Nothing wrong with that when you're in the MAGA administration. Trump'll want to give him a bonus.

Another button: "If you have to tell the world that you are not a complete idiot, then you are a complete idiot"

Really big button? Or really small type?

Tee shirt? Yeah. I could see it on a tee shirt.

Hope Hicks is out! Will we miss her?

That's been a while now....
But of course, Trump wants her spouse-abusing boyfriend back so I guess there's hope for Hope.

I think that the EPA spokesliar may be the first to go from this story.

From the linked ABC article:
This is Trumpworld, folks. He'll call up Murdoch and get himself another on-air hootchie. You don't decline to comment. It's a jump to the left... then a step to the right.... ** And pretty soon we're doing the Truth Warp Again.

**Don't forget the pelvic thrust. In this admin, where twerking can be listed on your c.v. as a skill, that's probably the most important for getting a chick job, amiright?

Mueller. Today. It's Firing Friday, after all.

Bold suggestion. Won't happen, but if it does, you win big.

According to ABC News, his daughter also stayed in the condo...

My apologies, Katie, I didn't realize she was still hanging around the WH and yesterday was her last day.

There's an opening in prospect on FoxNews. In the spirit of Holy Week, Laura Ingraham is getting herself crucified.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/4...oting-survivor

Quote:

"in the spirit of Holy Week, I will apologize once my show starts hemorrhaging advertising money" https://t.co/6xOzcL0xPZ -- Mark Follman (@markfollman) March 29, 2018

A response to her tweet, quoted in the above article.

Well said. And possibly true on more than one level.

Conservatives have promised a counter-boycott. That is, they plan to boycott any advertisers who stop supporting Ingraham.

There are several problems with this. Most of Ingraham's audience is obviously right-wing, but most consumers for these businesses are going to be left or center. At that point it comes down to who cares more. So what is the counter-boycott supporting? Mocking a teen survivor of a mass shooting for getting rejected from some colleges and having a 4.1 GPA... At one time I would have said that it would be a slam dunk that people would care more about condemning such behavior than supporting it. However, the last year has shown that 80-90% of the remaining GOP is really that vile. That means now I don't know.

Business wise, that's a tough call for those companies. They obviously found value in advertising on her program before. Morality wise, better to make the call that hurts business a little more than support such bad behavior, especially when the business call is that close.

In the spirit of holy week I will eat twice as much chocolate on Sunday.

Pruitt will get nailed if it becomes embarrassing to Trump. Even faster if Pruitt gets on the cover of Time.

Well, now there's this...

https://imagesvc.timeincapp.com/v3/m...jpg&w=300&q=85
http://time.com/5220086/jeff-session...-keep-his-job/

So now Jeff's ugly mug is on the cover of Time magazine for real, unlike Donny's pathetic fake copies. Which will please the Orange Narcissist-in-Chief no end. So who thinks Jeff's position is still safe?

It cannot be an accident that Trump, on Friday, in addition to declaring this the Be Nice to Wominz Month, also declared it Hey Let's Let Bygones be Bygones Month and is supporting (for now) a bipartisan effort to make nice-nice with former prisoners and felons. Hang 'em High Jefferson the Traitor Elf has got to be totally against that effort.

Interesting story about ex-VA boss Shulkin in Politico.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...eterans-492877

It's interesting because if Trump fires Sessions he might want to replace him with someone other than Deputy AG Rosenstein. Of course, it would probably be someone who would fire Meuller.

Oh Jeffy won't get fired for this. He's going to have to stay around and get kicked in the groin in public for a while longer now.

LOL.

I dunno. Donny takes perceived insults like this very personally. Hence trying to wind back everything Obama did after the public roasting. And perhaps Sessions is having a little dig back at Donny with this. Jeffy may be an elf, but he is also not a fool. He will know this would rile the tangerine twat.

I think that's Craig's point. That a simple firing wouldn't be sufficient but he'd need to be humiliated beforehand.

That, and Jeffy needs to be out of town. Trump seems to be too chicken to fire someone to their face, and the higher their position the farther away he seems to need them to be when he does it. (Or more likely, has someone to do it for him.)

Surely, you jest. This is Donnie Johnny who gets chauffeurs to lie about him breaking up beat downs, who would've single-handedly won the war in Vietnam if not for those burn spores or whatever they were, who would've rushed into the school in Parkland even without a weapon, who won a scripted fight with Vince McMahon! Surely you're not saying our BatmanJohnWayneAudieMurphy president, who has balls the size of his hands, would be afraid to face down an actual real person.

Exactly, the evil little elf will have to burn in public for this transgression before Trump puts him out of his misery.

And, try as I might, it's really hard to do a mitzvah and feel bad about how these people are treated. I mean... we're talking about Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon, The Mooch, Flynn, Paulie Ukraine.... I'm having a hard time mustering all that much sympathy.

It's possible to enjoy the watching of Trump's cabal circling the drain AND a bunch of smarmy insidious individuals getting their just desserts even if from the wrong source.

Most of The Hair's broken toys were either trying to use a Trump administration to enrich themselves (Manafort, Gates) or thought he would be a good vehicle for their own screwed up agendas. Unless there's more dirt on Sessions, it's unfortunate that the vile creature will probably come out a hero in all this.

That was my thinking.

Donny has already tried to grossly humiliate Jeffy from the day he recused himself. It's been pretty much non-stop so it's not like any added humiliation is going to make things worse. How many more times can he get kicked in the balls in public and still keep the joke funny? There's a point where the slapstick loses it's joke capacity, and the victim becomes an object of sympathy, or, at least, empathy, and the perpetrator no longer the jokester but a torturer. Donny, having no empathetic bone in his body, will have no clue.

So now the Elf has now managed to get himself on the cover of Time fer realz as a serious guy, while Donny hasn't except as political cartoon satire (or the "fake Times" covers). So while Donny gets pissed off at this, Jeffy continues to get sympathy votes the more Donny derides him.

ETA: IMHO neither Jeffy nor Donny are nice people. Neither should be anywhere near the reins of power.

Apparently Pruitt has gone from being a Trump favorite to being on the verge of being removed from office in less then two weeks.

So, pretty much a normal run for this administration, then?

I think the problem with Pruitt is not with what he did, but he was stupid enough not make a effort to conceal it. To use an old expression about sex,problem is not with what he did, but that he did in the middle of the street and frightened the horses....

Pruitt? Who's Pruitt?

Coffee boy.

NOTHING makes you as much as an outcast in the Trump administration as making Trump look bad. Two weeks ago, it looked like he'd be replacing Jefferson (Davis) Sessions about now.

DRAIN THE SWAMP!

Rosentein's name has come up.

Memo shows Mueller explicitly tasked with Manafort-Russia collusion claims
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...tigation-scope

It appears that Rosenstein, by explicitly casting the net so wide, was out to get Manafort, and why would he want to do that if not to get Trump himself through Manafort? It's so Deep State it's positively abyssal.

Rosenstein next.

Don't think I ever met the man. Pruitt? Odd name, I'm sure I'd have remembered it. What is that, a Baltic name? Don't recall ever meeting any Balic people.

I met some Balkan people earlier, fine people, very sound on the Fake Media issue.

Or could it be Mike Cohen, the suck-up but dispensable lawyer being thrown to the wolves?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...payment-denial

Two points, the denial came from Trump so he knew about the payment. If we go through the motions of believing Trump, Cohen is in some trouble for campaign finance law violations.

I was wondering about the same thing.

After all, Trump just threw Michael Cohen (his own lawyer) under the bus at a time when Trump is having a difficult time retaining his own law team in order to deal with the Muller investigation.

I guess Trump really does hate lawyers even when he sorely needs lawyers.

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kellyyyyyyy!
CNN has taken to calling the end of the week "Firing Friday", or "FireDay".

I think Pruitt is next up in the batter's box or the on deck circle. Did you see the way Fox News tore into him?

Just this week The PDJT talked about replacing Kelly with Pruitt, so Pruitt my be one rung higher.

So they're both gone?

And the chief of staff doesn't have to get confirmed by the Senate.

I think even Donnie knows that after the lastest scandals Pruitt would not stand a chance of being approved as AG,so Chief of Staff is a possibility.Thing is, in any other administration Pruitt would have been gone by now.

In any other administration Trump would have been gone by now.
:p

The landlords were unable to get Pruitt out of the condo, so they changed the locks. <laughing dog goes here>

I think I saw somewhere that he wouldn't have to be approved for AG because he was already approved for EPA and can move to another cabinet-level position without further Senate action. Can anyone verify?

What is Scott Pruitt afraid of?

Should I be afraid of it too?

He's worried about radical treehugging terrorists, of course. Environmentalists = terrorists has been a right wing meme for quite a while now.

I am familiar with examples of animal rights terrorism, but I'm drawing a blank on environmental terrorism. There must be some, since most movements have extremists. Anyone?

I don't count the Unabomber.