Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

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"god help us" is a pretty appropriate ending for nearly any public statement these days

PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 1 May 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link

trump & co have zero concept of history. if they did they'd realize there's consequences for spewing lies and garbage 24/7.

officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 1 May 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link

when do they start

frogbs, Monday, 1 May 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link

Corey Robin:

If Trump were serious about consolidating his power, he might start by, oh, I don’t know, consolidating his power. Because while Trump talks, this is what he’s doing, or not doing:

The Senate has confirmed 26 of Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other top posts. But for 530 other vacant senior-level jobs requiring Senate confirmation, the president has advanced just 37 nominees….

...And this failure to consolidate executive power isn’t just in the agencies and departments Trump wants to gut. This is also in agencies and departments Trump wants to expand and empower....

Whatever fantasies Trump may have about the presidency unbound, this man has almost no agenda for consolidating the power of the presidency. It’s a slogan, a rhetoric, a performance, but that’s it.

http://coreyrobin.com/2017/04/29/a-wise-psychoanalyst-once-told-me-sort-of-look-at-what-trump-does-not-what-he-says/

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 May 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link

they'd realize there's consequences for spewing lies

dilbros know those actions are merely tactical and the consequence is WINNING.

we have no facts and we're voting no (Hunt3r), Monday, 1 May 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link

man I just remembered that whole "imagine there is no such thing as objective reality" and "I achieved all my dreams by writing them on a piece of paper 15 times in a row" thing from The Dilbert Future and suddenly everything makes sense to me

frogbs, Monday, 1 May 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link

Have we talked about this yet today?

http://www.avclub.com/article/steve-bannons-rap-musical-has-been-found-and-it-so-254566

how's life, Monday, 1 May 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link

Truly the man has flow.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:13 (seven years ago) link

Shamilton

okey-dokey, gnocchi (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:34 (seven years ago) link

Donald J. Trump‏
Verified account @realDonaldTrump

President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

frogbs, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:36 (seven years ago) link

He would've unleashed his Calhoun cone army on those rebels!

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:38 (seven years ago) link

Clone

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:38 (seven years ago) link

Ah yes, the cone army. They are from France.

okey-dokey, gnocchi (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 01:40 (seven years ago) link

if they did they'd realize there's consequences for spewing lies and garbage 24/7

yes, but not for him

mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link

fuck this stupid fuck

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:39 (seven years ago) link

every day everything is dumber. how dumb will shit be in 3 years? can you even imagine?

akm, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:40 (seven years ago) link

It's hard to imagine how long three years will be after we start approximating measures of time based on whatever feels right in the moment because fuck you, I say that was an hour that just elapsed, you dumb fact-slingin' libruhl piece a sheeeeeit.

How many gigabyte is in trilobites (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:46 (seven years ago) link

I genuinely feel like the fate of civilization rests on a high enough proportion of people vehemently resisting this stupidity, because if it genuinely takes hold we'll slip into a new Dark Ages and there's no turning back.

How many gigabyte is in trilobites (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:48 (seven years ago) link

you guys have no idea how much I have worked on imagining how to think about how dumb will shit be in 3 years

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link

give us the vision. first the 1000 foot view, than the 10,000 foot view, then pull all the way back an order of magnitude farther than you've ever gone before and give us the view from there, then zoom all the way to the subatomic level view, then spin a wheel with several more view length options and do whichever option is just to the left of the one that it lands on.

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:57 (seven years ago) link

https://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/muchapuaboutnothing3_thumb.png?w=512&h=384

"between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists
economic factors, both domestic and international played a significant..."
"...Just say slavery"

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link

JOHN DICKERSON: George W. Bush said the reason the Oval Office is round is there are no corners you can hide in.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, there's truth to that. There is truth to that. There are certainly no corners. And you look, there's a certain openness. But there's nobody out there. You know, there is an openness, but I've never seen anybody out there actually, as you could imagine.

JOHN DICKERSON: But he-- what he meant was it's-- all comes --

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure. Sure.

JOHN DICKERSON: --back to you.

nomar, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link

And you look, there's a certain openness. But there's nobody out there. You know, there is an openness, but I've never seen anybody out there actually, as you could imagine.

this is really evocative

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:14 (seven years ago) link

https://i.giphy.com/cGUMCNBpzP1w4.gif

nomar, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:20 (seven years ago) link

#MAGA
by Donald J. Trump

There are certainly no corners
and you look
there's a certain openness

But there's nobody out there
you know
there is an openness

but I've never seen anybody out there
actually
as you could imagine.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:22 (seven years ago) link

I... what was he trying to say there.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:46 (seven years ago) link

One might say that the man is at sea. Or adrift. Perhaps he is adrift at sea.

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:48 (seven years ago) link

it's like a Dada comedy sketch

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link

NYT:

WASHINGTON — Congress would allocate more than $120 million in additional money to help cover the escalating costs of protecting the Trump family and Trump Tower under a bipartisan spending agreement that appears poised to pass this week.

About half of the money, nearly $60 million, is earmarked for the Secret Service, with most of it going toward protecting the president while he is traveling and security for Trump Tower in New York City, according to legislation being circulated on Monday.

Another roughly $60 million would be set aside in a rare provision to reimburse localities, like New York City and Palm Beach County in Florida, that have incurred “extraordinary law enforcement personnel costs” associated with protecting Mr. Trump’s residences since Election Day.

i finally got off my lazy internet ass and googled how much the security for obama's family cost. it was $85-90 million...over 8 years. so around $10-11 million per year.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article123335079.html

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:55 (seven years ago) link

no big deal, just an extra 110 million per year to protect the trump family

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:56 (seven years ago) link

all those millions can't stop the deadliest, most effective assassin of all: time

nomar, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:57 (seven years ago) link

W liked to keep one eye on the roomba

Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 05:06 (seven years ago) link

Is that $120million a year or until the current appropriation runs out in September?

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 06:42 (seven years ago) link

How much is congress asking not to protect him?

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:38 (seven years ago) link

Upthread, I believe that what he was saying is that while there aren't any corners in the oval office, the office actually has several doors. There is an openness. People keep going in and coming out. Sometimes Ivanka. Sometimes that Jeebus guy. Seriously, it's very open.

okey-dokey, gnocchi (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:39 (seven years ago) link

holy shit -- three years of fucking benghazi hearings, and no sanctions for russia interfering in our election?

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/01/corker-russia-sanctions-senate-237855

i repeat -- holy shit!

holy shit!!

reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link

good mourning!

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:02 (seven years ago) link

Wow @ Colbert last night. "The only thing your mouth is good for is being Putin's cock-holster," yikes.

20-lol pileup (WilliamC), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:02 (seven years ago) link

xposts I think he's literally talking about not seeing anyone outside of the Oval Office windows. This is not someone who's capable of processing the subtlety of a George W. Bush metaphor.

JOHN DICKERSON: It's been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don't know, I left an issue of Rolling Stone next to the toilet for a month, and something started growing on it that sure looked like moss. Horrible.

How many gigabyte is in trilobites (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:05 (seven years ago) link

lol

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:11 (seven years ago) link

trump, like drax the destroyer, has no truck with metaphor

I assumed it was a similar comment to the joke about putting a (whatever dumb stereotype) person in a round room and telling them to stand in the corner.
In that there were no corners to hide in or something to that effect.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, everyone thinks that this is very ominous right here. See this? These are phones. These are very, you know, secure phones. But this is a -- very ominous looking because of the red button.

JOHN DICKERSON: What does that get you--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well--

JOHN DICKERSON: -- when you press the red button?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -- it gets you a Coke or gets you a Pepsi. One or the other, it'd have to be. Any other cola companies I should mention? Right?

what is it with trump and fucking carbonated cola beverages

Makes sense that a sentient fart would need to regularly gas up.

How many gigabyte is in trilobites (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:21 (seven years ago) link

Sorry, 'sentient' may have been an overreach [SYNAPSE FIRES].

How many gigabyte is in trilobites (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:22 (seven years ago) link

Trump literally thought he was being asked about "hiding" physically in the office. And he mentioned how open it was ie. The windows. He can't hide. But maybe he didn't need to hide, because, you know, nobody was ever out there when he looked.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link

Old Lunch and Tracer otm, he half-expected to see the Failing NY Times crouching on the lawn

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:31 (seven years ago) link

i'm finding trump's whole 'no one knew the civil war could be so complicated!' bullshit particularly frustrating at the moment because it made me realise yet again how close he comes to realising something important but then getting lost in his own solipsism

the pattern goes:

1) someone tells trump something pretty much everyone knows but he doesn't
2) he talks about this in public like he's just singlehandedly discovered the ark of the covenant
3) he frames this earthshattering discovery as as something 'no-one knows' or 'no-one talks about'

but he never makes the logical half-step into realising that he wouldn't know about this unless someone told him therefore people must know about it and maybe there's a whole world of knowledge out there he could tap into and, y'know, learn something

what is it like to live life so content in your own ignorance? it must be fucking amazing, i wish i could do it

are all americans born into money as intellectually lazy as this asshole? because oh my god

reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link


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