US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[benjipwns]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/will-disneys-bob-iger-run-president-2020-hollywood-friends-are-nudging-981626

Disney CEO Bob Iger already runs the world's most successful media company. But could his impeccable mogul credentials carry him to the Oval Office?

Sources say Iger has told friends he is considering their nudges that he make a run for president in 2020 as a Democrat. There’s a hitch. Any political future would hinge on Iger, 66, finding a Disney successor, of course. (Complicating matters, in February, he told financial analysts he would be "open" to remaining as CEO after his contract ends in June 2018.)

Iger told THR in June that "a lot of people — a lot — have urged me to seek political office" but denied he would consider a run for California governor or senator, positions that historically have served as stepping stones to the White House. However, Iger didn’t specifically address the prospect of a White House run at the time.

Sources add that he has since consulted with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg about making the leap from the board room to high office (Bloomberg served as mayor of the nation’s largest city from 2002-12 despite no prior public service).

[Dennis]

There’s a hitch. Any political future would hinge on Iger, 66, finding a Disney successor, of course.

Of course. Disney is more important than America so if Disney is gonna take a hit.....

[Kara]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-state-of-trumps-state-department/ar-AAnGJTI?li=BBnb7Kz

[FStop7]

Trump's talked up beefing up intelligence yet lets the State Dept lapse...  I am assuming that he doesn't get that the CIA and the State Department operate hand-in-hand or he's just talking out of his ass about beefing up intelligence. 

[Kara]

There's always JSOC if the CIA isn't up to the job. And it isn't overseen by as meddling a congressional committee, which is I'm sure entirely coincidental.

[benjipwns]

Why would you want Congress to have access to intelligence? It's run by Republicans, the only way to truly protect ourselves and our elections from these Russian efforts is to have a completely separate intelligence agency away from Congress and the President that has unlimited funding and access to the mass media.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

We'll call it MI7.

Because it's one better than MI6.

[close]

[FStop7]

http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/03/01/political-panel-discuss-trump-speech-lead-live.cnn

WH Official: Trump immigration compromise 'misdirection play'
The Lead

A White House official tells CNN that President Trump's comments to news anchors about an immigration compromise was a "misdirection play" in an effort to appease the media. Our panel weighs in.Source: CNN

...

no shit

[Joe Molotov]

lol, you're not supposed to actually say that

[curly]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-state-of-trumps-state-department/ar-AAnGJTI?li=BBnb7Kz

So much in this

[Steve Contra]

Remember that speech? Neither do I

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?utm_term=.ea5745ce97fd

[Phoenix Dark]

So Sessions committed perjury 

[zomgee]

fake news

[Great Rumbler]

So...basically every member of Trump's cabinet, White House staff, and circle of influence has ties to Russia.

[agrajag]

lock them up!

[Phoenix Dark]

Almost seems like a deliberate knock down of any chance Trump can get away with allowing someone in his corner to lead an investigation that has any credibility. Nunes, CIA director, now Sessions...all struck out basically.

[zomgee]

He thought they meant bad Russians. He talked to good Russians. And I think we can all tell the difference.

[agrajag]

Bad dudes

Bad hombres

Плохие парни 

[VomKriege]

Your media are totally gonna play the Candide part to Trump 
Every year of his Presidential mandate -generally around the 14th of July national holiday- Nicolas Sarkozy (who was hotheaded, loudmouthed, aggressive and pandering to its far right) would go to the media and say "I am changed, I am a new man". And all the most respectable outlets and famed political analysts would gladly follow up on the talking point and state that this time, for real, Sarkozy would elevate himself to the dignity of the office. It never happened.

The PIVOT™

[chronovore]

Almost seems like a deliberate knock down of any chance Trump can get away with allowing someone in his corner to lead an investigation that has any credibility. Nunes, CIA director, now Sessions...all struck out basically.

Struck out, how? I'm seeing plenty of calls from Dems for Sessions to resign, but it hasn't happened yet. Something tells me it's not going to happen. 

[Phoenix Dark]

Almost seems like a deliberate knock down of any chance Trump can get away with allowing someone in his corner to lead an investigation that has any credibility. Nunes, CIA director, now Sessions...all struck out basically.

Struck out, how? I'm seeing plenty of calls from Dems for Sessions to resign, but it hasn't happened yet. Something tells me it's not going to happen. 

He doesn't need to resign, and probably has an out ("we didn't discuss the 2016 campaign"). But he's going to have to recuse himself from any future investigation on Trump's ties to Russia.

[Phoenix Dark]

Dunno. Flynn was a dumbass who was bad at his job. Sessions is smarter and worth more to the Trump admin. He's not resigning unless another shoe drops.

But getting him to recuse from the case is ultimately the story here.

[benjipwns]

At Wednesday's annual Washington Press Club Foundation congressional dinner — a fundraiser for journalism scholarships and a lighthearted gathering of Washington's media and congressional elite — Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) made a cringe-worthy joke about that now-famous photo of Kellyanne Conway kneeling on the Oval Office sofa.

Here's what he said (my emphasis to Richmond's remarks added in bold):

“You even mentioned Kellyanne and the picture on the sofa. But I really just want to know what was going on there, because, I won't tell anybody. And you can just explain to me that — that circumstance, because she really looked kind of familiar there in that position there. But don't answer. And I don't want you to refer back to the ’90s.”

[Brehvolution]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/27/wilbur-ross-is-still-another-trump-cabinet-pick-with-underexamined-russian-ties.html

A study prepared exclusively for DCReport.org by James S. Henry reveals deep financial ties between Donald Trump’s nominee for Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, and three Russian oligarchs, whose lives and fortunes depend on staying in the good graces of Vladimir Putin.

These connections raise many new questions about Trump’s reliance on the Putin regime, which all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies say interfered in the presidential election on Trump’s behalf, but which Trump disputes.

These relationships between nominee Ross and the oligarchs involve ownership and management of a European bank with a reputation for laundering Russian money and making bad loans.

The study also compared flight records of Trump’s campaign plane and a plane used by one of the oligarchs. During the campaign, the two planes often were at the same airports at the same time.

[Steve Contra]

Sessions getting thrown under the bus like Flynn.

[T-Short]

https://twitter.com/ericallenhatch/status/836385916902076416

[zomgee]

Sessions' senate seat is already filled, no takebacks.

[FStop7]

Bannon looks like WC Fields after an especially rough weekend

[benjipwns]

How does he not need to resign when he unambiguously lied under oath?

Since when is this the standard? Let me know if he did something actually terrible like underpay his maid or smoke pot after undergrad.

[zomgee]

Remember when Jeff Sessions voted for impeachment for Bill Clinton for lying under oath?

[Kara]

How does he not need to resign when he unambiguously lied under oath?

Since when is this the standard? Let me know if he did something actually terrible like underpay his maid or smoke pot after undergrad.

Wage theft is equivalent to breaking a drug consumption law?

[Steve Contra]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/politics/kushner-flynn-sessions-russia.html

[T-Short]

[Kara]

(Image removed from quote.)

If only.

[Atramental]

My god... 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Fusion/status/837129348276576256

[TakingBackSunday]

This has been a great day

[Nola]

I need a fucking timeline of all this Trump/Russian shit. It's getting out of hand.

I have completely lost track. So much odd behavior and questionable events just pile on each other.

To the point I had already forgotten about all the weird shit with Roger Stone ominously threatening Podesta and tweeting about him getting his comeuppance a week or so before the wikileaks dropped.

[bluemax]

Trump gave Sessions the vote of confidence. Sports fans know what that means.

[Oblivion]

Nice to see the Trump admin and Russia are both using the same talking points.

Side note: that Russian broad has a nice rack.

[Trent Dole]

So, like, when is he removed from office/forced to resign at this point? No way dude is making it four years.

[archie4208]

I'm sick and tired of all this winning. 

[VomKriege]

just how far up russia's ass are these people

Almost reaching Petersburg now 

[FStop7]

Pence used personal email for state business — and was hacked
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/mike-pence-private-email/98637782/
(Image removed from quote.)

butter emails

[Steve Contra]

An aol account in 2016 is the real story 

[TakingBackSunday]

Never underesrimate people above 50 still using shit they signed up for in the late 90s

(My parents still use aol)

[zomgee]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837722869106880517


https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/837730437564936192



Having a hard time believing this right now.

[FStop7]

Schumer's response was basically "cash me ousside, fat boy" 

[Joe Molotov]

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

Of course there was no way Albert Einstein could have forseen that WWIII would fought with Twitter.

[Syph]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837722869106880517

wtf is this lol

[Boredfrom]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837722869106880517

wtf is this lol

An old and out context photo.

[octopushover]

it's wacky that trump himself doesn't seem to get that lying to congress is the story, not just being around russians

[Great Rumbler]

And here's one more:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837770149767827456

https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi/status/837776774691979270

[Trent Dole]

This is the most transparent attempt at deflection ever. Just gtfo already.

[Syph]

yea pretty childish tweets by donald

then again nancy pelosi is below garbage tier

everyone should be ashamed smh

[seagrams hotsauce]

syph still stickin with the 'everyone is equally bad' schtick

[Dickie Dee]

Pitch perfect response by Pelosi

Leper Syph. Icon Dufus.

[Joe Molotov]

woah if true

[benjipwns]

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/why-the-alt-left-is-a-problem

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/why-the-alt-center-is-a-problem-too.html

gasp(lighting) if true

[Madrun Badrun]

Alternatives are bad.  People should just think like me. 

#givefacismachance

[Stro]

Sounds like the real article that needs to be written should be titled "Everyone is a cunt"