A day without stupid?

[TV and credit cards]

If he declares a National Emergency, won't he be opening himself up to "Why the fuck did you let 800,000+ people suffer, when you could have pulled this (probably illegal) stunt back in December?"

Probably told to let it play out a little longer to add a degree of legitimacy to it, that is, make sure congress is at an impasse.
I don't see this going to a second pay period (01/25) but please, don't mark my words.

 

[James Brown]

Building a moat around my house will not protect me from identity theft.

Arguing that building a moat around my house is a stupid waste of money is not declaring that identity theft is not a problem.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Building a moat around my house will not protect me from identity theft.

Arguing that building a moat around my house is a stupid waste of money is not declaring that identity theft is not a problem.

A good analogy. Why did it even need to be brought up?!

I can't take this insanity much longer. Mueller find the smoking gun linking Trump to Russia NOW!!!!!

 

[jonatha]

Apropos of nothing, here is an image of a Russian headline: https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1083281686794772480

The name in the headline when converted from Cyrillic is spelled "TRAMP", even though Russian has a U (looks like a Y to Latin readers)...

 

[blastula]

yesterday's helo talk.

Q Mr. President, you walked out on the Democrats. Are you going to bring them back? How can you get a deal if you’re not talking?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, the news incorrectly reported. Because I said, well, if we go back and everything is peachy-dory...

Q Does the buck stop with you over this shutdown?

THE PRESIDENT: The buck stops with everybody.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

yesterday's helo talk.

Q Mr. President, you walked out on the Democrats. Are you going to bring them back? How can you get a deal if you’re not talking?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, the news incorrectly reported. Because I said, well, if we go back and everything is peachy-dory...

Q Does the buck stop with you over this shutdown?

THE PRESIDENT: The buck stops with everybody.

Fry: You don't worry about blank, I'll worry about blank.

 

[Elixir]

yesterday's helo talk.

THE PRESIDENT: The buck stops with everybody.

"Only I can fix it, but EVERYBODY keeps fucking it up."

 

[Loren Pechtel]

At today's shutdown meeting, Trump asked if they were going to give him his Wall.
Pelosi said no.
He said, then we have nothing to discuss, and walked.
Commented 'because nothing else works.'
Um,
1) what else has he tried?
2) what's the indication that a temper tantrum works?

Perhaps his kids used it on him when they was growing up and it worked.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Kevin Hassett, the White House’s chief economic adviser, suggested in an interview on Thursday that the nearly 800,000 federal workers who aren’t getting paid during the ongoing partial government shutdown are “better off” because they’re on an extended vacation.

“A huge share of government workers were going to take vacation days, say, between Christmas and New Year’s,” Hassett said during a “PBS Newshour” interview. “And then we have a shutdown, and so they can’t go to work, and so then they have the vacation, but they don’t have to use their vacation days. And then they come back, and then they get their back pay.”

He continued: “Then they’re, in some sense, they’re better off.”

link

So umm... this is the "chief economic adviser" who apparently doesn't understand the significant difference between a paid and unpaid (at the moment) vacation. Also, the whole stay at home thing for the vacation probably not as great either. These people are so out of touch.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Kevin Hassett, the White House’s chief economic adviser, suggested in an interview on Thursday that the nearly 800,000 federal workers who aren’t getting paid during the ongoing partial government shutdown are “better off” because they’re on an extended vacation.

“A huge share of government workers were going to take vacation days, say, between Christmas and New Year’s,” Hassett said during a “PBS Newshour” interview. “And then we have a shutdown, and so they can’t go to work, and so then they have the vacation, but they don’t have to use their vacation days. And then they come back, and then they get their back pay.”

He continued: “Then they’re, in some sense, they’re better off.”

Ever watch the Smothers Brothers? One night on the show, they started talking about a riverboat song, and Tommy shouted, "Roll the tape!"
Dick asked, "What tape?"
"A tape showing riverboat men dancing as their boat float, you know."
"We don't have a tape like that."
Tom was flabbergasted. Every TV show he'd ever seen, they just shout 'roll the tape,' and this tape starts to roll, with whatever content was necessary. He never imagined that actual work went into creating this wonderful thing.

I imagine this administration lives in the same world as Tom.
We have experts, and the job experts have is to present the facts we want.

This advisor got a phone call, "President wants you to justify the shutdown. Either show how we're saving taxpayer money, or show that the workers are better off."
And he rogered up, "Roll Tape, aye!" And off he went...

 

[ideologyhunter]

Coping with Trump -- the all-purpose response:
Mr. Trump, what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.

 

[ZiprHead]

https://mobile.twitter.com/montrezmusic/status/1080930215092727809

Check out the 30 second mark.

 

[ZiprHead]

Trump Got Caught Posting Photoshopped Pics That Make Him Look Thinner With Big Hands

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Just read about this shiny nugget from our VP.

You think of how he {MLK Jr.} changed America, he inspired us to change through the legislative process, to become a more perfect union. That’s exactly what President Trump is calling on the Congress to do, come to the table in a spirit of good faith.

Because when I think of Trump the politician, the first people I think of are MLK Jr, Ghandi, and Mandela.

 

[ZiprHead]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/absolutely-out-of-control-cliff-simss-book-depicts-life-in-trumps-white-house/2019/01/21/883d2412-1d92-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.fd964fbaca43

WaPo link. Open in incognito window if you hit the paywall.

‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims’s book depicts life in Trump’s White House

The browbeating of the top Republican on Capitol Hill was one of the vivid snapshots of life inside the Trump White House told by one of its original inhabitants, Cliff Sims, in his 384-page tell-all, “Team of Vipers,” which goes on sale next week and was obtained in advance by The Post. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Sims, who enjoyed uncommon personal access to Trump, recounts expletive-filled scenes of chaos, dysfunction and duplicity among the president, his family members and administration officials.

 

[James Brown]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.fd964fbaca43

WaPo link. Open in incognito window if you hit the paywall.

‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims’s book depicts life in Trump’s White House

The browbeating of the top Republican on Capitol Hill was one of the vivid snapshots of life inside the Trump White House told by one of its original inhabitants, Cliff Sims, in his 384-page tell-all, “Team of Vipers,” which goes on sale next week and was obtained in advance by The Post. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Sims, who enjoyed uncommon personal access to Trump, recounts expletive-filled scenes of chaos, dysfunction and duplicity among the president, his family members and administration officials.

Sounds like a duplicate of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury. What will be different about this one?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.fd964fbaca43

WaPo link. Open in incognito window if you hit the paywall.

‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims’s book depicts life in Trump’s White House

The browbeating of the top Republican on Capitol Hill was one of the vivid snapshots of life inside the Trump White House told by one of its original inhabitants, Cliff Sims, in his 384-page tell-all, “Team of Vipers,” which goes on sale next week and was obtained in advance by The Post. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Sims, who enjoyed uncommon personal access to Trump, recounts expletive-filled scenes of chaos, dysfunction and duplicity among the president, his family members and administration officials.

Sounds like a duplicate of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury. What will be different about this one?

From what I read elsewhere, the author is a complete prick, he doesn't tell us what we didn't already know, and the publisher fucked up paying him for this.

 

[starwater]

Sounds like a duplicate of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury. What will be different about this one?

From what I read elsewhere, the author is a complete prick, he doesn't tell us what we didn't already know, and the publisher fucked up paying him for this.

Well, he would have to be a complete prick to work for the orange menace. Also the WaPo quotes that there was a meeting in the Oval and Trump got pissed or bored and walked out of the room and turned on the TV. This is our President. A child who has to watch TV all day.

 

[funinspace]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.fd964fbaca43

WaPo link. Open in incognito window if you hit the paywall.

‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims’s book depicts life in Trump’s White House

The browbeating of the top Republican on Capitol Hill was one of the vivid snapshots of life inside the Trump White House told by one of its original inhabitants, Cliff Sims, in his 384-page tell-all, “Team of Vipers,” which goes on sale next week and was obtained in advance by The Post. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Sims, who enjoyed uncommon personal access to Trump, recounts expletive-filled scenes of chaos, dysfunction and duplicity among the president, his family members and administration officials.

Sounds like a duplicate of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury. What will be different about this one?

The difference is that a guy named Sims's hopes to cash into some easy money instead of Wolff...

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Isn't there some GOP hack somewhere in the White House who can write an explosive, tell-all book about how calm and competent Trump is as he's playing 3-D chess with the rest of the world while working with a staff of 12th Level Intellects to secure a new American golden age?

You know, just as a change?