Trump 25: Stephen King’s Next Horror Story

[GreyhoundFan]

34 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

Or physical health. My constant state of anxiety can't be doing my over all health any good. I already have high blood pressure and a rapid heartbeat this is just making it worse.  Last night I had to take some ativan after reading an article about neo-Nazis 

Please take care of yourself. I have also been suffering from outrage fatigue and my blood pressure went up. I've been working to get it back in check. Part of it is I don't want to give the TT and BTs power over me.

[Howl]

4 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

I am partial to "toupeed f*cktrumpet"

I think I'll go with "witless fucking cocksplat"!

[47of74]

I see Preet Bhara called man baby Jan Brady after said man baby's latest tweet storm;

Personally I think it's insulting to Jan Brady to compare her to the orange dotard.

 

[GrumpyGran]

9 hours ago, Howl said:

And yes, if Pence threw his hat in the ring, he could end up as the Republican candidate. 

I will, if I may add an addendum to my admired friend @Howl's post here for you @Londish, to clarify. Usually, the incumbent president is expected to be re-nominated at the convention. Lyndon Johnson declined to run for re-election so in 1968 it was an open convention with no incumbent so it resembled the other party's convention, not so much a coronation as an election of the party's choice.

The difference now is that Trump is so unpopular not only with the opposition party but within his own party, as it were, that it is possible that his party, the Republicans will use the election as a way to oust him. Some, me included, think that Mike Pence will let others criminalize Trump and then move in to try to take power to advance his own agenda, which is quite different than Trump's.

Ultimately the system, with state pre-election caucuses and primaries will determine how the delegates will vote at the party convention in 2020. Whether Trump will prevail through that remains to be seen. If he survives Mueller.

[TeddyBonkers]

What really happened with "Time Magazine":

Spoiler

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[AmazonGrace]

Apart from the attack on news media and the promotion of Fox Pravda, note how the pathetic needy orange twatwaffle makes an important clarification:  "your favorite president (me)" 

 

 

[GrumpyGran]

1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

Apart from the attack on news media and the promotion of Fox Pravda, note how the pathetic needy orange twatwaffle makes an important clarification:  "your favorite president (me)" 

 

 

Well, the week has started. As someone in the twitter thread said, thank goodness he told us who our favorite president is. Might have thought it was any other president we've had. What a pathetic loser.

[47of74]

What could possibly go wrong here?

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Given this history, many reacted with alarm when a photo emerged of a mistletoe being hung in the Trump White House as part of this year’s holiday decorations.

CNN White House reporter Kate Bennett originally posted a photo of the newly hung mistletoe on Twitter, and it generated a quick response from Twitter users who cringed at the thought of Trump using the decoration as an excuse to kiss female White House staff members.

Yeah me too.

 

[GrumpyGran]

29 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

What could possibly go wrong here?

Yeah me too.

 

OMG, at first I thought so what but then I went to the article and saw the picture. In every doorway? These people are unbelievable. That is so insensitive and stupid.

[JMarie]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/27/politics/access-hollywood-nyt-denial/index.html

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President Donald Trump has questioned the authenticity of the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape in which he bragged about being able to grope women, The New York Times reported over the weekend, despite the fact that Trump immediately apologized for his remarks when the video surfaced.

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During the election, several women accused Trump of previous instances of sexual harassment and the 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape of Trump released in October 2016 caught him saying on a hot mic: "And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the p****. You can do anything."

Trump's reported denials mentioned in the New York Times directly contradict his apology following the tape's release.

He said in a short video statement hours after the video surfaced: "I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize."

 

It's fake!  It's all fake!  It's absolutely fake!  And I know, because I'm a star!

[GreyhoundFan]

Jennifer Rubin has this to say: "The pathetic neediness of Trump"

Spoiler

Just how deep is President Trump’s well of narcissistic neediness? Well, The Post reported Friday:

President Trump says that Time magazine was contemplating naming him the “Person of the Year” for a second year in a row but that he pulled himself out of the running because he didn’t want to participate in an interview and photo shoot.

“Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named ‘Man (Person) of the Year,’ like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot,” Trump tweeted on Friday evening. “I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!”

Richard Stengel‏, a former Time editor, responded by tweeting: “Hate to tell you but that PROBABLY means you’re NOT Person of the Year. They just wanted a photo shoot. But I’m sure you still have that fake TIME cover somewhere in storage.”

Later Friday evening, Time disputed the president’s claim, tweeting that he “is incorrect about how we choose Person of the Year.” The magazine said it doesn’t comment on its choice until publication, the Associated Press reported.

Trump was quickly mocked by everyone from actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus to tennis star Andy Murray.

Imagine a self-described billionaire, a man who beat the odds and won the presidency. He’s now the most powerful man in the world, but he feels compelled to make up a story to explain why a magazine isn’t giving him a meaningless tribute. That’s how needy Trump is. You may recall:

Trump has long been obsessed with having his face on the cover of magazines, especially Time magazine, and he has compared himself to a “supermodel, except, like, times 10.” Many of his clubs are decorated with many of these covers — including, up until recently, a fake March 2009 Time cover that featured the real estate developer and proclaimed: “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS . . . EVEN TV!”

We would have no particular concern for his happiness and self-regard, given his loathsome character, if not for the danger his total self-absorption poses to the presidency, the country, democracy and the West. His bottomless well of insecurity makes him a sitting duck for authoritarians well-versed in the art of flattery. His self-absorption make him incurious about the world — about anything other than himself — and as one who asserts he knows more than anyone else, he cannot learn from others. His personality defects make him unwilling to give up grudges, unable to let go of small inconsequential matters (e.g. athletes kneeling, crowd size), unequipped to control his anger, unprepared to set out a bottom line in negotiations and unmoved by others’ expectation he should show loyalty to them. His tweets now read like a form of free-association therapy as he babbles on about his obsessions, fears and resentments — thereby making himself the object of even more ridicule and contempt.

Michelle Obama likes to say, “Being president doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are.” In the cauldron of the presidency when surrounded by sycophants to one side and brutal critics to the other, and faced with constitutional and practical limitations on executive power, Trump’s already weak temperament, intellect and psyche are stressed. Before becoming president he lied and boasted to assuage his ego; he now lies constantly and more outrageously to deny failure in the Oval Office. He was naturally suspicious and untrusting; now he’s vexed by unhinged paranoia, making him a patsy for conspiracy theories in office. He never bothered to concentrate on intellectual pursuits and learn from others before; now he’s a know-nothing who relies on aides to clean up his gaffes and deploys the excuse of “Fake news!” to conceal his jaw-dropping ignorance. Unfortunately, Trump has virtually no redeeming qualities to counterbalance his inadequacies.

That the weight of the office has already “gotten” to Trump and discombobulated him so after only a year post-election is evidence of his weak character and intellect, a sign of his abject unfitness for the job. Maybe special counsel Robert S. Mueller III will get the goods on him, compelling Congress to impeach and remove him. Perhaps he can be persuaded to return to his New York home permanently, where accountability and transparency are absent, where he is free to luxuriate in the fantasy world in which he’s the most successful real estate mogul on the planet. If not, and if he remains through the end of his term, one shudders to think how unhinged he will become if he never gets Person of the Year again, a Nobel Prize or an approval rating above 50 percent. And worse, imagine how much destruction he’ll do to the country, our democracy and the Western alliance of democracies along the way.

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[GrumpyGran]

39 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

I really do think it wouldn't be that hard to trick him into resigning. Just come up with a position that he would think has more authority and power than president.

[TeddyBonkers]

6 minutes ago, GrumpyGran said:

I really do think it wouldn't be that hard to trick him into resigning. Just come up with a position that he would think has more authority and power than president.

Slip a resignation letter under a "pull CNN from the air" memo.

[formergothardite]

It looked spiral bound. Do presidents get special spiral bound newspapers or was this part of a the alleged book of positive stories he gets every day? He only reads headlines so I can see someone sticking that in there because it is damn hard to find positive stories about him. 

[GrumpyGran]

4 minutes ago, TeddyBonkers said:

Slip a resignation letter under a "pull CNN from the air" memo.

I know! Tell him there's a Nobel prize for former presidents. They'd like to consider him, but of course he doesn't qualify. They'll just have to give it to Obama. That might work.

And @formergothardite, I think somebody screwed up or was just lazy with his happy book today. That article should have never made it to the book.

[AmazonGrace]

Melania's Christmas decorations look a bit like late Halloween to me.  Are they losing the war on Christmas?

 

[AnywhereButHere]

@AmazonGrace Wow! That's almost terrifying. It's like the inexorable march to Christmas. You WILL celebrate Christmas. It is ORDERED! And I've got the Flying Monkey song from the Wizard of Oz going through my head looking at it.

[GrumpyGran]

12 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Melania's Christmas decorations look a bit like late Halloween to me.  Are they losing the war on Christmas?

 

Maybe she's going for a haunted Christmas theme? Actually, that aside, what I've seen on TV today is, for me, a bit overdone but not too bad. Not very traditional either, oh how will the faithful deal with it? I hope Melania remembered a few nativity scenes. Otherwise, the BTs will have to re-write the story of Jesus' birth. I suppose they could just claim he was born in a Trump hotel.

[Audrey2]

No, no, no, it's the Nightmare Before Christmas themed!

[AmazonGrace]

Come! The souls of dead children, come! The Dark One is hungry. 

 

Oh and the Racist-in-Chief refers to himself as "they" when he's racisting. 

 

In front of Andrew Jackson, no less. 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

1 hour ago, GrumpyGran said:

I really do think it wouldn't be that hard to trick him into resigning. Just come up with a position that he would think has more authority and power than president.

Just play him the excerpt from "Titanic" where Jack stands at the front of the ship and shouts, "I'm king of the world". Tell him that since Jack has died, the king position is available. He's dumb enough to believe it.

 

47 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Melania's Christmas decorations look a bit like late Halloween to me.  Are they losing the war on Christmas?

I was able to go to the White House during the holidays several times in the 1990s and early 2000s. Every time, it was exquisite. It never felt creepy or dark. However, creepy and dark fit in with the Dumpy family theme. 

[fraurosena]

I just can't even with this. I just... can't.

And then this?

Seriously. What.the.fuck?