Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

These blog posts are like the Fyre Fest of political rumors

But i want it to be true

It would be cool if the left didn't validate the right's "FAKE NEWS" rhetoric

I hear that Trump has already fired himself as president. People are talking, yuuuuuge people.

re: "the left," I've only noticed libs credulously RTing this stuff

wish instead of firing himself he'd just immolate.
But I think the discomfort might not last long enough.

I'm not interested in parsing nametags

Xl

guys i heard trump is going to "break up the big banks"

is it impolitic to remark that however unbelievable lefty conspiracy theories are about sealed indictments may be, it's even more unbelievable that sergey kislyak was just in the oval office (just after they attacked the french election, and the president fired the fbi director), and the only reason we know that is because the russian press was allowed in, while our own press wasn't? there's a difference between delusion and enthusiasm, no? our national conversation isn't a battle between rational positions so much as a high school lunch room food fight. this still resonates i think

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/national-party-news/320907-dems-worry-too-much-about-upsetting-others-that-needs

These blog posts are like the Fyre Fest of political rumors

Let's just impeach him, and be legends, man!

there's a difference between delusion and enthusiasm, no?

one may easily be enthusiastic and delusional at the same time. manic episodes are notorious for combining these two elements.

the UK is taking solid steps to harness both -- free beer for voting!

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/you-can-free-beer-just-13032955

An interesting Twitter thread about how foreign travel may affect a cranky 70-year-old man addicted to sycophancy and routine:

So Trump is going on extended foreign travel this week. Some travel context that may influence what happens during his trip:

— Loren D Schulman (@LorenRaeDeJ) May 13, 2017

"Note the meeting rooms: Ivanka A, B, C."

Not a surprise, it just looks like after all these years of trying, Trump has finally found a way to spend some time inside Ivanka.

Gross

...

Can they really not hire a new FBI agent without the Democrats?

No idea whether this is true or not (or whether it's been posted already--not following this thread closely lately), but it reminds me of a line in All the President's Men when Bernstein questions a staffer: "The White House was real paranoid about Teddy Kennedy."

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/penny_zps13cwuddj.jpg

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/09/trump-white-house-monitoring-elizabeth-warren-terror-builds-potential-2020-run.html

The part about "terror" seems like a stretch--monitoring closely, I believe.

The Trump folks think they're going to get to run in 2020?

I can give a high credence to a sealed indictment without believing anything will come of it.

Really, the ball's in Trump's court. He's in til 2019 until he does something that impinges upon the Fox news base. When Fox abandons Trump, then we can buy the case of champagne.

Totally in his court, he just keeping hitting the court officials with it.

he would only have one ball

...Just Like HITLER!

Whiskey bar in Portland for the win. pic.twitter.com/vQu2Q7TztP

— Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) May 13, 2017

that set of tweets about the travel issues is weird, do they think trump has no clue when it comes to international travel??

do they think trump has no clue when it comes to international travel??

They think (and rightly so) that Trump has no clue what international travel as President will demand/require of him.

That's not what the twitter thread is about. I read it all the way to the punchline ("the Nat Sec Advisor is the point person for anything that happens") and it sucked

Here is a short version that is also more accurate

"Trump is a freak show on eastern time. Watch what happens when he's 12+ hours off."

yeah i like the point someone made in reply: have seen cnn international?

Yeah fair point.

https://www.justsecurity.org/40870/misplaced-focus-collusion/

This deserved a link, given the low but not zero probability ILX might become the memory of the internet:

The most common words used to describe President Trump in the May 2017 Quinnipiac poll.
http://img.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2017/05/GraphicV2.png

https://www.radicalcandor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/snl-one-more-mission.jpg

"What's the word on the street?"

I am tired of being tired of pieces written in order to help us all focus on the "correct" things when trying to regard the enormity of this administration's nightmarishness.

Cmon Tombot don't you know Hilary lost for precisely one reason and only one thing can be important at a time because the world is easily comprehensible 1,200 words at a time

You're right. Let's nuke Wisconsin now.

that blog post is good though

no it isn't, it's like if I wrote a bazillion words about how, yeah, there's some Erdos conjectures that might never be proven, but math, you guys, is still important

tombot otm

People seem to spend a lot of energy digging up and/or making up all kinds of shit but I still have no idea who's even supposed to have the authority to act on anything in the unlikely even that anything actionable ever arises - and *even* then you're left with Presidents Pence or Ryan, both worse fates imo

Poll: Trump v Pence v Ryan v being immolated by a giant meteor

Totally did the pence / trump poll last week

I am not worried about Pence starting an international incident that threatens the lives of people I care about. I'll take my chances.

yeah, pence's incidents which threaten the lives of people you care about would all be purely domestic

plus it's not like things continue on as normal but everyone moves one position up - impeachment would be a serious blow to the Republican party and their agenda up until they all get voted out

lol and jfc http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/15/donald-trump-fake-news-238379

*sob*

More recently, when four economists who advised Trump during the campaign — Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore — wrote in a New York Times op-ed that “now is the time to move it forward with urgency,” someone in the White House flagged the piece for the president.

Trump summoned staff to talk about it. His message: Make this the tax plan, according to one White House official present.

“While the specific cover is fake, it is true there was a period in the 70s when people were predicting an ice age,” the official insisted. “The broader point I think was accurate.”

that you Sean?