triple sulk posted:

yo im in the mood for some JEB!

pls gimme some JEB! tia

Vertical Lime posted:

yeah it's louise mensch but

https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/863576083626688512

huge if true

Baloogan posted:

imo the authoritarian-libertarian dimension of political ideology has been ignored almost entirely while the focus is on left vs right ideology.

quote:

Pollster Patrick H. Caddell, a longtime confidant of Bannon who served in Jimmy Carter’s White House, said he was pained to watch the Trump White House struggle.

“It’s like reliving the Carter administration on steroids,” Caddell said. “This is an outsider administration being surrounded by Apache knives. Every inch of the political class and both parties are going after him. The president can’t afford in this type of environment to not execute these kinds of announcements better.”

quote:

One health aspect Trump is transparent about : He doesn’t like to break a sweat. To be more precise, he thinks physical activity will kill you faster.

In a remarkable New Yorker story this week about how Donald Trump could realistically be removed from the presidency, Evan Osnos writes: “Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.”

The Trump “human body as non-rechargeable battery” theory was first detailed by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher in their 2016 book, Trump Revealed:

After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, “You are going to die young because of this.”

On the campaign trail, we learned that Trump didn’t dedicate any extra time to breaking a sweat because he believes exercise is actually harmful, according to this 2015 New York Times profile:

Trump said he was not following any special diet or exercise regimen for the campaign. ‘‘All my friends who work out all the time, they’re going for knee replacements, hip replacements — they’re a disaster,’’ he said. He exerts himself fully by standing in front of an audience for an hour, as he just did. ‘‘That’s exercise.’”

Let’s pause to consider how remarkably backward this is.

There was a time when doctors would have concurred with Trump on this. That was the Victorian era. Back then, people worried a physical activity could cause everything from exhaustion and heart palpitations, particularly in women.

radical meme posted:

Actually, there was a point in time when the KKK was extremely strong and extraordinarily brazen; they didn't care who knew they existed or who their members were. But, since that time has been forgotten, we get to relearn the age old lesson about forgetting the past and being doomed to relive it.

Sir Tonk posted:

and here's the author of our first tell-all book on the administration

Sir Tonk posted:

https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/863958177213186049

Internet Webguy posted:

https://twitter.com/NYTnickc/status/864182129151926274

reporter: mr. burr, question-

burr: *grabs dry cleaning* I REGRET NOOOTTHHHIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGG!

Schnorkles posted:

https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/864260248038715392

https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/864260426049216512

Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/864271161840087040

Communications staff and senior staffers at the White House were literally “hiding in offices,” according to a senior Trump aide, as a gaggle of White House press stormed White House hallways just after the Washington Post story broke on Monday evening.

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Some administration officials who supported Trump during the campaign said they were appalled at his apparent divulging of U.S. secrets, and considered it a break from his “America First” campaign mantra.

“With news like this I’m beginning to wonder why Trump ran in the first place and if he really cares about the country,” said a senior Trump appointee involved in counter-ISIS policymaking. “I miss candidate Trump. Now he’s just a pathetic mess.”

“I doubt he did it to collude [with the Russians]. I think he’s dumb and doesn’t know the difference,” a former FBI official who worked aspects of the Russia investigation told The Daily Beast. “He thinks he’s arranging some business deal except that he’s not.”

When asked if they could use info in way that harms the U.S., this official said, “of course.”

The Russians, the source added, “like [Trump’s] mental instability and stupidity. They don’t like his unpredictability.”

Thump! posted:

SKULL.GIF posted:

I thought he was in the white house still, didn't he have a meeting with his advisers like 3 hours ago?

A Handed Missus posted:

Taintrunner posted:

no matter what happens, we will forever live in an america where trump was president