Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

How do you guys cope with Trump fans in your inner circles? Like family, colleagues or god forbid friends? For some reason this Comey thing feels like a red line even they should acknowledge but somehow they don't. It's bizarro world.

i don't have much contact with anyone who would offer a full-throated defense of trump. my parents avoid the topic. my mom's gotten a profanity-laced diatribe or two.

I kinda feel like Mitch McConnell would be hilarious if he were happening to somebody else, and I know that makes me a bad person

“This is what we have now, Mr. President, our Democratic colleagues complaining about the removal of an FBI director whom they themselves repeatedly and sharply criticized,” he said. “That removal being done by a man, Rod Rosenstein, who they repeatedly and effusively praised.”

xp I sort of count the not overt crowd at this point as well. I mean, how do you not get irked by all of this? Probably a dead topic by now but it feels urgent all over again every time shit gets dumber or more rancid. Which is every three days it seems.

repeating word for word what Trump's henchmen have told the press, what a hack

How do you guys cope with Trump fans in your inner circles? Like family, colleagues or god forbid friends? For some reason this Comey thing feels like a red line even they should acknowledge but somehow they don't. It's bizarro world.

I don't know how I would become acquainted with a Trump voter. My extended family is mostly out of sight, out of mind.

i've also made some snide remarks to my parents (who have no savings and subsist completely on SS & mom's laughably meager pension) and recently divorced & unemployed sister about how i hope nobody expects a handout when the social safety net is completely dismantled.

they seem confused, as if that's not what the GOP actually intends to do.

This whole "democrats were just criticizing him" smug shit is so fucking stupid.

It's like saying "a few days ago you went on and on about how your car is almost out of gas but now today you're saying it has a full tank?? Make up your mind!"

That McConnell quote is a perfect example of the sort of toxic shit even the not overt Trumpists subscribe to. It's the worst kind of argument but people are somehow not embarrassed to use it all the time.

How do you guys cope with Trump fans in your inner circles? Like family, colleagues or god forbid friends? For some reason this Comey thing feels like a red line even they should acknowledge but somehow they don't. It's bizarro world.

my family thinks the REAL question is why hillary hasn't been prosecuted : (

it's a very effective argument, if you have the mid of a child

xposst

*mind

You've been endlessly complaining about the problems you're having with your house, and now you're complaining that I've burnt it down? Make up your mind, sheesh!

Because Trump's solution to the Gordian knot is to burn down the entire town within which the Gordian knot is contained.

it's a very effective argument, if you have the mid of a child

this is how i feel about the "I'm going to stop talking to grandpa over how often this guy tweets" virtue signalling

and shit, i guess approx half of america's public (well, the cable news-watching portion anyway) "experienced" this level of panic for 8 years straight, courtesy of Fox. so even the ones who aren't 100% on board for Trump (my fam), are just sorta like: "well yeah this is how America now. everyone is kind of terrible lol"

medicare for all

Charles Cooke has an aha moment.

I had an interesting conversation last night with a fellow critic of President Trump’s. He was irritated that I had insisted that those watching the Comey situation remain “skeptical but not hysterical.” Now, he said, is “the time to be hysterical.”

I’ve been trying to understand why he was so vexed, and I think I’ve worked it out: He has assumed — and built into his thinking — that there is a huge Russia scandal in the background of all this. And I haven’t. I certainly think it’s possible that this goes deeper, and I remain as mistrustful toward this administration as I ever was. But I’m not going to credit theories about Watergate-level conspiracies without evidence, and my friend is. That’s the line that divides us.

now is the time for mcmaster to be hysterical at least

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/09/the-knives-are-out-for-hr-mcmaster-trump-bannon-nsc/

xxxxpost Please don't use that stupid 'virtue signaling' phrase. Please. It's the new 'SJW as pejorative' and it's a really douchy look.

And 'fuck grandpa' is a strawman, as many are generally able to overlook mortifying flaws in people who've been in our lives forever. It's more 'oh hey that guy I thought was a friend, turns out he's a pretty glaring white supremacist who's been couching his ideology, fuck that guy'.

this is how i feel about the "I'm going to stop talking to grandpa over how often this guy tweets" virtue signalling

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau)

those of us who have stopped talking to some of our relatives over this, if we talk about it in political circles it's not to show how morally superior we are. it's because despite everything we love our families and this shit is fucking hard, and since a lot of us are going through the same problems it helps if we _support_ each other.

divide and conquer is ALEC's #1 tactic

It's true that the Fox News audience has been experiencing this sort of drama forever but the distinction between manufactured hysteria and actual red flags should be maintained. The Trump administration is like a cartoon tutorial to conflicts of interest and the entire political system seems to go along with it.

ugh more revelations:

#BREAKING : @realDonaldTrump divorce filing note to first wife revealed! pic.twitter.com/vT7ws1sm1B

— Haver (@HaverOfOpinions) May 9, 2017

hahahaaha

"I kinda feel like Mitch McConnell would be hilarious if he were happening to somebody else, and I know that makes me a bad person"

rest assured he is hilarious

the distinction between manufactured hysteria and actual red flags should be maintained.

well sure. but a lot these folks honestly believe(d) that literally every single day of the Obama admin was a legitimate Constitutional Crisis. i think that for a frighteningly large percentage of them it was very "real" and not just a naughty dopamine rush courtesy of bleach blonde trolls and aging white race hustlers.

I was about to say ^^^ Reading NRO during Obama's first term was like someone running to a burning house with a glass of water

Dammit i thought melania had filed for divorce

Xps

"How do you guys cope with Trump fans in your inner circles?"

I stopped speaking to them

Henry Kissinger - not Russia's Sergei Lavrov - was who greeted us in the Oval Office. pic.twitter.com/bP3m3U0y1r

— margaret brennan (@margbrennan) May 10, 2017

Pool brought into the Oval. It's Trump and ... Kissinger. pic.twitter.com/1F1CPO4kQw

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 10, 2017

comey is such a pathetic loser that trump can fire him through the nightly news and isn't concerned at all that comey will stand up for himself / try to attack/damage the administration / be any kind of threat whatsoever. comey is a cuck, and tho it's probably not a good sign for our country that trump has culled him i'm so fucking happy that piece of shit is suffering. maybe he'll find his backbone???

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....what?

re family/friends who still support trump i just say "lol you're a fucking moron but i guess i still love u for your looks" and that normally works

luckily my dad and his partner loath trump nb she also loathes hilary but i can live with it

Kissinger will be FBI director

@tomtomorrow
If you ever wondered what it would have been like if Nixon were much dumber and you had access to his internal monologue, now you know.

To my mom, yesterday: 'the difference between me and you is that I don't spend my days with Murdoch's minions - try it some time!'

the tiniest FBI director

Kissinger at this point is a belly gorged with the blood of dead babies, with a head sitting atop.

"this guy fucks"

NYT:

Days Before He Was Fired, Comey Asked for Money for Russia Investigation
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and MATT APUZZO MAY 10, 2017

WASHINGTON — Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, according to three officials with knowledge of his request.

Mr. Comey asked for the resources during a meeting last week with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who wrote the Justice Department’s memo that was used to justify the firing of the F.B.I. director this week.

Mr. Comey then briefed members of Congress on the meeting in recent days.

If ever there were a time for God to prove his existence with a dual lightning bolt.

jesus this is all a little on the nose

only the good die young

well Trump is the Rupert Pupkin of rich megalomaniacs xp

Xp isnt kissinger like 95?

lol I read Rupert Pupkin but my brain processed it as Artie Fufkin. I was trying to figure out the Spinal Tap reference.