Trump, August 2017: A great day at the White House!

Is there a tally of how many times one needs to do something that might trigger the 25th amendment before it automatically triggers.
Or a certain thresh-hold of related fumbles that will add up rto it taking hold?
Can America hold its collective head up high and announce that it is proud that it has an incompetent idiot as President

Only like 26% of America.

all 99% o f republicans in office

republicans have their own collective head. it doesn't see color.

Makes sense, as white isn't technically a color.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=25th%20Amendment

Lol 😭

If we survive having an incompetent idiot as President, it will be good for our future modesty (maybe)

"Let's just do it and be legends"

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/1/16075198/trump-lindsey-graham-north-korea-war

I don't think this even counts as sabre rattling because I don't believe Kim Jong-un really GAF. It's such a beautiful thing that the capacity to wipe out life on earth is held by such unstable nihilists.

with such terrible hair

Not good

I know it's a cliché but can't we just get these two into a parking garage and force them to resolve this with a one-handed switchblade fight a la the 'Billie Jean' video?

that's the Beat It video! what has happened to our nation :(

Mmm, pretty sure it was 'Billie Jean'. Or possibly 'Heal the World'.

Why does Lindsey Graham like war so much?

Part of me thinks/hopes that Trump was just kind of following Graham's hints during that conversation.

i'd hope that graham was being open about it to try to discourage trump from going to war but who knows at this point tbrr

I always assume warmongers have the appetite but not the aptitude to commit to a life of serial murder so they settle for the next best thing.

No he loves this shit are you kidding

I don't think that's the case Old Lunch. I think he's just a moron who imagines he is taking "tough, principled" positions against evil.

Regardless, a war with North Korea would be a catastrophe on an unimaginable scale and it shouldn't even be seriously considered as an option, much less an "inevitability." Good God.

I think all Graham cares about is that it would be a catastrophe for someone else and not him.

Are there sweet libtears in North Korea?

He's not really motivated by blind hatred of liberals either though, at least not compared to his fellow Republican senators. He just always thinks war is the answer.

The mentality is straightforwardly 'NK and Iran will bomb America the moment they are physically capable of doing so and therefore must be completely eliminated first, irrespective of the cost to their neighbours.

He's in the pocket of the arms companies but i can't imagine even they would be particularly keen on a massive nuclear strike against NK. There wouldn't be much profit in it.

xpost Can you get more lib than Communists? Better dead than beta red!

Are there sweet libtears in North Korea?

united nations libtears inspectors haven't been allowed into north korea for a while now, only the use of military force will let find out for sure

At the end of Trump's statement criticizing the sanctions bill, he boasts about his company and chastises Congress: pic.twitter.com/mqZD5h4Wif

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 2, 2017

full statement clearly not written by him

Signing statement accompanying the new sanctions bill pic.twitter.com/iygyaEZYgE

— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) August 2, 2017

I dunno, the typos sort of scream out "tiny fingers!"

Ha, Rick Perry being considered for Homeland Security. You know that dude wants out of Dept of Energy.

Why does Lindsey Graham like war so much?

Because Huckleberry Butchmeup doesn't have to fight them?

even 'normal' presidents have writers u know

You know that dude wants out of Dept of Energy.

literally *everybody* in the top ranks at the DoE has a PhD, he has to be very frustrated that his smart-glasses are not working their magic

What must it be like, working under a total dummy who has no understanding of what you do. (remembers practically every job he's ever had) Oh, yeah...

I can only assume that Perry was v confused when he found out the DoE doesn't really do much with energy policy and instead spends most of it's time shuttling nuclear waste around the country

Wasn't that how it was reported? That he totally thought he'd be fighting against solar power and stuff but instead got stuck with nuclear waste management?

Re Enrique Pena Nieto: Above Josh Marshall's cute maxim, the one instance of Occam's Razor that's appropriate with Trump is: Is this a dumb power play?

I can only assume that Perry was v confused when he found out the DoE doesn't really do much with energy policy and instead spends most of it's time shuttling nuclear waste around the country

he definitely had no idea. from that vanity fair article from the other day (which was excellent btw):

In his confirmation hearings to run the department Perry confessed that when he called for its elimination he hadn’t actually known what the Department of Energy did—and he now regretted having said that it didn’t do anything worth doing.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis

looooool I hadn't seen that before thx

Why do we need a department, there's energy everywhere.

Department of Labor? What, women haven't figured out how to give birth by now? Get rid of it!

I like making huge and impactful changes with the same casual, ignorant dismissiveness that I direct towards some band I won't listen to because they look stupid in their press photos.

Rasmussen has mailboxhead at -24% today

mostly notable because Strongly Disapprove is at 50%

reading that signing statement on the sanctions bill, did Trump previously issue an executive order banning apostrophes?

full statement clearly not written by him

🐦[Signing statement accompanying the new sanctions bill pic.twitter.com/iygyaEZYgE🕸
— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) August 2, 2017🕸]🐦

fuckin' apostrophes, how do they work

stay sexy russkie rexy : )

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/02/tillerson-isis-russia-propaganda-241218

USS Rexxon, I presume?

You guys could maybe just, y'know, try to look like you're not in Russia's pocket. Just engage in a little meaningless kabuki to deflect the accusations that your every action seems to confirm. Or not. Just a suggestion.

Out of interest, given that most of the recent attempts to "counter Russian propaganda", like the PropOrNot fiasco, seem to have targeted American journalists with no affiliation to Russia, and the US already spends millions on things like VoA and Radio Free Liberty, how would you like the Trump administration to be spending that cash?