Post by sparrowsong on Dec 8, 2018 14:13:57 GMT -5
“Kelly and Trump met in the WH residence last night to hash out his departure, which was supposed to be announced by him on Monday at senior staff meeting. Instead, Trump told reporters on the WH south lawn today.“
Gen Kelly has his faults, but I believe him to be a man of character and principle. It must have killed him to have to work for this chucklefuck. I wonder how long before he comes out describing his time in the WH.
Gen Kelly has his faults, but I believe him to be a man of character and principle. It must have killed him to have to work for this chucklefuck. I wonder how long before he comes out describing his time in the WH.
Nope. No one forced him to spout racist and sexist garbage before he ever hooked up with Trump and no one forced him to further insult a serviceman’s widow as she was forced to grieve his loss in an incredibly public way.
Gen Kelly has his faults, but I believe him to be a man of character and principle. It must have killed him to have to work for this chucklefuck. I wonder how long before he comes out describing his time in the WH.
Nope. No one forced him to spout racist and sexist garbage before he ever hooked up with Trump and no one forced him to further insult a serviceman’s widow as she was forced to grieve his loss in an incredibly public way.
Yeah, he had his chance to come out looking like the honorable babysitter but he really blew it, more than once. He’s as deplorable as the rest imo.
ETA - I’ll still read whatever dirt he shares though, lol
The cause (Blumenthal’s statement) of BoneSpurs’ FreakOut*: Trump Loses His Mind After Sen. Blumenthal Says He Can Be Indicted www.politicususa.com/2018/12/08/trump-blumenthal-indicted.html Blumenthal said, “The pieces of the mosaic or the puzzle are coming into place, and the walls are closing in on Donald Trump, and his inner circle, including his family….I may be in the minority, but I believe the president could be indicted and the trial could be postponed until after he finishes service….I think the report will be extraordinarily damning, whether or not there’s an indictment.” *ALSO aforementioned freakout was during the Army-Navy game: obviously in a respect-our-ServiceMembers type of mood.
Gen Kelly has his faults, but I believe him to be a man of character and principle. It must have killed him to have to work for this chucklefuck. I wonder how long before he comes out describing his time in the WH.
Nope. No one forced him to spout racist and sexist garbage before he ever hooked up with Trump and no one forced him to further insult a serviceman’s widow as she was forced to grieve his loss in an incredibly public way.
The fact that he didn’t resign after Charlottesville and “both sides” tells you all you need to know. He called Congresswoman Wilson a liar and disrespected a gold star widow. And he supports child separation at the border. He may have served honorably in the military, but he’s as dirty as the rest of the administration. He’s no hero. This will be his legacy. And he earned every bit of it.
Gen Kelly has his faults, but I believe him to be a man of character and principle. It must have killed him to have to work for this chucklefuck. I wonder how long before he comes out describing his time in the WH.
YES! Everyone needs to read this; it’s everything we’ve all been dreaming about for TWO FUCKING YEARS now. Just some teasers...
A growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heightened the legal and political danger to Donald Trump’s presidency — and threatens to consume the rest of the party, as well.
Rather than building a war room to manage the intersecting crises as past administrations have done, the Trump White House is understaffed, stuck in a bunker mentality and largely resigned to a plan to wing it. Political and communications operatives are mostly taking their cues from the president and letting him drive the message with his spontaneous broadsides.
Some GOP senators were particularly shaken by this week’s revelation that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had met with Mueller’s team 19 separate times — a distressing signal to them that the probe may be more serious than they had been led to assume, according to senior Republican officials.
Out of everything, I’m still amazed that Republicans are surprised over this trainwreck. The first rule of spin is don’t buy your spin. Truly the definition of smelling your own farts.
Here's another one on Kelly's departure. Key points: Jared and Ivanka thought he was mean to them, and
The great irony, current and former aides said, is that Trump hired Kelly because he said the Marine general could bring order to the White House. But in recent months, Trump had begun calling Reince Priebus, his former chief of staff, more often. And he said he missed having fun.
In recent times, the president has often spent only six or seven hours in the Oval Office daily, instead preferring to be in the residence, where he can do as he pleases. Kelly told others that the less time Trump spent in the Oval Office some days, the better.
On the R anxiety piece, part of me thinks this is just more spin. How could they not have known how bad it is? So they're now just pretending to be anxious as it's getting harder to ignore, as a way to explain their utter abdication of duty to check/balance.
On the R anxiety piece, part of me thinks this is just more spin. How could they not have known how bad it is? So they're now just pretending to be anxious as it's getting harder to ignore, as a way to explain their utter abdication of duty to check/balance.
THEY TOTALLY KNOW HOW FUCKING BAD IT IS. Feigning shock is the defense.
I go back and forth on whether they know how bad it is. Part of me thinks they've gotten so used to drumming up scandals against the Ds that aren't real, that they thought this was the D's doing the same thing. Like Benghazi or the emails. But the other part of me is with some of you on the "how did they NOT know." It's been in the news from the very beginning.
Omg, those tweets. Obviously any decent tweets aren’t written by him.
I read an article in the Atlantic that compared the investigation to a battle, but not a field battle where you quickly know who won. They compared it to an attack on a heavily fortified, walled city. It can last a long time and there may be periods of strategic planning where there is no visible activity, but the people inside the walls are running out of resources.
I think we will see a lot more R’s turning on him since we are headed to primaries and the 2020 election. If several R’s primary against him, there’s no way that party won’t use mud-slinging to their advantage and there’s just so much dirt, and there’s no way he won’t retaliate with tweets.
I go back and forth on whether they know how bad it is. Part of me thinks they've gotten so used to drumming up scandals against the Ds that aren't real, that they thought this was the D's doing the same thing. Like Benghazi or the emails. But the other part of me is with some of you on the "how did they NOT know." It's been in the news from the very beginning.
I agree! I think there’s a combination of both. Some are truly shocked because they have either kept their head in the sand or because they are too used to following the party line and accepted the spin that this isn’t a big deal. Others are feigning shock as a way to cover their asses later when the shit that hits the fan comes raining down on them.
I imagine that there are some that have known all along that Cheeto is a criminal. But there are a LOT of GOP politicians who are truly as dumb as a box of hair. Especially in the House. It doesn’t surprise me that this is shocking to them because I do believe they are *that* stupid.
The senate on the other hand, those guys are, for the most part, smarter than the feces-throwing monkeys in the House. Richard Burr, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, etc.... they knew.
I go back and forth on whether they know how bad it is. Part of me thinks they've gotten so used to drumming up scandals against the Ds that aren't real, that they thought this was the D's doing the same thing. Like Benghazi or the emails. But the other part of me is with some of you on the "how did they NOT know." It's been in the news from the very beginning.
I think some of them are deep in the echo chamber of Fox News and chatter amongst themselves. I also think leadership keeps a lot of the reality to themselves - spinning their own caucus. So many of these doofuses came in to political office because they were hyper partisan. They can’t be objective or listen to the “librul media”, it’s not in them.
I forget where Christie was in his opinion of all this mess. This is what he's currently saying:
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) said Sunday that the language federal prosecutors are using to refer to President Trump in an indictment against Michael Cohen makes it sound as if they might have corroborating evidence that the president violated campaign finance law.
I forget where Christie was in his opinion of all this mess. This is what he's currently saying:
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) said Sunday that the language federal prosecutors are using to refer to President Trump in an indictment against Michael Cohen makes it sound as if they might have corroborating evidence that the president violated campaign finance law.
The Trump administration is considering charging immigrants a fee to apply for asylum protection in the United States, according to sources close to the administration.
The proposal, included in a not-yet-finalized draft regulation, would charge applicants, if they are already residing in the US, $50 to apply for asylum. Currently, there is no fee to enter an “affirmative asylum” application. The fee would not apply to those who claim a fear of persecution at ports of entry or those who apply for the protections while in deportation proceedings. There would be no waiver of the fee for those who cannot afford to pay the $50.
I forget where Christie was in his opinion of all this mess. This is what he's currently saying:
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) said Sunday that the language federal prosecutors are using to refer to President Trump in an indictment against Michael Cohen makes it sound as if they might have corroborating evidence that the president violated campaign finance law.
I was going to post about what CC said too. I was watching and I’m like oh boy if CC is nervous and he knows this shit, 45 must be upping those daily diaper changes.