As only one of two people left who could become President, why wouldn’t the FBI or Department of “Justice” have told me that they were secretly investigating Paul Manafort (on charges that were 10 years old and had been previously dropped) during my campaign? Should have told me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2018
….Paul Manafort came into the campaign very late and was with us for a short period of time (he represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole & many others over the years), but we should have been told that Comey and the boys were doing a number on him, and he wouldn’t have been hired!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2018
The Oval Office Occupant is incapable of not drawing attention to himself, even when doing so is obviously gonna make a bad situation worse. He’s like a toddler who bursts unexpected into the grownups’ cocktail party, face covered in crumbs, screaming I DIDN’T DO IT I DIDN’T DO IT THAT BAD MAN MUELLER AND THE FBI ATE THE COOKIES! (Also, he’s soiled his big-boy pants, and from the acrid smoke now billowing out of the kitchen, managed to set something on fire.)
Manafort being the shadiest prick in all K Street was obvious before he joined the Trump campaign and was all anyone talked about the second he joined. Trump LOVED the idea of having a dictator-shilling white collar blood merchant in his corner, working pro bono.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 3, 2018
Among the ultra-predictable, ultra-asinine things people with narcissistic personality disorder do, there’s this:
Blaming others for not preventing them from making their own mistakes. https://t.co/rVWcdF74VE
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 3, 2018
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 3, 2018
— cra (@Mkblack64Black) June 3, 2018
….Paul Manafort came into the campaign very late pic.twitter.com/KDsc2hhgsj
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 3, 2018
A bit of telling nostalgia from 2014 by @alexburnsNYT and @maggieNYT https://t.co/UDIa7fbLRh pic.twitter.com/y8cpxBl4gs
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 3, 2018
The ‘why didn’t the FBI stop us from hiring Manafort before he’d been charged?’ line originated with Lewandowski last year. Wonder if he’s wormed himself back into the mix. https://t.co/GESnXgBHoe
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 3, 2018
As Trump complains that no one warned him re Manafort, he leaves room for broad shift of responsibility – not just to federal investigators, but to the two people who recommended Manafort, Roger Stone and Tom Barrack.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 3, 2018
Tom Barrack, actual billionaire, former chairman of Trump’s inaugural committee, and one of the few if not the only person who’s called Trump “a friend”. What’s that poem about the snake, again?
Roger Stone says he introduced Paul Manafort to Trump at the 1988 Republican National Convention (https://t.co/RtebEXkOl0). Other accounts put the date as early as 1980 (https://t.co/dxbIdGAlmJ).
There's a reason Trump chose him to LEAD his campaign — and it wasn't ignorance. pic.twitter.com/ayq1sI5ddS
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 3, 2018
Old thread detailing some of Manafort's three-decades relationship with Trump. Do not be fooled by media lackeys who echo Trump's lies. Those lackeys tried this last year too.
Information on Manafort and Trump's relationship goes back 30+ years and is in the public domain. https://t.co/DDLYSjsdpA
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) June 3, 2018
JPL
Tomorrow he will say he was just the coffee boy.
Frank Wilhoit
“…we should have been told that Comey and the boys were doing a number on him, and he wouldn’t have been hired!”
…yeah, he would.
Jay
@JPL:
Nope, the covfefe boy.
Jerzy Russian
I am glad no one paid for Shut The Fuck Up lessons for him, or if anyone did, they did not do him any good.
NotMax
“I see here you’ve been involved in three suspicious deaths, tax irregularities, and – are those fresh needle tracks between your fingers? Hm? You say you’ll work for nothing? Welcome aboard!”
RSA
Mistakes were not made! It was a conspiracy!
(The passive voice is so beloved.)
Sonoran
“the best people”
WereBear
It infuriated me for years that the other Republican pols could pretend to be grownup and pretended to be statesmen and women; but Trump is about as convincing as a child in a white shirt and a plastic stethoscope on Halloween.
On the other hand, he’s trying to destroy us as a nation, and so there is a downside to the screaming obvious.
smintheus
Trump was told the Russians were trying to infiltrate his campaign; Manafort was Exhibit A.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
yes, I’m posting a Bill Kristol tweet. Don’t at me
I’m going with B. I’ve pretty much come to believe that Manafort fears for his or his daughters’ lives if he flips. And not because of trump
Patricia Kayden
Is law enforcement required to tell the target that he or she is being investigated? Trump’s sense of entitlement is bewildering.
NotMax
Enhanced non-vetting.
WereBear
The worms under this rock go down to the center of the earth.
Patricia Kayden
@WereBear:
Is he? Or is he just trying to grift as much $$$ as possible for as long as he and his cronies are in the White House? He’s certainly working hard to turn us into a fascist state where his dictates and whims prevail and he’s above the law.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
The most maddening thing about this whole shit show is that his fans still won’t believe any of this. Manafort came on board in March? Who cares? Tapeworm says he came on late, and that’s good enough for them. The F.B.I. warned him about Russians milling around, trying to weasel their way into the campaign in early 2016? Who cares? Tapeworm says nobody warned him, and they’ll eat that shit up. I find it hard to believe, but yet I know that there is nothing this guy could do to shake his 27%. He could skull fuck a kitten on live television and they’d stick with him. Shit. He could skull fuck a baby on live television, and all we’d hear about is that they didn’t vote for him to be a role model or some shit like that. He’s at 40% or something now. That’s only going to drop. But it’s only going to go down so far. Those 27% will stick with him all the way down that long ride on the bomb to the ground.
dexwood
Trump, his family, and the people they trusted, hired people who would do the questionable tasks they wanted them to do. A crime family.
JPL
@Jay: You are wrong, because tomorrow he’ll say that Mike Pence said I should hire the covfefe boy. It was a mistake to trust Mike.
sukabi
@Patricia Kayden: it’s not that he thinks he should be told. It’s that he thinks HE’S off limits to any investigation. Being installed in the WH has just reinforced this belief.
He’s managed to bully and blackmail his way out of any consequences up til now.
JPL
@sukabi: True.
TS (the original)
He is the president* The media treats this sh!t like it is normal for a US president to behave in this fashion.
Another Scott
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Yup.
But as you say, they’re not a majority. They only win when sensible people don’t show up.
Someone (attributed to Woody Allen) said something like – “80% of life is showing up.” When Democrats vote, Democrats win. We can’t worry about the MAGAts. We have to turn out Democrats and Democrat-leaners.
156 days to go…
Cheers,
Scott.
TS (the original)
@Patricia Kayden:
He’s trying to make the US in his image. He wants his grifting and lying to be the norm for the US government and US business.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
Huff Po reports that Giuliani says Trump could shoot Comey in the Oval Office and not be prosecuted until after he was impeached.
Gin & Tonic
I’m going to suggest that attempting to throw Manafort under the bus may not be the smartest strategy Trump could have come up with.
sukabi
@TS (the original): Ghouliani apparently made the ‘argument’ that Drumpf could shoot Comey and not be indicted for it…
I hope when the dust settles on this clusterfuck there is a perp walk, cuffs and bars in these fuckers future.
Hungry Joe
Oh, where were you on the night of June the third?
Who were you with on the night of June the third?
Were you with a stranger?
Did you take a walk?
Was your heart in danger?
Come on, woman — talk, talk!”
— Fats Waller
Schlemazel
@WereBear:
“trying” is the wrong word in that sentence. He IS destroying us as a nation. Internationally we are badly damaged in ways that will injure any future POTUS. Domestically he is destroying the one entity that stands between the people & the unfettered power of the oligarchs. He has given free rein to the worst elements, people who do not want a United States. That is a genie that will not go back into the bottle quietly.
JPL
@sukabi: I just read Huff Post and Giuliani and Trump believe that. Paul Ryan will say that is not helpful, and move along to cut medicare and social security.
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Proof positive that Trump has at last found the lawyer he deserves.
JPL
@debbie: from twitter
Giuliani told me he was offered AG but turned it down because he wanted State.
https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1003427554156597249
Schlemazel
@TS (the original):
see the tweet string in the previous post. It is not that he is trying to make lying cons the norm it is that he believes that is the ONLY thing that is
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JPL: from twitter
specifically, from whom? in any case I find it completely credible
Watching Kasie Hunt’s Sunday show for the first time while waiting for food to be ready… my god she’s awful. trump has won the no collusion fight. A few minutes ago she had Steve Schmidt on and they agreed Democrats are failing to get their message out. There were, as noted in these threads many times already, no elected Dems on the big Sunday shows today. Kasie had Terry MacAuliffe on earlier, and from what little I saw, they mostly talked about Bill Clinton and Little Willie.
Joe Miller
@Another Scott: I have some ways to GOTV, right here:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/3/1769027/-The-Daily-ACTION-Diary-With-TONS-of-NEW-STUFF-Register-Donate-Volunteer-WIN
debbie
@JPL:
I’m surprised he didn’t demand both.
WereBear
@Patricia Kayden: None of this is planned. It’s just a consequence.
Another Scott
@Joe Miller: A nice list. Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
The other day, Chris Hayes blamed Dems for Americans’ lack of awareness about Mueller’s indictments.
Joe Miller
@Another Scott: I’m trying to spread it around!
Villago Delenda Est
It’s gotten to the point where all of these people need to be locked up forever because they’re a danger to the country, or dealt with in some other manner (cough, Mussolini or Ceausescu, cough).
gene108
@Schlemazel:
Trump is just accelerating whatever decline in standing Republicans have created. We cannot ratify any treaty, because Republicans in the Senate refuse to want to do this. They are, as a party, opposed to international treaties. They as a party hate the U.N. John Bolton’s animosity to the U.N. is just an extension of the strain of Republican thought from luminaries like Jesse Helms, who actually blocked U.S. funding to the U.N., in the late 1990’s, when Republicans retook the Senate and he became a committee chair.
Getting a Republican in the White House just lets the bad ideas of Republicans out. Trump is just a matter of degree.
Basically, as long as Republicans refuse to change, and Republican voters want more and more right-wing candidates, we are going to be doomed anytime a Republican becomes President.
And the rest of the world now knows that Bush, Jr was not a one of a kind bad hire.
Platonailedit
The traitorous thug loves media attention (which the minions do everyday) but hates media scrutiny (which they rarely do). If only Mueller can secure some jail time (looking at you, judges), instead of just indictments, for some of his top campaign cabal of traitors, just to a start new narrative.
Villago Delenda Est
@Schlemazel: He’s incapable of understanding mutual benefit from an agreement. He knows only zero sum.
He is a monster.
Patricia Kayden
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): So basically Trump is the law and above it at the same time. We have ourselves a would be dictator. Imagine the howling from the GOP if President Obama’s Attorney had made such an outrageous comment.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Yesterday I checked out the darling newspaper of the left, The Guardian. Counted at least 5 articles blaming Ds on the front page.
Schlemazel
@Villago Delenda Est:
Agree, the twitter string previously took a lot more words to say that but it said it very well & detailed what it really means
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: They aren’t even American. So why have they adopted that aspect of US media culture?
JPL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I added a link, and Haberman verified it. Still doesn’t mean it’s true.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: Dems are not to blame but they should continue to hammer Republicans running for office by using Mueller’s indictments in their ads. Keep the issue at the forefront of competitive races. Smear the entire GOP with Trump’s sleaze.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: They are the original purity ponies, everything they don’t like is neo-liberal. Guardian and Hindu (India’s version of the Guardian) have been beating that word to death since Bill Clinton was in the WH. They loved themselves some BS during the primaries. So I am not surprised that they don’t like Ds much.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JPL: I definitely believe Rudi said it, there were lots of rumors back in the transition that Rudi wanted State, and it’s at least 50/50 that trump offered him AG, or at least dangled it as dignity-bait
Baud
@Patricia Kayden: I think there are only a few swing districts where that would be effective. And it would depend in the Republican in the district.
@schrodingers_cat:
I don’t mind people who don’t like neoliberals. The problem is the inaccurate use of that term.
FlipYrWhig
@Baud: They probably think it’s a step towards hastening the arrival of a True Left party. All the biggest, loudest wannabe-leftist dumbasses think that, including Jane Sanders and, frankly, Bernie Sanders.
Another Scott
@Baud: I think it’s the VSP disease. Katty Kay of the BBC seems very accepting of the “conventional wisdom” about US politics as well, in the reporting of her’s that I’ve seen. Foreign reporters and foreign news organizations want to be accepted by the political establishment in the USA, so they have a default slant that accepts the Republican framing because that’s what most of their US counterparts have.
“Ah, but TheGuardian is lefty! That can’t be it!” I hear you protest.
I would argue that it’s the just the other side of the same coin. Democrats should be able to win easily in the USA, their thinking is, and the fact that they can’t – and can’t push sufficiently lefty policies when they do manage to win – means that they’re Corrupt™ and/or In the Pocket of Wall Street™ and/or unworthy of governing.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
FlipYrWhig
@Villago Delenda Est: I don’t even think he understands zero sum. He may not even have sufficient memory. I imagine him, in the spirit of the Tom Hanks SNL “Mr. Short-Term Memory” sketch from the 1980s, paying money for something, getting that thing, completely forgetting cause and effect, and then either cackling about how he now has a new thing, or blowing up with rage about how the money isn’t in his wallet anymore. This is also why he constantly has to talk to his “friends” to assess for him whether he did a good thing or a bad thing.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Indeed, lefty newspapers and purity politicians like BS label anything they dislike neoliberal. Milton Friedman and his acolytes at the Chicago school, they are neoliberal not the Democrats.
Baud
@FlipYrWhig:
@Another Scott:
Sometimes I marvel that we win anything at all.
FlipYrWhig
@schrodingers_cat: It’s particularly stupid for a British newspaper, considering that left-of-left-of-center politics has been getting shellacked for the better part of a decade throughout the developed world and the winners have been people they love to hate like Trudeau, Macron, and Obama.
rikyrah
Just dust…that’s all
CNNVerified account @CNN
A man went to a salon and learned to do his wife’s hair after she suffered a stroke and was unable to style it herself https://cnn.it/2Lk5VfA
Raoul
Because then it wouldn’t have been much of a secret, you fucking shitgibbon of narcissistic need.
trollhattan
@Jerzy Russian:
Have a hunch Fred Sr. made Fred Jr. the chosen one not because he was firstborn but he realized little Donny was an arrogant, proudly ignorant little prick. Maybe if Fred Jr. didn’t have a substance abuse problem Donny wouldn’t be our problem.
rikyrah
BuzzFeed NewsVerified account @BuzzFeedNews
Trump’s power doesn’t come from fear. It comes from fatigue: wearing his enemies down with the same talking points over and over again, writes @jprollert
One of the replies:
YardySpice ?? ?? @ABlackTweeter
Replying to @BuzzFeedNews @jprollert
He can’t wear black people down. We’ve got this. We’ve got this for a while. We’ve worked with a Trump, lived next door to one, and we live in fear that one will pull us over. So this new talking point is NOT FOR US. KThnxBi
1:03 PM – 1 Jun 2018
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: I am not black but I too I can just tune his nonsense out. His white grievance talking points hold no sway over me. I focus on what he does and not on what he says.
Steve in the ATL
Question for the nerds: any idea why this thread loads fine (though reply and edit don’t work) in Safari on iOS 11.4 on iPhone X, but in Firefox tries to load but keeps flashing black and white? Previous thread loaded fine. Some shitty ad that’s not getting blocked?
Jay
@FlipYrWhig:
Trudeau’s not left of center, anywhere but the USA. Since his Dad’s days, the Liberal Party of Canada has moved further right.
Even the Dippers have embraced neoliberalism.
Chyron HR
@Jay:
Yeah, yeah, sure. I recommend voluntarily surrendering your country to the nazis to save yourselves from the scourge of neoliberalism. It works great.
schrodingers_cat
Senator Merkley can’t get access to the detention center for the children separated from their parents at the border.
GregB
This will be a debate topic at the next values voters summit:
Values Voters for Summary Executions of Political Adversaries.
Andrew McCarthy will moderate.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: You might need to specify the type of nerd.
gene108
@trollhattan:
Fred, Sr was disappointed in Fred, Jr, which led Junior to drink himself to an early death.
Junior had no head for business, was not interested in the family business, and went on to become a pilot. Senior didn’t really approve and gave a junior shit for it.
I can picture 11 year old Donny seeing 19 year old Junior, back from college, and getting chewed out by the old man. Probably had a big influence on Donny to fall in line with what dad wanted.
SiubhanDuinne
WILDLY off-topic: Amongst (male) Juicers, is there by any chance a member of ΠΚΦ fraternity? I have a protocol question.
mainmata
Just a reminder that it doesn’t matter what the public thinks about Trump and his known crimes (never mind the traitorous ones that will be revealed by Mueller). It only matters what Congress chooses to do about any of this. And if he pardons himself and all others involved in the Russian mess, basically saying “phuc you. I’m the king” not much anybody, EXCEPT Congress can do about this. So, ultimately, it’s the voters’ decision. Not real confident about how many voters care about democracy really.
Mai naem mobile
What’s Trumpov done with Melanie? Did Putin kidnap her? It would be irresponsible not.to speculate if Melania is Trumpov’s handler. She was after all born in Slovenia. If Obama was the blackity black sooper dooper Muslin Manchurian candidate from Kenya then why can’t Melanie be Trumpov’s handler?
Jay
@Chyron HR:
Yeah nope. I’m a surviving Red Tory. If I have to hold my nose and vote Liberal, I will, despite Kinder Morgan and the trashing of everything I hold dear, including my family. But the NDP won’t even bother to support Unions anymore, so, politics sucks.
I’ll vote the lesser of Three Evils all day long, I just wish I could vote “for” something, not always against something.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mai naem mobile: Just try to get the spelling consistent.
@mainmata: Give up then. I am tired of trying to talk people off of the ledge. Fight or don’t. Your choice.
sukabi
@Omnes Omnibus: Melania, Melanie…tomato, tomahto
So either Drumpf can’t spell her name or her stand in is named Melanie…
afanasia
@rikyrah: lovely – thank you
Bobby Thomson
Gee, I don’t know Dipshit Donnie, how about “You can’t keep a fucking secret to save your life” for starters? If you don’t like that, how about, “you’re as crooked as Harry Potter’s birthmark and more mobbed up than Frank Sinatra?”
J R in WV
@Steve in the ATL:
I’m running Firefox 60.0.1 on Linux and haven’t had trouble with Balloon-Juice since I figured out how to block that video ad that keeps trying to load bullshit.
I didn’t have much trouble before that, as clicking on the X to stop loading stopped loading. Clicking on the round arrow starts loading back up to get new stuff.
Ruckus
Just so you know, I was the toddler that was caught drinking out of the grownups glasses when they set them down at a cocktail party that my parents had when I was 3. My first taste of hard liquor. I seemed to find it OK. Apparently I may have been too drunk to walk, I don’t remember. Seems like a good party though. And I fessed up right away too, none of this falling down drunk yelling I didn’t do it shit! Mom was so proud. Every time she told this story she giggled the entire way through it.
Jay
@Ruckus:
Boo yeah!
David Evans
@schrodingers_cat: I don’t see the Guardian every day, and didn’t see the items you refer to. But if you search their site for “Republicans” you will find many more critical views than if you search for “Democrats”
Kathleen
@Joe Miller: Thank you. for that link. I also clicked on the story about Merkel’s visit to detention center in Texas where children are being held. He was refused entrance and cops were called. Wonder if we’ll see this story on the TeeVee.
Kathleen
@Baud: Chris Hayes is a tool of the rodent procreators.
sgrAstar
@Another Scott: do you guys even read The Guardian? They do have some leftist opinion writers- thank dawg- and their news coverage is quite good. The paper did not endorse BS. Also too, their coverage of environmental issues is first-in-class. The Guardian has a US bureau; you can choose to read either the GB-oriented paper, the US stuff, or both. Win,win.