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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Dolt 45 / Bring on the Brawndo! Open Thread: The Only “President” Available At the Moment

Bring on the Brawndo! Open Thread: The Only “President” Available At the Moment

by Anne Laurie|  August 29, 20186:12 pm| 37 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, All Too Normal, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Riveted By The Sociological Significance Of It All

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Trump asked for his current social media follower total and then bemoaned when platforms kick off bots: "I can tell you when things are different all of a sudden you lose people. And you say where do they go? They've taken off."

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) August 29, 2018

And, to be clear, often trying to make claims on background about himself with tenuous factual basis https://t.co/WBNBUEtUEH

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 29, 2018

That story about China hacking Clinton's emails was based on … wait for it … anonymous sources: https://t.co/isMCT1BTs1 https://t.co/9bbX6MqUSn

— Blake Hounshell (powered by blockchain) (@blakehounshell) August 29, 2018

Putin isn’t shirtless in any of his new vacation photos and it’s like everything is changing so fast these days pic.twitter.com/C73ti45Eyl

— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) August 28, 2018


 
Possibly of use to those with Twitter accounts:

“Celebrate your independence by unfollowing ? and following @UnfollowTrump instead (@UnfollowVP too!) See all tweets, even deleted ones, even if you're blocked, without giving him the benefit of another follower. Spread the word!”

— bethj (@bethjudge316) August 29, 2018

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37Comments

  1. 1.

    debbie

    August 29, 2018 at 6:15 pm

    Playing wingman for Putin? I hope China tweets a withering response.

  2. 2.

    debbie

    August 29, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    Huh. Checking that @UnfollowTrump (which I will be following), I see he’s been setting up China for more than just the server? How long until China is blamed for the cold Big Mac he had for breakfast?

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    August 29, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    @debbie:
    China can probably legitimately claim, “Well, we made Hillary’s server, we just didn’t hack it.”

    Trump’s “Much classified information!” seems odd, even for him.

  4. 4.

    lamh36

    August 29, 2018 at 6:20 pm

    BWAHAHAH…Ohmagawd

    Ted Cruz is the LAST person who should be trying to shame someone w/uncoolness

    https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1034860566400122880

  5. 5.

    Leto

    August 29, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question

    His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas. He spent his life wearing American uniforms: three years as a private in the Army, then as a cadet in the Border Patrol and now as a state prison guard.

    But when Juan, 40, applied to renew his U.S. passport this year, the government’s response floored him. In a letter, the State Department said it didn’t believe he was an American citizen.

    As he would later learn, Juan is one of a growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States but who are now being denied passports — their citizenship suddenly thrown into question. The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown on their citizenship.

    In a statement, the State Department said that it “has not changed policy or practice regarding the adjudication of passport applications,” adding that “the U.S.-Mexico border region happens to be an area of the country where there has been a significant incidence of citizenship fraud.”

    But cases identified by The Washington Post and interviews with immigration attorneys suggest a dramatic shift in both passport issuance and immigration enforcement.

    They’re coming for everyone.

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    August 29, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    Why exactly would I want to follow Trump’s tweets, either directly or via some repeater account? I mean, if he says something particularly stupid/evil, it’ll get widely reported and I’ll see it, and I don’t have to expose myself to the daily deluge of self-aggrandizing crap.

  7. 7.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 29, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    I like how Haberman is pretending Trump doesn’t pretend to be a background or anonymous source on himself to her, which she then directly copies out via twitter or an article in the NYT.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    August 29, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I want to see the ones that are deleted. I’m not on Twitter enough to be able to see them.

  9. 9.

    Mandalay

    August 29, 2018 at 6:26 pm

    So Haberman gave up twitter a few weeks ago, but has sent out 22 tweets in the past 24 hours?

    I’m deeply concerned that this might lead to a credibility problem for our stenographer.

  10. 10.

    TenguPhule

    August 29, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    @MisterForkbeard:

    I like how Haberman is pretending Trump doesn’t pretend to be a background or anonymous source on himself to her, which she then directly copies out via twitter or an article in the NYT.

    if by like you mean “I want to see Haberman burned alive at the stake still screaming “what about her emails!” then I’m right there with you.

  11. 11.

    TenguPhule

    August 29, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    @Mandalay:

    I’m deeply concerned that this might lead to a credibility problem for our stenographer.

    Thoughts and prayers.

  12. 12.

    lamh36

    August 29, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    @tommyxtopher
    Haha, Chuck Todd asks @AndrewGillum if he wants an apology from DeSantis. “Let me be articulate and clear here…”

    https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/1034917367569174536

    FYI: This was another Chuckles segment

    @tommyxtopher
    WTF? Chuck Todd keeps wondering why DeSantis didn’t get the “benefit of the doubt,” while Michael Steele and @DonnaFEdwards try to talk some sense into his ass.

    4:21 PM – Aug 29, 2018

  13. 13.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 29, 2018 at 6:29 pm

    @TenguPhule: Not burned at the stake, but I’d take tarred and feathered.

  14. 14.

    dimmsdale

    August 29, 2018 at 6:32 pm

    Jesus Christ, MAGA Haberman, get something right–it’s HAMILL, not ‘Hammill’, PETE HAMILL, and he’s five times the reporter right now in his 80s, than you’ll ever be in your best dreams.

  15. 15.

    TenguPhule

    August 29, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    Trump on Wednesday defended his administration’s response to a devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico last year, despite a study released this week that said there was a spike in deaths on the island in the six months that followed.

    “I think we did a fantastic job,” Trump said, responding to a question from a reporter at the White House. He called the emergency on the island “by far the most difficult” of the areas of the United States and its territories ravaged by hurricanes.

    “It’s hard to get things on the island,” Trump said, comparing the situation to response efforts in Texas and Florida, which also suffered significant damage.

    It must be after five somewhere.

  16. 16.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 29, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    See all [trump’s] tweets, even deleted ones, even if you’re blocked

    This feels like a bug instead of a feature.

  17. 17.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 29, 2018 at 6:38 pm

    @lamh36: WTF? Chuck Todd keeps wondering why DeSantis didn’t get the “benefit of the doubt,” while Michael Steele and @DonnaFEdwards try to talk some sense into his ass.

    Two clicks this side of “Why is Gillum playing the race card against DeStantis?”

    Do I really have to say good for Michael Steele? I guess I do

  18. 18.

    TenguPhule

    August 29, 2018 at 6:38 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    This feels like a bug instead of a feature.

    The traditional reward for a job well done.

  19. 19.

    TenguPhule

    August 29, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    while Michael Steele and @DonnaFEdwards try to talk some sense into his ass.

    “Gonna need a bigger enema!”

  20. 20.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 29, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    also, there’s an audioclip being played on MSNBC of “John Barron” telling People magazine that that Madonna person is desperate to get a date with Donald trump.

  21. 21.

    trollhattan

    August 29, 2018 at 6:40 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    Oh, well played (literally, but anyway).

  22. 22.

    Roger Moore

    August 29, 2018 at 6:41 pm

    I appreciate the Haberman tweets about Trump trying to place anonymous quotes, but they’d be a lot better coming from a reporter who didn’t spend quite so much time repeating what she heard from anonymous sources within the administration.

  23. 23.

    debbie

    August 29, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    At least he didn’t launch into an explanation about how there is water all around Puerto Rico.

  24. 24.

    Duane

    August 29, 2018 at 6:49 pm

    That’s a lot of stenographerin’ Maggie did there. “Tenuous factual basis” is sure a fine way to say lie.

  25. 25.

    Mary G

    August 29, 2018 at 6:51 pm

    @TenguPhule: The avocation of violence in this comment is disturbing as fuck. I like you and don’t want to pie you, but

    burned alive at the stake still screaming

    is way, way, way over the line. We aren’t white supremacists.

  26. 26.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 29, 2018 at 6:52 pm

    @MisterForkbeard:

    Not burned at the stake, but I’d take tarred and feathered.

    Squish.

  27. 27.

    A Ghost To Most

    August 29, 2018 at 6:53 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Don John Barron and the Shit Hitlers could be a band name.

  28. 28.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 29, 2018 at 6:55 pm

    there was some angst last week that showed that trump’s approval had shot up to a juggernautical 46%. This was two days after a national poll (Gallup, IIRC) was at 38%. Anyway:

    Jon Favreau @ jonfavs
    These are garbage numbers for Trump:
    40-56% approve/disapprove (66% indys disapprove)
    44-47% impeach/don’t impeach (47% of indys are pro)
    55% trust Mueller/35% trust Trump’s denials
    63-27% Trump should answer Mueller Q’s
    23-57% swamp drained/swamp worse

    USA Today/Suffolk U.

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    August 29, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    BTW, who or what is Brawndo? Other than Queen Liz II’s pronunciation of Marlon’s surname.

  30. 30.

    C. Isaac

    August 29, 2018 at 7:06 pm

    @NotMax: Reference to the movie Idiocracy.

    It’s a product that is used to replace water due to a marketing campaign, causing crop failures, because everyone in a dystopian future is an idiot because the smart people stop having kids.

  31. 31.

    TenguPhule

    August 29, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    @NotMax: The movie equivalent of Gaterade with more salt.

  32. 32.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 29, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    63-27% Trump should answer Mueller Q’s

    There’s that number again.

  33. 33.

    YetAnotherJay formerly (Jay S)

    August 29, 2018 at 7:50 pm

    I read this article https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/revealed-notorious-pro-trump-misinformation-site-true about True Pundit Thomas Paine being revealed as a ex-journo with a grudge. It looks to me like he may have been ground zero for the China hacked Hillary’s Server nonsense.

  34. 34.

    Mainmata

    August 29, 2018 at 8:31 pm

    @Leto: Yes, this is DOJ and DHS putting the squeeze on State to enforce the Trump political appointees racist policies.

  35. 35.

    Mainmata

    August 29, 2018 at 8:40 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, that number will always be there nationally. Much higher in some areas and almost absent in other areas but persistent for the last 10 years anyway

  36. 36.

    Duane

    August 29, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    @dmsilev: Late though it is, do you have a newsletter?

  37. 37.

    PenAndKey

    August 29, 2018 at 11:31 pm

    @C. Isaac: And, its worth pointing out, even in that movie the President cared more about his people than the Orange One could possibly fathom. Seriously, I’d take President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho over Trump any day.

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