Well, thank you, Mr Sunshine! Maybe a nice paper cut, a bit of lemon juice. Somebody smiled, or something?
According to Carl Bernstein, Republicans are beginning to think Old Hamster Fists is a few tacos short of a combo plate.
Christ on a zwieback. Nevermind whether the guy reads books— the 45th President of the United States is innumerate.
WRT to the popular vote: whenever one of us brings it up on this board, some Trumpster inevitably pipes up with, “Get over it!” Ironic that it’s the Trumpster Himself who can’t/won’t get over it, amirite?
The guy is the sorest winner I’ve ever seen. He is King of the Snowflakes.
Baaaaaaaloney.
Republican leaders are delighted so far. Trump is signing almost everything that they’re putting in front of him. As long as Trump signs off on most of the regressive crap they want to do, they’ll let him babble about inauguration crowds. How does that prevent them from furthering their agenda?
They won’t get everything, of course - he’s not going to play ball on a gay marriage ban because he still want to live in New York with his rich liberal “friends” - but they’ll get most of it, and, really, what else matters?
Bernstein can claim all he wants that he heard Jimmy and Bobby say that Addison said Trump was delusional, but in Washington it’s about getting what you want, and so far Trump is giving them what they want. If, though some weird and inexplicable Constitutional mixup, Lenin’s body arose from its casket and became President, the Republican Party would play along as long as Lenin agreed to sign their legislation into law.
And one more thing about that article; “Approval rating” in January of a President’s first year in office means squat. Nothing. Zilch.
Doing that while letting the “a few tacos short of a combo plate” narrative take hold is the best of both worlds – get what they want, then launch the 25th Amendment ejector seat and pin the blame on him. Sure, the people who are paying attention won’t buy it, but they don’t need the people who are paying attention, they need a majority.
To a point, you’re right. But even Republicans don’t want to be incinerated by incoming nuclear warheads. They may love love love their tax cuts, but at some point they’re going to wonder if they’re worth the risk of having a criminally insane president when Pence will sign all their tax cuts without being batshit crazy?
First of all, who the fuck didn’t see this all along? Were there really educated, intelligent members of congress* who thought this was just an act? I certainly could tell all along that the man was unfit for the role- that’s one of my main reasons for not voting for him! It’s why I urged my Republican friends and family to vote third party (few listened)
Second of all, there’s a part of me who thinks “Good. They thought they could shake hands with the devil and it would work out OK for them. We may all go down, but at least my conscience is clear.”
*As much as we might disagree with their positions, in fact most of them are intelligent and educated
The Donald is still insisting that his inauguration is the bigliest and most-attended and most-watched ever.
Oh, and his post-campaign campaign-rally speech at the CIA Memorial Wall got “the biggest standing ovation since Peyton Manning had won the Super Bowl”.
In alternative fact, they weren’t applauding Manning at all at the Super Bowl; they were applauding Trump for his future election win.
The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned.
Which of course means they’ll be replaced by incompetent yes-men, or worse.
Now, I didn’t write the Art of the Deal or anything, but… painting the Mexican president into a corner where it would be personally humiliating and politically devastating for him to pay for The Wall kinda guarantees that he will never, like, agree to pay for The Wall, no? :dubious:
Not necessarily, he may simply be hoping that you are.
He should agree to pay for the wall after it’s built, then refuse to pay after discovering substandard workmanship.
Mexico ought to rub HWMNBN’s nose in it and start making overtures to China.
Yup. They’ll just put some idiot Trump sycophants or reality show stars into the jobs. I’m sure that will work out well for the diplomats and others who rely on the State department for their security. Not to worry though - when people are killed, they’ll just blame it on Hillary, because that is what they believe. #alternatefacts
This is insane.
I knew that he was isolationist and protectionist (and nuts). But we do need to work with other countries to some extent. Gutting the diplomatic corps is just crazy.
It was never in the cards at all that Mexico would pay for the wall. Any hint of it and the President - be it Enrique Pieta Nieto or anyone who succeeds him - can assume his/her political career is over. He’d be lucky to get hired on at a Starbucks.
Trump will still claim Mexico will pay for the wall - he’ll have Congress cancel NAFTA and point to some tariff and say “they paid for the wall.” Or he’ll just claim they did, it doesn’t matter what the truth is.
The Mexican President, as anyone might expect, has cancelled his upcoming trip to DC: