I'm hoping Trump throws his controller on the floor and rage quits America.

Has anyone even asked Hilary how she's holding up today??

Potential threat sent to Siberia. Awval approves.

Why would he rage quit? He's like halfway or more to filling most of the government with completely compliant, subservient stooges. Congress is no obstacle. He got most of his picks into the Cabinet. Now the cops are about to be led by a Trump Slappy.

What's left in his way? Just courts, I guess.

I mean maybe this outrage is the one that finally gets him to quit but I think one very real perspective here is that he just cut out one of the few people with the authority to impede him seriously and if all he has to do is deal with a few days of bad press, it ain't that bad in the grand scheme of things.

What I'm not allowed to hope now? Sheesh bro.

Orange is binge tweeting. Dudes in tilt. He done goofed.

At what point do republicans become conspirators in helping cover up the many crimes of trump?

If McConnell saw a vid of Trump grabbing his wife's pussy he would find a way to blame it on democrats. They will not relent.

Don't worry, y'all. In the face of this clear authoritarian move by Trump, I'm sure Rand Paul will have a well regulated militia assembled on the steps of Congress in no time to demand an independent investigation.

Awval in 2022:

I knows it's not a great look that Trump canceled elections in America and declared himself king for life, but he probably would have won reelection anyway, so let's just see what happens at the end of his eight years. If he refuses to give up power then I might start thinking about being a little concerned.

He also golfs every weekend, plane takes him to wherever he wants to go for free, he's the envy of whatever B league wealth guys he hangs around with at Mar A Lago, his family is getting rich off of his connections, etc, etc, etc.

Like yea a normal politician where this is all they have to give for, where the presidency is some hallowed institution in which mere men have to don the mantle and live up to their imagined expectations of what a President should be and do then yea I could see a ton of pressure. When it's just another thing for doling out favors to others and for finally achieving adoration from some select portion of the public then, nah, it's not some hallowed institution. He maybe frustrated with all the meetings, pomp, etc, but as long as he's giving Republicans Congress critters what they want, the institution will bend to him not the other way around.

Right. Outrage and the constant swarm of controversy that surrounds Trump is only a problem for pluralists. It's only a problem for people who see consensus as desirable and strife as a problem.

That ain't Trump. It may be that constant outrages make the job hard and so he quits because he decides he'd prefer to sit around Mar a Lago and golf and eat steaks and sleep more and watch more FNC than sit in boring meetings. But 'hard' is the key word there. If it's just a bunch of yelling and bad press that keeps Kellyanne Conway and Spicey's heads on a swivel but Trump is ultimately yuking it up on the golf course, why does he give a ****? It seems like he's working to make his job easier in the long run, which getting rid of Comey presumably does, and if he's gotta cause a little Beltway storm for a few days, I doubt he cares that much.

Outrage as a problem for its own sake is only a mental burden liberals and other people with principles carry around. For the authoritarian narcissist, this is something to revel in.

Like I think liberals remain perpetually stuck in the Ken Burns documentary or episode of the West Wing playing in their heads where outrage and controversy are *problems* and institutions in disarray and failing to live up to their stated ideals is something you're supposed to feel bad about, and imagine Trump shares that same inner monologue. That's a dangerous thing to assume that Trump is genuinely outraged because he caused a storm of controversy.

As long as Trump is getting what he wants in the end, I'm confident he's going to be self-satisfied. If lots of people are pissed and the artifices of good governance crumble around him, I'm equally confident he don't give a **** and he ain't going to rage quit because he ain't even mad.

and that guy is one of the worst people to have ever been a part of government

The correct play is to announce this, assign the special investigator, and then not vote for the bill, because **** those guys

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.c2e64cd3c895

Uh oh, Mccain is having Nixon flashbacks

So Washington DC is footlocker and you better snatch up the Jordans?

Worth reading today imo:

Fox News Got Trump Elected and Fox News is the Reason He'll Stay in Power

Article goes on to document how if you watched FNC last night, you basically mainlined 3 hours of straight up Trump talking points that the reaction to Comey's firing is all hysterics and firing Comey is bipartisan common sense wisdom.

Also, royal court intrigue:

White House leakers have new target: H. R. McMaster

Rand Paul watch: still no signs of a militia. His Twitter account remains silent, too.

Counterpoint to this turning into Nixon: The Reagan Administration was one of the most criminal in US history. 138 administration officials were convicted, indicted or subject to investigation. Trump's NatSec advisor fired for scandal? Reagan's (John Poindexter) was convicted. Jefferson Sessions? How about Edwin Meese III? James Watt 41 felony counts!

Not only did Reagan survive, he became God Emperor of the GOP.

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/statu...21991197630464

Just posted a similar article on one of the Kinja sites about the FNC/GOP/Trump vortex. Basically if you just watch FNC, you can see how this will play out.

And there was a brief window in the 5-8pm hours on FNC last night where there was genuine surprise and even criticism of Trump by guys like Krauthammer.

Once it got to the evening shift with Tucker and Hannity and now the morning people, it's pretty clear Fox got on the same page as the Trump Admin and the story is now how hypocritical and partisan the Democrats are, so gg to this story, 40% of America that only knows about the world through Fox have been shown how this is just more Democratic Partisan Chicanery and this is probably filtered out of the news cycle by Monday, left only to whiny liberals to bother themselves with virtues or institutional stability or other snowflake concerns. If you can't penetrate the FNC bubble then you can't reach GOP voters and without reaching them then the GOP rearguard types like Flake and McCain and Amash can keep their criticism muted and ultimately play ball with Trump and in the end, it's likely nothing much will happen. This is just the new normal. Trump does stuff, cable news reacts, and as long as he can get whatever he's done past the Fox and Friends and Brit Hume and Jesse Watters and that other guy on The Five, then Trump is good from there to proceed, the nation has spoken. The system basically works through those gatekeepers, the "Trump --> Fox pundits --> GOP base --> GOP Congress --> the end, put it into Production" workflow.

Imo Reagan and his handlers were more shrewd and obviously more competent. Trumpdy is a bungling narcissistic mess whose pride is going to be his downfall. Reagan kept himself insulated and let everyone around him take the fall, whereas Trump is going to be left hanging out in the wind. He invites derision and conflict amongst his administration and I believe he will be thrown directly under the bus by his minions if it means it will save their hide.

That's how the machine works.

He also only keeps incompetent minions around. He would never directly hire somebody as smart as say Mitch McConnell, because it would hurt his ego. They might do him by accident or on purpose.