Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

xp Scott, that's the narrative that seems to recur.

Just going to commend HRC for quoting Sarah Kendzior in her keynote at the Children’s Health Fund Annual Benefit:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAjiWk1WAAACduE.jpg

masculinity is the most undiagnosed mental illness: the story of 2017

― maura, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:40 (two hours ago) Permalink

otfm

may I direct you to the thread maleness? it throws a different, but worthwhile side-light on this observation.

important update: trump lost the handshake game to the president of tajikistan

http://i.imgur.com/rMHZ7VQ.gif

http://boingboing.net/2017/05/23/trump-lost-the-alpha-male-ha.html

and they think everything is shitty where they live

mom/dad why did you force me to grow up in Manchester when I could've been livin on easy street in Libya FUCK IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

so the pope gave Yam his encyclical on climate change

important update: trump lost the handshake game to the president of tajikistan

Poseur meets real strongman.

The Pope has met Donald Trump... Think this AP picture just about sums it up pic.twitter.com/0E96npzQJa

— Louise Burke (@Louiseontwitr) May 24, 2017

Trump is a boilerplate bully. He's historically used his physical size and the accoutrements of 'wealth' in an attempt to dominate others, but he's such an insecure little pisspot that it probably doesn't take much effort to overwhelm his attempts at dominance. Would love to see some world leader give him a 'two for flinching', perhaps followed by a swirlie.

... especially if that world leader was the Pope.

Melania looks devastated in that pic

The picture kind of looks like he has just climbed out of the coffin at his own funeral and everyone regrets not nailing the lid down.

Anyone who's ever had the naked and sweaty corpus of Donald Trump writhing atop them gets a lifetime pass on looking devastated in photographs.

work it

https://patch.com/new-york/massapequa/9th-assembly-district-flips-democrats-pellegrino-defeats-gargiulo

again on pbs they talked to a pope expert and they said if the meeting was short it was a sign that the pope didn't really want to talk to trump and had had enough. it was short.

Has he been given a better direction as to running the catholic church now though?
Do wonder what a meeting like that would consist of .

I've never seen a woman photographed, dressed, and posing so unflatteringly as Melania there.

Anyone who's ever had the naked and sweaty corpus of Donald Trump writhing atop them gets a lifetime pass on looking devastated in photographs.

i can't be the only one who looked at that pic, saw this post, and is now convinced that donald trump had sexual intercourse with the pope

also, STAND UP STRAIGHT FFS DONALD

hunched in an illfitting suit is nagl for the leader of the free world

i have no evidence to support this but i am p sure he also smells

Even the painting behind them adds to the sense of dejection.

one of them is a man who holds dominion over vast wealth and power and chooses to use it to oppress women, oppose abortion and generally promote a retrograde worldview and the other is... wait, it says here it's the pope? wtf

Though the mills of God grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting,
With exactness grinds he all.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They're on a roll!

https://www.axios.com/new-gop-fear-nine-months-of-failure-2420113108.html

Republican leaders are coming to the bleak conclusion they will end summer and begin the fall with ZERO significant legislative accomplishments. Privately, they realize it's political malpractice to blow at least the the first nine of months of all Republican rule, but also realize there's little they can do to avoid the dismal outcome.

In fact, they see the next four months as MORE troublesome than the first four. They're facing terrible budget choices and headlines, the painful effort to re-work the health care Rubik's Cube in the House (presuming it makes it out of the Senate), a series of special-election scares (or losses) — all with scandal-mania as the backdrop.

One of the key insights I picked up at last week's SALT hedge-fund conference in Vegas (tough duty) was that nobody thought health care reform would happen, and most were very skeptical that Trump and Republicans could get their acts together enough to pass tax reform this year.

Asked about both onstage, Jeb Bush said a flat "no" to health care and a very unconvincing "maybe" to tax reform. The masters of the universe had more colorful words in private — they're deeply pessimistic about health care.

A source close to the Republican congressional leadership emails a vivid snapshot of the party's feng shui:

"We are walking into an autumn of discontent because they won't have any legislative accomplishment when they come back from the August recess. ... Their biggest problem is that the reconciliation instructions will expire at the end of September. ...

"They're going to go home and get the (stuff) kicked out of them because people think it actually was accomplished — and, by the way, people are likely going to be getting their premium increases that are going to occur regardless of whether they pass this bill or not. ...

"And now the president's threatening that he's not going to approve the money for the insurance subsidies — it is going to be a catastrophic political problem ...

"They are in this terrible box on healthcare and they're about to get blamed for it because they did what I've been calling that Bon Jovi rally at the White House — because they were halfway there."

Whooah-oah?

trump and grind xp

last week's SALT hedge-fund conference

as in 'salt the earth', one presumes

Also, another great job!

Joe Lieberman no longer being considered for FBI director. President's team has hit the restart button on the search for a new FBI Director

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) May 24, 2017

"Joe Lieberman no longer wants to be considered for FBI director."

Who the fuck would at this point.

I'll do it!

unintelligiblence officer

Alfred, director of the Federal Bureau of Cocktails.

Underplayed from Trump-Duterte call: he told Duterte we have 2 nuclear submarines near N. Korea. That's…not usually something we talk about. pic.twitter.com/Qiqgcj6NOk

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 24, 2017

so i am not an expert but my understanding of sub stuff is that you don't tell anyone where the boomers are

this is real 'merkin muffley calling dimitri kissov' level shit right here, jesus christ

POTUS: Do you suppose you could turn down the music, Rodrigo, I can't hear you well

part of me wants him to just select Guiliani. make the Senate confirm that shitbag (good chance they wouldn't but you really can't predict anything anymore).

giuliani can be fbi director only on the stipulation that he must forevermore wear that dress and wig he had on in the infamous video of him and trump yukkin' it up

god no wonder Trump thinks the media is out to get him. he looks at all these other leaders who get to murder their own people with impunity and no doubt wonders why he can't catch a break. I'm sure he'd love to execute all the bad hombres but then mean old Anderson Cooper would call him names.

he's gonna be real bored when he gets to belgium, it's like he had dessert before his starter

giuliani can be fbi director only on the stipulation that he must forevermore wear that dress and wig he had on in the infamous video of him and trump yukkin' it up

― 🎵 it's grey pubic now, stoner blue 🎵 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, May 24, 2017 2:47 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is tranvestisism a respected tradition among FBI bosses since the days of Hoover?

if it's not it should be

Maybe Flynn can head the FBI - Trumps want's em back right?

Trump says he will never forget what the Pope said to him.

5:1 odds he said "you deserve all that is coming to you"

The power of Christ compels you!

no way to knwo if Trump bugged the Vatican

"Today I learned there is a MegaHeaven that only the best people can get to. But you can only get there today and you have to jump off of that mountain"

complete Trump-Duterte transcript

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/23/read-the-full-transcript-of-trumps-call-with-philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte/

also, Adolph Giuliani, pants on fire

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/334869-giuliani-walks-back-claims-of-involvement-in-trumps-travel-ban

For heaven's sake, save something for the second term, John. pic.twitter.com/ZeiAa3888f

— Big Glowing Jeb Lund (@Mobute) May 24, 2017