A round up of Trumpian events šŸ–•šŸŠšŸ¤”

If ever forced to actually resort to cannibalism in order to survive, I have a running list of whom to hunt down and eat first; it’s long and consists of many high profile people who have willfully enabled this fuckery.

However, 45 isn’t on it, and never will be because:

A) The chances of someone else getting to him first are really good.

B) What you said about not him being palatable at all; even as a cannibal, I will still have certain standards.

C) Animals and other lower life forms will need to eat too; feed him to the pigs.

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I remember reading that Selmayr’s installation as Secretary General had damaged Juncker’s image (or maybe more accurately, shined an unflattering light on his many flaws). But I’m not as tuned into what is going on with the EU as I should be; the American media focuses more on the doings of the EU member states than on the body as a whole, and it’s easy to be distracted by the onslaught of noise coming out of Washington.

I find myself in the weird position of cheering against my own country; I want the rest of the world to stand firm against Trump. Don’t negotiate with him. Don’t compromise. When the US economy starts to tank, make sure Trump is by himself, neck deep, choking on the wreckage.

But it’s a global economy and when the US suffers so does Europe. The EU can’t be expected to bail us out of this crisis any more than Mexico can be expected to pay for Trump’s wall. In the end, I’m terrified that Trump will be proved right; that the trade war will be good for him and easily won.

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ā€œChinese factory making Trump 2020 flagsā€

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Well, it is accurate. It’s still not a big deal.

They’ve agreed to discuss agreeing.

They haven’t actually agreed anything, they haven’t said they will agree anything.

They’re just going to carry on the already existing trade talks process.

Trump negotiation 101. Throw a hissy-fit, talk tough. Then ā€˜agree’ to discuss things and claim that getting the people you were already in talks with to agree to carry on talks was a major achievement.

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Yep, you’re right; that was a case of preemptive panic. You’d think by now I’d realize that the best that can be said for things coming out of Trump’s pie hole is that they’re hyperbolic.

When I posted yesterday, I thought that the agreement was an actual agreement on tariffs, not an agreement to discuss tariffs. Full speed ahead I guess, the ship is still sinking on schedule.

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Can’t wait to hear Fox News talk about Hurricane Melinda going through DC later today :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Lawyers-for-detained-pizza-deliverer-head-to-court-13100299.php
He’s not out of the woods yet, with a 2010 deportation order.

U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty said Villavicencio, who was being held at a New Jersey lockup, can remain in the United States while he exhausts his right to try to gain legal status.

ā€œAlthough he stayed in the United States unlawfully and is currently subject to a final order of removal, he has otherwise been a model citizen,ā€ the judge wrote.

Summary: Seems okay, WTF is the rush?

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https://www.npr.org/2018/07/26/632660199/rosenstein-impeachment-sputters-on-capitol-hill-but-political-war-likely-will-ra

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He’s having far too much fun with this.

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Get me a Coke.

ā€œWilbur Ross said the aluminum tariffs is ā€œa lot to do about nothingā€ and U.S. customers wouldn’t notice.ā€

Maybe because 'murica drinks out of these:

super-big-gulp

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https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1022873024553517057

The United Sates.

I’ve come a long way from being a total grammar nazi on the internet because nobody knows when ā€œitsā€ should have an apostrophe in it, but I still think failure to seemingly even try to get the little things right in situations like this is a sure sign that the big things are being equally neglected.

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The economy is ā€œsoaringā€¦ā€ at least until the housing bubble implodes, the full effect of the tariffs are felt, and the consequences and repercussions of all 45’s bad, short-sighted policies come to fruition.

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Add student debt crisis comes due to that list.

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Thanks, I knew I was forgetting to mention something.

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I almost dropped something when I first saw the satirical headline

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Wait, what?

ETA: never mind, ā€˜wishful thinking’ got in the way of recognizing satire…

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Exactly! Completely plausible right?

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Disturbingly so.

ā€œIs this the real life?ā€

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