Translated from the German, “I’ve seen retarded two-year old with more self-control.”
Sober? Nope
Depressed? Yep.
But enough about me…
Kudlow, Navarro, Bolton – these are the people you add to an institution if you want to kill it. And it isn’t just in the areas of trade and foreign policy, the same is true of cartoon characters like Carson, DeVos, Zinke, Pruitt, and Perry, who have been poisoning their departments since day one. The contempt and deep sense of grievance that that Trump has toward the government and democratic values is so fundamentally anti-American that it is hard to understand why the public discussion is still limited to obstruction and conspiracy, when it should also be about treason.
Gott in Himmel!! Hast du gesehen in deine Leben? Was fĂĽr ein Esel!
That’s certainly the case with DeVos, Zinke, Pruitt etc – however I’d argue they were picked largely by the Republican establishment during the transition, rather than Trump himself, with an eye towards exactly the sort of deregulation and bureaucratic dismembering that you’re referring to. Kudlow, Navarro and Bolton, on the other hand, were hand-picked by Trump directly, as examples of his “free-wheeling shoot-from-the-hip style” as CNN would put it (vastly over-sanitized news-speak for “aggressive idiocy”) and don’t actually have departments to destroy. Their appointments aren’t any more nuanced than “will you be loyal to Trump?”, “will you be aggressive on demand?” and “will you go on TV a lot?”
German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas said Sunday that Trump’s withdrawal from the summit communiqué was “actually not a real surprise.”
“No kidding,” millions of people Trump has contractually stiffed over the last 50 years responded in unison.
And Putin just cannot seem to wipe that smile off his face.
Not realising that the mic was still hot, Merkel was heard by all to exclaim in emphatic German:
“Er ist ein absoluter Schisskopf.”
As Usual Borowitz nails it
Kim Jong Un Offers to Host Peace Talks Between United States and Canada
That’s a valid distinction, certainly.
Still, there is something similar about Team Mustache’s disruptive foreign policy approach and the Norquist school cabinet appointments: the Republican establishment was only comfortable burning down the regulatory and social service agencies. As an arsonist, however, Trump is more of a completist, and wants to extend this to everything.
We could have had a grown woman leading our government too. But the entertainment factor of her opponent was too profitable to seriously consider it.
As I have said to the point of being obsessive, what is maddening is the steadfast refusal of the MSM, politicians and elites to publicly embrace what they know full well to be the cause of his behavior. The Steele Dossier is at least the 70-80% accurate that Steele said he expects the kind of raw intelligence in it to be.
The only thing I can figure out is that they are terrified that Mueller will do the same thing Fitzgerald did, say “I can’t prove the underlying crime because of the obstruction of the person I’m charging with obstruction” (which, once filtered through the Right-wing Noise Machine which rules their world, is the same thing as acquittal) and leave them all looking stupid and over-extended and tragically unsavvy and outsidery.
But…but…she gave speeches to Wall Street, Notorious LGB!
Hillary Clinton was as corrupt as Trump, this I know
Because Susan Serendipity Jesus told me so!
Whelp, there it is. The leader of the free world has spoken…
Remember when Germany was the fascist thuggish country and we were the ones fighting for democracy. Those were the days.
I imagine Putin is feeling freer and freer to do some new annexations about now. The US was NATO’s strongest backbone, and it’s quite obvious that T rumpp isn’t going to do anything to defend our allies in Europe. T rumpp is leading the fall of the western free World. Republicans don’t seem to care.
I agree it’s depressing. I haven’t been this depressed since he was inaugurated.
This is what mature adults sound like.
She definitely looks depressed. But she pretty much has always looked depressed, so at least that bad outcome should not be laid at Trump’s door.