*Almost* Sad
I am pretty much convinced that Trump’s people put him on drugs so he’d sleep instead of Tweet and quit making a disaster of himself several times a day.
Now he’s making a disaster of himself in. slow. motion.
If you haven’t read his interview with the Associated Press, please do. Put down your coffee cup first because it’s gonna make you shake.
And then, to add a veil of *almost* sadness, President Barack Obama returned to public life today and spoke in full sentences.
By the way, the Washington Post just put up the interview with annotations.
(unintelligible)…(unintelligible)…(unintelligible)
That’s not just an interview, that sums up Trump’s first 100 days as well.
1“San Antonio mayor blames poverty on ‘broken people’ who aren’t ‘in a relationship with their creator’ ”
So speaks a nominal texas D to the christian ( bigot ) coalition
2And one wonders why no one takes texas D’s seriously, or christians for that matter.
By the way don’t forget Wendy Davis’s full throated support of wearons of mass murder during her race.
Just proves this isn’t a bug for texas d’s but a feature.
So between real r’s and fake d’s who is one to choose?
Wow, I had to stop reading that. Talk about ADD with a big dash of dementia
3The crazy is strong in that man.
4My mom has progressive aphasia/dementia. (She’s 96) First she forgot some words, then more words and now when she doesn’t want forgotten words to slow down her story she either uses one not so appropriate or uses (unintelligible). I could so hear her in parts of that transcript.
5If only Donnie were a dog; not that he is deserving of such a high station in life, but at least Jared and Ivanka could have him put down humanely.
History books have noted that Nixon was paranoid and Reagan had advanced Alzheimer disease. But dat guy Donnie? He’s the entire alphabet soup listed in the DSM 5 complete with white male privilege and a heavy dose of spoiled brat. He’s terminal.
6I read this interview, took off my glasses and they broke! Really…my goodness so many things to say do not know where to begin.
7Yall have described Orange Whore’s bizarre interview pretty well. Narcissism, delusionality and all the rest can be summed up thusly:
Nucking futz.
8and here’s Andy:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obamas-barrage-of-complete-sentences-seen-as-brutal-attack-on-trump?mbid=nl_042417%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20(1)&CNDID=25054969&spMailingID=10882513&spUserID=MTMzMTgyNjMwMjAzS0&spJobID=1141906009&spReportId=MTE0MTkwNjAwOQS2
9Go to Washington Post and read the annotated version of that AP interview. Better have a drink first though. Or drugs.
10Cheryl, we love satire and Borowitz is King! But with Donnie, it’s all TOO true. Duck & cover! A twitter storm is imminent from the should be occupant of a rubber room.
Bets anyone? Really. Will the snacilbupeR in Congress allow him to shit in the Oval office until day 100?
11Those 3 AM Tweets were a dead give away of somebody with a really, really serious sleep disorder. An SO can put a real dent indoor mental health. Add to that oncoming dementia and various personality disorders. I hate to say it but no matter what the staff and the family try, he is still going to be caught in his birthday suit walking down Pennsylvania Avenue after dark on his way to the Trump Hotel for whatever strikes his blighted fancy.
12@Jan-I’ve pretty much found that both are necessary for the degree of oblivion this administration requires.
13The contrast between Obama and what we’re stuck with now just about made me rend my garment.
14So with the background of the semi-current White House neversident coming up on a yuuuge non-milepost-milepost 100 day mark, the gubmint possibly reaching fiscal meltdown the day after that, not one Repukian legislative accomplishment to show, and the Dumpsters now actually bragging about the record-setting number of friggin Executive Orders(!?) signed by the Cretin-in-Chief, Herr Donnei calls all the 100 US Senators over for a meeting.
15What are the odds that the world’s two flakiest ‘Dear Leaders’ are going to blindly incinerate the Korean Peninsula for a nice start on a WWIII weenie roast?
@2 John,
San Antonio mayor Ms. Ivy Taylor has been an obvious kristofundie forever, and it’s just also matter of time until some city funds financial shenanigans turn up.
Just ‘coincidentally’, she has recently helped steer San Antonio into it’s largest municipal bond approval election ever (close to $1Billion, after some recent hundred$ of million$ one$).
I’ve suspected that she might be a ‘Rev.’ John Hagee devotee, Hagee CEO’s one of the bigger mega-churches around anywhere; with his extended family, and their very extensive biz interests in SA and elsewhere. Gol’llee, there’s some other dude that’s doing something like that…forgot his name though…
(If you ever see Taylor on TV, you’ll notice that she always wears a large, diamond encrusted xtian cross necklace. I notice it because I bought my ex one just like it about thirty-five years ago, and it was PF expensive even back then [only because it was strongly ‘hinted’ that it was an expected b’day gift; y’all know how that works…].)
16FYI:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/24/1655923/-Texas-mayor-tells-audience-that-poverty-is-due-to-not-being-in-a-relationship-with-their-Creator
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/24/1655941/-San-Antonio-Mayor-Atheism-Causes-Poverty
17It only took me a couple of paragraphs to realize that Trump literally has no idea how contracts with the federal government work. If he really called up Boeing to set up a bidding war with Lockheed Martin, then Lockheed’s lawyers and accountants would be putting the finishing touches on the bill for billions in penalties owed to them. Plus the program would be delayed by another 15-20 years while Boeing develops the X-32 to a production ready platform. Defense contractors are a little different from gravel suppliers.
Also, I’m not a fan of GEN Mattis, but he deserves better than being cast as the love interest in this particular melodrama. Yes, saving $600,000 million is a good thing, which is why the effort was done. It is, however a little overshadowed by the $19.2 billion savings seen in the DoD’s 2nd largest procurement program – the VIRGINIA Class submarine. If Mattis really did say “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life” it would be the semantic equivalent to “You are so big” and “Do you work out?”
And going off topic for a bit – Thank you to everyone who suggested places to see in the Austin – San Antonio area. We saw Adam Savage at the Moody theater and the bats under the Congress Ave. Bridge. We found the basement at the Alamo and spent a morning at the New Braunfels Farmers Market, eating chili and listening to swing music and waching Belle walk down the street from the windows of a 120 year old hardware store. My oldest and I caught selections from Creature From the Black Lagoon at Dick’s Classic Car Museum in San Marcos. We ate Black’s Barbecue and Rita’s on the River, and Amy’s Ice Cream; Smash burger and Trudy’s Texas Star, and one last meal at Bush’s Chicken in Gatesville before we dropped Kathryn off in Fort Hood and headed home. And made sure that every TSA officer in two airports knows my younger son’s name because he took off running from the security line towards the “do not pass” signs on two separate occasions.
She’s somewhere in Kuwait right now, while I grit my teeth and tell everyone who asks that she is perfectly safe because “they won’t let medical officers get in harm’s way”. And I hope like hell that the first part of that sentence is true, because I know the second is a lie.
18On set dementia. It is so sneaky and everyone is covering.
19Here’s one more vote for dementia. Cockwomble is loony toons in addition. Read the AP interview and had to take aspirin. Still have the headache. The danger traitor trump presents they to the entire world is enormous. Too bad the rethugs are not going to honor the oaths of office they swore. Their greed and selfishness is paramount. Perhaps when, as Maggie suggests, he wanders nude (horrid thought) down Penn Ave, the rethugs will do something.
20Sharon @3 I had to stop reading as well. With all the “like” and “you know” it was like listening to a teenage girl try to explain what “happened” to the car. After she is done we have heard the life stories of 8 friends 3 teachers and 4 pop stars and still don’t know what happened to the dang car.
21@Sandridge, the idea that you need a PF expensive diamond-encrusted cross so you can flash around how Christian you are seems diametrically opposed to everything Jesus said is important. Same goes for the gazillion dollar megachurches and all their flash and bling. If somebody comes up with a good thing, trust the masses to make a mess of it.
Trump is an dangerous embarrassment. I’m trying, but failing, to not be pessimistic about the future of this country.
22Could get sadder for Drumpf-Sally Yates to testify on May 8th. Get the popcorn or liquor or both ready to rumble.
23If he’s on drugs, he needs more. Lots more.
24@ treehugger,
Just to be sure, didn’t want to imply my ex was a fundie, back then anything but ;] ; gone a little religio as she gets older now (I’ve been an agnostic+- since the middle of a 14 year Catholic edumacation). Don’t know why someone raised on the border, quite poor, would want bling like that (and lots more) either; and has spent more than $3.5K on gift purses too (!- a ‘name brand’ purse). Not me, pure form and function, frugal as possible…except for the boat of course (frugal there too, but it is a B.O.A.T.).
As far as “pessimistic”, couldn’t be more so.
25And now Obama is back talking around, the SOB coulda/mighta prevented this national clusterfock if he had put the rightfully expected effort into building up the Democratic Party back when it would have done some good (as it’s former de facto head).
Instead, with the initial 2008 appearance of the Rethugs melting down and doing a ‘Whig thing’, they made a yuuuge resurgence and the Democrats got slaughtered in 2010, 2012, 2014, and to the max in 2016.
Yeah, pessimistic and PISSED…
So the Kristian God is all about money?
That’s sad. And yucky.
Prosperity Gospel worships Mammon. I’m not a Christian, but here’s a Christian response:
26https://www.gotquestions.org/prosperity-gospel.html
Yeah, that whole prosperity gospel thing is just a cult that uses religion as an excuse to be greedy, cruel SOBs.
Arakasi, I’ve got my fingers, toes, legs, arms and eyes crossed for your daughter’s safety.
Cheryl, the Borowitz piece in the New Yorker is wonderful. Thanks so much for the link.
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