How has Former President Trump pissed you off today?

[Monty]

“We really just want to get the military funded, on time, on budget on schedule

I thought military funding and the rest of the government funding were different revenue bills.

@Aspenglow

At what point do we begin to point out the obvious, that he’s a stark raving loon?

Well, that and he’s also a fascist.

@kaylasdad99

The New Colossus (v. 45)

Not like that massive woman facing East
With long green robes that reach down to her toes
(Too bad that she should have so many clothes;
You’d think she’d show a little thigh, at least)
But I digress - protect us from the beast,
The mule, the raping, thieving, killing horde,
Who, from his shit-hole country tries to board
Our great White ship that bears us to our feast.

Hold back the so-called “refugees” out there.
Send me your oligarchs, flush with success
Whose deals with me are always more than fair,
Who buy my real estate without much stress.
While Fox and Friends all praise me on the air,
We’ll show my base that they can do with less.
Maybe something in gold…

Yep.

[Gyrate]

@kaylasdad99

The New Colossus (v. 45)

Not like that massive woman facing East
With long green robes that reach down to her toes
(Too bad that she should have so many clothes;
You’d think she’d show a little thigh, at least)
But I digress - protect us from the beast,
The mule, the raping, thieving, killing horde,
Who, from his shit-hole country tries to board
Our great White ship that bears us to our feast.

Hold back the so-called “refugees” out there.
Send me your oligarchs, flush with success
Whose deals with me are always more than fair,
Who buy my real estate without much stress.
While Fox and Friends all praise me on the air,
We’ll show my base that they can do with less.
Maybe something in gold…

Is that your creation? Deftly done, say I.

[kaylasdad99]

@Gyrate

Is that your creation? Deftly done, say I.

Yes, it is, and thank you. I knocked it out immediately before posting it. Took me about an hour, making sure I stuck to the sonnet form.

[Nava]

@vivalostwages

Actually I had pictured Trump sitting in that same high chair but he was flinging his own poop everywhere.

Can he reach?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Nicely done, kaylasdad99, although Emma Lazarus would be appalled.

The Trump baby balloon, first flown in London, now has its own Wiki article!: Donald Trump baby balloon - Wikipedia

[TonySinclair]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Nicely done, kaylasdad99, although Emma Lazarus would be appalled.

She’d probably jump right out of her grave.

[kaylasdad99]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Nicely done, kaylasdad99, although Emma Lazarus would be appalled.

Thanks; as for Ms Lazarus, I’m appalled enough for the both of us.

ETA: if I ever submit it for publication, I think I’ll include the dedication line with appallogies to Emma Lazarus…

[kaylasdad99]

@TonySinclair

She’d probably jump right out of her grave.

iswydt

[digs]

@kaylasdad99

iswydt

I love this. I pronounced it IZ*'-wit,* with a sigh. I think I’m going to start calling people out with “What an iswydt…” Followed, of course, by a vintage roll-eyes.

[Slash1972]

@Kimstu

Not yet. That’s one of the many Trump innovations that is probably eventually going to produce a spate of new laws governing the actions of the Executive Branch.

Things like holding press briefings or releasing tax returns or removing financial conflicts of interest have so far been left in the sphere of custom and tradition rather than explicit legal mandate, because it was always assumed that anybody who could get elected President would have at least the rudimentary level of deference for the appearance of probity and responsibility to perform them.

We have learned from Trump’s Presidency that that assumption is not necessarily valid. So at some point, we are likely going to decide that the only way to ensure responsible behavior from a President is to enforce it legally. Even that is going to have far from perfect results, of course, but at least it will have more effect than simply leaving such matters up to the POTUS’s personal sense of duty and good reputation, of which, as President Trump has demonstrated, it is actually perfectly possible for a POTUS to have none whatsoever.

Yes. The continued surprise that people have over Trump disregarding established traditions and customs is laughable. If laws are passed to require a daily press briefing, that would be okay. Not going to happen though.

[Knowed_Out]

Trump claims ‘business relationship’ with Mueller

What, now he understands what “conflict of interest” means?

and of course, it’s over golf fees.

[kaylasdad99]

@digs

I love this. I pronounced it IZ*'-wit,* with a sigh. I think I’m going to start calling people out with “What an iswydt…” Followed, of course, by a vintage roll-eyes.

Huh?

“What an ‘I saw what you did there?’”

I can’t even parse a coherent meaning from that. Please tell me it’s a whoosh.

[Aspenglow]

@kaylasdad99

The New Colossus (v. 45)

Not like that massive woman facing East
With long green robes that reach down to her toes
(Too bad that she should have so many clothes;
You’d think she’d show a little thigh, at least)
But I digress - protect us from the beast,
The mule, the raping, thieving, killing horde,
Who, from his shit-hole country tries to board
Our great White ship that bears us to our feast.

Hold back the so-called “refugees” out there.
Send me your oligarchs, flush with success
Whose deals with me are always more than fair,
Who buy my real estate without much stress.
While Fox and Friends all praise me on the air,
We’ll show my base that they can do with less.
Maybe something in gold…

I love this.

[digs]

@digs

I love this. I pronounced it IZ*'-wit,* with a sigh. I think I’m going to start calling people out with “What an iswydt…” Followed, of course, by a vintage roll-eyes.

@kaylasdad99

Huh?

“What an ‘I saw what you did there?’”

I can’t even parse a coherent meaning from that. Please tell me it’s a whoosh.

I don’t blame you, it’s so meta/self-referential/5Dchess that it makes almost no sense.

The only time I’ve tried it out was when a fellow dad (hence a master of the Dad Pun), claimed, via a midnight text, that he was going to get a freelance job writing better monologues for James Corden. He has a friend named Jenni Chappelle, and is going to get a reference from her… and tell Corden: “Chappelle says I’m a stand up guy.”

He then followed this later with “Stand up.” “Guy.”

That’s when I remembered this thread, and texted back “What an iswydt…”

We both laughed about it the next morning… and I hope you can, too.
But don’t worry, I promise not to try it here. I think it’s a one-time kinda thang.

[kaylasdad99]

Okay, now I get it. Sorry for being so obtuse.

Your approach strikes me as a cute way to use the idiom.

[digs]

@kaylasdad99

Okay, now I get it. Sorry for being so obtuse.

Your approach strikes me as a cute way to use the idiom.

Just quoting this so that decades from now people here will will remember me:
“Digs, hmmm… Oh yeah, didn’t kaylasdad call him cute once?”

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Mike Pence held Bill Clinton to a standard that, astonishingly enough, he now won’t hold his boss to: Mike Pence's moral case for removing a president from office | CNN Politics

[tripthicket]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Mike Pence held Bill Clinton to a standard that, astonishingly enough, he now won’t hold his boss to: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/06/politics/kfile-mike-pence-moral-columns/index.html

One of the ‘related article’ links at that page talked about Trump twisting himself into knots trying to explain the Trump Tower meeting. I didn’t follow the link, but a quick daydream popped into my head of Mueller pressing Trump on the witness stand, and Trump erupting, “YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I COLLUDED!*” a la Nicholson.

‘Cause after all, nobody’s gonna tell Trump how to do nuthin’. He made (several) command decisions, and that’s the end of it. He’s pissed off that he has to hide from this, so Mueller just has to shake him, put him on the defensive, and lead him right where he’s dyin’ to go.

I’d pay to see it at the theater. In 3-D, even.
*Yeah, I know, the crime wouldn’t be collusion, but it’s hard to explain this stuff to my gleeful inner child.

[Robot_Arm]

@tripthicket

One of the ‘related article’ links at that page talked about Trump twisting himself into knots trying to explain the Trump Tower meeting. I didn’t follow the link, but a quick daydream popped into my head of Mueller pressing Trump on the witness stand, and Trump erupting, “YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I COLLUDED!*” a la Nicholson.

‘Cause after all, nobody’s gonna tell Trump how to do nuthin’. He made (several) command decisions, and that’s the end of it. He’s pissed off that he has to hide from this, so Mueller just has to shake him, put him on the defensive, and lead him right where he’s dyin’ to go.

I’d pay to see it at the theater. In 3-D, even.

“We tweet words like ‘fake’, ‘sad’, ‘covfefe’. We tweet these words as the backbone of a life spent distracting from something. You use them as a punchline!”

[Monty]

@tripthicket

One of the ‘related article’ links at that page talked about Trump twisting himself into knots trying to explain the Trump Tower meeting. I didn’t follow the link, but a quick daydream popped into my head of Mueller pressing Trump on the witness stand, and Trump erupting, “YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I COLLUDED!*” a la Nicholson.

‘Cause after all, nobody’s gonna tell Trump how to do nuthin’. He made (several) command decisions, and that’s the end of it. He’s pissed off that he has to hide from this, so Mueller just has to shake him, put him on the defensive, and lead him right where he’s dyin’ to go.

I’d pay to see it at the theater. In 3-D, even.
*Yeah, I know, the crime wouldn’t be collusion, but it’s hard to explain this stuff to my gleeful inner child.

Bolding above mine.

I’d pay to hear the prosecotor say “Checkmate” after Trump incriminates himself on the stand.