2673

I called it. Bolton is already out of favor.

2674

The guy doesn’t even know how to suck up correctly.

If you are a war hawk, but your boss is going to a peace conference, you need to maybe dial back the hawkishness a bit.

2675
2676

My dead step dad totally didn’t happen. Fuck Trump and his EPA.

2677

Per Scott Pruitt, the preferred spelling is “EPA”.

2678

We all know how this turns out, right?

Spoiler: EVERYONE is leaking.

2679

So the plan to catch the leaker has been leaked.

2680

Of course the White House’s strategy for leak prevention is taken from what a Lannister did on Game of Thrones.

2681

It’s the Froot of the Loom strategy.

Fruit of the Loom lost their license to sell any Godzilla-related apparel when they leaked images of Godzilla on the Internet in November of 1997. What Fruit of the Loom didn’t know was that the images they were given were unique fakes released by the studio as part of an effort to see which companies they could trust to not leak images to the public, as the studio intended to keep Godzilla’s appearance a secret until the film opened.
-IMDB

2682

I just finished re-watching The Departed, so just at the moment my natural answer is, “With everyone’s brains splattered on the floor.”

2683

It’s an old tool of counterintelligence when you suspect that there’s a mole in your organization. Its use was also featured in the film Allied , starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.*

*Decent enough film for the most part, except it strains credulity in the buildup to the climax.

2684

Today I learned a new word.

2685

It’s perfect.

2686

Not yet an actual Trump screwup, but a potential one:

I can just imagine how they decided on the location for what are supposed to be Trump lovefests. “Well Minnesota’s blue - but that’s just the Twin Cities. The rural areas are red. So Duluth should be fine, I mean, it’s in the middle of nowhere, right?”

There’s just one problem: Duluth is solidly blue.

2687

Duluth is blue, sure, but I have no doubt they can draw a thousand or two dead-enders from the city and surroundings. Rural Midwest is rural.

2688

Forbes is fretting about a proposed Homeland Security program to keep a massive list of journalists and bloggers and where their “sentiments” lie.

But I am sure this is worrying over nothing. No doubt DHS wants to root out fake news crafters in Macedonia or hand out special press passes to mainstream media reps!

2689

Looks like winning from up here

2690

Kudlow has had a heart attack.

2691
2692

$224,657.53 per day while working full time at the White House.