Looks like a Perfect Storm brewing. Government shutdown, Syrian withdrawal, quitting-in-disgust defense secretary, crashing economy. But hey! It makes great television!
This would be the perfect time for Putin to reach over and reclaim Alaska. Chump probably wouldn’t stop him at the best of times, but now he’ll hardly even notice. Sure, they vote Republican, but they’re so few electoral votes. And Vlad may want it so.
I think my favorite commentary on today (which is entirely my fault because I thought everything was going to be quiet today and tomorrow through Wednesday, and to be fair, Cheeto Benito does want to golf in Florida) was this random person
Is it time to invoke the 25th Amendment yet?
Do you remember a show (perhaps it was a made for TV movie) where the protagonist had to save the day by writing new episodes for the show, thereby removing all the nefarious characters and ending up with a wonderful day and everyone was regaling him with adulation? That’s what Dinky Donnie thinks being president is, apparently. He’ll just issue yet another executive order and what he wants to have will be done. At least, in his mind that’s the way it works.
Twilight Zone. Cornfield. 'Nuff sed.
…Ladies and Gentleman, an official statement from the President of the United States.
(I had to double check I wasn’t posting a link to one of the many parody accounts. Everything is fucked.)
Stolen/paraphrased from Twitter: Trump could give Alaska back to Russia and he’d only lose two votes in the Senate.
The fact that he goofed around in a sketch some years ago when he was a TV star doesn’t bother me. And it wouldn’t bother me if he was just, in a lighthearted setting (like the Correspondents’ Dinner or something), poking fun at himself for being a goof years ago. But posting that as a way of announcing the signing of the new farm bill? What. The. Fuck?
There’s no fucking way in hell that DJT had anything to do with the creation and posting of this video, as that’s far beyond his skill set. Which means that his Knowledgeable Advisers thought that it would be a good idea.
We’re fucked.
He also commented on that saying that was at the Emmys, where he won an Emmy Award. No, he didn’t win an Emmy Award.
If there is a government shutdown, does Air Force One still fly?
Yep. It’s still a military aircraft staffed with military personnel.
Apparently Individual 1 wants to build his wall to protect us from … coyotes.
“Every nation has not only the right but the absolute duty to protect its borders and its citizens. A nation without borders is a nation not at all. Without borders we have the reign of chaos, crime, cartels, & believe it or not, coyotes.”
The speechwriter probably meant the immigrant smugglers, but I don’t know if Trump would know that.
From here:
Did Trump hear someone talking about them and think it meant real coyotes?
This is a Nixon moment, like the kind when he’s sitting in a dark corner with the lights off chugging a bottle of whiskey 'cause he knows he’s circling the drain.
By the way, this ain’t over. Here’s some bedtime reading:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/11/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-richard-nixon-215478
Got coyotes and they’re hungry, but the hot dog stand on the corner went under and has yet to become a taco stand, which I recall was promised in the 2016 campaign. :mad:
I think he promised taco trucks.
Still hasn’t delivered on that.
We were told that if Hillary won, there would be taco trucks on every corner. Yet another thing Trumputin fucked up.
Didn’t Individual-1 also warn us about pre-announcing troop withdrawals?