Nobody could have foreseen that the Democrats would vote against trashing Obamacare and replacing it with an abomination that would have thrown 24 million people off of insurance. I mean, it was just not expected!
Also, nobody could possibly have known that being president was hard. I mean, the president gives orders, and his people follow the orders, right? How hard can that be?
I must vent: Trump’s statements about the gas attacks on Syria piss me off to no end.
Trump said, “It crossed a lot of lines for me. When you kill innocent children, innocent babies — babies, little babies — with a chemical gas that is so lethal … that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line… That attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. Big impact. It was a horrible, horrible thing. It’s very, very possible that my attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much.”
You ignorant dolt – what do you think has been happening in Syria for the last many years? Hospitals bombed, toddlers being pulled out of bomb craters, entire cities being leveled, and for years you basically concluded that Assad ain’t so bad.
Now it’s like reality somehow broke through that immense field of stupidity that surrounds you, so that you finally encounter for the first time what is actually occurring in Syria – and it’s like a gamechanger for you.
How dare you be so completely unaware of what’s going on in the world while running for the most important elected office in the world. Sure, there’s the silver lining that you finally seem to care a little bit about someone other than yourself, but these comments make me seethe with how totally unprepared you are to have the job you do.
It’s like if your closest friend died of cancer, and you’re compelled to tell the world, “Hey, I just found this out – cancer isn’t nearly as good as I once thought it was. I may be changing my mind on cancer, that’s for sure.”
Now, now. Security briefings are hard. You can’t expect His Orangeness to actually pay attention during those things. If it ain’t on Fox, it didn’t happen.
That’s not “coy”. That’s basically an admission that Trump does not have the first fucking clue what to do.
Seriously. All Trump knows is how to call up a contractor and threaten not to pay them. He knows how to yell at underlings to get things done, or else they’re fired. That’s it. He is completely bereft of original thought, and has not even the vaguest clue about international politics.
He couldn’t find Syria or North Korea with google, a globe, and an expert on Geography. He’d fire the expert, insist the globe was “too round”, and use google to find Russian hooker pee videos.
The gist is that pulling out of the climate deal would actually accelerate coal’s demise. Who knew? Funny how so many of Obama’s policies turn out to be best practices when one looks at the contents instead of being offended by the man’s skin tone or “liberalism” or whatever the rubes were frothing about. If only Congress weren’t packed with jackasses like Ryan and McConnell, we’d have even more of these best practices in place.
So. Is the media the “enemy of the people”? Maybe it is the GOP congress.
Decades from now, when I look back at these weird political times, there will be six words that will encapsulate the whole shbang, and it’s a random phrase from that first google page:
“Donald Trump’s Russian prostitute pee party”.
I think that’s a perfectly reasonable summation.
On the one hand, if Bannon loses this war, our threat of nuclear annihilation goes down considerably, but with Kushner’s ascent, the chance that the 99% will be reduced to sustaining ourselves off of twigs and dog food within the next two years goes up significantly.
I suppose I should just stop being such a pussy and enjoy the political theater. But I still weep for my children.