Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

lol

definitely seems like he's turned into the Melissa McCarthy character as of late

Every reply starts with either "Again..." or "I think the President has been perfectly clear on this..."

he tried to joke about making his podum move on a reporter last week. xp

Today's press briefing is FUCKING INSANITY.

so I watched the top of it through the first speaker guy (who was pretty horrifying, but not in an aggro-at-people way) -- what happened?

Sesame Street moved to pay cable ages ago, but killing Big Bird remains both a) a high GOP priority and b) Democrats' cuddliest example of what Republicans want to kill.

it moved to hbo just last year, not ages ago; and it still runs on pbs, just on a delay

would trump's tax cuts even translate into GWB-style checks for the average person? i was picturing more ryan gosling's bonus at the end of the big short.

twitter is really going off on the press conf, apparently spicer quoted hannity as a source to the room and claims obama spied via GCHQ / british intel (??) not sure if there is more or what but sounds like he's having a bad time

meanwhile The New Yorker's Andrew Marantz wrote a hilarious-chilling story about press conference and Lucian Wintrich, whose name is perfect for an Evelyn Waugh character. The following exchange is out of Bret Easton Ellis:

Over dinner at a nearby steakhouse, Hoft and Wintrich brainstormed about what they might ask the next day. “Just make sure it has ‘fake news’ in it, Lucian,” Hoft said, passing him a notepad. “Every question you ask with the words ‘fake news,’ you get a ten-dollar bonus. We’ll add that to your contract.”

Wintrich, sipping a Martini, jotted a few notes. “Sean! Over here, Sean!” he said, pretending to raise his hand. “In the past month alone, there have been at least twenty fake-news stories in the failing New York Times. Does fake news like this get in the way of the President’s ability to proceed on policy?”

Hoft cackled loudly enough to startle a woman at a nearby table. “That’s fucking hilarious,” he said. “Should we do something about ‘S.N.L.,’ maybe?”

“A follow-up, Sean, if I may?” Wintrich said. “Do you think that the failing show ‘Saturday Night Live’ will be cancelled, or can it be made great again?”

“That’s hard-core,” Jeremy Segal, one of the filmmakers, said.

“Genius,” Hoft said. He finished his steak, ordered a slice of banana cream pie, and asked Wintrich whether he wanted another Martini. “Lucian, when we’re out together, I pay for everything. You know that, right?”

“That’s very kind of you,” Wintrich said.

Andrew Marcus, the other filmmaker, said, “The big decision you have to make is how much of a troll you’re willing to be.”

“He’s there to troll,” Hoft said.

For a moment, Wintrich seemed to get cold feet. “Should we have a couple of backup questions that are specifically about policy?” he asked, tentatively.

“Policy schmolicy,” Hoft said.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps

Recent Skype questions were allotted to a Trump supporter and newspaper owner in Kentucky, who asked about reducing coal-mining regulations, and to a talk-radio host named Lars Larson, who addressed the press secretary, an officer in the Navy Reserve, as “Commander Spicer,” before asking whether the Administration would privatize federally protected parkland.

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i got yr wintrich right here.. what a fancy boy

Commander Spicer!!!

every one of these people are motherfuckers

Like in the Reagan years we're starting to see this nexus between the grislier elements of far right macho posturing + homosexuality.

i will lead the nexus between far left macho posturing + homosexuality.

reading that the WH budget director is proposing the meals on wheels and afterschool meals because the "don't deliver results" is just infuriating me

I read this thread regularly, almost never comment because what do I have to say really, but man, this shit's really getting to me today

claims obama spied via GCHQ / british intel (??)

lol I quoted the Fox interview that dropped this tidbit upthread

which I'm sure is the source of Spicer's claim

i will lead the nexus between far left macho posturing + homosexuality.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, March 16, 2017

and stick it in their plexus?

the hilariously sad thing about it is that it's a conclusion based on the *absence* of evidence - ie, if Obama ordered surveillance there would be "fingerprints" left behind at the NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. but since there *aren't* any than it must have been done through the British intelligence agency that has access to US intel. It's total "working backwards from assumed conclusion"-style logic.

Meals on Wheels brings people together, dammit

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lol sorry hueg

at this point I kinda want the stupid wall to be built so we can stand all these fuckers up against it and fill them with bullets.

xxxp trump is right, it's the facts that are wrong. so simple how could i have missed this before

Vadim Rizov‏
@vrizov
I would like it more if the end of the world wasn't so fucking stupid

https://twitter.com/vrizov/status/842414066522021888

"Tough cookies. Tough cookies."

GOP went with ACA repeal first to cut money from the budget, so they could give it away in tax cuts. It's to give away the most money to the rich while avoiding filibusters.

Meantime, Steve Deace still Deacin'

https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/03/if-bruce-wayne-could-learn-it-so-too-can-conservatives

With just about every show I do or column I write, Bruce Wayne’s query to Alfred is looming somewhere in the back of my mind.

Indeacin' Proposals

a talk-radio host named Lars Larson

as an Oregonian I can confirm that this guy is the worst

the hilariously sad thing about it is that it's a conclusion based on the *absence* of evidence - ie, if Obama ordered surveillance there would be "fingerprints" left behind at the NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. but since there *aren't* any than it must have been done through the British intelligence agency that has access to US intel. It's total "working backwards from assumed conclusion"-style logic.

― Οὖτις, Thursday, March 16, 2017 5:09 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's conspiracy theory logic. evidence is evidence, and lack of evidence is also evidence

wtf are we going to do if trump keeps insisting on shit that didn't happen.

the media should just post articles titled "Nuh Uh" and move on

That video from today of Jim Acosta, with staggering patience, attempting to get a complete, multi-sentence or even multi-clause argument past Commander Spicer... hoo boy. This guy is like Ron Ziegler compulsively downing life-threatening doses of stimulants.

I suspect the GCHQ stuff comes back to Louise Mensch again. She has claimed in the past that they were tapping the phones of the Trump camp (though later deleted the tweets) and maintains that British intelligence was actively aiding the Steele dossier with intercept evidence. One moronic conspiracy theory feeding another. xps

wtf are we going to do if trump keeps insisting on shit that didn't happen.

re-elect him, presumably

So this Gorka guy is an actual Nazi?

one of the things about trump lying like he does is that he is an old guy in ostensibly poor health and if he were to decline mentally would anyone be able to tell?

Take the boy who cried wolf analogy even further. What if he claims he is having a heart attack and no one believes him? That would be a tragedy.

re gorka - still not firmly established but he has a poor answer to "are you a member of a nazi organization" which is usually a pretty easy one to clear up for non-nazis ime

It would be easier to not worry about the rampant lying from the top levels of the executive branch if the legislative was making a consistent effort to address it. Cool that they're not giving him any material on the "wiretap" nonsense, but where's the Senate investigation of the "millions of illegal voters"? That one's just been allowed to seep out into the background - you'll be hearing people cite those millions twenty years from now as "proof" of whatever the fuck bullshit they want to spin at the time.

yep

Congress doesn't investigate vote fraud is why

xp tbh that would happen regardless of how thoroughly it gets disproven/addressed, that's the really poisonous and fucked up thing about these garbage people

the only people that could push back on that were the states, and they did

xp

so much of the lying is built into the whole poisonous 'the more money have, the smarter / more talented you are' ideology america voted in with reagan. we're just seeing it mutate into a stronger form with this inarticulate silver spoon doofus in the white house

agreed

we really need to raise taxes on the upper class and use that money to fund the hell out of education, or we're gonna stay stuck in this loop

yeah there's no investigation into voter fraud because they know the answer is 'nothing to see here folks'