US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

Love this guy

"and being, like, really smart"

'First try' – riiight. He already ran in 2000, back when universal healthcare was part of his platform.

Late to the monkey party, but why in the world would anyone find the gorilla channel story implausible? I mean, you can find footage of Trump talking to Rudy in drag, Trump in overalls singing the green acres theme ... pretty much everything about Trump is completely ridiculous from head/hair to hands, so why not apes?

Anyway, he's a genius, geniuses are weird.

a man with a spiral combover is capable of anything

Going the full Fredo, pretty great.

Seriously. It's like the Godfather if everyone was Fredo.
http://s.quickmeme.com/img/6c/6c3a118d3e47bd95c9e148fd0632933cf02eb7b2c9916d1e9577e091c0bfb611.jpg

And you know if Trump drank he would drink banana daiquiris.

Oh goodness gracious. We can be civil, cheerful, respectful to & friends with people who don’t share our religious beliefs. Sometimes, we even marry them. I’m a Methodist & my husband is Jewish, thank you for asking. A very happy New Year to you Rhonda! https://t.co/8UH9SP8EWO

— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) January 3, 2018

the washington post ran an op ed begging people to not read the “trashy” wolff book

it was written by a mucky muck at... citizens united! (the one who wrote the book with lewandowski. it was of course plugged.)

they’re not even TRYING to hide it

xpost I guess that was in response to some Trump supporter accusing her of being a Satanist after goofing around on twitter.

we're p much in Star Wars Ep 2 at this point, politically speaking

will all the dominionist evangelical preachers in the land read 'fire and fury' from the pulpit approvingly?

Actually typing "like, really smart" = deliberate wind-up even more than usual.

More like "Smart? Like, really?"

I want Trump to be so smart, so intensely smart, that his head explodes, like in "Scanners."

that isn't why the head exploded in Scanners

maybe fox will add blipverts. that cause of head explosion seems more up trumps alley

"and being, like, really smart"

― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre),

I love the comma placement; he's been getting grammar lessons.

Fun times for the family!

BREAKING NEWS: The SEC is investigating the real-estate company run by Jared Kushner's family for its use of the EB-5 federal investment-for-visa program https://t.co/aE0DHm6yE2

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 6, 2018

https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohzdZScea8JBm8hck/giphy.gif

xpost yeah the formal evals of his recent tweets point to a ghost tweeter. but content evals are confusing, no ghost is that stupid.

"like, really smart" is a bit he's done in many campaign speeches and public appearances, his ppl love it

his ppl think all rich people are really smart unlike poor scientists

I choose to believe that's Kellyanne C. in Alfred's gif (on a really good bags-under-eyes day).

so is little jeff sessions getting fired this weekend? 1/2 term invited everyone to camp david but jeffy

Trump in overalls singing the green acres theme

now wait a second

“Je suis un génie”, “Ich bin ein sehr stabiles genie" and more #stablegenius headlines from France, Germany, U.K., The Netherlands,... pic.twitter.com/NuvpdnTiiE

— Vladimir Duthiers (@vladduthiersCBS) January 6, 2018

I lolled earlier when I saw the headline « Accusé d’être fou, Trump fait son propre éloge et se qualifie de «génie très stable »

"accused of being crazy" not *really* what's been said in English but still I lolled

we are all watching the gorilla channel

we are the gorilla channel

we are the 801

ich bin ein harambe

“1/2 term”?

wishful thinking. 1 termer, maybe

that could be wishful if you read Newsweek's Joe Biden opinion piece

8 years baby

Mr. Ed was a stable genius too.

that's pretty funny/clever.

I Dream of Genius

nah i think he'll get life (no parole)

xpost

Well if Chait is worried about it then I think I'm... not at all:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/republicans-weaponizing-the-law-against-trumps-enemies.html

This whiplash conversion among Never-Trumpers to "Dear Leader" collective—esp. in aftermath of getting their tax bill through—makes me worried that there is something more nefarious than "party before country" at play.

What kind of dirt is being leveraged on all these creeps?

they have no other alternative. trump is a horrific empty shell of a dipshit, but he also merely an amplification of the direction the republican party was heading toward anyway

sure, they could all revert to never-trumpism and support some polite looking godfearing midwestern white man who wants to ban abortions for president in 2020 or 2024. but they'd still have to deal with the fact that a huge portion of their base, maybe even the majority, clearly has more enthusiasm for a loudmouthed buffoon whose calling card is winning the race to the bottom before most others realized it was a competition. if trump doesn't run again, surely SOME other figure on the fringe will try to pick up where he left off, maybe ditching the Dumbest Person in the World bits and keeping the racism and xenophobia.

I'm not so sure anymore. I recall reading last year that the risk entailed in accurately tracing Trump crimes back through Felix Sater et al is compromising countless other investigations, blowing hard earned, decades-long deep covers, exposing too many global financial institutions, etc.

Is it possible that the oligarchic reach is so pervasive that to disrupt it would destabilize markets and upset governments on a scale that discourages investigation?

Drain the swamp!

so he's having some kind of kiss-the-ring summit in Camp David, to which Jeffy was not invited?

too oligarchical to fail

Is it possible that the oligarchic reach is so pervasive that to disrupt it would destabilize markets and upset governments on a scale that discourages investigation?

if that were true, wouldn't democrats be just as concerned about it as republicans? most of them seem perfectly willing to criticize trump. the simpler answer is that republican politicians really are the opportunistic, bootlicking assholes that they have always appeared to me, at least during my lifetime.