Before Greg Gianforte assaulted a member of the press for asking some questions about Trumpcare, there were actually a bunch of breaking stories on the political front. Since we’re leaning into the Politicelebitchy thing, let’s do some summaries.
Jeff Sessions is still awful. The racist elf already got caught in a lie about his meetings with Russians. That lie led to Sessions recusing himself from the Trump-Russia investigation. Well, surprise, surprise, when Sessions was filling out the applications for his security clearance, he lied about the Russia meetings too. You can read more about it here at CNN.
Reince Priebus is in too deep. I would have thought that Priebus – out of all of these professional Deplorables – would have been careful to keep his hands relatively clean. But not so much. Priebus is apparently really worried about James Comey and some conversations that took place back in February. Priebus was one of the people speaking to Comey about getting the FBI to back off the Russia investigation and more. Now Priebus is worried that Comey might have written a memo about him too.
The Russians planned ahead. I’m still sort of amazed by how low-tech the Russian operation was. America spends billions on technological advances in spyware, while Russia relied on the general greed, stupidity and lack of patriotism of everyday Republicans. The NYT reported yesterday that Russia had full knowledge of the compromised people they had placed within the Trump campaign – Flynn, Manafort – and that they were openly discussing how to use these traitors to influence Trump.
The Russians were producing fake Hillary Clinton documents. Read this crazy story at the Washington Post – the Russians gave the FBI some fake documents and Comey believed the documents for months, it sounds like.
This is what just happened. Trump met Emmanuel Macron, the new president of France. They’re at the NATO summit in Brussels and this handshake… my God.
Oh my. White House pooler @PhilipRucker's view of the Trump – Macron handshake in Brussels: knuckles turned white and faces tightened. pic.twitter.com/z16dpIfWhb
— Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) May 25, 2017
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Doing this or lying about it even one time is too many times
YES. Especially when you’re Attorney Effing General of the United States.
IMO, everyone around #45 has been compromised in some way. I believe #45 is the kind of person to sully everyone around him up so that if they go against him he would use it against them. Look how many people he tried to ask to push back on the FBI investigation. He eve not tried to get the FBI head to compromise his investigation. When he refused he fired him. #45 don’t care about his voters, it’s all about him and his family and how much money they can loot before leaving the White House.
Sessions lied under oath. He need to be removed from the office of AG & proscueted. Period.
IIMO they cheated to win. It will slowly all come out in the wash.
Hillary was right about Putin.
I think they cheated with Putin’s help.
He is f*cking despicable, just despicable.
And dangerous, very dangerous to our country.
Everyone in this administration is dangerous. Traitors every single one of them. And I don’t care if comey testifies that won’t mitigate the damage he did.
Meanwhile Devos had a hearing about the budget (the one where they gut public school funding and give it to private schools) and She couldn’t find one instance where she wouldn’t denying federal funding to a school for discrimination.
I’m never having kids here.
Unfortunately my youngest grandchild is 4 and I fear for her education. The district she is in is an excellent district and hoping this doesn’t effect it in any way. But I know it will because I know many private school parents whose children left private school because of costs. Which given vouchers, will go back to the private schools and take money away from public education.
Between being a minority, worrying about having a child (because war on women and no maternity leave), terrible schools that are about to get worse…there’s no incentive for me to have any children here. I don’t feel safe and this country is going backwards by the decade.
Lets put it this way…I’ve never considered so many international jobs before the last year or so.
@Nicole, we are lucky in that we have an excellent school district. I totally understand your concerns and why you would not want to bring a child into this. I wish you the best.
Will the press every say Hillary was right when she said Putin wanted a Puppet and that’s why he was helping Trump.
So Comey believed a fake “memo” about Hillary and it changed history. What’s really very interesting is how did Russia get this memo into his hands. Who within this circle was working for Russia? And were these foreign Trump supporters working hand in hand with the Trump team familiar with the FBI, perhaps like Giuliani who’s been very quiet of late.
I assume that memo was included in the email hack.
The thought just occurred to me that Sean Spicer might end up being The Last Man Standing. I haven’t heard anything about him being connected to the Russians. He might be the only one not under indictment….
AG Cornpone will lie every time he opens his molasses laced mushmouth. Decades of his presence in Alabama politics has shown he’s a POS. It’s no wonder he was the first to get behind trump’s candidacy. They’re twins in their mendacity.
Missing from the list: Trump told Duterte where all our nuclear subs are in the Pacific – this is NOT a good thing.
And information about the Manchester bombing was released to the US news media that Britain did not want released as public information.
Yes. And to add to Duterte, Trump called him a good man and complimented him on his “solution” to their drug problem. Sob.
Did you see the Scahill piece about this on The Intercept?
It’s terrifying. I don’t know if 45 is just this clueless and dumb or if he’s evil or all of the above.
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/23/read-the-full-transcript-of-trumps-call-with-philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte/
@Kitten – So much in this
“Every generation has a mad man – in our generation it’s Kim Jung Un” – no Duterte we have TWO mad men with equal pleasure in bombing countries.
“Tell the President (of China) – we became friends for two days – he was great” – OK Trump, friends for 2 days – can’t even on this one.
And on and on and on – such a word salad.
I’m appalled! I am from the Philippines, and our President is a raging lunatic.
Your president is terrifying. A freaking lunatic like you said. I’ve been wondering what the solution to Duterte is, other than a bullet. He’s in power from 2016 until 2022, right? I’m afraid to think what the Philippines will be like in another 5 years.
GMP are no longer sharing intel with you guys. I’m totally spitting tacks about this. It wasn’t one leak – it was several, the last of which came AFTER a request from our government for the leaks to stop. And there were – are? – operational reasons for not releasing info, since this wasn’t a lone wolf attack and nobody wanted the accomplices alerted due to the possibility of secondary attacks. Imagine if there had been. Imagine if accomplices had accelerated them due to being alerted by intelligence leaks to the press. Imagine if more people had died.
It seems that the outright war between US intelligence and the Trump administration has meant that the US will now even throw allies under the bus. I’m disgusted.
Solidarity to all everyday, decent Americans forced to live through this utter shit show.
I’ve Just read a quote from Sir Ian Blair saying the same sort of leaks took place after the 7/7 incidents. It seems that US intelligence has a habit of putting the 24hr news cycle ahead of evidential integrity.
It’s really the lowest of the low. What else can anyone say about it?
It is truly horrible. This puts people all over the globe at risk. It is unbelievable!
That is terrifying. And yet there surely are supporters of his who will see no problem with that.
The question is “how many times will Sessions be ALLOWED to lie about his interactions with Russia?” Is no one willing to do anything?
Exactly. No one in the Obama administration would have been allowed to get away with a fraction of what these goons are getting away with.
I think we already know the answer to that question. We’ve seen this GOP administration put party before country time and time again and I don’t think anyone will do anything until we flip these seats next year.
party over country, for sure, and the likelihood that a LOT of them are compromised by the Russians.
The only answer right now is that CITIZENS need to put the pressure on Congress. Everyone needs to assume ownership of each other’s Representatives. If your rep is doing the right thing, contribute, call, email, fax and show up at your neighboring purple/red district’s town hall meetings and offices.
The most power we have right now is 2018 midterm elections. Make them fear for their jobs.
LOL at that handshake. Just saw the video. Macron said “we have to talk about counter-terrorism, economy and climate change ” lol yeah like Trump want to talk about that!
What would it take to get Sessions disbarred? Is it acceptable in any way to lie in Federal forms and also lie under oath and still remain in good standing with the Bar? How is it possible that he is getting away with all this? I really do not understand.
I though that’s what happened to Bill Clinton (Arkansas Bar disbarred him for lying under oath). Can’t imagine the Alabama Bar’s rules being much different.
Excellent point. If the Republicans or the Congress can’t/won’t nail this liar, maybe a noble soul of the State Bar in Alabama will disbar him on an ethics charge. Yeah, not going to happen.
Forget it. This is Alabama now: Not. One. Single. Democrat holds statewide office here. And very few hold local offices. One of the poorest states in the nation. A family of four whose income is $4600.00 pays state taxes. Republican overlords refused to expand already pathetic Medicaid coverage(basically, only children get covered. If you’re childbearing age female you can get birth control. That’s it.) Every day I pass by a house that’s one 20 mph wind from being blown over. Half the windows are covered in plywood. Yet he still proudly displays his trump/pence signs on his falling over chain link fence. So much ignorance here. They commit slow suicide by continuing to vote Repiblucan.
Anyone observing attorney misconduct can file a complaint with the applicable bar. Anyone. I’m sure the form for doing so is available somewhere on Alabama’s website
I didn’t know that, thanks! When I looked it up, I found out that the ACLU did file one ethics complaint to the Alabama Bar against Sessions on March 9.
Out of everyone in that cesspool administration, Sessions is the one that I hate the most.
He is a dangerous, little elf.
He’s not an elf, please. Elves make cookies, they build Christmas presents, they’re lovable. sessions is a gargoyle in an elf suit.
Gargoyle in an elf suit … thanks for my smile of the day, Susanne.
They’re very attractive, dressed in green, with long, flowing hair…
… at least until they begin paddleboarding naked, and picking up teens at Coachella.
lol!!! Ankhel 🙂
This is what happens when you piss off your house elf. Jeff Sessions. What was in that sock, Alabama?
Overall, I’d say he’s more goblin than elf.
Lieberman is as well. 45 seems to have a thing for complicit, racist goblin-types.
Barring an offer of Immunity, and I’m doubting the investigation will get there, Sessions is going to lie and obfuscate forever. Perhaps he’s more Unseelie then Keebler Elf?
Trump’s cabinet = Unseelie Court.
How many times will Jeff Sessions lie about his meetings with Russians?
As many as he wants, apparently, He has yet to suffer any real consequences for any of it.
I don’t even like Emmanuel Macron but I want him to punch Minute Maid Mussolini in the face.
Haha. I would love that. Next to Triple M everyone looks good.
Sessions appears to be as corrupt as Pence, his surrogates and many of the GOP who likely knew Trump was being investigated for his Russian ties by the FBI during the election but chose to ignore it and to blame Hillary/Obama for pretty much everything. Trump and his gang really seem touched by treason because they put party over country. They don’t love America they love power. They should be sent to Siberia and/or work in the coalmines they support.
The GOP is nothing but a party of toxic masculinity and rapacious capitalism. They stand for nothing but naked power. Their goal is to crush democracy worldwide. I am so sick of pundits like Joe Scarborough pretending that there are some “honorable conservatives” in the Republican Party. What does that even mean? Democracy is being attacked, and they are either helping the enemy or sitting around on TV panel shows blabbing! It is infuriating.
White-knuckled handshake. Omfg. Orange Clown. He probably whimpered “ow” when it was finished.
Let’s hope Macron’s handshake was crushing enough to disable Cheeto Mussolini’s p*ssy grabbering paw.
What with his dumb, macho handshakes, and his wife slapping him, he ought to get two extra small ice packs for his paws.
Meanwhile, Jared and Ivanka apparently left the tour… They did not go with Bigly to Belgium. Probably heading stateside to lawyer up.
Or there’s no money to be made in Europe because we all know who they are and what they stand for!
This seems a pretty accurate description of the grifters.
http://twitter.com/janetika1/status/865519117796651008
Or back to Israel to apply for citizenship…. to avoid extradition.
That’s because Jared the Wunderkindt has been named as the mysterious “Person of Interest” in the Russian probe. Could it be…there…there is a God??!
And this story that flew under the radar…
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-budget-sale-wild-horses-slaughter-47630369
To save 10 million apparently our dictator in chief is looking to allow the sale of wild horses for slaughter, gutting the budget for roundups and contraception programs.
Everything is expendable to these monsters. Everything must be either monetized or exterminated. I am going to hug my horse today and thank her for not being a human.
Oh gosh….yes, hug her so tightly!!!!! While I don’t have any horses I took an equine therapy class while completing my masters and it was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life.
Mr. Five Bankruptcies, Mr. Stiff Your Vendors, Mr. Grift Every Which Way from Friday, lectures NATO members on “paying their fair share.” Look at their faces, they’re not having it.
http://twitter.com/braddjaffy/status/867754169272324097
They are LAUGHING at him. Did his handlers really think this was a good idea? I thought they were trying to keep him in check.
OMG! Hilarious, just looking at their faces. He speaks like that to allies in public but befriends murderous dictators? Moron
OMG..haha….we are all NATO members.
I’m always caught between laughing and crying these days.
Like the sheer absurdity of this clown being our president…everyday feels like satire. But then the reality that it’s not satire–this is real–hits me and the hopeless despair kicks in.
So trump is giving away Israeli and British intelligence and tells Duterte where our nucs are and I have to yet to hear a peep from the “Hillary can’t be trusted with classified intel” crowd.
Have you seen the video of Trump pushing the guy from Montenegro out of the way? Also the faces on the other NATO delegates as Trump is talking: priceless.
I SAW THAT!!! The “WTF” looks were priceless!! I rewinded several times and had a good laugh; truly gave me life (that, and the hand swatting from Melania).
Yes! Putin must be thrilled. He tried to assinate the Montenegro prime minister year. baby fists really is Putin’s b****.
The other NATO leaders were trying not to full out snicker at baby fists during his thuggish speech.
*assassinate
A day after acting as though he had found religion and Francis gave him an olive leaf motifed medallion he shoves his way to the front. May looked completely repulsed by him.