Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Just one dude?

I wonder if he knows he won't necessarily be running against Hillary again

xpost It was a pumpkin iirc

If the dude dropped dead today, his tenure as president would still merit, like, an expansive three-volume biography. History is going to have a bitch of a time following all of these threads, because it's a mind-bending tangle to follow in real time.

i do also hate a world where david brooks ends up being my new hero:

"We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar."

xpost I'm not sure which biographer will want to tackle Trump. Reagan drove Edmund Morris into the realm of fiction

if only there was some sort of, say, official investigation which could help untangle this knotted mess xxp

"We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar."

six seems generous

also that's close enough to president brainstem that i'll be consulting my lawyers

reminds me of this all-time essay from sam biddle about teenagers:
http://gawker.com/what-if-teens-arent-cool-1699997713

Would you interview a bee? Should tech investors study a pile of wobbling sea foam?

i do also hate a world where david brooks ends up being my new hero
― scott seward, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 1:45 PM

been living in that world for a while now (and i still hate it)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/opinion/the-power-of-altruism.html

Sen. Marco Rubio tells me Administration officials reached out to him last night. Says he still has questions he wants answered today.

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) May 16, 2017

"Yeah, I'm good with pizza. No anchovies though."

sooooo, if you can impeach a president for having some sad version of sex in the white house...

I expect we'll start seeing some strokes and cardiac events among the more senior GOP Congresspeople in the weeks and months to come.

That's his SECRET PLAN to DRAIN THE SWAMP. Act so randomly that it kills off a lot of the corrupt old establishment.

He's playing 7D chess and you librul idiots are still learning checkers.

also, i kinda hate to say it, but i'm getting a little tired of all the winning....

sooooo, if you can impeach a president for having some sad version of sex in the white house...

lol the impeachment was technically for lying--if Trump had the same scandal he'd be tweeting about getting lousy head

goddamnit if someone in GOP leadership doesn't actually die (hopefully of natural cause of course) over all this i'm going to be v disappointed

i loved when the CNN guy said the best case scenario for what happened was incompetence. don lemon let out a deep sigh and said "...we are in a very sad place tonight..."

to be fair, the crowds for trump's public hanging would be huge. the hugest.

i'm imagining the gallows set up behind tables full of trump steaks and trump water and 'TRUMP' in huge illuminated letters above it

Anyone who in any way excuses the actions of the POTUS on the basis of incompetence should be tied to a log and pushed out to sea.

'Look, the president is human, he's going to make mistakes, he isn't going to just automatically know the proper way to do everything, there's no precedent of anyone having previously been in his position, you can't expect him to have prepared in any way, it's not as if he's surrounded by any number of people who could give him advice on how to navigate a given situation, and who among us hasn't pooped themselves a couple of times a day every day?'

I just got a vivid image of a WH staffer changing Trump's diaper on the Oval Office desk, and I thought I'd share that image with all of you.

it's not as if he's surrounded by any number of people who could give him advice on how to navigate a given situation

i mean tbf this part is true - instead he's surrounded by morons, incompetents, and incompetent morons

o god u monster xp

I'll see you and raise you an image of Trump peeing in Bannon's face then giggling while the diaper's off.

you know mcmaster is at home now doing extra bench presses yelling FUCK FUCK FUCK. poor soldier dude.

when things turn, they turn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6pvMFfQF50

poor hr mcmaster, who could have foreseen working for trump would turn him into a laughing stock

hey, he just wanted to kill stuff! he didn't sign up for this mess.

i mean he kinda did tho

like, literally

'Cool, got a job where I'm going to be in direct contact with a herpes-infected penis everyday, sure hope I don't contract herpes.'

Gonna be fun!

WH schedule update: McMaster briefing at 11:30 & Spicer is a now a gaggle OFF-CAMERA

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) May 16, 2017

Cannot parse that fuc

a gaggle OFF-CAMERA

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6A0bhAsAyGY/maxresdefault.jpg

that's a gaggle ON-CAMERA surely

if a gaggle honks in the forest and

Getting a bit tired of Old Lunch's endless paraphilic fantasies over here

sean spicer making goose sounds at the top of his lungs would be a significant improvement in white house communications

hot lunch more like amirite

Erickson in more detail about how he knows one of the sources:

http://theresurgent.com/i-know-one-of-the-sources/

What sets this story apart for me, at least, is that I know one of the sources. And the source is solidly supportive of President Trump, or at least has been and was during Campaign 2016. But the President will not take any internal criticism, no matter how politely it is given. He does not want advice, cannot be corrected, and is too insecure to see any constructive feedback as anything other than an attack.

So some of the sources are left with no other option but to go to the media, leak the story, and hope that the intense blowback gives the President a swift kick in the butt. Perhaps then he will recognize he screwed up. The President cares vastly more about what the press says than what his advisers say. That is a real problem and one his advisers are having to recognize and use, even if it causes messy stories to get outside the White House perimeter.

a gaggle OFF-CAMERA

So many metaphors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJC6Vv0-QlY

some of the sources are left with no other option but to go to the media, leak the story, and hope that the intense blowback gives the President a swift kick in the butt. Perhaps then he will recognize he screwed up. The President cares vastly more about what the press says than what his advisers say

Is this like that thing where married people are annoyed with each other and use their kids to talk to each other?

"You might want to tell YOUR FATHER that we DON'T APPRECIATE having to sift through dirty underpants to find the clean ones."

"Well, you can tell your mother that if SOMEONE were to occasionally sort the laundry correctly, then we might not be having this problem."

You'd think if your boss is so dangerously incompetent he leaks classified intel to our rivals you'd do more than rat him out to the press in hopes of correcting his behavior. Like, wouldn't you want him ... gone?

depends on whether youd have to go with him, what youre getting away with under him and whether to give two shits about the company

leaking classified information to russia

if the president says it, it is unclassified

"our rivals"? man, the CNN worldview gettin funnier by the minute

I know one of the sources. And the source is solidly supportive of President Trump, or at least has been and was during Campaign 2016.

ah, so a fucking idiot then?

if the president does it, it is moronic

somewhere, George W. Bush is feeling like a towering intellectual and statesman right now

don't make me post that photo of Bush in the tub