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

It takes a lot of work to not report this stuff

NICE DAY OUTSIDE: Extremely pleasant weather, picnicking a near certainty, nothing else really happening at the moment.

LA LA LA: Can't hear you, not listening.

nonsense all of you, he's a picture of health

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/581533b1b28a644d008b5c60-480/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump.jpg

tbf most of Fox's subheaders are horrible tragedy/crime reporting - mother finds son dead in car wreck, grandma guns down intruder, paroled rapist murders dog etc

the world is a bad and scary place and we need harsh legislation to keep us afloat

also all the crime-doers are on public assistance

From reddit:

[–]Juicewag 14.1k points 21 hours ago

Mooch timeline-
1. Sells company to take WH job
2. Doesn't get job
3. Finally gets job
4. Tells the world Bannon sucks his own dick
5. Wife files for divorce
6. Misses childbirth
7. Fired

[–]WeightlessSupreme 8953 points 20 hours ago

8. Business cards arrive today

who's the next head to roll? my money's on Tillerson. I agree with the folks upthread about Trump's (VERY relative) deference to military men, and while he's antagonized the living hell out of Sessions I'm not sure he'll actually fire him because it seems like that really might piss off GOP senators enough to do something more than express "concerns." so I think that leaves Tilly with the biggest bullseye.

xpost Good thing we live in a world where folks like him render themselves unemployable and cannot possibly find a way to capitalize on their failure.

paroled rapist murders dog etc

What's great is FOX can repurpose it with any permutation of these words!

paroled murderer rapes dog

dog murders paroled rapist

etc.

real news!

I don't think Trump will fire Tillerson but he doesn't seem like a happy dude and he never wanted the job in the first place, can totally see him quitting before the year is out

at this point the line between firing and resigning is razor-thin anyway.

Wasn't one of the putative reasons Tillerson took the job to help ease Russian oil sanctions? Yeah...

c'mon that was just a conspiracy theory!

if things don't improve with kelly, tillerson will go imo. and...

Important point by @jonathanvswan - Kelly as the redline...he has all the ingredients necessary for success....https://t.co/eRSTz2EWQR pic.twitter.com/ww5IwJLnCn

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 1, 2017

Can't find a single person who worked on campaign or in WH who believes this chain of command following lasts long https://t.co/iTAoTSfeVk

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 1, 2017

"Javanka" = ew

Even in the offchance that Trump accidentally engineered a well-oiled administration, he would inevitably wreck it and insist that the oil could be even more viscous.

he would insist on using his hair oil

It's all-natural. The secret? He never washes it.

Re that Wheeler/Fox lawsuit and all

On the phone with Ed Butowsky, he tells me he suspended his own Twitter account temporarily because "people are so mean."

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) August 1, 2017

Jeff Sessions just put a military general in charge of federal prisons. pic.twitter.com/y3pBUHX7ia

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 1, 2017

seems like something he would do

Huckleberry still gravely concerned, also troubled, maybe even disappointed

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/01/trump-dictated-son-russia-meeting-response-lindsey-graham-reacts-241197?lo=ap_b1

this seth rich story seems like it's one of the most despicable things trump has done since announcing his candidacy.

that's the shit i was afraid of when he picked bannon to be chief strategist

every single day is the best day at the White House

was melania really replaced by a Melania android?

the correct term is Melandroid

There are actual several Melanias, depending on the purpose.

Like, Nanny Melania, First Lady Melania, and so on. The only real one is the sad Melania.

and you can detach the arms for different events - some of the arms don't fit well into small man hands

together they constitute a Melangia

haaaaaa

Re: that Sessions statement.

Give this administration an Inch and they will take a Milo.

the whole concept of alpha humans is so laughably stupid. you have alphas among animals that travel in packs. outside of that specific system to think of an "alpha" is just to say "I have a crush on the concept of power"

many xps, but my wife and I were just talking about this yesterday, how it's a dumb idea with literally no relation to how human beings operate. We're social animals, and we build complex systems that mostly rely on cooperation and mutual support, not on just listening to what the guy in charge says. And actual places with strongman rule are the worst-run least prosperous places on the planet. To approach the world as if everyone is either superior to you (and therefore you must defeat them) or inferior to you (and therefore you must grind them with your bootheel) is guaranteed to fail.

What you say is at odds with my narcissism, so you are wrong.

Does being fired or resigning from the current White House staff look better on a resumé?

If you're fired does it mean you have more visible ethics?
& resigning more out for yourself?

IIRC, either one is viable for use as a Fox pundit golden ticket.

This Robert Reich post is entertaining and as likely as anything else.

http://robertreich.org/post/163658444390

Powerful words from Jared Kushner. pic.twitter.com/IehdhJe7Dt

— CAFE (@cafedotcom) August 1, 2017

he is, however, against knowing stuff or learning from history, cuz that's for losers

Senator Incremental (D-NY)

Kirsten Gillibrand withdraws support for AIPAC's Israel Boycott bill: won't support it "in its current form" https://t.co/7pJlLA5flo

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 1, 2017

I truly believe that the future of negotiations is strategy.
I truly believe that the strategy of negotiations is the future.
I truly believe that strategy is the future of negotiations.

responding to public pressure, like an elected official is supposed to

xp

Re: that Reich post and the broadening view of Trump's instability, it's noteworthy on a completely anecdotal level that the distressingly blasé attitude in my workplace for months after the election (while I was melting down) has been shifting. Many of the people who were inclined to just shrug or disinclined to even address anything political are now all like, 'that guy is mentally ill'.

I think the GOP is starting to get pissed that Trump won't stop pushing O-care repeal

How people who have to work directly with the fucker couldn't have seen that rats had long ago chewed all the way through his wiring is beyond me, though.

Re tipsy's link, "former Republican member of Congress" who is contemptuous of DJT? Perhaps his name rhymes with Scoe Jarborough. Though I guess that is by no means the only possibility.

I think the GOP is starting to get pissed that Trump won't stop pushing O-care repeal

Senators launch bipartisan effort to shore up Obamacare

The bipartisan leadership of the Senate health committee will begin work in early September on legislation to “stabilize and strengthen the individual health insurance market” for 2018, and the committee’s influential chairman said Thursday that he has urged President Trump to continue paying subsidies to health insurance companies as work proceeds.

The announcement by the chairman, Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, was the first tangible indication of cooperation between the parties since Republican efforts to scrap the Affordable Care Act collapsed in the Senate last week.