Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

every day everything is dumber. how dumb will shit be in 3 years? can you even imagine?

It's hard to imagine how long three years will be after we start approximating measures of time based on whatever feels right in the moment because fuck you, I say that was an hour that just elapsed, you dumb fact-slingin' libruhl piece a sheeeeeit.

I genuinely feel like the fate of civilization rests on a high enough proportion of people vehemently resisting this stupidity, because if it genuinely takes hold we'll slip into a new Dark Ages and there's no turning back.

you guys have no idea how much I have worked on imagining how to think about how dumb will shit be in 3 years

give us the vision. first the 1000 foot view, than the 10,000 foot view, then pull all the way back an order of magnitude farther than you've ever gone before and give us the view from there, then zoom all the way to the subatomic level view, then spin a wheel with several more view length options and do whichever option is just to the left of the one that it lands on.

https://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/muchapuaboutnothing3_thumb.png?w=512&h=384

"between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists
economic factors, both domestic and international played a significant..."
"...Just say slavery"

JOHN DICKERSON: George W. Bush said the reason the Oval Office is round is there are no corners you can hide in.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, there's truth to that. There is truth to that. There are certainly no corners. And you look, there's a certain openness. But there's nobody out there. You know, there is an openness, but I've never seen anybody out there actually, as you could imagine.

JOHN DICKERSON: But he-- what he meant was it's-- all comes --

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure. Sure.

JOHN DICKERSON: --back to you.

And you look, there's a certain openness. But there's nobody out there. You know, there is an openness, but I've never seen anybody out there actually, as you could imagine.

this is really evocative

https://i.giphy.com/cGUMCNBpzP1w4.gif

#MAGA
by Donald J. Trump

There are certainly no corners
and you look
there's a certain openness

But there's nobody out there
you know
there is an openness

but I've never seen anybody out there
actually
as you could imagine.

I... what was he trying to say there.

One might say that the man is at sea. Or adrift. Perhaps he is adrift at sea.

it's like a Dada comedy sketch

NYT:

WASHINGTON — Congress would allocate more than $120 million in additional money to help cover the escalating costs of protecting the Trump family and Trump Tower under a bipartisan spending agreement that appears poised to pass this week.

About half of the money, nearly $60 million, is earmarked for the Secret Service, with most of it going toward protecting the president while he is traveling and security for Trump Tower in New York City, according to legislation being circulated on Monday.

Another roughly $60 million would be set aside in a rare provision to reimburse localities, like New York City and Palm Beach County in Florida, that have incurred “extraordinary law enforcement personnel costs” associated with protecting Mr. Trump’s residences since Election Day.

i finally got off my lazy internet ass and googled how much the security for obama's family cost. it was $85-90 million...over 8 years. so around $10-11 million per year.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article123335079.html

no big deal, just an extra 110 million per year to protect the trump family

all those millions can't stop the deadliest, most effective assassin of all: time

W liked to keep one eye on the roomba

Is that $120million a year or until the current appropriation runs out in September?

How much is congress asking not to protect him?

Upthread, I believe that what he was saying is that while there aren't any corners in the oval office, the office actually has several doors. There is an openness. People keep going in and coming out. Sometimes Ivanka. Sometimes that Jeebus guy. Seriously, it's very open.

holy shit -- three years of fucking benghazi hearings, and no sanctions for russia interfering in our election?

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/01/corker-russia-sanctions-senate-237855

i repeat -- holy shit!

holy shit!!

good mourning!

Wow @ Colbert last night. "The only thing your mouth is good for is being Putin's cock-holster," yikes.

xposts I think he's literally talking about not seeing anyone outside of the Oval Office windows. This is not someone who's capable of processing the subtlety of a George W. Bush metaphor.

JOHN DICKERSON: It's been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don't know, I left an issue of Rolling Stone next to the toilet for a month, and something started growing on it that sure looked like moss. Horrible.

lol

trump, like drax the destroyer, has no truck with metaphor

I assumed it was a similar comment to the joke about putting a (whatever dumb stereotype) person in a round room and telling them to stand in the corner.
In that there were no corners to hide in or something to that effect.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, everyone thinks that this is very ominous right here. See this? These are phones. These are very, you know, secure phones. But this is a -- very ominous looking because of the red button.

JOHN DICKERSON: What does that get you--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well--

JOHN DICKERSON: -- when you press the red button?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -- it gets you a Coke or gets you a Pepsi. One or the other, it'd have to be. Any other cola companies I should mention? Right?

what is it with trump and fucking carbonated cola beverages

Makes sense that a sentient fart would need to regularly gas up.

Sorry, 'sentient' may have been an overreach [SYNAPSE FIRES].

Trump literally thought he was being asked about "hiding" physically in the office. And he mentioned how open it was ie. The windows. He can't hide. But maybe he didn't need to hide, because, you know, nobody was ever out there when he looked.

Old Lunch and Tracer otm, he half-expected to see the Failing NY Times crouching on the lawn

i'm finding trump's whole 'no one knew the civil war could be so complicated!' bullshit particularly frustrating at the moment because it made me realise yet again how close he comes to realising something important but then getting lost in his own solipsism

the pattern goes:

1) someone tells trump something pretty much everyone knows but he doesn't
2) he talks about this in public like he's just singlehandedly discovered the ark of the covenant
3) he frames this earthshattering discovery as as something 'no-one knows' or 'no-one talks about'

but he never makes the logical half-step into realising that he wouldn't know about this unless someone told him therefore people must know about it and maybe there's a whole world of knowledge out there he could tap into and, y'know, learn something

what is it like to live life so content in your own ignorance? it must be fucking amazing, i wish i could do it

are all americans born into money as intellectually lazy as this asshole? because oh my god

all available evidence points to 'yes'

xxp That's the same feeling I get when I see all the comments on FB or on newspaper sites that say "The media doesn't talk about {my pet topic} or {this inflammatory thing}." Then you ask, "Well, then how do you know about it?" "Oh, I saw it on CNN."

Agreed. The lamestream media is burying this story! (links to Washington Post)

I would guess he thinks that a basic knowledge of the names and titles of other world leaders is also something special and unique to him. I.e. phrases like "I got a very nice call from Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada."

what is it like to live life so content in your own ignorance? it must be fucking amazing, i wish i could do it

― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara)

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/03/06/photograph_of_the_reagans_eating_on_tv_trays_in_the_white_house_residence_-_nara_-_198525_wide-1ec921d37b914ed35467a8dacd730d78b3d02bc2.jpg?s=1400

with the possible exception of Poppy Bush, we've had our fill of moron GOP presidents blissful about what they don't know. I can hear Reagan speaking that Andrew Jackson sentence.

i'm expecting him to soon come out w/ Roger DeBris' "I never knew that the Third Reich meant Germany!"

The president of the United States basically has the same engagement with the world he lives in and the people in it that I do with a movie that I put on in the background while assembling a bookcase.

hey, I bet there's a bunch of rich-guy stuff we know nothing about. All kinds of golf tips.

tom buchanan is maybe a more accurate preview of donald than frank underwood?

only losers know history. if you come from a good family, your parents buy you a degree from one of the best schools while you polish your golf game, poonhounding around, living off of trusts / dividends before (sad!) dad dies and you take over the family business

And you don't even have to know anything about the family business, really. Run it into the ground a few times, have your accountant cook the books, voila.

the clip of him ending the interview after getting asked about wiretapping is also insane. like he literally retreats to his desk and starts sifting through a stack of (blank?) papers

They had stick figures with boobs tbf

btw I know this is a cheap joke but lmao @ 1:02-1:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3fp7aQ6kuM

our president on twitter this morning ~

“The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”

what an asshole