Are you there Vlad? It’s me, Donald.
Then again, maybe I won’t. Sad.
Nevertheless, my question stands.*
After all, those guys are in a Broadway musical right now, aren’t they? Of course, they’re not dead! Otherwise how could they sing and dance, amirite?
*Does Donnie know the Founding Fathers are dead?
Just leave him—he’s on a roll.
Is this real? It’s hard to tell these days. That darn pesky Constitution he swore under oath to uphold.
Tales of a fourth grade President.
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It doesn’t matter a whit who was president for this supremes’ vacancy. Only a conservative would get confirmed.
He? Trump is not his own person. Heck, I’ve my doubts he’s a whole person–or even any sort of person at all, for that matter. As another poster so ably elucidated in one of the many Trump threads, Trump is only able to [del]repeat[/del] [del]parrot[/del] relate whatever it was that someone else said to him within the last few moments. Corporate tax cuts, then, are whatever it is that the scum he’s surrounded himself with believe will help them. That they’ll help Trump, too, of course is a happy accident for that jerk.
Bolding mine. I read the bolded word as “Circus” and, what do you know, it didn’t change the meaning of the sentence at all, thanks to the clown we currently have occupying 1600 Pennsylvania.
The problem with that comparison is Swift was a mighty fine writer. The blather coming out of Trump, Spicer, et wretch, cannot constitute good writing.
That’s why the quote said “description of.”
Nothing in this post will be new to anyone here, but the cites are worth a read.
So, The Atlantic asks, “Who’s Really In Charge of the United States Government?” The answer: a small group of generals. The article goes through examples of Trump making frightening, false, or freaky statements only to have them walked back later when cooler heads have prevailed. Most often, those cooler heads are Mattis, McMaster, or Kelly.
Meanwhile, The New Yorker, in a bit of wishful thinking about Trump being Article 25ed or impeached, quotes a libertarian think tanker who says we’re living in a banana republic. Trump’s inner circle is filled by family and inexperienced toadies whose only qualification is that Trump trusts them to be loyal.
And, for good measure, Trump has invited Rodrigo Duterte, an unabashed banana republic dictator, to the White House.
But, hey! Look on the bright side!
No wait. There is no bright side. We’re fucked. We’re all fucked. The United States is being run as a Third World country.
One of my best friends in the Navy was a gentleman married to a woman from the Philippines. His wife’s description of her own country was, “Third world? Get real. The PI is a 12th world country; it’s that bad.” Little did she know that one day, the US government could legitimately be described as worse than that.
Eh, we don’t have hundreds of government sanctioned murder squads roaming the country.
Yet.
Yeah. That’s a newish thing for the PI, too. I’m not all that sanguine about Trump-run businesses let alone a Trump-run government. But we used to have murder squads roaming parts of the South, and the government didn’t do a blame thing for quite some time about them. But, hey, Trump and his White supremacists wouldn’t even consider letting their like-minded citizens get away with that stuff, huh?
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross:
BTW, I just watched a video of Ross speaking. He’ll put you to sleep after about thirty seconds.
Wilbur?
Name-wise, not exactly Game of Thrones is it.
Plus there’s still the issue that if he goes, you guys get Pence.
CNN.com: “Donald Trump: Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’”
Summary: “Wah, wah, wah, not getting my way, wah! Republican dominated Congress still won’t vote my way, very unfair! The failing US Congress is very bad!”
Obama called it: “I’d advise Mr. Trump to stop whining, and try to make his case to get votes.” Obama was talking about the presidential elections, of course, but apparently Trump didn’t realize that once he got elected he’d still have to work with people to advance his agenda. And he hasn’t experienced nearly the obstructionism in his first 100-odd days as Obama did in his 2,922 days in office. Keep it up, Donny. Fabulousness awaits you.
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Apparently Duterte may not be willing to Make Room for [del]Daddy[/del] Donald on his dance card.
Geez, he all but said, I have to wash my hair that night. He probably feels it would hurt his reputation to be seen hanging out with our so-called President.
Yup.
I’m wondering who’ll be the first to write a biography on Trump’s presidency, titled: Whiny Little Bitch.
I hope it’s someone with some gravitas, like Jon Meacham.
No, once Trump is out of office we’re all going to agree to never speak about it again, just like The Simpsons where the real Seymour Skinner shows up.
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