Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Gender entered into it - that was clear enough from the success of a certain bikini meme that I hesitate to even bring up, and the apparently enduring notion that she was in "some porno's" - but primarily the issue was that she was staggeringly uninformed and incurious. The Couric interview still blows my mind, even if compared to Trump on any given day she comes off like Adlai Stevenson.

hmmm who's dumber Trump or Palin...

Trump could prolly find Russia on a map

I think most politicians are extremely dumb but they are better at hiding it than Trumpster and palinator

He can't see it from his house.. but it can see him

xpost

Trump could prolly find Russia in his office

how many electoral votes did they get him

I'd argue that Palin and Trump are probably equally stupid (not necessarily congenitally impaired on a cognitive level but rather pathologically uninterested in anything beyond the end of their respective noses and completely lacking any internal life that's more complex than, like, some shitty action-adventure cartoon where they're the undisputed hero of a universe that exists in opposition to them). Trump is just slightly better at bloviating his way through situations that are beyond his ability to grasp.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/3907896/thumbs/o-SARAH-PALIN-DONALD-TRUMP-DUMB-AND-DUMBER-MOVIE-570.jpg?7

uh

@tinyrevolution
Prediction: The Saudi royals will give Trump a 2016 electoral map made of rubies and sapphires.

@PeterBeinart
I disagree with Joe Lieberman's politics but he's known as a decent man. Surely someone he trusts will tell him not to commit moral suicide

@tinyrevolution
"A decent man" in DC means you helped start a war that's killed a million people + you remember staffers' birthdays

i tried to photoshop james comey to make him taller but it's impossible to tell unless you see the other pics for reference pic.twitter.com/FfwXiSADb9

— drewtoothpaste (@drewtoothpaste) May 19, 2017

HE IS A SKYSCRAPER

http://media.vanityfair.com/photos/58ac973c9284e86a824ca887/master/w_900,c_limit/james-comey-letter-02.jpg

https://www.nationaljournal.com/media/media/2016/07/06/0706-cabinetheight.png

This thread went off the rails in Irrelevantville and I blame the new kid.

to be fair, I requested the infographics.

Look at his body language! "I shall eat your pancreas!!"

lol at adding heel height for the ladies

From the AP (v presidential):

The Trump administration plans to announce $110 billion in advanced military equipment sales and training to Saudi Arabia this weekend as President Donald Trump visits the country, officials said Friday.

U.S. officials familiar with the package said it would include Abrams tanks, combat ships, missile defense systems, radar, and communications and cyber security technology. The announcement is expected Saturday in Riyadh, the first leg of Trump’s maiden overseas trip as president. The officials weren’t authorized to speak publicly and demanded anonymity.

Much of the package builds on commitments made before Trump took office, although some elements are new. Some of the weapons are designed to help the Saudis in their current conflict in neighboring Yemen where they are leading a coalition battling Iran-backed rebels, the officials said.

Poor Arne lookin all casual - they had no suit photo?

If there's any expository dialogue along the lines of "____________! What have you been up to the past few years?" I will be so pissed.

lol wrong thread

let's use that money to fund the Wall of Racism

Back to trump v palin: i think palin legit has a type of thought disorder. From psychcentral:

"A disturbance in one’s ability to generate a logical sequence of ideas, as indicated by disordered speech and/or writing.

There are different types of thought disorders. A flight of ideas refers to language that may be difficult to understand when it switches quickly from one unrelated idea to other. Circumstantiality refers to language that may be difficult to understand when it is long-winded and convoluted in reaching its goal. Word salad refers to words that are inappropriately strung together resulting in gibberish.

A thought disorder may be a symptom of many different mental disorders, but is most commonly associated with schizophrenia or some related psychotic disorder. A person with a thought disorder is usually someone who is suffering from something that is need of professional mental health help sooner rather than later.

oh good let's pathologize every prominent republican now, that'll work out great

I find that once startling and prevalent character trait of leaders is a certain blindness to their own faults - as if they have to believe they are magic for nothing to stand in their way

Comey has a v Billy Corgan-esque gait

the gait of the v tall awkward man

Violet Jynx, ISWDT with the Olivia Newton-John reference.

BTW all I meant about Palin was that she had actually _worked in a government_ before. Many of the current TrumpClump would be vastly better at this (and prob less dangerous in their ignorance) if they had even glancing familiarity with a government. Even if it were that of Wasilla, AK (pop. ~ 8,000). There are rules, there are norms, there are constraints.

I think a lot of them have an idea of governing that is "do whatever you want, we aren't into regulations here" so what qualifications to they need other than looking the other way - corporate anarchists

President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting.

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Mr. Trump added, “I’m not under investigation.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html?smid=tw-share

WASHINGTON — President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting.

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Mr. Trump added, “I’m not under investigation.”

jinx. you owe me a coke.

he's said that many more times than W said "I don't have anthrax."

no coke for you

xpost At least as many times as he's said, "those aren't genital warts."

I was listening to NOam Chomsky the other day who said something like "being freinds with russia is nto a bad thing - better that than having them as our enemies and going back to the cold war"

Also said he - "LOL says the planet that america is sad about another country influencing their election when USA ALWAYS tryin to influence election in ALL TOWNS OF EARTH!"

wow, both suggestion of collusion and admission of obstruction of justice, in just two paragraphs!

The photo with that Times story is amazing. (Including the attribution to "Russian Foreign Ministry.")

Russia probe reaches current White House official, people familiar with the case say. Our updated timeline: https://t.co/kIsj4vT3hh pic.twitter.com/Boayn86pUt

— Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) May 19, 2017

I am now really just waiting for Ashton Kutcher to show up so this will all finally make sense.

Who's the whitehouse official? Kushner?

“By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia’s actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia,” Mr. Spicer said. “The investigation would have always continued, and obviously, the termination of Comey would not have ended it. Once again, the real story is that our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified conversations.”

'our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified conversations in which our president leaked private and highly classified information'

A second person seems like a big deal. They lose the "it was just Flynn" defence.

I'm still laughing my ass off, darkly, at this story which I'm sure someone has already posted here

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

Who's the whitehouse official? Kushner?

I'd guess either Kushner or Bannon tbh

third time's the charm xp

bannon actually seems to me to be the one white house official who might not be hip-deep in russian intrigue

I'm just guessing tbh