Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/19/you-will-fail.html
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Probably related to the trump admin’s reported failure to figure out the lights in the WH.
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“There are dozens, if not hundreds, of keyboards with these missing keys,” a White House aide said. "In some cases the ‘W’ is marked out, but the most prevalent example is the key being removed.
“In some cases the ‘W’ keys have been taped on top of the doorways, which are 12 feet tall. In other cases, they were glued on with Superglue, right way up or upside down.”
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Was it the same Obama administration busy spying on them through the microwave? This and post-it notes seems a weird mix of high and low tech.
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They said this about the departing Clinton administration, too. They accused them of basically destroying offices, but the key detail was that they’d supposedly pried the “W” keys off all the keyboards. Y’know, because “Dubya.”
The Bush administration investigated for eighteen months and found that the amount of damage done to the White House when 500 staff were replaced amounted to $15,000, and much of that was stuff that could easily have been normal wear and tear. (“I’m going to make it so that my seat back is a little wobbly! Take that, jerks!”)
This isn’t even a fun new lie.
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Telephone lines have been cut, voice-mail messages changed to scatological, lewd greetings. One Bush staffer’s grandmother telephoned his office from the Midwest and was “horrified” by what she heard on his message machine.
Many telephone lines were switched to the wrong offices. Desks were turned upside down and rubbish scattered everywhere.
Filing cabinets were glued shut, pornographic pictures inserted into computer printers, together with obscene slogans. In one office hallway, lewd graffiti had been written with a Magic Marker.
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Hey media, look, a squirrel!
There is only so much airspace and print space. I wonder what could be happening this week that the Trump Administration would like to distract everyone from? 
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A lie travels halfway around the globe while the truth is still putting its shoes on.
"At the time, Clinton offered to pay the cost of any vandalism but requested a detailed account of what, if anything, was amiss.
No such records exist, said Ungar, who questioned members of Bush’s staff " …
“The condition of the real property was consistent with what we would expect to encounter when tenants vacate office space after an extended occupancy.”
But hey, that’s nothing compared to all the lies spread about Benghazi.
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TGOP = Snowflakes
FACT!
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I disagree: I love the idea of Obama aides being dicks to incoming Trump staffers, but I find this particular tactic lacking in cleverness (which is one reason why it’s clearly a lie).
If the Obama aides were to have done something like this, I would want it done in style.
If you’re going to go low, do it in a way that demonstrates you’re smarter and wittier than your opponent. Ideally, you should embarrass them, not help them fire up their their base.
Leaving behind post-its that say “you will fail” is the sort of unimaginative maneuver that only an idiot like Stephanie Grisham would concoct.
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“They left notes saying we would fail, so obviously it’s Obama’s fault that we are failing.”
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This rings really true on a lot of levels. We can all agree that it’s more likely than not that the incoming Trump administration would not say anything about these notes at the time, preferring to assume their duties with the quiet professionalism and gravitas that their positions of power demanded.
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The only explanation is that Trump’s staff exercised the trademark restraint and organizational discipline that has marked this Administration’s time in office in an effort to avoid feeding partisan conflict and treat the office with the solemn respect it deserves.
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Obligatory
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“WH Press Sec Stephanie Grisham claims Obama aides left 'you will fail” notes in offices for Trump aides: “We came into the WH, I’ll tell you something. Every office was filled with Obama books and we had notes left behind that said ‘you will fail,’ ‘you aren’t going to make it,’”
Youthful hi jinks - also - prescient.
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OK, leaving books behind was kind of a low blow. That’s like leaving a bunch of garlic and crucifixes behind when you know the incoming administration is comprised of vampires.
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Yeah, this sounds like The Office-level pranks. This admin’s simultaneous use of proudly-barked crudeness and fainting pearl-clutching calls for civility are among the most blatant of their gaslighting tchniques. So grabbing pussies is harmless “Locker room talk” but actual locker-room-level leave-a-joke-for-the-next-team pranks are newsworthy? Nice.
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Mail Online? THAT’S your source?! Oh bless your discernment-free little heart
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