a “child king,” a “self-pitying fool”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/opinion/sunday/trump-our-child-king.html?mcubz=3
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 27 August 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
He doesn't seem to ever do anything that attracts new supporters. He mostly seems to alienate them a few at a time, week after week.
And this is where things get really fucked because at some point he'll realize that being a war president is the only way to get those people back.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 27 August 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
i just came across this gem on facebook. imagine the bar being set lower for any human being ever pic.twitter.com/fZU6Y28yo7— Timothy Simons (@timothycsimons) August 29, 2017
― j., Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
jesus
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
Matt Damon throwaway answer on Trump is revealing. pic.twitter.com/d1THKaBH7k— (((tedfrank))) (@tedfrank) September 1, 2017
― j., Saturday, 2 September 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
That's some good shit
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 September 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
hoo ha!
― I am a paying customer, who is very cordial and pleasant to talk to (stevie), Saturday, 2 September 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
As he puts on plastic gloves to serve food at NRG Stadium...President Trump turns to press and says: "My hands are too big!" pic.twitter.com/WIUTLOS4XD— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) September 2, 2017
― j., Sunday, 3 September 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
No!
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Sunday, 3 September 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
If he serves a peach, you must impeach
― Toblerroneous (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 3 September 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
Literally any other person this would be an endearing self deprecating thing but no... not here.
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 September 2017 00:52 (six years ago) link
gotta admit i chuckled
― crüt, Sunday, 3 September 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
hahahaha its almost like he's not an awful terrible destructive ignorant cunt
― I am a paying customer, who is very cordial and pleasant to talk to (stevie), Sunday, 3 September 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
next to your deeper fears we stand surrounded by four maga years
#rosneftabout
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
make Antarctica green again?
― StanM, Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
Report from the ground. Holy shit people are going nuts right now ... huge line of people buying booze. Dude in the parking lot losing his shit about "n" word and more. I'm in a middle class suburb of NYC. People are going fucking bonkers. All I see is pure misery on the subway, dozens of depressed and dejected faces.
Hooray for the status quo, I guess. For anyone who thinks this is going to last, I've got another story to tell you.
― carpet_kaiser, Saturday, 16 September 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
Man, a few months ago I heard a kid say, "why does everyone look so sad?" For those who defend the status quo, how do you support this? Clinton is no different here in this.
― carpet_kaiser, Saturday, 16 September 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
[on the NYC subway]
If you're looking for a silver lining to the Trump phenomenon, this might be it. Our crazy president, if nothing else, has had a clarifying effect on American politics. He may make the Democratic Party desperate enough to return to power that it will actually have to start picking voters over donors when it comes time to choose which policy approaches to endorse. Which might mean embracing policies that would actually excite people for a change.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-single-payer-effort-shows-life-post-trump-may-not-suck-w503498
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 17 September 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/03/mary-macleod-trump-donald-trump-mother-biography-mom-immigrant-scotland-215779
Many of the array of psychologists, psychiatrists and family therapists I talked to for this story have a question Mary Trump actually once asked herself, at a moment when she was feeling something less than pride in her celebrity son.This was in 1990. Donald Trump was divorcing his first wife, philandering with the model Marla Maples and floundering in hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, facing high-profile humiliation and ruin in his early 40s. Mary Trump, on the other hand, was approaching 80. Once a poor immigrant from the remote, desolate northwest corner of Scotland, and the product of the strict mores of the country’s Presbyterian Church, she had been married to the business-centric Fred Trump for more than half a century, residing with him and their five children and their live-in in a large, red-brick, white-columned house positioned regally atop a grassy hill. She had worked tirelessly, volunteering at a local hospital, staying active at schools, charities and social clubs, and steering her rose-colored Rolls-Royce to the family’s outer-borough apartment buildings to collect coins from the laundry machines. She and her husband had sent their fourth and most incorrigible child, who as a boy threw cake at kids at parties and erasers at his teachers at his private elementary school, first to Sunday morning Bible classes, like his siblings—and then, unlike his siblings, to a stringent military academy an hour and a half upstate shortly after he turned 13. Now, in the twilight of her life, beset with debilitating bone loss, she was being sucked into his tawdry, nonstop soap opera, rendered a bit player in a media frenzy, captured by paparazzi while sitting in the rear of her chauffeured car, looking steely and peeved.That year, according to Vanity Fair, Mary Trump asked Ivana Trump, her soon-to-be-ex-daughter-in-law, a pointed question. “What kind of son have I created?”
This was in 1990. Donald Trump was divorcing his first wife, philandering with the model Marla Maples and floundering in hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, facing high-profile humiliation and ruin in his early 40s. Mary Trump, on the other hand, was approaching 80. Once a poor immigrant from the remote, desolate northwest corner of Scotland, and the product of the strict mores of the country’s Presbyterian Church, she had been married to the business-centric Fred Trump for more than half a century, residing with him and their five children and their live-in in a large, red-brick, white-columned house positioned regally atop a grassy hill. She had worked tirelessly, volunteering at a local hospital, staying active at schools, charities and social clubs, and steering her rose-colored Rolls-Royce to the family’s outer-borough apartment buildings to collect coins from the laundry machines. She and her husband had sent their fourth and most incorrigible child, who as a boy threw cake at kids at parties and erasers at his teachers at his private elementary school, first to Sunday morning Bible classes, like his siblings—and then, unlike his siblings, to a stringent military academy an hour and a half upstate shortly after he turned 13. Now, in the twilight of her life, beset with debilitating bone loss, she was being sucked into his tawdry, nonstop soap opera, rendered a bit player in a media frenzy, captured by paparazzi while sitting in the rear of her chauffeured car, looking steely and peeved.
That year, according to Vanity Fair, Mary Trump asked Ivana Trump, her soon-to-be-ex-daughter-in-law, a pointed question. “What kind of son have I created?”
― j., Saturday, 4 November 2017 04:10 (six years ago) link
throwing cake and erasers
― flappy bird, Saturday, 4 November 2017 04:13 (six years ago) link
There will be courses in universities about this asshole for the next hundred years, assuming universities still exist.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 4 November 2017 04:34 (six years ago) link
Some people just turn out fuckin' wrong. Inexorably-broken and irredeemable because they see nothing problematic about their brokenness. Nothing but a sour and twisted mockery of humanity. You just hope people like that never get their hands on actual power, y'know?
― Vas the deferens? (Old Lunch), Saturday, 4 November 2017 05:50 (six years ago) link
they never understand their failure to love another is not the other’s failure
― estela, Saturday, 4 November 2017 05:58 (six years ago) link
what is wrong with a nation that, even through the quirks of the electoral college, sees this man worthy of such power? how can so many people see this man and not be repulsed by him, not think him unworthy of even being elected dog-catcher?
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
because they're racist / sexist pieces of shit, and *hated* the black president and the thought of a chick in the white house even more than the sane among us are grossed out by destructive silver spoon slobs?
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
Imagine going all the way to Japan and eating a hamburger at a country club pic.twitter.com/thYetsb5K0— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) November 5, 2017
― j., Sunday, 5 November 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/paradise-papers-exposes-donald-trump-russia-links-and-piggy-banks-of-the-wealthiest-1-percent/
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 6 November 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
the president will blow a gasket if there's no statement of exoneration by year's end
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
why not? he blows a gasket pretty often. several times a week afaics.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 04:01 (six years ago) link
maybe he'll finally have a stroke and die
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
but then they probably still won't remove him from office
his higher brain functions died a long time ago
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
you don't have to live like a refu-jesus mr. potus
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/andrew-sullivan-america-is-trapped-in-trumps-delusions.html
i know photo editors can be pretty manipulative but doesn't it seem like trump's photographed facial expressions have become consistently like this in the past couple months, like he's straining under the desperate prevarication and fabrication as he senses no one around is even paying it lip service now?
― j., Saturday, 2 December 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
Omg pic.twitter.com/k3wJ7y3ZsM— Annie Shields (@anastasiakeeley) December 2, 2017
― j., Sunday, 3 December 2017 04:13 (six years ago) link
The parties that will be had when this fuck’s heart explodes
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 December 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
The thought of Trump's aorta popping from one too many Big Macs has an appealing vibe of self-correction by America's excesses.
(with all due respect to the millions of decent and enlightened people in the USA)
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 3 December 2017 06:33 (six years ago) link
naw you're right we're trash
― j., Sunday, 3 December 2017 06:46 (six years ago) link
point
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/03/trump-suggests-investors-who-lost-on-false-flynn-report-by-abcs-ross-should-sue.html
counterpoint
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/22/lockheed-martin-shares-take-another-tumble-after-trump-tweet.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
The Republican Party can no longer claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility, strong foreign policy, or family values :(
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-roy-moore-rex-tillerson-senate-tax-bill-everything-republicans-stood-for-a8091036.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 4 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
Fantastic technique. This is...freeze it here. Look at this: two hands, alpha scrunch, lapping away like a dang kitty cat. He's just having fun out there. pic.twitter.com/k2I0Zkouf3— David Roth (@david_j_roth) December 18, 2017
― j., Monday, 18 December 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMufib-_gLs
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 December 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
"Impatience resulted in Trump’s orange-blond hair color."
She treated her father with a degree of detachment, even irony, going so far as to make fun of his comb-over to others. She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate — a contained island after scalp-reduction surgery — surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray. The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men — the longer it was left on, the darker it got.
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed that piece, and even went to preorder the book, but Wolff has a history of making up quotes and exaggerating, so I think I'll skip buying it. Honestly I don't care that much about Trump once he got into office - I want to read a whole book about election night, and the hours when Trump and everyone around him realized they were going to win.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
wolff's history notwithstanding, 1/2 term's pretty blistering attack on bannon suggests 1/2 term thinks wolff's on the level. apparently wolff was the tom yeats to donald and melania's francis and claire underwood? who knows though -- he could even be in on it. 1/2 term has a new excuse now -- i didn't really want to win, so why would i conspire with russia?
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
lol "1/2 term"? is that the new "45"?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
and that's a weak excuse, and we all know he absolutely did not expect or want to win the election
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
"Jokes on them--I don't have any friends!"
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 4 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link