Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

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Not even FaceApped

A worthy suggestion, from last month's thread:

can May's thread be titled: "People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?"

― evol j, Monday, May 1, 2017 8:06 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Although I think a month of having to look at that quote might actually literally kill me.

I mentioned this yesterday, but this good news isn't getting enough play: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ileana-ros-lehtinen-announces-no-reelection-bid-2018

Can't help but wonder if as a member of the House Intelligence Committee (and the only one to ask a question that didn't pertain to leaking to the press) she saw more Russia shit and thought, "Shit, my seat, redrawn a couple years ago, looks more unsafe in 2018..."

JOHN DICKERSON: But on that crucial question, it's not going to be left up to the states? Everybody gets pre-existing, no matter where they live?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, but the states--

JOHN DICKERSON: Guaranteed?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --are also going to have a lot to do with it because we ultimately want to get it back down to the states.

JOHN DICKERSON: Okay. Is it a guarantee?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Look, because if you hurt your knee, honestly, I'd rather have the federal government focused on North Korea, focused on other things, than your knee, okay? Or than your back, as important as your back is. I would much rather see the federal government focused on other things--

JOHN DICKERSON: Let me.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --bigger things. Now, the state is going to be in a much better position to take care, because it's smaller.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-interview-full-transcript-face-the-nation/

I'm not sure I believe in Trump's ability to understand and coherently describe the composition of a sandwich.

Alfred, my thinking re her thinking was more along the lines of "you know what, I don't owe these people shit."

the art boyf is called luc, not luke: luc pascal

his art is kind of bad but not delightfully so :(

oops sorry folks

bad but not delightfully so is the Trump presidency in a nutshell

"People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War?
"People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War?
"People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War?
"People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War?

Frederick Douglass might be able to answer that question for him if ever they have occasion to meet.

Should've called this thread "Nobody knew history of the Civil War could be so complicated."

This clip is so perfect, everybody saw this yeah? : https://twitter.com/TheMattWilstein/status/857953230093004800?s=09

And GOP totally caved on the budget! P good for monday morning.

People actually do ask the question, "why was there a Civil War?" Those people are in 1st grade.

Not sure if that worked, here it is in youtube form: https://youtu.be/v9yhDYK834E

Xp

This clip is so perfect, everybody saw this yeah? : https://twitter.com/TheMattWilstein/status/857953230093004800?s=09

― Οὖτις, Monday, May 1, 2017 8:41 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anthony atamanuik's trump impersonation is so harrowingly good

The Trump presidential library will just be a gaudy room with a few very old playboy magazines sitting on a coffee table.

Fuck rhat cuts off the end of rhat monologue, which is the best part! Sorry

lol the idea of the Trump library

holy shit, i don't know why but that one hits me hard

like, wtf would be in there that he has read or knows about?

Can't watch that clip until after work, but Atamanuik's impression is astounding. I can't remember where I saw him and Adomian doing their Trump/Bernie debate, but Atamanuik's off-handed "I am the beast, I am the beast from Revelations" will stick with me forever.

"World War II, when Japan dropped bombs on Poland, started the war, that was bad."

xxpost It'll be print-outs of Google news stories about Trump, plus maybe some menus from his favorite delivery places. A couple volumes from the Truly Tasteless Jokes series, perhaps?

@ABCPolitics
.@NancyPelosi to @jonkarl: "I never thought I'd pray for the day" when George W. Bush was president again http://abcn.ws/2pxpbyq #ThisWeek

@adamjohnsonNYC
please stop doing this

yeah praying doesn't work

everyone knows that you have to save your prayers for the aftermath of mass shootings, in lieu of actually doing anything about gun control, so that your prayers will be heard more loudly by god, so god will do something.

It is impious to believe we can subvert God's apparent desire to eradicate our species without being too obvious about it.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/president-trump-ends-interview-president-obama-wiretapping-claims

When further pressed by Dickerson, Trump got up and left.

"I don't stand by anything," Trump argued. But he told Dickerson, "I have my own opinions. You can have your opinions."

"But I want to know your opinions. You're the president of the United States," Dickerson countered.

"Okay, it's enough. Thank you. Thank you very much," Trump said, ending the interview.

he is a five year old

What did five-year-olds ever do to you?

Become president.

I'm honestly shocked that he didn't shove a copy of the electoral college map into Dickerson's hand as he stormed out.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-wMTB2W0AAygWC.jpg:large

And then the camera pans down to Trump's hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TCR5oC5ZQs

Spaceballs might've been funnier if Mel Brooks had put Trump in it.

I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.
I don't stand by anything.

@tinyrevolution
I'm not sure it's true that *everyone* in Tennessee loves Andrew Jackson, since some Tennesseans are descended from people Jackson owned

he thinks he's being treated so harshly, but when you act that stupidly in just about any other context, you get openly mocked and laughed out of the room

as someone observed on twitter: there was a time when spelling 'potato' wrong could get someone labeled as an imbecile and publicly lampooned forever

I'm honestly shocked that he didn't shove a copy of the electoral college map into Dickerson's hand as he stormed out.

― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Monday, May 1, 2017 11:27 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Someone with access needs to swap out his electoral maps with this:

http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/SYUaVaEj4cDNEIYH_qxpnhnoYwk=/950x534/filters:quality(90)/2015%2F11%2F18%2F29%2Fcarsonameri.b206d.jpg

in a disturbingly similar alternative universe, ben carson rules that stretch of states between New Vermonticutt and Maine

"I love my people," he says. "They are the greatest people."

And with that, he reaches across the Resolute Desk for a sheet of paper showing a map of the United States. It illustrates the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map, and it is covered in a sea of red ink.

"That's the final map of the numbers — not bad, right?" he says. "The red is us, the blue is Hillary. There is a lot of red."...

He promises, as he did during the campaign, to get rid “of tremendous regulations,” to help American companies compete more easily in the world market and to put more of America’s citizens back to work.

That leads, naturally, to an assessment of his own work in his first 100 days, which is, predictably, that no president “has ever done what I have done” even though “the first-hundred-day standard is ridiculous.”

“Well, I think that the Supreme Court is very important,” he explains, “because every 5-to-4 decision is because of me. And that could go on for 40 years,” since his first appointment to the court, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, “is a young man” at age 49.

“Don’t forget, I got him nominated and confirmed in those 100 days,” he adds, not willing to give up the 100-day argument quite yet.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-you-make-a-mistake-here-there-is-nothing-to-work-out/article/2621572

the map handouts totally remind me of a three year old's drawing. 'I MADE THIS LOOK I MADE THIS LOOK AT WHAT I DID I MADE THIS'

LOL

The White House began deploying the advisers throughout the bureaucracy in January, assigning them to report back on what was happening in their departments. But according to several sources, their meddling quickly began to irritate high-powered officials accustomed to running their own shops -- including Defense Secretary James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, both former generals; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a successful financier; and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who’s been a Cabinet secretary before.

Mnuchin assigned his minder to the Treasury basement, according to senior officials at the Treasury Department.

"Mmmm yeah, I'm gonna need you to move to the basement. Yeah, that'd be great."

down in the basement with bob "the eagle" bradley

need a moratorium on comparing this asshole to small children. small children are nowhere near as hateful or mendacious as this pouty potty mouth

Wish there was a thread for that

You're right, we've got one here...Facebook needs the same thing; a whole separate wall limited to friends who aren't going to go all apoplectic if you can't help making a connection between posts about their children and The Exorcist.

I hope no counter protesters show up to that Patriot Prayer rally and that the Patriots, bored now that nobody took their bait, just eat each other

fuckin' can't believe how low the limbo bar keeps going. "1950s" a goal now?

Wasn't the "patriot prayer" scheduled before the stabbing?

stabbings, plural

1950s? It is the first decade you can go back to that definitely had television, good highways and rural electricity, but also had Jim Crow laws and no federal civil rights enforcement. For some people that looks like the sweet spot to aim for. It's a shame about the constant Cold War fear of annihilation, but hey you can't have everything.

xxpost whether it was or it wasn't, i'm against free speech rallies where "free speech" is just a dog whistle for something sinister.

which isn't to say I don't think they have the right to assemble, but I don't have to feel sad if one of them gets run over by his own tractor on the way there

yes, of course. they are ghouls -- no argument from me there.

but it would be especially obscene -- unthinkable even -- if this was an event that was explicitly designed to be in support of this racist murderer

it probably will draw more people because of the tragedy though, which brought notoriety. so that's pretty heinous.

well the racist murderer apparently thinks he was standing his ground for freedom of speech when he slit throats

yeah

i know

WaPo: Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York

The MD compound was a SIGINT site Russian intelligence used to spy on DoD and IC facilities in the Chesapeake Bay region.

that pic might actually be the first thing i've seen/heard from Kathy Griffin that i liked

it's not funny, it's provocative and angry, which is fine by me

being unfunny on New Years is a TV tradition (Dick Clark, Shadoe Stevens? etc)

decapitrump is in bad taste, some might say, which is way worse than bad morals in 'merica

I'd like to think someone just woke up from a 15-year coma and the first thing they saw was this tweet https://t.co/8kMtV6z7fG

— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) May 31, 2017

Derp

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/politics/congress-investigating-jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-meeting/index.html

donald trump will never be president

he isn't. this is some sinister alternate reality.

Where Donna Martin didn't graduate

ORLY

BREAKING: @johncrudele reports DOJ granted warrants to conduct surveillance on certain journalists to find leakers https://t.co/PuA6A8WuwT

— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) June 1, 2017

People in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe. https://t.co/M7oK5Z6qwF

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2017

how is she not banned from everywhere yet

Honestly do wonder what would happen if Twitter suddenly up and died.

she was banned from the presidency twice iirc

do we know what happens to deleted tweets? i doubt the text would disappear here

(i just tested and they don't)

which is why the tweet embeds are great!

oh wow, i just realized that if you have images on, the whole tweet embeds! that's kind of cool. FYI, w/ images off (the correct way to use ILX), the text of the tweet is pasted

as long as u use old.css u are using ilx correctly

Russia is seeking to return its diplomatic property in #US🇺🇸 asap.
Otherwise, we will have to take counter measures https://t.co/2MJ4PauEYt pic.twitter.com/kjC1iSQRrc

— Russia in USA 🇷🇺 (@RusEmbUSA) May 23, 2017

Funny how that worked (note the date)

From Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union, by Stephen Budiansky

A Soviet defector, Arkady Shevchenko, subsequently confirmed that other well-situated facilities used by Soviet diplomats in the United States—an eighteen-story residential complex in Riverdale in the Bronx, located on one of the highest spots in New York City; a Long Island mansion on thirty-seven acres in Glen Cove that served as a recreational retreat; and another recreational facility on the Eastern Shore of Maryland—were used to eavesdrop on microwave towers that served not only the major long-distance telephone links to Washington and New York, but also Andrews Air Force Base, where the president’s Air Force One was based, and Norfolk, Virginia, home of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. “It is most unlikely that these sites were selected for any other reason than microwave interception,” an AT&T analysis concluded. The Soviets’ Washington-area intercepts of unencrypted phone calls by U.S. officials and defense contractors were, according to KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin, Moscow’s “most important source of intelligence on the foreign and defense policies of the Ford and Carter administrations.”

At this rate Russia won't even need to spy on us.

i am glad other people have to regularly double check to make sure that was not kathy griffin on newsradio

sorry, vicki lewis!

wait, what? i always thought that was griffin!!! lol

I think KG got in the public eye just as Newsradio was ending and Vicki Lewis didn't get a next tv gig as high profile and the public mind got confused

Kathy Griffin was on Suddenly Susan (Brooke Shields sitcom), which was on NBC around the same time NewsRadio was.

I was about to say I thought she'd been in Just Shoot Me, but that isnt right either haha.

Further discussion of Vicki Lewis will be happening shortly over in the 90s Hot thread.

I never thought about it before, but how weird was it for NBC to have two competing female-led ensemble sitcoms about magazines (Just Shoot Me! and Suddenly Susan)? The '90s, man.

Throw all the magazine related shows to the wall and see what sticks, great strategy

There's one episode of Newsradio where Vicki Lewis does a quick Griffin impression after noting that every office has a spunky redhead

I often confuse Kathy Griffin with David Spade.

tbf they were both spunky

Newsradio > everything, especially the Trump admin, is my opinion

The Brooke Shields one was a decent sitcom vehicle for her career

jeez was Caroline in the City around this time, too? the 90s wasn't bad for woman-led shows

I loved Just Shoot Me but it has not aged well

paris accord decision at 3 this afternoon in the white house rose garden

seems like a perfectly idyllic location to announce we're condemning future generations to unimaginable hardship

news radio <3 <3 <3

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