The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

Pretty weak, man.

So’s Trump’s ejaculation, according to Stormy.

Better :slight_smile:

Following a link there to The American Presidency Project, I found that Trump delivered commencement addresses in 2017 at the US Coast Guard Academy and Liberty University. Neither is likely to be an unfriendly audience.

CFSG Administration is looking at changing the poverty line algorithm to a method more friendly to not helping people.

Comparisons to Clark Kent are unavailable, as there are no survivors.

It seems that Secretary of Fucking-Things-Up Pompeo stood Germany up in order to hie off to Baghdad, because, reasons. In the words of the Catepillar-Mustache guy,
The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces.
“Not seeking war” with Iran. Yeah, I am believing that.

Meanwhile, DailyBeast is of the opinion that the administration may be exaggerating the threat.
“It’s not that the administration is mischaracterizing the intelligence, so much as overreacting to it,” said one U.S. government official briefed on it.
Hmm. Nothing at all sounds familiar about that. Certainly not with an election on the horizon.

Well, the Iranians do have torpedo boats.

If this administration didn’t want war with Iran it wouldn’t have withdrawn from the agreement that placed inspectors at Iran’s nuclear facilities, and it wouldn’t be imposing the kinds of crippling sanctions that are squeezing the economy and thus posing an existential threat to Iran’s regime. The Trump administration is already essentially in a state of war with Iran; it’s just a matter of how long this continues before Iran becomes so angry and desperate that they try to lash out in retaliation. They can’t respond in kind economically, unless you call blocking the Strait of Hormuz a purely economic and not a military decision (it’s both, actually). Any measure of retaliation by Iran is going to be met with a military response. That’s why we have John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in the first place: to cook and exaggerate the intelligence.

John Bolton is wanking to his copy of Jane’s Defence Weekly.

If, hypothetically, you were a completely unscrupulous President involved in trade negotiations with the world’s 2nd-largest economy, and you knew a deal was imminent: you could make a lot of money for yourself and your friends, by tweeting inflammatory negative statements about the state of the negotiations. Then, when the market tanks, you buy low knowing that stocks are about to soar.

Just sayin’.

If someone had an hour’s foreknowledge, a killing could be made in, say, soybean futures. 'Course, that gives the nation’s soybean farmers a jolly good rogering!

More on the “brilliant businessman” that Deplorables have delivered to us as our “president”: Exclusive: Trump, the billion-dollar loser — I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen

It’s possible Mitch “Cocaine” McConnell could be the worst of the whole bunch. Mr. It’s All Over has broken yet again from precedent by appointing another far-right judge over objections of both of a nominee’s home-state senators.

My favorite observation from that article:

I like the image of him spending the whole day examining fabric swatches and wood chips.

Great article.

Pretty funny when you understand that he thinks class is a gold plated toilet.

Trump has effectively restricted media access by revoking White House credentials en masse:

Their access is granted on a case-by-case basis as “exceptions”.

Like their objections mean shit. Cocaine Mitch is all about creating a brutally partisan White Christian Nationalist senate machine. Did anyone not expect him to do this?

“Mitch McConnell wants to raise money off the nickname ‘Cocaine Mitch’”

What a classy guy.