The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1)

Best version I’ve seen:

Trump: “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV”

Ron Burgundy: “Brick, are you…are you just looking at things in the studio and saying their names?”

Trump: “PERSON, WOMAN, MAN, CAMERA, TV”.

Didn’t we used to have a poster named that?

Welp, that’ll get the youth vote out in force.

Here’s the thing, though: what if this is only the dress rehearsal? Look how far the GOP have gotten toward imposing one-party rule with an incompetent and openly criminal idiot at the helm. Now imagine what they could do next time with someone more competent and better at hiding his tracks.

That won’t have been the original plan, of course, but now that they’ve seen how far they can go and what they need to do to go even farther, it will become the next plan.

I’ve pictured Putin saying to his staff, "Holy shit that worked well! I mean – I thought a little nudge in the campaign four years ago might polarize the US of A somewhat but we actually got that poltroon elected! And then, instead of using the tools they had on hand to kick him to the curb anyway they kept him on! And now you tell me there’s a fair chance he’ll get elected again? Without our help!?

"What the hell happened? Fifty years ago at the height of the cold war, the United States was ten feet tall and bestrode the earth like gods. Now, a couple hundred million dollars lent to an obvious conman here, a few leaks there, and the whole thing is ready to collapse like a house of cards in a stiff wind.

“I tell ya, Lenin was right: When we come to hang the capitalists, they’ll sell us the rope.”

Yes, it looks like we still do, more or less.

At the risk of being whooshed, “for all intensive purposes” is never correct. It is an “eggcorn”:

" When mistaken formations of words or phrases are used in a seemingly logical or plausible way, like “for all intensive purposes,” it’s known as an eggcorn . (The word eggcorn itself comes from people hearing the word acorn as eggcorn enough that linguists adopted it as the term.)

Yes, you’ve been whooshed. I am perfectly aware that “intensive purposes” is an error for “intents and purposes,” which is why I included a smilie. I was joking on the fact that Kim’s purposes are pretty intensive.

Here’s some more winkies in case you feel an additional attack of pedantry coming on.:wink: :wink: :wink:

Yeah it’s ZOMG HE SAID “MARINE CORPSE!!!”

This isn’t really true. There’s been one incumbent who had an easy time getting re-elected since 1988, and even in Clinton’s case, the first two years were a nightmare, politically.

I think you’re writing about republicans as if they are the party of Romney and Bush, and that’s just not the case. They’re the party of unapologetic oligarchy.

Individual 1 pronounces Yosemite as, first, “Yo-semites” and then as “Yo-seminites”.

I guess this means he never watched Looney Tunes. The man ain’t got no culture.

Thanks, I will store them under my bed, next to the bodies of the people who used “your” instead of “you’re”

I quoted this because it’s an important reference point.

We had the worst financial collapse since 1932, and it was almost indisputably caused by policies advocated by every Republican since Reagan. Obama’s policies offered us a clear course to safer waters, which included stimulus in the form of both progressive tax cuts and infrastructure. He also signed into law a healthcare program that offered healthcare access to a far greater number of people, and what we got was the precursor to “But what about muh freedumz?!” mask-holery.

We also got our first taste of how social media can poison the well with fake news and idiotic commentary.

Yo-Semites Sam? Or is that, Yo-seminites Sam?

God, what a total fucking moron that guy is. What is the threshold? Where do his supporters draw the line?

I suppose we should take it for granite that he wouldn’t know how “Yosemite” is pronounced.

We may have to wait for the executive order to know the correct pronunciation.

Your welcome.

:wink: :wink: :wink:

The last incumbent President who didn’t get re-elected to a second term was Bush in 1992. Of the last twenty Presidents (that’s going back to 1900) only five of them failed in a re-election attempt. Getting re-elected has become the norm.

Romney and Bush were both prime examples of unapologetic oligarchy. But unlike Trump, they knew how to hide it. That’s why the Republicans would like to get rid of Trump; he doesn’t know how to hide what he is.

And they have the nerve to jump all over anything Biden might microscopically mess up. I’ve said this before, even IF all things were equal on the misspellings (they’re not), mispronunciations, (they’re not), lies (theyre not), I’ll go with the guy who isn’t an insane, stupid, D- Bag.

Bush was the last one to get voted out of office, but Obama and W Bush were challenged. I would acknowledge that Trump has the lowest approval rating in the history of modern presidential opinion polling, but what I’m saying is that the old metrics may not be as valid as they used to be. We’re in an era of fractured politics; the republican party won the last election by ostensibly not giving a fuck about being a big tent.

It’s true that, by many standards, Trumpism is repelling many traditional republicans, including some who voted for him and the party in the last election. This is their vulnerability, particularly if you count on a normal election process. What I and others are pointing out, though, is that they are attacking “normal”. And in doing so, they are attacking the fabric of democracy itself. They may not succeed, but there’s a greater than zero chance that they could, and that thought is chilling.

This is why I am face palming when I hear that Biden wants to debate Trump.

Why?

Mind you, I’m not worried that Trump will “win” the actual debate - he won’t.

But he ‘wins’ by simply creating a spectacle.

I asked for that, didn’t I. I should have saw it coming.