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And think of the boon to the gas station industry! I'm going to open my own chain, Pilot Gas Stations and Truck Stops.

 

From this morning's WaPo 202 -


- News organizations are pre-writing stories about White House officials’ departures to keep up with the level of turnover in the Trump era. The New Yorker’s Charles Bethea reports: “One White House reporter for a large newspaper told me in an e-mail … that he has worked on a number of prewrites. ‘It's necessary,’ he said. He listed a few notable examples of this Administration’s sudden personnel moves. ‘Reince fired via tweet, Tillerson fired via tweet, McMaster, Bannon — everyone saw those coming.’ … ‘It’s sort of like the old long-standing practice of having prewritten obits,’ David Lauter, the Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, told me recently by phone … ‘We don’t do every single one,’ he added. ‘As with obits, you make a judgment of ‘How significant is this person?’ But we’ve done at least a dozen resignation prewrites so far.’

“The event that precipitated this new practice was Reince Priebus’s dismissal as Trump’s chief of staff, last July. … It took the L.A. Times twenty-six minutes after Trump’s tweet to get a quick squib of a story up about the news on their Web site. In contrast, last month, when Trump tweeted that he’d accepted Scott Pruitt’s resignation as the head of the E.P.A., the paper had a full article, more than a thousand words long, published three minutes later. … These prewrites are becoming part of newsroom lore. A reporter at a major online publication … shared a story about working on them. ‘At one point,’ she told me in an e-mail, ‘one person on our policy desk was tasked with updating a prewrite … The last line of this prewrite — and it stayed this way for weeks — was: ‘but he could not withstand TK whatever he could not withstand,’ the reporter said.”

 

H.R. Haldeman helped convince people they needed a pesticide to kill harmless garden snails. Solutions in search of a problem.

 

The Russia probe has eroded the standing of original-Trumpist Jeff Sessions in MAGAland.

Trumpists Seem Ready to Erase Jeff Sessions From Movement History

 

Could be anybody. Could be a 400-pounder in his mom's basement!

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...-pervasive-russian-efforts-to-weaken-election

 

You don't support President Trump? That's funny. I like that you slipped a joke into that post along with some wonderful, heartfelt stuff about your children.

 

GOP loves getting Back in the (former) USSR:

U.S. senator Paul to meet Russian lawmakers in Moscow on Aug. 6:...

 

You just know they have some preprinted on Trump resigned and/or being impeached.

 

Probably gonna put in a hacking request for dirt on our treasonous FBI.