I guess you have assign some numbers to the relative values of mitigating climate changes versus the optical benefit of having someone most voters have never heard of serve on an advisory counsel most voters have never heard of before noisily resigning and see what the EV looks like.

Just to be clear, if Hitler was setting up an advisory committee about what to do about the Jews, I think it's a good idea to join and urge the committee to leave the Jews alone. Resign if they don't go along with it.

Fine. Good points.

But one cynical take is that Trump cynically assemble these privy counsels of elites that he fully intends to ignore, and he plans to just do whatever Bannon says anyway. Or whatever whimsical thing he wants. And he only assembles these councils to give himself the veneer of respectability and normalcy, and perhaps flatter his ego that he has powerful friends. So I still maintain people should think long and hard before signing up for these things. I agree though that the degree of badness is perhaps ephemeral and it's really a matter of how much you might perpetuate the badness, but still on that front, joining up to be one of Trump's Potemkin Villagers might be a bad idea.

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I'm pretty sure the optic benefits of Trump sitting down with business giants and making deals and looking Very Presidential are substantial. That **** played exactly into the narrative Trump was spinning.

The mitigation value can be pegged at exactly zero because there is no chance Elon uses his aspie master persuader skills to make Trump care about the environment. There is zero personal or political benefit for Trump in that.

"Does the President still believe in Kushner."

"Absolutely"

The way the leaks have been going with seemingly set up questions before them I'd expect a Kushner bombshell sometime.

I'm hoping for one anyway.

I feel like pro wrestling has been made an Olympic sport. THE Olympic sport.

LOL shaming Heritage Foundation hacks. They know they're whores; they're shameless.

Too bad there's not an easy way to show twitter threads but this ties in gender and environmentalism



https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/870700352055554051


Cliffs: Conservatives (and marketing people) have wedded anti environmentalism with masculinity so now environmentalists are p*ssy prius driving Paris loving weaklings while anti environmentalism is manly; think coal spewing trucks, think coal jobs as manly jobs, etc. so conservatives play up care for the environment as trying to transform men into prissies.

https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/stat...89413109473285

Apparently Daddy is hellbent against Comey testifying.

U.S. President Donald Trump will decide whether to invoke his presidential powers to block former FBI Director James Comey from giving congressional testimony next week, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Friday.


http://mobile.reuters.com/article/id...source=twitter

Laurence Tribe saying Daddy ****ed up if true.

He can do that? Well, ****.

Dumb question perhaps - if this Comey is blocked then could be give his version the events elsewhere? Or would he be lined up and shot for committing an act of high treason?

This question assumes a lot about truth/knowledge, to the point it's not even worth answering. For all I know pol pot or Scott Pruitt believes 100% in what they claim, but truth can be a slippery thing. Fo example, I think Hillary was more truthful than Bernie, and to the extent she could be considered less truthful it's only​ because she worked harder to know more.

In other news, Jeffrey Sachs called the Trump econ guy CNN has been having on a bought and paid for Koch brothers/Heritage shill who sold his integrity for some cash.

Yeah, how does that work exactly?

Yeah, went hard. I've been waiting to see that. Think there was even some harsher stuff.

A short story...

Obama: Don't hire Mike Flynn.
Trump: Yeah, ok. (Dumb black ****er. Undo his legacy.)

Christie: Don't hire Mike Flynn.
Trump: Yeah, ok. (Dumb fat ****er. Replace him as transition head.)

Yates: That guy Mike Flynn you hired? He's powerful head of NSA with top clearance and has been compromised/blackmailable by Russia. He also was interviewed by the FBI and has been working as a paid foreign agent by Russia and Turkey, but lied about it on his forms and lied to Pence about talking to the Russians on removing sanctions. Please do something.
Trump: Yeah, ok. (Dumb pussy ****er. Fire her from acting Attorney General.)

18 DAYS LATER

Reporter: Do you still have 100% confidence in NSA Mike Flynn?
Trump: Absolutely.

1 HOUR LATER

Reporter on TV: Breaking news...Mike Flynn has lied to the Vice President about an undisclosed conversation with the Russians!
Trump: FIRE MIKE FLYNN. (Dumb media ****er. Use that reporter's story as the reason for the firing.)

Moral of the story: Dumb President ****er!

^^^^

To my understanding, that's very much an open question.

So you could say

Macron clinched it?

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

That was awesome to watch. Moore got awful quiet. Usually he can't keep his mouth shut.

the question isn't whether preventing comey from testifying is legal or not because that doesn't matter here, it's if republicans allow trump to stop it or not. Simple as that.

Isn't this whole twitter thread explained by a picture of those Coal Rollers?

Think this is accurate, but if they agreed to not have him testify, i think that would put Trump at 35%ish or lower approval. Really not sure of all the mechanics of exec priv and whether Comey could just do an hour long 60 Minutes interview instead.

If Comey does do an interview I hope he tweets to Trump about its massive ratings.