Time Waster in Chief
Matt Ford hit the nail on the head this week in a piece published by New Republic. Titled “Trump’s Tax on the National Psyche“, Ford talks about how Trump not only is an incredible time waster himself, he’s also wasting the time of all Americans with his outrageous behavior, Tweetstorms, and pernicious lying. Rather than taking care of the People’s business, Trump wastes much of his day in “executive time” watching Fox News, tweeting, and talking to his pals. He runs the government like his cheesy reality television shows intentionally keeping the public and the media in knots by issuing a continuous stream of idiotic declarations-by-tweet rambling everywhere from buying Greenland to attacking members of Congress who happen to have the wrong skin color in his opinion. The press has been reduced to trying to get some semblance of policy during his Chopper Talk sessions where he stands before a forest of microphones screaming bullshit over the screaming of his helicopter’s engines. It’s ridiculous.
It’s exhausting and draining. Even the people who support him are surely exhausted having to defend their hero’s criminality and corruption, and I believe it will take years to recover from this infestation of the WH, if we ever can. Ford does a good job with his analysis and his piece is worth a read.
I’ve seen several commentaries that say it will be a generation after Trump is gone for the office of President to recover.
1TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT in 2020
“executioner time”
After Handing Rich $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut, Trump Reportedly Considering Slashing Medicare and Social Security as ‘Second-Term Project’
“Mr. Trump, you are not going to have a second term,” tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders in response to the president’s reported plan
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/23/after-handing-rich-15-trillion-tax-cut-trump-reportedly-considering-slashing
2One small correction. That helicopter is our helicopter, not the gropey grifter’s.
3Grandma Ada, I think “a generation” may be optimistic.
4All [mostly] carefully planned ‘smoke and mirrors’ designed to distract and divert the rabbit-like media/press, and bamboozle 50.1% of the ‘Murikan masses.
5Meanwhile, behind the smokescreen, the minions, handlers, movers, puppetmasters go about their business: dismantling, destroying, looting, corrupting 250 years of societal and scientific progress and advancement.
In short, all the bull is a feature, not a bug.
And yes, it will take years of reconstruction to get back to where we were: like, but far worse, than with Cheney-Bush.
And many Dems still think these smart, devious enemies are fools and buffoons. Even our recent Dem ‘leaders’ fell for it. Some still are falling for it [listening Joe?].
ITMFN!
EMPEROR NERO GOES COMPLETELY INSANE! Wants companies to jump off the cliff with him… Companies first!
President calls for US boycott after Jerome Powell warned central bank faces ‘new challenge’ ‘with Trump’s seesaw trade policies
Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
….your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,….
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/23/fed-chair-jerome-powell-trump-trade-policies-new-challenge
6Predictable effects, the US and global markets are cratering, yet again.
So much winning… Trump, Larry [Mr. 100%rong] Kudlow, Navarro, what could possibly go wrong?
DJIA is nearing -600 points/2.5% down; other indices similar, oil falling $2/bbl/-3% down, gold climbing like crazy, +2%.
https://www.morningstar.com/markets
7‘I hereby order’: Internet drowns Trump in mockery over his unhinged China meltdown
https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/i-hereby-order-internet-drowns-trump-in-mockery-over-his-unhinged-china-meltdown/
George Conway
@gtconway3d
I hereby order the White House staff to take @realDonaldTrump to Walter Reed, and to convene the cabinet under Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.#Iherebyorder
Terry Dresbach
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Replying to @gtconway3d
I hereby order that we all time travel back to November 2016, knowing what we know.#Iherebyorder
Smitty D
@smittyd060
I hereby order you to get off my lawn.#iherebyorder
Orange Leader
@OrangeLeaderUSA
Replying to @gtconway3d
“I hereby order all the Filet-O-Fish in town.”#Iherebyorder
Kurt Eichenwald
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@kurteichenwald
#Iherebyorder @POTUS, @DonaldJTrumpJr @EricTrump @IvankaTrump and the Trump Organization to immediately STOP doing business with China. Perhaps before ordering everyone else to do it.
Shelly
8@TexHellCat
#IHereByOrder all toilet paper be hung in the correct position.
From Adam Schiff: “As long as we are claiming constitutional powers we don’t have, I hereby order the President to stop tweeting.”
9Well, yes–Trump is the nation’s Time-Waster-In-Chief. But considering that he is both mindless and malicious, and is extremely vulnerable to flattery, I’d much rather that he waste his time, and ours, than spend even more time destroying the country at the behest of his “friends.”
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