The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

Could be worse. I once used “reign” for “rein”, but if I ever use “they’re” for “there”, I’m trying to signal for help.

One of the writers confirms it’s in the book.

Hope Hicks, Sean Spicer, and Reince Priebus are returning to the administration.

LOL, I’ll keep that in mind. But for the record, I think it was the “reign” for “rein” correction that inspired mine above. Wasn’t it kaylasdad99 who gave you that little yank on your rein? :wink:

I’ve learned (painfully) how to ignore the most common errors I see everywhere, including all over this board. I can almost breeze past “your” for “you’re,” “effect” for “affect,” “to” for “too.” I’ve given up my hopes to rehabilitate the perfectly good verb, “give,” merely gritting my teeth at the new verb, “gift.” But deep inside if I’m honest, I’m DesertDog’s guy in his posted link below.

And by the way, margin, I love your rants. They’re chock full of factual data and reach the conclusions of many reasonable people.

I think this means no one else would have them and only the dipshit in the Oval wants them.

And now that he’s been given the go-ahead by the Senate, he has no reason not to.

Exactly. :frowning:

Well, this did happen while y’all were talking:

To which Bloomberg responds:

So, yeah, someone like that… who is an actual Democrat!

Whew! It is quite a relief to learn we are not a banana republic, what with the POTUS tampering not just with the prosecutors in the Stone case, but also the judge and jury as well. A real load off my shoulders.

That is not the end of my anxiety though. Would it be asking too much for Trump to deny he is a pig fucker?

Irredeemable fucking scumbag Devin Nunes and his GOP toddler flunkies on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee have taken their hockey net home and refused to attend a subcommittee hearing on technology and national security on Wednesday, citing some nothingburger-y shite along the lines of it being “a publicity event”. Fucking hypocritical dipshits: tail-legging their way out of a hearing on technology and national security IS the publicity event, kinda.

For feces n’laughter, I checked out glurg-source National Review to see how they’d try to spin it, and sure enough:

(Their wonderfully dickish headline: “House Intel Committee Republicans Boycott Hearing Due to Schiff’s Refusal to Address FISA Abuses”)

Oh just fuck so entirely the fucking fuck off with the FISA guttersniping.

Let’s see how dysfunctional and broken things continue to get.

Donnie is having a no-good very-bad day.

[ul]
[li]Former Chief of Staff John Kelly is saying mean things about him in public, including defending Col. Vindman.[/li]
[li]The Senate just voted to require that he get congressional approval before doing anything stupid in Iran. 8 Republicans crossed party lines to vote Yes.[/li]
[li]A judge just ruled in favor of Amazon (Trump’s nemesis) and ordered work to halt on Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar defense contract.[/li]
[li]And the DOJ / Roger Stone shit-show keeps on rolling.[/li][/ul]

Every debate in modern history has employed height-leveling devices – “boxes”, if you will. If Trump and Bloomberg ever debate then they will either be seated, or will appear to be the same height. Donnie will just have to deal with it.

Ya know, I heard about some comment his campaign manager made about Trump that was pretty wicked too. That was a few days or a week ago, maybe.

And yeah, I thought it was encouraging, just like that comment you noted is encouraging. Let’s see what happens in the next 2-3 months.

Holy crap. Even Bill Barr has a limit for how much shit he’ll put up with.

Or the cynical response is he’s just asking that the dirty deeds be done more quietly. Ix-nay on the eets-tway.

Okay, eets-tway made me laugh right out loud. Well done. :smiley:

The cynical me says “I’m saying this to the press to try and get infront of the blindingly obvious”.

We’ll know if he’s being honest depending on Trump’s Twitter feed and/or if he is fired.

There ya go.

@realDonaldTrump - we know many of the same people in NY. Behind your back they laugh at you & call you a carnival barking clown. They know you inherited a fortune & squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence.
I have the record & the resources to defeat you. And I will.”
You know, I don’t have an outright favorite among the many Democrats playin right now. And if this is how it’s gonna be with Bloomberg then he’s right up there in my consideration. What’s his numbers look like? Maybe add one to his numbers for the time being.

Not sure where to post this… SOOO many trump threads now. (Where did they all COME from? It wasn’t me-- cross my heart!)

Fresh Air this week featured an interviewwith Jill Wine-Banks who was a Watergate prosecutor. The whole interview is well worth listening to (or you can read the transcript).

The public AND the prosecutors have just found out that Nixon had a taping system in the Oval Office:

The bolded part breaks my heart-- “public protest was so dramatic” when Nixon refused to turn over the tapes-- given what we have just seen these past few days. :frowning:

Jill Wine-Banks talks about listening to the tapes …

BTW, for those who remember what Bob Haldeman testified, namely:

My bold.

What Nixon REALLY said on the tape:

My bold.

So why doesn’t he quit?