End this Mitch you mendacious bastard.
In addition to disbelieving the news media, Trump does not believe his intelligence agencies. Fake news. Fake intelligence. And Republicans in Congress are OK with this.
âI donât know who gave you that,â he said.
Iâll give you a hint â heâs fat, orange, and smells like stale BBQ sauce and fresh Rogaine.
Womp Womp, Swamp; Womp Womp, Swamp;
Womp Womp, Swamp; Womp Womp, Swamp;
We will, we will Rot you!
Womp Womp, Swamp; Womp Womp, Swamp;
We will, we will Rot you!
H/T Queen. RIP Freddie Mercury (1970 - 1991)
NYT must have got the story right.
From 2 years ago. Iâm going to guess Donald doesnât know the history and thinks or at least believes he came up with it first.
From that article
âŚit came into use in the modern period during the French Revolution. Ennemi du peuple was used to refer to those who disagreed with the new French government during the âReign of Terror,â a period during which thousands of revolutionaries were executed by guillotine.
Donald J. Trump: A Clear and Present Danger to the United States of America
Another day, another flurry of unhinged rage tweets. Think about the ads that could be run for 2020 on the bogus tax billâs impact on the middle class; destruction of health care options; zero action on crumbling infrastructure; destruction of global alliances; blowing up trade at the expense of US farmers and companies and our retirement accounts; appeasing our enemies; undocumented meeting with Putin; destruction of government science to facilitate more resource extraction to enrich the oil companies; etc, etc, etc. If the Dems canât use all of this ammo to destroy this orange fraud, then we truly are doomed to be a third world dictatorship.
Hands are too big, other than that-A-OK.
What he really saying is that the press is his enemy, but if that were so, he and his entire crime family would be in a supermax prison by now.
This kind of thing makes you consider that somebody there in Trumpland may have a statergy here:
To get impeached right now, while there is still a chance of prevailing in the Senate.
And the Orange Dolt doth protest too much.
The New York Times reporting is false. They are a true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
Did they say you were a good president again? Goddamn them lying bastards!
Donât worry, media. Iâm sure theyâll never come at you specifically. Just hide in your bunker and think about the ratings!
I REALLY like Joshâs editorial today about understanding Trumpese (my emphasis):
âEven at this late date in our collective experience with Donald Trump I hear claims about these sorts of episodes suggesting that Trump is just comically misinformed or only believes what he wants to believe or what the last person told him. It is something quite different. Information, claims, facts, portrayals are for Trump all parts of power transactions, getting people to accept his power, his will, his versions of events. In a way we know this all first hand, with his constant public denials about every new Russia revelation. No collusion! Witch hunt! etc. It is important to see that this is the way he operates in private too. Itâs all of a piece.â
Trumpâs lies are about power. He knows he is lying, he wants to lie, and it isnât about deception. He knows people donât believe him. He doesnât care. He wants to bully people into supporting his lies. Period.
HAVE WE IMPEACHED THE MOTHERFUCKER YET???
donald, the media are not the enemy. You and your fragile man/child ego malignant narcissistc mash up of a mental state are the true enemy here. In two years you have done all you can to damage America and her institutions, our allies, our economy, and our international reputation.
Your shame will outlive you.
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Mitch McConnell could end this horror of a presidency. That he chooses not to shows his distain for our country.
trump commits crimes in public and not a goddamned thing is done about it.
Imagine the blowback if this was a democrat in office.
At the risk of sounding fulsome, this would be good place to acknowledge that Joshâs âUnderstanding Trumpeseâ blurb this morning was one of those âPrime paid for itselfâ moments. Yesterday, I was saying Trump was revealing a strange combination of corruption and naivete by thinking firing Flynn and Comey ended the inquiry. But, Joshâs observation is right. These insane counter-factuals, like his latest lugenpresse attack, are acts of agression and tests of loyalty, invitations to prove your loyalty by following him into a psuedo-reality that he alone dictates and controls.
Itâs what he does. itâs what Sanders does. Itâs what KAC is doing everytime someone stupidly puts her in front of a camera. Itâs exactly what theyâre doing and why theyâre doing it. And, terrifyingly, it is straight out of 1984. I mean, straight out of it. Do they believe it themselves? The answer requires you to understand doublethink, to recall the passage about how the Inner Party members were the most fanatical about the war even while knowing the war was a sham, to grasp that the thesis of the book was how the fundamental act of submission to the Party entailed both emotionally and intellectually accepting as true a false reality you knew was created as a means of control and domination and to keep on doing that even as it changed.
But there is still a form of naivete behind it, the naivete Orwell described in a famous passage from âIn Front of Your Nose:â
There is no use in multiplying examples. The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
The underlying naivete of Trump isnât that he believes these facile lies he inflicts on us, but, rather the failure to recognize that in a world where you donât have total, totalitarian control, embedding yourself in a false reality will inevitably be your undoing. Itâs what the last GOP Congress did with their sincere belief that fucking people over on healthcare and giving massive tax cuts to rich people were a political winner for them or, at least, that the flood of oligarch money theyâd open up by doing so would save them from the electoral consequences.
And that self-induced madness may be the only thing that saves (or possibly has already saved) us, may be the thing that keeps him humping along, day to day, succumbing to the fundamental cowardice that is central to his character and shrinking from trying to fire and pardon his way out of trouble until itâs too late.