Your “Happy President’s Family Day” Monday Evening Open Thread

Everyone in North America has a holiday today except British Columbia and whoever drew the short-straw in the Wal-mart employee break room. My condolences to myself & the others in this circumstance.

I was all set to go back to doing a preview of NFL News, and then I saw this:

Video unembeddable. Good thing, because you’d punch your computer.

I know it’s parody and the Sklar Brothers, neither of whom/which are very funny, but still: Fuck you! and NO!

NFL Free Agency kicks into gear March 7-9, so I’ll probably get back to the round-up aboot then.

[Fun fact: why trying to get my computer to accept “aboot” as a spelling, I ran across this image which fits nicely with Senor Weaselo‘s post from Sunday about Pokemon. I’mma just going to leave that on the right side of the page.]


President’s Day:

As of today, President Trump has equalled the shortest term in office – 31 days – set by William Henry Harrison, who died from the pneumonia he caught while being sworn in. Next on the list is James Garfield at 199 days, who was shot 3 months and 28 days into his term, and died of incompetence & lead poisoning 79 days later – 6 months and 15 days into his term.

Fifth on that list is Warren Harding, who died 2 years, 4 months, and 29 days into his term. When Trump got elected, this was the president who I felt would eventually parallel Trump’s time in office. NO, SECRET SERVICE, I DON’T HOPE HE DIES! Rather, my understanding of American history drew me to these parallels:

  • both won a seemingly popular-among-the-fanbase election
  • both had a far-more-competent-than-him running mate
  • each candidacy was lukewarm in the press, even among Party-supported papers
  • Harding ran a “front porch” campaign, whereas Trump flew his front porch to meet people
and to embarrass his opponent.
  • Harding’s campaign slogan was “Return to Normalcy”, advocating a US withdrawal from world affairs in the post-WWI era. We all know what “#MAGA” means.
  • Finally, a typical Harding campaign speech was referred to as “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. Sometimes these meandering words actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and over work.”

Once elected, Harding vowed to consult the “best minds” in order to appoint only the best candidates as his cabinet & advisors. Much like Trump, he appointed officials to lead departments they had been opposed to when in private life. Harding’s famous appointee in this manner was Albert Fall as Interior Secretary, a farmer & miner who opposed conservation on “Manifest Destiny” grounds. He became famous for the “Teapot Dome” scandal, over the Department granting favourable & untendered drilling leases to friends of his. During hearings into the scandal, he uttered the immortal line:

“Sir, if you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and my straw reaches across the room, I’ll end up drinking your milkshake.”

which was borrowed for “There Will Be Blood”, along with a solid mustache game.

We are only 31 days into the Trump presidency. I’m sure there will be bigger scandals than Michael Flynn, hopefully involving Russians.

I doubt they’ll be as sexy.

Tonight’s sports: Hope you like college hoops!

  • NHL:
    • Florida at St. Louis – 8:00PM | Sportsnet / NHLN-US, FS-MW, FS-F
    • Anaheim at Arizona – 9:00PM | Sportsnet1 / FS-A
  • NCAA:
    • Men: highlighted contests
      • Miami at Virginia – 7:00PM | ESPN
      • Texas at West Virginia – 9:00PM | ESPN
    • Women:
      • Maryland at Ohio State – 7:00PM | ESPN2
      • Baylor at Texas – 9:00PM | ESPN2
  • Curling:
    • Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Draw #7) – 7:30PM | TSN
  • WWE: RAW – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
    • apparently, we might be able to smell what someone might be cooking
    • last week, we saw friendship die a magnificent, Jannety-esque death

  • tonight, we will get an explanation (and Wrestlemania set-up) from the dastardly & former best friend, Kevin Owens.

It should be glorious.

GLORIOUS!

(All presidential terms & factoids from Wikipedia,because I was lazy)

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ballsofsteelandfury

Back to work tomorrow…

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

OK; that is funny.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

and erotic.

WCS

Weird game, seeing Huggy drop like that, but, he says he’s fine. WVU still gets their tenth Big 12 win.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

“Nothin’ here that a gunman and a patsy can’t solve”

Unsurprised

hey but more importantly who gives a shit— FilmDrunk (@Filmdrunk) February 20, 2017

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Curse of Marino
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Never forget.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I can’t make through this guy’s delivery, but at least he’s got a toaster in his Porch.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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WCS

That’s one way to do it.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

He will be executed for failing regardless, may as well make a spectacular fail.

JustStopDude

Ever read up on the North Korean Men’s nation team that lost big in the World Cup against Portugal?

They did so well against Brazil so they actually showed most of the following match live in North Korea. BBC even had a film crew watching the match with the family of the goalie.

Kim Jong-hun, who was the manager, was brought back to North Korea and the team was forced to public denounce him for betraying General Kim Jong-un (a fucking teenager at the time). He ended up in a labor camp and pretty much has disappeared.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

From what I’ve read of the country in general the instance you mentioned is them being nice. The regime seems on the edge of failure, which may make them unpredictable and dangerous. It is a country of misery unless you are one of the chosen by In, but that can vanish in an instance on the perception of disloyalty of a whim.

tl;dr: people are horrible.

Senor Weaselo

Don’t drink and hurdle.

Unsurprised

That’s the only way to hurdle.

Unsurprised

The best scene from Predators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGZkrlcVPTY

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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JustStopDude

You know…I am really surprised that the assassination of Kim Jong-nam wasn’t a bigger story in the press.

Unsurprised

It was clever as Hell.

JustStopDude

Batshit crazy stuff. I think people tend to forget just how many crazy killings and violent terrorist attacks the North Koreans have done over the years.

Fuck they still won’t release the civilians they kidnapped from Japan AFTER the Korean War.

https://youtu.be/s9GI3IoNxaQ

Did get a great set of movies out the South about North Korean agents…

“Secretly Greatly” is fucking hilarious and badass at the same time.

Unsurprised

I didn’t realize Keegan-Michael Key was going to be in The Predator.

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JustStopDude

WHY?!?!?

Not casting him…I mean making the fucking movie in general. WHY?!?

Unsurprised

Because Shane Black is the writer-director

Brick Meathook

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It’s “Morning in America” for Angie Dickinson as President Reagan treats her to a little chin-music. Hey that’s Mister Roper in the background center!

Unsurprised

Extending her the same respect he showed the gay community during the AIDS crisis.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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herodotus450

Only blockbuster/nincompoopish nhl trade-deadline deals can sustain me now; I need more; mortgage your futures; BRINE ON THE INSANITY!

WCS

Lamont West > you

Unsurprised

I can’t allow this to be buried four-five replies deep.

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JustStopDude

A prime example of a comic book series that went on just a bit too long.

What is with American entertainment? Whether its shows, movie franchises, comics, etc…we never fucking know when to end something at the right fucking time.

Unsurprised

For some reason, all I can think of is this James Baldwin quote that explains everything.

The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen, or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace, that Americans have always dealt honorably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbors or inferiors, that American men are the world’s most direct and virile, that American women are pure.

I never got into the premise of Preacher, let alone enjoyed it, and I’ve never been much of an Ennis fan at all. So I have no idea.

JustStopDude

James Baldwin completely eviscerating William F Buckley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w

This is what I listen too on my phone right before I go into the Great Lakes Region for every job I have there…just to get me motivated to deal with hick morons.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I saw that a long time ago; thanks for the link.

Unsurprised

Thanks. Buckley was a magnificent piece of racist shit.

Brick Meathook

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WCS

I hate seeing Shaka Smart on the Texas sideline. I respect the hell out of what he did at VCU.

theeWeeBabySeamus

He done broked his ass.

WCS

The Mountaineer Maniac office hasn’t changed since 2001. Jebus.

King Hippo

Texas, the worstest team in the world. Except when they play WCS’ Cousinfuckers.

Senor Weaselo

It’s specifically to fuck with him.

WCS

Actually, it’s WVU that intentionally fucks with me.

King Hippo

I watched much of the Guns Up!!! fixture on Saturday. I shudder to imagine what that fucking team is gonna put you through come March…

WCS

They’re going to lose by 15 in the first round, or get to the Final Four. There’s no in-between.

Brick Meathook

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Ronald Reagan (on right)

King Hippo

Is it my imagination, or is the Gipper mildly aroused??

Brick Meathook

so’s the chimp

Unsurprised

You just repeated Hippo’s question back at him

theeWeeBabySeamus

So Holly Rowe’s a dude now. Cool.

WCS

She had cancer.

theeWeeBabySeamus

/Yes, forgot
//tries to perfect time machine quickly to retract
///is a dick

JustStopDude

“If the coaches are giving up,” Rowe added, “what does that say to the players?” Franklin responded: “Holly, it’s not giving up. It’s 49–21, sweetheart.”

theeWeeBabySeamus

Still, she does kinda look like John Daly.

King Hippo

If it makes ya feel better, she looks like she’s much healthier than when I done seen her during FOOTBAW season.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Jim Larranaga….whoa there buddy. Don’t get too excited.

King Hippo

at least the win will help ease the pain of him having to be up so far past his bedtime…

WCS

HURRY THE PISS UP, UVA-MIAMI

theeWeeBabySeamus

Right?

King Hippo

It’s not like anyone’s enjoying this kidney stone of a fixture…

Senor Weaselo

Since when has Vlade Divac been the GM of the Basketball Chiefs, and how is he still said GM of the Basketball Chiefs?

Shogun Marcus

Too long and yes.

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Oh, and hearing Democrats repeatedly hump the Russia-Trump connection is infuriating not because there’s nothing there of concern, but they’re living under the delusion that the previous election’s results were not a result of their own colossal strategic fuck-ups.

King Hippo

They should hump it not for “stolen election” purposes, but rather “goddamned traitors in high positions of government” purposes. Let the sunshine in.

Plus, the time spent having to defend against these REAL allegations takes energy away from VERY FUCKING TERRIBLE legislation-ing.

Unsurprised

Except harping on it allows the same idiot who’ve been running the party into the ground for the last 30 years entirely off the hook. Fuck that. Burn it all down.

King Hippo

No, I don’t think anyone is under the impression that Hillary, or the Dems in general, did NOTHING wrong. It took a perfect storm to fuck all of the Obama goodwill, plus generally being more in line with the public on most issues, this badly.

Russian treachery (direct or indirect, regardless of how heavy of thumb) was just one in a long chain of dominoes.

It has to be investigated, because you simply can’t let something like that stand and take yourself seriously as a sovereign nation, let alone so-called leader of the free world. And you have to shut off the pipe of further treachery and cut out as much of the rot as possible.

Unsurprised

No, I don’t think anyone is under the impression that Hillary, or the Dems in general, did NOTHING wrong.

There are. I’ve stopped talking to some of those people.

I agree that it’s a serious attack on our sovereignty and the legitimacy of the process and the republican form of government guaranteed in the Constitution. However, I think its influence in the election is minimal. I think Hillary and the Dems could’ve saved themselves a lot of trouble if they didn’t bunker down and attack the hacks and instead just admitted that, yeah, national politics is fucked up. This is how the sausage gets made. It’s dirty and it’s elitist and it means horrible people doing horrible things while well-meaning but weak (at best) people try their best to battle the ocean tide with a teaspoon. But 1) At least she’s good at it, having been neck-deep in the muck for 25 years, and 2) Yes, we should fix that. And run on that and that it takes a crook. Pretending the problem didn’t exist, though, and acting like people shouldn’t be or weren’t justified in being insulted and angry and frustrated at seeing how corrupt politics and governance is just the height of arrogance and incompetence.

Unsurprised

They’re living under the delusion that the previous election’s results were not a result of their own colossal strategic fuck-ups.

Totally.

By excusing the loss as Russo-Republican treachery and Bannon being a grand (wizard) strategist it allows them to justify the loss as being outplayed and otherwise losing because of cheating, and not because Hillary was a shit candidate leading a party that under an amazingly popular two-term President lost both houses of Congress and nearly 1,000 state legislature seats to give Republicans control over 38 state legislatures and most gubernatorial and other state executive offices. The Democratic Party put all of its eggs into electing and re-electing Barack Obama and unsurprisingly has resulted in a system where no one else can get elected except to highly gerrymandered seats. But the spice money still flows to the right people and they can keep taking advantage of captured demographic groups who have nowhere else to go, so why change?

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This is why I want Ellison as DNC chair. It’s not so much his politics that I like but that I think he’d be very good at organizing and fundraising at the local level where the Democrats are getting killed.

Also, Tom Perez is a Clinton favorite and I don’t want their fucking fingers on anything.

Unsurprised

The day after Election Day 2008, Obama for America became Organizing for America under the DNC. It was going to change the way the Democratic Party reached out to voters, to give Obama and the DNC access to and control over a massive and energized machine of voters.

The DNC effectively killed it dead by Thanksgiving.

The DNC cannot do anything competently regardless of who is chair without making some massive changes within itself and within the party at the state and local level everywhere.

It can get expensive to participate in a Republican Party, but it is fucking impossible to participate in a Democratic Party without being borderline something and being either fanatically committed to a cause or stand to reap some serious benefits from the process. For a party named after democracy, it’s so fundamentally undemocratic in its practices it’s obscene. Quotas. Super-delegates. Restrictive tickets. Bullshit election metrics. It’s no way to run a middle school class council let alone state or national political parties.

JustStopDude

At work, among the field engineers, we refer to fucking up at the last second a job as “Pulling a Hilary”.

The DNC are masters at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Unsurprised

It’s not like she had 8 years to shape a likeable persona or do anything to minimize among moderates all the baggage she carried. Plenty of why her unfavorable ratings have always been so high are from misogyny and other bullshit, but there was also plenty of legitimate bullshit she had to account for that she decided to ignore instead before doubling-down on the bunker mentality that has succeeded ZERO times in elections. She thought she could just ride it out and let Trump fuck himself, ignoring that it hadn’t worked in 18 months and that it failed miserable when Rick Lazio tried to use that same strategy against her in the NY Senate race in 2000.

JustStopDude

My favorite Hilary moment during the campaign was when she tried to rewrite history and claimed at Nancy Reagan’s funeral that she and Ronald led the fight against the AIDS epidemic.

I still cannot believe that she and a team of people wrote, proof read, and approved that tone deaf, bullshit fucking speech. Who was that audience for? It wasn’t going to win over conservatives and it was fucking downright insulting to anyone that lived during the 80’s and lost loved ones.

Unsurprised

But triangulation helped Bill get re-elected in 1996! (So did Perot draining R votes, Dole being depicted as out of touch and enfeebled by the media, and Bill also being his generation’s most charistmatic politician with a strategic mind to rival Nixon’s who exploited that natural enthusiasm, and the Republican Party not being nearly as cohesively organized and capable of message control and dissemination in 1996 as it has been since then).

See also, losing 900-1,000 statehouse seats from 2008-16, losing the House and Senate, not having a majority of gubernatorial and executive seats in this period, etc.

JustStopDude

I tried to explain to an older coworker that Bill Clinton would never be elected in this day and age because he is a fucking sex predator…

And that isn’t a bad thing because kids these days are “too sensitive”.

King Hippo

I’d rather the guy not affiliated with Clinton or the Bernie faction, thanks. The South Bend mayor.

But fixing the problems won’t be easy, and it never will be given how “herding cats” the Dems’ coalition is. The good thing is we work better in opposition when we train fire on someone else than each other.

Everyone got lazy and outworked once Obama was elected.

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Ellison is endorsed by more than the Bernie folks. He has a broad base of support. Hell, Reid and Schumer support him and I wouldn’t consider any of those people to far left of the party.

Unsurprised

Reid and Schumer support him

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Okay… you got me there.

Unsurprised

Everyone got lazy and outworked once Obama was elected.

This was part of it. But another part was that people were motivated to work in helping Obama carry out his agenda, but the people who were supposed to contact all those volunteers never sent them any calls to action (see my comment below about the DNC blowing up OFA).

A lot of those people gave up after not being contacted to fight for the bailout or ACA or anything in the first 100 days, six months, year … Some came back specifically to support Obama’s re-election and worked on his campaign, which was a well-oiled machine getting people off their asses and hitting every sidewalk in America. And then they went home again the day after the election.

Curse of Marino

The Brandon Albert – Julius Thomas trade has been so badly reported I’m expecting it to just be a trade between Miami and Jacksonville involving Fat Albert Tapes and Orange Julius recipes.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Evening folks. I’m not drunk yet, but I’ve begun working on it.

King Hippo

annnnndddddd Miami off da bubble

King Hippo

SIGH. Or not. Fucking shit.

King Hippo

Slave Fucker U done forgot how to offense ,, no ofence

theeWeeBabySeamus

rut roh…what i miss?

King Hippo

Been stuck on 41 forevs, after scoring 41 in the Hole over the weekend. I’d say they has problems.

theeWeeBabySeamus

It’s all relative. At least they’ve only given up 51 thus far.
My kingdom for a perimeter D.

JustStopDude

Unrelated to everything, when did pro wrestling stop featuring actual…ring action?

I swear the debates are longer than the ones that occurred during the general election. I have no clue who any of these people are nor why I should sit through the 14 minute monologues.

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It was this way when I followed it closely and that was about 15 years ago.

JustStopDude

I used to watch ECW when it was still a company. Like right before it went under. Maybe I am remember this wrong, I just don’t remember long speeches all the time.

I thought this was some brilliant WWE concussion protocol where they are just eliminating all the head injuries by not having wrestling.

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Well, ECW was never like this and was always a superior “wrestling” product.

WWE has been 80-90% talking. hyping, and anticipation for a long time. I’ve always loved their production value but it doesn’t quite make up for the thin content.

JustStopDude

FUCKING CHRIST I AM A MORON!

I am just now realizing my W2 has my home state as New Hampshire. How or why HR did this, I have no fucking idea, but somehow I totally missed this.

I royally fucked up my taxes this year…

Unsurprised

At least it can be fixed. So you have that going for you.

Unsurprised

In Oregon, every election ballot is mailed to individuals to return via first-class mail or to be deposited in drop boxes. Last year was a low turnout rate at only 79%. In 2012, it was 81%.

Unsurprised

This stupid fucking country. I’m amazed the country isn’t going into full zombie apocalypse mode because it’s flu season and these idiots could fuck up running a banana stand.

In polls of all adults, Trump's approval rating is 43%. But it's 47% in polls of registered or likely voters. pic.twitter.com/oObVTxChls— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 20, 2017

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ballsofsteelandfury

Maybe it’s because I was born in a third-world country, but I do not understand why in America every citizen isn’t registered to vote. Also, I don’t understand the ridiculously low percentage of eligible voters that actually vote. Ever since I became a citizen, I have voted in every election. It’s crazy to me that people don’t bother.

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Because automatic registration would permanently render the frightening white demographic a minority and America has a 200+ year history of protecting white supremacy.

ballsofsteelandfury

Australia has mandatory voting for everyone, but I get your point.

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I’d only support that if a reject all option were on the ballot and binding.

ballsofsteelandfury

In Australia, you can leave your ballot blank.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Is that a euphemism?

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You can here too but it doesn’t count as rejection, just as a non-vote.

If the electorate truly finds all options unacceptable, none should get the office.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Damn; I was hoping it meant “having sex with birth control.”

Unsurprised

Apathy, in the larger context. In the specific case of registration, it’s absolutely to suppress turnout and franchise by those with vested interests. My brother makes an excellent argument about Voter ID laws that the problem isn’t that it targets minorities, especially the poor and especially in non-urban areas, it’s that it’s a fucking outrage that there are people in the country living day to day without standard identification.

REAL ID was a great idea in principle. Finally, a nationally-standardized form of government identification that can be used by everyone. Except liberals lost their shit because it was a Bush plan, libertarians lost their shit because they’re libertarians, and worst of all though is that most people just couldn’t afford to get the new IDs because they’re goddamn expensive. That’s the most pernicious part: That the government charges a non-nominal fee for an ID card and the process to obtain one is time-consuming and laborious and most people don’t know exactly how to get one and what is needed.

King Hippo

Me too. I once voted when all that was on the ballot was the Demmycrat runoff for Labor Commissioner.

/except for the “becoming a citizen” part

//did you get crunk on Natural Light that night like my Chilean buddy did??

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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I can’t get over how all of these guys are such slovenly loaves. No wonder they cling to white supremacy: they aren’t producing any superior culture of genetics on their own.

Unsurprised

fuck me in a bowl of Frosted Flakes— CC Sheffield (@ccsheffield) February 20, 2017

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Romonobyl

I’ll admit I’m not as liberal as the majority of the DFO regulars, but The Donald was definitely not my idea. Nevertheless, the histrionics of the extreme left have surpassed hysterical to the point of embarrassment. I don’t think he stands a chance, but give him one and let’s see what happens. Before panicking, there are checks and balances to keep the country from going completely off the rails. Tolerance is supposed to be a two-way street after all.
I think his problem is that he wanted the victory, but not the job. I see him giving up inside of 2 years.

ballsofsteelandfury

I see him figuring out how much money he can make off the presidency and then deciding whether he wants to stay or not. If he can’t, he’ll leave.

Btw, I scheduled your post for 8 AM tomorrow. Great job!

Romonobyl

Thanks, I’m just getting warmed up!
I doubt he’s after the money, this was pure ego. Remember, he originally leaned towards the liberal side, was even besties with the Clintons. He switched sides probably to better his chances. So much for sincerity.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I agree it is mostly ego; but he and family are making sure they make plenty of money for him and his friends and not taking any actions that will lose money.

http://static.snopes.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/reagan-trump.jpg

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Yes, and maybe four, five kids….

Unsurprised

He’s absolutely exploiting the office for money every way he can.

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Trump was never on a political side. He is and has always been apolitical.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Trump is on Trump’s side.

Shogun Marcus

I would IF he knew what the job was in the first place. He don’t, so nope. The little we’ve seen already is moar than enough. As it stands now it’ll take decades to return to where we were ONE MONTH AGO.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

He has no fucking idea what checks and balances are. By the time we “wait and see” a shit ton of damage will be done.

http://www.redstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/stephen-miller-e1486991981921.jpg

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Your reminder than it’s competence, not ideology that’s holding back these fuckers.

I also really liked reading about this dipshit with a poli sci undergrad degree was telling experienced lawyers how to defend that immigration EO. Such fucking arrogance.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Our savior; idiocy.

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You’re over-estimating the strength of institutions.

Kungjitsu

Trump is a fuck up of cosmic proportion. That doesn’t have anything to do with political philosophy; it has to do with 50 years of his personal history. Find someone — ANYONE — who he’s done business with that has anything good to say about him.

That’s before the pathological lying about meaningless bullshit that’s easily verifiable or the complete lack of attention to detail. His total incompetence is the only thing that gives me a glimmer of hope that the world won’t end. He’s too fucking stupid and unfocused to actually get anything accomplished. But that doesn’t mean that he can’t cause a shit ton of damage before he quits or the CIA “retires” him.

-Thinks Frederick Douglass is alive
-Couldn’t be bothered to spell W.E.B. Du Bois’s name right
-Openly advertising for Ivanka’s fashion line
-Talking national security outside in public
-Dude taking a picture with the guy with the nuke codes
-Fucking Flynn
-Nothing to say about the Russian ship off the coast of Connecticut
-Has a lot to say about SNL

None of that has anything to do with left or right. He’s never going to do the actual job.

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Considering how little he knew about Flynn, I’d say he’s not making many calls.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

OK, your list is a good one, but I don’t think he actually fucked Michael Flynn.

Kungjitsu

It was a reach around. Flynn likes it because of Trump’s tiny hands.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Nice; “I’M UUUUUGE IN JAPAN.” joke. +5 small stubby fingers.

JustStopDude

I work for a major industrial company that is based in Japan, the US, England, India, and China.

We can’t move fucking field engineers around if they are black, have an accent, have a “Muslim” sounding name (which apparently is everything not “Smith”). Pretty much our people either drive or we are delaying projects because we cannot reliably get people in and out of the US.

I am getting REALLY fucking sick of fielding pissed off phone calls from customers who get stuck in Airports because TSA agents now think they are on the front line, ergo they have carte blanc to fucking with everyone.

Its wasting money and its an international embarrassment.

Unsurprised

I’m just waiting at this point for Bannon to call for the expulsion of all immigrants and stripping citizenship of everyone who isn’t white European. And it can absolutely happen because Congress isn’t going to do shit about it at best and more likely than not would support them because Ryan and everyone on down are craven, evil bastards. And most people in this country won’t care let alone do anything about it.

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This is their endgame and I’d wager 30-40% of Americans would support it.

EDIT: And they’d absolutely repeal the 14th Amendment if they could to accomplish that. That’s probably on the docket for any constitutional convention.

Kungjitsu

The sad part is that these dumb fucks think think they’ll get good jobs if all the immigrants are kicked out. The brown people can’t leave their math skills on the way out for Cletus and Clem to pick up.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

They’ll also have to destroy robotics and other technical advances to get dare jerbs back

Unsurprised

Yes, I know. That’s why I said it. And it is entirely within their legal power to make it happen.

JustStopDude

Trump actually let it slip during his campaign that he thinks returning vets from overseas should not just be let in if they are Muslim or foreign born.

I was shocked then, and still am now, that this did not immediately kill his campaign.

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I read an article that quoted Trump supporters at this weekend’s re-election campaign rally and one point blank said he’d love it Trump were president for life and didn’t shy away from him wanting to be a dictator.

Unsurprised

Support for veterans has always been superficial at best. Him talking shit about McCain was supposed to kill his campaign before Christmas 2015.

This is why I am open about not giving a shit about veterans. At least I’m honest.

JustStopDude

Hehe…you ever wonder why people moved into Kentucky and Westerner Virginia? During the Revolutionary War, our founding fathers basically bought up the land and property from underneath the soldiers. So when the war was over, a huge number got kicked off their land.

Its a proud American tradition.

Unsurprised

Like when Washington “put down” a bunch of veterans at Shays’s Rebellion. And Eisenhower and MacArthur putting down the Bonus Army. And the draft riots during the Civil War. And the way vets were screwed over afterwards. And the government response to victims of Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, PTSD (even in the last 20 years), etc. Good times.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

At first I thought you HAD to be joking.

Maybe I was hoping you were joking.

Trevor Semen

I gave him a chance then he barred legal residents from entering the country and is currently running a propaganda campaign against any news source that doesn’t paint him as God Emperor.

Curse of Marino

So in Trump-related news: Milo Yadabadopolis said it was OK for 13 year olds to fuck older men

Leading to

1) People getting pissed off
2) People defending Milo by saying he was taken out of context(he wasnt)
3)People saying Milo is just a hebephile which is somehow better than a pedophile.(It’s not, its a bullshit semantics game pedophile apologists play)
4) People get angrier at people falling under Numbers 2-3
5) Milo YeahIlikelittleboyass loses out on his book deal and he is univited by CPAC.

I cant wait for Trump to open his fucking mouth and defend this idiot.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
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It’s funny that that’s what did him in. He’s said and done so many worse things, but a comment on fucking a teenage boy was too far.

Unsurprised

I’ll take whatever I can get.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’ve said it before, but I highly recommend this biography of Garfield: https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President/dp/0767929713

And if you were looking for the cat, here you go:

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net

litre_cola

“I hate Mondays” Which Garfield is it?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

If you need cheering up, they released the first scene of Rick and Morty’s Season 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IwfHdO36Y

JustStopDude

I just found out I have to go to Khalifa for two weeks of training.

The last time I went, it was for “six weeks” that turned into 10 months.

I struggle to put in words how much I hate the UAE and all it represents.

ballsofsteelandfury

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litre_cola

Geaux Noles?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I had to work today…

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ballsofsteelandfury

Harding died of cerebral hemorrhage caused by heart disease. Also, he had affairs.

I think Melania will be the one found to be having the affairs this time.

ballsofsteelandfury

She just has that, “I’m fucking the pool boy” look about her.

Shogun Marcus

Given her options…CAN YOU BLAME HER?

Kungjitsu

I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Trump had some type of Donald Sterling deal where he doesn’t care who she fucks as long as he doesn’t have to see it.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

His ego would not grasp that with its tiny hands.

ballsofsteelandfury

Now that you mention it, the parallels between Sterling and Trump are pretty extraordinary.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You mean the hair?

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s one of them. Making their money off real estate by engaging in shady business practices is another.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

How much did Sterling get from his daddy? I don’t know enough about him in that respect.

Unsurprised

He was a poor Jew who became an attorney. He then took the profits and invested in southern California real estate.

Unsurprised

Do you mean the racism (both engaged in rampant housing discrimination), or the dementia?

Tbf to Sterling, at least he earned the money that he invested into real estate to become a billionaire. Granted, he was a soulless whore of an attorney, but that only describes like 75% of us.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Trump has had affairs on all three wives. Just with the ones on Melania Stepford, Viagra was involved.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I guess I don’t care if she was a model, but you know the ‘publicans would be on the high horse if this was the wife of an opposition candidate.

ballsofsteelandfury

I don’t either. That she is exactly what the repressed Republicans would be complaining about is part of why I like the fact that she’s the First Lady. Husband aside, of course.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I miss Michelle; she is what I’d want in that position and hated by the right. The whole executive branch is a fucking joke; Melania included.

ballsofsteelandfury

We may see Michelle in four years…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

She has seen what it would take to get there and the shit it takes to get ANYTHING done. I think she doesn’t want to deal with it.

Unsurprised

I hope not.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

When she was in the US illegally? Sure.
Not sure when she started her affair with Trump while he was married Maples. What is your point?

ballsofsteelandfury

My point is she has fake tits.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Kind of a crappy job too; I wonder if that surgeon got the ol’ “YOU’RE FIRED!”

ballsofsteelandfury

Horrible job. If didn’t, he should have.

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Ivanka does too. She’s had a pretty good amount of work done that people seem to not notice.

ballsofsteelandfury

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

As you well know I am a fucking pervert wide, far, and deep…. but that creeps me the fuck out.