I was thinking the other day, as I often do, about how confounding it is that Trump is so obviously a bullshit artist, so clearly a buffoon who somehow stumbled pinwheeling backwards into the presidency, so plainly a grifter who is out to enrich himself at every opportunity, a wannabe fascist with dreams of being Supreme Leader for Life, a corrupt villain who clings to power by dividing, by attacking, by bullying, by lying, and by literally any means necessary, and yet somehow there are so many people who buy into his bullshit! How can people believe in someone who is so painfully obviously a fraud? He doesn’t even try to hide it or pretend otherwise! And then I thought about professional wrestling, because that’s another thing that always confounded me. How do people possibly believe it is real? And of course Trump has the pro wrestling connections, he’s been in the ring, he knows it gets people fired up no matter how transparently fake it is. The over-the-top showmanship, the tough-guy posturing, the trash talk. People eat it up and don’t care that it’s not real because it’s a macho fantasy with good guys and bad guys, alliances and backstabbings, surprise attacks and killer put-downs. It’s as though he somehow managed to pose himself as the good guy in his own Wrestlemania tournament, with the ability to turn his adversaries into cartoonish evil strawmen to be taunted, to be hated, to be set up and knocked down like bowling pins while the crowd roars. And so he managed to get enough true believers fired up enough to build political momentum, leading others in the GOP to realize one by one that at some point they would have to jump on the train or get run over by it. And now they’re all on that idiot’s train and I hope it goes off a fucking cliff.
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 05:11 (four years ago) link
he’s a heel. A lot of people have decided they want to cheer for the heel because he feels like their heel.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
Yeah Trump is a heel. From the boasting to the obvious cheating to the constant whining about being wronged/disrespected. Heels are far more fun to root for than good guys.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
leading others in the GOP to realize one by one that at some point they would have to jump on the train or get run over by it. And now they’re all on that idiot’s train and I hope it goes off a fucking cliff.
― epistantophus, Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:11 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
And as I say often, they're also all dedicated to playing a game where if anyone else tries to point out something that is supposed to make them reconsider or even just reflect on their position in regards to any GOP talking point, they will instead dig in their heels out of spite. Nobody is to get the satisfaction of seeing any of them concede to any point regardless of counterarguments or new information. Dig in those heels every time, that's the game. And it's a game because context does not matter at all. The only rule is the more pushback you get the more you dig them in.
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
happy anniv
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down one of its worst and most activist decisions ever. https://t.co/PggwjFzN9l— Nathaniel St. Clair (@NatStClair) January 21, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
And as I say often, they're also all dedicated to playing a game where if anyone else tries to point out something that is supposed to make them reconsider or even just reflect on their position in regards to any GOP talking point, they will instead dig in their heels out of spite.
This is not a game, it's human nature
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
I framed it that way semi-sarcastically because i've never seen such a stubborn dedication to that "rule" (as I described it) before the Trump era, to this much of a cartoony extreme degree.
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
such a stubborn dedication to that "rule" (as I described it) before the Trump era
When your job depends on figuring out what an amorphous blob of hundreds of thousands, or millions, of voters might "think" in the aggregate, you adopt a very heuristic attitude. Trump did things no professional politician would have dared to try before 2016, but he succeeded, so it became monkey-see, monkey-do time in DC.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Del. Lee Carter, the Virginia General Assembly's sole Democratic socialist, just passed his first bill. It prevents employers from classifying workers as tipped employees if they're prohibited from soliciting tips. https://t.co/ucRe1p5Mpi— Ned Oliver (@nedoliver) January 22, 2020
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
He appears to be celebrating by shitposting from the House floor https://t.co/Z5jyeC3dvT— Ned Oliver (@nedoliver) January 22, 2020
that's a good tweet
― j., Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
I agree w TRAINS
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
Ruining the non-sequitLOLs a bit, but if you click on Lee's tweet, it's in regards to a separate train bill that passed afterwards
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
Still a good tweet tho
Are we sure it's not a zombie who can't correctly spell BRAINS?
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 January 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
Don't trains have . . . BOXCARS?!!!
― nickn, Friday, 24 January 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link
rarely ime
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Friday, 24 January 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
Trump promised his mileage standards would make cars cheaper and safer. New documents raise doubts about that.Top Senate Democrat argues that revised rule “will lead to vehicles that are neither safer, nor more affordable or fuel-efficient.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/01/23/trump-vowed-his-mileage-standards-would-make-cars-cheaper-safer-new-documents-raise-doubts-about-that/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
The Trump administration on Thursday signed its long-promised regulation to remove millions of miles of streams and roughly half the country’s wetlands from federal protection, the largest rollback of the Clean Water Act since the modern law was passed in 1972.
The move delivers a major win for the agriculture, homebuilding, mining, and oil and gas industries, which have for decades sought to shrink the scope of the water law that requires them to obtain permits to discharge pollution into waterways or fill in wetlands, and imposes fines for oil spills into protected waterways.
But Politico contends:Legal experts say the Trump rule is likely to be placed on hold by federal courts in at least some states, if not nationwide, as the litigation works its way through the courts. In the meantime. developers and other industries will have to decide how much of a risk they're willing to take.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/23/trump-epa-curbs-water-protections-102779
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link
doubts are raised and democrats argue but god forbid the washington post weigh in either way
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link
Doesn’t get more humiliating than this. Trump is in a meeting with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan Nechirvan Barzani, but he mistakes him for the leader of the Syrian Kurds & goes on & on talking “safezones” in Syria & Turkey. Truly astounding ignorance.pic.twitter.com/YQbu4SA3it— Sina Toossi (@SinaToossi) January 22, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
president toddler fuckaduck is a a big boy who knows a lot
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
can't humiliate the unhumiliatable
― chapoquidditch (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
As such, it's genuinely a wonder that he wears a diaper in lieu of just copping a squat wherever he happens to be when the spirit moves him. He's pure shameless id made manifest, what's really stopping him.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
think it might've made the news if Barzani had treated it like a gameshow and at the end said "I am ACTUALLY..."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
you fools, haven't you learned how to be right all the time? he didn't mix the two leaders up. no he didn't. that didn't happen.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
yup, just gotta play your kurds right
― Evan, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
and what many people are saying is how bad it is when YOU mixed up the two leaders. you did that. very dumb of you.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
I was shitposting! Haha and you guys fell for it. I love winding you up. God it’s so easy! Try harder n00bs! 😂😂😂
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
Has there been an instance yet that we're aware of where he's publicly addressed someone by the wrong name, they corrected them, and he then doubled down and insisted that the name he chose for them was correct? If not, it's really only a matter of time, I assume.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
Can't wait until he has a mini-stroke in the midst of naming the country that he's president of and then insists at every subsequent turn that he absolutely meant to call it Amrilkull because that's what it's called, and maybe even has the presidential seal altered accordingly.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
i mean, shifty schiff keeps going by adam, even though trump keeps correcting him
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Has there been an instance yet that we're aware of where he's publicly addressed someone by the wrong name, they corrected them, and he then doubled down and insisted that the name he chose for them was correct?.
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
he was honoring the unknown soldiers, whose name by definition is disputed
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
also, YOU did that
only when you did it, it was a specific soldier with a real name and you got it wrong
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
If he insisted George Benson wrote and performed the Ghostbusters theme and got corrected, the Justice Department would have the deepfake music video by Tuesday
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Reagan asked his HUD secretary -- only black Cabinet member -- "how are things going in your city, Mr Mayor?" once
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
^that was shortly after he'd been shot so
I won't finish my thought
mea culpa km, you are right, apologies to Dear Leader
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
thank you, hadrian. now, please face the other direction and walk down this long hallway
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
outside is in that direction!
but my children
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
the state will take care of themjust kidding
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
ugh, the feeling when someone passes your impromptu "point at ukraine on an unmarked map" test, which you thought to be impossible
Wow. @NPR's @NPRKelly just now on @npratc says @SecPompeo was furious about being questioned about Ukraine in her interview. Took her into his office, cursed at her, dropping f-bombs, made her point to Ukraine on an unmarked map (she did). It's just...shocking.— Lulu Garcia-Navarro (@lourdesgnavarro) January 24, 2020
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
can trump point to ukraine
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
Currently is iirc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
XP He did, and it was perfect!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
I think I.F. Stone wd've told Pomp to fuck off
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
for the last 20 hours, the pinned tweet of the president has been this
pic.twitter.com/Acyh0HStm8— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2020
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link