Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Trumpmerica is a "post-humor" society

it's a "pvt hudson just watched the rescue ship crash" society

CLEVELAND, Ohio - President Donald Trump's team is already working on his re-election campaign by launching a monthly subscription box service, similar to a Birchbox, according to multiple reports.

CNN reporter Betsy Klein tweeted out an email from the campaign Monday afternoon to announce the "Big League Box."

Dave Levinthal with the Center for Public Integrity pointed out that the boxes, which will go out starting in June, will cost $69 per month. (EDITOR'S NOTE: NICE)

The Trump campaign is taking the @birchbox subscription approach, introducing the "big league box" pic.twitter.com/41zUCxAlYA

— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) May 29, 2017

VNYL = send me $25 per month, and I send you a random artifact from one of my businesses.

waiting for this particular stupid, yet harmless, thing to run its course > stupid gleeful pile-on > initial catalyst > annoyed backlash to gleeful pile-on > discussion of why it's really deep down a serious issue

the worst topical joke is never worse than the post telling me all the topical jokes aren't funny.

i bet they'll merchandise last night's tweet somehow. i'm sure all the 4channers/ and r/t_d folk are running with it and embracing anyway

there'll be a racist/MRA dog mascot they'll name Covfefe any day now

Why is Betsy Klein specifically plugging birchbox when there are dozens, if not hundreds, of monthly 'box of crap shipped to you monthly' subscription services out there (as chronicled in this thread?

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-sleeping-only-four-hours-a-day-not-affecting-his-ability-to-cljjryff

HAHAHAAHA OH MAN HUHUHUH

If we impeached Trump and Borowitz together, our great nation would again be united.

listen everyone making the same joke simultaneously on twitter was a pre-trump problem

first president ever to govern on cocaine?

I have a faculty colleague who used to post Borowitz joeks on Facebook until I shut him down.

have to admit i always feel a little shame making fun of borowitz bc so many people i love share his links. my dad sends them to me all the time :(

70 yr old teetotaling fat guys don't do coke

or if they do, they don't do it for v long, because they would drop dead

xp

"Bill Clinton managed to run the country on a nightly allotment of five or six hours. Slick Willy had a penchant for staying up until the wee hours and it was not uncommon for him to rouse a staffer with whom he could burn the midnight oil.

Unsurprisingly, another well-known insomniac, was Abraham Lincoln (the Civil War will do that). And President Obama counts himself among the night owls, relying on a 7a.m. wake up call to get his day started."

https://vanwinkles.com/the-sleep-habits-of-us-presidents

I feel like Trump threatening to pull out of the Paris accord is more or less just a cry for attention. He doesn't give a fuck one way or the other about the issue, much less understand it. But he does love suddenly having CEOs calling him up desperate to talk to him, everybody pleading w him, people fighting for his attention/jockeying for position to "influence" him. He lives for this.

you're probably right

Honestly this might be his last 'good' stretch of days in office. If all is as assumed with Comey's testimony per today's report, then after that...

Why is Betsy Klein specifically plugging birchbox when there are dozens, if not hundreds, of monthly 'box of crap shipped to you monthly' subscription services out there (as chronicled in this thread?

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, May 31, 2017 2:29 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

birchbox is the biggest one. it's targeted at women so you wouldn't know it though.

I feel like Trump threatening to pull out of the Paris accord is more or less just a cry for attention. He doesn't give a fuck one way or the other about the issue, much less understand it. But he does love suddenly having CEOs calling him up desperate to talk to him, everybody pleading w him, people fighting for his attention/jockeying for position to "influence" him. He lives for this.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 2:41 PM (five minutes ago)

otm. Same with the meeting w/those union dudes a few months ago.

which is why...I kinda thought he wouldn't pull out? you would think that pulling out of a climate pact is the sort of massively unpopular, no-upside move that his lizard brain would know to avoid. and I don't see it benefitting his own businesses any.

Trump is motivated by equal parts flattery and pissing off people he doesn't respect (which, ultimately, is everyone).

The Paris pullout is a Bannon thing; he craves libtears.

And he sees an opening to defeat Kamp Kushner, which has a cloud over its head and which advised against this move.

the only people who don't like it are ignorant troglodytes and coal companies and yeah, they are a minority. even ExxonMobil's shareholders want it.

xp

yeah the only constituency for withdrawing from paris are his idiot base, who will go along with whatever he tells them..

pulling out of the climate pact is NOT massively unpopular with his base

pulling out of the climate pact is NOT massively unpopular with his base

...which craves tasty, life-sustaining libtears.

Trump- Putin - Oil - money - disregard for climate change - etc

https://www.denverlibrary.org/sites/dplorg/files/billy-joel-didnt-start-the-fire.jpg

Asked about the “covfefe” tweet, Sean Spicer says: “The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."

— Matt Viser (@mviser) May 31, 2017

there's a certain irony that the former CEO of exxon mobil is advocating against pulling out

Of the "mincing no words" school of thought: @JunckerEU on @POTUS/Paris. "Not everything in int'l agreements is fake news." --> pic.twitter.com/1IC73eXkWx

— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) May 31, 2017

"there's a certain irony that the former CEO of exxon mobil is advocating against pulling out" they are thinking the deal sucks anyway so it looks great for them to pretend to want it

Asked about the “covfefe” tweet, Sean Spicer says: “The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."

Please, share with the class, you choad.

!!!! @PressSec on Russia/Comey: "Going forward all questions on this matter will be referred to outside counsel."

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) May 31, 2017

I can imagine some part of Spicer is very happy to be saying "Gotta talk to the lawyers." And that the lawyers will now be awake 24-7.

sweet, sweet, unlimited billable hours

Can't wait for Trump to try and stiff those guys on that bill too.

do taxpayers pay presidential legal fees?

They're going to use taxpayer money to pay for them, I don't see why he'd even try to stiff them.

xp: lol

I retain faith he'll try and find a way.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/20/trump-administration-lawyers-fees-238631

I feel like any self-aware person getting involved with Trump in any fashion would be well-advised to put an attorney on retainer pretty much immediately.

You are quite right, Trockasturm Hoar The Ramming Battle Ceraton !

xpost We have to have a new thread tomorrow, it'll be June.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 2:14 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is no way out of here. It'll be June soon.

It won't be June if we re-name the month Trumpo in honor of oru emperoro, such as with augustus and july ceaser

I refuse to celebrate my mother's birthday in Trumpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dgSoYFz1U0