President Trump: "We are going to take a strong look at our country's libel laws … You can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account." pic.twitter.com/FUK7CTxOQb
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 10, 2018
This is basically the first bullet point on the Trump Organization's business plan for the last three decades https://t.co/OxLngPwm8V
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 10, 2018
Who’s up for a GoFundMe page?…
I will venmo a WH reporter $20 to ask Sarah Sanders “does the president believe his own claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya was false and defamatory?” https://t.co/dmo4WyRML0
— 169 days ago Trump promised 24-hr Hezbollah answer (@MattNegrin) January 10, 2018
*Trump loosens libel laws.*
*Trump settles his first libel suit.* pic.twitter.com/eaEBsIvuLY
— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) January 10, 2018
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But, to be serious: Dana Houle, former & future campaign professional, has been pointing out for some time that Trump is not the one tapping out at least some of “his” tweets — certainly not the ones that use proper capitalization and sentence structure:
“House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.” This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2018
Journalists need to stop playing along. Trump isn’t doing these tweets, at least not by himself. We need to know who tweets for him, how much he’s involved, process for vetting, who determines what’s tweeted, whether anyone is freelancing, who they coordinate with at Fox, etc. https://t.co/gt844ggex8
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 11, 2018
Sure, Lord Smallgloves no doubt could be brought to agree with whatever the current ‘John Barron’ or ‘Meredith McGiver’ are sending out under his name, but getting his scripters’ names on the public record would, IMO, be an important step towards ending the pretense that the ugly, racist, conspiratorial blasts are just ‘he’s senile so impulsive, he’s not used to politics’ rather than ‘This is your modern Republican party, folks’!
rikyrah
I agree about the tweets. Who is really doing them. The coherent ones are definitely not him.
Baud
Lindsey Graham picked a perfect time to brownnose Trump.
Bobby Thomson
I thought it was already uderstood that iPhone tweets were staff and android tweets were the dotard.
Viva BrisVegas
@rikyrah:
I assume that you mean coherent as in sentence structure, rather than content.
The contents of the coherent tweets are just as much self-serving fantasies as the incoherent tweets.
frosty
Please … link to twitter and text as much as you want, but NO MORE PIX OF THE SHITHOLE!!
different-church-lady
Let me try something here:
[starts camera behind one-way glass]
“Economic anxiety.”
[waits]
Omnes Omnibus
@different-church-lady: That was not a nice thing to do.
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus: Science isn’t pretty.
lamh36
raven
Georgia Bulldogs senior running back Sony Michel recently sat down for an interview with CBS Sports to discuss his journey to Athens. Michel, who was ranked as the 247Sports Composite No. 20 overall player in the class of 2014, was born in Florida. However, his parents immigrated from Haiti in search of opportunity. Michel said it was like starting from “ground zero.” But now, the senior is likely on the verge of being one of the first running backs taken in the 2018 NFL Draft.
We walked with Sony’s family for a bit after the Rose Bowl. We just expressed our admiration and respect for him and the family.
lamh36
different-church-lady
@lamh36:
“He’s fuckin’ bugnuts insane, what do you want from me?”
Major Major Major Major
I wonder if it would be possible to meaningfully cluster his tweets into author clusters based on lexical analysis…
eclare
@lamh36: That was good, thanks! Don’t watch that show as much as I used to, but set the DVR for it tonight.
raven
Savannah’s Haitian Monument commemorates the contribution of the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue to the fight for an independent America. One of the few black regiments to fight for the American side in the Revolutionary War, the soldiers were recruited from present-day Haiti, then the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
Peale
@different-church-lady: they’d summon the ambassador, but somehow trump forgot to appoint one
different-church-lady
@raven: “Why do we accept soldiers from these shithole countries?”
lamh36
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: You have a lot of time on your hands, don’t you?
different-church-lady
@Peale: “I need an Ambassador to Shithole. Which one of you guys wants to go live in Shithole?”
Mike in NC
Isn’t his caddy/social media guru the one composing most of the tweets? (Not the ones with spelling and grammar errors, that is.)
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
From Trump’s interview with the WSJ
I wish I were making that up
Mary G
OK, stay close to your fainting couches. The Trump administration did something right for once. My housemate, whose green card expired last year, applied for a renewal in March and did the appointment with fingerprints, etc. in early April, when they gave him an extension to December 31. The website said it would take about six months, so all seemed fine. In November we requested a status and got back an email basically saying “we’ll take as long as we want, so DIAF.”
At the end of the year, he was concerned so he went to the office. They told him that they can’t give another extension, but to bring in his passport and they would mark it there that he was OK to stay. I was afraid if he did that, he would find himself on a plane to Guatemala. People on here told me to tell him to get a lawyer. I did, and offered to pay for it. I also offered to write a letter and ask his regular clients, who are all pretty much Republican if not open Twitler supporters, to do the same. His wife and her family also chimed in. He has speeding tickets and possibly a bit of an arrest record, he’s a bit vague about it, he was definitely not charged with anything.
He’s a stubborn cuss and ignored us all and went in with his passport Monday, where they gave him a year’s visa to stay and said it’s taking about a year to renew a green card now, but he should be fine. Relief all around.
Miss Bianca
@different-church-lady: WHY ARE YOU SO DISMISSIVE OF WHITE PEOPLES’ ECONOMIC ANXIETY!! WHY ARE YOU PUTTING “ECONOMIC ANXIETY” IN QUOTES!!
There. Do I get a nice tasty fish?
lamh36
Repost…
Bakari Sellers quoted Stokely Carmicheal on AC360!
““If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.”
Donald Trump is that racist white man with the ultimate POWER to enact policies to denigrate and demoralize minorities and people of color.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: can’t a man have moments of idle fancy without being judged?
trollhattan
I’ll bet Trump works the verb “surveil” into conversation at least 4x daily–suck it hippies! #BecamePrezniTodayy”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Just checked a few R twitter feeds for comment: Paul Ryan, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Marco Rubio have nothing to say about trump’s racism
Jeff Flake has a mealy-mouthed “My ancestors came from a less prosperous country…”
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: Dan Scavino. His longtime caddie and now the Director of Social Media at the White House (official title is something like Assistant to the President for Social Media). Scavino will tweet for the President – as in compose and send. Hope Hicks will also tweet for the President, but she basically just transcribes what he tells her to.
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: I’m afraid to ask what he means by “take them out”. Sigh.
Major Major Major Major
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): ughhhhhh
Miss Bianca
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): It’s almost as if he doesn’t understand what DACA even stands for, isn’t it?
I…I just can’t. Even. Anymore.
Patricia Kayden
@different-church-lady: Lol. What are you expecting to happen?
Adam L Silverman
@Bobby Thomson: It was reported about a year ago that he’d gotten a new iPhone. This seems to have been done to make it harder to determine which were his verses Scavino’s.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
To be fair, Major^4 has the expertise to do that as a fun hobby project.
Mary G
@Mike in NC: The releases coming from the Press Secretary’s office are a nightmare to any grammar nazi or copy editor. Prime Ministers are called presidents, and vice versa, the erratic capitalization of any word they feel strongly about, spelling errors (Normay for Norway yesterday, etc.)
I tweeted to Sarah Sanders to for dog’s sake, buy an AP style manual, then I offered to buy one and send it to her, then I offered free proofreading by email. Strangely enough, she ignored me. I think looking like careless, ignorant people is a feature, not a bug.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: The demarches are going to be marching on.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: It’s been done.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: I wasn’t judging. I was envying.
@Miss Bianca: Yes, in keeping with the prior thread, you get a herring.
B.B.A.
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Outsourcing my response to Mr. Lebowski.
Gelfling 545
@different-church-lady: I imagine that same conversation will be happening in several countries. Same explanation, too. It really is the only explanation. Then there will be the explanation of what’s wrong with US voters.
Aleta
lamh36
Duane
How much longer are republicans going to support shithole? Can’t they see shithole is dragging them right into the shithole. Get the shithole out of the White House. Shithole, the lot of them.
Adam L Silverman
@Patricia Kayden: In this context it means removing them from the restoration of the temporary legal resident status due to emergency conditions at home. Part of what Durbin, Graham, Flake and the other three have negotiated with each other is a reversal of the end of the emergency legal resident status for Haitians, Salvadarons, etc that DHS has ordered.
lamh36
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: not quite in the way I’m thinking, unless I missed one of the analyses (I’m sure there are many!). I doubt there’s enough data to actually get any worthwhile results though, it’s just not a large corpus (in language analysis terms).
ETA it’s easy to say if a tweet is by trump or not; I’m interested in the clusters within the not-trump subset.
lamh36
Adam L Silverman
@Aleta: Here you go:
Adam L Silverman
This looks interesting too:
Patricia Kayden
@Duane: He’s their Sh*thole and they’re sticking by him, dang it!!! Plus, he signed their precious tax bill.
lamh36
I think Lawrence just said, that there was 1 Democrat (Dick Durbin) vs 7 Republicans in that meeting…it was supposed to be 1 Dem and 1 Repub…instead he also had 6 other House GOP…
Patricia Kayden
@Adam L Silverman: Ms. Mendelsohn is not taking any prisoners or pulling any punches. Love her!!!! That’s exactly how you take them down.
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
It’s partly meant to be a demonstration of their power, IMO. They can make stupid mistakes and nobody can make them fix them. A toddler’s dream, and they’ve never mentally progressed beyond that stage.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: I think The Rachel Maddow said the same thing. Sweet Paulie Blue Eyes was afraid he’d give the store away and upset Mark Meadows and his little friends in the Freedom Caucus, so he sent Kevin McCarthy (and others) to babysit
schrodingers_cat
The man who has ascended to the presidency is evil, he and his enablers, this includes the party and staff that props him up are going to be judged harshly by history. He wants to hurt people and he is in a position to do so. Immigrants may be the first on his list but they won’t be the last. This is anti-immigrant crusade going to have economic consequences for everyone, in addition to what it is doing to the soul of this country.
Rescinding DACA was unnecessary, it was done with the sole purpose to hurt. There is going to be no reprieve if the nativists (Mr T is one) have their way.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It was reported in the WaPo story that Stephen Miller invited them. He was worried that with just Senators Graham and Durbin the President would only be meeting with liberals. So Miller made sure to blow up the meeting by inviting Congressman Goodlatte and Senator Cotton who are both hardliners.
Aleta
@Mary G:
Here’s your answer from Secratery of War Sanders:
lamh36
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: As Lawrence said, the proof that he said exactly what was reported is the fact the NO ONE on the GOP side in that meeting, has come forward to say he didn’t
sdhays
@raven: Wow, a war memorial for non-white people that isn’t made up? Does South Carolina know where Savanah is? Maybe those guys in the South Carolina legislature who were so excited to build the Black Confederate Soldiers Memorial won’t have to completely give up on their dream of honoring black soldiers!
Frankensteinbeck
The country has ignored worse from President Shithole. Calling someone ‘Pocahontas’ is an out-and-out ethnic slur. I think Wolff’s book has made a lot of national journalists feel a little more comfortable admitting the Emperor has no clothes. Or maybe it’s just that every time he does something like this, a few more people notice.
Adam L Silverman
Mary G
Well, one Republican congressperson has called him out, and will in consequence probably be primaried and lose her seat.
I’d more impressed if she’d actually said the word “racist” in there.
ETA: the full statement is in the picture embedded in this tweet of hers:
She does demand an apology from Twitler, which is impressive.
lamh36
Statement from the US Black Delegation: “WE TRIED TO TELL YA’LL”
Duane
@Patricia Kayden: They deserve public shaming then. Same goes for the wretch in the press corp. I hope for the day when people curse and spit on the ground at the mention of their names.
lamh36
schrodingers_cat
@lamh36: Indeed the man in the WH has always been a racist xenophobe, since Steven Miller was in diapers if not longer.
ETA: As I said in an earlier thread, the President doesn’t need Miller to teach him bigotry. He needs him to translate that hate into policy that hurts people he considers inferior.
MomSense
@Mike in NC:
Oh my god. That he has a caddy/social media guy is so indicative of the absurdity of this whole mess.
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: She votes with him 97% of the time.
eclare
@raven: Very touching life story.
Mary G
@Adam L Silverman: I know, but none of the white ones will call him out at all, so I graded her on a curve.
lamh36
@Mary G: Mia Love can take that statement and shove it. Hell it has been reported that Chump said Haitians “have AIDS”…it’s not the first time he’s said shit bout Haitians.
Donald Trump dont’ give two shits about Mia Love. Her and Tim Scott, are just the token chocolate faces to give GOP “diversity” cover. And they BOTH seem to be perfectly okay doing so. And they vote with the racist nearly 100 % of the time.
FUQ her
schrodingers_cat
Like Don Lemon I am not outraged, just weary and tired. If you have to constantly put down others to feel good about yourself that says a lot about you and none of it good.
??? Martin
Being reported that the WH believes this will solidify support from GOP voters. Probably right. The GOP is going to have to own this for a generation.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Guardian headline
I didn’t know about the new embassy
debbie
@??? Martin:
His saying “shithole” will solidify support from GOP voters? I don’t think so.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
Does anybody get what the fuck dullard is going on about below?
Mary G
@lamh36: You’re right, I was wrong. It’s just a written furrowed brow, and I looked at her website, and she didn’t even mention it there.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah:
My guess would be Hope Hicks or Jarvanka.
eclare
@lamh36: Wow…good for Don.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@?BillinGlendaleCA: he went after Dianne Feinstein tonight, so I’m guessing he’s watching the gorilla channel in bed with a bag of filet-o-fish and doesn’t know he’s getting the shit kicked out of him on two of three cable news channels
or maybe Maria Bartiromo is doing an unscheduled live documentary on Mar-A-Lago on FBN
debbie
The local Fox station reported that the president used the word S (as in Ess) Hole. I suppose that’s very daring of them, considering they’re Sinclair, but it felt more like Beavis and Butthead.
Another Scott
One for our California peeps – TheHill: Issa considering running in Duncan Hunter’s district.
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
trollhattan
@schrodingers_cat:
Daddy was a klansman. What more do we need?
SiubhanDuinne
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Okay, the fuck?
I mean what in the ever-loving blue-eyed Jesus-worshipping FUCK is he even talking about??
lamh36
So Don told control room to cut his mike…but apparenlty TPTB at CNN must said, you can’t do that…so dude came back and was STILL insulting to Don…so Don checked him again!
When DAFUQ is CNN et al gonna realize these “Conservative” talking heads on the show ahve NO respect for them and aside from the checks they get, they consider CNN et al to be shit at the bottom of their shoe. Occasionally they let that contempt show w/white hosts, but esp host of color and the female host…
Mary G
@Another Scott: Oh, Jesus H. Christ on a breadstick. I said that CA50 was my November stretch goal, so I was psychic. Now that I have peeled myself off the ceiling, this might be a good thing. He would easily beat any other Republican, and then the hordes of people who hate him would canvass every house and apartment in the district. He has a lot of baggage, to say the least.
efgoldman
@debbie:
The knuckle-dragging, racist, sexist flying monkeys will eat it up like ice cream.
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: Ros-Lehtinen did. And in much starker and harsher terms. I’m pretty sure she considers herself white. I’m pretty sure the President just thinks she’s Cuban.
schrodingers_cat
@trollhattan: Exactly, if Miller didn’t exist there would be some other warm body from one of Tanton’s shops.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: …and she’ll still vote with him on EVERYTHING.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
Irony just downed a bottle of Valium, washed them down with a vodka chaser, stepped into a warm bath, and slit its wrists.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yep. They’ve got an entire residential section set aside for Julian Assange.
Adam L Silverman
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: huh?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Adam L Silverman: old school purity troll a few threads down, come back to tell us racism is a false narrative and that trump won because Dems forgot The People
Calouste
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I assume the embassy move started under Obama, you just don’t build something like that in 12 months. Moving it makes sense, the old embassy was some very prime real estate, and the US is not the first country that has moved its London embassy because the rent was getting too high or they could make a mint selling the property.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Okay.
Adria McDowell
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: And, of course, “The People” mean white people.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: People like the troll should be shot into the sun.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Two scoops!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Adria McDowell: and Normwegians, of course
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne:
You, my dear, are a fucking poet.
Calouste
@Calouste: ETA: Wikipedia says that the plans started in 2008, and the old building is valued around $500 million.
Adria McDowell
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: ;-)
Barbara
@Adam L Silverman: Ros-Lehtinen is retiring at the end of this term. She has nothing left to lose. Not that she has ever been a vocal Trump supporter, but these statements would be more powerful if they were made by people who might actually have something to lose.
Adam L Silverman
@Barbara: I’m aware.
Duane
@??? Martin: May the shitholes wear a scarlet letter and be shunned by society. The stench from their rot so foul no one comes near. Nothing is too bad for them to endure.
fuckwit
YOU KNEW HE WAS A SNAKE WHEN YOU TOOK HIM IN
SgrAstar
@Calouste: apparently, the embassy move was announced by the Bush administration. preznit ill-informed, new embassy NOT an Obama-originated project. Shocking news, yeah?
raven
My people on Grandma Ingeborg’s side came from Stavanger. Anything in this picture strike you as something the scumbag would like?