And how are we defining ‘clout’?
I’m just trying to imagine Other Way Around World, where President Hillary Clinton is threatening North Korea with a nuclear strike and her original choice for communication director/transition advisor got caught fucking around on the campaign trail, fathering a baby and having it all boil up into a very public Twitter shit-storm … not even to mention all the other absolutely bat-shit crazy things Trump has done and said (and is most like doing or saying right now) in the past seven months.
In that world Fox “News” is running twenty-four hour impeachment [del]clebrations[/del] … coverage and every Republican in the country is dancing on the ash heap that was the White House after they set it on fire and dragged Hillary out by her cankles.
Trump says his “fire and fury” statement wasn’t tough enough.
Oh, Lawdy, dat crazy man gon’ git us all killed dead.
Don’t make him turn this country around!
That dude is a MASTERMIND negotiator! :smack::smack::smack:
Trump on Russia cutting 755 staffers from the US Embassy in Moscow:
This guy is an absolute moron.
Among the great ultimata of all time, up there with “I’m telling MOMMMMMM!”
I can’t even tell if that’s a parody of Trump or real. His base will probably crow about how he manipulated Putin into doing what Trump secretly wanted all along. 4-D chess!
I remember thinking sometime around 2004 that the country was finally going to wake up and see what kind of damage conservatives have wrought on this country. Didn’t happen. I remember thinking in 2008 that the country was ready for a new progressive era. The country reversed that trend in 2010. Why? Because people were actually fucking dumb enough to believe that expanding healthcare for millions was the sign that Obama was a socialist dictator who was out to create death panels that would go around decimating white grandmothers across the heartland. But the best was saved for November 8th, 2016.
That night, I went to bed thinking that maybe, just maybe, Trump isn’t as bad as he seemed. Maybe the office would humble him. Maybe he’d hire intelligent people, stay out of their way, and at worst, have a few signing ceremonies every now and again but leave the real decisions to the adults.
But the reality is setting in. Trump is going to be a disaster. It is inevitable; it’s just a matter of when that disaster starts to unfold and what the final price will be. But this country will not soon recover from the damage he is going to inflict.
QFT.
BREAKING NEWS: Trump has started counting to 3.
*Going *to be? Check your verb tense.
I had the TV on. He absolutely said it. Then I turned it off, I couldn’t take anymore.
And when he’s gone, by whatever means, President Pence will complete the destruction.
Ever since the election, when the subject of removing Trump would come up and folks would protest “But Pence…!” my response would be “Pence would blow up the country; Trump could blow up the world.”
I just didn’t expect the latter point to loom over us so soon.
It’s not even anyone in this administration I really worry about anymore. It’s his supporters. At some point, all of those people in the WH and executive offices will be gone, but the Trumpies are going to be around a long time, and every single blessed one of them lives in a delusional fantasy world in their head. That’s scary.
Trump thanks Putin for expelling diplomats and saving the U.S. a bunch of money.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/10/trump-thanks-vladimir-putin-diplomats-241498
Have his spokespeople started the “he was just joking” defense yet?
Well, it is actually obviously a joke, but the fact that he made it with this kind of political climate speaks volumes about his judgment and his ties to Putin.
Indeed, Trump may turn out to be a proto-authoritarian, but the country is ripe for a real one at some point unless things change dramatically in the next 10 years.
Hey, even in these troubled times, I can appreciate a bit of lowbrow humor.
Speaking of jokes, Chris Hayes’ show tonight ran a montage of about 20 clips of Trump bitching about Obama’s supposed excessive golfing, how Trump was going to spend all his time “working his ass off” in the White House, etc., then mentioned that as of today, Trump has spent fifty days (out of 200 as President) at one of his golf clubs.