Idiocracy

[hockeyfan1]

Pretty scathing assessment in the UK papers tomorrow 

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/30/observer-view-of-donald-trump-unifit-for-office

The article seems spot on.  What better way to describe it.  Sadly.

 

[herman]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/us/politics/anthony-scaramucci-white-house.html

President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president?s senior staff.

[...]

The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci, who had boasted about reporting directly to the president, not the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, came at Mr. Kelly?s request, the people said. Mr. Kelly made clear to members of the White House staff at a meeting Monday morning that he is in charge.

Oh man, this is gold.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://thinkprogress.org/scaramucci-out-as-white-house-communications-director-after-10-surreal-days-fed3f3ccb493

Then, over the weekend, the New York Post broke news that Scaramucci?s wife demanded a divorce from him earlier this month, shortly before she gave birth to their child, in part because of her frustrations about Scaramucci taking a job working from Trump.

Scaramucci reportedly missed the birth of his child to attend the Boy Scout Jamboree with Trump. He sent his wife a congratulatory text.

Haha.

 

[Arn]

He clearly wasn't willing to do the Fandango

 

[herman]

 

[Arn]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/politics/those-calls-to-trump-white-house-admits-they-didnt-happen.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, confirmed at her daily briefing what the Boy Scouts and the Mexican government had already asserted publicly, which is that neither phone call that Mr. Trump referred to had occurred.

Just goes to show, if you lie with confidence you'll probably get away with it

 

[Kin]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/politics/those-calls-to-trump-white-house-admits-they-didnt-happen.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, confirmed at her daily briefing what the Boy Scouts and the Mexican government had already asserted publicly, which is that neither phone call that Mr. Trump referred to had occurred.

Just goes to show, if you lie with confidence you'll probably get away with it

This bit in particular is incredible:

?I wouldn?t say it was a lie ? that?s a pretty bold accusation,? Ms. Sanders said. ?The conversations took place, they just simply didn?t take place over a phone call, they happened in person.?

So Trump says a couple of phone calls were made, they weren't but somehow that's not a lie? How do these people look at themselves in the mirror?

 

[Arn]

Presumably because no matter what they do they seem to keep getting away with it, no matter how outrageous.

 

[Bender]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/politics/those-calls-to-trump-white-house-admits-they-didnt-happen.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, confirmed at her daily briefing what the Boy Scouts and the Mexican government had already asserted publicly, which is that neither phone call that Mr. Trump referred to had occurred.

Just goes to show, if you lie with confidence you'll probably get away with it

This bit in particular is incredible:

?I wouldn?t say it was a lie ? that?s a pretty bold accusation,? Ms. Sanders said. ?The conversations took place, they just simply didn?t take place over a phone call, they happened in person.?

So Trump says a couple of phone calls were made, they weren't but somehow that's not a lie? How do these people look at themselves in the mirror?

They also likely didn't happen in person but there's no corroborating evidence. I love how America spun so far against basic reasoning that any extraordinary claim doesn't really need to be backed up with ANY evidence, let alone the extraordinary kind.

 

[bustaheims]

So Trump says a couple of phone calls were made, they weren't but somehow that's not a lie? How do these people look at themselves in the mirror?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn_PSJsl0LQ

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/893206561316909056
www.twitter.com/sethabramson/status/893206561316909056

I've learned so much about the US electoral, congressional, and judiciary systems in the past 7 months.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/895003246372294657

Come on, just let the Leafs win a Cup first ok...

 

[bustaheims]

Well, it was a nice planet we had once . . .

At least nuclear winter could mean hockey all year, and in every country . . .

 

[Bullfrog]

Where did Trump say this?  :'(

 

[Arn]

Where did Trump say this?  :'(

https://twitter.com/abc/status/895006061198848000

I suppose climate change doesn't matter when you instantaneously heat the planet with masses of nuclear explosions

 

[Bullfrog]

"The US should (remember), however, that once there observed a sign of action for 'preventive war' from the US, the army of the DPRK will turn the US mainland into the theater of a nuclear war before the inviolable land of the DPRK turns into the one,"

 

[herman]

Sounds like someone got a bit excited watching GoT.

 

[Arn]

Looking forward to Angela Merkel flying in on her dragons to sort it all out

 

[cabber24]

'they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.'

He knows nukes have been used in the past right? What's bigger, 2 nukes? Kim's tunnel vision combined with Trumps stupidity is scary. We're the one's that are going to need a wall soon or maybe just a privacy fence.

 

[Kin]

'they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.'

He knows nukes have been used in the past right? What's bigger, 2 nukes?

Actually just about any modern nuclear weapon would be significantly larger than the ones dropped on Japan.