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The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

We still have time to mess this up!

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Technically true, but collectively nonsense

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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Gee Oh Pee Open Thread: Their Man Is Not Well

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NBC released this before last night’s stunt show:

Donald Trump is telling friends and aides in private that things are going great — for him.

Some reasons: He’s decided that a key witness in the Russia probe, Paul Manafort, isn’t going to “flip” and sell him out, friends and aides say. He believes Robert Mueller, who heads the investigation, can be crushed, if necessary, without being fired. Sweeping tax and regulatory cuts will juice the economy and get him re-elected in 2020, he is predicting. He thinks he’s learned how to handle the dysfunction of Congress. And he’s even come to like the White House, the bad plumbing and drafty halls notwithstanding. “I love this place!” he told one friend.

In other words, as he prepares to deliver his first State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the president is very pleased to report that the State of Donald Trump himself is nothing short of fantastic.

“He called to congratulate me on how brilliant and prescient I was to tell him to run for president,” said one friend, who asked not to be identified, laughing at the thought. “What he was really doing was flattering himself by flattering me. But for him, it was a long and very enjoyable monologue.”

Trump has yet to sell the country on the value of his stewardship…

“You have to understand that you are dealing with a guy whose most fundamental, minute-by-minute fear in life is of boredom,” said a friend. “He’s decided that the presidency is the best way in the world not to be bored.”

If only the rest of us could feel such assurance.

Count on the professional comedians to take the measure of this amateur…

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  2. 2.

    Feebog

    This is like an ongoing nightmare where no matter how desperately you want to, you can’t wake up.

  3. 3.

    Citizen Alan

    I’ve sworn off Facebook for at least a week, and if I can break the addiction forever. It’s too toxic. I came very close to telling a perfect stranger who happened to be a snide sarcastic Trump supporter (Libtards areall sore loooosers!) That I hope he burn to death in a fire. And I’m really tired of feeling so much hatred for strangers no matter how awful they are. And like I said before, the thing I hate them for most is that they made me hate them

  4. 4.

    Mike in NC

    I fondly remembered how fresh the air felt on the day Nixon resigned in disgrace. Want that smell again….

  5. 5.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Don’t look now, but Devin Nunes is at it again.

  7. 7.

    clay

    Has anyone seen any analysis on the House Intelligence Committee’s transcript regarding their ‘memo’ vote? I’ve only seen the briefest of excerpts from it.

    Regarding the thread topic, Trump has long been able to convince himself of anything, so it’s little surprise that he thinks everything is rosy. However, I do wonder whether this:

    He’s decided that a key witness in the Russia probe, Paul Manafort, isn’t going to “flip” and sell him out, friends and aides say. He believes Robert Mueller, who heads the investigation, can be crushed, if necessary, without being fired.

    would show potential witness tampering, and obstruction, respectively.

    Oop, hang on… breaking news: Schiff says Nunes made “material changes” to the “memo” before sending it to the WH.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    Shocked, shocked.

    The head of the leading U.S. public health agency has resigned because of financial conflicts of interest that documents showed included purchases of tobacco and healthcare stocks while in office.

    Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, held “certain complex financial interests” that she could not sell in time, forcing her to recuse herself from many public health duties, a Department of Health and Human Services statement said on Wednesday.
    [snip]
    Politico reported on Tuesday that Fitzgerald had traded in tobacco and healthcare stocks a month after Congress confirmed her appointment by Trump in July. Her financial disclosure report, released by Politico, showed she made purchases last August in shares of Japan Tobacco Inc, Merck & Co Inc, Humana Inc as well as ADRs of German drugmaker Bayer AG. Source

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    Amir Khalid

    John Cleese is a smart and wise man, but it seems overoptimistic of him to suggest that Trump try to read a book.

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…

    African leaders say they have decided to refrain from issuing a resolution to criticise Donald Trump’s alleged reference to their nations as “shithole countries” because the U.S. president sent them a letter expressing respect for the continent.
    [snip]
    As the summit was being held at ministerial level, the gathering drafted a resolution calling on Trump to “publicly apologise to all Africans”.

    Anything short of that would force them to suspend a cooperation deal signed between Washington and the bloc, said the draft seen by Reuters.

    African leaders are “dismayed and shocked by the increasingly consistent trend by the Trump Administration to denigrate of African descent … thereby promoting racism, xenophobia and bigotry,” it said.

    But a Jan. 25 letter sent by Trump prompted a change of tack at presidential level.

    One summit official said the final resolution that is yet to be released contains no reference to the issue after the leaders concluded the meeting late on Monday. Source

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    MisterForkbeard

    @chris: Depends on what’s in it. He definitely sent information to Trump in the name of Congress that hadn’t been approved by Congress.

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    mad citizen

    Like most everyone here, I’ve felt like crap a lot of the time since election day 2016, but this statement by Trump [But I would like to do it without that major event because usually that major event is not a good thing.”] is the smartest thing I’ve ever heard attributed to him. It shows some amount of knowledge and a wee bit–maybe on the “No S*&t Sherlock” level, but still a bit–of analysis.

    Unfortunately, he has shown little inclination to act on his statement, because he is The Laziest Man on the Face of the Earth.

  21. 21.

    danielx

    Harking back to an earlier thread…

    Hillary Clinton’s fatal flaw
    10 Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis / by By Christine Emba, Ruth Marcus and Alyssa Rosenberg / 1 hour ago

    Give totes props (as the younguns say) to WaPo for their coverage of the ongoing dumpster fire that is the reign of shortfingers. However…for the last twenty-six years at the Post, crapping on anyone named Clinton for any reason or none has never been anything but a career-advancing behavior. Ten Twenty years from now we will still be hearing about those fucking emails; you heard it here first.

    Also too, before I forget….

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Nunes seems to be in over his head here.

    — Sam Stein (@samstein) February 1, 2018

    From evidence to date, it would appear that Nunes would be in over his head in six inches of water.

    I just couldn’t help myself.

  23. 23.

    chris

    @clay: Dumb? Maybe not, but wilfully ignorant for sure. I learned a new-to-me ancient Greek word today, amathia. There is no equivalent in English. A pity because it fits Republicans to a tee.

    Amathia = ‘disknowledge’ instilled into the soul by bad upbringing and bad education, consisting in false values and notions and beliefs. Link to scholarly article

  24. 24.

    Jeffro

    How’s this country supposed to get any work done with all the dumpster fires occurring at the WH on a regular basis?

    Or perhaps I’m missing the point by posing it as a question. As a statement: This Great Country STILL Gets Its Work Done Despite the Dumpster Fires Occurring at the WH on a Regular Basis!

    DROP THE CHARGES, B3Stix, DROP THEM ALL!!

  26. 26.

    clay

    @Cheryl Rofer: Thanks for that link. Interesting — and telling — that most of the Republicans didn’t speak at all during the meeting. Like they knew there was nothing they could say to justify what they did.

  27. 27.

    clay

    @chris: Undoubtedly there are many Republicans who fall under the ‘willfully ignorant’ category. Your Paul Ryans, and whatnot. But I’m pretty sure Devin Nunes is just plain dumb.

  30. 30.

    Duane

    200 republican politicians involved in a train wreck. They all survived.
    So much for that infallible god thing. However, after that ballfield shooting and now this, they might want to avoid gathering in groups. Makes it too easy for the meteor.

  31. 31.

    chris

    @clay: Well, we certainly know that all you need to get elected is a colossal ego and a blatant disregard for the truth. Smart doesn’t seem to matter.

  32. 32.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @Jeffro:

    This Great Country STILL Gets Its Work Done Despite the Dumpster Fires Occurring at the WH on a Regular Basis!

    I think we’re suffering some, but yes, for the most part, people are keeping things going.

    It will feel like a vacation if we can ever end this chaos.

  33. 33.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    The consensus is that Trump read his speech yesterday very well

    I saw clips of it and he looked medicated. Either tranquilizes or mood stabilizers.

  34. 34.

    danielx

    @Mike in NC:

    You got that right. Like kicking an evil king off throne, which throne was not his property. Done without bloodshed it was, too. But it ain’t gonna happen again unfortunately, not least because a significant portion of the populace thinks Trump is the God-given response to everything they hate. Even more unfortunately, there’s a high overlap between the concentrated gun ownership populace* and the god-bothering populace, or so I would hypothesize. You can draw whatever inferences to choose….

    *Concentrated gun owner populace is an arbitrary phrase made up by me. it’s a kind of weird index made up of the number of guns per household per hundred thousand population and median income and concentration of the same geographic area in which that populace resides.

  36. 36.

    Gretchen

    Has Mueller interviewed Hope Hicks yet? I can’t imagine she will do well when it happens. She’s 29 years old and has spent her entire career in fashion, going up against the best prosecutors of a generation. That can’t possibly go well. The guy who quit the minute she said the emails won’t get out is the smart one in this story.

  37. 37.

    danielx

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It would be easy but contemptible for me to say that for those folks measure their person hood in terms of the numbers AND size of what they own, so I won’t. I will say that barring a total societal breakdown (in which case we’re all pretty much fucked), simple possession of weapons makes them feel more powerful than is actually the case. Assuming they are semi-sane to begin with.

  38. 38.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @danielx: I am talking about practical consequences. Me, with my 12 ga can stop that guy. No matter how many guns he owns. Relax.

  39. 39.

    danielx

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    S’all good, but I have have had shown to me and seen with mine own eyes a hidden cabinet with half a dozen Barretts in it. That’s roughly 60k worth of metal…

    ETA: I totally agree with your basic premise. But then we are reasonably rational folks, and others are not.

  40. 40.

    Waspuppet

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: He has two modes of public speaking: Balcony Mussolini and Bored Wikipedia.

    And speaking of bored:

    “You have to understand that you are dealing with a guy whose most fundamental, minute-by-minute fear in life is of boredom,” said a friend.

    Most people don’t mind a little boredom. It can spur creativity and fresh big-picture thinking. Anyone who can’t stand a few minutes alone with their own thoughts doesn’t want to think about who they are and what they’ve done.

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    retiredeng

    I didn’t watch the speech. But Stephen Colbert mocked Trump for clapping for himself repeatedly. All I could think of is a trained sea lion act.

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