PastaJoe

Just when you think the House of Cons can't get any more sophomoric, Scaramucci in an interview called Priebus a "F---ing paranoid schizophrenic".

The infighting in the House of Cons didn't take long. Scaramucci tweeted that he wants the FBI to investigate chief of staff Priebus for leaking his financial disclosure information.

June 2016 - “thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary [Clinton] brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.” July 2017 - “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump wrote online, breaking his message up into multiple posts. "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.” Brad Carson, who served as acting undersecretary of defense for personnel in the Obama administration, called it “unprecedented to roll back a civil rights protection.” Carson, a former Democratic congressman from Oklahoma, oversaw the Pentagon’s decision last year to take steps to ultimately allow transgender troops to serve openly – an implementation plan that Mattis had delayed for six months in June pending additional review. He said that while issues such as medical care and housing for transgender troops were still being grappled with, there was widespread support among the top brass for ensuring the estimated 15,000 transgender troops in the ranks could serve openly. When he asked the chiefs of the four military branches if they believed transgender troops should be barred from service, Carson recalled in an interview Wednesday, everyone said no.” “There was no support for this idea that you would drum out the transgender troops.” http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/26/trump-transgender-240980

While Trump tantrum tweets, the Russians continue to take advantage of his acquiescence at our expense. The Taliban have received improved weaponry in Afghanistan that appears to have been supplied by the Russian government, according to exclusive videos obtained by CNN, adding weight to accusations by Afghan and American officials that Moscow is arming their one-time foe in the war-torn country. US generals first suggested they were concerned the Russian government was seeking to arm the Afghan insurgents back in April, but images from the battlefield here corroborating these claims have been hard to come by. http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/asia/taliban-weapons-afghanistan/index.html Asked in April whether he would refute the reports Russia was arming the Taliban, the US commander here, Gen. John Nicholson, said: "Oh, no I'm not refuting that... Arming belligerents or legitimizing belligerents who perpetuate attacks ... is not the best way forward". Gen. Joseph Votel, chief of US Central Command, told a congressional committee in March he believed the Russians were seeking influence in Afghanistan "I think it is fair to assume they may be providing some sort of support to (the Taliban) in terms of weapons or other things that may be there," he said.

Well losing due to a questionable vote count in Florida did upset many. But you must have slept through the '90's when the right was attacking the Clintons. And of course Trump is only making the discourse worse by acting anything but presidential, even politicizing a Boy Scout speech. At least Obama was a Boy Scout. Trump got 3 deferments from the Boy Scouts.

How is the investigation stopping the Republicans from repealing and replacing Obamacare? How is it stopping tax reform? How is it stopping an infrastructure proposal? How is it stopping building the wall and making Mexico pay for it?

Let he who has never forgotten 77 assets worth $100 million & some meetings with Russian spies cast the first stone!

Trump's business transactions may be the actual genesis of Putin's hold over Trump. Given Trump's refusal to release information such as tax returns, it is entirely appropriate for the investigation to look into the Russian financing that Fredo Jr. previously has said existed.

John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer. Similar to what Ted Kennedy had. We need adult Republican voices now more than ever to counter Trump. A real shame.

Was a great writer on SNL, and now on his own show his takes on Trump are some of the best on television.

Adam Sandler's been mailing it in for years. Standup is Tig Notaro.

Then: Now, an attempt to eat healthier:

To be fair, you shouldn't ask until after we get to see the Trumps spend 11 hours answering all related questions before Congress.

I never realized that the Russians have former Soviet counter-intelligence officers running their adoption agencies. Good thing Don Jr. uncovered this plot to infiltrate the U.S. with baby Manchurian Candidates.

The Republicans in Congress should pass the "Trump's Russian Entanglements Are Seemingly Obvious Nothingburgers" bill, aka the TREASON Act.

Donald Trump says he is “not a big believer in global warming.” He has called it “a total hoax,” “bull ****” and “pseudoscience.” But he is also trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from “global warming and its effects.” The New York billionaire is applying for permission to erect a coastal protection works to prevent erosion at his seaside golf resort, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in County Clare. A permit application for the wall, filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and reviewed by POLITICO, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather this century — as a chief justification for building the structure. The zoning application raises further questions about how the billionaire developer would confront a risk he has publicly minimized but that has been identified as a defining challenge of this era by world leaders, global industry and the American military. His public disavowal of climate science at the same time he moves to secure his own holdings against the effects of climate change also illustrates the conflict between his political rhetoric and the realities of running a business with seaside assets in the 21st century. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436

Trump said during the campaign that if I voted for Hillary, I'd be stuck with a criminal president under constant federal investigation from day one. Turns out he was right. I voted for Hillary and I'm stuck with a criminal president under constant federal investigation since day one.

Trump: "Many Americans, but not me, are concerned that Russia influenced the election by releasing hacked data." Putin: "We didn't do anything." Trump: "I knew the intelligence agencies were wrong! Thank you for confirming my suspicions."