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.

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.

Hank will be 94 soon, but being a close pal of the Clintons makes you feel 2 weeks younger

lol @ will

god this is going to be a long 3 1/2 years. There's really no good options/outcomes for us. Congressional GOP is never going to turn on Trump, and even if they did and we somehow got to impeachment, we'd end up with President Pence and how is that any better? In many ways it would probably be worse. Important to keep all of these dramatic shenanigans in perspective. This investigations - the FBI, the Senate committee, etc. - are not going to produce any beneficial outcome beyond distracting and obstructing President BrainStem's administration. That's it, best-case scenario. Firing of Comey, while surprising and remarkably transparent, just contributes to that best-case scenario, because now this story is once again the focus, Congress is once again going to get bogged down it (yet another confirmation hearing! Dems using parliamentary rules to slow business, etc.) and it will be pushed to the forefront of the headlines, further tank Trump's poll numbers... at least until the next spectacularly stupid thing he does.

xps

those are good options and outcomes

whenever Congress and the media shift to cover dangerous legislation, Trump sabotages his administration and that legislation. It's great. He can't help himself.

it's like this former Democrat does it on purpose

ah come on he's not that smart

i hope someone tells him now would be a good time to knock some heads together on healthcare

those are good options and outcomes

well, they aren't great. they're better than the alternative.

the republican agenda (comfort the comfortable; fuck everybody else) is poison. taking down president silver spoon asshole would be a solid curative step