Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Ben Wittes, the Lawfare guy (and noted friend of Comey) is being...cryptic

The lull has begun.

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) May 16, 2017

tick tick tick tick tick tick

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) May 16, 2017

what's that even supposed to mean

Nato officials will ‘ensure no one talks for more than four minutes to keep Donald Trump’s attention’

“It’s kind of ridiculous how they are preparing to deal with Trump,” one source said. “It’s like they’re preparing to deal with a child — someone with a short attention span and mood who has no knowledge of Nato, no interest in in-depth policy issues, nothing. They’re freaking out.”

bomb threat afaict xp

trying to imagine who thinks that settles that

like 80% of white ppl below the Mason Dixon, for starters

what's that even supposed to mean

maybe it's just referring to the constant stream of trump stupidity, which somehow seems to be increasing in speed. it's been a few hours since the last really dumb thing, so... tick tick tick

Well, Trump promised to hit the ground running and he has, in his own wondrously incompetent way.

I feel lik ethe telling-rissua-about-isis thing is probably blown out of proportion - btu I am excited at ANY chance of impeachement

Of course its blown out of proportion. The leaks were just a sign of how infuriated the intelligence community is with this POTUS.

please no coy oppo dump stuff

I am just saying it is 2:17 p.m.

— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 16, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk

Coming from an NYT reporter I suspect there's a little more to it.

yeah but what is that even supposed to mean? that there are more hours left in the day?

everyone is just fucking crazy

is he poking fun at the oppo dump leading tweets that people do

the lull before the early morning tweetstorm, before the cable news talking heads primetime hyperdrive, before the response to the response. that lull maybe.

There's gotta be some WWI soldier-poet who wrote about this right before checking out at the Somme

I can see it now - a beleaguered Trump tweeting as he falls into the flames or impeachement - tears of rage - tears of grief "why am I always the one who must tweet!?"

Haha

trump believes siegfried sassoon makes the best hair products iirc

LOL

trying to imagine a) who in history has had so many contemporaries think one is colossally stupid b) who in history is less equipped to handle such a situation

George III is the closest I get

Trump has syphilis???

"Pink Pee in the White House: The Donald Trump Story"

This all needs to stop before something even more catastrophic happens.

scariest sentence in the haberman / thrush piece ~

There is a fear among some of Mr. Trump's senior advisers about leaving him alone in meetings with foreign leaders out of concern he might speak out of turn.

i mean, for fuck's sake

let's run government like a business, guys! tax cuts for everyone (who inherited money)!

This all needs to stop before something even more catastrophic happens.

unfortunately, it seems pretty likely that some kind of catastrophe is going to happen on Trump's watch, possibly due to Trump's own behavior. What that is and who will suffer is impossible to say.

Roger Stone, one of President Donald Trump’s oldest and closest advisers outside the White House believes the Trump presidency is in great danger from within. Appearing in a bizarre outdoor YouTube video with InfoWars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Stone said that Trump enemies were going to claim that his recent leaking of classified information to senior Russian officials was evidence of Alzheimers. In that vein, Stone also said that his cabinet might even seek to remove him.

“They are going to claim that Donald Trump has Alzheimers … and that is the source of his insanity,” said Stone, who added that he spoke to Trump “fairly recently” and that there was “no evidence” of any mental deterioration. “This is completely bogus,” he said. Stone warned that if the Alzheimers narrative took hold, it would provide a pretext for Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and remove him from office. “They could not beat him at the ballot box,” Stone railed “So now they seek to remove him by claiming that he is insane.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/roger-stone-trump-critics-preparing-to-pounce-on-president-with-charges-of-alzheimers/

It's only been four months.

Trump has syphilis???

That would surprise you would it?

There are 44 more. Possibly 92 more.

stone sounds like he's actually prepping the dementia narrative, not shooting it down. "who said alzheimers? wait, what?"

Ha, you guys

This administration is like "hey, wouldn't it be fun if LIFE were basically an ILE election day/presidential debate thread ALL THE TIME?"

The only people I've heard say Alzheimer's before that were Chapo people.

I hope he is right and that happens. Pence et al are loathsome but Trump being in office is an imminent crisis.

cbo estimate on ahca comes out while he's on tour. without him around to straight up lie on tv about its consequences it will be harder for the GOP to defend.

and tweeting rants/sail from the shitter/below pale stooks of hair

Make Alzheimer's Great Again

He definitely has some kind of mental deterioration. It might just be caused by sleep deprivation but he just isn't able to think straight.

trying to imagine a) who in history has had so many contemporaries think one is colossally stupid b) who in history is less equipped to handle such a situation

Toward the end of his life Charles' fragile health deteriorated and he became increasingly hypersensitive and strange, at one point demanding that the bodies of his family be exhumed so he could look upon the corpses. He officially retired when he had a nervous breakdown caused by the amount of pressure put on him to try to pull Spain out of the economic trouble it was going through. He lived a simple life from then on, playing games and other activities. He died in Madrid on 1 November 1700 (the 39th death anniversary of his immediate elder brother), five days before his 39th birthday. The physician who performed his autopsy stated that his body "did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."

his body "did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."

Trump's medical report.

The only people I've heard say Alzheimer's before that were Chapo people.

it's def been discussed elsewhere a few times that i've seen, particularly with reference to reagan's health in office

his body "did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."

same

does stone want to set up a showdown between trump and the 'deep state' to rally supporters, anticipating the rise of the alzheimers narrative?

And here we go

BREAKING from NYT: Trump asked Comey to shut down Mike Flynn investigation, Comey memo says. Wow. https://t.co/wtk1Do6dTd

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 16, 2017

Basically explaining that NYT dude and Lawfare guy's tweets.

jings

his body "did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."

an excerpt from an earlier, gothier version of "A Visit from St. Nicholas"

damn you -- you beat me