It’s so goddamn hard with him.
With most other people, you could hope that he eventually sees the light and tries to make retribution for what he’s done. With Trump, though, that’s out of the question. It ain’t happening–he’s literally not capable of it.
So the best I can do is to hope he lives long enough to see the total collapse of his political career, his finances, his reputation and anything else he holds dear. Preferably from inside a cell.
The tiny hands check out tho’
It wasn’t so much about admitting the Enemy was right about the virus. Trump is obsessed with the way things look on TV. He’s on record as having rejected social distancing because it would look “terrible” on TV to show a couple of people next to a bunch of empty seats, then a few more people. It’s all about the optics, folks. Of course what he got didn’t look so hot, either: a tight clump of people surrounded by a sea of empty seats.
Yeah, I find it encouraging that internet teens would focus their attention in a constructive, unpretentious way like this. I am not looking forward to the conspiracy theories Turmp will shart on them once he realises TikTok is controlled by China, but I’m sure they can handle a social media slapfight with a septuagenarian shitwind who couldn’t find his own ass with both hands and a flashlight.
I don’t really buy the part about ruining the Turmp campaign’s CRM database. It might cost them money to have consultants clean it up, but it’s not going to be that difficult (and if it was that easy to tank a campaign, Republicans would have done it already)
Betsy Devos is still on board the Shitheel Express, shoveling her particular brand of shit from the stoker.
Certainly this applies to the majority of Trump hires, but the media tossed around this hypothetical that some thought it was their patriotic duty to take a job with Trump so they could mitigate his incompetence and corruption. That’s a really optimistic idea, but H.R. McMaster appears to have witnessed this during his own time in the White House (although he also takes a “let the chips fall where they may” attitude that advisors are only supposed to provide information and options, which ignores the unprecedented ineptitude and narcissism of Donald J. Trump.)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/08/mcmaster-white-house-danger-to-the-constitution-1418268
It’s always the ratings with him.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/trump-campaign-trail-coronavirus/index.html
…the President began to consider changing the date. He also heard directly from > Sen. James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican, who told him a date-change would be wise.
Trump agreed, but told his campaign advisers to schedule the rally the day before Juneteenth, a Thursday, rather than move the rally a day later to Saturday. Trump explained that Saturday evenings were a television ratings void and that he wanted massive viewership of his first campaign foray in months.
Christ on a bike.
(emphasis mine)
Of course that was so that they could pursue their noble agendas of crushing the “takers” (Romney) or nuking the “browns” (Bolton).
The last time I ended up with that much makeup on my collar was the Halloween when I dressed up as Trigon from Teen Titans Go.
I primarily think it was military or intelligence officials who saw it their duty to try and steer Trump away from disaster, Jim Mattis for example. But people like Bolton, Mnuchin, Gorka. . . there’s no defense of nearly anybody in that administration I could ever make except if I had to as part of a college debate team.
That’s interesting…
I saw an interview with Lankford a few days prior to the event in which he was asked if he brought it up as a problematic date. Lankford went well out of his way to say that his call to ⊥rump was on another topic (which he never specified) and that Cheetolini brought up the issue of the date himself, unprompted. Lankford presented it as the Divider in Chief having already mostly made up his mind about changing the date and really just running it by an Oklahoma Senator for input on what was basically a done deal.
Of course, I didn’t believe a word of it, even coming out of his [Lankford’s] mouth in real time. He’s gone to great lengths to carry water for ⊥rump since day one, and this oddly specific lie seems tailor-made to pump up his standing with the President*
I have this sweet, sweet fantasy about Hair Fuhrer coming 'round to blaming this on Lankford. Unlikely, but I can dream.
*= impeached and manifestly unfit.
As the adorable and sensible young lady said about taco shells: “Por que no los dos?”
Has he though? Maybe now and then, but CNN did a feature about how his campaign makes it look like he’s talking at big crowds, but often not so much. They put a booth of sorts around the press cameras so they can only show the stage, with Trump and a packed crown behind him. But CNN sent reporters out into other parts of the stadium to film behind the cameras, and it’s empty. The upper part of the stadium empty except for a few scattered people. And there’s a dense crowd right in front of him, but almost no one up the sides of the stadium. About 1/3 populated, like Tulsa, being generous.
That and they’ve also reported that there are hundreds of hard-core fans who follow him around to every rally. So a lot of the crowd at every rally are the same ones as the one before, and the one before that, and so on. So it’s not even a fresh 6,000 people every time, it’s several hundred to a thousand of the same people and some locals.
Things with lifespans significantly longer than one of Trump’s white dress shirts:
Drummer for Spinal Tap
Mayfly
Redshirt on Star Trek
No,no,no…we need this fucker to stay nice and healthy, relatively speaking, so the SDNY can slam this “unindicted co conspirator” with the full brunt of the law.
It’s a good idea, but outdoor Oklahoma this time of year is blazing hot with a chance of category 5 tornados just about every evening.
The weather is a fair point. Hot and (in June anyway) humid. But the tornado breeding super cells are mostly a mid-afternoon to early-evening thing…
So make them morning events, say 8 am or so, when the temp is just coming off the morning low. And invite everyone to bring parasols, because those have their own meaning that is still relevant. Also helps with social distancing.
