You do know that he sang “shoe the children”, right?
Yeah, but I think he’s made a lot of sacrifices. He works very, very hard. He’s created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. He’s had tremendous success. I think he’s done a lot.
Make up your mind!
I finally put my finger on who Steve Miller reminds me of:
Rolf, from The Sound of Music. The Hitler Youth telegram kid.
On the other hand, schadenfreude has an arc, and pretending that batshit insane power grabs are healthy and normal has an arc, too. And I’m wondering how long conservatives can keep it up, especially the Pence-flavored conservatives who are basically sane in spite of the dogmatically religious sticks up their butts. You’ve got to really work at wrapping yourself in a bubble to pretend this is normal.
And this is why I protest and make phone calls, I want to keep popping that bubble. Because the fun has just begun. Trump can sign EOs all day and his peanut gallery will cheer and cheer just so they can taste liberal tears - but wait until these guys have to vote to appropriate actual taxpayer dollars to pay for the Wall and the other stupid stuff that Trump is decreeing.
And just wait for the day when the average Trump supporter has to pay out of pocket to educate his kids, when he can’t drink tap water or buy food from the supermarket without fear of being poisoned, when the expensive Wall can’t hold back the flood of economic refugees from a Mexican-US trade war, and when the expenses of treating a broken leg will drive him into bankruptcy. Sure, he’ll be paying a couple of buck less in taxes when he realizes he never paid THAT much in the first place.
I’ll still be outraged, and maybe some of these guys will join me.
And your point would be…? The New York Times is lying? You’re out of the loop? Your friends aren’t normal? What?
Maybe thatLightray hasn’t heard of this and would like to. In fairness to NYT and Lightray, St Louis is a large city.
I’m thinking about our Administration’s response to what Russia’s been doing. Ukraine aggression? Cruise missiles? Spy ships off our shore? Deep involvement in the 2016 election?
Reaction: tell our allies to cough up more money, or they’re on their own.
That’ll teach Putin to stay in his place, alright.
That the NYT article was poorly written if someone in St. Louis can’t find about the “writer-studded event” they referenced. They should’ve name-dropped the event name, a bookstore name, or an author name.
Too bad it’s not a breakfast restaurant. Then you could say I was waffling.
:groan:
I get your point. The article didn’t get specific about events in the other named cities either.
Trump is now complaining that he “inherited a mess, a *mess *both at home and abroad”.
Soon as he cleans up Obama’s scandals, we’ll be getting to all that winning he was promising.
Soon.
“And I’ll make it into the biggest mess you ever saw!”
Jesus H. W. Christ on a pogo stick! Did he do a dozen tabs of brown acid before going onstage?
This has been an absolutely amazing press conference to watch. He truly lives in an alternative universe. Facts aren’t facts. If you say something enough, it becomes true. The thing that is the problem? It’s not the problem, it must be the coverage of it.
Just one thing I posted in GD, fits better here:
Christ on a crack cocaine cracker!
I just heard in his just ongoing news conference tell reporters and the world how shameful they should be because secret conversations like his calls to Mexico and Australia were leaked! That what he had talked before with the president of Mexico and the Australian premier was almost instantly revealed. The problem here is that, for all we knew so far, those leaks remained unconfirmed officially so they could continue to be plausibly denied.
Trump just validated for many reporters the many deep throats that are in his White House and/or the ones in Mexico, Australia and others.
Mortifying, embarrassing, incomprehensible. This Presidency cannot continue, surely.
At least it helps fill in the time until the next Avengers movie. Because he is the Incredible Hulk of delusion. It is simply awe inspiring to watch as his superpower of denying reality grows exponentially more powerful the more self-apparent the actuality of what is happening becomes.
Oh, I don’t know… I saw one commenter on WaPo who said it was a home run, that Trump really showed himself to be the president his supporters always knew he could be, and that it was a great day for America.
Or something to that effect. Google Translate had a bit of trouble with the Cyrillic.