# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 7, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070 "2016-12-07T00:25:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2178
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43547 "2020-05-16T15:29:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Kirk was born in Iowa and grew up on Tarsus IV. You think Loser Donald’s smart enough to make that distinction? He’s just as likely to declare that a “very credible source” called him to say Kirk was secretly born on Romulus and his Earthican birth certificate is a fraud. [hijack]I’m not a Trekkie by any means, but: You’re from outer space?!??? No, I’m from Iowa. I just work in outer space. is one of the best lines in the history of cinema. [/hijack] ---
**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:** [May 16, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43548 "2020-05-16T16:01:35Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > …It will be for ordinary people to decide what kind of government they want to have after January 2020. [That won’t happen if Republican Dirty Tricks work out as planned.](https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1261150508175233025) "Devin Nunes just admitted on national television that the Republican strategy to win the November election is illegal. They aren’t even trying to hide it." ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43549 "2020-05-16T16:18:10Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I, for one, support revolutionary academic research that will enable me to talk to dogs. Just review the early work of Spielberg and Lucas. _It’s a transmitter, a radio for speaking to Dog._ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43550 "2020-05-16T16:20:36Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I, for one, support revolutionary academic research that will enable me to talk to dogs. You might want to stay the hell away from dogs in Yonkers[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43551 "2020-05-16T16:28:14Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Just review the early work of Spielberg and Lucas. > > _It’s a transmitter, a radio for speaking to Dog._ The Bark of the Covenant? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43552 "2020-05-16T16:30:47Z")
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**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43553 "2020-05-16T16:50:46Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Just review the early work of Spielberg and Lucas. > > _It’s a transmitter, a radio for speaking to Dog._ The Bark of the Covenant? ---
**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:** [May 16, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43554 "2020-05-16T16:59:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [That won’t happen if Republican Dirty Tricks work out as planned.](https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1261150508175233025) > "Devin Nunes just admitted on national television that the Republican strategy to win the November election is illegal. > > They aren’t even trying to hide it." I’d momentarily forgotten about it, but yes, so-called ballot harvesting is absolutely one tool in their toolkit. They tried this in North Carolina, and almost pulled it off. Republicans know that there will be pressure to open-up mail-in voting across different states, so one tactic will be to disrupt mail voting any way they can. The deeper, long-term damage will be inflicted not just by Trump alone, but by McConnell’s courts. It’s the complicity of ideological courts that turns democracies into hybrid or quasi-democracies because it’s typically through courts that legislatures and executives can gain legitimacy. It’s especially true in the US where the average person has a lot more direct access to courts relative to less free and less open societies. If authoritarian regimes can essentially corrupt the courts, it’s game over for democracy - at least for the average person or the person with the wrong skin tone, wrong religion, wrong gender, and wrong economic class. And this is what McConnell is focusing on with a sense of urgency and laser-like focus. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43555 "2020-05-16T16:59:53Z")
_opens box, points at **Maus Magill** _ ---
**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:** [May 16, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43556 "2020-05-16T18:05:39Z")
Individual 1 retweeted Michelle Malkin who was retweeting a white supremacist who thinks that segregation was a good thing. > **[Trump’s Very Normal Saturday Amplifying the Far-Right Blogger Shunned by...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-trump-fans-out-on-far-right-columnist-michelle-malkin-in-saturday-morning-tweet-storm)** > > In a Saturday morning tweet storm, Trump supported a video of blogger Michelle Malkin claiming—very loudly—that conservatives were being silenced. Individual 1 praising the anti-shutdown protesters on Long island who threatened a reporter from a local tv station who was there just to report on their demonstration. (This was in Suffolk County, the county with the fourth most cases in the country) > > > Kevin Vesey @KevinVesey ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43557 "2020-05-16T19:24:50Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I, for one, support revolutionary academic research that will enable me to talk to dogs. Are you sure? ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43558 "2020-05-16T19:32:21Z")
I can’t get a link to work. Just go to YouTube and enter SNL translator. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43559 "2020-05-16T19:38:39Z")
[fixed link](https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/translator/3483869) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43560 "2020-05-16T20:41:45Z")
MY dogs are Anarcho-Syndicalists, just like me! I’m CERTAIN of it. I read Kropotkin and Emma Goldman to them every night before their dinner. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43561 "2020-05-16T20:46:39Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > MY dogs are Anarcho-Syndicalists, just like me! > > I’m CERTAIN of it. I read Kropotkin and Emma Goldman to them every night before their dinner. I knew those bitches would love that shit. :mad:🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43562 "2020-05-16T20:51:12Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > I knew those bitches would love that shit. :mad:🙂 And the three of us joined the Wobblies together! Direct Action gets the goods! Don’t mourn, organize! Woof! ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43563 "2020-05-16T21:01:59Z")
I’m a bad person, but I just can’t stop seeing a Young Frankenstein ‘super duper’ imagine in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43564 "2020-05-16T21:26:14Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > This is why I think he, McConnell, Nunes, et al will attempt to manufacture some kind of national emergency. They won’t have to. We’re already in a _global_ emergency. They’ll use the pandemic to achieve their goals if they can… which means they might not actually want a quick end to it. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43565 "2020-05-16T22:02:20Z")
But the pandemic is a hoax, right? They can’t use it. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43566 "2020-05-16T22:58:52Z")
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