Pfeeww, I was getting worried ! What’s Katrina Pierson gonna do in the White House, all the good jobs are taken ?
Science wasn’t the reason people thought the earth was flat. Science was the reason people realized the earth was in fact round.
Oh, he’ll fit in beautifully with Trump.
Scaramucci-----------for some reason I feel like dancing the Fandango …on his sensitive body parts.
On the guy from the swamp’s role in the new administration, which will be at bottom making sure American business prospers. The average guy? Not so much.
“It’s pretty much as described,” the SkyBridge Capital founder said. “It’ll be in the Office of Public Liaison, really trying to get the President’s message out, not only to the intergovernmental agencies, but also the commercial message to both American businesses and the international business community."
There was overwhelming scientific evidence that the earth was flat? Really? Scaramucci is confused about which side of the climate change disagreement the flat-earthers correspond with.
Of course, there is, via wikipedia, this:
"During the early Church period, the spherical view continued to be widely held, with some notable exceptions … Lactantius, Christian writer and advisor to the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine, … The influential theologian and philosopher Saint Augustine, "
That’s a very odd reaction, @dnl. I thought you would’ve broken into a rousing rendition of “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
OT. Islands in the (golden) stream.
There’s a dragon in the room.
Blocking China from islands it has built in contested waters would lead to “devastating confrontation”, Chinese state media have warned.
The angry response came after secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson said the US should deny Beijing access to new islands in the South China Sea.
Two state-run papers carry editorials strongly criticising his comments.
The hawkish Global Times tabloid warned that any such action would lead to “a large-scale war”.
Beijing has been building artificial islands on reefs in waters also claimed by other nations. Images published late last year show military defences on some islands, a think-tank says.
Edit-Cultural ‘thang’ to follow
Scaramouche is one of the iconic characters in the Punch and Judy puppet shows (a performative art with roots in commedia dell’arte). In some scenarios, he is the owner of The Dog, another stock character. During performances, Punch frequently strikes Scaramouche, causing his head to come off his shoulders. Because of this, the term scaramouche has become associated with a class of puppets with extendable necks.
Wikipedia
I was struck by this:
“So they can see him in the way his children see him, in the way I see him, in the way people that love him and support him inside this building and ultimately in the White House.”
Those people do know him, certainly, and continue to support him. So he must have moments face-to-face when he comes off as a normal, rational person because that’s what he senses you want. It would fit the NPD pattern of capacity for charm when people cooperate. My own father is very old and at times seems to be losing brain function, and it’s very upsetting, and at others he seems like his old normal self, and I tell myself everything’s fine. If you’re not frankly exploiting the craziness, you might be adept at not seeing it. Interesting remark of his, at any rate.
He’s their meal ticket. Even shameless whores gotta eat.
Like this?
The way Melker tells it in a lengthy Facebook story posted last night, he lived in the same freshman dorm at UPenn as Donald Trump Jr., who attended the Wharton School. One day, the elder Trump showed up to pick up his son for a baseball game and flat-out slapped the crap out of his kid when he wasn’t dressed for the occasion.
“Don Jr. opened the door, wearing a Yankee jersey. Without saying a word, his father slapped him across the face, knocking him to the floor in front of all of his classmates,” Melker writes on Facebook. “He simply said ‘put on a suit and meet me outside,’ and closed the door.”
I noticed that comment and thought the exact same thing.
Scaramucci? Does he do the fandango?
I wonder if he feels under pressure to take it?
Edited to Add: Dammit. Only the 12th comment, but several people already got to the Bohemian Rhapsody joke before me. I knew I should have posted first, then looked up and added the links later. Kudos to dni for getting there first.
OK, so basically a flack for the Asshole-elect. Sad.
"…I sort of think that we’ve got to go directly to the American people,” he told reporters, “So they can see him in the way his children see him, in the way I see him, in the way people that love him and support him inside this building and ultimately in the White House.”
<img src="/uploads/default/original/3X/c/5/c55ebf2bcad2803fdde6e62af7af4ea5dbbfb88f.png" width="375" height="500">Why don’t they drop all the pretense and call his position what it is: “Minister of Propaganda”
Seig Heil Trump.
Some of those people were raised by Trump, and therefore spent many years of their lives thinking that’s how all adults are supposed to behave (and probably still think it, going by Eric’s and Junior’s usual behavior).
And many of the remaining supporters are as crazy as Trump is, but they’re more submissive than dominant - which means we don’t see them displaying their crazy as flagrantly, frequently, and loudly.
So I don’t think we necessarily need to impute to Trump an ability to act rational that we’ve never seen him display in public in any kind of sustained fashion. The people who know him personally, and yet still support him, are predisposed to tolerate, expect, or even desire, the kind of authoritarian crazy Trump embodies.
They’ll love and support him until he’s lost his power (probably sooner rather than later) and is no longer a useful fool, then they won’t even say hello to him on the street.
Not disagreeing but if you’ve ever dealt with a really manipulative person, you can find yourself temporarily believing things about him or her that at other times your rational mind knows aren’t true. And it’s really easy to believe things you wish to be true. There’s a lot of research that’s come out on this in the last 15 or 20 years. We’re much less rational, as a species, than many educated people tend to think.
Is this how the Dark Ages started?
“We’re going to help the President of the United States and the administration express themselves in a way—and no offense to you guys in the media—but I sort of think that we’ve got to go directly to the American people,” he told reporters, “So they can see him in the way his children see him, in the way I see him, in the way people that love him and support him inside this building and ultimately in the White House.”
The less than 10 people in the entire world who love Donald Trump need to have multiple six figure taxpayer paid positions going directly to the American people to convince them. No offense to you people in the media. But Donald Trump on his own is so hateful and spiteful that a small government party is finding it expedient to load up on public employees to be his PR sycophants.
And like everyone else here, I see a little silutette-o of a man.