Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

@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

This may be alarmism (because, yeah, I'm alarmed) but I feel like Comey's firing is the turning point where we start seeing the more overt totalitarian shit everyone's been worried about. Erdogan and Duterte feel like pretty solid contemporary models for the shit we're gonna start seeing from President Bronzed Beanbag.

and the caps keep meltin'

still think totalitarianism is too much work for him

still think totalitarianism is too much work for him

^^^

he basically lucked into Sessions as a competent administrator, the rest of these bozos don't have the wherewithal or stamina to implement real fascism

taking down president silver spoon asshole would be a solid curative step

he would not be replaced by anyone better, he would possibly be replaced by someone worse (ie, more effective)

pence really could end up running the joint. hang in there, mama's boy!

Our @elizapalmer caught Russian Pres. Putin rink side and asked him about the firing of former. Dir. Comey. pic.twitter.com/3nytJYi0si

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 10, 2017

Now Feinstein says she wants a career DOJ to appoint special prosecutor, dumps on Rosenstein letter. Fast becoming the official Dem line.

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) May 10, 2017

I tend to agree with Οὖτις. Pence is simultaneously evil and apparently an adult human male. The evil dispensed by a reasonably competent evil adult is different from the evil dispensed by an evil petulant baby. But it's not necessarily preferable.

I also agree with Lord Alfred that "distracting and obstructing" is valuable. Keeping Rumpworld off message and distracting it from evil designs of its own choosing is probably beneficial. It may be the best we can hope for.

amazing scenes

xposts

putin has had major botox no?

or plumpers or freezers or fillers or whatever

DOJ now apparently denying that comey asked for more money?

fast becoming comey central

some podcaster described pence as looking like a man who's been replaced with his pod person doppelganger

I still think it's uniquely dangerous having a madman at the top of the government. The evil men around him are if anything emboldened bc they dont take direct responsibility for the things they advise trump to do.

putin has had major botox no?

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, May 10, 2017 4:24 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tom price also has a similar, remarkably smooth old man head

self-sabotage is honestly the best possible outcome, first because the opposition has no actual power to oppose the administration whatsoever, and second because effective totalitarianism involves demonizing one's enemies. having a president who absolutely cannot talk about anybody but himself makes it much more difficult to do that work. at the same time you want to make your enemies invisible, and any time one of his enemies mentions his name it's like summoning fuckin' kibo. so not so good on the totalitarianism there either.

wonder if trump is actually looking for a way to fall on his sword --- resign under the pretense that the constant opprobrium of the dems and the inefficiency of the swamp is hampering his plans, make it his idea, hands the keys to pence and gets back to golding

golfing

he does do a fair amount of golding, tbg

tbf

lol

tbg = to be golfing

yeah those flat DOJ denials will end well. always good to make clear-cut statements that can later be proven to be lies.

trump meanwhile is straight up retweeting the Drudge Report's Comey-bashing, in between this highly presidential performance, relentlessly focused on the central issues of the matter:

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 5h5 hours ago

James Comey will be replaced by someone who will do a far better job, bringing back the spirit and prestige of the FBI.

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 5h5 hours ago

Comey lost the confidence of almost everyone in Washington, Republican and Democrat alike. When things calm down, they will be thanking me!

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 4h4 hours ago

Watching Senator Richard Blumenthal speak of Comey is a joke. "Richie" devised one of the greatest military frauds in U.S. history. For....

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 4h4 hours ago

years, as a pol in Connecticut, Blumenthal would talk of his great bravery and conquests in Vietnam - except he was never there. When....

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 4h4 hours ago

caught, he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness...and now he is judge & jury. He should be the one who is investigated for his acts.

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 4h4 hours ago

The Roger Stone report on @CNN is false - Fake News. Have not spoken to Roger in a long time - had nothing to do with my decision.

Thinking further on #Resistance strategical 5D chess: look how often Rumpian chuckleheads use "we fired the guy who was the problem" as if it were synonymous with "ergo, now there is no problem."

Firing Lewandowski indicated that Lewandowski was the problem, and the campaign was therefore clean as a whistle. Firing Manafort, ditto. Firing Flynn meant that problem had taken care of itself, and now there is no collusion issue to speak of (because we fired the guy who had that ick attached to him). Firing Comey means that now there is no problem relating to the messy election. (So can we now please shut up about Russia?)

Thinking purely in 7D strategery terms: to regain traction in the next presidential election, who would Democrats rather be running against:

(A) A beclowned buffoon whose approval is at historically record lows, and who can reliably be counted on to tweet some ridiculous bullshit about "the chinks" or "the spearchuckers" during his 3 AM potty breaks? or

(B) A group of steely-eyed professionals who took over from said buffoon and have been able (however haltingly) to restore sanity and order to the capital?

Impeachment might allow the GOP to treat Trump like Trump treated Flynn. "Welp, now that that problem child's outta here, let's get to work on our shared American agenda. Cutting taxes, cutting government, cutting services to poor browns, and of course privatizing National Parks so that they can be run more like a business, and by 'business' we mean 'mining and drilling'."

So I type all of that but still have second thoughts, because while all that 8D chess is happening there are real people suffering and dying because see above: evil toddler at the wheel.

xp- Stolen Valor! Is Trump a secret Chapo fan?

The idea that Trump is under any circumstance going to voluntarily resign from a position where everyone in America has to pay attention to him all the time AND he has the power to almost literally destroy his enemies AND he's getting paid on the backs of the US taxpayer is cloud-cuckooland talk.

Pence reminds me of this alien-possessed senator from THE HIDDEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2JD5h82-fo

but yeah we'd be way worse off with pence amirite?