Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Maybe this was his big surprise.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/340025-tapper-so-how-is-melanias-anti-cyberbullying-campaign-going

At the risk of being completely obvious, they are doing this to distract from their #failing healthcare bill

― Karl Malone,

otm

"She was bleeding badly from a facelift"

"She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions," Trump said in a CNN interview. "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. In my opinion, she was off base."
Good times 2015

And Megyn Kelly ended up making amends with trump and interviewing him later on, of course, because money.

And now Mika and the NBC spokesman have responded with a painfully unfunny meme that coincidentally advertises a product (little hands on a cheerios box) and a painfully unfunny outdated reference to another product (the Office), respectively. We are living in a lost Baudrillard paragraph

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place Was Fake News

not sure if i can handle four to eight more years of this shit

good news! when you really think about it, it's only 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 years.

also we will likely die horribly before then

not so sure about that. unfortunately

Listen here you smug liberal fuckmonkeys- the disenfranchised coal workers of America have long wanted a POTUS to stand up to Morning Joe

— White Genocide= cool (@mindthet) June 29, 2017

Update: Trump voters are non-ironically liking and retweeting this because this is the stupidest fucking website possible https://t.co/gSP258LEBK

— White Genocide= cool (@mindthet) June 29, 2017

That figure 22 million or 50 as I heard a couple of days ago was a projection based on people not dying before then wasn't it?

What corner of hell and for how long should McConnell burn for?

Do hope it turns out to be a couple of them dying before they make everybody else.

How is any of this happening

― Hadrian VIII, Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:03 (one hour ago) Permalink

Sounds like he's real involved with the healthcare stuff, yup.

Per FAA TFR, Trump is going to Bedminster Friday-Monday

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 29, 2017

This happens when generations of people pass a system of government and general social structure on to succeeding generations without any attendant imperative to understand why shit was set up the way it was, alongside a steady erosion of educational standards and critical thinking skills, plus the ascendency of the notion that opinions are more like precious jewels than assholes, and also human beings are probably just essentially incapable of maintaining any semblance of a civil society for very long if history is any indicator.

But other than that!

this country is so utterly stupid ! nothing even fucking matter anymore we should just all die and do the world a favor.

Hmmm

Freedom Caucus Chair Meadows is on Senate side working on health care bill, confirms plan for up or down vote in the House (no conference)

— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) June 29, 2017

Hunt3r learned the background of the term kakistocracy today

heh, that does seem useful.

Usage of the word was rare in the early part of the 20th century, but regained popularity in 1981 with criticism of the Reagan administration. Since then it has been employed to negatively describe various governments around the world.[10] It was frequently used by conservative commentator Glenn Beck to describe the Obama administration.[11]

remember when glenn beck thought trump was going to lose and so he pretended to have seen the light and loads of media outlets played along?

I find this...bemusing.

Sen Bob Corker just said he expects tax cut for wealthy to come OUT of health bill to boost susidies for poor

— Laura Litvan (@LauraLitvan) June 29, 2017

and the House will love that!

susususidies

Personal attacks & character assassination yield a culture of social & political violence in which people can become radicalized & dangerous

— Carlos Curbelo (@carloslcurbelo) June 29, 2017

So it's..... watered down Obamacare but with cuts to Medicaid? Sounds like a winnar

How is any of this happening? We elected Biff Tannen from "Back to the Future" as president. Even when my state elected a former pro wrestler as governor he managed to do a pretty decent job. Trump combines zero political experience with an unintelligent, narcissistic, petty and vindictive personality. Add to that he's being used as a tool by the grossest element of the GOP. How is any of this happening? How could it not?

old phrase but "we get the leaders we deserve"

i'm still of the opinion that this was *done* to the population, this was foisted on us

the election did kinda have a 12 Monkeys feel to it

If there's one thing that's our fault it's not getting rid of the electoral college.

i'm still of the opinion that this was *done* to the population, this was foisted on us

― global tetrahedron, Thursday, June 29, 2017 4:55 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

either way at least 40% of americans are willing to vote for this bullshit

Wall to wall nonstop media coverage didn't help.

and 6 year long election cycles

Trump is right that ratings are all that matter in this world of hell. He has squeezed out everything else, every news cycle, for nearly two years at this point. The breathless coverage in the beginning cast him as a dangerous antihero when he was really a sleazy con artist whose newest pitch was just a mix of the old paranoid right wing worldview. It should have been a joke.

"Sen Bob Corker just said he expects tax cut for wealthy to come OUT of health bill to boost susidies for poor"

Again, I do not see how this makes sense. The tax cut is what their donors want, and if they don't pass it as part of this bill, how do they pass it through reconciliation?

It was the dumbest bullshit. A widely loathed casino magnate/would-be insult comedian rebranding as a populist demagogue. From the start people should have been pointing out what a phoney this guy has always been. He scams people -- it's what he does.

The thing about right wing lawmakers is most of them don't understand the evil legislation they pass. Trump is just an extreme example of the long con of conservatism.

xp

live look in to the white house

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2720/4400950326_1633c31aba_z.jpg

From the start people should have been pointing out what a phoney this guy has always been. He scams people -- it's what he does.

This is literally what everyone did. It didn't matter.

even the other GOP candidates called him a con man

He tells it like it is. He says what I'm thinking

It's true, I'm constantly thinking unintelligible gibberish

Everyone knows he's a billionaire* so he can't be a con-man** and obviously has to be a very capable businessman who knows how to get things done***.

if anything it's a good indication of just how much people hate politicians

otm

How is any of this happening? We elected Biff Tannen from "Back to the Future" as president. Even when my state elected a former pro wrestler as governor he managed to do a pretty decent job. Trump combines zero political experience with an unintelligent, narcissistic, petty and vindictive personality. Add to that he's being used as a tool by the grossest element of the GOP. How is any of this happening? How could it not?

― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Thursday, June 29, 2017 12:48 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Okay and given the historical circumstances as neatly set out by Old Lunch yes, but it does seem like above and beyond the "leaders you deserve" logic we have drawn an almost cosmically rare bad card w/ this guy. You could probably march twenty five million American professionals through the white house and be very hard pressed to find someone so contemptible. It's too awful to be true, I'm thisclose to falling in line with the simulation theorists

I agree, he's a pretty uniquely awful choice to be the leader of the US.

"he's a billionaire* so he can't be a con-man" shows up in my Facebook feed almost daily. "He doesn't need the money, he ran for the presidency because he has a good heart and loves his country. And besides, he's donating his hotel profits to the US Treasury." Uh, no he isn't.

I got flack for saying that ~40% of US eligible voters are just too dumb and/or selfish to be trusted with voting power, but idk any other conclusion that fits.