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

xpost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z834x4Qk_pM

If that’s the test I administer (it has a 30/30 score) it means he can tell you the date and his location, can recall three objects that were stated a minute earlier, can follow simple 3-part directions, write a sentence, copy a design, and do some subtraction exercises.

^I've little doubt that is the level of testing he received.

it's the 15th right

If that’s the test I administer (it has a 30/30 score) it means he can tell you the date and his location, can recall three objects that were stated a minute earlier, can follow simple 3-part directions, write a sentence, copy a design, and do some subtraction exercises.

If that’s the test I administer (it has a 30/30 score) it means he can tell you the date and his location, can recall three objects that were stated a minute earlier, can follow simple 3-part directions, write a sentence, copy a design, and do some subtraction exercises.

― JoeStork, Tuesday, January 16, 2018 4:16 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, he almost certainly did a MOCA or a SLUMS -- my guess is the latter, as it's the preferred cognitive screen of the VA

neither are that difficult, but they are pretty sensitive

maybe we can now fight the power instead of being delivered by Pence

“very articulate when he speaks to me.”

He should maybe try it when he's speaking to other people as well.

Trump achieving a perfect score on a test which isn't measuring for some undesirable trait means that the test is a meaningless, garbage test. Seriously. How can you give someone a 29/30 on that test unless their brain has been physically removed from their skull?

Like, assuming the test is legit, I think this gives me stronger 'absolutely nothing means anything' vibes than anything else that's happened over the past year.

why'd he need to join politics. if he'd wanted to hang around other people who don't know shit and won't shut the fuck up, there were plenty of Fundamentalist church potlucks.......

Cory Booker's speech was awesome

Something I saw on Twitter - Trump is on the record now as being 6'3", 239 pounds. Apparently, that height-weight combo qualifies him as "overweight"; if he was 240, he'd qualify as "obese." So, you know, it's total bullshit. Swapping that 3 for an 8 would be closer to the truth, and probably still short of the mark.

There is no way that motherfucker is 239 pounds

Trump's been bragging an 8 and delivering a 3 since puberty.

Unless all the extra volume is trapped gas that fucker is lying.

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2018/01/16/donald-trump-height-weight-tim-tebow-mike-trout

Tim Tebow is 6'2/236.

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oops, prob for the best that the image didn't post

The Towel Rack Strikes Again!

https://frinkiac.com/video/S07E07/8b5cIagPuV8wSUIrPGxCEoumsSw=.gif

BMI is a bullshit stat. Trump is an out of shape idiot and the president.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/sanders-defends-trump-as-not-racist-citing-apprentice-tv-role

“Frankly, if the critics of the president were who he said he was, why did NBC give him a show for a decade on TV?” Sanders said Tuesday.

ahh so that's what Jay Cutler's ass looks like

Woke Axl Rose is still something to contemplate.

What defies law and common sense is Jeff Sessions himself.

— Axl Rose (@axlrose) January 17, 2018

sick sad world we live in

we don't need no civil war

Jackson describes Trump as “very sharp” and “very articulate when he speaks to me.”

Trump say hi to me

The rundown: In 2017, Democrats running in special elections performed, on average, 10% better than Clinton and 7% better than Obama.

In the first four specials of 2018, Dems performed **21%** better than Clinton and 13% better than Obama. 🌊🌊🌊 https://t.co/qSfxkNzxUU

— James Lambert (@hellofasandwich) January 17, 2018

axl hates sessions and has been speaking out against him for a while

Meanwhile:
“Four in 10 Republicans consider accurate news stories that cast a politician or political group in a negative light to always be “fake news.””

and other distressing shit
https://knightfoundation.org/reports/american-views-trust-media-and-democracy

Are the fake news awards actually going to happen

They have been downgraded to a 'potential event'

the fake news awards are... fake news?

trump gettin' meta

Waiting for the tweet denouncing the fake news organizations who are disseminating the fake news that he ever even announced a Fake News Awards.

And then watching Trump get violently ripped apart by the breach in spacetime created by his comprehensive dismantling of reality.

lots of Woke #Resistance types (on twitter, not so much here) making fun of the president for being fat, great job everyone

Meanwhile the political acumen of Erick Erickson:

Democrats seem to continually overplay their hand on immigration. If Republicans offer a plan to keep DACA recipients in the country and the Democrats still shut down the government, it could re-energize a Republican base that is starting to get tired. It could also push some fence sitters away from the Democrats.

This is a fight worth having. The GOP is probably not going to offer a harsh deal on DACA because there is a strong consensus led by the President that the DACA recipients should be allowed to stay in exchange for border security. If that's the deal and the Democrats balk at it, shut down the government and make the case that the Democrats are putting illegal aliens and lax borders ahead of the national interest.

Personally, I tend to always favor a government shutdown. People need to remember they can survive without the federal government. As Democrats have rediscovered federalism, now they can realize a Washington inconsequential to their lives is a good thing.

New details this morning: FBI agents showed up at Bannon’s DC home last week.https://t.co/nT6bYCpPDS

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) January 17, 2018

Also this story about how Wolff played the White House is grimly amusing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/how-author-wolff-got-into-trump-s-white-house-for-tell-all-book

What was that a few days (months? years?) ago with Bannon boasting we will never see him hiring a lawyer or testifying?

presumably the interaction between the fbi agents and bannon were like a larp of the x-files episodes with eugene tooms

dammit i meant flukeman i fucked this up i'm sorry guys shit goddammit fuck

I think you're just conflating the various monsters of the week that were modeled after Bannon. I'm sure he also roosts in a nest he's constructed from newspaper strips and his own bile.

From that Bloomberg piece Ned linked:

Author Michael Wolff’s pitch to the White House to win cooperation for his book included a working title that signaled a sympathetic view, a counter-narrative to a slew of negative news stories early in Donald Trump’s presidency.

He called it “The Great Transition: The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration.” And in part due to that title, Wolff was able to exploit an inexperienced White House staff who mistakenly believed they could shape the book to the president’s liking.

Nearly everyone who spoke with Wolff thought someone else in the White House had approved their participation. And it appears that not a single person in a position of authority to halt cooperation with the book -- including Trump himself -- raised any red flags, despite Wolff’s well documented history. His previous work included a critical book on Trump confidant Rupert Murdoch, the Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. co-chairman.

...

Wolff’s entree began with Trump himself, who phoned the author in early February to compliment him on a CNN appearance in which Wolff criticized media coverage of the new president.

Wolff told Trump during the call that he wanted to write a book on the president’s first 100 days in office. Many people want to write books about me, Trump replied -- talk to my staff. Aides Kellyanne Conway and Hope Hicks listened to Wolff’s pitch in a West Wing meeting the next day, but were noncommittal.

Several aides said Hicks later informally endorsed talking with Wolff as long as they made “positive” comments for the book, which they said Wolff told them would counter the media’s unfair narrative.

It wasn’t until late August that alarm bells were raised in the White House -- when Hicks, Jared Kushner and their allies realized that fellow aides who had spoken with Wolff, especially Bannon, may have provided damaging anecdotes about them.

not worrying at all that senior white house figures can be so easily duped by the most simple flattery and so disinclined to do any background checking on the flatterer

worth recalling wolff's quote from a little while back

I remember when the Murdoch book came out and Murdoch's guy [former News Corp. marketing and corporate affairs exec] Gary Ginsberg, called me, furious, and said, "What is this? The book is all about him!" I said, "It's a biography." And Ginsberg says, "But it's so personal." That's when I realized, these guys don't just not read books — they don't know what books are.

Jeff Flake set to make some kind of anti-trump speech on the senate floor

well that oughtta take care of trump once and for all

Flake the Trump Slayer

I'dxask what the over/under would be about Trump tweeting about "Frosted Flake", but a nickname like that is too clever for him.