What’s made the rounds thus far is “He has a right to create council as he see’s fit.” That is to say, there is no public reasoning. Privately, I’m pretty sure that he was hearing things from both communities that were “less than harmonic” with his other advisers. As a side note, we carried out a ground attack in Yemen against an Al Qaeda stronghold, today. One US soldier killed, three injured, an Osprey that had to be destroyed on the ground, 14 Al Qaeda militants killed, and (allegedly) several civilians were killed.
ShivaX
4767
Karl Rove was specifically prevented from attending any NSC meetings so that politics wouldn’t interfere with matters of national security.
Meanwhile Trump has removed the heads of the military and intel communities and replaced them with a purely political person.
You know where else a party organization wrested power from military leadership?
hashtagdailygodwin
You’re doing the Lord’s work, Gordon.
ShivaX
4770
Spicer affirming that his job is to lie to us.
Timex
4772
This just happened.
Trump supporter rants about Jesus. I tell him he has nice nipple tattoos. He says they are called PEC tats. His image comes up 4th in a Google image search for “gay nipple tattoos”.
A very good question, my man.
Sammich
4774
Assuming that transcript is accurate, “[a]nd yet we deal with him every single day” seems like a doozy of a Freudian slip.
Quaro
4775
ShivaX
4776
But this is fine and totally normal.
Soma
4778
Which begs the question why the transcript says “him” and not “them”. I think she clearly said “them”, but for whatever reason it comes out as “him” in the transcript. (And Saletan is happy to make no correction).
I’m absolutely no fan of Trump, but I think Conway has a point. That isn’t a meltdown, that is a rant with a point, and that is why I think Chris Wallace didn’t interrupt her at all.
Clay
4779
kerzain
4780
Given all the Pornhub links they’ll be getting, it’s going to be someone’s job to sift through all those sleezy user comments at the bottom of videos looking for secret or coded communications between enemy cells; not to mention the hundreds of thousands of obscure porn videos they’ll have to watch to make sure such subterfuge isn’t secetly integrated into the actual videos themselves.
Where does one even apply for such a position? I’m asking for a friend.
I seem to recall the Supreme Court once had porn-viewing sessions where they would determine what was protected under the 1st Amendment and what wasn’t. I think maybe that was in Bob Woodward’s “The Brethren.” Unless I hallucinated the whole thing.
Clay
4782
Remind me to tell you sometime of the room full of women I encountered, while working for the govt, whose job was to secretly watch employees watching porn and then write up reports about it.
On the day of his inauguration, about 5 hours after receiving the oath and becoming President, he filed papers with the FEC declaring his candidacy for 2020. THIS IS HIM STARTING HIS CAMPAIGN ALREADY AND FUNDRAISING. There may also be significant implications for how nonprofit groups may now criticize (or advocate) for him in public, because it may be considered campaigning. This is an unprecedented action AFAIK.
That’s a scene from The Brethren. There was something interesting that happened when Sandra Day O’Conner became a Justice but I can’t remember it.
I do think that one of the perks of being a lawyer is being able to get paid to watch porn. In the late 80s, Intel bought an early PC Video company from RCA. The video was sent to a Intel supercomputers and compressed offline. Needless to say one of the first application was Japanese porn and the decision was made to allow soft but not hard core porn. Which promptly led to a creation of a task force to review the video. In a company where engineers out numbered lawyers roughly 100-1, all but one person was a damn lawyer.
