A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/liWE4rlleF
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) August 16, 2017
Update Thank you to Adam for finding live footage of Trump’s current Cabinet meeting:
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A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/liWE4rlleF
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) August 16, 2017
Update Thank you to Adam for finding live footage of Trump’s current Cabinet meeting:
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Chyron HR
“Thank” you all? You’d think a seasoned veteran of Twitter would know to double-check for autocorrect Aarons.
Betty Cracker
That’ll leave a mark. Probably one of the few office perks Trump actually enjoys is the opportunity to hobnob with titans of industry and pretend that he, too, is a master of the universe instead of a schmuck from Queens who squandered his inherited fortune and then parlayed mobbed-up connections into a fraud and licensing scheme centered on his surname. I bet his tiny hands are clenched in fists of rage! LOL!
Spanky
Meanwhile, in America’s northernmost Southern city …
There’s video! (It’s WaPo)
Major Major Major Major
Which companies were still on them?
Keith P.
I think the wheels on the bus are finally coming off. The dude is getting savaged on this one now for 5 days…24 hours straight coverage just on yesterday’s press conference. He’s lost business leaders, losing Congress, probably lost 7.999% of the black vote (there’s Don King, Mike Tyson, Omarosa, and that guy who was saying he was gonna make it all better with an afternoon statement), all but 2 (people, not percent) of the Jewish vote, probably all of the gypsy vote.
He’s very publically throwing temper tantrums now, and to paraphrase Peter Venkman, “there’s only 3+ more years to go!”
LAO
Yarrow
In the thread below amorphous said:
Things have to be bad if that’s happening.
Ian G.
@Spanky:
David Simon pops champagne, and then (probably) owns some alt-right shitstains who call him antisemitic names on Twitter.
LAO
LOLOLOLOL:
Brendan in NC
He uses the other Cartman saying numerous times per day, I’d bet….”Respect my Authoritah!!!
trollhattan
Much like the inevitability of Dana Perino, Trump finally installs a hottie as comms direction, like he always wanted.
Here’s hoping [heh] she can still outrun him wearing stilettos. {grab!}
Yarrow
@Major Major Major Major: Campbell’s, the Soup Nazis, were still there.
lamh36
Coming back to try and salvage something as he continues measuring the drapes in Oval Office..
Ian G.
@Keith P.:
3 Jews: Stephen Miller, Pam Geller, David Horowitz.
jl
Yesterday Trump said there were lines of eager titans of industry eager to replace the people who left Why is Trump disappointing them?
We want as few powerful interest groups supporting Trump as possible, so if he wants to burn his bridges (to the extent they still exist), that is good.
Yarrow
@Keith P.: Don’t forget Diamond and Silk. They love them some Donald Trump.
Betty Cracker
@Yarrow: Nope, the CEO resigned this morning.
Betty Cracker
Hmmmm….
MattF
Titans of Industry get to avoid dealing with Trump, Trump gets to pretend that Titans of Industry are obeying his commands. Win-win.
Yarrow
@lamh36: If somehow Trump is kicked out and Pence becomes President he isn’t going to last long. He’s up to his eyeballs in the Russian stuff as well.
And let’s not forget that Trump throws EVERYONE under the bus. Why would Pence think he’d somehow be spared from that fate. Trump will throw him under the bus in an attempt to save himself. Whatever Pence is hiding, he’d best be prepared for it to become public.
trollhattan
WTF disappearing post, trying agin’.
Like the inevitability of Dana Perino, Trump has finally installed the hottie Comms Director he always wanted.
Here’s hoping [heh] she can outrun him while wearing 4-inch pumps.
kat
@Major Major Major Major: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-manufacturing-council-whos-still-in-2017-8
gene108
I wonder if all the stuff Germany has done over the last 70 years to make sure Nazis do not come back in their country is one reason Trump dislikes Germany so much.
Yarrow
@Betty Cracker: Oh, I missed that one. I saw the 3M CEO resigned.
Amir Khalid
Do I detect a note of despair and/or resignation in the Real Press Sec’s tweet?
MattF
@Betty Cracker: Think Pence knows something?
trollhattan
WTF disappearing post, trying agin’. Bad word is bad? But which?
Like the inevitability of Dana Perino, Trump has finally installed the hottie Comms Director he always wanted.
Here’s hoping [heh] she can outrun him while wearing 4-inch pumps.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Spanky: We used to live near Baltimore and took the kids to their brand new Civil War museum when it opened (somewhere in the early 90s I guess based on my memory of the kids’ ages). It was notably southern-sympathetic.
I wasn’t a good history student in school (it took me years to learn that I love history, I just hated the school subject called “history” or at least the way it was taught), so I was completely unaware of how Confederate-leaning Maryland was, especially Baltimore.
Among the things the people writing the material at Baltimore’s museum seemed to be still mad about: Lincoln putting the city under martial law.
different-church-lady
@lamh36:
At the pace things are going, the drapes are going to be the only thing left.
Archon
The real crazy part is how corporate America thought Trump was a person they could do business with in the first place.
LAO
@Betty Cracker: Is there anyone out there, that could read this piece Pence backs Trump, and not laugh? I personally laughed. Especially when he described Trump’s statement as eloquent.
khead
@Yarrow:
It’s been a lot of fun watching CNBC. Moving to Fox soon.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@kat: I see Lockheed-Martin and Boeing were still all in on the Council, while it still existed.
trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
I’ve been trying to post re. Trump’s new Comms director, a hottie one supposes he’s always wanted in the fashion of Dana Perino. Lemme see if this works.
Here’s hoping [heh] she can outrun him while wearing 4-inch pumps.
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid:
It’s a bot that captions every tweet with that same phrase.
@kat: Danke.
Patricia Kayden
@LAO: LOL. No, he meant winning. He actually thought through magical thinking that he could snap his orange fingers and everything would fall into place without any hard work on his part. Sad.
JPL
@Yarrow: Actually they quit right before, and wrote a scathing letter calling the President out.
It appears that several are still writing resignation letters dismissing the president’s comments.
Patricia Kayden
@Ian G.: That Cohen fella who is his lawyer. The “says who” guy.
Ahasuerus
You can’t fire me! I quit!
ETA: Actually, it’s “You can’t quit! You’re fired!”
lamh36
@Betty Cracker: Coming back to try and salvage something as he continues measuring the drapes in Oval Office..
Patricia Kayden
@gene108: Most likely that Germany is headed by a chick whom he considers non-hot. The man is nothing if not a sexist.
lamh36
@Betty Cracker: I mean he can’t measure those drapes very well from afar, can he?
JPL
Since I’m sixty-eight, I lived through some pretty tumultuous times, and I can’t remember anything like this. Today CEO’s are turning their backs on the president. I have a question though what is happening?
Keith P.
@Ian G.: Ah, 5 then (there’s Javanka)
Yarrow
@JPL: Yes, BettyC pointed that out to me above. I missed it this morning. So much happens so fast!
Anyone who has chosen to work with this administration is suspect to me. Those that stayed after his statement on Saturday only showed their true colors. That it took until his meltdown on Tuesday for them to decide to leave is shameful.
jonas
Trump to Mfg. Council: “Oh yeah? You can’t quit, because you’re fired!”
Betty Cracker
@MattF: I don’t know. This past year has curb-stomped my native optimism. But there’s definitely a “wheels coming off the bus” feeling in the air… More so than usual, even! ?
Zach
Trump congratulating Roy Moore with his first tweet of the day is going to get drowned out by all the other BS today, but it’s insane that it’ll be overlooked.
Adam L Silverman
@Yarrow: Except for Kudlow. Kudlow just got savaged for almost 15 minutes by Ali Velshi on MSNBC. It didn’t help that Kudlow had remarked that the President’s opponents had put a noose around the President’s neck.
Tarragon
@LAO:
“To stab someone in the back, you must first get behind them.”
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: “Mother, where’d you put my tape measure?”
Adam L Silverman
Here is some rare footage, just leaked, from the President’s most recent cabinet meeting:
sukabi
@Chyron HR: Chances are the entirety of both councils called to say they were out and before they could make statements Drumpf sent out his “Fuck you all. I’m out.” press release.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Betty Cracker: The jokes about Friday news dumps are already obsolete. It’s not just Fridays anymore. The volume of crazy coming out of the White House has definitely accelerated in the last few weeks, to the point where there’s something mind-bogglingly evil and/or appalling, and also Bad News for Trump, nearly daily.
Adam L Silverman
@Ian G.: Larry Kudlow, Michael Cohen. Jared. Ivanka.
Villago Delenda Est
@Ian G.: All three are Kapos.
lamh36
Quinerly
Campbell’s statement that MSNBC seemed to report was the statement that pushed Trump to disband the counsel: https://www.campbellsoupcompany.com/newsroom/news/2017/08/16/statement-denise-morrison-president-ceo-campbell-soup-company/
Adam L Silverman
@Yarrow: As long as the checks clear.
Major Major Major Major
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
We seem to be approaching ‘hourly’.
khead
Second day in a row I’m in moderation. Really can’t figure out why. Can’t say F-O-X?
different-church-lady
@Betty Cracker:
It’s like an entire country decided to become Joseph Welch all at once.
Villago Delenda Est
@Adam L Silverman: Kudlow gets a cameo in Iron Man and it goes to his head. Donald put the noose around his own neck, but think’s it’s a new extra long anchored with scotch tape neck tie.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
Kudlow is a sound argument for VIllage’s solution to idiots and traitors.
LAO
@Tarragon: I can’t see Pence making it out (politically) alive. Trump and his minions, will destroy him. And then, we’d be left with President Paul Ryan.
EVERY THINGS A NIGHTMARE SCENARIO!
gene108
@Zach:
NPR piece I heard yesterday said Trump backed Strange.
Trump has no anchor to any convictions other than grabbing as much loot as he can and white supremacy.
Adam L Silverman
@gene108: No, he made it clear his problem with Germany and the EU is the result of the lengthy and meticulous EU process for permitting golf course construction. As always: follow the money. Or the butthurt about the money.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
Didn’t even know that he was gone.??
TenguPhule
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
The Friday news dumps are the IC telling us about bad shit Trump has done.
The daily thing is Trump himself saying bad shit.
LAO
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
It’s a bot that feels despair and resignation over President Trump? I don’t blame it one bit.
TenguPhule
@LAO:
First get a towel.
Do not panic.
germy
@LAO:
“Check and Mate, Libtards!”
rikyrah
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yes… slave catchers ALL ??
sukabi
Comment disappeared….???
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid:
Shit, did somebody make a true AI and put it on Twitter?
@TenguPhule: I want the sunglasses that darken according to how much danger I’m in.
rikyrah
@LAO:
Federal building?
GregB
One wonders if the work Mueller is doing and perhaps some of the information from folks already chatted with under oath is starting tp spread line poison?
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Betty Cracker: Frank. Burns.
SFAW
@lamh36: @Betty Cracker:
I heard that Pence is coming back to ask Baud! is he would be his (Pence’s) VP, starting “real soon now.”
Yay Baud! You might get to the Oval Office before 2021 after all!.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
They are pitch black, you are in danger of being eaten by a Grue.
Villago Delenda Est
@sukabi: Probably some idiotic WordPress bug that a front pager needs to investigate to see if your comment is trapped in the spam filter.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@TenguPhule: Well, I edited my comment to reflect my perception that the “bad shit” Trump is issuing is hitting the fan, creating as much bad news for him on a daily basis as the less-frequent news dumps about criminal activity. Falling polls, allies abandoning him, the Manufacturing Council falling apart, the “infrastructure announcement” turning into yet another shit show, etc.
trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
On that topic, check out Trump’s new hawt Comms Director, the Dana Perino he always wanted.
Here hoping [heh] she can still outrun him wearing stilettos.
frosty fred
@Zach: Well, it is, but it’s not outside expectations for a Republican president* to congratulate Republican senate candidates.
TenguPhule
@GregB:
If this is a reaction to Mueller, it means Trump is willing to do anything it takes to avoid going down.
Anything*.
*Other then surrendering
germy
Every day brings a new bizarre news story.
I’m sort of dreading Friday.
(First time in my life I’ve ever said that)
trollhattan
Can someone please pry me out of moderation? Am getting the straight-to-jail response to posting.
JPL
@LAO: WNBC
A flash grenade apparently exploded in the parking garage of 26 Federal Plaza Wednesday afternoon in what officials say was an accident. One person was taken to an area hospital with burns to his hand, two officials said.
It appears one FBI agents was handling the device when the accident took place.
Emergency personnel were on scene.
LAO
@rikyrah: Looks like it was in the subway — some suggestion of a small flash grenade. I’d hear emergency vehicles roar by my office, if it had been “serious” (that came out wrong). Maybe 1 injured. Not alot of info.
ETA: So, it was a fucking FBI agent. Man, they are winners! I’m laughing.
Yarrow
@LAO: We will not have President Paul Ryan. He’s a traitor. Keep going down the line.
Adam L Silverman
@khead: Actually spam. Not sure what the issue is. A whole lot of regular commenters were in there for no apparent reason. I’ve freed you all.
germy
@LAO: @ from the NY Daily News article:
Villago Delenda Est
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Old ferret face?
Actually, I'm relieved that the "titans of industry" were resigning en masse
@JPL: @38.
Actually I’m relieved that the “titans of industry” were resigning en masse. Hitler and the original nazis might not have consolidated power without the backing of the then “titan” belief that they could control Hitler.
SFAW
@Major Major Major Major:
If you end up with the ones Rowdy Roddy wore, please let us know how many Rethugs are space aliens.
lamh36
Abby Huntsman…Jon Huntsman daughter, right? She went from MSNBC to Fox…
LAO
@JPL: I don’t know about you, but I feel much safer knowing that an FBI agent can’t properly handle a flash grenade.
trollhattan
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Trump’s winning every day of the week so much that he’s adding an eighth: Donnyday.
different-church-lady
@SFAW: All of them, Katie.
MattF
@Betty Cracker: I really can’t tell, myself. For me, ‘wheels came off the bus’ about ten months ago.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: @rikyrah: Initial report seems like a negligent discharge by a Federal law enforcement officer:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/explosion-reported-federal-building-manhattan-article-1.3417037?cid=bitly&utm_content=buffer093f7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw
Some knucklehead fiddling with their gear.
trollhattan
@JPL:
Good grief, it’s like those agents who get their laptops and service weapons stolen from their cars. Really, dudes?
Adam L Silverman
@sukabi: Spam. Don’t know why. It’s free now.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
Thanks! However, I now look like I’ve developed a stutter. Ah well…..
SFAW
@different-church-lady:
Well, of course.
Yarrow
@lamh36:
Of course he does. He has to. He is trying to save himself.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I see trump is leaving Manhattan to go back to Jersey. Was this planned, or is he running away from New Yorkers?
Frankensteinbeck
@Adam L Silverman:
Trump hates approval red tape with an unholy passion. His infrastructure talk was just one long rant about how the process of getting building approval is destroying our economy, until the press started asking him about Nazis.
Joe Falco
It might also be relevant to reference the South Park episodes where Cartman dresses up as Robert E. Lee and takes a bunch of drunk local Civil War reenactors in Confederate garb to take over American cities just to get the President to surrender to him and allow Cartman to own slaves (specifically the Jewish kid). It’s also the episode that has then VP Al Gore tell Bill that he’s glad he doesn’t have Bill’s job. To quote Beetlejuice: “It keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.”
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule:
No, I’m pretty sure I’m just super cool.
(edited to fix formatting)
trollhattan
They’re still keeping the myth of Ivanka and Jared as “moderating forces” alive. “They were just on vacay, see?”
Tell me another one.
Tarragon
@LAO:
I’ll say I don’t expect him to. But I’ll also admit I have no idea what the hell is going on anymore.
GregB
@Adam L Silverman:
Any word on the report that Posobiec is a Naval IO?
The Moar You Know
Adam L Silverman: Tell that to Agent Stumpy, who’s going to have a hell of a time even pulling desk duty with one hand.
Vhh
@trollhattan: Press Bimbo.
Zach
@frosty fred: I can’t even think of who would be the equivalent on the left for Obama to congratulate. Moore called for Keith Ellison to be denied being seated in Congress. On top of the anti-gay history and having no respect for the law.
Zero reason for Trump to do anything other than root for Strange. Probably he knows that he agrees more with Moore (and that his supporters do, too) and he’s pissed that he had to go to bat for Strange for the GOP.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@trollhattan: Katie Tur and Stephanie Ruehle both just pretty much mocked this idea on MSNBC– there are always these reports of disagreement and disappointment, no evidence of it. About fucking time.
PaulWartenberg
1) if this is a real press release from the White House, trump is doing whatever he can to NOT look like a loser who had CEOs quit on his racist ass.
2) The FBI is covering up that today in the Hoover Building cafeteria they served the hottest, spiciest chili in human history. The flash grenade is a lie.
3) Elvis needs boats.
germy
Betty Cracker
@different-church-lady:
Ha! Love it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Zach:
I thought he had endorsed (and even recorded a robocall message) for Luther Strange. Seems odd that he would congratulate Moore.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I believe nervous and afraid, but about a “vocal critic” or a “cooperating witness”?
jl
@Adam L Silverman:
The Charlottesville demonstration wasn’t really about the Confederate statue controversy. It really had nothing to do with what the vast majority of the US population would recognize as a sane, or even semi-sane debate about how to handle sensitive issues in US history. It was a pretext for very old school anti-Semites to strut their stuff and advertise their wares. How many of the Trumpsters do you think really understand that? Staying with Trump’s version really means signing up for 200 proof old school Nazi, if you listen to what the right wingers were chanting in Charlottesville. Actually very toxic and evil stuff. I have to believe some powerful industries who wanted to work with Trump are putting some people on researching what all that crazy shit they were saying was about. The answers will be very ugly. Far uglier than the debate about what should be done with Jim Crow era Confederate monuments.
If Trump is just about the money, then he has no clue at all about what is going on and who this part of his base is.
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: My Mom is an SLP. We can develop a treatment program for you.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Planned.
Zach
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yeah, he did. And he took credit today for Strange’s 2nd place finish but congratulated Moore and Strange on going to the run off.
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: They seem to be on vacation a lot for Senior Advisors to the President of the United States with the former in charge of just about everything and the latter in charge of, well I’m not quite sure what Ivanka does all day.
lamh36
NICE!!! Hopefully it’s up by the time me and the fam get to see it. We got tickets for Oct 2 to the museum!
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Good! The whole “But, daddy!” myth has never been believable and this brings their ineffectiveness into pinpoint focus: two Jews who cannot convince the father to unequivocally shed and denounce Nazi and Klan supporters. It’s over, kids.
germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m hoping for quite a few cooperating witnesses.
Sing!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Zach: I would give trump a hundred dollars US if he could point to the state of Alabama on a map showing state lines but no names.
Adam L Silverman
@GregB: He is/was in the US Naval Reserve. He’s referred to himself as a junior intel officer before. I don’t know if he’s still in or has completed his minimum required service and has separated. If he’s still in, then my take is that Weinstein is planning on trying to force the issue with the US Naval Reserve to have them open up an investigation into Posobiec for violating several portions of the UCMJ. Moreover, he’s a security/counterintel risk.
Matt McIrvin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Spot him half credit if he points to Mississippi.
Adam L Silverman
@The Moar You Know: Once your gear is set, don’t screw with it until it is 1) go time or 2) stand down time.
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: Aaaaargh! [Removes half-eaten quart of Häagen-Dazs Dulce de Leche ice cream from freezer, adds two cups of bourbon, spoons contents down gullet until comatose.]
nonynony
@lamh36:
Good. I’m glad that happened on Fox & Friends. There should be a number of “reasonable Republicans” out there who are watching it and seriously waking up to the idea that they helped elect a Nazi symp – if not an outright Nazi – into the Oval Office. Seeing one of their number on the teevee not excusing it but actually condemning it is important even if my knee-jerk reaction is to think “WTF dude – does it really take guys wearing swastika armbands cosplaying as Donald Trump to get you to realize that your party has been pandering to Nazis for years and actively courting their votes?”
A number of the parents in the local school district have finally had their “come to Jesus” moment regarding Trump. My wife has them on her Facebook feed (I don’t know how she’s stomached it for the last year myself – I couldn’t do it). All those nice, reasonable, suburban Republicans shocked to discover that Donald Trump is enabling Nazis. It took the death of a white woman, a full-on gun-toting Nazi riot in the streets, and a president unwilling to do the ritual mouthing of the condemnations of white supremacists that every Republican president since Nixon has known they need to do to make sure those reasonable white suburbanite Republican voters know that they’re not racists.
It shouldn’t have taken that much, but I’ll take it.
LAO
MisterForkbeard
@lamh36: Maybe that should be adjusted to “Just in: VP Pence ending his international trip early, coming home tomorrow from historical haven of Nazis in Argentina”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@trollhattan: she’s a pretty grifter and I’m guessing he’s as desperate to keep the Kushner books– especially his blunder into 666 Fifth (or is it Park) Ave and Russian and Chinese debt– closed as trump is with his. Even if there’s nothing illegal, I’m guessing it’s not good for the Kushner group to be seen as leveraged to the eyeballs to the Bank of Malta (or whatever it is).
Adam L Silverman
@jl: He’s also about the revanchism too. But his bottom line is always dollars.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Villago Delenda Est: It hit me when we had a rerun on in the background and Burns referred to his wife as “Mommy”.
rikyrah
I have tears. Guess who just called me? My sister. Her voice was raspy, but they took the tube out of it. We didn’t talk long, but, we talked.???
Thank you for all your prayers. Please keep them coming.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: and Mike Flynn is Colonel Flagg. Mike Kelly wishes he had the integrity and grit Colonel Sherman T Potter.
ETA: @rikyrah: Best wishes to your sister and all her family.
different-church-lady
@trollhattan: Shouldn’t the President of the United States be able to tell right from wrong all by himself, without the guiding hands of his family?
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
I am so tempted to make a tasteless joke about her knees or her back.
But I will refrain.
SiubhanDuinne
@trollhattan:
Deleted, with apologies.
Patricia Kayden
@Tarragon: LOL. So true though. Those are some deep thoughts.
ThresherK
@Joe Falco: Let’s not forget South Park’s episode re the town flag. BothSides had a point, including the rednecks about the heritage.
About three years ago, when much of (white) America finally discovered its distaste for the losers’ flag, it was a big talk around a number of amateur radio groups (live and virtual). The stereotypes you’d imagine were shown and plenty of “normal, suburban” types tipped their hands.
Yeah, those guys aren’t my friends any longer.
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah: So good to hear. Sending prayers for a full recovery for your sister.
TenguPhule
@Betty Cracker:
Stop tempting the rest of us!
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
Phrasing!
Felonius Monk
@Betty Cracker:
I think it’s going to be more like “Mother, where’d you put my shiv?”
Patricia Kayden
@trollhattan: So what? Why does it matter whether or not Ivanka is trying to “temper” her out-of-control dad? Is she a psychiatrist or a licensed counselor? This is so bizarre. Can you imagine if during the Obama presidency, we had had multiple stories of Michelle, Malia or Sasha trying to temper President Obama?
JPL
@LAO: Thanks for that link!
Jeffro
@jl:
Hang on a sec while I go rub that little bit of obvious in my RWNJ relatives’ faces…
GregB
@Adam L Silverman:
To quote you: Penetration at all levels.
His security clearance was reportedly pulled in March.
I have been up and down about what will happen but I think the far right will end up with a Bay of Pigs moment when they think the US military is behind them, but they end up being sorely mistaken.
japa21
@germy: $5 that the unnamed source is either Kelly or McMaster.
ETA: Of course it could be Bannon trying to threaten the big man.
Patricia Kayden
@ThresherK: There was also a recent South Park episode about Colin Kapernick’s kneeling during the national anthem which was pretty hilarious.
Fair Economist
Two Party Opera webcomic is particularly on target today.
(Most people here know the backstory that Adams was strongly against slavery well before the antislavery movement really got going.)
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: Wonderful news!
Adam L Silverman
@MisterForkbeard:
frosty
@Betty Cracker: Wow, nicely put as usual, BC!
JPL
@rikyrah: NIce!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
looks at pictures of herself with world leaders, decides which will be used in the upcoming seasonal marketing campaigns, reminds herself to have Jared ask the synagogue priest or whatever they call him to write one of those letters so that she can do a Xmas line without making Papa Kushner mad– she just looks so good in red and green!–, checks the nanny-cams on her phone several times a day and asks security to make sure Tiffany is still in another time zone? Just a guess.
trollhattan
@different-church-lady:
Have been pondering the concept of suspension of disbelief, typically encountered in discussions about film or fiction writing, but which seems to have swept up the nation the last two years. We see what we see yet process it to an unreality suiting our worldview. To be “fair” to the Nazis et al, they actually see and love reality when sizing up Trump. The rest of his supporters, not so much.
LaNonna
Worked more than 35 years on Wall Street, Kudlow is a major asshole, not helped by his decades of cocaine abuse, and now holier-than-thou RC late life fear of death conversion. A media whore of the worst type, and I’d worked around some real beauts.
Adam L Silverman
@GregB: The 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Chief of Staff of the Army’s statements yesterday were excellent. As has been that of the Commandant of the Coast Guard’s and the Secretary of the Navy’s.
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
Excellent, and best wishes to her!
Adam L Silverman
@LaNonna: He’d have been better off staying Jewish. We don’t have hell. Just shows you how stupid that guy is.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
That is so powerful.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
Oh, I’m so happy for you and your sister! Hope this is just the beginning of continuing good news. ❤️❤️??
The Moar You Know
@ThresherK: I finally got my ticket in 2015, wanted to for decades. Get on air and what do I find? Nothing but Tea Partiers and slavery apologists. I was crushed.
hueyplong
The only thing better for my spririts than Trump’s short petulant statement would have been for rikyrah to hear his sister read it aloud over the phone.
I’m sure the message she did send was good enough.
zhena gogolia
@LAO:
Ooh, yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
GregB
I know you have been steadfast in your statements about the military and their fealty to the Constitution.
Seeing many of the comments from the top tier reinforces that belief.
Trump keeps peeling away at the onion and revealing who he is.
He is indefensible and I think Mueller will end up proving at the very least he is surrounded by traitors to the US Constitution.
Jeffro
@jl: @Jeffro: Ok here’s what I sent them – subject line I’M CONFUSED
It’s sort of a darkly comedic relationship with the RWNJ relatives these days…
Fair Economist
@rikyrah: I love good news. Hope things continue to improve.
lamh36
@germy: ha…I see all factions out trying to save face and distance themselves from his presser yesterday and yet STILL no resignations…it’s not like them being there has done ANYTHING to stem Bannon influence.
And I see the Princess is trying to distance herself too..
sherparick
@LAO: Please, no one show Trump Cersei blowing up the “Sept of Baelor” in the Winds of Winter, Season 6, Episode 10, GoT. He will be planting WyldeFire under the Capitol Dome.
jl
This was supposed to be a reply to Adam’s claim that Trump’s bottom line is dollars.
If the bottom line were really dollars, Trump would be having a presser now, that lasted the rest of the day, denouncing and lambasting the Charlottesville fascists. He would call the news outlets so there would be video of Bannons stuff being thrown out of the WH grounds and Bannon being escorted off. He’d file suit to keep those loons from wearing MAGA hats. If what you say is true, then Trump is one of the dumbest most ignorant fools in world history.
If Trump couldn’t be bothered to figure out even the basics of what the Obamacare repeal/replace bill was, how can he figure out the extreme wing of his alt-right base? If he keeps Bannon, he keeps a guy who believes in toxic genocidal BS, a guy who thinks the genocidal book ‘Camp of the Saints’ is a great book. It’s a world where a sinister global Jewish conspiracy has won crucial victories to replace the good white gentiles. The Jews, and their minions, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and rootless cosmopolitan white gentile race traitors, need to be killed or expelled, or shoved into various ghettos. The organizers of the Charlottesville demonstration believe that stuff. I guess they are so desperate for followers, they had to recruit a mongrel lot of Slavs and other pseudo-white ethnics to fluff up their ranks.
Like I said above, I have to believe that many of the powerful business interests who thought they could work with Trump are looking into what that crap in Charlottesville was really about. And then what will they do? People like David Duke are getting ready to shout it from the rooftops.
Whether he understands it or not, Trump has aligned himself with an extremely toxic and dangerous bunch. Confederate monuments issue was just a pretext.
But then, if Trump goes, it just means more competent people, like Pence and Sessions, can concentrate on voter suppression. This is going to be a long and wearying fight.
Felonius Monk
@rikyrah: Sending good thoughts for both of you.
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: That’s good news! Hope she keeps improving, I have my paws crossed.
eclare
@trollhattan: I would wager the “unnamed sources close to the situation” that said that Jared and Ivanka were trying to be moderating were Jared and Ivanka.
Quinerly
Wonder what’s up?:http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/special-counsels-russia-probe-loses-top-fbi-investigator/story?id=49249486
scav
@rikyrah: Only good news of the day so far, but it’s solid. Continued best to your sister and family.
LAO
LAO
Warning. It’s a dark day in Hell — cause I’m posting (with approval) a Bill Kristol tweet. I did NAZI that happening. Politics really can make strange bedfellows
Yarrow
@rikyrah: Wonderful news. Wishing you and your sister all the best.
Matt McIrvin
What do people thing of this? Kristin Rawls argues that the weapons caches found around Charlottesville suggest that white supremacists are still preparing to commit Rwanda-level slaughter there, and possibly elsewhere:
https://twitter.com/kristinrawls/status/897621132853080064
She’s telling people to “get out, get out while you can.” Whether that means Charlottesville, Virginia, the United States… who can say?
eclare
@rikyrah: That is good news, hoping for the best.
JDM
Oh yeah? you can’t fire me, I QUIT!!!
lamh36
@nonynony: sure, ‘cept it was two African American pundits…so likely considered as much of a token to Fox News voters as they are considered to most non-Fox viewing African Americans…
ThresherK
@Patricia Kayden: You lost me at “recent South Park episode”. I’ll look up some takes on it, but i ain’t watching it.
I don’t know if Parker and Stone’s signal-to-noise ratio has been above “replacement player” levels since before the millenium.
frosty
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Baltimore has an interesting Civil War history. Home of the first battle when the citizens threw paving stones at the 6th Mass on Pratt St as they were marching to change trains. The Union army turned the cannons on Federal Hill around so they aimed at the city instead of the harbor.
And the second verse of the state anthem starts “The despot’s heel is at thy door.” The despot was Abraham Lincoln.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
phone calls to those very rich erstwhile economic advisers? “I tell you, Jamie, Mother and I share your concerns about the future of tax reform I mean the nation. We pray for a reduction in the capital gains rate every night, kneeling on bottle caps”
ThresherK
@The Moar You Know: I was one of those teenage geeks who first licensed when tube finals were a must for anything over 10 watts.
I try telling my cat that she’d have liked radio in the old days and she looks at me funny.
Matt McIrvin
@Matt McIrvin: hmm, no confirmation yet that the cache/caches actually existed. Trying to follow this via JJ MacNab’s Twitter.
ThresherK
@rikyrah: Glad to hear!
The Moar You Know
@Matt McIrvin: She’s flipping out. There was no “heavy artillery” found. I understand being scared, and the presence of caches is certainly not something you want to find, but it’s not the precursor to a wholesale slaughter of half the US population.
ETA: also, as Matt notes above, the “caches” may or may not exist. These people don’t exactly have the money to just dump weapons and ammo, that shit is pricey, so I find the claim suspect.
Adam L Silverman
@Matt McIrvin: @The Moar You Know: Here you go:
Until I see a press conference with this stuff displayed by law enforcement I’m skeptical.
JPL
@LAO: Did you see Quinerly’s comment @185? Do you have any insight?
Matt McIrvin
@Adam L Silverman: There are stories claiming the caches don’t exist, but they’re from, uh, questionable outlets like Reason and Breitbart.
The Moar You Know
@ThresherK: I’d have liked the hobby more back then. I do work with guitar amps (tube) and that’s fun. That being said, SDR and my FT-991 are as good as it gets, save for the content like I said earlier.
My main issue at this point is getting onto HF, I’m in SoCal with a small lot and neighbors who will not tolerate a tower, so it’s going to be a rooftop-mounted (single story) G5RV and matching device, and hopefully that will carry more than 5 miles. We shall see.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
I’m glad to hear that she’s continuing to improve. We’ll keep thinking of her and your family. ?
LAO
@JPL: I have none. I’m hoping the transferring agent wasn’t necessary to the investigation. Will be interesting to see if this is the beginning of Wray’s interference with the investigation.
Adam L Silverman
@Matt McIrvin: My guess is that some stuff was likely stashed or prestaged, but I’ve seen nothing that indicates serious organization. Yet. That may change as police work through their investigation. There is a lot of overlap between the older members of these groups, especially the militia cosplayers, and preppers. And that sounds like something those guys would do. Moreover, based on the post I did back in the late Spring after one of the Berkeley clashes some of the social media stuff I posted as information/data points indicated various white supremacists discussing prestaging certain things before the event. The problem with these guys is trying to separate what they’re saying from what they’re actually doing.
Mnemosyne
@Fair Economist:
You know who else’s statue will never have to be torn down because he was an early abolitonist?
(I’m no longer allowed to invoke the actual name, but everyone knows who I mean.)
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
Because real life is already bad enough.
/no offense meant
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: Pretty much.
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: Rhymes with Sernie Banders?
BC in Illinois
@frosty:
It’s not only that the despot’s heel is on the shore . . .
His torch is at thy temple door.
Avenge the patriotic gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen of yore – – Maryland, my Maryland
Which brings up a suggestion that I think deserves support. Trading anthems.
People have objections to the Star Spangled Banner as our National Anthem because they can’t sing it. Other people (actually I’m thinking of Mrs. BC, but I’m sure there are others) have objections to Maryland’s State Song because it calls upon us to Spurn the Northern Scum. [As it happens, some of my best friends happen to be Northern Scum, so I can understand their sensitivity in this matter.] So let’s have an anthem shift.
Maryland gets the Star Spangled Banner, because it was written to celebrate a battle in Baltimore harbor. The U.S. gets to select a new national anthem – – choosing between America the Beautiful (Ray Charles) or “This Land is Your Land” / “Esta Tierra es Tuya.”
[In my youth, I was “BC in Maryland.”]
Frankensteinbeck
@Adam L Silverman:
I am not even slightly afraid of some kind of right wing cleansing. They’ve been trying to get together and do that for years. The ones who want to do it themselves are tiny in number, they have shown repeatedly they haven’t got the guts, and they’re disorganized as all Hell. Hearing they left weapons caches doesn’t terribly surprise me. They’re also paranoid nut jobs who constantly fantasize about being Wolverines. Then someone punches one of their leaders, and they run and hide and snivel about how mean liberals are.
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: Glad to hear it. Hope the news on her progress continues good.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Sorry, honey, that ain’t how it works. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
If you hate it, you have to quit.
sherparick
Murdoch: The gig is up if you can’t call a NAZI a NAZI and say they are bad.
Trump: but Rupert, the ratings are great. The best since Watergate!
Murdoch: You have to fire Bannon or I will the email to the minions that we are quits!
Trump: But Bannon, Miller, and the NAZIS are my best bros. No can do, and further Rebekah Mercer scares me more than you do!
Murodoch: [hits Send)] Fox News, WSJ, and New York Post looks forward to covering your impeachment hearings.
Matt McIrvin
@Frankensteinbeck: Well, ICE is actually doing ethnic cleansing, but the targets are people who don’t have a legal leg to stand on, so they don’t have to be that bloody.
Aimai
@rikyrah: rikyrah I’m praying for you. And I’m an atheist. So i hope the novelty of it attracts the lord’s attention.
Mnemosyne
@Frankensteinbeck:
I’m sure these jackasses have accumulated a lot of weapons individually. I greatly doubt their ability to actually work together on anything.
We probably will see a couple of new Tim McVeighs and Eric Rudolphs attacking people, unfortunately, but I doubt that an actual militia is going to happen.
Remember that so far, most of the deaths coming out of Bundy Ranch were from crazy people who went there and got mad that the Bundys were just sitting around and talking big without doing anything. I’m thinking specifically of the couple who killed a couple of cops and some civilians in a Wal-Mart.
It’s going to be random “lone wolves” with white supremacist ties. Dangerous, but nowhere near Rwanda.
frosty
@BC in Illinois: Sounds like an interesting compromise. I can see how Maryland My Maryland could be the next thing to go after Taney’s statue in Annapolis. To be fair, MMM has some historical accuracy (as a curiosity) but it’s a *little* one-sided. And godawful poetry.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
This label needs to stop. The Republicans need to own their shit. No more fucking plausible deniability for them.
Quinerly
@rikyrah:
??❤??
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@LAO:
Or a flash drive…
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: This sentence certainly packs a punch!
sm*t cl*de
@lamh36:
I wish I had a job description like that, where I get to define “what I’m actively working on” according to “anywhere there seems to be an improvement”, and then claim credit for it.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: A most excellent guess!
BC in Illinois
@frosty:
You think? . . . .
But lo, there surges forth a shriek
From hill to hill, from creek to creek,
Potomac calls to Chesapeake.
Maryland, my Maryland
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! She spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! She burns! She’ll come! She’ll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!
And then she didn’t.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady:
Brilliant!
Laura
@rikyrah: I am so happy for you and your family. Best wishes and warm thoughts for continued getting better.