The Trump Presidency

[Tom_Mazanec]

I didn't know whether to put this in humor or this thread, but it is all true (although told in a snarky style) so here it goes:

5 Ways Trump Is, Unfortunately, A Genius
https://www.cracked.com/article_26858_5-ways-trump-is-unfortunately-genius.html

As the 2020 presidential election marches ever closer, the flood of daily Trump news we have to deal with will escalate into a tsunami. To help keep everyone's heads above the waves, we need to refresh ourselves on the same obnoxious tricks he's been pulling since 2016. Trump isn't exactly a master manipulator -- he's shot himself in the foot a few too many dozen times for that -- but he has a raw understanding of power that produces endless, exhausting distractions everyone still falls for.

[blumenkraft]

FWIW i want to note that this has changed in the last couple of weeks. He is no more narrating the public debate. The impeachment hearings and the Dems now do.

I tend to hope they broke the cycle.

[blumenkraft]

Trump wonders why the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage wasn’t celebrated 'a long time ago'

The POTUS is as dumb stupid as bread.

[Tom_Mazanec]

Trump wonders why the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage wasn’t celebrated 'a long time ago'

The POTUS is as dumb as bread.

You mean stupid as bread. I knew a deaf and dumb woman and she was pretty smart.

[blumenkraft]

English is hard.

Thanks, Tom!

[vox_mundi]

Other colloquialisms appropriate to the occasion ...

Dumber than dirt

As fucked-up as a football bat

[Tom_Mazanec]

alliteration is probably helping those two, vox_mundi.

[Florifulgurator]

This is not a joke. I thought this must be a hoax or something. This can't be real, right? Well, the POTUS is really that stupid. -.-

Link >> https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-reads-his-sondland-hearing-notes-to-press-underscores-i-want-no-quid-pro-quo-73756229686

Where did he get the Latin from?
Wasn't it clear back then, during the hearing, that Trump knew he got caught?
Meanwhile the NY Times sensationally titles:
Trump Knew of Whistle-Blower Complaint When He Released Aid to Ukraine
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/us/politics/trump-whistle-blower-complaint-ukraine.html

[sidd]

Engelhardt begins to understand: Trump presidency as as media production

"since 2016, Donald Trump has been covered in our ever-shrinking yet ever-expanding media universe like no other individual in history from Nebuchadnezzar’s moment to our own."

"He fills the screen. Every screen. All the time."

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176634/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_which_hunt_who_knows_which_witch/

Engelhardt is a sharp observer bu it took him a while to get here.

sidd

[blumenkraft]

Trump being a fucking reality-TV host didn't tip him off?

Sure about the sharp observer thingy, Sidd?

[sidd]

Actually, yes. We are all sharp at some things, dull at others. Tomdispatch is a site i watch.

sidd