US Politics November 2017

one of these days we're gonna nail trump psychoanalysis, I can feel it

the golf thing, and the compulsion to visit his own resorts, is pretty fuckin weird. it reminds me of how hugh hefner would only ever stay in his own mansion or at "playboy clubs" that he had built in various cities. what does he derive from this? is there a weird compulsion we don't know about? does he not "trust" the white house in some way?

my questions, Simon, to clarify, are less about psychoanalysis and more about purely salacious gossip-mongering. there should be vicious, tawdry rumours about what he does at these clubs

"He knows he's a piece of shit, he knows he's not up to the job,"

He doesn't think this imo.

He's not capable of that sort of self-reflection

how hugh hefner would only ever stay in his own mansion or at "playboy clubs"

Well, I mean ...

Trump just wants to be in a place where he can show off and pretend he is in control.

let’s not forget that the trump org gets paid every time trump stays at his own properties too - all the comforts of home and with pocket money provided by the taxpayer

tapps everywhere in the whitehouse

Democratic Sen. Tom Carper says White House economic adviser Gary Cohn faked a bad connection to get President Trump off the phone so they could have a conversation on tax reform without him https://t.co/qcUnSEsysl

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 22, 2017

Like, of all the periods when the span of my life could've transpired, why did it have to overlap with a period where the federal government is morphing into a late-period Zucker-Abrams-Zucker production? I could've been comfortably interred in the ground for the past fifty years instead of bearing witness to this.

At some point, every warrior eventually runs out of arrows. His armor wears thin yet grows heavier still. He must lay down his weary helmeted head for rest.

Even Coriolanus was forced to retreat — at the behest of his mother.

Not so Donald Trump.

Not a weary drop of blood pumps through the man’s veins. He wears his thick armor light as skin. His bottomless quiver is never empty.

Ironic, since his quivering bottom is somehow always emptying.

Oh wait...that piece is serious.

"PS I am wanking as I write this."

i am not going to spend my thanksgiving break creating a fake D&D donald trump character sheet, i am not going to spend my thanksgiving break creating a fake D&D donald trump character sheet, i am not going to spend my thanksgiving break creating a fake D&D donald trump character sheet

gis for bottomless donald trump

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STR 6
DEX 5
CON 2
INT 1
WIS 1
LCK 18

let’s not forget that the trump org gets paid every time trump stays at his own properties

As I recall, "That's called being smart."

wait has luck replaced charisma? damned millennials

STR 6
DEX 5

i'll give him dexterity for never having gone to jail

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/ScroogeFirst.jpg

gis for bottomless donald trump

wait has luck replaced charisma? damned millennials

Oops, it’s still charisma. Still though, those millennials

Like, of all the periods when the span of my life could've transpired, why did it have to overlap with a period where the federal government is morphing into a late-period Zucker-Abrams-Zucker production?

The fact that these things overlap is not at all coincidental.

Are you suggesting that I'm somehow responsible for the horrific events that are currently unfolding?

I mean, I guess it isn't entirely outside of the realm of possibility.

it's a democracy, man

you gotta responsibility

Whoops!

Roy Moore's communications director has resigned, @elainaplott reports https://t.co/RJQKjIcYn9

— Andrew Beaujon (@abeaujon) November 22, 2017

Don't worry, Roy, the president isn't super busy at the moment, I'm sure he can help you out.

Roy's response "I don't know what to say..."

Texas Congressman Joe Barton Apologizes for Sending Nude Pic to Woman, Not His Wife

ARGH NSFW, life, my eyes, anything.

NOOOOOO that pic. Do not look.

looooool

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― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thank u for insta-sterilizing the world with that digital saltpeter, TMZ.

trump called moore "tough on crime" compared to doug jones, so i guess being blasé about the age of consent is more important to the nation's well-being than putting away members of the kkk

also why are dick pics always captioned in the fucking cheesiest ways. porn has ruined dirty talk

Of course Trump wouldn't want to be put away?

sounds like barton might be added to this list soon https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12RhR9oZZpyKKceyLO3C5am84abKzu2XqLWjP2LnQDgI/edit#gid=0

https://www.buzzfeed.com/evefairbanks/mark-halperin-poisoned-our-politics?utm_term=.rpLknd9V9#.ufW2b0X8X

that was a good read

All of these "why are these allegations happening NOW" questions are dumb. Like, no shit someone may feel more urgency to come forward when the person who abused them looks poised to ride easily into the Senate AND the current cultural climate is the least hostile towards victims alleging sexual assault and rape than it has been in most of their lifetimes?

Barton should apologize ahead of time for nude selfies

A friend of mine who was assaulted quite a while back felt told me she felt like a weight had been lifted when the Weinstein story broke; she experienced a palpable wave of validation. xp

it is the expected response from the conspiracy theorist mindset coupled with a total lack of understanding of what it's like for a female victim of sexual "transgressions"

xps to mr perry

That Halperin piece falls victim to some of the same sins he lays at Halperin's feet. As the author himself says a few paragraphs in, power is so diffuse that there is no small insider's club that runs everything.

Surely, Halperin had influence, but that piece magnifies his influence to the point of distortion. Retailing gossip as news is as old as the yellow press and likening D.C. to the court at Versailles is a trope that dates back almost as far. Halperin didn't invent that world or its rules. He was just another in a long line that runs back through the Alsops and Walter Winchell to others too far back to recall.

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re the writer