Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

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.

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.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, May 31, 2017 7:01 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you gents are sure taking my mild and mostly unserious remark seriously

i mean really boys, it was a bit of a joke

Love too laugh.

anyway the trump tweet from last night was both hilarious and troubling, maybe more hilarious because it was troubling. i mean this is the world we live in now, we have to get our sick laughs somewhere. though my own reaction was skewing less "omglol" and more towards "good christ we're all doomed."

Trumpmerica is a "post-humor" society

it's a "pvt hudson just watched the rescue ship crash" society

CLEVELAND, Ohio - President Donald Trump's team is already working on his re-election campaign by launching a monthly subscription box service, similar to a Birchbox, according to multiple reports.

CNN reporter Betsy Klein tweeted out an email from the campaign Monday afternoon to announce the "Big League Box."

Dave Levinthal with the Center for Public Integrity pointed out that the boxes, which will go out starting in June, will cost $69 per month. (EDITOR'S NOTE: NICE)

The Trump campaign is taking the @birchbox subscription approach, introducing the "big league box" pic.twitter.com/41zUCxAlYA

— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) May 29, 2017

VNYL = send me $25 per month, and I send you a random artifact from one of my businesses.

waiting for this particular stupid, yet harmless, thing to run its course > stupid gleeful pile-on > initial catalyst > annoyed backlash to gleeful pile-on > discussion of why it's really deep down a serious issue

the worst topical joke is never worse than the post telling me all the topical jokes aren't funny.

i bet they'll merchandise last night's tweet somehow. i'm sure all the 4channers/ and r/t_d folk are running with it and embracing anyway

there'll be a racist/MRA dog mascot they'll name Covfefe any day now

Why is Betsy Klein specifically plugging birchbox when there are dozens, if not hundreds, of monthly 'box of crap shipped to you monthly' subscription services out there (as chronicled in this thread?

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-sleeping-only-four-hours-a-day-not-affecting-his-ability-to-cljjryff

HAHAHAAHA OH MAN HUHUHUH

If we impeached Trump and Borowitz together, our great nation would again be united.

listen everyone making the same joke simultaneously on twitter was a pre-trump problem

first president ever to govern on cocaine?

I have a faculty colleague who used to post Borowitz joeks on Facebook until I shut him down.

have to admit i always feel a little shame making fun of borowitz bc so many people i love share his links. my dad sends them to me all the time :(

70 yr old teetotaling fat guys don't do coke

or if they do, they don't do it for v long, because they would drop dead

xp

"Bill Clinton managed to run the country on a nightly allotment of five or six hours. Slick Willy had a penchant for staying up until the wee hours and it was not uncommon for him to rouse a staffer with whom he could burn the midnight oil.

Unsurprisingly, another well-known insomniac, was Abraham Lincoln (the Civil War will do that). And President Obama counts himself among the night owls, relying on a 7a.m. wake up call to get his day started."

https://vanwinkles.com/the-sleep-habits-of-us-presidents

I feel like Trump threatening to pull out of the Paris accord is more or less just a cry for attention. He doesn't give a fuck one way or the other about the issue, much less understand it. But he does love suddenly having CEOs calling him up desperate to talk to him, everybody pleading w him, people fighting for his attention/jockeying for position to "influence" him. He lives for this.