Reporters laugh as Sean Spicer is forced to justify Trump's 'covfefe'

[chenille]

@vonbobo

But if he wins another election, history is going to look back at this exact type of diversionary tactic and explain how it was all part of their master planning that put him power and allowed him to burn the country to the ground.

I think historians are smarter than that. Harmless fool or criminal mastermind is an entirely false dichotomy. Trump has made it very plain he is incompetent to an astounding degree and dangerous anyway. I stand by what I said here:

@chenille

I think one of the things we need to realize from all this is that these kinds of manipulations are not the province of geniuses. Trump discovered the secrets of demagogic power by yelling lots of insults and lies without looking embarrassed. His party has been advancing its agenda with all the subtle art it takes to be obviously petty, dishonest dicks. Their media supporters have been covering for them with clever propaganda like “nuh-uh” and “look over there”, and yes, it seems people have been pulling strings by such insidious machinations as telling Trump “you’re great, do this.”

I know, it’s disappointing to find the shadowy Illuminati are just a clique of jerks that have to buy their homework answers. It’s much more comforting to say we were beaten by the best. But I honestly think that’s where we are now; there are no supervillains playing chess here, just deeply banal evil.

Trump could be impeached now, just for his dramatic violation of the emoluments clause, let alone whatever collusion his clumsy firing of Comey was supposed to conceal. The reason he hasn’t been is not that his ineptness has fooled us all, that in laughing at things like covfefe we are somehow rendered unaware of the damage he is causing, but that the people who should be doing it are motivated to look the other way. Worry about that, not that we are somehow unable to pay attention to two things at once.