Promise her a cabinet position if she’ll just stay out of it 
Oh, man, Great-Great Grandpa Millard just ruined my life AGAIN…
Not sure where to post this…
“Reagan’s Son: Trump’s Base Would Pick Putin Over Any Democrat As U.S. President”
I think he’s right.
While I generally take Ron Jr’s political insights with a grain of salt, the point that many, many Trump supporters are motivated by tribalism above all else is a valid one. There are already idiots out there thanking Russia for interfering in the 2016 election to stop Hillary from being elected (some while simultaneously denying any interference took place).
ProPublica has a report on 125 cases of sexual assault of minors being held in federal immigrant detention centers
Immigrant Youth Shelters: “If You’re a Predator, It’s a Gold Mine” — ProPublica?
How do you explain international trade to the Dotard? With flash cards.
Great street theatre - two guys dressed as Russian soldiers show up to guard Trump’s star in Hollywood.
But, but, Trump went to Wharton Business School …
[digression] This reminds me of an episode of *Wings *where Lowell the mechanic invited Joe and Brian to attend his graduation from M.I.T. They are *really *impressed, as Lowell is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Turns out it isn’t Massachusetts Institute of Technology-- it’s a three-week program called Murray’s Institute of Tools. So I think thump probably graduated from Whore-town Busyness School and majored in pussy-grabbing and golf. [/digression]
Of course he’s right.
About that … look into it, his scholarly studies there “ain’t all that impressive”.
Late Professor William T. Kelley taught Marketing at Wharton School of Business and Finance, University of Pennsylvania, for 31 years, ending with his retirement in 1982. Donald J. Trump was an undergraduate student at Wharton for the latter two of his college years, having been graduated in 1968.
“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”
Gwenda Blair, wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer. The officer had known Trump’s older brother, Freddy.
Trump’s classmates doubt that the real estate mogul was an academic powerhouse.
“He was not in any kind of leadership. I certainly doubt he was the smartest guy in the class,” said Steve Perelman, a 1968 Wharton classmate and a former Daily Pennsylvanian news editor.
1968 Wharton graduate Louis Calomaris recalled that “Don … was loath to really study much.”
Calomaris said Trump would come to study groups unprepared and did not “seem to care about being prepared.”
Most people who mention Wharton refer to its prestigious MBA program, but Trump was in the undergraduate program, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1968.
During a CNN-sponsored Republican town hall in Columbia, South Carolina, in February 2016, Trump reminded the audience that he had gone to Wharton and repeated the same boast: “Look, I went to the best school, I was a good student and all of this stuff. I mean, I’m a smart person.” — That sound exactly like what a really really smart person would say, and how hee’d say it :rolleyes:
So it is bullshit, just like everything else about him.
The progression of claims by the Trumpsters has been like this:
“We never had meetings with any Russians.”
“We may have met with Russians, but we didn’t talk about working together on the campaign.”
“We may have talked about campaign stuff, but they didn’t have anything to provide us.”
“There was no collusion.”
“Collusion is not illegal.”
“Thank you Vladimir Putin for helping us elect Trump.”
Yeah.
There may be no official legal “thing” for collusion, but there definitely is, for conspiracy. Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit treason, conspiracy to obstruct justice, etc etc etc
There was no “collusion”, but there was a shit load of conspiracy.
We all know by now, the whole damn bunch is guilty as fuck. They weren’t even smart enough to hide it properly.
Trump asked aides to ban CNN’s Jim Acosta and April Ryan from the White House:
Perhaps it’s time for the school to distance itself from him. Protecting the brand and all that.
It’s looking more and more like they didn’t try to hide it because they didn’t need to; per CurtC’s excellent summation.
Actually, I find the last line extremely impressive. Just - not in a good way. It’s kind of like saying “in 31 years of being a madame, that’s the one whore I met who kept needing explanations on the difference between Full Service and Greek.”
One of the stories in Simon R Green’s Nightside series deals with a character who sold his soul to the devil millennia ago in return for immortality. Turns out that one of the reasons the devil went for the deal is that the illusion of immortality — and not having to answer for his misdeeds — led the main character to acts of depravity which snared countless other souls who might otherwise have gone the other way. So the devil made a handsome profit, especially since he got the main character after all.
Comparing real life to literature is chancy at best, but I do see a bit of a parallel. As long as CFSG feels that the Pubbies have his back, he might pretty much limit himself to bloviating; if the Dems take the House (at least), and his efforts to delegitimize the election results don’t take root, then Mueller et.al. might consider employing food tasters. And perhaps door-handle testers.
No, you are thinking of uvulas.
Republicans take another step towards saying it is a good thing the Russians helped Trump defeat Hillary:
GOP Rep. Darrell Issa: ‘Nobody’s Going to be Surprised’ If Trump Lied About Russia Meeting