The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

Now, if we combine these two images into one scenario, this thread will officially be destined for the dumpster.

I hope he gets his 2 hour long military parade. We’ll call it the MakeMerikaGreat parade. 420 soldiers marching while singing One toke over the line, left, right, one toke over the line.

I’m sure he put the finest financial minds on this conundrum. I look forward to the explanation as to how a “market”, which is an amalgamation of millions of investor decisions, can be “wrong”.

Deep State operatives at the SEC manipulating the stock market to make “Trump” look bad. Must be stopped! #IAssumeThisIsComingSoon

You’re a day late. “Far-right figures are saying the deep state is responsible for the stock market crash.”

No matter how cynical you get, it’s impossible to keep up. (Lily Tomlin, I think.)

He may literally think that the DJIA is an applause-o-meter wired to the financial news of the day, and somebody screwed up.

She’ll just stare at the sign you know she has over her bed that says, “THINK OF THE MONEY!”

***After ***the news reports came out that Rob Porter had beaten both of his ex wives, and before he had offered his resignation, John Kelly called Porter “a man of true integrity and honor” and a “trusted professional.”

“THINK OF THE PRE-NUP!” is more specific.

My response to the whole “parade” thing on another board was to simply post the picture of the man standing in front of the tanks.

Will the Joint Chiefs of Staff be there?

Well, hey-- up is down, hot is cold, good is bad, east is west, only one black eye on your ex-wife as opposed to two shows integrity…

Well, after they weed out the bluntly anti-administration ones.

You’re thinking of the Chief Staff of Joints.

I drew a cartoon with that caption, decades ago.

I’m sure they’ll hash it out.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt is a fucking idiot.

The AP story transcribes and rebuts a few comments, but here’s the Las Vegas TV station’s story with the interview video embedded. WARNING: STUPIDITY!

Vlad needs a place to put his beer down.

That isn’t about Trump but I don’t care. There’s nothing sweeter than a doggie birthday party. On the occasion of his own birthday, my Bernese would have (among other things) a bacon-wrapped filet off the barbecue (rare to medium-rare, of course) and a bowl of Haagen-Dazs vanilla for desert. Whenever I went to Mickey D’s, I always got him a kid’s cheeseburger as a treat.

Getting back to the Orange Peril, the Parade has already been mentioned. Here’s a take from the international news:
U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the Pentagon to plan a grand parade of the U.S. armed forces in Washington this year to celebrate military strength, officials said Tuesday.

The Washington Post, which was first to report the plan, said Trump wants an elaborate parade this year with soldiers marching and tanks rolling, but no date has been selected.

… Muscular military parades of the kind that are common in authoritarian countries like China and North Korea are not quintessentially American. The U.S. traditionally has not embraced showy displays of raw military power, such as North Korea’s parading of ballistic missiles as a claim of international prestige and influence.

U.S. military members commonly participate in parades on the Fourth of July and other holidays to mark appreciation and remembrance of military veterans, but these typically do not include gaudy displays of military hardware.

The US path to the status of a banana republic is well under way.

You, sir, are a fine human being. :slight_smile:

This might be a good time to stock up on khaki shirts with epaulets and mirrored aviator glasses to sell to thump supporters at gun shows and on ebay.

In today’s news…White House aide Rob Porter resigned, when his 2 ex-wives both went public with stories of physical abuse (including a picture of one of them with a black eye.)

Chief of Staff Kelly knew about his background, as it came up on his background check and prevents Porter from getting the clearance he needs to actually, you know, work in the White House.

But Kelly and Sarah Huckabee Sanders both sang Porter’s praises today as a really swell guy and it’s a shame he’s leaving.

But here’s the really interesting part: he’s currently dating … wait for it …

Hope Hicks.

Can that poor woman please go on Match.com and find somebody to date who doesn’t work for Trump?