# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083 "2020-06-22T03:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 379
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7581 "2020-12-15T14:52:00Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > ‘Ahem, that’s Dr. Henry Kissinger.’ Is he a medical doctor? NO, just a Ph.D, He didn’t earn the right to be called “Doctor”. The Nobel Peace prize? OK, you can call him “kiddo”. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7582 "2020-12-15T21:04:03Z")
Individual 1 retweets a call for the Republican Governor and Secretary of State of Georgia to be arrested. [https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-promotes-tweet-warning-that-gov-brian-kemp-and-sec-of-state-raffensberg-will-soon-be-going-to-jail](https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-promotes-tweet-warning-that-gov-brian-kemp-and-sec-of-state-raffensberg-will-soon-be-going-to-jail) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7583 "2020-12-15T21:04:31Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Is he a medical doctor? NO, just a Ph.D, He didn’t earn the right to be called “Doctor”. The Nobel Peace prize? OK, you can call him “kiddo”. But he’s a man, he gets to flaunt his credentials. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7584 "2020-12-15T21:40:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1 retweets a call for the Republican Governor and Secretary of State of Georgia to be arrested. > [Trump Tweets Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensberger Should Go To Jail](https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-promotes-tweet-warning-that-gov-brian-kemp-and-sec-of-state-raffensberg-will-soon-be-going-to-jail) Oh, cut the dude some slack. He was just responding to the part that said he was “a genuinely good man.” You can’t expect him to read all the way to the end of a tweet, can you? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7585 "2020-12-16T00:34:13Z")
I’m being handed a bulletin. This just in. > On Tuesday morning, Senator Mitch McConnell officially congratulated the Oakland Athletics for their game 7 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 World Series. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7586 "2020-12-16T00:43:11Z")
I’m being handed another bulletin: > The grandchildren of Alan Shepard, the first American in Space aboard Freedom 7 are still holding out hope that Senator Mitch McConnell will eventually acknowledge this feat of their grandfather, who died in 1998. Shepard flow aboard a Mecury 7 rocket on on May 5, 1961, reaching an altitude of reached an altitude of 101.2 nautical miles. > > “We’re hoping that Senator McConnell will stop saying that my Grandpa is fake news, and that he didn’t actually exist” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7587 "2020-12-16T00:44:49Z")
Is it just me or is Vladimir Putin still trolling the shit out of the United States? > **[Putin Congratulates Biden After Electoral College Vote (Published 2020)](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/world/europe/putin-biden-election-electoral-college.html)** > > The Russian leader had delayed acknowledging Mr. Biden’s victory for weeks, citing President Trump’s legal challenges. The leaders of Mexico and Brazil also offered congratulations for the first time. > **[Scope of Russian Hacking Becomes Clear: Multiple U.S. Agencies Were Hit...](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/politics/russia-hack-nsa-homeland-security-pentagon.html)** > > The Pentagon, intelligence agencies, nuclear labs and Fortune 500 companies use software that was found to have been compromised by Russian hackers. The sweep of stolen data is still being assessed. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7588 "2020-12-16T02:23:25Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Don’t worry too much. I’ve reconsidered my original conclusion here. Irrespective of Harry Litman’s opinion, and I do value it, I think Rosen is going to be dangerous in Trump’s last 3 weeks. It seems he has had a hand in much of the criminality occurring during the Trump years. Lots of interference in criminal referrals and burying them. He bears close watching. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7589 "2020-12-16T05:18:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1 retweets a call for the Republican Governor and Secretary of State of Georgia to be arrested. > [Trump Tweets Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensberger Should Go To Jail](https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-promotes-tweet-warning-that-gov-brian-kemp-and-sec-of-state-raffensberg-will-soon-be-going-to-jail) Good lord I hope he actually tries something this misguided. The smackdown he gets would be epic. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7590 "2020-12-16T10:12:35Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Good lord I hope he actually tries something this misguided. The smackdown he gets would be epic. I must ask, as usual for these “lock 'em up” types, on what charges, specifically, do they plan to arrest the GA Gov and SecState? They never seem to remember to explain this. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7591 "2020-12-16T10:15:05Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I must ask, as usual for these “lock 'em up” types, on what charges, specifically, do they plan to arrest the GA Gov and SecState? They never seem to remember to explain this The Crime of Crimes: insufficient adulation of the Great Leader. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7592 "2020-12-16T12:33:41Z")
[https://www.axios.com/mitch-mcconnell-biden-powerbroker-afcf27ba-9cec-43de-90cf-b7c67005096a.html](https://www.axios.com/mitch-mcconnell-biden-powerbroker-afcf27ba-9cec-43de-90cf-b7c67005096a.html) > Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is muscling out President Trump as the dominant day-to-day Republican powerbroker on Capitol Hill. > > **Why it matters:** Trump’s power persists, and will live on post-presidency. But McConnell — in his cunningly quiet but methodical way — is flexing his authority. It’s a taste of a tension that will help define the next four years. > … _What really happened:_ Mitch opens the door to the playroom and recoils from the sight and the stench. “Okay, Donnie, time to clean up and put your toys away. You’re going on a trip. Out to the country. There will be a golf course and lots of hamberders. You’ll like it.” Mitch hands Donnie a big garbage bag. “The party’s over. Just pick up all this trash and stuff it in here.” Mitch looks around the room and shakes his head. “God, is there anything you haven’t broken in here?” Now, more sternly, “Donald J. Trump, I’m not going to repeat myself. Get up when I’m talking to you! The game is over. And give me back my whistle, too, you big poopyhead. I let you hang around in here for four years and break things, but it’s over and you’re done. Move your butt. For fuck’s sake, take those Jockeys off your head and put on your mask. The car is downstairs. Move it!” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7593 "2020-12-16T12:56:07Z")
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago neighbors are trying to use [legal action](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-mar-a-lago-neighbours-are-taking-legal-action-to-force-him-to-live-elsewhere/ar-BB1bYm8W?ocid=msedgntp) to prevent him from living there full-time after he leaves office. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7594 "2020-12-16T13:25:46Z")
The folks at Parler aren’t happy with Mitch > **[Parler turns on Moscow Mitch after he congratulates Biden](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/15/2002241/-Parler-turns-on-Moscow-Mitch-after-he-congratulates-Biden?utm_campaign=trending)** > > Mitch McConnell acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory earlier today and KABOOM … you knew this was coming. In MAGA-land you can say a satanic cabal of Democrats is harvesting the blood and organs of children... ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7595 "2020-12-16T14:32:20Z")
Nahhh, Parler’s pretty much an illusion. I guess posting stupid screeds just isn’t as much fun when there’s no liberals around. Yesterday, I read all this #cocainemitch is trending on Parler stuff. As of this morning, that hashtag had been used on Parler less than 200 hundred times. Some “trend”. Parler is mostly boring af. And I’m pretty sure most of the people on Parler calling out Mitch and calling for boycotting the GA elections are liberals with fake accounts. It’s just too easy. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7596 "2020-12-16T15:12:57Z")
Musing… The name “Parler.” I assume it’s from the French for _speak_, which first makes me ask what are they doing naming their big macho, tough, he-man site with a furriner word from that candy-ass French language? But more than that, do they realize that the “parlor” is the place grannies sit and crochet doilies until Sunday when they have the vicar over for tea, and no swearing or taking of the Lord’s name in vain is EVER allowed? Unless the whole site is a prank and is being run by gay, metrosexual hairdressers in New York City. And those _prowed_ he-men are getting their junk yanked good and hard. That must be where the screams are coming from. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7597 "2020-12-16T15:19:42Z")
For now. The problem is, when Trump leaves office, he will be able to engage in some guerilla warfare. McConnell has the real power for sure, and Trump will probably never be in public office again - I don’t buy into the idea he’s a McDonald’s munching, artery clogged 78-year-old tour de dorce candidate in 2024. I think Trump is done. But Trumpism is far from done, and Trump can be an unhinged loon without consequence once he leaves office, and he could even have martyrdom to go with it. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7598 "2020-12-16T15:25:09Z")
Still, the thought of the right-wing crazies Mitch has been covering for for years turning on him may or may not result in a few warmed-up heart cockles. I mean, I wish him no actual harm but some judicious application of mild karma wouldn’t go awry. Maybe the loons currently shouting at election officials could go shout at Mitch instead. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7599 "2020-12-16T16:17:54Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > and Trump can be an unhinged loon without consequence once he leaves office, No doubt. I would argue he’s been an unhinged loon without consequence while in office too. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7600 "2020-12-16T16:31:43Z")
I assumed it was a pun on “parlay.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=378) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=380)