By David Futrelle
Yesterday, Donald Trump declared war, via Twitter, on trans people in the armed services, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders devoted several minutes of the daily White House Press briefing to a possibly fake letter from a possibly imaginary 9-year-old praising our illegitimate president.
Today, the newly installed replacement White House communications director called the White House chief of staff “a fucking paranoid schizophrenic” and suggested that White House chief strategist Steve Bannon regularly attempts autofellatio, hopefully only metaphorically. Meanwhile, Senatorial eminence gris Lindsey Graham explained that he would only vote for so-called “Skinny Repeal” of Obamacare if he could be assured it would never ever become law.
And there’s more. So basically, we’re long overdue for a politics open thread. Have at it. No MRAs, trolls, Trump fans.
Here are a few Tweets to get you caught up with all some of the latest nonsense:
hiring someone with absolutely no experience to run your press shop is smart and good https://t.co/FVxptiPseD pic.twitter.com/AQYeyYiZ8p
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) July 27, 2017
What Is Going On Here pic.twitter.com/ftYA82H8e3
— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) July 27, 2017
Pres. Trump's approval rating dips to 35 percent, new poll finds https://t.co/in3dlOTpLn pic.twitter.com/Ww88Hdw6EX
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/890511874546061312
Eleven personal trips this year by Trump to Mar-A-Lago: $29 million
Medical services for transgender people in the military: $8.4 million
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) July 27, 2017
Pentagon spends 10 times more on erectile disfunction meds than transgender services: https://t.co/U0fzaNeDu3 pic.twitter.com/jho6Uugcox
— The Hill (@thehill) July 26, 2017
.@SHSanders45 reads letter 9-year-old Dylan wrote to @POTUS: "You're my favorite president. I like you so much." https://t.co/zKzuYrWJdj pic.twitter.com/2GeHMJygSx
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/laura_hudson/status/890323383614808064
https://twitter.com/jimpjorps/status/890307595738771460
He cut more than $9 billion from the Dept of Ed budget. https://t.co/VZnTd0ujG3
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 26, 2017
administration has underestimated how much shit I can be mad about at the same time.
— OME (@Mike_Eagle) July 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/ItsMeowIRL/status/890523014663688192
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I’m seriously wondering if my water contains psychedelics, or if I used a wrong door and crossed into dimension of Utter Wrongness, or if I am suffering a stroke, and then reality snaps like rubberband and my head hurts because this is real.
https://youtu.be/zRNPsd_PfeI
Super scared as a trans woman because of the military thing and the propoganda e-mail blast. I’ve several disabilities and healthcare is constantly imperiled. Many of my friends are equally afraid. Shit’s coming up too fast to handle.
Skiriki, that is me, every day.
I think Trumpster and his cronies are trying to go for some kind of record for offending/insulting/dehumanizing the most people in a week.
Anyone done a handwriting comparison of that letter?
Trump of course does have form for using sock puppets to say how great he is.
http://fortune.com/2016/05/18/donald-trump-fake-names/
There’s a movie with Toshiro Mifune, I think it must be a Kurosawa film, where two samurai are facing off. They’ve got their hands tucked inside their robes and, when it becomes clear that violence is inevitable, they slowly push their arms free. It’s a motion that’s rife with menace and foreboding.
That’s what Reince and Scaramucci obviously think their little standoff in Krang T. Nelson’s tweet looks like.
Why would you even consider voting for something if you don’t want it to become law? What fucking stupidity.
It would obviously be mean-spirited of me to speculate about the size of the Mooch’s p0n0s. Would it violate the site guidelines on ableist language if I speculated instead that he’s remarkably insecure about whatever its actual size is?
@ Falconer
Yojimbo I think.
Love that film.
*Goes off to watch for 97th time to confirm*
Scaramucci just oozes slime.
Perfect addition to the clusterfuck that is the Trump Administration.
Jesus fuck, Congress. Stop normalizing this bullshit and stop this fucking wild ride. I want to get off.
@ Falconer
Yup.
https://youtu.be/5gEYlVmclrU
@Tov01
Because he wants to be able to tell his voters that he voted to kill Obamacare, but doesn’t want to actually deal with the fallout of his choice.
Basically, he’s a coward.
@Alan Robertshaw,
Usagi? 😀
@ redsilkphoenix
Hah, I’d never seen that before. But now I’ll use it to bluff my way with Varalys and Malitia. They know everything there is about East Asian comics. So now I can pretend to be cool too. Thanks! 😀
Every time shit like this happens, whether “this” be an unprompted tweet about getting all those expensive transgender people out of the military, a communications director giving an interview that might as well be entitled “I HATE EVERYONE I WORK WITH AND YOU CAN QUOTE ME”, or revealing to the press the important missive of nine year old John Barron (who, by the way, and assuming he exists, should get some personal classroom assistance from the fact that he’s a fictional nine year old who writes like a fictional six year old), it always makes me wonder – surely, SURELY, someone in the public eye or one of the vaunted “Let’s Talk To Trump Voters To Drink Of Their Great Wisdom” pieces must be ready to come out and say “okay, the wheels are off the wagon, even gutting healthcare and getting that sweet upper class tax break isn’t worth what this does to our brand for the foreseeable future”. But it never is. “In fact,” say the people, “this is how we mean to go on.” There’s still a part of me that expects someone to come out from behind a curtain and announce that the last year has been a wacky prank.
When people claim that women are gossipy, catty and incite unnecessary drama, I’m just going to start referring them to the behavior of Trump and his cronies.
@Alan
Nah, you’ll still look a bit silly, on account of Stan Sakai was born in Hawaii and writes in English…
Usagi even crossed over with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a time or two, I believe. Though I could be entirely wrong on that, because my major exposure to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the ’89 cartoon, and the resultant movies, rather than the considerably grimmer comics (and as I recall Usagi was in Feudal Japan while the Turtles were in Modern New York). It was a shocking moment to me to learn that the Turtles were, in part, parodying Daredevil.
@PeeVee the (Perpetually Ignored, Invisible but Noice) Sarcastic
Why would they when for them it’s the best opportunity to destroy everything Obama worked to build on the crime of him being a black man?
Me too, Mike Eagle. Me too.
@ dalillama
Nothing new there.
Which way is the Pacific Plate heading? Might I be right in a few hundred million years?
ETA: Oh, I’m about 137 million years too late.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Plate
Ooglyboggles,
Yeah, the evil specter that looms over Congress like a toxic miasma.
OBAMA!!! *Shakes fist at cloud*
Hold on just a second. Trump still has a 35% approval rating?!
Who are these people that still support him? Are they in a coma? I don’t understand.
He tweets new policies. TWEETS THEM. Who the f*ck thinks that makes a good POTUS?
The racist and Islamophobic uncles that so many of us – myself included – seem to have.
I’m just so glad my parents hate him as much as I do.
Oh my god. In five years there’ll be a movie about this. And, like, ten years there’ll be a samurai epic about it. I can’t wait.
I love Toshiro Mifune and Kurosawa. Could watch those movies forever.