Wednesday Donald Chump

[miniroller]

10 of the Most Questionable Things for which Trump’s Taken Credit
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/01/02/politics/donald-trump-took-credit-for-what/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

[secretlyevil]

Crackers-in-chief needs to be institutionalized. His mental health has gone from questionable to downright legit lunacy.

[calamity]

Just started my day arguing with a coworker over Trump. He said Trump has done more for this economy than that Obama (the Muslim) did in 8 years. After I told him how absolutely asinine that was I told him to get out of my office.

Jesus, take the wheel. I can't stand the stupid. I'm putting on my headphones for the rest of the day.

[miniroller]

Trump made the clearly outrageous nuclear button tweet on purpose. He's desensitizing the nation so that we tolerate more and more of his outrageous behavior. Soon it'll be so ordinary when he curtails our fundamental freedoms and rights.

Never underestimate a dictator.

[miniroller]

The Ten Must-Watch Candidates in 2018
www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/01/01/2018-must-watch-candidates-trump-referendum-319629?__twitter_impression=true

[ECB]

Jan 3, 2018 8:33:04 GMT -5 calamity said:

Just started my day arguing with a coworker over Trump. He said Trump has done more for this economy than that Obama (the Muslim) did in 8 years. After I told him how absolutely asinine that was I told him to get out of my office.

Jesus, take the wheel. I can't stand the stupid. I'm putting on my headphones for the rest of the day.

trump supporters are idiots through and through.

[miniroller]

Rep. Jim Himes: "As everybody who’s ever been in a, you know, first grade playground recognizes, it’s usually the person who’s most aggressively pounding their chest that is in fact the weak one on the playground.”

[5thofjuly]

Jan 3, 2018 9:04:04 GMT -5 miniroller said:

Trump made the clearly outrageous nuclear button tweet on purpose. He's desensitizing the nation so that we tolerate more and more of his outrageous behavior. Soon it'll be so ordinary when he curtails our fundamental freedoms and rights.

Never underestimate a dictator.

See, I don’t buy this premise. This implies Trump is some great political strategist. I just don’t believe that. I think the man only operates from his lizard brain (you lash out at me, I lash out twice as hard.) Ultimately, it may not matter because the outcome may be the same, but Trump can’t be both the demented old fool and a conniving evil genius.

[Deleted]

Jan 3, 2018 8:33:04 GMT -5 calamity said:

Just started my day arguing with a coworker over Trump. He said Trump has done more for this economy than that Obama (the Muslim) did in 8 years. After I told him how absolutely asinine that was I told him to get out of my office.

Jesus, take the wheel. I can't stand the stupid. I'm putting on my headphones for the rest of the day.

I haven't met a single Trump supporter who can actually discuss anything about the economy. I always like to ask them for examples so I can watch them mumble and get pissed off.

They just regurgitate the same shit everyday. I have no idea how people go through life watching Fox News and then pretend they know something about anything. You could actually have a conversation with a Trump supporter and all of their responses are like a Fox News highlight reel, half truths and small words. They're one step away from "see dog run". Just like their leader.

[andwhat]

Bannon calls Trump Tower meeting with Russians "treasonous" WTF is happening here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

[t]

Makes more sense written this way:

[miniroller]

Jan 3, 2018 9:14:08 GMT -5 5thofjuly said:

Jan 3, 2018 9:04:04 GMT -5 miniroller said:

Trump made the clearly outrageous nuclear button tweet on purpose. He's desensitizing the nation so that we tolerate more and more of his outrageous behavior. Soon it'll be so ordinary when he curtails our fundamental freedoms and rights.

Never underestimate a dictator.

See, I don’t buy this premise. This implies Trump is some great political strategist. I just don’t believe that. I think the man only operates from his lizard brain (you lash out at me, I lash out twice as hard.) Ultimately, it may not matter because the outcome may be the same, but Trump can’t be both the demented old fool and a conniving evil genius.

I kind of vacillate between the two (main) theories. I agree he is a DumDum, literally, and is, therefore, a selfish, evil, self-absorbed blow-hard acting as leader of our country. Nonetheless, I do think he has certain whisperers around him who constantly encourage/ exploit! the autocratic tendencies that exist at his core.

Basically- I’m not at all giving him the credit of having the ability to put more than one level of hate-thought toward his tweets. I just think it’s possible he’s been conditioned to follow the rhetoric path of a dictator (if that makes sense?).

[miniroller]

Um, this should really help the ridiculous gerrymandering problem😧
Trump’s Pick to Run 2020 Census Has Defended Racial Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression Laws
www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/trumps-pick-to-run-2020-census-has-defended-racial-gerrymandering-and-voter-suppression-laws/
WTAF?!? Is there anything anyone (we) can do?! (Yes, I added it to my list for my weekly calls, but by this point, I feel like everyone’s getting sick of me/ barely listening/ recording 🙁)

[bowies]

Jan 3, 2018 9:28:23 GMT -5 andwhat said:

Bannon calls Trump Tower meeting with Russians "treasonous" WTF is happening here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

Lol, I figured he’d be one of the first rats to abandon ship.

[turnipthebeet]

Personally I don’t think trump wrote that tweet. It’s more coherent, with some capitalization curveballs thrown in to make it seem more realistic.

[Deleted]

Jan 3, 2018 9:31:01 GMT -5 t said:

Makes more sense written this way:

Surely someone already took away his nuclear button and replaced it with a Staples easy button. He would never know the difference.

[pixy0stix]

Jan 3, 2018 9:28:23 GMT -5 andwhat said:

Bannon calls Trump Tower meeting with Russians "treasonous" WTF is happening here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

Bannon doesn't like the Trump kids or anyone else involved with the meeting. He's hoping the meeting takes down the people there, and leaves him with more control over Trump.

[bugandbibs]

Jan 3, 2018 9:28:23 GMT -5 andwhat said:

Bannon calls Trump Tower meeting with Russians "treasonous" WTF is happening here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

I first read this as Barron and was really WTF until I clicked the link.

[miniroller]

Daily Kos: Instability-in-Chief
m.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/5/1606096/-Instability-in-Chief

I’ve read an article of this writer’s before (maybe it was posted here?). It seemed pretty relevant to our discussion.
TOO BAD IT DOESN’T MATTER w/ R’s IN CHARGE!!!😡

[miniroller]

I know we’ve previously discussed but it’s certainly becoming more pertinent:

Does "increasing the risk of nuclear war" violate the Twitter terms of service?

[carmenere]

Jan 3, 2018 8:33:04 GMT -5 calamity said:

Just started my day arguing with a coworker over Trump. He said Trump has done more for this economy than that Obama (the Muslim) did in 8 years. After I told him how absolutely asinine that was I told him to get out of my office.

Jesus, take the wheel. I can't stand the stupid. I'm putting on my headphones for the rest of the day.

This makes me so thankful that all the coworkers I regularly interact with are sane and progressive-leaning. Although there is one lady in a department I rarely work with, who I've only had one personal conversation with, and it that conversation she railed about refugees coming into the US - and her husband came here as a refugee. But he's white so it's different I guess.

miniroller happy to see Stacey Abrams is #1 on the list. I'm so excited for her!

[sushi]

Jan 3, 2018 10:02:23 GMT -5 miniroller said:

I know we’ve previously discussed but it’s certainly becoming more pertinent:

Does "increasing the risk of nuclear war" violate the Twitter terms of service?

This was my exact thought yesterday when I read about sheriff asshole being shut down in Twitter for threatening to punch someone. So a pinch violates tos but threatening nuclear holocaust isn't? Stfu, Twitter.

[miniroller]

GREAT article (from TWO years ago!) going along with the theme of the morning:
“This French philosopher is the only one who can explain the Donald Trump phenomenon”
thinkprogress.org/this-french-philosopher-is-the-only-one-who-can-explain-the-donald-trump-phenomenon-47afad40647c/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[Champagne Supernova]

It's really baffling to see Trump supporters read his tweets and be all "That's MY president!" It's...a phenomenon? They're such fucking imbeciles and wastes of space.

[aurora]

Jan 3, 2018 9:28:23 GMT -5 andwhat said:

Bannon calls Trump Tower meeting with Russians "treasonous" WTF is happening here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

Another step in Bannon's attempt to blow everything up?

[aurora]

Apparently Louise Mensch has come after Walter Schaub:

The second weirdest thing I’ve seen on Twitter is creepy Louise Mensch’s tweet fabricating a bizarre story that I’m part of some secret scheme to make Trump rich and called for the FBI to look into it. I’d pay good money for a can of Mensch-Be-Gone to spray on my account. 1/

[miniroller]

Sheriff David Clarke's Twitter account temporarily suspended for threats of violence against media hill.cm/kMn3LVX

[cous0226]

Jan 3, 2018 9:28:23 GMT -5 andwhat said:

Bannon calls Trump Tower meeting with Russians "treasonous" WTF is happening here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

I’m really confused by this and at first thought am thinking it’s calculated in some way but have no idea. Is Bannon like a few steps ahead by doing this to obtain a greater good whatever that may be. I don’t 100% beleive he is turning.

[jeaniebueller]

Jan 3, 2018 10:02:23 GMT -5 miniroller said:

I know we’ve previously discussed but it’s certainly becoming more pertinent:

Does "increasing the risk of nuclear war" violate the Twitter terms of service?

We live in the worst timeline

[sparrowsong]

I believe mainly in the lizard brain theory, as mentioned above. I think trump acts instinctually and not intelligently. But I do think it’s a pattern of behavior he has operated in his entire life, as a spoiled rich person and a scared angry bully.