Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

@pareene
the alt-right guys are trying to teach the president history like a bad indie film protagonist explaining bands to the romantic interest

confused as to whether that's supposed to imply that the alt-right guys know anything about history or not

@nut_bunnies

*puts headphones on trump*

here. it’s a 7th grade history book on tape. it’ll change your life

Even if Der Trumpissar disappoints us, it's better than what HRC would be doing.

@mawilner
"Yes, I did support it," @HillaryClinton says of Trump's #Syria strike. "But I'm not convinced that it really made much of a difference."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

people will abandon trump when somebody manages to come up with a better cult of personality

so, not Curt Schilling

no Shakey, pareene is not confident in the alt-right history book

been a long time, hard to remember that minnesota-born f. scott fitzgerald (princeton) had a lot of complaints about the establishment that grandson of harvard president missouri-born t. stearns eliot (harvard) didn't. what do stupid people talk about?

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— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 2, 2017

this is getting closer and closer to a 6-year-old's birthday party

we're just going to give sean some space and let him be alone for a while, and pretty soon he's going to hear everyone outside having fun and he'll find his way back out

my 6-year-old niece is actually really good at defusing these kinds of situations, maybe we can send her in to talk to sean, after 10-15 minutes

what were they asking sean about that caused him to leave? NK? obamacare repeal? the civil war? the holocaust?

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I've been saying this for a while. Interviewers should be setting him up for fall after fall.

Brandon Friedmant
@BFriedmanDC

I'm telling you guys, next person to interview Trump needs to ask him if slavery was all bad or if there were positive aspects. He'll bite.

has anyone just straight up asked him about how he reconciles his adoration of andrew jackson with jackson's ownership of a couple hundred slaves?

his daughter has taken over the oval office. he's king learing

i know it seems silly, but it's possible that trump doesn't even know that jackson owned slaves, and about the Indian Removal Act. he didn't really understand how NATO worked. he didn't get the whole north korea thing. so it seems very possible that bannon just whispered "andrew jackson is a great role model" in his ear a few times and trump never bothered learning about the details.

i can't believe i'm serious about that but i am. totally wrong place to put this but who cares: i am depressed, not from this but from everything, inside and out, the last several months, so i am going to take a break from the internet for a while because it's no longer helping me

I doubt Trump gave two seconds' thought to Jackson until Obama threatened to take Jackson off the $20 bill in favor of Harriet Tubman last year. xp

funny, like a clown?

It is hard to believe this is happening, but it’s real: The US Department of Justice is literally prosecuting a woman for laughing at now–Attorney General Jeff Sessions during his Senate confirmation hearing earlier this year.

According to Ryan Reilly at HuffPost, Code Pink activist Desiree Fairooz was arrested in January after she laughed at a claim from Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) that Sessions’s history of “treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented.”....

As Reilly reported, prosecutors argue that “the laugh amounted to willful ‘disorderly and disruptive conduct’ intended to ‘impede, disrupt, and disturb the orderly conduct’ of congressional proceedings.” In court, they have tried to emphasize that the laugh was extraordinarily disruptive, with a US Capitol Police officer claiming that Fairooz laughed “very loudly” and people in the hearings turned around when they heard it.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/2/15518574/desiree-fairooz-justice-department

andrew jackson means dick all to donald trump as soren kierkegaard does. donald trump inherited shittons of property. fuck everyone else. he's got this. mitch mcconnell stole a supreme court seat. inherited wealth rules the united states of america. fuck jesus and empathy : (

<3 u Karl

is it possible that all this time Trump has been conflating Andrew Jackson with Andrew Johnson?

has anybody told Trump Jackson was a Democrat

Andrew Johnson made the same mistake.

Xpost

i love that the subtext of the civil war/andrew jackson stuff is that ol Abe Lincoln didn't do a good job dealing with the civil war

lol

"but he was a Republican!"

Dishonest Abe coulda just negotiated his way out of it if he hadn't been such a low energy cuck

you know what? equality is for suckers. i'm an american

If everybody in Ford's Theatre was armed...

it's possible that trump doesn't even know that jackson owned slaves, and about the Indian Removal Act

Maybe some of the Cherokees were good people. But a lot of them were bad hombres. Not many people know that.

so it seems very possible that bannon just whispered "andrew jackson is a great role model" in his ear a few times and trump never bothered learning about the details.

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 2:11 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would say with maybe 80-90% certainty, unless he was directly referred to as such, that it took a little time after Bannon (or whoever) started gushing about Andrew Jackson for Trump to discover that Jackson was a former president. This is a profoundly stupid man who spoke about Frederick Douglass in the present tense, because he probably genuinely didn't know who he was.

Thinkpiece

Our national armchair faces a television, where Trump has already appeared for years, and where he now appears almost constantly. But the armchair metaphor, like the furniture itself, is rather quaint: Trump’s personality, in all its outsized vulgarity, looms over and inside the lives of many Americans in a way that no other President really has before. There is no comfortable distance from which to psychoanalyze Trump, because the man is always onscreen, right in front of us. He is at the doctor’s office and the departure gate, at the sports bar and the auto repair shop. He is on huge screens in Times Square and on the little screens we carry in our pockets. You may yet have been spared seeing Trump on the TV in some fancy restroom, but if you’re among the one in two Americans who check their phones while on the toilet, odds are you’ve had an encounter with him there, too. Trump intrudes into spaces virtual and physical, public, and deeply private. Forget psychoanalysis-as-plague: it’s Trump that’s truly viral.

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i just got a new windoze computer (never had one before) and i was a little dismayed that the newsy tiles on the start menu of course became a constant stream of trump stories before i had even tried to configure them

so there was a phone call w/ Putin today: Syria, terrorism, N Korea

and here we sit

a silver spoon asshole who'd rather golf than read leads a nation of odysseus anti-virtuosic post-punk badasses. laffer curve

a silver spoon asshole who'd rather golf than read leads a nation of odysseus anti-virtuosic post-punk badasses. laffer curve

― reggie (qualmsley)

when did ian svenonius quit being the sassiest boy in america

mark twain is the number one blues singer in the country. joyce kilmer. blues explosion!

Yeah I can't remember the last time I sat in an armchair that was facing a television. 2002? 2006?

My children (6 and 10) have almost never sat in a chair and faced a television. They just plop down with a tablet wherever they happen to be. Not sure that bears on anything said upthread or anything Blanchard writes. I guess I agree that the metaphor is quaint.

feel real sorry rich fucks can't muster the votes to kill vulnerable americans :(

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/republicans-obamacare-repeal-votes-237871

There's something very No Exit about voting 50 times or whatever to repeal the ACA, then getting both the White House and both houses of congress, and then continuing to attempt to repeal the ACA, over and over, again and again, for eternity.

Jean Paul Ryan

Hell is Other Congresspeople

My reading of this thread today has basically been just chortling darkly and repeating "OOOOOOOOH, my God" over and over again

so it looks like Trump is finally going to sign his executive order legalizing anti-LGBT discrimination in the service of "religious freedom":

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/donald-trump-religious-liberty-executive-order-237888

He's religious free to kiss my ass.

Oh, wait, maybe he's not anymore?

Wonder how long that would last in court, though.