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Gage Skidmore / Flickr.com President Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions via recess appointment when the Senate goes on break.
- "President Donald Trump abruptly declared a ban on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military, catching the Pentagon flat-footed and unable to explain what it called Trump's 'guidance.' His proclamation, on Twitter rather than any formal announcement, drew bipartisan denunciations and threw currently serving transgender soldiers into limbo."
- Incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has suggested that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus is involved in leaking information. "If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker," Scaramucci said, "let him do that."
- Congress looks poised to pass a Russia sanctions bill.
- Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.
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President Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions via recess appointment when the Senate goes on break.
COULD HE FIND ANYONE WORSE?
Yeah. Chris Christie would be worse.
DC cocktail party buffets hardest hit.
New Jersey elevation +8 feet.
Is Janet Reno still alive?
She was reported dead, but that's only because she was in Dr. Frankenstein's shop for repairs.
Was she ever?
Rudy Guiliani might be worse. Sessions will be hard to out-worse though.
Giuliani.
Loretta Lynch. Eric Holder.
FAST & FURIOUS! DERP! BLACK PANDAS IN PHILLY! BLOOP!
Oh great you're off your meds.
Anytime Holder is mentioned wingnuts say that. I was just saving loveconstitution1789 the trouble.
I KNEW you were on meds.
Is BLOOP that new boy band that Lynch was meeting with Slick Willey on the airport tarmac to talk about?
How do you know the Big Dawg wasn't just trying to get in her pants? Ever hear of Occam's Razor?
When you deal with the Clintons, corruption is the simplest answer.
Social Contract get too hot for you bro?
Ever hear of Occam's Razor?
So when a guy whose entire career could be summed up with "dishonest corruption" has a secret meeting with the lady overseeing a criminal investigation of his wife (the lady being a long-time friend and attorney for the guy and his wife), an investigation that is killed in a COMPLETELY unprecedented publicly manner only a day or two later, you find the most reasonable, simplest explanation to be "an attempt at sex?"
Yeah, but you're totally not a Democrat sockpuppet.
Hello.
Jesus Christ Hillary.
Go stick a vibrator in it and move the fuck on.
At this point, that would be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.
+1 Steely Dan
They must be running out of money again.
Prediction: 230 pages of how it totally wasn't her fault, and the election was stolen, and a bunch of people, or every Trump voter really, voted against their best interests
Best. Candidate. Ever.
Dollars to doughnuts, she leaves out why she could not stand after the event and had to be carried by secret service to her awaiting van.
That's what I'm expecting. It's definitely a piece to spin what happened in the way she want's it to be remembered.
I think it's going to reinforce the notion that she can't ever accept blame for actions.
Prediction: she mentions the incident, in her version she was fine, maybe a lil dehydrated, the Secret Service was just being overprotected, she is in great health and nothing is her fault ever
I was referring to the whole election process.
I do like to point out that Hillary couldn't be honest about something as simple as cough when talking about her level of dishonesty. No lie to small.
230 pages with every third page blank and most of the stock bought by unions for private distribution but end up in forgoten stacks at a warehouse somewhere in Jersey
I am waiting for someone to look into actual sales of books by candidates. I find it hard to believe that these books actually have the sales (and accompanying high royalties) that are reported. More likely shell companies purchasing mass quantities to avoid campaign finance rules.
She will donate them to the Clinton Foundation.
Proceeds probably will go to the Clinton Foundation, and the book will then be a surprise runaway bestseller in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China...
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions via recess appointment when the Senate goes on break.
Oddly unsatisfying. I'd have gone with the boats.
"Not My fault!!"
I guarantee no lessons were learned.
Maybe it would be better if it was titled, "It Takes a Village To Figure Out what Happened!"
Publisher forgot the punctuation.
Should be: "What Happened?"
THat was my immediate thought too.
"The Russians, in conjunction with The Saucer People, under the supervision of the Reverse Vampires, forced people to vote for Trump!"
Information caused voters to vote for Trump. Best politician's reason eva!
Maybe "Wha' Happen??"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyDjkPO8l0
New memoir titled "What Difference at this Point Does it Make"
I wonder how many book reviews will use that as the headline.
My personal guess is that many book reviews will center around some sort of unbreakable glass ceiling.
His proclamation, on Twitter rather than any formal announcement, drew bipartisan denunciations and threw currently serving transgender soldiers into limbo.
But it let the culture wars begin anew, just as congressmen and some senators begin gearing up for the midterms.
soldiers into limbo
Is that how Trump will find the trannies?
Trump needs to find a vehicle transmission?
"soldiers into limbo"
Their genitalia all akimbo.
No genitalia will go ungrabbed.
Not all genitalia is grabbable, especially if the grabee decides it's not there today.
New Oprah show giveaway?
You get your ____ grabbed and you get your ___ grabbed.
Innies become outies, and outies innies.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world
I was hoping for at least one kudo for using "akimbo" (and rhyming no less).
Tough crowd.
Your reward is this really old Blur song.
I was amused.
Sir, yes, Ma'am!
>>>Sir, yes, Ma'am!
very. funny.
You know you're getting old when opposing taxpayer-funded sex-change operations is considered standing on the wrong side of history.
It's a right!
This is the age where abortions are considered "reproductive rights", so, yeah.
Whoa, what if a biological male who identifies as a woman is someday able to grow a fetus. Will he be allowed to abort it?
Or what if a man identifies as a woman after getting another woman pregnant? If he/she doesn't get a say in whether she aborts it, well, isn't that problematic?
He'll use the Crocodile Dundee check.
It got Pelosi hissing and spitting on my morning news and that's all that counts.
She reverted to her native language, huh?
Of course she's a Slytherin.
threw...soldiers into limbo.
What about the drill sergeants? Won't anyone think of the drill sergeants? How were they supposed to harass recruits from Texas? "LGBTQ's" doesn't rhyme with "steers."
Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.
A Rerun retrospective.
Leaves out many important events like numerous suspicious deaths for those scheduled to whistleblow on Clintons.
Oh boy, now you've done it! Citizen Crusty, sparky, MJGreen, paranoid android, and all the rest of the liberal democrats will be jumping all over you within minutes.
What i love the most about Simple Mikey's attacks is that i don't have to change anything about my beliefs or comments for him to be hilariously, obviously, stupidly wrong.
What did I do now?
Shut up, Weigel!
You've maintained at least a loose grip on reality.
It's alright. People have been fighting back since 1789.
Mike, can you put together a ranked list for us of your most hated, most liberal commenters?
Please, Mikey?
It's going to be a pretty short list, since he believes that most of us are the same person, who apparently is willing to go to an unreasonable amount of trouble just to flame his stupid ass. Occam's Razor is a liberal democrat plot to that fucking guy.
There are only 4 commenters. CitizenCrustexChipper, Weigal, Tulpa and Mike.
Guess which one I am.
Given your expressed preference for beer that tastes awful, i'm going with Mike.
"Guess which one I am"
The lack of all caps isn't fooling anyone STEVE
Trying her hand at fiction now that her political career is done?
Speaking of fiction political career.... BOOM!
I be here all da week.
That's dy-no-mite!
Who did Russia undermine?
Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.
I prefer Shit Happens.
Shit Happens, Especially When You're An Unlikable Harridan Who Alienates Key Demographics Your Party Took For Granted
I acknowledge her unlikeability but Trump is a disgusting scumbag.
If you look up disgusting scumbag in the dictionary, you see Hillary's picture.....BOOM!
I be here all da week.
And so's Clinton. While i would hope that it couldn't get worse than the choice between Hillary and The Donald, i'm pretty sure that constant voting for the lesser of two evils will always end up a race between the two worst people in the country.
Don't blame me, though. I voted for the guy who doesn't know where Aleppo is.
Hillary doesn't belittle everyone that doesn't suck her dick like Trump does.
I KNEW Hillary had underwear with dick holes in it.
Not on Twitter, sure, but there are a ton of insider stories about her dishing out mushroom-slaps in private to people who have crossed her. There's a reason so many conspiracy theories about her are based on her vindictiveness, and it's not because she's a nice person who just has irrationally shady enemies.
The media never discusses this. Even retired secret service agents discuss how bitch-in-private and vindictive she is.
The other thing the media never discusses is why most people who know Trump don't have wheelbarrows full of bad shit to say about him. Ex-wives even.
Ex-wives have a financial incentive not to talk. Look at Fat Rush Limbaugh who has been in four-five sham marriages - his don't talk either.
They get alimony, divorce maintenance, etc. no matter what.
Besides, a lefty book publisher would offer big money for a tell all.
You think a guy as rich and public as Trump doesn't have a "don't say bad stuff" clause in all his divorce agreements?
Plus ruining the ex's cash flow could impact those alimony payments.
Not with Ivana. Not with Marla Maples.
Ivana
Marla Maples
Trump historically has been a supporter of democrats. So the dem machine doesn't really want to dig into the history.
You broke my brain.
Citizen's the fungi today.
What did 5 fingers say to the face? Slap!
Here she is behind closed doors.
I really don't want to see her in a body suit, though. Otherwise, pretty on the nose.
Hillary doesn't belittle everyone that doesn't suck her dick like Trump does.
Hillary literally just lost an election because she called half the country 'deplorable' for not voting for her.
I prefer the title How I fucked up
What Happened: How I Snatched Defeat from the Gaping Maw of Victory.
But enough talk of her Maw.
Bannon's Plan to Tax Top Earners 44% to Be Considered by GOP
This sounds like some of that "reaching across the aisle" I keep hearing about whenever the GOP has control of Congress.
See, why didn't you use "reaching across the aisle" for Crusty's article about the teacher and mile-high sex?
This nostalgia for the 1950s is getting out of hand. How soon before they go for 90+%?
"If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker," Scaramucci said, "let him do that."
GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT
Brilliant choice for White House Communications Director. I'm looking forward to Mucci and his boss having some kind of twitter retard contest.
Twitter retard sounds redundant.
Yeah, because it's so easy to prove a negative.
If Scaramucci wants to explain that he doesn't fuck goats, let him do that.
"If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker," Scaramucci said, "let him do that."
If he didn't do anything wrong, he shouldn't care if I imply he did.
Congress looks poised to pass a Russia sanctions bill.
But will the Puppet-in-Chief sign it?
Yes, but he'll sign it via Tweet.
Imagine if the US got sanctioned for every foreign election the CIA tried to rig (or just outright whacked the person we didn't want in power) we'd be even more broke than we are now.
When the US does it, it's in our best interests.
Honestly, I actually don't have a problem with foreign officials "trying" to convince our politicians to end sanctions, etc.
I have a problem with US politicians becoming so rich at growing government and taking bribes at the detriment of Americans.
When the US does it, it's in our best interests.
Well, somebody's interests anyway.
The Puppeting Chief would be a good job title.
"President Trump has discussed with confidants and advisers in recent days the possibility of installing a new attorney general through a recess appointment if Jeff Sessions leaves the job...."
Ah, secret informants provide valuable info....again.
Naw, everything Trump does is random.
MILE HIGH MISS UNVEILED First pics of physics teacher who had unprotected sex with a pupil in an aeroplane toilet as they flew home from a school trip
I'd hit it.
That boy would be a god when I was growing up.
Is that Gwyneth Paltrow?
No.
No Goop for you!
Jesus Christ, shreek.
She was just explaining how a piston engine works.
And how atoms get smashed at the Hadron Collider.
Crusty, you are the best.
Someone has to be the adult in here.
Did you hire someone?
Can't really blame her. Kid's nickname is "Perpetual Motion (sex) Machine."
The disgraced physics teacher
"Disgraced" is a point of view, Anakin.
Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.
If only everyone didn't already know.
A halal guide to mind-blowing sex is teaching Muslim women how to set the bed on fire
Fact: Muslim brides are required to remove all hair below the neck. I'd have thought more of you pervs would be into that.
Yes.
*researches conversions to Islam*
It takes sixty-five pages to say, "Practice, practice, practice"?
It's the same thing with shit like Cosmo. You want to know what guys want out of sex? It's not that complicated - a tube sock with Vaseline in it can figure it out.
That tube sock better put on some lipstick.
Oh, NOW you decide to have standards?
Not included are tips on how men can get Muslim women off.
Because that's irrelevant.
Stones, mostly.
Is there a chapter on how to pleasure a woman with no clit?
Why does EVERYTHING have to be about Hillary with you!
Unless they're literally setting the bed on fire, this is not productive.
New movie-
Die Hard: The burning bed
On a personal note, second only to Shackleford's adoption at my urging of the use of "marriage recognition" instead of "legalized marriage" is Root's use of "titled" instead of "entitled" here.
I appreciate their efforts to appease me and I accept this as Reason's apology.
Then you are a deluded collectivist. Damon Root wrote this, not the web site / magazine / foundation
If you're taking Eugene's comments seriously, you should probably recalibrate your sarcasmometer.
It's an apology for all those times Reason wrote "try and" instead of "try to".
Welch wrote "would of" the other day. I very nearly canceled my subscription before i remembered i don't have one.
Someone needs to alert the Commander And Chief.
O come now! If I want to be offended by a broken sarcasmometer, I'll damned well ignore it all on my own.
New York Gov. Cuomo Makes Case for Federal Spending on Infrastructure Projects
You could cut state welfare programs and use THAT money.
The feds should take spending advice from a an who got conned by Elon Musk.
'Police check' held subway for de Blasio ? despite City Hall fibs, evidence shows
Fuck yo commute.
It's public...until bureaucrat shitheads need it. Then it suddenly becomes a temporary private venture.
People who view public stuff like this in a positive light should realize they're secondary to the state when it matters most.
If other people have places they need to be on time, they should have thought of that before they didn't become Mayor.
You can just see a prog saying that.
If you care about being on time so much you would have left three hours earlier! The Mayor has stuff to do to run OUR CITY and likely to table rules and regulations against the likes of you! Stop bitching. You won't get fired.
Along those lines. Because progressives are retarded. WHY REASON WANTS TO SHARE A COCKTAIL WITH THEM IS BEYOND ME.
Three minutes is nothing but the fact they needed to lie about it speaks volumes. Will voters listen to it?
Christie suddenly jealous.
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions via recess appointment when the Senate goes on break.
It'll be fun watching lefties defend someone they only months prior had referred to as an evil, bigoted, racist. And it will be nice to be rid of Sessions, provided the replacement is not named Giuliani. That said, their whole feud may be a farce anyhow. Time will tell.
It would not surprise me at all to see some sort of WWE-style swerve with all this--get the press chasing the latest bit of gossip, force lefties to feel sorry for Sessions, and then reveal that they were being played all along and Trump is just fine with him.
Incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has suggested that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus is involved in leaking information. "If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker," Scaramucci said, "let him do that."
Mooooooooooooch!
Dude doesn't give a fuck, he's actively hostile to most of the Republican platform (which is going to blow up spectacularly probably very soon), he comes equipped with a perfect fed parasite neckname - The Mooch, and it's impossible to read about him without getting "Bohemian Rhapsody" stuck in your head. He might be the Perfect communications guy for this administration.
I am grateful for his presence, because somehow shit just became even more weird:
Thirty minutes! What communications expect speaks to a reporter, live on the air, for thirty minutes! It's bananas.
BEST C*MMUNICATIONS DIRECT*R EVAH!
WORST M*ME REV*VAL EVAH!
I look forward to amsoc's eventual failed attempt at using said meme, whenever his unemployable ass gets out of bed.
Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled "What Happened".
What happened? You are a lying, conniving, corrupt as the day is long cunt that ran a shoddy campaign that lost to a celebrity blowhard even though you outspent said blowhard by more than 2:1. I don't expect to see this in the memoir.
Money spent is irrelevant. The Con Man got billions in free TV time from the Librul Media who ignored his corrupt money-laundering for Russian mobster past.
But Hillary using her foundation WHILE SERVING AS SOS, for power, privilege, shakedowns and probably money laundering is....?
And no rational classical liberal.
You're just a progressive moron.
Suck Trump's dick, Rufus. He will let you know when to swallow.
You LOST turd!
Hahahahahhahhahha...
Hasn't paid yet, I expect.
Imagine Sevo yelling that out of context.
You don't yell at your poo?
Wait, shreek came out of Sevo's butt?
You LOST turd!
Hahahahahhahhahha...
Haha. That was so funny. The media realized their mistake only days before the election.
Hillary spent hundreds of Millions of stupid Democrat donor's money on commercials and she lost.
Money spent is irrelevant.
Fuck that noise. Money buys elections.
Except for Hillary. She had $900M in funding and lost.
Shut up. If you can't recognize humor then fuck off and don't reply to my comments, douche.
What's your day job? Comedy is not your forte.
I can tell you that it's not being an intolerable bore who takes everything too seriously. You've got that job locked uptight.
I was just joking. Man, you take everything too seriously- you intolerable bore.
He is mocking the anti-Citizens United idiots.
I was mocking Hillary. Its a win win win!
Nice to know that campaign money spent is irrelevent.
The Con Man got billions in free TV time from the Librul Media
90% negative coverage compared to overwhelmingly positive coverage for Clinton. Your premise is incorrect. Cry me a river. And kindly fuck off.
He's wrong about almost everything, but he's right about this. 100%. Trump flat the fuck out manipulated the media to be his advertising arm for the entirety of the election.
Yeah, it was all negative coverage, and yeah it was INTENDED to stop him in his tracks.
But Trump - as much as I despise him, and as low as my estimation of intelligence is - just walked the media like his fucking dog, for a year, until they helped him win the White House. He may be a half-wit dipshit asshole, but Trump knows how to manipulate the media FAR better than anyone actually IN the media or politics.
Full title:
What Happened...And Why Next Time Will Be Different
catching the Pentagon flat-footed
It hit 'em like a Boeing 757...
Damn, too soon!
President Donald Trump abruptly declared a ban on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military
As to the ban, it is preferable to not have people in the military who deny objective reality because denying objective reality is insane. Treat it with psychotherapy, not surgery
Politics say that we need these people to fly multi-million dollar aircraft because then they can say they are flying in invulnerable jets immune to whitey's anti-aircraft missiles.
Smashed hard drives seized from the home of shady Debbie Wasserman-Schultz aide Imram Awan.
Despite what pathetic liberal democrat media lickspittle Citizen Crusty wants you to believe, this could very easily get much worse for the democrats. Thanks to these dipshits, this asshole may have had access to Top Secret classified information. There's also a question as to whether members of this guy's family are supporters of Hezbollah.
Dude, your rocker is straight up collapsed.
That jelly bean keeps giving me the high hat!
Noticing that Mikey is retarded = "pathetic liberal democrat media lickspittle." Cool story, bro. I mean, i've never voted Democrat in my life, am dubious in the extreme about the truthfulness of media outlets in general, and don't even have a similar writing style to Crusty, but you do what you need to do in order to feel relevant.
Also, i'm pretty sure the last person to use the word "lickspittle" died of old age in 1951. How old ARE you, anyway?
I've never voted Democrat in my life
You're a lying piece of shit.
Sorry X, Double Dummy knows your mind and your soul. He also has a BetaMax tape of your entire life.
If you're not a nostril-flaring wingnut you are a Democrat to Mikey.
Oh Mikey, i know you want that to be true so badly, but that doesn't make it reality. Face it, you're not likeable across the entire political spectrum, you delusional retard.
Pretty sure Rothbard used to call Ed Crane's supporters "Lickspittles, toadies and minions."
Sure, undermining my attempt to call Mikey old is a thing you could choose to do.
Awan was recently arrested trying to flee the country.
The DNC did more to interfere with the free election process than anything Russia did. But let's not talk about that. It makes the team look bad.
"...His proclamation, on Twitter rather than any formal announcement,..."
Maybe he can get Valerie to send an email on Friday afternoon. That's legally binding, isn't it?
Make sure to wipe that server with a cloth first ...
Was supposed to be:
Make sure to wipe that server with a cloth first ...
Late and effed up, what a way to start the morning ...
" catching the Pentagon flat-footed"
Improvise, adapt, overcome. Did these jokers never watch "Heartbreak Ridge"?
>>Hillary Clinton is writing a campaign memoir titled What Happened.
editor forgot question mark.
The CIA's favorite subcontractor Jeff Bezos has apparently passed Bill Gates and become the world's richest man.
Congratulations bozo. Too bad all the money on planet earth still isn't going to make you immortal, no matter what you delusionally like to tell yourself.
If I cared enough, I would be worried about your safety. When is the last time someone stopped by for a wellness check?
Bezos, the 99%er's favorite 1%er
The wonderful thing about a Trump presidency is how I can wake up in the morning, brew myself some coffee, and then watch the hilarious incompetence of a government run by people who want to be in a cult, but can't quite get it together enough to be in one. It's like watching people who want to form a theme camp at Burning Man, but-- dangit-- the guy responsible for bringing the water jugs flaked. Too bad.
Funny, I was thinking that's exactly how the last 8 years went too.
I find it terrific since I get to see the losers like commie kid shit their pants all day and every day!
Hey, shitbag! You LOST!
What I find amusing is dems, the left, ect. hate Sessions and want him removed. But if Trump does it. They will think it's treason.
Have we ever had a more petulant child in office before? This president makes Jefferson Davis Hogg seem downright adult.
Most of 'em manage to keep their childish petulance hidden behind closed doors most of the time. Trump hides his childish petulance behind petulant childishness, that's all.
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