and i usually don’t refer to him by anything except the president (i try to not use his name because of the unpleasant way it thuds into a conversation). but of all the nicknames out there (many of which are bad) the one that sounds like it would be hissed over an illegal card game is most fitting.
― maura, Monday, 29 January 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
I am sad that there already are a bunch of Donald Dumptrucks out there.
― Yerac, Monday, 29 January 2018 09:12 (six years ago) link
dud
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 January 2018 12:39 (six years ago) link
i call him "2 scoops". game of cards indeed. fuck the trumps -- granddad ran a brothel, dad was arrested at a KKK rally (and not for protesting!), 2 scoops and 2 scoops senior were fined for racist housing policy, and the guy inherited $200,000,000 but talks like a drunk bigot even though he's sober and "president". and that's his appeal!
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 29 January 2018 12:41 (six years ago) link
It's funny to remember that people on this board used to make fun of dr morbius for saying like "shillary clintDUMB" and now everybody does that shit
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Monday, 29 January 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
You forgot his kids, qualms. Anybody follow the blow-up over Ivanka having Jose Andres kicked out of a restaurant this weekend?
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 January 2018 12:45 (six years ago) link
fuck the trumps
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 29 January 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
Tiffany's okay
― frogbs, Monday, 29 January 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
Oh well here’s the latest. Fucking Georgetown https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/jose-andres-ivanka-trump-cafe-milano/index.html(cafe milano is apparently a well known safe space for Republicans in DC)
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 January 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link
second-least-worst behind barron maybe but i dunno if i'd stretch to 'okay'
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
2 scoops junior and i'm eric will take lil' barron elephant trunk hunting soon enough, america. rest assured :)
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 29 January 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
Jose Andres is a mf'ing treasure.
― Yerac, Monday, 29 January 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
xp yeah the odds are not great on Barron shaking out to be a decent human being. That's a pretty rough lineage, he'd have to be radicalized out of it.
― Patton Oswalt Defense Lawyer (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
where's the symbionese liberation army when you need 'em
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
I believe in Barron. He doesn’t seem that “into” being a Trump and is much closer to his mom than his dad by all reports.
― treeship 2, Monday, 29 January 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
^barron knight
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
one of my closest friends for many years was the daughter of a well-connected senior republican politician and she disagreed with just about every single thing he did so
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
used to make fun of dr morbius for saying like
we always knew he was deranged, now we're just seeing when everyone loses their collective good sense under the pressure of political frustration
― j., Monday, 29 January 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
i for one am keenly anticipating the reign of the boy-king barron from 2019-apocalypse (exact date tbc)
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
I have probably said this before, but my childhood was replete with political spawn. Strom Thurmond's daughter was a classmate of mine, the Cheney girls were schoolmates, we were distantly aware of Tucker Quayle and the Scalia kids, yadda yadda.
Personally I would rather not speculate on them until they actually enter the arena of their own volition (as the Cheneys did and as Ivanka has done).
― Tippi Sanhedrin (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
I believe in Barron. He doesn’t seem that “into” being a Trump and is much closer to his mom than his dad by all reports.― treeship 2, Monday, January 29, 2018 9:49 AM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I remain confused about this characterization of Melania Trump—that she's some beacon of goodness, must surely be decent because her husband is such an ogre. Is there something about her that leads people to believe this? She seems terrible.
― Patton Oswalt Defense Lawyer (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
i suspect it's because melania cuts a pretty depressed figure as first lady, so she looks like we feel
mind you she married trump in the first place so i dunno how much sympathy she deserves
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
Maybe she's depressed because her values are fucked up and she made some terrible choices in life. Fuck her for being complicit.
― Patton Oswalt Defense Lawyer (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
I've never understood the logic either. She could divorce him and upend his whole shit if she wanted to and she'd have a ton of support from all kinds of corners, but there's no real indication she actually wants to mess with anything. xp
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Like, you don't have to marry the American because he has a helicopter. It's not like he rescued her from some miserable life.
― Patton Oswalt Defense Lawyer (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
it mainly strikes me as another hopeful but baseless fantasy of #resistance that people cling to tbh, unless there's some actual substantive statements of hers I've missed
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
honoring trump with any kind of nickname is ridiculous, you're just entering into his own game. it's silly but it's also exactly what he loves doing with anyone he doesn't like
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
You guys should read this important piece from the progressive newspaper called the New York Times: The Quiet Radicalism of Melania Trump
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
the resistance is coming from inside the white house: the first term of melania trump
― omar little, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
She is terrible. I don’t know how anyone could spend time with trump and then marry him. Fucking gross. The reason a lot of people try to spin her as a good person trapped in a hellhole is because the reality of trump is so far apart from our own lives that they resemble tv show characters more than real people. A tv show needs at least one sympathetic character for the audience to identify with, somewhere, and she’s the least worst option.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
lord almighty that ny times piece
the quiet radicalism of doing absolutely nothing
makes u think
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
xpost lol yeah I read yet the other day. Classic clickbait title! She is a radical because she hates her husband so much and refuses to use her position to help people or take up some sort of cause that she believes in.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
none of the trumps are worth a shit. people are making the mistake of thinking that because maybe the trump marriage isn't great, that means she actually gives a fuck about the people his policies are affecting. i would say the chances of that are pretty low.
― omar little, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
She sees the opportunity as First Lady to try to make sure that at least ONE good thing happen during her family’s time in power, and she radically says “no”
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
She seems acquiescent, definitely. Complicit, maybe. Is that the same as terrible? I don't know.
In any case it is like fifty-seventh on my list of priorities right now. Is M. a basically passive person who thought she was signing up for luxury and ease, but got accidentally thrust into a media maelstrom because of her new husband's toxic cocktail of id, greed, and ambition? Or is she Lady MacTrump, urging him on to greater heights of monstrousness? Or somewhere in between?
Don't know, don't really care; I'm much more alarmed by the Trumpoid march through the agencies, like HHS sidelining women's health and refugee issues to focus on "religious liberty." With the Department of the Interior headed by an oil pipeline executive and an oil industry CEO as Secretary of State, how long until Federal employees' adherence to environmentalist causes becomes a disqualifying factor?
I know that people can walk and chew gum at the same time: we can oppose the president's horrible policies AND still find time to mock his tacky-ass household furnishings. But jeez, do we need to pick on the 10-year-old?
― claude rains down in africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
it's like when people creepily idealize Ivanka, gee i wonder why. anyway they're all terrible.
― omar little, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
The nation was torn, the democracy imperiled, but she stepped bravely to the fore and presented a line of caviar-based skincare products.
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
she (melania) supported the birther campaign in the press too. vile
― maura, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
Is there a version of the Darwin awards for people who don't die but rather willfully maneuver themselves into a personal hell and then inexplicably choose to remain there? Because Melania would be a recipient of that award. Yes, I'm sure your life sucks. What exactly did you expect when you married and had the child of someone who has never hidden the fact that he's an irredeemably-awful person?
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
Wealth without responsibility
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
The life of almost all other wealthy people
The Pete Rose Prize
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
who gives a shit about the kids or anyone else not in a position of power in the trump admin. ivanka is the only one with any kind of power
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
flappy otm
― claude rains down in africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
I don't know, the sons may be chumps but they have business interests that certainly impact the president's decision making. It's a kind of power in the administration that's worthy of concern.
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
Eric might be more pleasant if they finally remove the multiple fecaliths from intestine
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Monday, January 29, 2018 11:27 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sure, maybe the sons. don jr. is involved in the mueller probe in a big way. but they're effectively sidelined, by all accounts not doing much & by many accounts trump doesn't think much of them ("they were in the back of the room when god was giving out brains")
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Here’s an anecdote from Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diaries about Trump pouring a glass of wine down Marie Brenner’s back as revenge for a bad story and slinking away pic.twitter.com/Rfu1Ur1qM7— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) January 31, 2018
― j., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
guessing no one watched it but Stormy Daniels on Kimmel last night was one of the weirdest interviews I've ever seen, she basically telegraphs up front "everything you read is true but I can't say a word about it"
she seems nice
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
sam rockwell to play her as female chuck barris
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link