikileaks.
jl
@TenguPhule: Beer, lotto and smokes. Some powerball, but that is getting a little snooty. Powerball on special occasions
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Ari Melber just now, quoting WaPo: Trump was alone, Putin had his personal interpreter
ETA: Trump brought his Japanese interpreter to the dinner. Kind of surprised, on a non-trump specific way, that they don’t bring a whole passel of interpreters to prepare for impromptu conversations.
MomSense
@raven:
wowowow!
frosty
@raven: Nice pic. I love how he’s in a suit and tie.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I was about to take offense to that, but I saw the article, too. Ho-lee crap.
(Short version for the non-locals: the head of USC’s School of Medicine is on video using drugs, including meth. This all came out when someone at one of his parties OD’d and somebody tipped off the LA Times after Pasadena PD hushed it up.)
raven
@frosty: Yea and my buddy is a retired math prof now!
TriassicSands
Putin and Trump were discussing plans for an upcoming reality TV show — “Celebrity Apprentice Dictator.” Vlad and Don will co-host.
The Dangerman
Probably just Donald complaining about only getting one scoop.
Mnemosyne
@Mnemosyne:
Also, a sick joke that just occurred to me: the woman who OD’d at the party survived, so it’s probably better to overdose in a room full of doctors than in a room full of less educated addicts.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: There was a thread here on that yesterday.
MomSense
@raven:
Just read about his early life and cried for him. Added so much to my appreciation of him and his music.
raven
@MomSense: The don’t call it the blues for nothin.
raven
@MomSense: Watch him jam.
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: As of this morning, the dean is “on leave” and “no longer seeing patients”. Can’t you imagine being one of his schedulers, calling up patients to say “yes, we’re going to have to reschedule that eye surgery of yours. The doctor is having a bit of a hookers-and-meth problem right now”.
Shana
@raven: The only time I have, or ever will, agree(d) with Steve Bannon.
raven
I’m ona tell you what the blues is
nightranger
Unbelievable how far Putin has his c 0 ck shoved down shtgibbons throat.
The orange fart sack has such hard on for that guy. I don’t think Putin has anything on him other than a sheit load of his debt. I think maybe a lot of the Russian oligarchs buy is tacky condos as well. Some of it probably money laundering. It’s gotta be about the money and I don’t believe for one second that it’s all clean money either.
I don’t believe in any pee tapes and even if there are I doubt we will ever see them.
Roger Moore
@jl:
I don’t think these are being done for nothing. It’s just the something is going to Trump, not to the country as a whole.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Is Fredo smart enough to take the Fifth?
raven
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: maybe if it was the third, I don’t think he can count to five.
Redshift
@jl:
And how he keeps trying to return the compounds they were kicked out of in return for nothing, just to help with “improved relations.”
Mnemosyne
@dmsilev:
Even worse, imagine being one of his recent patients. I would be getting a re-check by a non-methhead eye surgeon, stat.
Baud
@raven: Heh.
Frankensteinbeck
@jl:
Baud bought every single one of his voters a beer and a packet of twizzlers.
eclare
@Roger Moore: Hasn’t the favor already been done?
Gravenstone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Probably not. But you gotta think his counsel is.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I missed that. I must have been doing actual work at work.
ArchTeryx
@zhena gogolia: This Thing.
Alien eldritch horror is twice as scary when it looks, sounds, and acts indistinguishable from an average looking human.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: From what I’ve heard, he used to often drink a fifth before classes in college.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
OTOH, it doesn’t sound as if the doctor involved did much to help her. Somebody called 911, but it sounds as if the doctor was far more interested in making sure he wasn’t on the scene when authorities arrived than in saving the woman’s life.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne:
There’s your problem.
Baud
Oh jeez. Chris Hayes isn’t even there and you know who is on again.
debbie
@raven:
I was about that close to Muddy Waters when he played at a Boston blues club. Very intense.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: …but a video of him smoking meth with hookers was “A-OK”.
JMG
Chris can’t let Bernie go. Ever. Dude’s likely to die in Chris’s green room. Hayes is just one of those leftists who can’t deal with the fact racism not economics is why Trump won and why the WWC is Republican. Can’t admit that the oppressed can be and are just as miserable humans as their oppressors. Not a history buff, I guess.
Roger Moore
@eclare:
A favor has already been done, but there are always more favors to ask, like 2018 and 2020. Maybe making some inconvenient witnesses and investigators disappear, stuff like that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Let me guess…the junior Senator from the Great State of Vermont?
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah. Ari Melber is guest hosting.
gene108
@jl:
I disagree. I think the Trump Organization getting some hotels in Moscow, maybe getting a stake in Exxon’s drilling agreement with Russian oil and gas companies, and some future deals to be named later is getting a lot in return for lifting sanctions.
MomSense
@raven:
How many more years is probably my favorite of his. It’s hard to pick one, though. I listen to him all the time.
japa21
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Will be interesting to watch the GOP senators try to explain it all away as a nothing-burger and anybody would do it. They just keep writing the Dem ads for them.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
scene: Lawyer leans over to whisper something to Fredo, Fredo gives him the hand: “No, Dude, I totally got this one”
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “I don’t need to prepare. I’ve got this.”
MomSense
@Frankensteinbeck:
I’ve decided to form a SuperPac and start bringing in the big bucks for Baud.
Quinerly
@Baud:
Actually wasn’t a bad interview. Not the tongue bath that Hayes gives what seems like twice a week.
TenguPhule
Washington Post Autopsy of how Trumpcare died in Senate. Worth a look.
They’re dangerous idiots. But still idiots.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
T: You say goodnight first.
P: No, you say goodnight first.
T: No, you.
P: No, you.
T: No, you go first.
P: No, you go first.
(Long silence)
T: Let’s say goodnight together and then hang up.
P: Okay, let’s say goodnight together.
(Pause)
T: I mean it now. One, two, three….
P: Are you still there? Hahahahaha! You didn’t hang up!
T: Okay, but this time for real. One, two, three….
(Long pause)
T: Are you still there?
Baud
@Quinerly: Agreed. He seems to be taking lessons.
Did you catch that thing where he said they knew the email leaks were the Russians at the time they happened? That was weird.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: Remember to take a cut.
MomSense
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Administrative costs!
WaterGirl
@Shana: I was gonna say that, too, but I couldn’t bring myself to type it!
Baud
@MomSense: The Russians have money.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
I was assuming there were other doctors — or at least medical students — at the same party who helped her. I know that Puliafito made tracks to get away from her and the situation as fast as he could.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: If they are not testifying under oath, it only gives them a platform to get their lies out first, to the people that will want to believe them.
Quinerly
@Baud:
BS was a bit flustered. It wasn’t the interview he expected. I loathe BS so much that I leave the room when he invades my space (plus Poco was trying to choose between two bandanas for tomorrow’s trip; needed assistance ?). I only caught the end about DWS and DNC emails. Seemed to me that BS was caught off guard.
Frankensteinbeck
@TenguPhule:
Yeah, ALL the governors want to be as popular as Mike Pence in their home state. I’m sure half the meeting was breathless declarations of “How do you do it?”
MomSense
Now that I think about it, I should probably hit up some wealthy Russians for money.
That idea just popped in my head without any communication or coordination with the candidate of course.
Baud
@Quinerly: It seemed that way to me too.
Quinerly
@Baud:
I like Ari Melber quite a bit. Isn’t he getting his own show before Hardball?
Mnemosyne
@WaterGirl:
I find it hard to believe they won’t be under oath. Not impossible to believe, but difficult.
I really hope the Democrats let Kamala Harris lead the questioning, just for the YouTube clips of her dismembering that little dweeb.
raven
@Quinerly: is he going to replace Greta?
InternetDragons
Everyone: 2016 can fuck right off.
2017: Hold my beer.
(with credit and appreciation to a redditor)
Yarrow
@jl:
You’re looking at this backwards. Russian oligarchs have financed Trump since the 1990’s. He’s in debt to them for that and they have a shit ton of dirt on him. He is not doing favors for Russia; he’s paying them back for everything they’ve done for him. And he’s being as nice as he can in hopes they won’t release all the dirt they have on him.
Baud
@Quinerly: Don’t know.
Baud
@MomSense
The FEC will never find us without the hyperlink.
Quinerly
This Callista Gingrich piece was my laugh of the day. I needed this laugh. Maybe you need a laugh too: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/07/callista-gingrich-remarkably-life-vatican
Baud
And now MSNBC has an extended segment on the psychology of Trump voters.
Quinerly
@Baud:
You need to know this kind of stuff. All the players. All the shows. “All of them, Katie.” What kind of campaign has Poco hitched his pinch collar to?
MomSense
@Baud:
Even though we’re in the top 10 (thousand)?
raven
Yep, Ari taking the 6pm slot.
ArchTeryx
@Baud: It’s simple. They’re all alien horrors masquerading as people. Scratch a bit beneath the surface, and the claws and fangs come out. See how easy that is, and I get paid about 1/1000ths what the hosts of that show get paid!
Baud
@MomSense: We need to make sure we stay unpopular.
Aleta
I tried to leave you
and forget you
I try real hard to put you down.
I’m trying hard to
go home without you
said I didn’t want you around.
But I stick with you baby
cause you got the best in town.
Andy T and the Nick Nixon Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YD84USS3I
catclub
@BruceFromOhio:
Well, the quote is the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots, so Trump is not at risk.
Baud
@catclub: Heh.
Frankensteinbeck
@TenguPhule:
Okay, I read it all. That article was fascinating, as much in what it didn’t say as what it did. While providing facts about things that went on behind the scenes, it scrupulously avoided any implication that anybody involved does not respect anyone else. I was particularly impressed by how they managed that when quoting a senator as saying the meeting with Trump mostly involved Trump talking about his visit to France.
Baud
Wow. It’s been six months. The Trump honeymoon period is over!
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Seems to be an eternally fascinating subject for the mediabots. No one bothers to interview people like us who are horrified by the norm breaking of T and company. I had many R friends during W’s admin but now I just can’t take people who voted for T and are still making excuses for him seriously.
NotMax
@Baud
Commenting about toenail fungus does seem to have fallen into disuse.
;)
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: I know. It’s not going to change.
TenguPhule
@catclub:
The tree is not picky and deserves some new types of blood. Cowards and Traitors come to mind.
TenguPhule
@Frankensteinbeck:
You noticed that too?
dww44
@Quinerly: I also like him as does the SO. The latter’s approval of a cable news pundit is a rarity. Ari should feel honored.
Steeplejack
God, Trump really is under some weird gypsy curse of being fated to live out in real life all the tweets he has written. Ari Melber just ran a clip of Trump disavowing the health-care vote failure and then showed this Trump tweet from September 26, 2012:
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Heh.
Patricia Kayden
@Tom Levenson: In public? There were so many witnesses that he can’t deny this second meeting.
NotMax
@Frankensteinbeck
“Pretty good pastries in France. Not a lot of people know that but more are hearing about it every day.”
Quinerly
Ian Bremmer laying out on TRMS. Putin’s translator might have a tape.
MomSense
@TenguPhule:
Lemon ricotta agnolotti sounds like one of those intimidating elitist menu items Brooks warned about. If only Dense and Rump had served taco bowls they could have achieved their legislative success.
TenguPhule
@Patricia Kayden:
A particularly stupid executive.
different-church-lady
At this point I’m not going to be surprised when the pee tape shows Putin peeing on Trump.
Quinerly
@NotMax:
?
Frankensteinbeck
@BruceFromOhio:
Occupying wildlife refuges. The document the ‘blood of patriots’ line is taken from is brutally sarcastic mockery of the mini-rebellions, particularly the Whiskey Rebellion, faced by the newborn United States. The general thrust of the piece is that every nation deals with regular rebellions, and America must be doing pretty damn good if our rebels are such weenies. The Founding Fathers considered snark to be a championship sport.
raven
@NotMax:
If we kill more Frenchmen, we win.
If they kill more Russians, they win.
What do we win?
What do we win, Private?
Imagine your loved ones
conquered by Napoleon
and forced to live under French rule.
Do you want them to eat
that rich food and those heavy sauces?
No.
Do you want them to have
soufflé every meal and croissant?
No.
lamh36
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/887475373981696000
WaterGirl
@MomSense: apparently those are pasta squares like small ravioli. So… little ravioli squares with ricotta (pretty standard) but the lemon must be some kind of lemon butter sauce. (just guessing) That’s still elitist for the ManBaby, but I bet he got his ribeye well done and with ketchup.
Chris
@TenguPhule:
It’s not that. He simply thinks he’s untouchable. That whatever he’s caught doing, his pals in Congress will cover for him and his voters will excuse and handwave it. So far, he’s not been wrong.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
Quinerly
@different-church-lady:
You are truly a different sort of church lady, aren’t you? I’m pretty sure Trump is jacking off with his tiny hand while that’s going down. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
WaterGirl
@Patricia Kayden: I’m with Tom. It’s perfect. No aides there, no record of what was said, you feign complete innocence and say “we were talking in front of everyone”, even if no one else was close enough to hear.
AxelFoley
@Baud:
It was NOT sex. Just friends rubbing their genitals together.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
Ooh, getting a little defensive, aren’t we?
WaterGirl
@lamh36: And so it begins… He is beyond stupid.
TenguPhule
@Chris:
Which makes him particularly stupid.
Flaunting that you’re exempt from legal remedies inevitably invites attention from the other kind.
And throwing the Secret Service under the Russia Bus at the same time is just icing on the moron cake.
Frankensteinbeck
@Chris:
The problem is, with this kind of thing you keep being right until suddenly you’re wrong and it’s too late to run.
NotMax
@MomSense
Also sounds like the pen name for an Italian author of young adult fiction.
TenguPhule
@AxelFoley:
“Penetration did not occur. And even if it did occur its not gay as long as our balls didn’t touch.”
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s appalling that this piece of crap is president of the United States.
Quinerly
@Frankensteinbeck: I truly believe luck does run out. It’s going to take a little time, but I’m convinced that Trump will not last…he won’t finish his term.
different-church-lady
@Quinerly:
TRUMP: “Vlad! How the hell are ya?”
PUTIN: “What the fuck are you doing, you idiot?”
T: “Saying hello to the big guy!”
P: “You don’t know me. You don’t fuckin’ know me, do you understand?”
T: “Sure thing! Never met you! Hey, those teenage girls from Minsk you sent over? Hubba hubba!”
P: “WALK AWAY, YOU DOPE!”
TenguPhule
Are you fucking shitting me?! These police officers are fucking pussies!! /Pardon my French
I didn’t know base cowardice was now a mandatory requirement to become a cop today.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: He has been caught sneaking away with his bff when they are not supposed to even meet, Vlad and Don, a love story.
Quinerly
@WaterGirl:
Ian Bremmer just said on Rachel’s show that more than likely Putin’s translator would have a tape of the conversation.
Quinerly
@different-church-lady:
❤?
Frankensteinbeck
@Quinerly:
I generally take heart from the reports of those who were there for Watergate, and who say that the GOP solidly defended and protected Nixon… until suddenly they didn’t.
WaterGirl
@different-church-lady: Most excellent!
TenguPhule
@Frankensteinbeck:
Of course last time the entire Republican party wasn’t equally guilty of treason.
WaterGirl
@TenguPhule: Possible sexual assault? By all means, shoot the woman. Who is outside in her pajamas. Walking up to your car with no weapon.
Quinerly
@Frankensteinbeck:
You and me both. I was around during Watergate. My parents hated Nixon and we followed it closely. Grew up in NC….Sen Sam Ervin (NC) seemed like he was a permanent fixture in our home.
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: That might be even better than the pee tape.
Steeplejack
@Quinerly:
Ari Melber is getting the 6:00 p.m. slot, although the start date has not been set.
@raven:
Greta is gone already.
Quinerly
@WaterGirl:
It seemed like a throw away comment by Bremmer. We need more follow up.
jl
@Roger Moore: Thanks for clarifying my point. Nothing for the country. Who knows how much is is there for Trump personally if he delivers.
J R in WV
I got to watch the Saturday Night Massacre come over the news-wires all night into Sunday morning. It was being there as the world changed.
At the end, when we left the newspaper wire room to go home to bed, around 3 am, we knew Nixon was screwed. He had fucked up in front of the world, and there was no recovery available.
Lizzy L
When I saw the story about the Trump-Putin private meeting today, the little chyron in my brain flashed WTF in all caps.
I am sure there will be more WTF moments.
WaterGirl
@J R in WV: Good times! That must have been terribly exciting.
vhh
@Tom Levenson: Back in the last century, I sometimes served as a Russian-English interpreter at scientific meetings and intergovernment negotiations about projects in my field (physics). [BTW, Tom–I learned Russian at MIT in the 1970s, and then used it a lot in my work. Back then, MIT had one of the most practical Russian programs in the US, alas now long gone along with many other university Russian programs]. For REALLY serious war-and-peace level negotiations, each side need its own interpreter, who translates into his/her native language. An American executive who goes to such a meeting depending on a Russian interpreter working for the Russian side is taking a butter knife to a gunfight, even more so when the Russian principal has some English (as Putin does). For Trump to run such a high stakes risk, he has to be (a) a total idiot at deal making, (b) have something serious to hide from American ears, or (c) both of the above.
WaterGirl
@vhh: Absolutely! Thanks for taking the time to write this comment.
Uncle Cosmo
@TenguPhule: The Tree of Liberty says, Feed me, Seymour!…or is it Feed me & see more!
cwmoss
@raven: Hasil Adkins gotcha beat, sista! Wait — that’s hot dogs. Never mind!