So I took a nap and when I woke up the WaPo had reported and other media outlets had confirmed that our Dear Leaker, sorry Leader, had leaked classified info to the Russians at that meeting last week, possibly because he wanted them to know that he’s a BIG BOY now with access to all sorts of secret President stuff! So have at it. Also, maybe I should stop napping. What if my nap CAUSED ALL THIS OH NO.
The Baffler on Ivanka’s book-like object.
My favorite snark:
It’s feminism for people who’ve been conned into believing that existing in a state of permanent sleep deprivation is the same as being woke.
Probably just as well Trump wasn’t president in WW2.
@ LindsayIrene:
from Laurie Penny’s piece on the Cylon Fembot’s tome…
thank you!
@Alan
@ dreemr
So it appears that the intelligence Dear Leaker blurted out to the Russians was from Israeli intelligence. This is a conundrum worthy of The Riddler: Will Republicans side with their President or with Israel?
My racist Trump loving uncle praises him for being the president who will be the savior of Isreal. I told him that literally Nazis love Trump but he doesn’t believe me I guess. I wonder if this news will penetrate his mind at all.
@weirwoodtreehugger
I honestly doubt it will penetrate his mind. As we speak the entire right-wing spin machine is finding a way for your racist Trump-loving uncle to ignore how the President put a Mossad agent in the cross-hairs.
But hope springs eternal. I recently heard that my racist Fox News-loving aunt has quit watching said channel because she hates Trump.
The day before this happened, there was a rumour going around on Twitter that Mossad’s been working on the Trump-Russia indictments. What if this wasn’t random stupidity and Trump sicced Iran on them as revenge?
Trump isn’t smart enough for that. I call Occam’s Razor.
@Kivutar
I dunno, Occam’s Razor hasn’t applied to any other part of this clusterfuck so far. It’s been malice all the way down.
@Viscaria
Also, white evangelicals trend really fucking racist.
SFHC, I think it was Brad DeLong who said that, whenever he tried to understand Trump, the stupidest explanation he could think of was usually the one that turned out to be right. (Not a guarantee in this case, just saying I understand where Kivutar’s coming from.)
@Kivutar @Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
In Trump America, Occam razor you.
Austin Loomis:
Josh Marshall calls this “Trump’s Razor”, and has used it a lot.
And then there’s this.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/16/1662918/-New-York-Times-Intelligence-Trump-leaked-to-Putin-came-from-Israel
Again: Trump admin says Israel did not have jurisdiction in the area of the Wailing Wall.
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It’s Anything Can Happen Day.
Well, in Trumpland women don’t even have jurisdiction over our own pussies. So why would Israel have jurisdiction over its own wall?
Trump has jurisdiction over all walls.
Also, when I glanced at “Trump leaves for Riyadh”, I read it as “R’lyeh”, and for a moment I saw nothing unusual about that. The guy is really getting to me.
Non-euclidian horrors have standard. I doubt even a shoggoth would want to have anything to do with Trump.
Saw someone on TV in the break room at work preaching about how Israel is Yahweh’s chosen nation and that watchers should contact their representatives to demand they don’t act against the chosen people. I’m sure the calls will be pouring in about the wailing wall from the economically anxious
Considering how much he’s stoked the fires of hatred against one of the great religions, it’s a wonder Trump and his sychophants aren’t afraid of an errant lightning bolt from the sky…
I’m pretty sure that Chuck Tingle’s Twitter is not absurdist humor, but a depiction of reality. Crabs from the void wearing a skin suit is as good an explanation for Trump as any.
I should have made clearer that I wasn’t equating dick size with power, but assuming that he does and, that even if he had a dick the size of the Eiffel tower, he’d still feel inadequate because he’s just so insecure.
It’s the same thing the mgtows have going on, where they keep babbling about Chad Thundercock and cucking and really, the average person knows its bullshit and really doesn’t matter (dick size, that is) and especially doesn’t say anything about persons worth.
I hope that’s a bit clearer now and also, sorry! Should have made it clearer from the beginning, I’ll try harder.
@ everyone
Thanks for engaging with me and letting me… well, basically just rant. It helps a lot to get other people’s input on this. It’s actually pretty comforting, in kind of a weird way.
Now that the latest Comey stuff dropped, are we going to need a new open thread because wow. What the heck people???