Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

If you're going to contend that Trump is so much worse than his peers, then surely you can expect added animosity towards the one that failed to prevent his rise

Why would you expect this

fp'd myself for taking that bait, have an excellent day everyone

Larry Summers strikes again

3m dead Vietnamese, 2m dead Koreans, 1m dead Iraqis–countless coups & contra armies = "peace, prosperity, stability" https://t.co/1zEAzVsnbY pic.twitter.com/bbf6Kep3CP

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 4, 2017

Sure, compared with the World Wars.

I can think of several men but I don't know if I can come up with one single woman in America who I would less rather have as president than Trump.

― evol j, Monday, June 5, 2017 7:16 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i came up with one this morning, K@tie McH*gh

https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/MC11slides/sp-Slide045.jpg

the good Dr. doesn't do math, Sanpaku

Hillary Clinton fucked up big league during her campaign in myriad ways, I feel like this is undeniable. However, it's not really her fault, no one knew how to run against an opponent like this.

I too have made many, many mistakes in my life.

be interested to know how 'battle deaths' are defined in that chart

deaths per 100k people is kinda misleading since the world's population has taken such a sharp postwar increase. i mean obv ww1 and ww2 take the cake in death tolls since 1900, but i don't think studying in proportion to the population as a whole is the right metric.

also i haven't said it in a while but fuck donald trump and his ghoulish face, i hope he stumbles into a field full of rakes and knocks himself unconscious trying to get out

Lacina et al, 2006. [The declining risk of death in battle](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bethany_Lacina/publication/227688952_The_Declining_Risk_of_Death_in_Battle/links/5628d9c008ae04c2aeaeb9b6.pdf). International Studies Quarterly, 50(3), pp.673-680.

Battle-related deaths are defined as civilians and soldiers killed in the course of combat. Non-violent deaths caused by war, such as those occurring through starvation or disease, and deaths due to unorganized violence (such as riots) or one-sided violence (such as execution of POWs or genocide) are not included.

real heads wanna know how much each death cost

have economies of scale made it cheaper to kill people? enquiringly minds want to know

I can think of several men but I don't know if I can come up with one single woman in America who I would less rather have as president than Trump.

― evol j, Monday, June 5, 2017 7:16 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i came up with one this morning, K@tie McH*gh

― nomar, Monday, June 5, 2017 3:16 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know who that is but I guess Ann Coulter could be another, though even she would probably only be about 10% worse than Trump.

how much each death cost in constant dollars

nice handwaving there, sanpaku & shakey. #BuckTurgidson

It's gone up. Each "enemy" KIA in Vietnam cost 168,000 (about $1 million in current dollars). Each Taliban KIA in Afghanistan costs 50 million.

There isn't the manufacturing base or funding to do a total war the way we blow money on COIN ops. Smart bombs will get used up, and we'll be back to pretty dumb weapons pretty quickly. Hell, we couldn't even supply the US millitary with enough bullets for Iraq operations, without importing a shitton from Israel.

welp https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/

so... i had no idea word could be a source of walware :|

shortly:

5:30 PM: President Trump and the First Lady host a reception for Gold Star Families

surely something unfortunate will be said.

is Khizr Khan gonna be there

I can think of several men but I don't know if I can come up with one single woman in America who I would less rather have as president than Trump.

sorry, I just wanted to chime in on this and remind everyone about Michele Bachmann

She would, at best, be just as bad as Trump.

TS: Taco bowl vs corndog

http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/files/2011/08/corndog-mustard-490.jpg

There are also like female serial killers and suicide bombers and stuff

ex-governors of Alaska

i think at least 100 million people in america would be an even worse president than trump

probably many more

that's true, there are probably tens of millions who would push the red button on Korea and China and, oh why not, Portugal as a goof.

I still worry Trump might do something like that

eat a corn dog?

I actually do not think Sarah Palin would be as bad as Trump. Once she finished taking all of the fixtures from the Oval Office and hiding them in her purse, she'd lose interest and resign.

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S08E02/975724.jpg?b64lines=CgpOb2JvZHkgZXZlciBzYXlzIEl0YWx5Lg==

i sometimes have this stupid daydream about a politician who decides to go for total transparency and livestreams their daily political interactions, meetings, votes, fundraising efforts, etc. but for total transparency you'd want to have some sort of communications or feedback mechanism so the people you represent would be able to comment or suggest things or criticize about the decisions that were being made, in real-time. it's something that i don't think (?) was really possible until relatively recently, technologically.

but god, what a fucking nightmare that would be. it'd just be a nonstop stream of people saying the dumbest shit imaginable and yelling in all caps at each other until everyone was permabanned.

on the other hand, the politician's life would be very boring and it would turn out that most people don't like to watch the equivalent of c-span coverage on a single politician's day-to-day activities, so maybe there'd just be a handful of elderly people watching and offering constructive feedback.

shall I repost a Bulworth gif

all my life has only been a prologue to this moment

Pitch it as a Black Mirror ep, Karl.

i will, but only after i figure out how i can gradually increase the scale throughout the episode so that by the end the viewer of black mirror, sitting on the couch at home, is actually a de facto god with control of the lives of billions of people on a planet similar to earth, BUT the de facto god viewer decides to actually listen to the prayers of their subjects and it turns out that everyone is making really stupid prayers all the time, requests that could theoretically be fulfilled but with unintended consequences that would actually make their lives even more miserable, BUT only the de facto black mirror viewer god can understand that BUT the prayers are so annoying that they decide to grant the prayers anyway and just turn the alt-earth into a dystopian hellscape because that's what the people begged for, so give them what they want. possibly the show could scale up even more after that

BOOM i just made a million bucks, i am going to offer that idea to my congressman during the next town hall. bobby rush you are going to owe me big time after you hear this

In a dystopian future, a religious right politician claims to follow the word of god. And then one day he starts hearing from god himself, who commands him to do more and more outlandish things, so much so that people figure he's nuts. His supporters abandon him and he's left alone and isolated, no friends, no family. People pass him on the street, he's homeless. He stops hearing the voice, stops receiving instruction. Then one day he decides he's had enough and kills himself. He wakes up in Hell, for having committed suicide, but the Devil tells him he's not done, he's really going places, and he has to spend an eternity running for office as Trump's vice presidential candidate.

I know we're past this, but holy shit :

Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017

the MSM is spinning it by....quoting what the mayor actually said? What is Trump trying to imply here? That Khan just doesn't care about RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM and is trying to get his citizens killed??

.@lachlan & I asked Trump aides today if option to have lawyers vet Trump tweets was going anywhere. Answer: “LMFAO” https://t.co/tYx8nWLx3A pic.twitter.com/7HkgKSdrLW

— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) June 5, 2017

http://i.imgur.com/9LMr8mT.jpg

if anyone can vet trump's twitter it's Redfoo and SkyBlu

I didn't even know they had law degrees

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/what-trump-really-fears/528846/

But to those who believe he can weather the coming Comey assault, the biggest remaining X-factor in the Russia scandal is the recklessness and ineptitude that exists in certain segments of Trump’s orbit.

That pattern of behavior doesn’t just provide ammunition to his critics, it also unnerves the president’s allies. One Republican operative with extensive foreign-policy experience pointed to the reports of undisclosed contact between Trump’s aides and the Russians, and wondered if there might be more revelations to come. “If they’re stupid enough to be doing stuff like that, they’re also probably too stupid to realize that there are various (foreign) intelligence agencies … that have the goods on them,” he said. “They’re probably sitting on tapes—what if they get motive to release them?”

Meanwhile, the former campaign staffer went so far as to suggest Trump’s aides could have colluded with Russia without knowing it was illegal. “Is it possible that (Trump) was surrounded with people who didn’t even realize what they were doing was inappropriate? You’d have to be pretty stupid. But there are some pretty stupid people in the Trump camp.”

“You have to remember,” the staffer added, “these people were just kind of in the right place at the right time, and fell into running the country … I would almost compare it to the Keystone Kops. Just silly, maybe well-intentioned people who got lucky—or maybe unlucky depending on how things work out.”

well intentioned 👀

^^^

even "critics" still want to give the benefit of the doubt/exculpate themselves for aiding and abetting

guess I should specify "GOP critics" there