Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Years from now we will wear orange masks with corn husk hair and pretend to be Trump and everyone will laugh since he resigned in shame and we have some other president
- like Nixon

Hmm

BREAKING: US official confirms to @BuzzFeedNews that the US-led Coalition hit Assad regime forces with air strikes in southern Syria today

— Mike Giglio (@mike_giglio) May 18, 2017

Except Shaggs are wonderfully awful, Trump admin just awfully awful, like a Creed record.

― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson)

i like the shaggs, but i would not vote for dot wiggin for president. sorry, dot.

hey it's wag the dog time

xp

taxes need to go up on the wealthy to finance medicare / social security for all, and tuition-free state colleges

it's the best way to prevent another trump incident

what the?

Trump is sort of like one of those "shredding" videos of a real president talking

haha yes

I think at this point a fermented bean curd would do better Presidenting than Trump

https://media.giphy.com/media/EWEiTG6pC9jlC/source.gif

I know it's not shocking or new to say that Trump is an imbecile but... damn, this dude is an imbecile.

I think at this point a fermented bean curd would do better Presidenting than Trump

― Violet Jynx

i don't know about that, but i think it says something that i'm trying to imagine what it would be like to have a fermented bean curd as president and how it would stack up to trump. because i will say i think it would be easier for republicans to defend having a fermented bean curd as president than it is for them to defend trump.

if anything it's shocking how shocking it continues to be day after day

the bean curd would have made a better speech to teh coast guard

bean curd never sexually assaulted anyone, for a start

yeah no one's gonna get distracted by a few bombs in Syria (no one in America anyway)

xp

We're attacking Syria again, huh? Very reminiscent of Clinton's employment of bombs to distract from BJ talk.

at this point, is there a day where we *aren't* bombing somebody

what did the fermented bean curd know and when did it know it

i wonder if russia got a heads-up this time too

I think it's worth pointing out that the head of the executive branch accused the former President and his election rival of unspecified "crimes" today, and no one gaf because it was just more bullshit

xp trying to put the finger on the pulse?

Flynn refusing the committee subpoena is a blip imo - he's under investigation by the FBI, a grand jury, etc., that stuff will come out eventually, he is not going to get away/

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US official tells Reuters that US struck a pro-Syria government militia after it moved against US-backed forces in #Syria.

from twitter

fermented bean curd never bomb nobody just sayin

US hitting Assad targets - both obviously an attempt to redirect attention and also a kinda huge development?

Someone coughed somewhere

BREAKING: Senate panel says it has not received response from Michael Flynn's lawyer, correcting earlier comments from chairman.

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 18, 2017

US hitting Assad targets - both obviously an attempt to redirect attention and also a kinda huge development?

Would be if the other month hadn't happened. Also feels like something specifically cooked up riiiiight before a notable overseas trip.

Sending Toby Keith over is obviously not enough to keep the Saudis sweet.

We're attacking Syria again, huh? Very reminiscent of Clinton's employment of bombs to distract from BJ talk.

― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Thursday, May 18, 2017 4:50 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bombing al qaeda before it was cool

US hitting Assad targets - both obviously an attempt to redirect attention and also a kinda huge development?

― Mordy, Thursday, May 18, 2017 12:09 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guy who's just found out he's under investigation at his job for fucking up in a major way: "Look, I'm working! I'm working really hard!" (frantically pounds keyboard, deleting account after account)

The cruise missile signifies the erect presidential phallus entering the Lewinsky mouth - for Trump? Envision a golden shower from above - perhaps some sort of pamphlets for his gold course in yellow jello ballons

posts w striking imagery

are you a new poster? cuz yr style seems familiar

US bombing of Assad for whatever reason - depending on their scale and frequency - could dramatically shift the conflict there, especially at a time when it seemed like Assad regime + Russia was heading into an endgame against the rebels?

Do we know the strategic purpose of these strikes?

to juke the stats

I thought he already passed on bombing autonomy to his military people? He's not green lighting shit.

yeah I kinda doubt Trump was directly involved or comprehended any details

yeah that's part of the problem though right ? doesn't someone have to remind glorified GI joes about political implications

if there's one thing we can be sure of it's that trump did not comprehend the details

cbs says:

BEIRUT -- The U.S. sent aircraft to strike Syrian regime vehicles on Thursday that violated a deconfliction zone set up around al-Tanf, an army base where special forces are training Syrian militias, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

The Syrian regime has violated the zone two times in the past few days, Martin reports.

In one incident, 27 regime vehicles drove within 18 miles of al-Tanf, which breached the 34 mile radius of the army convoy. U.S. aircraft attempted to buzz the regime, but when the convoy didn't turn around, they conducted a strike against some of the vehicles.

In the second incident, an unarmed Syrian SU-22 fighter-bomber entered the deconfliction zone and was intercepted by a pair of F-22 fighter aircraft.

It remains unclear as to why the Syrians violated the zone. Martin reports that Syrian forces are pushing eastward towards the Euphrates River Valley, which hints to the idea that the regime may have been doing reconnaissance on their flank.

so looks like direct air support for rebels

xpost If there are two things we can be sure of, the second is that Trump did not understand the constituent words used to communicate the details.

There's a good chance that Trump could not make it through a recitation of the alphabet without tripping up or accidentally naming a shape or a Playboy playmate instead of, say, the letter 'm'.

Wtf is a "pro-Syria government militia" anyway? A group of self-organized patriots having positive feelings toward the government, who ran out to join the fighting? Or a government-organized group of citizens given guns and orders from the regime?

i suspect the latter

Suspect Bannon leaked this, of course

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/334056-report-kushner-urged-trump-to-attack-after-special-counsel

President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, reportedly advocated an "attack" response style over a more measured reaction in a White House huddle on Wednesday, according to a new report.

hezbollah == pro-Syria gov militia, no?

http://fusion.kinja.com/americas-best-pundit-wonders-if-maybe-trump-isnt-great-1795306667

so it's a case of "let's call a spade a garden implement"?

I thought he already passed on bombing autonomy to his military people? He's not green lighting shit.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, May 18, 2017 5:21 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like the context of this was in Yemen, but maybe its more broad?