Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

our president on twitter this morning ~

“The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”

what an asshole

who doesn't love a good 'shutdown' every now and again

I'd wager more shit spews from that hemorrhoidal sphincter than from your average asshole.

his heart could use a good 'shutdown'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t08RN2yPJik

cool bro:

President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States needed “a good ‘shutdown’” this fall to force a partisan confrontation over federal spending, and suggested that he might move to reverse longstanding Senate rules that effectively require a supermajority to approve most major legislation.

The declarations, in a pair of posts on Twitter, appeared to defend a spending package that Congress is likely to clear this week, but that fails to accomplish many of Mr. Trump’s stated goals, including any money to build a wall on the southern border that was his most talked-about campaign promise.

His promotion of a shutdown isn't anything more than him trying to weasel out of the shockingly difficult work of being president. Why not just shut down for the next four years?

send all 50 states into breakout groups before coming back together again and share their new ideas

These are ideas that randomly pop into his head, he doesn't have the patience, focus, or know-how to make any of this happen. How long until the press realizes this and stops reporting on every vapid utterance as if it's something he's actually going to follow through on?

Imagining reince just convinces don that it's all shutdown, sends him in a global rally/golf tour for 3.5 yrs and we move on with pence.

when the ratings go down

xp

I still cannot fathom how he's going to make it through 3 3/4 more years of this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-0qe3vXgAMVRHc.jpg

i'd missed this one

Discussion just a bit upthread about that excerpt and his inability to recognize or process metaphor.

maybe just troll him with metaphors from now on

"Mr President, some say your Administration is headed over the cliff"

"there's truth to that. it's a tremendous cliff"

"You know, John, I've seen that cliff, it's a high one, extraordinary, really. Some people say it's treacherous. I don't. It's America, an American cliff, you know. And we're gonna make Mexico pay for it."

I've been saying this for a while. Interviewers should be setting him up for fall after fall. Ply him with metaphors, ask him questions that are complete nonsense (possibly including words and names invented from whole cloth), give him lots and lots of rope, teach him how to tie the knots and place it around his neck. Anything that doesn't seem like an overt attack, he will respond to as if he knows what he's talking about. This is such a glaring vulnerability to exploit that it's almost shocking to watch interviewers politely circumvent it over and over.

yay! a way around the filibuster! you go, "conservatives"! tax cuts pay for themselves; deficits don't matter : )

Senate Republicans could simply vote as a majority to extend the budget window beyond ten years (a decade simply being a convention). The budget window could be 20 or 30 years. Then they could pass a huge tax cut for affluent people that expires, but the expiration date would lie so far in the future that it might as well be permanent.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/heres-the-republican-trick-to-make-their-tax-cuts-permanent.html

"Mr. President, today we've seen video of citizens in Hurwafistan burning you in effigy over your position on salination rights in the Pan-African Arctic Zone. How do you respond to these demonstrations, which some are calling mollicinent?"

I've been saying this for a while. Interviewers should be setting him up for fall after fall. Ply him with metaphors, ask him questions that are complete nonsense (possibly including words and names invented from whole cloth), give him lots and lots of rope, teach him how to tie the knots and place it around his neck. Anything that doesn't seem like an overt attack, he will respond to as if he knows what he's talking about. This is such a glaring vulnerability to exploit that it's almost shocking to watch interviewers politely circumvent it over and over.

^^^ this x 100, I'm surprised no one really figured it out during the campaign. I mean Republicans are obviously on board with his awful ideas but they always seem to try to distance themselves when he says something truly idiotic.

idk it seems like Dickerson figured it out

the dude was unflappable

Life continues to imitate The Simpsons.

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i'm truly exasperated by how fucked up the motherfucker is.

feel like we've reached a point where you could say that sentence in a crowd in any major city and everyone would know what you're talking about

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-1PMktWsAQPDMm.jpg

O_O

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-statements-on-gdp-growth-in-emerging-and-developed-economies-2017-5

Morning Joe straight up saying Trump has completely lost his mind, "my mother's had dementia for 10 years, that sounds like something she would say"

i wonder if he was watching

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-1N0JrXsAAZDyP.jpg

this is Ivanka fucking trump they are talking about there

WTF !!!!!!!!!!!

his inner landscape is deeply fucked up, largely by his dad (who was a worse monster even than him, and a monster TO him, abt success and failure and winners and losers); before long he's actually going to start seeing figures no one else can see "out there", gazing accusingly in at him through the oval office windows

(the interview makes me think this is already happening tbh)

Morning Joe straight up saying Trump has completely lost his mind, "my mother's had dementia for 10 years, that sounds like something she would say"

― frogbs,

I loathe Scarborough but he looked as defeated as probably Barry Goldwater did when facing Nixon in '74. You knew Joe was sad because he wasn't wearing his glasses!

why are you watching Morning Joe

At this point if he doesn't he gets a headache

bcz he reads the Natl Review, too.

which quote was MJ talking about? GDP? corners in the OO?

There have been rumors flying for months that Ivanka and Jared need to be around Trump to keep a protective eye on him. I wonder, given that their religion keeps them largely out of the picture over the weekend, if he's not actually being more or less sent to Mar-a-lago each weekend for safe keeping, in a safe, familiar place.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/1f2f78d1fd105dbddcb2b06fc279f903/tumblr_n21xe2GUJB1somw7ho5_250.gif

These guys sound genuinely frightened at this point.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) appeared to take a veiled shot at President Trump on Tuesday after the president backed forcing a government shutdown later in the fall.

"Our voters, the people who elected Republican majorities in both Houses and elected this president, did not vote for us in order to shut down the government. They voted for us to govern, as hard as it is," Cornyn said from the Senate floor.

Cornyn, the No. 2 Senate Republican, didn't specifically address Trump's tweet from Tuesday morning, where the president wrote that "our country needs a good 'shutdown' in September."

why are you watching Morning Joe

― bought 2 raris, went to chili's (crüt), Tuesday, May 2, 2017

cuz I don't watch porn at 6 a.m. while drinking my smoothie.

a cornucopia of potential replies...

this seems like wishful thinking but idk

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-zeSLzXoAEGka2.jpg

xpost Yeah, it's telling how mum the GOP has been post budget, even as Dem stalwarts are boasting of their wins, as if they know they're fucked and that the best way forward at all is just to ignore Trump. If Trump threatened a shutdown in a few more months I can totally see the GOP once again telling him to GTFO.

is DNC finally pumping money into this shit or are they too busy jacking each other off

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/329454-perez-heads-to-georgia-to-boost-ossoff-ahead-of-runoff

The DNC has been all over Georgia, probably at the expense of some other races

the GOP hasn't even begun to cheat in georgia

our society has become one giant morality play. the trump family is exactly why we need a steep progressive taxation system. fuck you republicans and your voodoo economics doodoo