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  1. 1.

    Baud

    who cares if it is true or not, to be honest, because it will piss Trump off

    Yep. Recall the wingnuts pulled that crap with Hillary and her “stamina.” Goose, meet gander.

  2. 2.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    That, and I just saw on MSNBC that because of a petition, the British Parliament will have to debate rescinding Trump’s invitation for a state visit. I imagine unless Kellyann and Ivanka have all four hands on his android, he’ll blow this up even bigger.

  6. 6.

    Feebog

    Cannot wait until the hair piece comes loose at some outside ceremony where the wind is blowing. Somewhere in New York a Golden Retriever is missing part of his coat.

  7. 7.

    lollipopguild

    So Trump is afraid of staircases? Maybe we can have the Ghost of Staircases Past visit him during the night at the White House.

  9. 9.

    Ben Cisco

    Keep it coming.

    I’ve noticed that in the last 72 hours, the most die-hard “GIVE HIM A CHANNNNNNCE!” posters on my timeline are now doing tributes to WWII vets instead. Progress?

  11. 11.

    PsiFighter37

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: The main thing he will be upset about is not getting to golf on the private courses the royal family has. Getting a lapdog audience – he can find that on Twitter or the Breitbart comment section.

    And I’m sure it’s true. The fucker sends notes for decades to the editor of Vanity Fair about his tiny hands…almost certainly true. What a pathetic little asshole.

  12. 12.

    Gravenstone

    @lollipopguild: So Trump is afraid of staircases?

    Adds another dimension to the early reports that his staff didn’t think Trump would bother to climb the stairs in the White House needed to reach Conway’s office. The original assumption was laziness, now maybe it’s actually fear of the very act itself.

  13. 13.

    XTPD

    I have what could be considered moderately strong acrophobia – I can’t go near a ledge if I’m at least20 feet above ground – but for my life I have never had any of using stairs, ever. (Using ladders, yes, but only starting at 6 feet above ground).

    Jeebus fucking Chris.

  15. 15.

    mai naem mobile

    What is the aluminum foil monstrosity Ivanka is wearing in the picture from yesterday where Subway Jared is grabbing her ass? Shouldn’t she at least be wearing gold foil?

  17. 17.

    PsiFighter37

    Reading that Trump is screening ‘Finding Dory’ at the White House today.

    What a goddamn joke.

  20. 20.

    mai naem mobile

    @Gravenstone: I don’t think he’s scared. I think it probably gets him short of breath. My dad as he was getting sicker couldn’t handle staira and it was cardiac not muscular.

  24. 24.

    Another Scott

    Dunno. He doesn’t look that afraid on this video of his first trip on Marine One and Air Force One.

    Yeah, he holds onto the handrails, but that’s probably a sensible thing for a 70-year-old man to do on the first use of those stairs. And, yeah, I expect he will keep doing that as time goes on. He’s an old man.

    Trump Executive Orders

    Trump Appointments

    I’m all for pointing and mocking when appropriate. But we have to keep our eyes on the prize.

    Cheers,
    Scot.

  31. 31.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Aunt Kathy: I have actually done that. It is very uncomfortable – something I wouldn’t wish on almost anyone. But I might make an exception here.

  33. 33.

    mai naem mobile

    If I was Pena Nieto and had a meeting with Lumpy and I had a little control over the location I would make sure it had at leat one decent set or stairs .Same goes for Trudeau ,Merkel and other western democracies. Screw with Lil Hands’ mind.

  35. 35.

    Joyce H

    @mai naem mobile:

    I don’t think he’s scared. I think it probably gets him short of breath. My dad as he was getting sicker couldn’t handle staira and it was cardiac not muscular.

    Remember that when he talked about his health, he bragged that he got a good workout giving speeches. So if standing at a podium and gesturing with his hands occasionally gives him a workout, his aerobic fitness must be dreadful!

    I get an aerobic workout when I go to the grocery store, but I KNOW it’s because I’m out of shape, and I’m going to the gym four times a week to improve my fitness. He BRAGS about never exercising.

    (As for stairs – urgh. But I have very bad arthritis in the knees.)

  38. 38.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    He may have some balance issues that cause anxiety; if I’m having a wobbly MS day, I can get anxious about stairs with no rail. I’ll mock him for being scared though, because I’m that much of an asshole. And he’s the scum of hell.

  39. 39.

    sukabi

    @Another Scott: his “fears” are the excuses he uses to get away with things he wouldn’t otherwise be able to explain away…

    He likely just wanted to grab Ms. Mays’ ass, but settled for her hand…

  43. 43.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I think Senator Gardner, and his staff, are going to spend most of tomorrow dealing with angry constituents

    Jennifer Hayden
    ‏@ Scout_Finch
    Sen. Cory Gardner says his office has 3,000 voicemails in 1 day. Says they are “paid protesters” NO! CONSTITUENTS!

    that’s not a response, it’s a tantrum

  45. 45.

    Teddy's Person

    @sukabi: This was my first thought. Maybe she grabbed his tiny hand to stop him, and they’re spinning it. It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

  47. 47.

    NotMax

    Stairs are for the young(er).

    The whole entrance via escalator was contrived to make Dolt 45 look like Zeus descending from Olympus.

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    John McCain @ SenJohnMcCain
    Clear from confusion at airports across nation that @ POTUS’s exec order was not properly vetted – such a hasty process risks harmful results

    Brian Beutler ‏@ brianbeutler 19m19 minutes ago
    Brian Beutler Retweeted John McCain
    In what specific ways will you use your considerable power to reverse it.

  49. 49.

    Shalimar

    @sukabi: Trump is a narcissist. He wouldn’t admit to an imperfection. More likely, Ivanka has noticed over the years that daddy refuses to use stairs, and she let the White House staff know to be careful of that. One of them passed it on to May and her assistants.

  51. 51.

    Anne Laurie

    Old people have balance issues — especially old fat people who never get any exercise beyond running their yaps. Decaying joints don’t help, and Trump’s hips and knees aren’t in great shape, from the way he walks. And as others have mentioned, cardiac issues…

    I’m hella cautious around stairs myself, which won’t stop me mocking this jagoff.

    Since he can’t admit, even to himself, that he’s not the “stud” he was 50 years ago, Trump’s been isolating himself in his NYC penthouse for years. Now he’s got the White House, “the ultimate home office“, where it’s even easier for him to insist that people come to him.

  54. 54.

    Shalimar

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Senator McCain will use his considerable power to confirm Attorney General Sessions, who will do nothing to change the blatant racism and discrimination but will at least vet and edit future orders so administration lawyers aren’t laughed out of court.

  55. 55.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Another Scott: Heh, May looks like she got a whiff of something quite unpleasant when he reaches over to pat the hand he’s already holding on to.

  57. 57.

    Schlemazel

    @Another Scott:
    NOPE! Attack, humiliate, denigrate and tweet on every rumor or hint of an issue. You know it will eat at him that we are laughing at him. With any luck this might push him to do something stupid like skipping down stairs to prove us wrong & he will fall. There is no down-side to this

  59. 59.

    NotMax

    Dubya held hands while strolling with a sheik and there wasn’t a staircase (or in his case, a horse) in sight.

    It’s a strange affectation.

  60. 60.

    princess (now general) Leia

    WH SOURCE: The WH is preparing for an earlier announcement of @realDonaldTrump’s pick for Supreme Court – likely Tues, possibly tomorrow

  63. 63.

    patrick II

    I am waiting for Adam to write another “Take a Deep Breath and a Step Back” post because he felt various limits the law and congress will place on Donald would hold him back.

  64. 64.

    bemused

    After the inauguration, he couldn’t be bothered to escort his own wife from the car and up the steps to meet the Obama’s together at White House. Melania was left by the car holding the gift for the Obama’s and he was already up the steps. She was left behind. What an ass.

  65. 65.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Anne Laurie: Except that he’s constantly under the cameras without a second take in that ultimate home office. Can’t hide.

  68. 68.

    Tokyokie

    I have a OA in my right knee, and it’s markedly weaker than the left one, so I’m leery of staircases, especially ones that are too steep or the steps are too high. I greatly prefer to have a rail on the right side when I’m descending stairs, and if there isn’t one, I often go down them one stair at a time. BUT I’M NOT SO SCARED THAT I REQUIRE SOMEONE TO HOLD MY HAND! Jesu Cristo su una bicicletta. He sure seems to be easily scared or saddened for such a manly man tough guy.

    And I just saw the supposedly tricky slope he needed help to negotiate. It looked like a wheelchair access ramp to me. He’s too scared to go down a ramp that double amputees negotiate without difficulty? What a pathetic pansy.

  69. 69.

    NotMax

    Has a SOTU been scheduled yet?

    Chance for him to siip some tongue to the fawners in the aisle seats.

  70. 70.

    trollhattan

    Wait’l he insists on a piggyback ride from the Saudi king. “I didn’t ban you guys, how much do you love me now?”

  73. 73.

    trollhattan

    @NotMax:
    Joe Wilson will have to sheath his yap; will Scalito?
    Technically I think the first address isn’t an SoTU, but an inaugural address to Congress or somesuch.

  74. 74.

    Renie

    ACLU has raised $10 million dollars since yesterday. Help them out. How much longer do we have before President Bannon clamps down on protesting.

  79. 79.

    Ruckus

    @lollipopguild:
    First step, remove head from ass. This will make it easier to find. OTOH when you wear your ass for a hat, you should know where it is. Maybe he keeps his head in his ass for safekeeping.

  80. 80.

    petesh

    The linked Times article (paywall but I can read one a day) is headlined “Trump and Charles in climate row” and includes this lovely bit:

    Members of Trump’s inner circle have warned officials and ministers that it would be counterproductive for Charles to “lecture” Trump on green issues and that he will “erupt” if pushed. They want the younger princes, William and Harry, to greet the president instead. Royal aides insist that he should meet Trump.
    … Trump’s team is also concerned that he will face a wave of protests, with thousands of people taking to the streets to denounce him.

    No shit, Sherlock. And I very much doubt that the Queen’s private reaction to this would be anything but: FUCK OFF. Publicly, “Protocol would not allow.”

  81. 81.

    Another Scott

    Drum:

    This is nuts:

    * On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security determined that President Trump’s immigration order didn’t apply to green card holders.
    * Later on Friday, Steve Bannon overruled them and said it did.
    * Saturday night, DHS confirmed that the order applied to green card holders.
    * Today, chief of staff Reince Priebus apparently overruled Bannon and said it didn’t apply to green card holders after all.

    Who are Bannon and Priebus speaking for? Neither one of them has the authority on their own to issue these directives. DHS Secretary John Kelly has the authority. Whoever’s running the Department of Justice has the authority. Donald Trump has the authority. When are we going to hear from one of them?

    Beuller? Beuller? Beuller?

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  82. 82.

    Shakti

    @mai naem mobile: Who knows? He could have cardiovascular issues or balance issues but we won’t know that because he hasn’t released a proper physical. He could’ve just said that to get her to do something that made her uncomfortable.

  86. 86.

    Ruckus

    @Major Major Major Major:
    McCain is always right on top of the issues. Unfortunately he always grasps at the wrong reason something is an issue. He is after all a Republican, as is the current Republican president.

  87. 87.

    dogwood

    On MTP Tim Kaine said the Holocaust statement followed by the EO is a clear sign that Holocaust deniers are running the WH. Todd let that stand w/out pushing back. I watched the DeVos hearings on CSPAN and while Franken, who was great, and Warren who gets all the attention around here was fine, I thought Kaine used his limited time the best. He made her answer yes/or no relentlessly and covered more territory than the others.

  90. 90.

    NotMax

    @Suzanne

    Wasn’t all that long ago that a big mall added a second level and the island got its first escalator.

    Remember watching people here eyeing it warily and others showing up solely to ride it repeatedly.

  91. 91.

    Another Scott

    So, I decided to look into (finally) signing up for Twitter, to keep up with things like the Scientists March. And then I read this (from 2013):

    It also makes Twitter the most interesting challenge to online privacy. But before we get into why, you should understand how MoPub works:

    Let’s say Amy uses her smartphone to shop for shoes at Zappos.com before taking a break to play Rovio’s Angry Birds. Rovio’s server instantly recognizes Amy based on her phone’s unique device ID (a sort of online fingerprint). It takes this information to the MoPub ad exchange, where it solicits bids for the right to show Amy an advertisement in between her rounds of killing pigs. Zappos, disappointed that Amy recently left its website without buying anything, might pay Rovio a premium for the right to show her its ad in the hope of luring her back with, say, a picture of those metallic gold pumps she’d lingered on.

    While MoPub knows a lot about which websites and apps Amy has used, there’s still a lot that it doesn’t know. If Amy sets down her phone and buys those gold pumps using her laptop, MoPub (and Rovio and Zappos) won’t know that she’s the same person who was just playing Angry Birds. That’s because MoPub doesn’t actually know who Amy is. It knows her device IDs, but not the fact that they’re linked to Amy, this person who enjoys playing Angry Birds and shopping for pumps.

    “There is actually a deeply fractured state of targeting right now,” Garcia told me. “It’s like that line in Rocky III when Rocky is getting his ass kicked by that Russian guy. Rocky says, ‘I see three of ’em,’ and his trainer says: ‘Oh, hit the guy in the middle!’ Most advertisers are seeing three different fuzzy images for the same person, and trying to hit one of them, when it’s really just one person.”

    Enter Twitter. Many of its 200 million users tweet from all of their devices—laptops, desktops, smartphones, iPads etc. That means Twitter has what only a handful of other tech titans possess: a digital Rosetta Stone that enables it to know who you are, wherever you are.

    Yeah, Twitter (and Facebook) have to make money somehow on their “free” service. But …

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (Who will wait a while longer…)

  92. 92.

    Suzanne

    @NotMax: Escalators very occasionally swallow people up and grind them between the gears. And elevators get stuck more often than one might think.

  93. 93.

    prostratedragon

    @Ben Cisco:
    So it has a name. I acquired it, probably in relation to a combination of stress and pulmonary issues, and it has improved as treatments for those have taken hold. The man should see a doctor, like maybe someone other than Dr. Cyphre. But then, we already knew that.

    Pile on.

  94. 94.

    dogwood

    I’m old enough to have learned my lesson about stairs and just being alert when I walk. Had a few falls over the last couple of years and really paid the price. The kind of falls you shake off when you’re younger, now take time to heal and give you discomfort in the aftermath.

  95. 95.

    NotMax

    @Suzanne

    Getting stuck is temporary. As the default is for elevator brakes to be fully engaged, there’s not much to fret about unless one is claustrophobic, Hollywood dramatizing notwithstanding.

    People slip on stairs, too. Ya pays yer money and takes yer chances.

  96. 96.

    Jaker/Dublin

    Steve Bannon now has half the power if not full…because they just put him on the Security Council so as to do his dirty dealing with Putin & silence the main stream media more.

    A dangerous time for all free thinking Americans is here, because let’s go through it, Putin has a base called, United Russia. Trump has a base/cult called “Far Right Wingers” you can make the meaning of that name out yourselves. Putin has the Orthodox Church behind him; even though he’s more an Atheist, Trump has all the crazy American churches behind him in US. Putin has his mainstay press closed up/banned, even has done away with many journalists working independently against him. Trump/Bannon is now trying to do that subtly in US. To test the water with the American people & then move more fully in time so they completely control the Mainstream Press. You have seen traits of that in his first week.

    Putin has always preached fear & has won all his elections by tramping on any opposition. Trump won his election with the help of Putin, Comey of the FBI & Russian Trolls & also fear & false propaganda. Putin has so far never fought with ISIS & never will only within his borders. Trump has used this rhetoric that Putin will help him fight ISIS as another lie so as you’ll all forget his cosy up to Putin & cronies & dropping sanctions. Putin is a Billionaire by robbing his people’s coffers (look up his secret palace), Donald Trump well you all knew how he became rich, as well as selling his name in gold to all sorts of other business shenanigans. Putin could start World war 3 in a second, Donald Trump could do the same & maybe even Steve Bannon as who knows if he has the numbers of the nuclear code as well? It’s a chilling thought.

    These two men are the two most powerful men in the world, if you go about the amount of evil weapons they have under their control & the incredible uncertainty that beholds the world in the next few years, even sooner. As I said yesterday on a BBC blog, the people who changed the Armageddon clock just last Friday to 2/1/2 minutes to twelve should have changed it to a minute to twelve. It’s for me to say now as I always said from the start, Donald Trump was your worst choice for President ever & you made that choice. Now the question is? Will you LIVE by it?

    PS. Watch the markets plummet worldwide tomorrow 30/1/2017

  97. 97.

    Aleta

    @Ben Cisco: Not joking about the suffering involved. But I think I once experienced its intensity “when expected to actually descend a steep slope of sheer ice with two narrow boards clamped onto the feet.” Still a vivd memory.

  98. 98.

    Jeffro

    Gotta fix dinner for the fambly in a minute but will be back later with my usual bs ;)

    I know we can keep this up for four years, but my guess is we will see articles of impeachment by March…and it lifts my soul, oh yes it does…

  99. 99.

    Suzanne

    @NotMax: I know about the brakes (I’m an architect—deal with elevators a lot). It’s not a drop issue. It’s a dislike of confinement, sometimes hours-long, in a crappy little space with nowhere to pee.

    Stairs, ahhhh stairs.

  103. 103.

    NotMax

    @Suzanne

    As age has overtaken litheness, going down stairs is still okay (although often both feet on one stair at a time is necessary). Going up is a whole ‘nother scale of problematic.

    It was tres amusing, though, to witness Mauians treating the first escalator as they would the appearance of aliens.

  105. 105.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    @Gravenstone:

    It’s Super Bowl Sunday… any chance someone can send him a YUUUGE bag of pretzels, just in case he pulls a Bush but actually does choke.

  106. 106.

    Suzanne

    @NotMax: I fell in my stairs at home a couple of years ago when I wasn’t feeling well. But I slipped while going down, which is more hazardous than going up.

    I really like designing stairs. It’s fun. In my buildings, if there are stairs, I always try to make at least one stair really nice and all emergency egress stairs comfortable.

  108. 108.

    Montanareddog

    @debbie: I just signed the petition – I was the 755,934th signatory. That’s well over 1℅ of Brits who have signed

  109. 109.

    Montanareddog

    @stinger: Any meeting with Princes William and Harry should be convivial given how President Bannon’s sockpuppet has boasted of how he “totally coulda nailed” their mother

  110. 110.

    Vhh

    @Another Scott: Trump is not normal, he is a narcissist and a bully, whose first reaction to any criticism is to belittle and demean the author. When Cruz criticized Trump, he responded by accusing Cruz’s father of plotting to kill JFK. The best way to oppose Trump is criticism mockery at every turn. Dangerous, but necessary.

  112. 112.

    CM

    @Ben Cisco:
    “Bathmophobia”!?! What a great word! Had never heard it.

    We need to use it a lot. Sounds like he is afraid of taking a bath. Has an aura of stink about it. Some reporter needs to ask a question. Make Hair Furor deny it.

  113. 113.

    Lurking Canadian

    @Ben Cisco: Maybe you can shame them by reminding them of the Four Freedoms those vets were defending, then ask which (if any) of the four your friends think Trump supports.

  116. 116.

    Another Scott

    @Suzanne: There were some old escalators in the county building in Dayton OH when I was a kid. At the end points they had these really long metal fingers that stuck out several inches from the mounting point. There were stories that several people had been mauled by them (sandals getting eaten, bare feet getting eaten, etc.).

    Like these (see the 2nd picture). I don’t recall if they were wood – I thought they were metal.

    Very dangerous beasties.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  118. 118.

    No Drought No More

    If your teeny tiny hands would snap like twigs if needed to break a fall, you’d be scared of stairs, too.

  119. 119.

    Suzanne

    @Another Scott: Yes. I am very conscious of where my feet are on escalators, especially when wearing shoes with laces.

    But I know of at least two incidents in which the tread collapsed and sucked a person inside completely. Escalators = DEATH TRAPS.

  121. 121.

    Bill Arnold

    @Ben Cisco:

    bathmophobia

    Ah, thanks for the link. Linked this story this AM in another thread but didn’t know the name.
    Also, don’t forget the germaphobia. (E.g. sexuality implications, to not to speculate would be irresponsible, etc. )

  122. 122.

    Original Lee

    @Suzanne: Bless you. The emergency stairs in my office building are horrible. The treads are very shallow, so everyone with a shoe size over U.S. Women’s 8 has to go down at an angle, and the rises are a little too high, so the angle going down is steeper than average. When we have fire drills, everybody on floors above the 4th floor knows they wouldn’t get out in time if it were real.

  123. 123.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @debbie:

    it would be debated in Parliament. What I would give to witness that!

    I seem to recall that C-SPAN broadcasts debates and Question Time. Worth tracking the Parliamentary Calendar to find out when the debate is scheduled.

  124. 124.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @petesh:

    I am in a Facebook group that keeps me more up-to-date on the doings of the British Royal Family than any American should be. When they posted about the “invitation from the Queen” for a “state visit,” the group administrator felt the need to plead “No politics, please.” HAHAHA, as if.

  125. 125.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @NotMax:

    People slip on stairs, too. Ya pays yer money and takes yer chances.

    It’s a legit worry. I’ve lived in a town home for the past 14 or so years, but have tumbled down the long flight of stairs and sometimes find them tiring to climb. When my lease nears its end in a few months, I’m going to talk to the apartment management about possibly moving to a flat in the same complex. Probably look for something a bit smaller, too — I really need to downsize (and would be glad to save money renting a smaller place).

  126. 126.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Suzanne:

    It’s a dislike of confinement, sometimes hours-long, in a crappy little space with nowhere to pee.

    Stairs, ahhhh stairs.

    Wait, you pee on the STAIRS?

  128. 128.

    Suzanne

    @Original Lee: That is now controlled by the IBC. Stair treads must be at least 11 inches deep, plus a one-inch nosing, and between 4 and 7 inches high. Also, they must have a 12 inch deep extension of the handrail at the bottom, 42″ high guardrails, and no more than a 4″ gap between the pickets on the guardrail. Old buildings often have bad stairs.

  129. 129.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Suzanne:

    If you ever come to Atlanta, remind me not to introduce you to certain of our MARTA (rapid transit) stations. Some of the stairwells, let alone elevators, are pretty disgusting. Sadly, I suppose that’s true everywhere.

  131. 131.

    Feebog

    A few years ago, when I was a lot more mobile then I am now, I was riding down behind a woman and her son, who was about 4 years old. The Mom got off first, and as the boy approached the bottom his shoe string, which had come untied, was swallowed by the escalator. I didn’t think so much as react, reached down and snapped the shoe string just as it began to pull at the tennis shoe. Don’t know what would have happened, but I sure as hell make sure my shoes strings are tied before getting on the escalator.

  134. 134.

    Bill Arnold

    @Another Scott:

    So, I decided to look into (finally) signing up for Twitter, to keep up with things like the Scientists March.

    Some basic advice from eff.org, though nowhere near paranoid enough.
    Also this how to enable two factor authentication but note that this usually means giving them a cell phone number.
    The mildly paranoid might consider making a pseudonymous twitter account and accessing it through only one device. The more paranoid (e.g. about their government, wherever they are, and often fully justified) take considerably greater lengths. (burner phone, vpn, the works.) In the US, twitter has recently been able to acknowledge that they’ve had to release personal account details several times due to National Security Letters.
    (Can you tell that I’m extremely irritated that the US is being pushed down the totalitarianism chute?)

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