Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Covfefe the Strong / the Wizard Covfefe was funny

yeah tbf this was funny. an entire day of gloating and celebration like as if it's some national festival - that was unfunny. but i guess we should give up expecting the liberal half of twitter not to feverishly promote and boost the range of the figures we're all supposed to hate.

It went without mention here, but that Onion leak of some 200+ documents does hide a few gems. I liked the running joke in the Steve Bannon and Ben Carson files.

Old Lunch I 100% agree with your assessment. I think Kal Penn's thing where he imagines Bannon, Kishner and Spicer playing "not it" over who gets to tell Trump he passed out during a tweet is almost exactly what happened, albeit with several more staffers also abdicating responsibility.

reminds me of

https://i5.walmartimages.ca/images/Large/221/383/221383.jpg

i'm a little worried about josh marshall

― k3vin k., Tuesday, May 23, 2017 7:09 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was from last week but uh yea otm me too, this red pen shtick is getting a little out there

― marcos, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 11:01 AM (one hour ago)

agreed, someone needs to step in

Covfefe the Strong / the Wizard Covfefe was funny

yeah this was funny. The other 9 million joeks not so much

none of it was funny

Still behind Morbs by 0.57 seconds

There is a tedious new Rebecca Solnit piece doing the rounds that could easily be x-posted to the Annoying Stuff on Facebook thread

http://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump/

I think that tweet tells us a lot. It didn't stand for 5 hours because Trump got interrupted by his advisors during a crisis or because someone took his phone away. And it's disturbing not only because of the garbled letters, but because it's also an incomplete thought. I guess you could argue that he's suffering from jet lag or extreme exhaustion, but on a level where he can't even finish a tweet before nodding off? Do we have to start worrying about Alzheimer's? Even if it's just carelessness it's pretty extreme. Whatever it is, it's fucked up

There is a tedious new Rebecca Solnit piece doing the rounds that could easily be x-posted to the Annoying Stuff on Facebook thread

http://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump/

god yeah, this piece really bothered me. it's just a series of faintly literary insults - and it went on and on. it's also incredibly pompous, as if the author has never been anything other than self-aware at all times. some of the "obliviousness" it describes is just the basic human condition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covfefe

One other thing to add to the covfefe hypothesis: if his wife was actually around, she could have noticed him nodding off and told him to put the goddamn phone down. But she hates his fucking guts.

if trump's typo tells us that much about him, just think about what we can we learn from grassley's twitter!

or from my ilx posting history

There is a tedious new Rebecca Solnit piece doing the rounds that could easily be x-posted to the Annoying Stuff on Facebook thread

http://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump/

god yeah, this piece really bothered me. it's just a series of faintly literary insults - and it went on and on. it's also incredibly pompous, as if the author has never been anything other than self-aware at all times. some of the "obliviousness" it describes is just the basic human condition.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda),

eh I liked it despite its unorginality. The insults were cool.

I'm a sucker for that aphoristic style when the writer understands the rhythm of what she's writing.

Donald Trump literally doomed our species to extinction today and you're still complaining about the Clintons

― frogbs, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 7:51 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't say I'm definitively anti human extinction

Literally

I like Rebecca Solnit but she is wrong to think Trump ever expected his lifelong rivals, Manhattan snobs, to stop mocking him when he became president. He knows he is widely mocked, as much as he can be said to know anything. He thrives on it.

let the robots rise! let them inheret the earth!!

the idea that the Paris accord was going to save us from extinction is a chuckle

i'm wearing my curmudgeonring right now, prepping for Folsom Street East.

There's a difference between a slowly-fraying tether and one that you're actively sawing away at.

I am anti human extinction.

the idea that anyone on ilx thought the Paris accord would save us from extinction is a strawman

but good job on finding yet another way to put yourself above everyone else here all the same

I am anti human extinction

good news then, chances are a few thousand of us will find a way to live in the tropical Antarctic eventually

no, just above frogbs

plz fuck off

xp

i would argue that the covfefe tweets were better than everyone's responses to

@AP_Planner
Tomorrow: @NASA makes an announcement on its first mission to fly directly
into the sun’s atmosphere

but it's a low bar

no, just above frogbs

plz fuck off

xp

never change darling

I would go on that mission if i can bring Cillian Murphy and Chris Evans (get it?) xp

There's a difference between a slowly-fraying tether and one that you're actively sawing away at.

yes, exactly, we're talkin bout speed, which i'm monitoring so i know when to stop taking my meds as several posters have recommended.

Paris accords are mostly a sliver of hope. It's mostly theater and self-congratulation, but we need fictions and hope to get through the day.

yes, exactly, we're talkin bout speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye08sJ--bwU

I like Rebecca Solnit but she is wrong to think Trump ever expected his lifelong rivals, Manhattan snobs, to stop mocking him when he became president. He knows he is widely mocked, as much as he can be said to know anything. He thrives on it.

― Treeship, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 5:38 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Trump believes and expects a lot of dumb things, this is one i can believe too. we're talking about a historic-level idiot here. i do like that a lot of dudes are explaining to Rebecca Solnit how she's wrong though.

the idea that the Paris accord was going to save us from extinction is a chuckle

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, May 31, 2017 5:39 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

grim but true

i do like that a lot of dudes are explaining to Rebecca Solnit how she's wrong though

Oh come on

it's been painfully unfunny all day - it's a typo. big fucking deal. even trump laughed at himself about it, that's how innocuous it is, the greatest manchild in the world can even brush it off.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, May 31, 2017 10:48 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This this this. I'm in fucking Basque Country and it got mentioned today. Had to look up what the fuss was about. Trump being 'Oh! I made a spelling eros, see whut I did dere' as the least funny person in the world makes this even more unbearable.

'And you know what? Here comes the KICKER!!!!'
'Whatwhatwhatwhattttt????'
'He made a spelling mistake!'
'You are jo-king! He did?!'
'He did. In a tweet. POTUS made a spelling error. In a tweet.'
'Oh. My. God. Hahahahahaha. I'm snapchatting it right now.'
'Hahahaha!'
'Hahahahaha!'

^^ Some severe normalization of the last person deserving normalization right there.

Trump gunning for 'Hitler was p bad but he could paint a bit and liked animals' is nagl

ANALYSIS: IGNORING POTENTIALLY CIVILIZATION-ENDING PROBLEM TO FOCUS ON TAX CUTS FOR WEALTHY MAY BE SHORT-SIGHTED

— David Roberts (@drvox) May 31, 2017

I don't know, writing that tweet off as "he spelled wrong give the guy a break" seems like another big step toward new normal for standards of Presidential communication.

But maybe by surrendering burdensome "leader of the free world" role, the office can just move straight into memes and fart soundz-only

the fact that he did it late at night, possibly on the toilet, then apparently passed out into his dementia is more troubling to me than funny

Normalisation

Stop saying this

if someone from the trump admin or at the very least Scott Dilbert doesn't literally kill themselves during the next 4 years i'm going to be extrememly disappointed

It's not like that tweet mattered in any way, but characterizing it as just a spelling error or a typo seems kind of weird. Insert any correctly spelled word in place of "covfefe" and the tweet would still be totally incoherent and meaningless.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/politics/fbi-comey-testimony/index.html

(CNN)Fired FBI director James Comey plans to testify publicly in the Senate as early as next week to confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump pressured him to end his investigation into a top Trump aide's ties to Russia, a source close to the issue said Wednesday.

dilbert guy knows what's up

this dude never disappoints

Trump believes and expects a lot of dumb things, this is one i can believe too. we're talking about a historic-level idiot here. i do like that a lot of dudes are explaining to Rebecca Solnit how she's wrong though.

You're right, she can never be wrong about anything because of her most famous work, and in fact all her opinions are valid because of her gender, great she has people to intervene and stop her being patronised.

Can we have a new thread tomorrow? Comey's testimony alone is likely to spark off an explosion of 1000 posts in a couple of days.

Normalisation

Stop saying this

― D'mnuchin returns (darraghmac), Wednesday, May 31, 2017 5:29 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You'll have to fp me to silence me iirc

xpost We have to have a new thread tomorrow, it'll be June.