Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

He's getting dragged over the Andrew Jackson/Civil War thing so he needed to say something to show how important and powerful he is. I'm sure Paul Ryan is on the phone with him right now.

But yes, he's like an internet comments section on shuffle, dispensing horrifying dipshit responses to questions no one ever asked.

Sort of amazed the budget got passed as is, with no battles. It's like after so many days of losing at trying to win they decided they would just rather accept a win by losing.

Continuing resolutions are powerful stuff.

I think the budget issue was being exclusively worked on by Congress. P sure they just started ignoring the white house entirely. I also think the discrepancy in the budget #s referenced above is comparing what passed with Trump's proposed budget, which was never going to pass and was basically a wish list.

This, from a New York magazine piece, made me laugh:

President Trump says his infrastructure plan is “largely completed” and will be introduced in two to three weeks. He also says that he is considering raising the gas tax and breaking up Wall Street’s biggest banks.

But then, the president says a lot of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObsQ8_58V3Q

When he gets reelected it will be for claiming credit for all sorts of things that never happened just because they sound familiar to voters. They will praise him for successfully building a wall, cutting taxes for everyone, bringing back coal, making Mexico illegal, repealing giraffes, deregulating deep fat fryers.

Lotta white people in that video...

Repealing giraffes must be accomplished in tandem with providing universal hen fap.

David Blight, professor of American history at Yale University:

"He really said this about Jackson and the Civil War? All I can say to you is that from day one I have believed that Donald Trump's greatest threat to our society and to our democracy is not necessarily his authoritarianism, but his essential ignorance—of history, of policy, of political process, of the Constitution. Saying that if Jackson had been around we might not have had the Civil War is like saying that one strong, aggressive leader can shape, prevent, move history however they wish. This is simply a fifth-grade understanding of history or worse. And this comes from the president of the United States! Under normal circumstances if a real estate tycoon weighed in on the nature of American history from such ignorance and twisted understanding we would simply ignore or laugh at him. But since this man lives in the historic White House and wields the constitutional powers of the presidency and the commander in chief we have to pay attention. Trump's "learning" of American history must have stopped even before the fifth grade. I wish I could say this is funny and not deeply disturbing. My profession should petition the President to take a one- or two-month leave of absence, VP Pence steps in for that interim, and Trump goes on a retreat in one of his resorts for forced reeducation. It could be a new tradition called the presidential education leave. Or perhaps in New Deal tradition, an 'ignorance relief' period. This alone might gain the United States again some confidence and respect around the world. God help us."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/hey-trump-this-is-why-the-civil-war-happened

"forced reeducation"

"god help us" is a pretty appropriate ending for nearly any public statement these days

trump & co have zero concept of history. if they did they'd realize there's consequences for spewing lies and garbage 24/7.

when do they start

Corey Robin:

If Trump were serious about consolidating his power, he might start by, oh, I don’t know, consolidating his power. Because while Trump talks, this is what he’s doing, or not doing:

The Senate has confirmed 26 of Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other top posts. But for 530 other vacant senior-level jobs requiring Senate confirmation, the president has advanced just 37 nominees….

...And this failure to consolidate executive power isn’t just in the agencies and departments Trump wants to gut. This is also in agencies and departments Trump wants to expand and empower....

Whatever fantasies Trump may have about the presidency unbound, this man has almost no agenda for consolidating the power of the presidency. It’s a slogan, a rhetoric, a performance, but that’s it.

http://coreyrobin.com/2017/04/29/a-wise-psychoanalyst-once-told-me-sort-of-look-at-what-trump-does-not-what-he-says/

they'd realize there's consequences for spewing lies

dilbros know those actions are merely tactical and the consequence is WINNING.

man I just remembered that whole "imagine there is no such thing as objective reality" and "I achieved all my dreams by writing them on a piece of paper 15 times in a row" thing from The Dilbert Future and suddenly everything makes sense to me

Have we talked about this yet today?

http://www.avclub.com/article/steve-bannons-rap-musical-has-been-found-and-it-so-254566

Truly the man has flow.

Shamilton

Donald J. Trump‏
Verified account @realDonaldTrump

President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

He would've unleashed his Calhoun cone army on those rebels!

Clone

Ah yes, the cone army. They are from France.

if they did they'd realize there's consequences for spewing lies and garbage 24/7

yes, but not for him

fuck this stupid fuck

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.