Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

video, I thought

cruz looks like he's asphyxiating in those photos, i treasure them

still can't imagine a greater loss of dignity moment than Cruz phonebanking for the man who called his wife ugly and accused his father of killing Kennedy. but his presidency is still young.

― frogbs, Thursday, May 11, 2017 1:26 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love too how that moment was captured in a photograph

― marcos, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:53 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And a prime example of This Facial Expression no less

it's like day 100 of 1500

Guess the 'showboat' line basically confirms comey got shitcanned because trump was jealous of comey's screen time

When Comey met Trump at WH 2 days after inauguration, Trump immediately goes "there he is...this guy's even more famous than me!" har har har everyone laughs.

twitter saying that there are warrants being executed at GOP affiliated firms in Virginia?

Something in Annapolis, at least. Linked a tweet upthread.

Also

NEW: Rosenstein called McGahn, unhappy how White House portrayed his role; Never expressly recommended firing Comeyhttps://t.co/oXCi8jrRWh

— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) May 11, 2017

This is the firm in Annapolis apparently being raided

http://strategiccampaigngroup.com/

Of course he'd be upset. His reputation is in tatters.

The 'about' page of said firm provides some info, I guess.

http://strategiccampaigngroup.com/about-scg

I'm sure YOU don't, but

"I don't see that as a conflict of interest," Sarah Huckabee Sanders says, of Trump asking Comey if he's under investigation.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 11, 2017

"His interests were a desire to not be investigated and an interest in hearing from the Director that he was not under investigation. Where's the conflict?"

@tinyrevolution
Despite Kissinger's best attempts during his meeting with Trump, he was unable to recover The Precious

Well, that's certainly one of the more off-putting euphemisms for an erection that I've ever come across.

Sanders claimed she talked to 'countless' FBI agents unhappy with Comey. Beyond the propriety of that, when that was followed up on

.@SHSanders45 won't quantify what a "large number" of FBI agents that she's spoken to entails. Won't give a ballpark.

— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) May 11, 2017

Strawmen don't stand still long enough to get an accurate headcount.

Whole LOT of fanfic right now on Twitter about a bunch of purported raids, the whole thing I'm sticking with at present is the Annapolis report simply because that came from a reporter who had confirmed with the FBI. We'll see.

Funny but there about the conflict of interest question when Sanders said something like "I agree with the fine legal minds who have turned their attention to this issue...over the last hour"

Ugh Im reading Louise Mensch's blog this is your fault Ned

I take no blame for your crazy actions.

https://i.imgur.com/VOX4tfw.jpg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/11/heres-how-the-russians-might-have-snuck-a-recording-device-into-the-oval-office/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.c227ca7dad06

lol 'which i knew anyway'

dinner dinner dinner dinner TRUMPMAAAAAN

He does seem to9 think he is still on the apprentice where firing people is actually a central design factor.

& the timing of the visiting Russians does just seem to speak of a level of sociopathic disconnect.

But that's probably obvious.

I can't think of a private sector workplace Trump wouldn't have been fired from about 15,000 times over based on his behavior. This 'Russians in the Oval Office' shit is like inviting some competitors to your office and letting them sit at your unlocked computer while you drop a deuce. Except, y'know, much more potentially impactful.

The situation, not the hypothetical deuce.

impactful deuce is what killed elvis iirc

With every statement, by himself or spokespeople, Trump just steps in it deeper and deeper. This is the biggest, momentum-driven tizzy since Sessions had to recuse himself (lotta good that did).

This presidency needs to end. For my sake -- its too stressful and distracting

Just wanna dump this in here while it's at front-of-mind for me: The whole Pence-would-be-much-worse narrative just makes me think, when was the last time you (meaning the person advancing that narrative at that moment) paid any attention to Mike Pence? The guy is as dumb as a brick. He's single-minded in the way a fucking tortoise is single-minded; any interview I've ever seen with him, he has stuck to literally repeating the same two or three simple declarative statements, with minor variation, until the whole thing is over. Confront him with facts that directly contradict what he's saying, and he'll just repeat what he said the first time. But that's not craftiness, it's a complete inability to improvise a thought. He has no actual knowledge or command of any issue. He's every bit as stupid as Trump, but he gives the appearance of possessing greater self-control because he's too dumb to have emotions, basically.

He's as stupid as purported constitutional scholar Mike Lee. Stupid people can only color within the lines, which is why the GOP secretly hopes with Trump gone their agenda will be more successful in Congress. It might be if the party hasn't been damaged. With Pence as president, though, the Republicans lose in 2020, just like they would have lost if Pence, Perry, Walker, the Plankton with a Hair Picce, or the other imbeciles and mouth breathers had been the nominee.

I want to believe that's true but Dubya got reelected.

Pence is def stupid, but he doesn't have the other fatal flaws that Trump does - the unpredictability, general ignorance of how govt works, wildly inconsistent positions, etc. Odds are he would be a more effective/malleable legislator that wouldn't throw up random roadblocks and crises in congress' way, allowing for the implementation of broader swathes of the GOP agenda. Dumb as he may be, he signed bills into law as governor, he is at least familiar with that process.

in the current situation, Trump's fatal flaws are the nation's saving grace, the only thing standing between us and total GOP armageddon

I want to believe that's true but Dubya got reelected.

― evol j, Thursday, May 11, 2017

Bush wasn't forced to resign with Cheney assuming the presidency, in the fictional scenario I drew.

I don't think Trump is gonna get impeached for this Russia stuff anymore, but it seems increasingly likely that he will for breaking the law in some flagrant or idiotic way while in office

How long until he just stops wearing clothes in public, d'you think?

And just, like, starts relieving himself in the face of reporters while on camera? I mean, everything just bounces off of him, why not just take the ol' leash off of the id altogether?

he already has, those baggy suits are painted onto his skin

xp

He's every bit as stupid as Trump

oh, come on

inviting some competitors to your office and letting them sit at your unlocked computer while you drop a deuce.

https://www.icp.org/icpmedia/w/e/e/g/weegee_7547_1993_464590_displaysize.jpg

Pence is def stupid, but he doesn't have the other fatal flaws that Trump does - the unpredictability, general ignorance of how govt works, wildly inconsistent positions, etc. Odds are he would be a more effective/malleable legislator that wouldn't throw up random roadblocks and crises in congress' way, allowing for the implementation of broader swathes of the GOP agenda. Dumb as he may be, he signed bills into law as governor, he is at least familiar with that process.

― Οὖτις, Thursday, May 11, 2017 2:44 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thing is, if trump actually resigned or was impeached, it would (or should) be an albatross around the neck of every republican that supported him

wouldn't put it past the dems to still fuck up an opportunity like that, but the deck would be stacked against the GOP in 2018

Trump will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever resign. He will need to be removed bodily if it ever comes down to it. Not because he wants the job but because he so clearly deserves the job, because he is so clearly the best for the job, because he is not done winning, for god's sake.

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/files/2015/06/signing-940x626.jpg

"That's it, Governor. Now dot the i....good..."

xpost And also because some part of him realizes that, at this point, the (ever-declining) prestige of the presidency is the only thing that will prevent a huge portion of the world from treating him like the human garbage he so clearly is.

pretty sure this all ends with Trump drawing the electoral map on the walls of his cell with his own feces

that grey suit behind pence is an atrocity, sorry old man whoever you are xp

I know T.'s not a smart or plan-making or calculating person, but every time he does some random macho stupid jingo shit, two things happen:

1. The media and professional classes gasp, scratch their heads, and clutch their collective pearls and say THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

2. A jillion redhatters cream in their pants and howl for more, because NOT NORMAL is exactly what they were voting for. Trumpism is Brawndo and it's what they crave.

He's no genius but we know he loves both of those results, so he keeps doing the behavior that delivers them. He's pretty easily understood to be a lab rat pushing the bar that releases the crack-pellet.

I kinda feel like the best he can hope for re: the end of his presidency is to die in office.