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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Hail to the Hairpiece / Livin on Phat Pockets on Flat With the Gat

Livin on Phat Pockets on Flat With the Gat

by John Cole|  March 22, 20178:06 pm| 217 Comments

This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece

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Well, well, well:

Almost two weeks after President Donald Trump’s tweets accusing his predecessor of wiretapping Trump Tower, the Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee tried to offer some support by saying that the president’s team was caught up in a U.S. surveillance net.

Representative Devin Nunes said Wednesday that the intelligence community collected multiple conversations involving members of Trump’s transition team during legal surveillance of foreign targets after he won election last year. After Nunes went to the White House to brief Trump, the president told reporters “I somewhat do” feel vindicated by the latest development.

The committee’s top Democrat, Adam Schiff of California, said Nunes’s decision to go to Trump before informing other members of the panel “casts quite a profound cloud” over whether the committee can conduct a proper investigation.

Nunes said he was “alarmed” to discover that the identities of Trump aides were revealed in intelligence community documents. “Details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in an intelligence community report,” he said, adding that he didn’t know if Trump’s “own communications were intercepted.”

First off, let’s dispense with the nonsense that Trump should feel vindicated. He claimed he was wiretapped, he wasn’t. This was routine surveillance on known bad actors and his team got caught up in it because… they were consorting with known bad actors. It’s the difference between me having my microwave take pictures of me in my underwear screaming “FASTER” while I nuke a hotpocket and me being accidentally picked up on a recording of drug dealers when I went to buy crack. Instead of being validated that he was in fact being wiretapped, a more clever man would wonder if maybe he should spend so much time hanging out with crack dealers. Donald Trump is not a clever man.

Second, Rep. Adam Schiff is about to fucking explode:

Today, Chairman Nunes shared information with WH still withheld from our committee. He cannot conduct a credible investigation this way. pic.twitter.com/wwrp7H7JWC

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 22, 2017

I’d like to know what kind of shit Bannon has on Devin Nunes, because at this point it has to be in the “live boy” territory.

Meanwhile, addled old warmonger Walnuts almost killed a man rushing to the cameras to throw in his two fucking cents, and while it contains a bit of the pox on both houses bullshit, what he is calling for would be HIGHLY entertaining:

Congress no longer has the credibility to independently tackle a probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and President Trump and his associates’ ties to Moscow, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday.

“It’s a bizarre situation, and what I think, the reason why I’m calling for this select committee or a special committee, is I think that this back-and-forth and what the American people have found out so far that no longer does the Congress have credibility to handle this alone,” McCain told MSNBC’s Greta Van Susteren. “And I don’t say that lightly.”

McCain’s comments come amid an increasingly bitter feud that erupted between members of the House Intelligence Committee earlier Wednesday, after the panel’s chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) claimed that he had seen evidence that the U.S. intelligence community incidentally surveilled members of Trump’s transition team.

The inadvertent surveillance, Nunes said, was not tied to ongoing Russia investigation.

The committee’s top Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.) fired back, blasting Nunes for routing the committee before briefing Trump himself on the apparent findings and saying that the move “casts quite a profound cloud” over the panel’s investigation.

And why the fuck not? We spent ten days investigating Bill Clinton’s Christmas Card list, who knows how many hundreds of millions on other sham investigations into Bill and Hillary, why not spend a couple million to lift up Putin’s kilt and see if we find Trump down there on his knees?

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    March 22, 2017 at 8:11 pm

    Meanwhile, karma is a beeyotch. Judge Gorsuch had a decision overturned, unanimously, by the Supreme Court while he was appearing before the Senate committee.

  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 8:12 pm

    Reposting from below, CNN alert says “US officials have information that indicates Trump associates possibly coordinated with Russians to release information damaging to Clinton campaign”

  3. 3.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2017 at 8:13 pm

    I’m sorry, the correct expression is “let’s dispel with the nonsense.”

  4. 4.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2017 at 8:14 pm

    I think a kilt is about the only costume Putin hasn’t tried.

  5. 5.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    March 22, 2017 at 8:14 pm

    why not spend a couple million to lift up Putin’s kilt and see if we find Trump down there on his knees?

    What’s that old joke?

    Hanging down like Sean Hanitty’s necktie between Rush Limbaugh’s thighs…

    We were discussing this situation a couple of threads lower earlier in the day…

    Like I said before… boy that didn’t take long…

  6. 6.

    Lalophobia

    March 22, 2017 at 8:14 pm

    Also according to Schiff, the evidence against Trump is no longer confined to the realm of circumstantial.

    https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/844669163717246976

    Postscript: I don’t know how to post tweets.

  7. 7.

    bystander

    March 22, 2017 at 8:15 pm

    The good news is Adam Schiff Let’s dispel with the nonsense that he doesn’t know how to skewer his opponents effectively.

  8. 8.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    March 22, 2017 at 8:16 pm

    @NotMax: @Major Major Major Major: Well dang… after a few too many not-so-good days in a row… this is turning into a very good one…

  9. 9.

    pk

    March 22, 2017 at 8:16 pm

    I don’t even have words any more to describe how much I hate this man. UGH! Some new words have to be invented which will describe my feelings.

  10. 10.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    March 22, 2017 at 8:17 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    No, ‘”dispense with” is correct. Or “dispel the nonsense” is also acceptable.

  11. 11.

    Gravenstone

    March 22, 2017 at 8:17 pm

    Always remember, Nunes was on the Trump transition team. He’s as dirty as any of the rest of them and knows his own dick is in the pickle slicer with the rest of the clowns.

  12. 12.

    Iowa Old Lady

    March 22, 2017 at 8:17 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I want them all in jail.

  13. 13.

    bystander

    March 22, 2017 at 8:18 pm

    All evidence is circumstantial, or so I learned in law school. The question is whether it is conclusory.

  14. 14.

    Mary G

    March 22, 2017 at 8:19 pm

    @zhena gogolia: That phrase must DIAF.

  15. 15.

    Attapooch

    March 22, 2017 at 8:20 pm

    Given the number of dead Russians that were tangentially connected to all this that are now turning up dead, if I were Manafort or Stone I’d be messing my pants right around now.

    Putin’s got as much as he’s going to get from Team Trump and he’s undoubtedly going to burn them soon which will cause even more chaos for us to Russia’s benefit.

  16. 16.

    bystander

    March 22, 2017 at 8:20 pm

    @Gravenstone: Has TengUPhule heard of this pickle slicer whence you speak?

  17. 17.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 8:23 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): it’s a Rubioism.

  18. 18.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 8:23 pm

    @Gravenstone: that phrase sure made me cringe.

    Not that it’s not accurate… I’m just saying…

  19. 19.

    JPL

    March 22, 2017 at 8:23 pm

    @Attapooch: I thought that until Tillerson said he wasn’t going to the NATO meeting, but would be visiting Russia in April. I have no idea what’s going to happen, although I know this is not normal.

  20. 20.

    bystander

    March 22, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    Liberty Valance is on. I saw this at a drive in movie in 1962. It was as irritating then as it is now.

  21. 21.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    Page and Stone must be absolutely shitting bricks right now and making plans to head out tonight with a suitcase of cash and a couple good disguises

  22. 22.

    Timurid

    March 22, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    All those people who refused to leak damaging info on Trump because it would compromise the investigation have no reason to hold onto it now that the investigation has been compromised. And the leaks are starting right on cue…

  23. 23.

    Kay

    March 22, 2017 at 8:25 pm

    This seems amazing to me:

    The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, US officials told CNN.
    This is partly what FBI Director James Comey was referring to when he made a bombshell announcement Monday before Congress that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, according to one source.

    I didn’t believe they’d find a connection. I know they’re all mobbed up and some were paid by Putin associates and owning and owing all sorts of complex shit but I didn’t think they were dumb enough to make direct contact.

    Wow. They are that dumb and reckless.

  24. 24.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    March 22, 2017 at 8:25 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    I want them all in jail.

    I second that…

    I’m not interested in a slaps on the wrist, admissions of wrong doing, contrite teary apologies, or moving on for the good of the country…

    If it’s appropriate, I wanna see perp walks for the cameras, trials, and responsible parties getting handed some serious stretches of time…

    But only done properly and legally… none of that “Lock her up” BS…

    After all… we ARE a country of laws…

  25. 25.

    Yarrow

    March 22, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    Trump is going down. They are all going down.

  26. 26.

    dm

    March 22, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    This business with Nunes almost seems like history repeating the pre-election Comey tragedy, this time as farce.

    ETA: I started to say that I’d accept a few of them rooming in Kim Philby’s old apartment in Moscow — jail would make them martyrs for the true “Lock her up!” believers while Moscow would make the traitors. Then I thought about Snowden in Moscow and decided exile in Moscow was no longer as ignominious as it used to be, so … insufficient.

    Maybe beach chairs in Guantanamo.

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    March 22, 2017 at 8:27 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    My bad. I haven’t been following the rhetorical stylings of second-tier Republicans. I have enough trouble keeping up with the A-team.

  28. 28.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    March 22, 2017 at 8:27 pm

    @Kay:

    but I didn’t think they were dumb enough to make direct contact.

    I trust this is one of those rare moments when you don’t mind finding out you were wrong about something…

  29. 29.

    Gravenstone

    March 22, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    @Attapooch: Adam keeps saying that Putin is looking at a 1.2 Trillion dollar windfall if certain things come to pass. So I don’t see Putin looking to burn Trump and company until that payday is arranged. After that … all bets are off.

  30. 30.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 22, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    @Attapooch: Russians kill mostly other Russians, others not so much. Ask Bill Browder.

  31. 31.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    March 22, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    @Yarrow: Yeeeeeeeaaaaah….

  32. 32.

    burnspbesq

    March 22, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    Nunes is going to exhaust the self-esteem of the idjits from Fresno who keep re-electing him.

  33. 33.

    Sam

    March 22, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    I think at least part of the picture is becoming very clear. The common thread in all the accusations is that the Trump coterie has been taking money, dirty money, from Russians for years. I think the ic and law enforcement is struggling because they have too much information. They know Ukrainian money and Russian money has been channeled to the Trump organization for at least a decade. They know all the associates of black, manafort have been paid to be illegal lobbyists for Russia and other countries run by dictators for years. They know people like Flynn were trying to get in on that very lucrative act. They know you don’t lie down with dogs without getting up with fleas.

    The quid is clear, they are wondering about the quo. At a minimum, these sleazy connections could be terminal political embarrassment. On the other end of things we have treasonous conduct. I predict the Republicans will be running away before the end of the calendar year.

    This cannot get better for Trump. There is no upside, only drip drip drip.

  34. 34.

    Corner Stone

    March 22, 2017 at 8:30 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): I pity the fool!

  35. 35.

    Oatler.

    March 22, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    @Yarrow: As long as it’s “they” and not us, and “they” have a pretty sweet system for pensioning off and escaping. At our expense.

  36. 36.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): during one of the debates he said it over and over and over and over, lucky you you weren’t watching.

  37. 37.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    March 22, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    @Thru the Looking Glass…:

    this is turning into a very good one…

    I gotta amend that… the shit in London is ugly, sad, and scary…

    So sad for those people…

  38. 38.

    Kay

    March 22, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    @Thru the Looking Glass…:

    So specifically! “To harm Hillary Clinton’s campaign” I’m weird because I just loathe Guilaini. I always hope it somehow leads to him. The profiteering on “security” he did turns my stomach.

  39. 39.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    Nunes is a serial child molester.

    Its the only reasonable explanation.

  40. 40.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    CNN: “Koch Brothers make last minute attempt to sink GOP health bill by creating 2018 reelection fund closed to members who vote yes”

  41. 41.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    @Kay:

    but I didn’t think they were dumb enough to make direct contact.

    I called this weeks ago.

    They are.

  42. 42.

    JPL

    March 22, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    @Kay: That’s why Nunes went to Trump today in tears.

  43. 43.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    March 22, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    @Kay:

    It would he awesome if Assange goes down in a heap with these creeps.

  44. 44.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    @Yarrow: Chickens, eggs, counting.

    When the Secret Service turns on Trump, then break out the beverages.

    Everything else is wishful thinking.

  45. 45.

    Gravenstone

    March 22, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Today in Republican cannibalism …

  46. 46.

    Nora

    March 22, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Isn’t this bribery pure and simple, or isn’t that illegal if you’re a Republican?

  47. 47.

    MomSense

    March 22, 2017 at 8:37 pm

    45 is going down and I’m just hoping as many of the deatheater GOP are going down with him.

  48. 48.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    March 22, 2017 at 8:38 pm

    me having my microwave take pictures of me in my underwear screaming “FASTER” while I nuke a hotpocket

    I will NEVER unsee this, and I didn’t even see it.

    Also, dumb-and-dumbers gonna dumb. It’s what they do. I wish we weren’t collectively paying them to do it.

  49. 49.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:38 pm

    @NotMax: And yet it did nothing. Mccuckold is still going to ram him though even if he has to blow up the Senate to do it.

  50. 50.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    March 22, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    @burnspbesq: And Schiff looks better and better…

  51. 51.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    @bystander: I cut pickles the old fashioned way. A big knife. You must be thinking of a sausage grinder.

  52. 52.

    JPL

    March 22, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    @MomSense: As I explained to my son earlier, when a President leaves in disgrace it weakens the party. That was the olden days though. Who knows what will happen now.

  53. 53.

    Attapooch

    March 22, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    @Gravenstone:

    Prior to today, Putin might have thought he would be getting a windfall from a Trump Presidency, but after today he’s gotta realize that going forward there’s nothing Trump is going to be able to do for him.

    Now that Trump’s usefulness is at an end I’m wondering if all bets are off.

  54. 54.

    lollipopguild

    March 22, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    @Nora: NOTHING is illegal if you are a repthug.

  55. 55.

    JPL

    March 22, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    @TenguPhule: tmi
    just sayin

  56. 56.

    Booger

    March 22, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    @Gravenstone: “…and who fired you from MdDonalds?” “Oh, the pickle slicer’s husband.”

  57. 57.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    March 22, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    @Kay: There’s nothing ‘weird’ about loathing Giuliani… it would abnormal to NOT loathe him… just sayin’…

  58. 58.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    @Nora: Citizens United legalized bribery.

    @TenguPhule: I’ll take that bet.

  59. 59.

    JPL

    March 22, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    @Attapooch: Did Tillerson cancel his trip to Russia?

  60. 60.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    why not spend a couple million to lift up Putin’s kilt and see if we find Trump down there on his knees?

    And screw you john for that image.

    I can’t unsee that.

  61. 61.

    Iowa Old Lady

    March 22, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    @Kay: I was just wondering if Giuliani could be caught up in this too. He knew an awful lot about when information would be released. Sadly I think he got it from the NYC FBI office rather than the Russians, so I don’t know how that counts.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 22, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet):

    How quickly they forget.

  63. 63.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    March 22, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    I recall something about the WH planning on not doing press conferences daily… w/ this kind of shit going on non-stop, poor Sean Spicer has to go out and face some pretty surly reporters very, single farkin’ day…

    Poor Sean…

  64. 64.

    lollipopguild

    March 22, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: The NYC FBI office might be working for the russians.

  65. 65.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    @JPL: Sorry, but he did get the reference completely wrong. Its stick their dicks in a sausage grinder, the pickle slicer is a tawdry punchline as #56 pointed out.

  66. 66.

    HeleninEire

    March 22, 2017 at 8:45 pm

    I don’t get it. I get why Nunes went to Trump. I don’t get why he announced it as opposed to going in the back door secretly. Like Thompson did with Nixon. Does he not understand what oversight is? What was the upside of actually being honest about breaking the protocols?

  67. 67.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:45 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Which part? The ramming or that Mccuckold will make Calvinball the new Senate rules?

  68. 68.

    bystander

    March 22, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    The sad part will be when we hear that it was all ok to work with Putin because, after all, they were saving the world from the HillaryBeast.

  69. 69.

    Spanky

    March 22, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    I want enough perp walks to make it look like a Macy’s parade, but how to thread the needle with a compromised DoJ? Hell, where IS the fucking needle, even?

    ETA: Just to be clear, the question is that once the FBI & IC have the evidence, how do they move to prosecution with Sessions at DoJ? This is not state AG-level stuff.

  70. 70.

    Mike J

    March 22, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    @lollipopguild:

    The NYC FBI office might be working for the russians.

    Cousin! Let’s go bowling!

  71. 71.

    Quinerly

    March 22, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    Just saw an old blurb with Newt bragging on what a great job Manafort had done with the campaign..he was making the rounds after Manafort was fired. Has Newt even been around since the inauguration? Seems that he has dropped out of sight.

  72. 72.

    japa21

    March 22, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    @bystander: That has been floated out there.

  73. 73.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    @TenguPhule: well, any sort of ramming would necessitate a violation of normal rules, wouldn’t you say?

  74. 74.

    BlueDWarrior

    March 22, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    @lollipopguild: is there anyone near the Trump orbit that isn’t Ruskie’d up at this point?

  75. 75.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 22, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    @lollipopguild: It’s been said before, but the NYC Field Office is more compromised with Brighton Beach than the Boston one was with Whitey.

  76. 76.

    Blueskies

    March 22, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    @Attapooch: Trump actually winning was never Putin’s goal. Nobody, including Putin, thought that the US voters could possibly be fucking stupid enough to elect this asshole. Nah, Putin’s goal here, as in western Yurp, is simply generalized disruption of societal norms and sewing seeds of distrust of government. He can’t lose here. If Trump stays in power, he has a mole, one who will blithely continue to totally fuck up everything. If Trump gets dragged through the mud on the way to the pen, that’s a win, too, because at the end of the day, it’s POTUS being jailed.

    It’s evil genius, and it working in every western democracy.

  77. 77.

    different-church-lady

    March 22, 2017 at 8:50 pm

    @Attapooch: Intriguing thought: the excrement hits the blades when one of them turns evidence in exchange for protection from the assassins?

  78. 78.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:50 pm

    @Spanky:

    Hell, where IS the fucking needle, even?

    My kingdom for an honest judge and jury.

  79. 79.

    Mike J

    March 22, 2017 at 8:50 pm

    @bystander:

    The sad part will be when we hear that it was all ok to work with Putin because, after all, they were saving the world from the HillaryBeast.

    Plenty of people said Watergate was OK because it was designed to keep Democrats out of the White House.

  80. 80.

    lollipopguild

    March 22, 2017 at 8:50 pm

    @BlueDWarrior: It looks more and more like “All of them Katie”.

  81. 81.

    Kay

    March 22, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    Oh, good point. I forgot that. I get confused sometimes between the Russians in the Trump campaign and the NY FBI field office in the Trump campaign. Maybe they too are connected! :)

    We live in an officially bizarre country now. I’m trying, and failing, to adjust. Obama The Mysterious Muslim was a piece of cake compared to this collection of misfits and weirdos. Boring. Normal. Easter egg rolls and earnest speeches.

  82. 82.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:52 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Well, there technically is still the Senate nuclear self-destruction option. Not Calvinball, but Procedural kill-em-all.

  83. 83.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 22, 2017 at 8:52 pm

    To answer John’s question, it’s not that Bannon has anything on Nunes. It is that Nunes’s business partner is tied to Putin:

    Rep Devin Nunes owns part of a winery-that has Russian distributor-who's close to Putin#trumprussia #russiagate #resist #trumpLeaks #trump pic.twitter.com/It1C4ZLfZi

    — Scott Dworkin (@funder) February 27, 2017

    This morning Congressman Nunes disclosed, without authorization, classified information pertaining to US SIGINT collection. Congressman Nunes does not have declassification authority. He then went and briefed the President on what he had just leaked because he thought the President needed to know it. This is curious for two reasons. 1) This is not the job of a Congressman who is chairing a committee that oversees executive branch agencies and activities. 2) The President, as the President, has the ability to know anything he wants to know that is being done, or has been done, by the US Intelligence Community. That he did not know this, that he was not briefed on it, means that he and his subordinates either couldn’t be bothered knowing or, because of the counterintelligence investigation – its scope and who may be its targets – this information had been compartmented from the President. If it is the former, it shows how inept the President’s advisors and staff are. If it is the latter then Congressman Nunes has dug his hole even deeper. Interfering with and obstructing a Federal counterintelligence investigation is not something that the FBI looks kindly upon.

    Before anyone asks me what happens now? The answer is I do not know. I know what should happen both overtly and covertly. But the truthful answer is we have to wait and see. Congressman Schiff is trying to prevent his committee from being blown up by the committee chair. A man who is not particularly smart and who has a Russian partner tied to Putin. Here too, like so many times that I’ve remarked on this stuff, I can once again place a key player in all of this within no more than two links to Putin. Director Comey will now become very, very circumspect with what he does and does not brief the Congressional Gang of Eight because key members, Congressman Nunes specifically, cannot be trusted with any sensitive information. Congress’s oversight of the Intelligence Community is now compromised. As I wrote last June in my post on cyberwar, Russia has declared that they are in a state of war with the US. They are acting like it. The US has key leaders from one of its two political parties (the GOP), as well as from one of its fringe, gadfly, spoiler parties (the Greens) who are continually demonstrating that they are providing aid and comfort to the enemy. As I’ve written before, we are fully in a Constitutional crisis and have been for months. We are at war and have been for over a year. The Republic is in peril.

  84. 84.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    March 22, 2017 at 8:52 pm

    @HeleninEire:

    How about he’s too stupid to understand the consequences? Probably thought he’d create sympathy and credibility for Trump’s claims of surveillance.

  85. 85.

    Spanky

    March 22, 2017 at 8:53 pm

    @TenguPhule: My kingdom for an un-fired federal prosecutor.

  86. 86.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:53 pm

    @BlueDWarrior: No. This has been another horrifying edition of SATSQ.

  87. 87.

    Mnemosyne

    March 22, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    @BlueDWarrior:

    Nope.

    SATSQ.

  88. 88.

    Gravenstone

    March 22, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    @TenguPhule: Dude, it’s a line from a bad sci fi novel I read in high school. “There was no way he was gonna stick his prick in that particular pickle slice.” The imagery just struck with me.

  89. 89.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    @TenguPhule: overriding/firing the parliamentarian would qualify as ramming.

  90. 90.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Before anyone asks me what happens now? The answer is I do not know. I know what should happen both overtly and covertly. But the truthful answer is we have to wait and see.

    There is a reason “May you live in interesting times” is considered a really nasty Chinese curse.

  91. 91.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    March 22, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: And rumor has it the Brighton Beach dudes don’t play bean bag. You have my good thoughts for an uneventful and extremely successful surgery tomorrow, with a speedy recovery.

  92. 92.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Then you’re gonna win that bet.

  93. 93.

    trollhattan

    March 22, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    @TenguPhule:
    “But I”m from Fresno!” would comprise an effective defense. Trust me.

  94. 94.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    @HeleninEire: what scares me with this idiot Nunes and with Trump himself is that as the end draws near, they are going to think they can try to take the case to their mouth-breathing supporters… and some minority of those voters are going to do some very crazy things

    Just one last opportunity for Trump to damage the country in service of his pitiful little ego

  95. 95.

    hovercraft

    March 22, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    @JPL:

    hen a President leaves in disgrace it weakens the party. That was the olden days though. Who knows what will happen now.

    As you say, that was the olden days, now it would be a result of the Kenyan and the Bitch conspiring together to steal America back from the righteous people trying to MAGA it.
    I’d say it would send them round the bend, but since they’re already batshit, perhaps they’ll spontaneously combust. A girl can dream.

  96. 96.

    Mike in DC

    March 22, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    Для предателей есть только смерть
    Dlya predateley yest’ tol’ko smert’

    http://www.cnn.com/2…ians/index.html

    “For traitors, there is only death”

  97. 97.

    different-church-lady

    March 22, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    This morning Congressman Nunes disclosed, without authorization, classified information pertaining to US SIGINT collection.

    BUT… HER…. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

  98. 98.

    lollipopguild

    March 22, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    @Jeffro: Trump orders a nuke strike on North Korea in order to change the subject.

  99. 99.

    Another Scott

    March 22, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    @NotMax: Nice. Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  100. 100.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    March 22, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Damn, Adam… I was hoping for just a little Trump’s in fer a whoopin‘ from you, not a dire declaration of existing intelligence warfare. Now I’m kind of freaked out. Better go put on my big boy britches.

  101. 101.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 22, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Thanks. It’s the waiting and not knowing that’s hard.

  102. 102.

    trollhattan

    March 22, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @TenguPhule:
    No true Scotsman…

  103. 103.

    Yarrow

    March 22, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    I was just wondering if Giuliani could be caught up in this too. He knew an awful lot about when information would be released. Sadly I think he got it from the NYC FBI office rather than the Russians, so I don’t know how that counts.

    Yes. He’s involved in it. Russian mob, along with bad NYC FBI people. This thing could take them all down.

  104. 104.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet):

    You are obviously not aware of all internet (Rubio) traditions.

  105. 105.

    Gravenstone

    March 22, 2017 at 9:02 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Well there’s a fucking comforting assessment. But then reality is rarely comfortable, is it?

  106. 106.

    hovercraft

    March 22, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Well Obama and the democrats did ram a whole bunch of shit down their throats for eight years, now their so used to it, they’ve um, developed a taste for it.

  107. 107.

    different-church-lady

    March 22, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    Wanna know how serious this is? It’s this serious:

    The White House did not comment…

  108. 108.

    p.a.

    March 22, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    How many ball bearings can tRump fit in his tiny hands?

  109. 109.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    @Thru the Looking Glass…:

    It’s the only thing that can begin to restore our national honor and credibility.

  110. 110.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2017 at 9:05 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet):

    But he said it five times in 30 seconds during one of the debates! How could you forget that?

  111. 111.

    different-church-lady

    March 22, 2017 at 9:05 pm

    @p.a.: None of them, Katie.

  112. 112.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:05 pm

    @different-church-lady: Uh oh.

    Is our military still going to take orders from El Douche? A first strike on Iran or Korea? (No, I don’t expect him to give a damn which end he attacks at this point,)

  113. 113.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 22, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    In other more mundane news, I made steak tacos and they were awesome!

  114. 114.

    Iowa Old Lady

    March 22, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    @different-church-lady: You think that might count at being extremely careless with classified info? /sarcasm

    How can these people sleep at night?

  115. 115.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    March 22, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I was terribly confused to read that Nunes appeared to announce that he’d provided the WH with TS/SCI while some may be investigatory targets. And publicly announced information that is normally extremely compartmentalized.

    I checked and there was no alcohol missing so I read Schindler’s twitter feed to learn he was, shall we say, somewhat disturbed by the turn of events. (@20 committee for those who aren’t regular followers).

    I share your belief that the constitutional crisis began months ago, but it’s not at all clear what the next phase will be. It seems even some of the pros are confused. Comey must be steaming – unless it was his deza to trap a mole
    (or whatever the actual technical term is in that specific situation)…
    Speaking of actual:

    JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUAL³³º¹‏
    @th3j35t3r
    #BuckleUp It’s gonna be a rough few weeks America. And that’s about all I’m gonna say on the matter, aside from… keep the bubbly on ice

  116. 116.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    @trollhattan: But then Trump would be the one in a kilt……goddamnit!

  117. 117.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: rare or burnt to a cinder with ketchup?

  118. 118.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    @bystander:

    Lots of people think that.

  119. 119.

    BlueDWarrior

    March 22, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: for the love of… is literally the entire Trump apparatus a subsidiary of PutinCorp? This has gotten into “Are there aliens hacking my brain?” level of disbelief for me.

  120. 120.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    March 22, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne, @zhena gogolia:

    Jesus, I get it. Leave me alone, you harridans!

  121. 121.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 22, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    rare or burnt to a cinder with ketchup?

    Beautiful crust and rare in the middle. Did you mistake me for the President? Plus I topped it with a nice home-made roasted tomato and onion salsa.

  122. 122.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    As I’ve written before, we are fully in a Constitutional crisis and have been for months. We are at war and have been for over a year. The Republic is in peril.

    With the Fifth Column Republicans ready to open the gates to the enemy.

  123. 123.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet):

    I’m just horrified you thought I was serious in correcting John.

  124. 124.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: With how crazy things have become, had to be sure you were a person of good taste.

  125. 125.

    Baud

    March 22, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    Obviously, this is all a distraction.

  126. 126.

    p.a.

    March 22, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Is ketchup good on anything? Except maybe homefries/hashbrowns?

  127. 127.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    How can these people sleep at night?

    Money, drugs and hookers.

    Or so I’ve heard.

  128. 128.

    NeenerNeener

    March 22, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    Now would be a good time for Twitler to have a “health crisis” and retire from the Presidency. Saves face for the GOP and he’s managed to steal enough to cover all his debts and then some so it’s time to get out before he’s dragged out.

  129. 129.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 9:16 pm

    @lollipopguild: at which point the 25th amendment is invoked or…well… other measures are taken

  130. 130.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    @p.a.: Cornbeef hash, Oyster rolls and hamburgers. The Glutamic acid synergizes with the meat to make it taste better.

  131. 131.

    Chet Murthy

    March 22, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    @JPL: For Smallgloves, a paring knife should suffice. Maybe even the kind of knife they use on cuticles?

  132. 132.

    rikyrah

    March 22, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    Federal staffers panicked by conservative media attacks
    A spate of stories in Breitbart and other outlets have singled out individual career employees, questioning their loyalty to Trump.
    03/22/17 02:23 PM EDT

    Conservative news outlets, including one with links to a top White House official, are singling out individual career government employees for criticism, suggesting in articles that certain staffers will not be sufficiently loyal to President Donald Trump by virtue of their work under former President Barack Obama.

    The articles — which have appeared in Breitbart News, the Conservative Review and other outlets — have alarmed veteran officials in both parties as well as current executive branch staffers. They say the stories are adding to tensions between career staffers and political appointees as they begin to implement Trump’s agenda, and they worry that the stories could inspire Trump to try purging federal agencies of perceived enemies.

    The claims posted on the conservative sites include allegations of anti-Israel and pro-Iran bias against staffers at institutions such as the State Department and the National Security Council. Breitbart News, whose former executive chairman Steve Bannon is now Trump’s chief strategist, has even published lists of workers that the president should fire.

    Washington veterans say they can’t recall similar targeting of government employees, who are required to stay apolitical and generally shun the spotlight.

  133. 133.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: and, having noted that, it has to follow that a ticket elected, or a government sworn in by, the machinations and acts of war by a hostile foreign power in collusion with treason by certain American citizens cannot stand.

  134. 134.

    SFAW

    March 22, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Did you mistake me for the President?

    Unpossible. You obviously have a functioning brain.

  135. 135.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 9:21 pm

    @p.a.: it’s great on everything are you kidding ?

  136. 136.

    XTPD

    March 22, 2017 at 9:21 pm

    Two things:

    1) The “flat” in the title should be “full.” Yes, the lyric sites all think it’s the former, but that’s not what he actually says.

    2) I’m a fan of Cypress Hill and especially DJ Muggs’ productions, but I personally prefer Diamond D’s Billy Cobham-sampling remix.

  137. 137.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 22, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    @TenguPhule: I’ve just tweaked that comment it is going up as a stand alone post with additional info shortly.

  138. 138.

    rikyrah

    March 22, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    Koch network pledges to defend Republicans who vote against GOP health bill
    Two Koch groups are starting a ‘seven-figure’ reserve fund to protect bill opponents from political harm.
    03/22/17 08:00 PM EDT

    The Koch brothers’ network of well-funded outside groups says it will spend millions to protect Republicans who oppose the party’s health care bill from political fallout.

    Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners, the Koch network’s big-budget grassroots activism and advertising groups, are teaming up to create a “seven-figure” reserve fund to support lawmakers who buck President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan on the health care vote, as the threat of primaries looms over some opponents of the bill. The Koch groups will spend the money on paid media, direct mail and grassroots canvassing.

  139. 139.

    Betty Cracker

    March 22, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    Now Trump is retweeting talk radio crackpots who say the info Nunes released totally means President Obama wire tapped Trump. What a fucking idiot. I hope the fact that he couldn’t let his bitterness and jealousy toward PBO go is what brings Trump down.

  140. 140.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Washington veterans say they can’t recall similar targeting of government employees, who are required to stay apolitical and generally shun the spotlight.

    Have to go overseas and a little father back in history to a little man with a mustache.

  141. 141.

    p.a.

    March 22, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    @TenguPhule: hash: tobasco. ersters: remoulade (ketchup possible component). burgers: on a basic or w/cheese ok, but on the ‘food network type’ 6 toppings burger, nah. Oh! Freedom fries, sure, although I’m from vinegar territory.

  142. 142.

    SFAW

    March 22, 2017 at 9:24 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    Cornbeef hash

    How Shitgibbon-like — ketchup on hash? What’s next, put it on brownies?

    ETA: No, not hash brownies.

  143. 143.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 22, 2017 at 9:24 pm

    @BlueDWarrior: McCarthyite! What could you possibly have against fraternal cooperation and harmony between the Russian and American peoples? Мир и дружба!

  144. 144.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 9:24 pm

    @BlueDWarrior: as unreal as it has seemed for nine months now,
    and no matter how unreal it gets, we have to keep asking ourselves where the facts are leading us and go with the conclusions that come from those facts .

    As many many people have noted if this was a Hollywood plot it would be thrown out for it’s unbelievability … but it also is the most likely, most logical, simplest explanation for what we have seen unfolding during the presidential campaign and afterwards

  145. 145.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 22, 2017 at 9:24 pm

    @XTPD:

    The “flat” in the title should be “full.”

    That makes more sense.

  146. 146.

    Hungry Joe

    March 22, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    I can’t help thinking that all kinds of outrageous things will continue to come out … but with a compromised Department of Justice and a troglodytic Congress, nothing will come of it. They’ll simply refuse to act. The sun will rise and set, political life will go on, and people like us will be looking around, aghast, saying, “No, wait, you have to — ” and they’ll say, “No, we don’t.” And that’ll be that.

    My great consolation is that for at least the last year and a half every prediction I’ve made has been wrong.

  147. 147.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m sick to my stomach about how this whole mess is getting worse each day.

  148. 148.

    jacy

    March 22, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    @p.a.:

    I only like ketchup on meatloaf or cabbage rolls. Nothing else. Certainly not a hamburger or hot dog.

  149. 149.

    different-church-lady

    March 22, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    @rikyrah: I dunno if I owe you an apology for my outburst on that other thread because I haven’t gone back to it out of embarassment. Here’s an apology anyway.

  150. 150.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    @TenguPhule: I do like the phrase “fifth column Republicans”

  151. 151.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    @SFAW: It does actually improve the taste when used in moderation with real corned beef. Umami is enhanced five fold.

  152. 152.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 9:27 pm

    @TenguPhule: it’s not getting worse – it’s just getting made public, which is what it will take to get it make it get better

    Worse would be if the stuff wasn’t coming to light and Trump and Ryan and McConnell we’re proceeding with business as usual

  153. 153.

    Sab

    March 22, 2017 at 9:27 pm

    @p.a.: Roast beef hash

  154. 154.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 22, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    @TenguPhule: Tomato is an umami enhancer. Kenji Lopez-Alt at Serious eats has a bit of browned tomato paste in all kinds of unexpected recipes for that reason. Also fish sauce in small amounts in places where no respectable Thai or Cambodian would put it.

  155. 155.

    SFAW

    March 22, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    I’m sick to my stomach about how this whole mess is getting worse each day.

    Are you sure it’s not from your injudicious use of ketchup?

  156. 156.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Worse would be if the stuff wasn’t coming to light and Trump and Ryan and McConnell we’re proceeding with business as usual

    Its coming to light and they’re still proceeding with business as usual.

  157. 157.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    @rikyrah: wow… this is intriguing … does this pit the Kochs against the Mercers ?!?

  158. 158.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @Sab: Heretic!

  159. 159.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 22, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Good luck tomorrow, we’re keeping good thoughts.

  160. 160.

    SFAW

    March 22, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    It does actually improve the taste when used in moderation with real corned beef.

    Un-hashed corned beef, I’m OK with ketchup.

    Hash is a different story, however.

  161. 161.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    @TenguPhule: they are trying … trying to proceed as fast as they can before it all collapses

  162. 162.

    Wag

    March 22, 2017 at 9:31 pm

    Either Trump is completely fucked or the country is completely fucked.

    One or the other

    I’m rooting for trump to go down, not America.

  163. 163.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 22, 2017 at 9:31 pm

    @p.a.: I like my french fries with ketchup. Hunt’s with real sugar, not corn syrup. There is a breakfast place near me that makes their own ketchup, its pretty good and has a zing to it.

  164. 164.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    @SFAW: Try it before you speak ill of it. It combines wonderfully with the beef, potato and onions.

  165. 165.

    different-church-lady

    March 22, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    @Wag: not mutually exclusive

  166. 166.

    Aleta

    March 22, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    Can we refuse secret service protection to these no good imposters? Their security travel expenses are not in the 2017 budget so why can’t we tell them the money for Aspen just isn’t available now, sorry.

    — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 22, 2017
    You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khanhttps://t.co/uSm2pwRTjO

    (By the way DJT is lying by writing this.)

    NYT– Mr. Trump mischaracterized the London mayor’s remarks. Mr. Khan did not describe terrorism as “part of living in a big city,” as if bombings and shootings were an inescapable fact of life. He said that terrorism preparedness, including providing sufficient support to the police, was “part and parcel of living in a great global city.”

    “That means being vigilant, having a police force that is in touch with communities; it means the security services being ready, but it also means exchanging ideas and best practice,” Mr. Khan said.

    “Nothing is more important to me than keeping Londoners safe,” Mr. Khan added. “I want to be reassured that every single agency and individual involved in protecting our city has the resources and expertise they need to respond in the event that London is attacked.”

    Mr. Trump’s tweet was not well received by Britons, who were still learning details of the attack when he weighed in.

  167. 167.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 22, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    @TenguPhule: This is why Mattis is SecDef. To be that buffer. I would be very, very surprised if he has not issued standing instructions that all orders from the National Command Authority be verified through and with him.

  168. 168.

    p.a.

    March 22, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    Wonder how tRumpov’s meetings with JCS and DoD civilian interactions with the military are going to go tomorrow and going forward.

  169. 169.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:33 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Black Pepper. Really good fries don’t need ketchup, only fat wedge fries really need it.

  170. 170.

    Jeffro

    March 22, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    By the way I know how many folks have commented ( here there and everywhere) that we should be patient, and that Watergate took two years from break into Nixon’s resignation.

    This is much bigger, with much more at stake, and yet with unified GOP control of the government, with only a couple months in, almost nobody has the sense that this presidency will even make it to the end of the first term. Their prospects diminish by the day on all fronts … it’s encouraging!

  171. 171.

    rikyrah

    March 22, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    Father Guido SarDShK‏ @ZeddRebel

    NYPD already pointing out stabbing suspect is a member of a known white supremacist group. NOT a lone wolf.

  172. 172.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    @Wag: You forget, Trump can still take a third option and do both before going Hitler in his bunker.

  173. 173.

    SFAW

    March 22, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    Onions in hash? Whatever for?

    I’m partial to poached eggs. But that’s me.

  174. 174.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 22, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: The Jester knows his business. New, fresh, fleshed out post on this now up.

  175. 175.

    XTPD

    March 22, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Also, John violates the precedent set by Doug! J. that posts with song lyrics as titles should be capitalized like regular sentences.

  176. 176.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 22, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    @BlueDWarrior: Complete penetration at all levels.

  177. 177.

    p.a.

    March 22, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Does Hunt’s use sugar exclusively? Or is it like (here in the US Federated Republic) seeking out Mexican Coke?

  178. 178.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    fish sauce in small amounts in places where no respectable Thai or Cambodian would put it

    Like where? I know Vietnamese people who would put it on just about everything.

    @SFAW: yeah, my hash is usually made out of resin.

  179. 179.

    Mike in NC

    March 22, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    Trump and his malevolent henchmen make Nixon and Company look benign by comparison.

  180. 180.

    Aleta

    March 22, 2017 at 9:37 pm

    You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khanhttps://t.co/uSm2pwRTjO
    — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 22, 2017

    (By the way, DJT is lying when he writes this.)

    -(from NYT)
    Mr. Trump mischaracterized the London mayor’s remarks. Mr. Khan did not describe terrorism as “part of living in a big city,” as if bombings and shootings were an inescapable fact of life. He said that terrorism preparedness, including providing sufficient support to the police, was “part and parcel of living in a great global city.”

    “That means being vigilant, having a police force that is in touch with communities; it means the security services being ready, but it also means exchanging ideas and best practice,” Mr. Khan said

    “Nothing is more important to me than keeping Londoners safe,” Mr. Khan added. “I want to be reassured that every single agency and individual involved in protecting our city has the resources and expertise they need to respond in the event that London is attacked.”

    Mr. Trump’s tweet was not well received by Britons, who were still learning details of the attack when he weighed in.

    Why can’t we refuse secret service protection to these imposters? It’s not in the 2017 budget, so why can’t we tell them the money is not there; and they must adjust by not travelling to Aspen and Fla?

  181. 181.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 22, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    @p.a.: I am not sure, check their label. Maggie’s makes good ketchup too. You can find it in Asian or Indian grocery stores.

  182. 182.

    SFAW

    March 22, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Trump and his malevolent henchmen make Nixon and Company look benign by comparison.

    Good reason for that.

  183. 183.

    Aleta

    March 22, 2017 at 9:39 pm

    You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan

    — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 22, 2017

    NYT — Mr. Trump mischaracterized the London mayor’s remarks. Mr. Khan did not describe terrorism as “part of living in a big city,” as if bombings and shootings were an inescapable fact of life. He said that terrorism preparedness, including providing sufficient support to the police, was “part and parcel of living in a great global city.”

    “That means being vigilant, having a police force that is in touch with communities; it means the security services being ready, but it also means exchanging ideas and best practice,” Mr. Khan said.

    “Nothing is more important to me than keeping Londoners safe,” Mr. Khan added. “I want to be reassured that every single agency and individual involved in protecting our city has the resources and expertise they need to respond in the event that London is attacked.”

    Mr. Trump’s tweet was not well received by Britons, who were still learning details of the attack when he weighed in.

  184. 184.

    p.a.

    March 22, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    I fucking love Balloon Juice: concurrent conversations on the fate of the republic and the proper use of ketchup.

    to continue: anyone use ‘catsup’ any more?

  185. 185.

    TenguPhule

    March 22, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    @SFAW: texture, flavor and nutrition.

  186. 186.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 22, 2017 at 9:42 pm

    @TenguPhule: CI investigations take time. They are not quick. I know that’s cold comfort, but this stuff is known. Our allies and partners are forewarned. Americans that are paying attention and not deluding themselves know what is happening, if not all the details. All of these are good signs. Has the US seen better times? Yes. Are we done? Not as long as people of good conscience are willing to stand up and be counted. It is easy to be a patriot when things are easy. The true test is now.

  187. 187.

    Aleta

    March 22, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    (This comment has been stillborn 3 times now so I’m dividing it in 2: )
    1/2

    You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan

    — Donald Trump Jr. March 22, 2017

  188. 188.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 22, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    @p.a.: And this is why threaded comments are anathema.

  189. 189.

    Aleta

    March 22, 2017 at 9:44 pm

    part 2/2

    Mr. Trump mischaracterized the London mayor’s remarks. Mr. Khan did not describe terrorism as “part of living in a big city,” as if bombings and shootings were an inescapable fact of life. He said that terrorism preparedness, including providing sufficient support to the police, was “part and parcel of living in a great global city.”

    “That means being vigilant, having a police force that is in touch with communities; it means the security services being ready, but it also means exchanging ideas and best practice,” Mr. Khan said.

    “Nothing is more important to me than keeping Londoners safe,” Mr. Khan added. “I want to be reassured that every single agency and individual involved in protecting our city has the resources and expertise they need to respond in the event that London is attacked.”

    Mr. Trump’s tweet was not well received by Britons, who were still learning details of the attack when he weighed in.

    (from NYT)
    Oh also, the mayor’s remarks were made last September.

  190. 190.

    MomSense

    March 22, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    @JPL:

    Given the extent of the Russian hacking, it makes one wonder just how many GOP elected officials were caught up in this. It does seem like some of them are desperate to prevent the investigations from expanding.

  191. 191.

    Это курам на смех

    March 22, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    @bystander: Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

  192. 192.

    Mnemosyne

    March 22, 2017 at 9:51 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    I read somewhere that ketchup is actually a Chinese-American invention that was originally used as a substitute for the fish sauce they couldn’t get here, but I’m too lazy to Google for verification right now.

  193. 193.

    Aleta

    March 22, 2017 at 9:52 pm

    Why can’t we say no to secret service support for these imp os ters? It’s not in the 2017 budget, so inform them the money is not there for trips to Aspen and Florida and South America. Let them adjust.

  194. 194.

    rikyrah

    March 22, 2017 at 9:52 pm

    Matt Fuller
    ✔
    @MEPFuller

    No one understands what Republicans are considering changing. No one has seen a CBO score about its effects. No one cares.

    Vote tomorrow.
    6:33 PM – 22 Mar 2017

  195. 195.

    Miss Bianca

    March 22, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    Dear god, JC – that hotpocket image has me cracking up so bad right now…

    And Adam…just a repeat of my scream – ‘Is there anyone in the Trump administration – hell, anyone in the GOP – who ISN’T sleeping with the Russians?!’

  196. 196.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    March 22, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    These trying times have taken their toll.

  197. 197.

    Aleta

    March 22, 2017 at 9:56 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: tree or synthetic?

  198. 198.

    Suffragete City elftx

    March 22, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    Coming out of nowhere to become a national security advisor and member of the transition team, Nunes is highly complicit in all this and I wonder if he and the WH conspired for today’s little shitshow.
    Recall that Trump mentioned information would be coming out when he spoke with Tucker Carlson.
    Considering how the House only wanted to focus on the unmasking of poor Flynn, it sure looks like they think it’s a winning strategy.
    I have thought from the day Trump called them all Nazi’s his minions would work on a way to purge intel. They are crazy enough to think they can do it.

  199. 199.

    mai naem mobile

    March 22, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    I want the whole lot of them to do some long sentences in maximum security prisons where they get to go into the general population. Also, I hope it’s in a deep south prison where there is no a/c. Also a huge minority population. The ones they all like talking shit about.

  200. 200.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 22, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    @Aleta: Go back and read it in context.

  201. 201.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 10:01 pm

    @Это курам на смех: there was a fish… IN… the percolator!

  202. 202.

    Smiling Mortician

    March 22, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: That was literally sobering to read. I mean, I just finished dinner and was building up a decent little wine-glow and then BAM! a truth-bomb literally sobered me.

    Do I pour another glass? I’m thinking yes.

  203. 203.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 22, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: What is it with you and fish?

    ETA: I don’t think I want to know.

  204. 204.

    BlueDWarrior

    March 22, 2017 at 10:15 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: This is getting ridiculous, at this point we should not only consider Trump’s White House to be a Russian front operation, but at the very least the Republican leadership as well.

  205. 205.

    Sab

    March 22, 2017 at 10:21 pm

    @TenguPhule: Why is that heretical? Not arguing, just wondering. My whole family has always put ketchup on hash for as long as I can remember (60+ years) and we don’t put ithe on much of anything else. What is the heresy?

  206. 206.

    mainmata

    March 22, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    @Gravenstone: That’s the thing. He shouldn’t be Chair of Intelligence Committee because he is hopelessly compromised. Also Adam Schiff, also from CA is pretty impressive. There are so many compromising Russian situations, e.g. Wilbur Ross taking over the Bank of Cyprus, which is one of the main money laundering entities for the Russian corporate mafia. He’s the Sec. Commerce. It’s just absurd.

  207. 207.

    Aleta

    March 22, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Will be sending good thoughts tomorrow morning.
    (Those hot sheets they put on you at the finish are close to sublime.)

  208. 208.

    J R in WV

    March 22, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    In other more mundane news, I made steak tacos and they were awesome!
    Reply

    I made seared tuna with asparagus spears sauted with butter, lemon and white wine. We also had roasted potato bread and 2011 champagne. Did a dipping sauce of sesame paste and ponzu sauce for the fish.

    Was going to do black raspberry jam on the bread for dessert, but couldn’t generate any interest in dessert.

    May have been as good as your dinner. Should probably eat well as the world disintegrates around us~!! Seeing the Dr tomorrow… regular check, blood work, etc. Will think of Gin & Tonic while I wait interminably in the waiting room.

  209. 209.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 22, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    @J R in WV:

    I made seared tuna with asparagus spears sauted with butter, lemon and white wine. We also had roasted potato bread and 2011 champagne. Did a dipping sauce of sesame paste and ponzu sauce for the fish.

    I had Subway. ::kicks rocks::

  210. 210.

    J R in WV

    March 22, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    I think ketchup was originally used as a preservative, like pickling meat in a barrel with an acid tomato vinegar sauce.

    I like ketchup with good crisp fries, but I add a squirt of malt vinegar, which the lunch joint we frequent most has on hand. They double fry the fries, a la Belgium style. With steak subs!

  211. 211.

    J R in WV

    March 22, 2017 at 11:04 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Sorry! Not trying to brag, just a higher point than many nights, mac&cheese happens every so often after all. Or noodles and bottled sauce. or…

  212. 212.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 22, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    @J R in WV: No, it sounded awesome. I just had a long day and bought food as fuel from a place near my office.

  213. 213.

    Ella in New Mexico

    March 22, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    My husband, who studied Roman history says that John Cole’s caption of the portrait above should more accurately be “Scipio Fullofshitticus Maximus.”

  214. 214.

    Vhh

    March 23, 2017 at 12:34 am

    @Attapooch: I can’twsit for the FSB to validate the Steele dossier to take down Donnie.

  215. 215.

    Windpond

    March 23, 2017 at 1:30 am

    I have to comment in this thread because if I do in another one, the autoplay goes without end of Trump saying something unintelligible. Please, no autoplay videos.

  216. 216.

    wenchacha

    March 23, 2017 at 1:53 am

    @Spanky: Eric Schneiderman could handle it, long with Bharhara.

  217. 217.

    TenguPhule

    March 23, 2017 at 2:00 am

    @Sab: Roast beef as hash. The Devil’s work!

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