See Trump is resolutely part of Alex Jones running crew. So I can perfectly understand the logical snakes and ladders that lead Jones to accept and celebrate Trump. Whatever he’s doing he’s one of us, so it can’t be bad when Trump does it. Or even the calculations that lead so many conservatives to back him loudly. Or Trump backers who loudly argued Hillary couldn’t be president because she’d do what Trump is doing right now.
But various religious right groups. Including the Mormons. Were (and are) deeply uncomfortable with the guy. He’s never been out and out 100% one of us for that group. Given how conspiracy minded the Christian fringe are. I’d expect to see at least some end of days the Mark of the Beast is a Trump T nonsense. Like I said this was out there for both Bush and Obama. And tons of public figures irregardless of political affiliation or acceptance by the Religious Right. Especially Popes. The new Pope is always the Anti-Christ to anti-catholic Christian groups.
I’ve yet to see much about Trump. And out of all the people I’ve seen labeled the Anti-Christ since I started paying attention to that. Trump is the one that fits more of the claims more closely than anyone else.
Its strange. Maybe I’m just not paying as much attention to that crowd as I used to. But it usually burbles up somewhere.
For me it’s #2. He hasn’t quite figured out that being President is actually The Desk of Shitty Decisions. You don’t go to the President with easy ones. You come to them with “well, this will increase trade, which is good, but it poisons the water and kills off the people who would buy the things, therefore decreasing the number of people who can buy things and negatively impacting trade. This other one is good for a lot of the people in city A, but literally will burn seventeen people to death in city B all of them your supporters. You’ve got ten days to figure out if you want to sign them.”
Conway I guess. She dragged the filthy smoldering corpse of his campaign out of the dumpster fire it had hurled itself into and all the way into the White House where it could fester for the next 4-8 years.
It might sound shocking, but I would suggest that whether he can read is beside the point. Hasn’t he said outright that briefings are too boring? So even if he’s a great reader, the best, it’s for naught if he can’t be bothered to read the important stuff anyway, or listen to experts give him the skinny.
Allegedly, he’s pissed not to have been fully briefed on one thing, and yet he has no patience for briefings! Can’t have it both ways… unless you do an end-run around the patience issue.
So here’s my modest proposal for getting him to receive and digest his briefings, on everything from intelligence to his own damn appointments:
The White House should produce a “news broadcast” for his eyes only. His briefings whittled down to sound bites and 90-second reports, written at the same level as real TV news, in a nice 30-minute package with glitzy graphics and engaging footage.
There, that’s how an administration could survive with a president who won’t or can’t read, or won’t sit still for “boring” stuff. If the people around him actually want a president who’s actively engaged in the job, that is.
CEO´s avoid doing this because it means admitting they’ve made a mistake in trusting the wrong person. That´s what’s so toxic about the business world, its all about keeping up appearances.
I’m been curious about whether he has some kind of dementia as well and been researching it. The way he talks so generally of things that everyone laughs about, to me it reminds me a lot of how my aging father speaks and of how my grandmother spoke when she first starting developing Alzheimer’s. It seems like a way to cover up that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The Frederick Douglass thing, for example, kind of a classic bluster that an old person would do to cover up that he forgot who the guy is.
If I were those guys, I would have each of them pick a senior operative from each of their jurisdictions, and set a schedule for 2 a.m. visits for the next month of “[X] knows how he’d kill you, too.” I’d arrange the schedule in order from least-to-most badass, so that after the first couple of weeks, when Bannon has had a dozen visitors and is confident he’s barricaded himself adequately, the warnings can keep coming.
But then, that would just be vindictiveness about being threatened.
EDIT: Isn’t threatening the life of the President a criminal offense?
