Good King Trump

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Senate grabs Trump by the pussy.

[erimir]

Australia's PM Slowly Realizes Trump Is a Complete Idiot

I can't wrap my mind around how stupid Trump is. How did this happen? How can he not understand such a simple concept?

Does he have dementia that goes in and out or something? What's the deal? He doesn't always come off that stupid.

[The Lone Ranger]

[lisarea]

Dementia does kind of ebb and flow, like with sundowning, so it would make sense that sometimes he's more out of it than others. Because yeah, that goes beyond his usual variety of hot take stupidity.

I have no idea how anyone can not realize what a bad thing this is at this point, and I don't know any Trump supporters so I can ask them. Are they just not paying any attention? Are they themselves incapable of following something as simple as that, so they don't notice that Trump isn't understanding? Are they just so bitter that they somehow don't care?

[Crumb]

It's all just FAKE NEWS!

[lpetrich]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

I got a campaign song right here:

What's the connection?

[Watser?]

Originally Posted by Crumb

It's all just FAKE NEWS!

Bingo. That's what they're going with on Facebook...

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by lisarea

I don't know any Trump supporters so I can ask them.

www.facebook.com

Originally Posted by lisarea

Are they just so bitter that they somehow don't care?

No better answer than this one ...

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

D. L. Hughley on why Trump's core supporters seem to be completely unconcerned about how horrible Trump is:

DL HUGHLEY TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE BETRAYING THE COUNTRY - YouTube

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by lpetrich

What's the connection?

Change one word and you get Don't cry for me America.

Toss in some fascist overtones and I hope that explains the joke.

[The Lone Ranger]

Originally Posted by JoeP

www.facebook.com

No better answer than this one ...

When I was waiting in line to vote back in November, I overheard a couple of people in front of me saying that they felt that neither Democrats nor Republicans truly represented their interests. Consequently, they were planning to vote for Trump -- even though they were fully aware that he was a horrible person and that he certainly wasn't concerned with the welfare of poor and working-class Americans such as themselves. So, what was their reasoning? They figured that the entire system was corrupt and needed to be brought down, so that it could then be rebuilt from the bottom up. And they figured that Trump was just the sort of person who would bring the entire system crashing down.


They even noted that there was no guarantee that if Trump did bring the entire system crashing to the ground that what would arise from the wreckage would be any better than what we currently have. Nonetheless, they insisted, things were unlikely to become any worse from their perspective -- and might even get better.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Hey Ken Starr, nobody expects the fishing expedition.

[godfry n. glad]

So...

Scaramucci is canned with Kelly coming in.

No new communications director.

Trump is being moved to a 17 day 'working vacation' at a New Jersey golf course.

It sounds to me like the new Chief of Staff is moving his charge out of the festering source of ongoing leaks that is the White House. It will be interesting to see if Kelly manages to take a 'leak-proof staff' with the president to Jersey. Then, of course, there is the 'big leak' of the orange-faced monster. We'll get to see if General Kelly can get Cheeto Benito to dial back the Tweets.

I'm betting not on both counts. I give it two weeks; less than the estimated duration of the 'working vacation'.

Kelly gone by the new academic year?

[MonCapitan2002]

Originally Posted by erimir

Australia's PM Slowly Realizes Trump Is a Complete Idiot

I can't wrap my mind around how stupid Trump is. How did this happen? How can he not understand such a simple concept?

Does he have dementia that goes in and out or something? What's the deal? He doesn't always come off that stupid.

I've actually watched a few clips from the David Pakman Show where they speculate on the possibility of Trump having dementia. I think considering how his cognitive abilities seem to be declining before our very eyes, it is quite possible he is in fact suffering from dementia, which is terrifying when you consider he's essentially the most powerful person on the planet.

In some ways, I think he's worse off than he was during the campaign. It's possible that the stress and demands of the job is accelerating whatever mental decline he's on.

[erimir]

The thing is that that conversation with Turnbull was six months ago...

[MonCapitan2002]

Ouch. Yeah, that makes things even worse.

[Stephen Maturin]

I generally don't much care for Bill Maher, but this shit is platinum.

New Rule: What If Obama Said It? | Real Time with...

[MonCapitan2002]

That was one of his best New Rules segments in years. The Obama impersonator did an excellent job imitating the real deal's cadence, which really elevated the quality of the skit.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'll just put this here.

Funding the Frog Squad - Melissa Ryan - Medium

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The Hill on Twitter: "Trump admin to end Obama rule allowing nursing home residents to sue for mistreatment: https://t.co/f4V5EelF4f https://t.co/l6AWD5zt3u"
He seems nice.

Donald Trump has a sickening fetish for cruelty
Oh.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It's Reichstag Barbie!

Commentator Kayleigh McEnany Moves From CNN to Anchor Pro-Trump ‘News of the Week’ Segment – Variety

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Christina Wilkie on Twitter: "Stephen Miller angrily saying the Emma Lazarus poem carved on the Statue of Liberty is meaningless because it was added later. https://t.co/QEvndKn28j"

Adam Khan on Twitter: "Things that were "added later": New Testament, every Constitutional amendment ever, the "under God" part of the pledge, seatbelts, airbags… https://t.co/dobko9xeD5"

show spoiler

"The New Colossus" is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.[2] In 1903, the poem was engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.

The New Colossus - Wikipedia

[JoeP]

From one of the comments: Things that were added later: Europeans in North America.

[Dingfod]

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

By the way, I reject Scarborough's claim that "this is not the Party of Reagan." The modern Republican Party is exactly the Party of Reagan.

After all, it was Reagan who proved that a platform based on racism, anti-intellectualism, demonization of the poor, demonization of the "Liberal Media," demonization of "Big Government," and overt favoring of the interests of the wealthy over those of everyone else -- could be a winning political strategy.

As such, Trump and the modern Republican Party are simply the logical result of nearly 40 years of following the path that Reagan blazed.

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Trump is just a symptom, the disease is these people.

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

When I was waiting in line to vote back in November, I overheard a couple of people in front of me saying that they felt that neither Democrats nor Republicans truly represented their interests. Consequently, they were planning to vote for Trump -- even though they were fully aware that he was a horrible person and that he certainly wasn't concerned with the welfare of poor and working-class Americans such as themselves. So, what was their reasoning? They figured that the entire system was corrupt and needed to be brought down, so that it could then be rebuilt from the bottom up. And they figured that Trump was just the sort of person who would bring the entire system crashing down.


They even noted that there was no guarantee that if Trump did bring the entire system crashing to the ground that what would arise from the wreckage would be any better than what we currently have. Nonetheless, they insisted, things were unlikely to become any worse from their perspective -- and might even get better.

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

It's Reichstag Barbie!

Reichstag Barbie is now the official spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. And, of course:

The RNC didn’t rule out McEnany appearing in the “real news” videos while in her new role.

[Corona688]

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

When I was waiting in line to vote back in November, I overheard a couple of people in front of me saying that they felt that neither Democrats nor Republicans truly represented their interests. Consequently, they were planning to vote for Trump -- even though they were fully aware that he was a horrible person and that he certainly wasn't concerned with the welfare of poor and working-class Americans such as themselves. So, what was their reasoning? They figured that the entire system was corrupt and needed to be brought down, so that it could then be rebuilt from the bottom up. And they figured that Trump was just the sort of person who would bring the entire system crashing down.

I know another such person and he's watching the shitstorm with relish, openly betting on Trump's demise. He's not pretending everything's OK and calling all trouble "fake news". So I don't think this theory explains Trump's ongoing supporters.