The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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And fake news awards by press release? That has to be the worst awards show of the year! Getting an awards show together and putting on a good show was one of the things I figured the Trump organization could nail.
 
Lurch said:
Why the hell is that excreble wall at all in play? Trump campaigned on the promise that it would be paid for by Mexico. If he can't force your southern neighbor to fork over the dinero, he has what I see to be a legitimate out. But if the expectation by the rabid base is to have Americans fund it and then get prompt reimbursement from Mexico, that would be a bloody good instance of cognitive dissonance on the part of the racist bastages wherein the supposedly untrustworthy, criminal Mexicans--while being affronted no less--will be willingly subject to usury.
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He doesn't have an out as part of the same campaign he said Mexico *would* pay.
 
ponderingturtle said:
And fake news awards by press release? That has to be the worst awards show of the year! Getting an awards show together and putting on a good show was one of the things I figured the Trump organization could nail.
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Why? Unless it gained him access to the changing room of girls and women there is nothing in it for him.
 
alfaniner said:
This is going to take some serious distraction. Firing Mueller and firing a nuke at the same time probably seems like a good idea.
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“Lil’ Donny” had a good take on this: Distraction
 
Arcade22 said:
Trump and many of his voters honestly believe that "fake news" doesn't mean news that's fake or otherwise misleading. Instead it's all about whether they find it upsetting and portrays trump negatively.
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Two problems I see here.

For one, it's redundant. Anything at all which portrays Trump negatively would be upsetting to his supporters.

And any dispassionate reporting on his actions is more than likely to reflect on him negatively.

Even if you try and pad it in his favor.
"Trump played four hours of golf today while Hawaii was in crisis mode reacting to a false missile warning he was informed was false almost immediately and could have responded publicly about and squelched within minutes.

He shot a four over, and only cheated a little bit."
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See how I even slanted that in his favor? Everyone knows he probably cheated a lot to manage four over.
 
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Darat said:
He doesn't have an out as part of the same campaign he said Mexico *would* pay.
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In the process of contradicting Kelly, he's still insisting that Mexico will pay for it.

"The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it. Parts will be, of necessity, see through and it was never intended to be built in areas where there is natural protection such as mountains, wastelands or tough rivers or water," the President tweeted.

"The Wall will be paid for, directly or indirectly, or through longer term reimbursement, by Mexico, which has a ridiculous $71 billion dollar trade surplus with the U.S. The $20 billion dollar Wall is "peanuts" compared to what Mexico makes from the U.S. NAFTA is a bad joke!"
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"The day I conceived of it." As if the concept were ever anything more detailed than "a really big wall."
 
It's sheer madness to propose an expensive mega-project on one's own soil, such as the cursed wall, and not just *expect* another nation to pick up the tab, but even to *suggest* that such could enter into the realm of possibility. From the first moment of his uttering such a damn fool idea I could see only lunacy on the part of Trump's fevered imagination and insanity among the millions (Jesus, that many?!) bigger fools who bought into it.

Surely Trump's base must see by now some glimmerings of a realization that a full blown manifestation of such a Quixotic scheme is unrealistic at best, and in some measure ruinous.
 
So, we have a potential shutdown over government funding looming.

They could just resign a short term extension to keep things moving, but Democrats want things like CHIP funding and DACA included in the bill, Republicans want more military spending, and Trump wants his wall. With all these competing priorities we may have gridlock.

Now there's one other issue:

From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...df0b94bb98a_story.html?utm_term=.b07850e30330
The budget extension lawmakers must vote on by Friday evening to avoid a government shutdown will, as written, give President Trump the power to secretly reshuffle money the administration spends on intelligence programs for the next month — sweeping authority that is unprecedented since the CIA was established. Lawmakers are scrambling to figure out why the short-term budget measure muzzles a long-standing law preventing the administration from spending money on intelligence activities Congress has not specifically authorized.
 
. Lawmakers are scrambling to figure out why the short-term budget measure muzzles a long-standing law preventing the administration from spending money on intelligence activities Congress has not specifically authorized.[/i]
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Why not ask the author? And then take it out.
 
pgwenthold said:
Lawmakers are scrambling to figure out why the short-term budget measure muzzles a long-standing law preventing the administration from spending money on intelligence activities Congress has not specifically authorized
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Why not ask the author? And then take it out.
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I suspect the text of the bill was written by committee. Then typed up by a group of chimpanzees on crack, who ripped up the bill, and glued the pieces back together with their own feces. So its possible that nobody knows who the author is.

Quite possible that this was just some sort of mistake with a word processor (a sort of 'oops, cut and pasted from the wrong document'.)

Strange though, the Washington post article seems to be the only source I found for this issue.
 
Segnosaur said:
I suspect the text of the bill was written by committee. Then typed up by a group of chimpanzees on crack, who ripped up the bill, and glued the pieces back together with their own feces. So its possible that nobody knows who the author is.

Quite possible that this was just some sort of mistake with a word processor (a sort of 'oops, cut and pasted from the wrong document'.)

Strange though, the Washington post article seems to be the only source I found for this issue.
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Likely because they are the only ones who have read it
 
Segnosaur said:
I suspect the text of the bill was written by committee. Then typed up by a group of chimpanzees on crack, who ripped up the bill, and glued the pieces back together with their own feces. So its possible that nobody knows who the author is.
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They say it would take an infinite amount of time for an infinite number of monkeys to type out the works of Shakespeare by chance.

Most of our Congressional bills? 12 monkeys, 30 minutes.
 
Hellbound said:
They say it would take an infinite amount of time for an infinite number of monkeys to type out the works of Shakespeare by chance.
Most of our Congressional bills? 12 monkeys, 30 minutes.
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If the recent tax bill is any indication, I'd say at least half that 30 minutes involves scrawling illegible notes in the margins with their own feces.

And most of those monkeys are actually lobbyists.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
So like every person with a moderately high cholesterol that is overweight and under exercised has a serious heart condition now? :rolleyes:

I'm sorry but this really is a nothing burger.

It's not fake-news, it's make-news where there isn't any. CNN and Dr Gupta did a whole waste of time segment on it too.
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I believe you over any doctor in the land. You are Skeptic Ginger!
 
I'm hearing a couple new terms today -- "Tuesday Trump" vs. "Thursday Trump". This just gets weirder and weirder.

C_Felix said:
I almost spit my orange juice out when I read that.
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I'm not sure if that's because of the original claim or my response to it -- either way... :D
 
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