The birthday boy.
This exchange demonstrates why Trump’s lawyers didn’t let him testify under oath. Trump contradicts former White House Counsel Don McGahn, who is corroborated by other evidence, and claims McGahn made it up because he wanted to look like a good lawyer. pic.twitter.com/s9OQ8MaRjc
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 14, 2019
Interesting.
The moment when @realDonaldTrump said his former White House Counsel Don McGahn lied under oath to make himself look like a better lawyer. pic.twitter.com/pd5Ad6tyZJ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 14, 2019
He did say that. Stephanopoulos asked why McGahn would lie under oath to Robert Mueller, Trump said “To make himself look like a better lawyer.” He also told Stephanopoulos “You’re being a little wise guy.”
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1139547165968261121… Read the rest
Another day another campaign to destroy a feminist woman…not by Trump or the pope or a local fundamentalist church but by…The Woke.
1. HEADS-UP to anyone who cares about free speech and the hounding of academics who won't toe the line: US feminist studies PhD. candidate/teaching assistant Laura Tanner @saltyfemst is the target of an escalating coordinated smear campaign at @ucsantabarbara . Please share. pic.twitter.com/SXxHKcmrez
— 4thWaveNow (@4th_WaveNow) June 13, 2019
I saw a loathsome tweet abusing her yesterday (and immediately followed her) but didn’t realize it was part of a campaign.
What a campaign.
… Read the rest2. They are attacking her for what she says on Twitter (of course), but evidently also for "bringing in her own struggles" in a class
Like a toddler with a flamethrower.
Nearly two years ago, FBI Director Chris Wray set up an office tasked solely with stopping the type of Russian interference efforts that infected the 2016 campaign.
On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump undercut the whole operation in a matter of seconds.
Which, if you think about it, makes total sense – the Russians want Trump, so naturally he wants them to interfere. He doesn’t want the FBI to stop them; he wants the FBI to open the door for them and ask if they’d like a sandwich.
… Read the restIn an ABC News interview, the president first proclaimed he would have no problem accepting dirt on his opponents from a foreign power, then said
No no no, cry the Republicans, we must not have laws requiring candidates to alert the FBI if a foreign government – say, Saudi Arabia? North Korea? Turkey? – offered help. That would be…erm…umm…inconvenient! That’s it! It would be too much trouble, so no.
… Read the restSen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) blocked an effort by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) to pass a bill via unanimous consent requiring campaigns to report any offers of foreign assistance to the FBI.
“We are all for free and fair and honest elections. … These reporting requirements are overbroad. Presidential campaigns would have to worry about disclosure at a variety of levels. So many different levels. Consider this: vendors that work for a campaign, people that are
Sarah Sanders is leaving. Someone even worse will replace her, but at least we won’t have to look at that furious scowl any more.
Sarah Sanders should leave the White House confident that she left no lie untold, no bond of trust unbroken, no American value untwisted, no obligation to the people not subordinated to her loyalty to her boss, no hypocrisy unexplored. As a failure, she was complete.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) June 13, 2019
I won’t believe Sarah Sanders has quit until I hear her personally deny it.
— Damien Owens (@OwensDamien) June 13, 2019
… Read the restBREAKING: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving the White House at the end of June.
Sanders has notoriously lied to the press and the
EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump reacts to Kamala Harris' statement that she'd "have no choice" but to pursue criminal charges against him if elected.
"Probably, if I were running in her position, I'd make the same statement,” he tells @GStephanopoulos. https://t.co/Fui41naEyd pic.twitter.com/bgVJ1AILH1
— ABC News (@ABC) June 13, 2019
… Read the restHey George, I know more about prosecutors than you’ll ever know.
A conversation from 30-some years ago:
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1138813927754743808
Via Paste Magazine for greater ease of reading:
… Read the restPat Buchanan: Who are your favorite authors?
Donald Trump: Well, I have a number of favorite authors. I think Tom Wolfe is excellent.
Pat Buchanan: Did you read Vanity of the the Bonfires?
Donald Trump: I did not.
Pat Buchanan: Bonfire of the Vanities, excuse me.
Tom Braden: What book are you reading now? [Crosstalk]
Donald Trump: I reading my own book again because I think it’s so fantastic Tom.
Pat Buchanan: What’s the best book you’ve read beside Art of the Deal?
Donald Trump: I really like Tom Wolfe last book. And I think he’s a great author. He’s done a beautiful job —
Oh good, another official ruling for Trump to flout and mock and disparage:
White House Deputy Press Secretary Steven Groves responds: pic.twitter.com/k6aU0nTxjn
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 13, 2019
Talking Points Memo summarizes:
… Read the restA report attached to the statement labels Conway a “repeat offender,” and says that her violations, “if left unpunished, would send a message to all federal employees that they need not abide by the Hatch Act’s restrictions.”
The Hatch Act bans federal employees from engaging in partisan political activity. The Office of Special Counsel is a federal watchdog agency that monitors federal employees.
The OSC report states that “If Ms. Conway were any other federal employee, her multiple violations of the law would almost certainly result
Business Insider reports that Saudi Arabia uses a tracking number on the packaging of phones to track down women who leave the country.
Women who flee Saudi Arabia expect to be chased.
They expect their friends to be interviewed, their social media to be scoured, their passports to be frozen.
They mostly do not expect Saudi government agents to hunt down the old box for their iPhone.
But why do they expect to be chased, though? I realize Saudi Arabia doesn’t allow women to travel without a male “guardian” but I don’t see why it feels the need to continue that beyond its own borders.
… Read the restThe fact that such techniques are being employed shows how seriously Saudi Arabia takes
What is he, six?
….call the FBI about these calls and meetings? How ridiculous! I would never be trusted again. With that being said, my full answer is rarely played by the Fake News Media. They purposely leave out the part that matters.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2019
“You leave stuff on the floor too! You leave the chairs on the floor, and the table, and the rug – you should get all your stuff off the floor too! Waaaaaaaah!”
Yes, Don, we know you talk to foreign governments. (By the way the royals are not that. You can talk to all the Romanovs you like.) The issue wasn’t talking tout court, and we’re not so … Read the rest
… Read the restIn an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, the president admitted that he would accept information on a political opponent from a foreign government.
“It’s not an interference, they have information – I think I’d take it,” President Trump said. “If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI – if I thought there was something wrong. But when somebody comes up with oppo research, right, they come up with oppo research, ‘oh let’s call the FBI.’ The FBI doesn’t have enough agents to take care of it. When you go and talk, honestly, to congressman, they all do it, they always have, and that’s the way it is. It’s
Hmm.
.@JoeBiden in Ottumwa, Iowa: "I promise you if I'm elected president, you're going to see the single most important thing that changes America — we're going to cure cancer."
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 11, 2019
He can’t “promise” that. It’s an absurd thing to say. He could promise to increase funding to cancer research, but he can’t promise that if he’s elected we’ll “cure” cancer. Cancer isn’t One Thing, so “it” can’t be cured, boom, game over. Survival rates can be improved but I don’t think anyone who knows anything about it talks about curing cancer full stop.
The doofus act was ok for a sidekick. It’s not ok for this. Promising to cure cancer is worthy … Read the rest
Guest post by Josh Slocum
Guaranteed method to attract abusers:
1. Lower your boundaries—and make a big deal out of talking about lowering your boundaries.
2. Characterize lowering your boundaries as “being inclusive.” This signals to predators that you are already brainwashed. They now know that you believe discernment and boundaries are bad things, things that oppress other people.
They can see that you derive your sense of being a good person from your self sacrifice. They like this, because it means that you will work hard to give up things that rightly belong to you, and that you won’t reserve any space for yourself.
They realize they can make you work faster and harder at giving up your own … Read the rest
What was that we were saying yesterday about the ever-escalating demands to obey the ever-inflating rules, and how impossible it is to obey them all when they’re constantly in motion, and how that trap is indeed a trap and no we can never escape the new demands? The trap caught Chelsea Cain:
… Read the restMockingbird writer Chelsea Cain has deleted her Twitter account after facing mounting backlash and accusations of transphobia due to a creative choice present in the latest issue of her comic book series Man-Eaters.
Cain’s self-described “feminist” series Man-Eaters, published by Image Comics with art by Elise McCall, follows the exploits of a twelve-year old girl named Maude as she navigates a world wherein a mutation causes
Yes, that’s a good look, Joe Biden sticking his finger in a woman’s face and telling her what’s what.
https://twitter.com/thelocalmaniac8/status/1138575498437681153
If you play it you can see that he’s wagging his finger up and down, right in her face, while leaning over her. This is what I keep talking about – when men do that shit it’s intimidating, and they need to stop doing it.
… Read the restA clarifying point: this was absolutely and undeniably an intimidation tactic. He leaned forward, raised his voice, tried to grab my arm with his free hand. For a hot sec I thought he was going to hit me. Don’t make excuses for his actions in my comments anymore pls & thank https://t.co/OyXFJqIEAY
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Biden’s red-hot New Idea is to run as The Guy Who Can Work With Republicans. People who know anything about Republicans think he’s doolally.
Joe Biden insists that congressional Republicans will work with him once he’s elected president but no one,
let alone[especially] those who worked with Biden in the last administration, actually believes him.The former vice president’s latest promise of a forthcoming wave of bipartisan cooperation came on Monday night, when he told a crowd of fundraisers in Washington D.C. that he believed that when Donald Trump left office, GOP lawmakers would see the error of their ways. “[T]hese folks know better,” he explained. “They know this isn’t what they’re supposed to be doing.”
Uh huh, and … Read the rest
Trump and Gang are ratcheting up the “we have absolute power” move.
… Read the restPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to block Congress’ access to documents about how a citizenship question was added to the 2020 census.
Trump claimed executive privilege over subpoenaed documents at the urging of the Justice Department, as the House Oversight and Reform Committee was beginning proceedings Wednesday morning to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with the panel’s subpoenas, which the committee issued in April.
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The committee launched an investigation earlier this year into the origins of the citizenship question, with Democrats claiming that it was added to the census in order to
I find this perhaps disproportionately enraging. Then again perhaps not disproportionately at all.
https://twitter.com/lizcgoodwin/status/1138817493064138752
Why not just tell her to go home and that she’s a slut for being out in public? Why not tell her to wear a burqa? Why not ask her grandfather what the hell he’s thinking allowing his granddaughter – a GIRL, with an actual VAGINA, and possibly pubescent little BOOBIES – to be in a coffee shop with men and boys around? Why not tell her to her face that she’s a whore and has no business mingling with male people in this whorish manner?
Or why not just say to her: “Oh hi, you are a young female person, a person who is fuckable, … Read the rest
Oh I misunderstood what Trump said about Kim’s murder of his brother – it wasn’t that he would do the same thing in Kim’s position, it was that he wouldn’t let the CIA spy on North Korea.
Soooooo that’s horrifying. Here we are, wishing Trump had merely endorsed a murder.
David Graham at the Atlantic cleared it up for me.
… Read the restTwo accounts, a new book by the Washington Post reporter Anna Fifield and a Wall Street Journal story, report that Kim’s brother Kim Jong Nam was a CIA informant. Kim Jong Nam was killed in a shocking chemical-weapons attack in the Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017. Trump was asked about the revelation as he left the White
