By David Futrelle
In today’s tweet heap, well, take a wild guess. Also: A dog, a cat, a tortoise, and the sacred right of men to take upskirt shots.
Let’s go to the tape:
So far today:
☑️Susan Rice exonerated
☑️Grand Jury empaneled
☑️Trump transcripts leaked
☑️Trump announces 3-week vacation pic.twitter.com/xbe71edf53— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 3, 2017
So…
-WSJ: Mueller Impanels 2nd Grand Jury
-Reuters: Grand Jury Subpoenas Issued re. Trump Jr mtg
-CNN: Mueller Is On The Trump Money Trail— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) August 3, 2017
We're about to see what happens when a White House that runs on a culture of lying collides with a process where lying means jail time.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) August 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/893203074939928576
CNN: Grand Jury
MSNBC: Grand Jury
Fox News: Jesse Watters telling a meandering story about that time in college he won beer pong.— Maggie Serota (@maggieserota) August 3, 2017
Trump on refugees: "They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people" https://t.co/SCLdfjDAkw pic.twitter.com/TYilZocXUf
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) August 3, 2017
Trump basically got on his knees & begged Pres. Pena Nieto not to make him look bad after conceding that Mexico wasn't paying for the wall. pic.twitter.com/JRUgNGUPtx
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) August 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/jesseberney/status/893116221545213952
This is me right now.
https://twitter.com/Yeti_v1/status/892885248589148160
This is also me:
https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/892841104537604096
And in other news:
Taking creepy upskirt pictures of women is the Men's Rights issue of our time. pic.twitter.com/wBMQ5JVzKv
— TakedownMRAs (@TakedownMRAs) August 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/9_volt88/status/893096969538854912
https://twitter.com/cambrian_era/status/892890146646802433
1997: your lightbulb emits more heat than light
2017: your lightbulb is a futuristic color LED currently DDoSing GitHub on behalf of the PRC— gold-star pansexual (@tsion) August 2, 2017
Our kids are going to learn about satire the same way we learned about dinosaurs. pic.twitter.com/XDlMsAyueL
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) August 3, 2017
I’m going to have to tell Mr. Parasol about the Voight-Kampff recognition fail. He’s one of the biggest Blade Runner nerds on the planet.
What is the news about a grand jury ?
Sweet Baby Celestia, I hope that hopping pogostick of fail won’t start a war to patch up his ego. Just look at all North Korea babble going on. It is not enough that he’s an utter failure of a human being, it is that he has actively surrounded himself with people like that as well.
Ohlmann – here ya go:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/politics/mueller-grand-jury/index.html
Thanks.
@Skiriki
Being a War President is one of the only ways he could be known as anything other than a failure, a fool, and a bigot.
@Victorious Parasol
Hope is lifting, expectations low.
@Skiriki That’s my concern too. There has not been a direct armed confrontation between two nuclear-armed powers. I don’t think it would be good if that changed.
My other concern is that the vice president of Trump is likely just as bad as him, and might actually be competent.
I don’t know if Trump’s ridiculous lying and evilness is really stopping Pence from getting what he wants done though. Pence gets to tiebreak the Senate, regardless of what President Trump says.
If Trump gets Impeached, and Pence becomes President, he won’t get to tiebreak the Senate any more. Then again, we might wind up with President Pence, VP Mitch McConnell, Sen Maj Leader Cornyn, and Party Whip Cruz. Cornyn _might_ be a more reasonable person than McC, though signs point to “nope nope nope”.
This is one of the reasons Impeachment is going so slow I think. Looks like we’d wind up with more of the same “no compromise with Dems” shitpols. I’m still in total favor of getting him out now.
The “Protect Special Prosecutors from Presidents” Act is a bit of a trial balloon for impeachment, especially if it’s close to the veto-proof 2/3s pro.
The tortoise represents the triumph of perseverance over laziness. Also, HARES R DUM.
Ohlmann
Pence is everybody’s nightmare in the USA itself. However, if you look at what’s being done right now in the US, Pence, DeVos, Sessions and the rest of the blighted crew are doing pretty much as they please – Trump is happily letting them have their way with their not-so-quaint obsessions. So Pence as president wouldn’t be very different from the way things are now.
However, once we’re talking about foreign affairs and military matters, Pence looks to the rest of the world like a much less dangerous POTUS. The other issue is the Gerald Ford example. A president who takes over after the disgrace of another, especially one who’s been blathering about how wonderful Trumpelthinskin is, has a very weakened position.
Competence? Ask anyone from Indiana – he was a bit of a disaster there as governor.
Well I would totally hate to rain on anyone’s parade but I won’t be celebrating until he gets impeached. Need I remind you that a certain Mitch McConnell sits in congress and would very likely obstruct any attempt at impeachment? Also McComey overhyped his testimony as well and it ended up being the biggest let down of the year.
Though I will admit we’re off to a good start.
Impeachment is still very iffy, but at least Cornyn and McConnell miscounted support for the healthcare removal bill. Hopefully they’ll make mistakes gathering support to keep Trump in place, too.
I’ve got to admit, I’m nervous about Mueller. I’ve got this irrational fear that he’s moved too soon. I expected the investigation to drag on longer than this before reaching the grand jury stage.
I can’t stop watching high five cat!
@Diego,
McComey?
As for the transcripts of Trump’s phone calls:
1. So much for the master deal-maker!
2. This is high-level leaking. Private conversations with world leaders? I don’t know how many people in the White House would be privy to that, but someone wants him gone really badly if they’re willing to leak such material.
Wow, Twitter appears to be down at the moment. Hmm…
Lawyer Twitter was happy to explain today (as far as I understood them) that as opposed to a state grand jury that prosecutors present evidence to attempt to get an immediate indictment. Federal grand juries are much more investigative. The grand jury was convened so they can start issuing subpoenas (as they already have for some Don Jr. documents) and deposing people under oath.
@PeeVee
Sorry, I meant Comey, the fired FBI director.
@Oogly
That’s incredibly fucked up. Seriously: evil and incompetence are bad, but a little recreational mass murder and all is forgiven? What the fuck?
(I know this is not your personal position. The fact that it is a valid analysis says nothing good about the U.S. and a lot about why there’s an openly fascist party in power now.)
Ooglyboggles:
Seriously, if Trump was a war president, he’d screw that up too. He’s a man who would go bankrupt running a three card monte table.
If he became a war president, he’d become famous for giving Texas back to the Spanish and Louisiana back to the French.
In other dumb politics news: W.Va. Gov. Jim Justice (D? R?) announces he’s changing party again, back to Republican.
“Hahaha, I got those dumb Democrats to vote for me because I wasn’t a Republican, but I really R one.” – “No Justice” Jim Justice, quietly to himself.
Where’s the damn Karmic Justice we all need… 😛
Skiriki,
I’ve been saying it for months now. Trump wants to be a war president.
Trump’s Next Tweet:
“Some of my best friends are Grand Jurors. Lovely people. I could shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose Jurors.”