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

...Donald Trump urine currently cascading across Ryan's face "blvery blunfortunate, blunhelpfulblbl, burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb Grim Reapah!"

Some people say he said a bad word, other people say he didn't say it.

So naturally the public consensus should be that it's reasonable doubt, unprovable, he said/he said, nonissue, nothingburger; can't we move on from this pettiness and get on with doing the important work of MAGAing.

He may as well just have taken a dump on the desk, then directed several people to say they "don't recall" any desk-dumping. Any reports to the contrary are fake news from the dishonest media.

re: Panamanian ambassador - doubtless that ambassador will be replaced by someone who doesn't believe in the Panama Canal.

Many people are saying the White House is the best managed, most beautiful shithole.

didn't he already call the White House a dump lol

kinda going off what y'all were talking about above, there was a recent Deadcast where they tried to recap Trump's first year so far, there's so much that everyone just forgot about. gonna be amazing to read a week-by-week recap of all this one day

President Trump freely admits to defecating on the Oval Office desk before members of congress and the media but refutes the assertion that he prefaced the act by declaring that he was going to 'take a (s-word) all over this (b-word)'. The public remains divided on the appropriateness of the use of profanity by a standing president in referring to a bodily function such as this.

re: Panamanian ambassador - doubtless that ambassador will be replaced by someone who doesn't believe in the Panama Canal.

At the rate they're going, it's doubtful they'll replace him at all.

The Trump Administration: Putting the "anal" in "canal."

it's frankly ridiculous that the obummer administration saw fit to appoint an ambassador for a style of hat anyway, this opportunity to shrink government is a good thing and should be embraced by a grateful nation

xp to frogbs

when the Arpaio for Senate announcement came out, I had the uncomfortable experience of needing to recall that Trump had pardoned him, an incident that would have haunted previous administrations. I still vividly recall the Marc Rich pardon scandal and that was on Clinton's last day in office.

The Trump Administration: Putting the "anal" in "canal."

― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, January 12, 2018 1:57 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Trump putting the everything-besides-"ry" in (our) shithole country

OK that's it, no more puns today

I keep thinking of that FDR statue upthread and how there will one day be a trump statue with "all haitians have aids" or something inscribed on it

with KFC bucket replacing Fala

Trump's statue has to have him tossing a roll of paper towels

But of course

NBC: As a Korean woman was briefing trump on Pakistan, the president asked why the “pretty Korean lady” wasn’t negotiating peace w North Korea. pic.twitter.com/HgpMfFP277

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 12, 2018

with KFC pee bucket replacing Fala

fixed

I can't stop laughing at @jaxalemany's write up of a White House conference call gone wrong: https://t.co/pt1HSUboRb pic.twitter.com/LvzMpFMyCa

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 12, 2018

Isn't Trump half-Scottish? Let him be U.S. Ambassador to Scotland.

brb, gonna tweet bizarro's digits to the Trumpmeister real quick

hahahahah "it's the illegitimate media" is 9000% stephen miller or some reporter horsing around

"This is Kim Jong Un calling for Donald Trump"

one might assume at this point that trump hates the job and is actively trying to get fired

brb, gonna tweet bizarro's digits to the Trumpmeister real quick

www.conferencecall.gov
xxxposts

i can confirm that many govt conference calls go just like that, at all levels

conference calls are the worst means of communication the human race has yet devised

xps to TLG, I don't think so. This isn't complicated. He's a narcissist so he loves adulation. And because he is a terrible person, the cheapest/easiest adulation he can get is the adulation of terrible people. Anything else would require effort, and he's lazy.

It's the same as wanting a Big Mac while living in an RV that is parked in a McDonald's drive-thru lane. Sure, you COULD go buy some broccoli, but why?

What incentive is there for Trump to seek the approval of anyone other than the people who already love him and gleefully cheer at every despicable thing he does? I mean, it's not as if he can suddenly become a person that Bill Kristol approves of - let alone Rachel Maddow - so why should he try?

yeah i was just kidding

it's just comically absurd how awful he is

and he's not even smart enough to be good at being awful, he's a terribly written villain who you keep waiting to pull a crafty scheme but no he's revealed everything there is to reveal already.

Wall Street Journal's getting a bit fiery lately

NEW: A lawyer for Donald Trump arranged a 30,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, per people familiar.https://t.co/KZhdex7UKE

— erica orden (@eorden) January 12, 2018

And meanwhile...

“More than one-fifth of Donald Trump’s US condominiums have been purchased since the 1980s in secretive, all-cash transactions that enable buyers to avoid legal scrutiny by shielding their finances and identities:”

https://t.co/OYHdPscgew

— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) January 12, 2018

I am occasionally surprised by what really gets me, EG the tweet in Ned’s post. I am by no means identical to Tombot on my views on the US Intelligence Community, but something about the idea of telling someone whose parents came to the US, and who worked for her country and demonstrated her love for it to the point that she gets to give an intelligence briefing to the president - telling her that that she’s not really American, infuriates me immensely.

Er xp okay a few of Ned’s posts ago.

It seems at least possible that Trump is incapable of processing the fact that someone of Asian ethnicity might also be an American.

Remember when the Wall Street Journal reporting that a president had paid a porn star $130,000 in hush money would have been the biggest news of the year instead of fighting for sidebar status as story of the day?

American is the best race ever iirc xp

My depressing takeaway is that he probably could've saved his money and wound up exactly where he is today. Hell, if he'd bragged about it in a few debates he might've won the popular vote, as well, who knows.

Re: boinking a lady from a dirty movie.

Oh, well. Pioneer the 'IDGAF' school of political maneuvering sometimes means you aren't aware of the benefits you're able to reap until they've already passed you by. Now that he's blazed the trail, I look forward to future presidential hopefuls who openly make extramarital sex with porn stars part of their platform.

Thought the porn star stuff was old news? It's the payment that's new though.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/donald-trump-and-stormy-daniels-738920 (2016)

the part that surprises me is the WSJ running w/ it

Apparently the true secret to success is to commit more salacious acts throughout the course of your life than any one human brain is capable of retaining. Like, Britannica needs to put out a multi-volume reference set so we can keep this shit straight.

look i'm sorry it just won't work, I'm pretty certain any salacious acts you commit no matter how numerous will be canceled out by the fact you probably want decent healthcare for all and less racism, you damned lefty.

At a point, taking a blind stab at a depraved act he might've committed will likely yield positive results. Like, has he jerked off onto a random senior citizen? I don't have any way of proving it, but probably.

It's really scary that the CIA knows so much about us

https://pitchfork.com/news/moby-says-cia-agents-asked-him-to-spread-the-word-about-trump-and-russia/

"I look forward to future presidential hopefuls who openly make extramarital sex with porn stars part of their platform."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Silvio_Berlusconi_1994.jpg/180px-Silvio_Berlusconi_1994.jpg

You rang?

To the first bar I walk by with a happy hour deal on "Dark and Stormy Daniels" pic.twitter.com/08TJ6XFkg9

— Drew Conway (@drewconway) January 12, 2018