Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Is your opinion of Donald Trump favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him?

imagine being in that 3rd category

Critical are big losses among white voters with no college degree, white men and independent voters.

ah. the real cracks start to show

xpost The Just Woke Up from a Coma Demographic

"if it truly was choosing the least worst option, you'd think they'd have at least the semblance of a communications gameplan."

dude is just a capricious motherfucker who does stuff when he feels like it because he thinks that's how kings do things. on a whim.

I'm imagining being in that 3rd category and it is heavenly

Critical are big losses among white voters with no college degree, white men and independent voters.

presumably this is bc it's the only demographic left that still approves of him?

note if there are polling shifts they are probably in response to the AHCA. they won't have comey yet.

Critical are big losses among white voters with no college degree, white men and independent voters.

presumably this is bc it's the only demographic left that still approves of him?

― Mordy, Wednesday, May 10, 2017 7:45 PM (thirty seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

surely the only demographics the media gives a shit about anyway..

Gonna keep saying it: He really is that stupid https://t.co/tOhGYJCdR2

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) May 10, 2017

This'll be good for business: Homeland Security is banning laptops in the cabins of all flights from Europe to the US. If you have a laptop, you gotta check your bag. Period. The only people happy about this? Airport bookstore managers.

president brainstem is discussed here

1. I want to riff on the point I made here, which I still think is central to our current political...uh, situation. https://t.co/hNMGR5GfCW

— David Roberts (@drvox) May 10, 2017

Now I weirdly want to hear rushomancy game out a Trumpoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident

― amex: bold as love (Ye Mad Puffin)

oh, god, i couldn't do that. there's only so far you can take the parallels. first off, the gleiwitz incident was incumbent on the molotov-von ribbentrop pact, and i see no evidence that president trump can pull off that level of diplomatic gamesmanship. second off while any american president can bomb whoever the hell they want without repercussions, and while trump's totalitarian desires have no particular policy basis, we'd have to go a long way to get to a point where a desire for "lebensraum" starts coming into play, particularly given that hitler's desires were based on his wanting germany to be more like america! we annexed our sudetenland under polk.

plus the international community no-sold the gleiwitz incident anyhow; i'm not sure trump could've handled things any _worse_ from a diplomatic perspective than the third reich did.

just came here to link that david roberts bit, yowzer

9. What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump? (Numbers are not percentages. Figures show the number of times each response was given. This table reports only words that were mentioned at least five times.)
idiot 39
incompetent 31
liar 30
leader 25
unqualified 25
president 22
strong 21
businessman 18
ignorant 16
egotistical 15
asshole 13
stupid 13
arrogant 12
trying 12
bully 11
business 11
narcissist 11
successful 11
disgusting 10
great 10
clown 9
dishonest 9
racist 9
American 8
bigot 8
good 8
money 8
smart 8
buffoon 7
con-man 7
crazy 7
different 7
disaster 7
rich 7
despicable 6
dictator 6
aggressive 5
blowhard 5
decisive 5
embarrassment 5
evil 5
greedy 5
inexperienced 5
mental 5
negotiator 5
patriotism 5

lol who the hell says "president"

"donald trump"

...

"patriotism"

"Donald Trump is like a goldfish" is a sentiment I can 100% get behind

it's true he should be flushed down a toilet after being left to die by a 9 yo

David Roberts also wrote this back in Sept, which he references in that Twitter thread:

https://www.vox.com/2016/9/29/13086236/trump-beliefs-category-error

who the HELL would put a laptop in checked baggage the way that shit gets thrown around?

SSD, my dude

Me

xp

https://i.imgur.com/BnXI0vz.png

Yea the Roberts thing seems very otm to me, which I think explains his reaction to all the Russia stuff - he's incredulous about it because its bad news, but in reality he has no clue what any of it is about. I think back to this article about that 2007 deposition a lot:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-lies/

I 100% believe that Trump does not *think* he is hiding anything. I also believe that if any one of the many, many Russian entities that he has frequent contacts with offered him a deal to influence the election that he would accept without a second thought. When has he *not* thought he was above the law?

As pointed out in the article, remember the freakouts about Li-Ion batteries causing fires in baggage compartments?

Deadly serious Q: Was it a good idea to let a Russian gov photographer & all their equipment into the Oval Office? https://t.co/6WA4NxHxID

— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) May 10, 2017

is there a big difference when substation bomb goes off in a baggage compartment or the main cabin ?

substantial not substation*

I am taking this with a grain of salt:

Source to @jaketapper: 2 reasons Comey was fired
1. Comey never provided Trump w assurance of loyalty
2. FBI's Russia probe was accelerating pic.twitter.com/j4shX70Ff1

— CNN (@CNN) May 10, 2017

I dunno, reads plausible from here.

i think it's very plausible, but whether or not there's a paper trail to support it is the thing. if there is, then there's grounds for impeachment. if not, then *shrug emoji*

what is "it"?

besides this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BT1oNdYUPg

The most otm thing in the Roberts tweetstorm is that he fired Comey to get him off his TV. He would do the same to SNL and Jake Tapper if he could.

https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18425034_10211340437741026_4368017829593089484_n.jpg?oh=8b88f410257d6910464a2f20d4dda71d&oe=59BC4F8B

FP'd

ahhhhh

get that the fuck off my screen

what is "it"?

well i thought trixon was funny.

i am on record as being anti 'russian conspiracy'. but i'm pretty freaked/disgusted by the Cambridge Analytica angle. we have our own shitbags! trump wouldn't need to make any international calls to find help.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/us-billionaire-mercer-helped-back-brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/04/nigel-oakes-cambridge-analytica-what-role-brexit-trump

that's not apropos to what's happening today really. just ruminating...

it would be beyond hilarious if trump fired comey over an investigation, and tanks his presidency because of it, when there wasn't anything impeachable there to begin with. but i doubt that will happen.

they would have gotten along pretty good. have some sodas together. talk about who they hate.

Trump no doubt doesn't think he's done anything wrong because he hasn't done anything differently from all his rich friends/cohort: sketchy loans, laundering, favor swapping, shady real estate deals. That's just how it's done if you're a billionaire. But you can't get away with that if you're president, and he probably hasn't figured that out yet. You also can't get away with that if you're 99% of American (see: how the fuck did this piece of shit get elected again?).

New Haberman/Thrush story

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/how-trump-decided-to-fire-james-comey.html

Mr. Trump, according to people close to the president, had been openly talking about firing Mr. Comey for at least a week. Despite the objections from some of his aides about the optics and the lack of an obvious successor, the grumbling evolved into a tentative plan as he angrily watched the Sunday news shows at his Bedminster, N.J., golf resort.

The most otm thing in the Roberts tweetstorm is that he fired Comey to get him off his TV. He would do the same to SNL and Jake Tapper if he could.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, May 10, 2017 4:38 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw someone joke on twitter that trump had fired comey because trump was mad about this longread https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/

i wonder if Anthony Hopkins will play Yam?

those Sunday shows will kill us all yet

Notable:

At first, Mr. Trump, who is fond of vetting his decisions with a wide circle of staff members, advisers and friends, kept his thinking to a small circle, venting his anger to Vice President Mike Pence; the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II; and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who all told him they generally backed dismissing Mr. Comey.

Another early sounding board was Keith Schiller, Mr. Trump’s longtime director of security and now a member of the White House staff, who would later be tasked with delivering the manila envelope containing Mr. Comey’s letter of dismissal to F.B.I. Headquarters, an indication of just how personal the matter was to the president.

Two senior aides — the chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, who have both been critical of the F.B.I. — questioned whether the time was right to dismiss Mr. Comey, arguing that doing it later would reduce the backlash, according to two people familiar with their thinking.

goole: the CA stuff is almost entirely snake oil, and i worry we are doing their marketing for them by attributing too much to them. but i find the idea they are worth 1% to a candidate quite plausible, and they (and others) will get better. i also have no doubt that, whether or not it worked, they did a ton of stuff that is illegal under EU data protection and data harbour law, if not US law.

ahahahahahahahahaha wait, Kushner was on the "fire him" train and BANNON was all "wait, this will look bad"?