Thump is keeping the cameras on him every day, distracting everyone while programs in the background are being quietly neglected and killed or allowed to die. Not by thump alone, as he’s too stupid. Since this was done early on, I see Steve Bannon’s fingerprints all over it.
So we’re just supposed to sit idly by while a horde of bad hombres penetrates our nation’s perianal frontier? Word is, now they have catapults, AT-AT walkers and a guy playing a flamethrower guitar!
I kind of have two minds about this. Yeah, he’s clearly a lazy prick, but OTOH I can’t help thinking the more time he spends vegging out in front of the TV, the less time he is spending fucking up the nation.
Not that he isn’t still fucking up the nation in myriad ways, understand…
No, you’re right. I thought that, too. If he’s doing this much damage working a couple of hours a day, how much more could he do if he really dug in. The mind recoils from such a thought.
I’d go a little the other way. Previous presidents have too much structure, too much to do. Someone always wants something. No wonder they all turn grey.
The president shouldn’t just be another tool of government, a pawn to be moved around from one meeting to the next. The president should be allowed some time to do “big picture” stuff. To just sit and think.
In this particular case, however, the president doesn’t sit and think. He just sits.
Trump, naturally wrong, claims before his suckers that the NY stock exchange opened for business the day after the Sept. 11 attacks. Trump’s suckers, naturally, accept bullshit.
Chewing over the big picture with just a trusted old friend could very well indeed reap the rewards of reinforcing a certain clarity of purpose. Insert “passing by the office of the guy with his feet up on the desk” joke here.
But Donald has never give us even the slightest reason to believe that he ever engages in introspection or anything more complicated than who might have tweeted insultingly at him within the past 24 hours. President Moron indeed.
Trump has the ability to do maximum damage with minimal effort. He can just say on a whim “let’s open up more public land to fracking” and his minions scurry off to work out the details, while he resumes watching Fox & Friends.
All true in the practical sense but I was thinking even if the guards were there, they would have to be on the alert all the time, or wind up like these two. I have been in volunteer situations where I am the duty sober, so to speak – making sure those who are not aren’t injuring themselves too badly. It’s nothing like being ready to kill an assailant but it s still quite wearing.
Truck? Did the nazi who believes Trump’s lies drive around in a tastemobile too, same as the fanboy who tried to assassinate several people because of Trump’s lies?