Trump, September 2017: Walmart Knockoff Hats and Other Indignities

well yes

http://fortune.com/2016/06/10/president-obamas-new-smartphone-is-more-like-a-toddler-phone/

So I guess he was a jackass feeding people at the shelter today?

everyone was having such a good time

I saw a photo of him kissing a little black girl, and it looked like he was a heartbeat away from swallowing her whole.

Small thing, but I really don't like how he and Melania keep product placing their hats. Astros/Texans/Rockets/Rap-A-Lot swag had to be available.

Seeing the President directly serve the people is welcomed and heartening. https://t.co/37akVLy8BH

— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) September 2, 2017

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIvcoqYWAAAXx9F.jpg

The look on his face conveys that there are human hearts in those to-go boxes.

re: how he uses Twitter:

I dictate my tweets to my executive assistant and she posts them. "Time is money"---The Art of the Deal.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 23, 2011

and here i thought bob marley came up with that one

So he has somebody else up with him in the middle of the night making non grammatical nonsense posts. Covfefe and long interval between posts were dictated? If that's true isn't it worse.
He's employing an assistant that's also heartless and hasn't been mentioned over the last 7 months? I don't think so, certainly not for all of his Tweets.

It's John Barron.

is she Siri or Cortana?

https://i.imgur.com/hYu8WUA.jpg

A lot about his daily life has chambers since 2011.

Changed, fu autocorrect

don't you think that executive assistant would have had a fawning nymag profile by now if she existed

in the admin context i mean

He's definitely not dictating the colorful late night tweets. The retweets of neo-nazis, likewise, are his doing. No employee who wants to preserve their job would do that stuff.

Her name is Rhona Graff, apparently

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/rhona-graff-trump-conduit-236484

re: how he uses Twitter:

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sic otm, he hasn't "dictated" tweets to an assistant in years and he certainly doesn't do it now

No, it's absolutely true. I found a picture of his Twitter assistant.

http://rs718.pbsrc.com/albums/ww183/ckdout/Quato.jpg~c200

tbh there is a strong possibility the assistant was always John Barron, and Trump just thinks the idea of him dictating things to subordinates makes him sound important

The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017

Ha ha, yeah, this'll end well.

They are groping for a non-military way to 'get tough' on NK. Every administration has the same intractable set of NK problems and the same set of unworkable ideas to deal with them. Some day we'll have to give in, normalize relations, and try to reintegrate NK into the world's community of nations.

I'm just envisioning Trump saying this to China and having them respond with an invoice for every dime we owe them, due in 30 days.

https://medium.com/@Amy_Siskind/week-42-experts-in-authoritarianism-advise-to-keep-a-list-of-things-subtly-changing-around-you-so-a1fbe96c91ca

117 items on this week's list

he racked up 117 items in a slow week in late August!

knowing trump, he likely got in the 10 items or less lane too

Lyle Goldstein has some interesting insights into how to constructively engage with both China and the DPRK, of course I'll have to re-listen to the podcast below to remember what they were. That said they all involved give and take, talks, understanding an opposing point of view and all kinds of things 45 is not to good at.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sinica-podcast-weekly-discussion-current-affairs-in/id1121407665?mt=2&i=1000390124742

from maura's

In a radio interview, Eric Trump said the negative media coverage was impacting his father: “It important to keep in context. Otherwise, quite frankly, you’d probably end up killing yourself out of depression.”

where's that osama thumbs up gif

i don't know if it's reassuring or not that a 117-item list can almost uniformly strike me as old news. either the constant stream of stories is calling attention away from arguably worse things, or the normalization is not actually as creeping and insidious as it has been made out to be, since the stream of stories is graspable and seems to be cohering into a constant reminder of the nation's grievance against trump (much like he can never forget a slight)

So, his Tweet-assistant typed covfefe?

jamais un coup de dé n'abolira le hazard

Rhona Graff is not a real person, that's the editor of an electronic newspaper in a cyberpunk novel.

A Trumpster Darkly

Remarkable, this DACA suicide.

Setting aside its obvious cruel stupidity, it's remarkable how much of it seems to be driven by Trump's own two-minded cowardice and desperation. I read it this way: "I gotta act. But I can't be the bad guy, somehow. I can't do this immediately. Congress, they keep telling me not to do this. Okay, they gotta do this themselves. That's it." It's some convoluted attempt at a deal crossed with self-pity where the only one being hurt is him (according to him). Meantime, the whole caucus in the House and relevant figures in the Senate just took a look at the 6 month deadline, the upcoming primary calendar and more and are cursing his name. Of course, you shouldn't pity them either. And they are tied to that shipwreck leading their party all the more tightly now, and they too will think they're the only ones being hurt.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-dreamers-immigration-daca-immigrants-242301

DACA is dead in 6 months.

Ned's read is more potentially positive.

I wouldn't call it positive, merely noting the calculus here.

jeff sessions is also a piece of shit

^have been adding this tacit acknowledgement to all my renditions of The Lord's Prayer lately

genius, give your opposition something huge to unite around and only six months to plan a response

we do usually need some time to get our shit together

It looks like there's going to be huge corporate dissent on the DACA repeal.

https://dreamers.fwd.us/Business-Leaders

Let's hope he'll be disgraced/dead by then and someone else can begin rebuilding the country

What would disgrace look like in that scenario tbh

live boy/dead girl obvs

i guess i mean universally disgraced beyond a few lingering Nazi sympathisers

Scratch one up for the classics there ted

Nixon 74 disgraced