Trump

[Which Tyler]

[belgarion]

1. Backing a racist homophobe currently dealing with allegations of sexual harassment of minors for senate (justified by generic kiddy right wing catch phrases [GUNZ, MILITARY, IMMIGRATION, ABORTION etc etc]).
2. Grinning like an autistic orangutan while wall st plants attack medicare, medicaid and social security to accommodate massive corporate tax cuts.
3. Renewed accusations of sexual harassment against himself is meet with denial and marvelously pithy responses to calls from other politicians to investigate them:

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Will you kindly stop demeaning orangutans by insinuating Trump is one. Orangs are far more intelligent, better looking
& can communicate with others of their species better than Mr Tiny Hands any day of the week

[morepork]

Please supply an alternative reference for something orange that shits on people from a great height,

[WaspInWales]

A flying rancid giant peach?

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[Which Tyler]

A Cheeto that defecates every time it opens its mouth?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... eller.html

In the meantime, Mike Allen of Axios reports that President Trump’s legal team is coalescing around a strategy of installing its own Robert Mueller to conduct a counter-investigation.

“They want an additional special counsel named to investigate the investigators,” explains Allen. Their subjects of investigation would reportedly include various right-wing hobbyhorses and conspiracy theories, ranging from the years-old sale of non-weapon-grade uranium that did not involve Hillary Clinton, to the FBI’s investigation of the Steele dossier, to the idea that some FBI agents may be revealed as non-Trump supporters.

[WaspInWales]

A Cheeto that defecates every time it opens its mouth?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... eller.html

In the meantime, Mike Allen of Axios reports that President Trump’s legal team is coalescing around a strategy of installing its own Robert Mueller to conduct a counter-investigation.

“They want an additional special counsel named to investigate the investigators,” explains Allen. Their subjects of investigation would reportedly include various right-wing hobbyhorses and conspiracy theories, ranging from the years-old sale of non-weapon-grade uranium that did not involve Hillary Clinton, to the FBI’s investigation of the Steele dossier, to the idea that some FBI agents may be revealed as non-Trump supporters.

Wouldn't that need the approval of the house?

That said, the way US politics is going, it's only a surprise it hasn't already been approved.

[WaspInWales]

I think it's about time Obama being a muslim and being born in Kenya was properly investigated.

Need to take a DNA sample to test for the Islamist gene and surely there's an afro hair test that can check if someone was born in Kenya?

Seems a shame I have to add the following bit, but there is a danger of being taken seriously at times....

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[WaspInWales]

#winning

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[Digby]

It was a win for the Dems, and in a state that's significantly conservative. But it was still pretty much 50/50 so it'll likely swing back if the GOP can find a candidate who doesn't molest people. Actually I find it shocking the vote was so close, but then I'm surprised at the Brexit vote still (another near 50/50 when one side clearly had established a position of I'm with stupid)

[Which Tyler]

Isn't Alabama usually +30 to the Repugnants? Even getting the Repugnant lead down to single figures would have counted as a victory.

Roy Moore may be a child molester, but at least he's not a Democrat, and for these people, that's all that counts. Especially as Jones has been known to imprison people for racial hate crimes... in Alabama, and that's a losing strategy every way you look at it.

IIRC Jones needed a record turnout of back voters (despite a state-wide system in place to stop them from even reaching the ballot box), or an about face by female voters to get close, either way it's a pretty historic win.
Of course, it'll go straight back to the Reps at the next election, so long as they put up a valid candidate.

[Mellsblue]

Well said Piglet

[Digby]

It's said almost 10% of black male voters cast their vote for Roy, and Roy has seemingly said he's scrap the 13 amendment, and that America was last great when we had slavery. Actually it's odd anyone would vote for such a waste of oxygen

[Digby]

According to one bigarade socipath this shows Don was right to support Strange as the deck was stacked against Moore in a general election. It's almost like Trump doesn't make mistakes.

[Digby]

Moore bless his little cotton socks didn't concede, and is instead advising supporters to wait to hear from god. I don't know much about US elections, but it'd seem the military ballots haven't been counted yet, and whilst they're not enough to swing to the vote for Moore they might be enough (if they've all voted and all gone for Moore, more or less) to force a recount.

[morepork]

According to one bigarade socipath this shows Don was right to support Strange as the deck was stacked against Moore in a general election. It's almost like Trump doesn't make mistakes.

Predictable really. He has also been claiming that he never met any of the women accusing him of sexual harassment. Cue multiple photos of him with said women following that claim. The whole of New York city have known what a sad act this mutant really is for decades. Now the whole world can see what they have known all along. Watching Huckerbee-Sanders qualify every kilogram of bullshit spewed from his stupid mouth is both tragic and hilarious.

[Digby]

In fairness Sarah does an excellent job, why she's doing it I've no idea as she clearly has the brains to do something sensible, but she does it very well. In the main I'm supposing it's about a power fetish for he. Or maybe she just doesn't think about the crap being done in the Whitehouse, handy when your boss is on record as saying 'one day I realised it can be smart to be shallow, for me that was a deep experience'

[morepork]

That is fucking priceless. No wonder trickle down theory persists in the cerebral vacuum of these idiots.

[Sandydragon]

So how much longer do we think the special investigator is going to last? Some very ambiguous texts are apparently clear evidence that the FBI is out to get Trump. Trump must be very tempted to kill off the whole thing.

[morepork]

Fuck, it's all a little too surreal.

Meanwhile, the master negotiator seems extremely pliant to Saudi demands these days. From the "irony is not my strong suit" files:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42356969

The US accuses Iran of supplying "a" ballistic missile that "came close to Riyadh" at the UN after two years of Saudi shelling and bombing Yemen using US made and supplied weapons to kill more than 10 000.


Now that's how you brazen out an indefensible stance.

[paddy no 11]

"in the spirit of transparency and international co-operation"

Laying it on thick there

[WaspInWales]

Gotta keep the Saudis sweet...especially as they were unhappy at the Jerusalem announcement.

More weapons to Salman, more rhetoric in support of their extremely questionable actions and everyone's happy.

Well, apart from all the dead victims and their families.

But the people with the money are happy, and that's all that matters.

[Mellsblue]

But the people with the money are happy, and that's all that matters.

How do you know Convex is happy?

[Which Tyler]

But the people with the money are happy, and that's all that matters.

How do you know Convex is happy?

I have nothing to base this on, (but we've never let anything like that stop us before)... I suspect that Convex is happily jumping down everyone's throat who dares say anything against Brexit, Jacob Rees-Mogg or Saracens; whilst often pointing out that he's richer than they are, and therefore much more likely to be right.

Equally, I suspect that somewhere Beefy creamed himself with the mention that BVunipola will be back in time for the 6N; and just wishing that Billy could add just a little more power to his carrying.

[Mellsblue]

But the people with the money are happy, and that's all that matters.

How do you know Convex is happy?

I have nothing to base this on, (but we've never let anything like that stop us before)... I suspect that Convex is happily jumping down everyone's throat who dares say anything against Brexit, Jacob Rees-Mogg or Saracens; whilst often pointing out that he's richer than they are, and therefore much more likely to be right.

Equally, I suspect that somewhere Beefy creamed himself with the mention that BVunipola will be back in time for the 6N; and just wishing that Billy could add just a little more power to his carrying.

Seems a fair summation and will henceforth be considered as fact.

[WaspInWales]

This is one of Trump's nominees for district court judge facing questions on his legal experience: