38th Weak of Dickish Donald

[sr71plt]

The Republicans can't govern because they opened themselves up to accepting and nurturing factions that are too fundamentally opposed to each other. They can agree on saying "no" to the Democrats on everything. They can't agree to say "yes" to each other on anything. And they bumbled on letting through a party leader and executive branch "partner" who isn't really a Republican at all.

 

[JackLuis]

The Republicans can't govern because they opened themselves up to accepting and nurturing factions that are too fundamentally opposed to each other. They can agree on saying "no" to the Democrats on everything. They can't agree to say "yes" to each other on anything. And they bumbled on letting through a party leader and executive branch "partner" who isn't really a Republican at all.

It could be argued that Trump isn't even a politician, he is only a con man.

 

[sr71plt]

It could be argued that Trump isn't even a politician, he is only a con man.

By definition he's been a politician for decades. He declared for the presidency 18 years ago last Saturday. By definition, he's been a politician ever since.

 

[JackLuis]

Kelly ‘doesn’t love’ his job as Trump’s chief of staff and is ‘fighting’ a lot with the president: report

Donald Trump and Gen. John Kelly, are “fighting a lot,” and the president’s chief of staff—his second in less than nine months in office—“doesn’t love this job,” Vanity Fair reports.

Kelly has been working to rein in the West Wing since July, when he replaced former chief of staff Reince Preibus as Trump’s right hand man. The general has struggled to enforce structural organization in the White House in hopes of limiting who can offer un-vetted advice to a president who prides himself on having hired “the best people” (in addition to Priebus, Trump has also lost two communications directors, a press secretary, a chief strategist, a national security adviser, a Health and Human Services secretary and countless other officials).

But Kelly’s efforts to provide credence to Trump’s claim that his administration is “running like a fine-tuned machine” have angered the notoriously freewheeling president. As Vanity Fair notes, the president was particularly peeved when Kelly reassigned trade adviser Peter Navarro to report to Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn without informing the president.

When he found out, the president was reportedly furious.
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For his part, Kelly appears to be sticking around—at least for now—despite turbulence in the White House.

“He doesn’t love this job,” a person familiar with Kelly’s thinking told Vanity Fair. “He’s doing it as a duty for the country.”

The report comes as Trump on Saturday said Kelly will remain his chief of staff for “seven remaining years” in office.

I'll be amazed if Trump lasts another seven months!

 

[JackLuis]

Here’s the long-awaited notorious audio of Sen. Bob Corker blasting Trump

The New York Times on Monday released audio from an interview with Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), who laid bare his concerns over Donald Trump’s behavior in a remarkable exchange over the weekend.

“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” Corker said of Trump. “Of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.”

“He concerns me,” Corker added. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”

The Tennessee republican went on to call the president out for “doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something” with how he manages the West Wing. He also argued Trump is putting us “on the path to World War III” with his handling of the situation n North Korea.

“A lot of people think that there is some kind of ‘good cop, bad cop’ act underway, but that’s just not true,” Corker said.

“I know he has hurt, in several instances, he’s hurt us as it relates to negotiations that were underway by tweeting things out,” Corker said of Trump’s notorious Twitter habit.

James Clapper sounds the alarm on Trump’s North Korea threats: ‘Can easily be construed as declaration of war’

When are the Rethuglicans going to pull Trump's plug? The man-baby is a menace to world peace, or what remains of the not-war state we are in.

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, just go ahead and shoot him, John, and tell everyone you caught him reaching for the nuclear button. The world will give you a pass. Trust me on this.

 

[JackLuis]

Oh, just go ahead and shoot him, John, and tell everyone you caught him reaching for the nuclear button. The world will give you a pass. Trust me on this.

+1 on this but shoot him twice, John, just for drill.

 

[Hypoxia]

Any argument that it's backfiring would need to be seen in his approval ratings.

Also in the increased ratings and earnings of those media he labels FAKE NEWS. It's like he's shilling for them.

100,000,000 People killed in a Trumpanzy unforced error?

Guy walks into a Georgetown tavern and sees Tromp and Kelly at a table, Kelly with a beer, Tromp with a pink lemonade in his little hand. Guy, stunned, walks over to the table.

"Mr President! General! What are you two doing here? Mind if I sit down."

Tromp waves him down and says, "Me and my whip-cracker here, we're having a discussion about military action against North Korea. He says we're going to kill 70 million Koreans and one beautiful blonde with big tits."

Guy says, "What? Why do you want to kill a blonde with big tits?"

Tromp punches Kelly's shoulder. "See, dummy, I TOLD you nobody would give a shit about 70 million Koreans!"

When are the Rethuglicans going to pull Trump's plug?

When they stop fearing the insanity of his rabid base.

+1 on this but shoot him twice, John, just for drill.

Not a good idea to shoot politicians.

# You might miss. Oops.
# If you hit but don't kill him, he'll only be more trouble.
# If you kill him, his successors will only be more trouble.
# If you hit his body double, you've blown it.
# If you hit an aide or bystander, you're a bad person.
# If the bullet ricochets back and hits you, GAWD has spoken.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/donald-trump-forbes-interview-rex-tillerson/index.html

Trump offers to compare IQ test scores to prove he is smarter than Rex Tillerson.

But that isn't the question. Trump can be a moron and still be more intelligent than Tillerson.

 

[sr71plt]

Trump can forget just flipping out an IQ score. We want the test given by an independent source (not his personal doctor either) with a bipartisan team observing.

 

[jaF0]

The only thing that bugs me about taking King Don(g) out by 25th, arrest or whatever is what the Markets might do. My Federal 401K is doing well and I don't want it to take a hit during a de-Don moment.

 

[sr71plt]

Using the 25th constitutes a political coup, something as yet unknown to the American system--a step beyond the jolt that was the Civil War, where the states just wanted to leave the Union. Yes, the stock market would take a big hit. This would be Bigly.

 

[phrodeau]

Trump can forget just flipping out an IQ score. We want the test given by an independent source (not his personal doctor either) with a bipartisan team observing.

He could release his college trranscripts.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump can forget just flipping out an IQ score. We want the test given by an independent source (not his personal doctor either) with a bipartisan team observing.

Mensa offers to settle Trump-Tillerson feud once and for all — by giving them IQ tests

Mensa International, an exclusive organization open only to people whose IQs are at the 98th percentile or higher, tells The Hill that it would issue IQ tests to both men to settle the dispute once and for all.

“American Mensa would be happy to hold a testing session for President Trump and Secretary Tillerson,” said Mensa spokesman Charles Brown.

Brown also said that Trump could potentially qualify for Mensa membership even if he bombed on his Mensa-issued IQ test, so long as he could provide evidence of exceptional test scores on other tests, including the LSAT, GMAT, and the Miller Analogies Test.

“It’s important to note that our admissions test is not the sole way to qualify for Mensa — there are hundreds of other prior-evidence tests that can qualify a member,” he explained. “And the early success of many presidents no doubt exposed them to those types of qualifying avenues.”

Maybe his business successes would qualify him?

 

[JackLuis]

White House staffers adopt babysitter-style strategy to steer Trump away from bad ideas

Aides to Donald Trump have reportedly adopted a babysitter-style strategy for dealing with the president's bad ideas: Instead of telling him "no," they make an empty promise to come back to it later.

The technique was detailed in a Politico report out Monday, just after Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, tweeted the White House was effectively an "adult day care center." Current and former Trump employees like Barbara Res told Politico they often attempted to forestall the president's proposals and buy some time to talk him out of them.

"You either had to just convince him something better was his idea or ignore what he said to do and hoped he forgot about it the next day," said Res, who was a top executive in Trump's real estate development firm before he became president.
Related: Donald Trump's Approval Rating is Awful Among Young People

The White House is constantly trying to keep Trump calm and carry on, so Monday's report isn't the first to reveal this distraction maneuver. For example, during his campaign, Trump staffers reportedly kept the tycoon from blowing up over negative media coverage by simply showing him other, more favorable stories. The morning former FBI director James Comey was set to testify about his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, aides packed Trump's schedule with meetings to keep him from tweeting.

The toddler-Trump comparisons are nothing new, but they are ramping up because of the recent back-and-forth with Corker. The senator blasted the president in a Times interview this weekend after Trump criticized him for not seeking re-election.

"He concerns me," Corker said. "I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him."

Just don't call Trump a moron.

 

[JackLuis]

Steve Schmidt: Tillerson ‘called Trump a f*cking moron, which is the highest rank of moron achievable’

Republican consultant Steve Schmidt on Tuesday noted that President Donald Trump had achieved the “highest rank of moron” when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson allegedly called him a “f*cking moron.”

While discussing Trump’s recent spat with Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) on MSNBC, Schmidt reminded the panel of guests that Tillerson had reportedly called Trump a “moron.”

“He called him an f’ing moron, which not for nothing, is the highest rank of moron that’s achievable,” Schmidt quipped.

“President Trump loves having the highest rank,” host Stephanie Ruhle noted. “He should feel the most special.”

Schmidt observed that Corker’s concern about a nuclear war with North Korea was far more serious.

“The president is unfit,” he said. “We’re on the edge of a nuclear crisis in North Korea, president of the United States [is] standing with the combatant commanders and loose talk about nuclear war.”

“When you look at the combination of the incompetence and the malfeasance in Puerto Rico, I have very serious doubts about the capacity of this government to evacuate those [250,000] Americans [in South Korea],” Schmidt added. “And what history teaches us is that leaders tend to think they have the ability to control events but, in fact, it’s the events that drive leaders.”

“And so, we have an incompetent president, judged unfit by the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — and by the way, all of the Republican senators behind closed doors acknowledge this.”

Trump is certainly 'special', bless his heart.

 

[jaF0]

That's spelled 'spe-shul.'

 

[JackLuis]

Kelly and Mattis discussed literally tackling Trump in the event he ‘lunges for the nuclear football’: report

New York Magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman on Tuesday reported on a remarkable conversation he had with a senior Republican official, who described conversations Donald Trump’s chief of staff Gen. John Kelly and defense secretary James Mattis have had about “physically [restraining] the president” in the event he “[lunges] for the nuclear football.”

Sherman was discussing the growing concern in the West Wing over Trump’s temperament, particularly as the president continues to escalate feuds with prominent Republicans like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) while simultaneously setting the United States “on the path to World War III.”

“A conversation I had with a very prominent Republican today, who literally was saying that they imagine Gen. Kelly and Secretary Mattis have had conversations that if Trump lunged for the nuclear football, what would they do?” Sherman told NBC’s Chris Hayes. “Would they tackle him? I mean literally, physically restrain him from putting country at perilous risk.”

'Spe-shul' Prezident needs to be restrained from ever touching the football.

 

[phrodeau]

I like to think that Trump would never push the Button unless he could get full live network coverage, advance publicity, and his picture on the cover of TV Guide.

 

[jaF0]

I like to think ...

But 'Rump doesn't.

 

[JackLuis]

Here are 8 deranged moments from Trump’s latest interview that confirm he’s the monster we thought he was

Donald Trump sat down with Forbes magazine this week, and as with all of his interviews, it’s a real doozy. Perhaps the only expectation Trump has ever exceeded is that he’d be the worst president in modern history, and each of these remarks reminds us why. The man is wrong on stats, wrong on facts, incompetent at his job, and just an all-around terrible person.

Here are eight of his more deranged moments, affirming the shallow, petty and ignoble motivations that guide his presidency.

I'll not bother to list them, read the article if you really want to hear how fucking deranged he is.

 

[JackLuis]

Olbermann: Pence’s NFL protest stunt brings Trump’s ‘grift’ on taxpayers to $1.2 billion

Vice President Mike Pence’s flight on Air Force Two from Washington, DC to Indianapolis to attend the 49ers game he left early cost $30,000 an hour. He charged taxpayers “untold thousands” to fly his entourage and Secret Service to the game that then required traffic to be redirected and police to be put on security detail.

All that for a “cheap, transparent, racist, divisive stunt,” Keith Olbermann said on Tuesday, “that Trump later boasted was a stunt.”

“But what does it matter to President Moron?” he asked. “It’s not his money — it’s yours’.”

The stunt cost taxpayers “nearly a quarter of a million dollars,” Olbermann said, “making it one of the smallest negligent, indefensible wastes of taxpayer since this crew from a pirate ship took over the government in January.”

“This partial tally of your money, taken from you” by Trump and his aides is $1,232,943,000 by Olbermann’s estimate.

“Hand it over,” he concluded.

 

[Hypoxia]

I like to think that Trump would never push the Button unless he could get full live network coverage, advance publicity, and his picture on the cover of TV Guide.

Aha, but if he DOES lunge and IS restrained by a General, that's a military coup, right? Is this the only way to save the country and the world? Will it get good media? What will the National Enquirer headline?

 

[Hypoxia]

Olbermann: Pence’s NFL protest stunt brings Trump’s ‘grift’ on taxpayers to $1.2 billion

"He who takes what isn't his'n
Must pay it back or go to prison."
--trad.

 

[sr71plt]

Aha, but if he DOES lunge and IS restrained by a General, that's a military coup, right? Is this the only way to save the country and the world? Will it get good media? What will the National Enquirer headline?

A commentator on TV tonight said we already were in a coup situation--that the secretary of state, secretary of defense, and some White House staffers are pretending they don't hear directives dropped by Trump and that he's forgetting about most of them before anything has to be done.