US Politics May 2019: " If I was burned at the stake, I would ask for a mirror"

he's got the support of the voters that really count (senate republicans)

hayooooooo! see what i did there

That can't be a majority of voters though, can it?

Can it?

― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie

It isn't.

here is what his tv friends think:

The hosts of “Fox and Friends” on Wednesday weighed in on a blockbuster New York Times article on Trump’s old tax returns — reporting that showed Trump lost $1 billion over the course of a decade.

The reaction on the Fox couch? Well, it actually makes Trump look good.

“They realize he’s a billionaire,”Ainsley Earhardt said of voters’ possible reaction to the story. “He was campaigning on the trail with his plane behind him that’s as big as a Delta jet, with his name on it. We can’t even fathom that kind of money. So I’m sure — if you have that kind of money you look at tax laws. You buy things to take a loss so that you make more the next year. But that’s not how most of us think.”

She added: “If anything, you read this and you’re like, wow, it’s pretty impressive all the things he has done in his life. It’s beyond what most of could ever achieve.”

He was campaigning on the trail with his plane behind him that’s as big as a Delta jet, with his name on it.

every time he campaigned with his jet behind him i thought it was the tackiest fucking thing possible, but i guess it's really impressive

most of us could never achieve the loss of so much, where would we not put it?

Pretty impressive losses!

Ainsley Earhardt on the NY Times story about Trump's $1 billion+ in business losses: "If anything, you read this and you're like 'wow, it's pretty impressive, all the things that he's done in his life.' It's beyond what most of us could ever achieve." pic.twitter.com/H4QQOWJewm

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 8, 2019

fucking bazro world that show is ! it's transmitting from another dimension of hell

The dude on the far right (heh) looks like he ate too much cauliflower last night.

bizarro fuck

I mean...it literally is Bizarro World. They're recasting epic failure as monumental achievement. It's like being jealous of someone who stepped on a landmine because you're unlikely to ever lose quite that many limbs.

i can't even imagine being near a landmine. pretty amazing

let me see if i can make sense of this "bizarre" take:

- more money more problems
- haters gonna hate

have i missed anything?

- very old fake information

the Piers Morgan line of "he bounced back from this to become Prez, it's inspirational" will probably be the standard one from here on out

the Baltimore Orioles ought to hire some of these guys...."the fact that you even got 62 ABs to go hitless in is actually really impressive...most of us would've been benched"

bizarro fuck

trying not to take this personally

lol youre our bizarro fuck tho

*slowly and dramatically counts the number of fucks he gives*

...well actually, i do give one bizarro fuck

He's like a folk hero for people who see no value in life or society

this OTM 1000%

aww stop, you'll make me blush xxp

I feel like there's a really choice Horatio Alger/Ragged Dick joke to be made here but I'm off my game this morning, help

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-says-trump-is-becoming-self-impeachable/2019/05/08/87464a68-718c-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story

what the fucking fuck is this shit ? i mean this shit is a joke it really is . they should just all go on vacation for the rest of the year and fuck off out of my sight

no worky

the bulk of the content is in the URL

“That could be part of an impeachable offense,” Pelosi said of Trump at Tuesday’s event, which was hosted by Cornell University. “Every day, he’s obstructing justice by saying, ‘This one shouldn’t testify, that one shouldn’t testify,’ and the rest. So he’s making a case. But he’s just trying to goad us into impeachment.”

like ok good to know Nancy thanks for all your work

" this thief just keeps stealing from our cash register and vandalising our stuff , we have him on tape doing it even, he really just wants to get caught. Maybe he'll just turn himself in ro something like that"

oh nancy dont play down this hard, sometimes you gotta make a fucking banker and welp

maybe he'll die

yeah let's just wait it out until he dies . what harm could he even cause in the meantime?

I can see her tactic. She can turn to the moderates elected last November and their constituents and go, "Sigh, see, motherfucker's making us wanna impeach him." But I still dislike it and the modern trend of sticking "self-" where it doesn't belong (I have to deal with "self-introductions" in class).

I saw focus groups of Trump voters in 2016. They thought the fact he was a hugely successful businessman would make him a successful president. The fact he was a loser in business will hurt him. And that is why he’s kept his taxes secret.

— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) May 7, 2019

jfc.

(prominent and extremely bad clinton advisor)

what was neera's reaction to the universal Non-reaction to the earlier NYT story about the trump family's long history of laundering, tax fraud, the trump children getting tens of millions from Fred, etc?

even after being prepared a bit for his supporters not caring about what he does wrong, i was still kind of shocked by how little that affected him

he was able to glide past all of it with a pair of "nuh uh, nyt fake, i am a good smart business leader" tweets

the NYT ran the story during the Kavanaugh hearings iirc, which certainly did't help either.

It would not have changed anyone's minds except given women who turned against the president more reason to stand longer in line in November.

ummm we definitely knew this guy was unambiguously terrible at business in 2016

We thought we knew but then the inveterate liar who's only interested in protecting his fabricated reputation said otherwise, so now I don't know what to believe.

But I saw him being rich.

I hope subsequent generations see us for the overly-credulous rubes we are and develop whatever psychological buttressing is necessary to see through the fabrications of serial bullshitters.

I mean, we're clearly fucked on that front, but won't somebody please think of the children.

god I knew this administration was gonna be a corrupt shitshow but the President of the United States bragging about committing tax fraud on Twitter is a new one for me

if he was consistently reporting the *biggest* losses for any american, i'm pretty confident that was some kind of outlandishly illegal accounting. why can't he be investigated and tried for tax fraud? they did it to paul manafort.

the fact that he is "bad at business" seems like the wrong angle here. the times even flagged that some of these numbers make no sense. like the $59 million in interest income one year, after having negligible interest income for the years surrounding it

tax fraud is one of the coolest most badassed things an american can do

That’s great but there are laws against it and sentencing guidelines

i'm pretty confident that was some kind of outlandishly illegal accounting

our country seems very not on the ball when it comes to things like this

see: Tesla, who after nonstop losses suddenly and mysteriously became the most profitable car company on the planet for two quarters, and then magically turned unprofitable again after all their accounting guys quit

if he was consistently reporting the *biggest* losses for any american

oh Treeship, so unaware of the ways of the real estate world. see, losses are good to report, everyone does it. the fact that Trump had the most losses of any US citizen just shows that he is the biggest player in the real estate world!

Or when zillions of dollars worth of mortgage backed securities vanished suddenly

Or turned out to never have really existed

The economy seems somewhat fake to me.