Schumer released a good video in which his staff go around the table telling him he is incredibly awesome, until they get to the guy with Priebus's lines and everyone falls over laughing too hard to carry on.

As near as I can tell, he believes that the 2% is being paid to him, which is why he bragged after his speech that it had worked and the payments were now rolling in when this was not logically a possible outcome.

It honestly seems like he's old enough to have figured out that you don't defend yourself with two exclusionary lines of argument.

The logical endpoint will be Trump and his real estate lawyer arguing that everything that Trump says OR tweets is understood to be classified, and so when people discuss the tweets they are breaking the law by leaking the president's words.

I honestly can't tell on the tapes. Trump keeps throwing out the idea, and I think he wants his allies to say "Oh boy are those going to be awesome" and his enemies to say "Noooooooo!" but everyone keeps mixing up their lines. So then he tries again.

Wouldn't her "All morality is pointless, you should just murder your family" schtick cause just one minion to realize "Hey, how about if I murder her? Rather than hang these signs for free?"

Lassie could have solved that mystery, but not the incredible super geniuses of Sherlock, Mycroft, their parents, Uncle Rudy… nope. Never crossed their minds.

She could reprogram every single human in the world given 5 minutes of saying "So like morality is stupid, you should go murder your family. It doesn't make a difference. Just murder everyone."

I think it's perfectly summed up by the comment along the lines of "A show about a smart person written by a stupid person who thinks that smart people are indistinguishable from wizards." This episode in particular—a genius so brilliant that she can make anyone do anything after 5 minutes of conversation! Her only…

The thing on the far left is that they do not actually elect people to offices, because the available candidates are all insufficiently pure.

So Trump, upping his game, has at least four lines going:
• Comey lied throughout his testimony.
• Taking everything in his testimony as true, it totally vindicates Trump.
AND
• Trump didn't tell him he hoped he'd kill the Flynn investigation.
• Say theoretically he did, it would have been legal.

What the hell happened to the NYTimes? Every anti-Trump story they have broken walked up and handed itself to them, so the reporters could say "Look, it's right here in the newsroom, are we actually going to tell them they need to go to the Post?"

One of Trump's staff—sadly I can't remember who, but powerful and experienced enough to know better—commented on Saudi Arabia how striking it was that there were no protesters. A reporter asked if maybe this was because it was illegal, rather than universal adoration of the government, and this hadn't occurred to him.…

I was torn between 'how can you run off, rather than using heretofore unsuspected skills to conk both of them on the head while Alison has them distracted?' and 'yeah, escaping to find more lethal help is probably the smart move to rescue Alison.'

Sadly, the two timelines in play are:
• In a year or two, Mueller releases a damning report. If Dems take the House in 2018, Trump can be impeached there. He'll make 2/3 in the Senate only if he has been jaw-droppingly horrible in the interim.
• Several months after all sane people know Trump should have been removed,…

His lawyer's statement was basically "No way did Trump ever ask for loyalty; also loyalty is absolutely owed by everyone in the government to its executive."

It also proved a test of Silver's observation of polling/pundit disagreement—if the polls say one thing (C+5) and the pundits another (C+10) then bet on the error going the other way, in this case for C very close to the tipping point.

In fairness, that was a huge revelation. Trump and Comey were the only ones in the room, and someone leaked details harmful to Trump that made Comey look good… whom could it possibly be?

Bars in DC were going to offer up a free round if Trump started tweeting mid-hearing. Clearly he just has it in for DC elites.

Wednesday, the heads of the other intel agencies did several rounds of:
"Did Trump ask you to do X?"
"I didn't feel pressured."
"But did he ask you to do X?"
"I did not feel pressured by him."