The Trump Presidency

[Glom]

I is confused. Who is the order of the swastika? Do we have many Buddhists or Hindus or Shinto here?

[gillianren]

Has anyone else been following the confirmation hearings?  Looks like my kids' education is about to be in the hands of a woman whose only qualification is that her family has donated some $200 million to the Republican Party over the years.

[Glom]

Good wind in DC today. Makes the flag flutter just right.

[twik]

I would have thought Trump would have arranged for bright sun and 70 F temperatures. Staff has let him down. Sad.

[Luke Pemberton]

Has anyone else been following the confirmation hearings?  Looks like my kids' education is about to be in the hands of a woman whose only qualification is that her family has donated some $200 million to the Republican Party over the years.

Pretty much like education in the UK was handed over to an Oxford Historian, whose entire education policy was based on his own grammar school experience while simultaneously tarring the entire teaching profession as the 'left wing' blob. Every kid in the country must follow a rigorous set of exams as standards must be raised (that was the mantra).

[Glom]

24 hours have past. Not dead yet. Or groped.

[Apollo 957]

Lifted from another forum today;

"The current situation where we have a country with the most advanced science and technology institutions and companies in the world dictated to by a mentally-impaired clown in the throes of a temper tantrum backed up by a load of religious idiots is just not a viable situation for anyone.

People who can land a vehicle on Mars and keep it running for 13 years do not deserve to be dictated to by a total f***ing idiot."

[gillianren]

Apparently, some dozen federal agencies have started unofficial Twitter accounts to get around the gag order.

[Glom]

So he's advocating torture, suggested we should have plundered Iraq. It's like he's trying to be a cartoon villain.

[twik]

Apparently an unexpected number of top bureaucrats at the State Department have announced their resignation in advent of Tillerson's taking control.

[twik]

Sean Spicer, Press Secretary, has apparently sent out two tweets today:

"n8y25ah7"

and

"Aqenbpuu"

Some people think it's his Twitter password, and the one he reset it to after realizing he'd sent out the first one. Some think they're the nuclear codes. I think they're the most intelligible things to come out of his office for the week.

[smartcooky]

I do wonder if Trump has a real chance of becoming the fifth.

[Luke Pemberton]

People who can land a vehicle on Mars and keep it running for 13 years do not deserve to be dictated to by a total f***ing idiot."

... but sadly Trump does not have the mental capacity to understand that he's wearing the Emperor's new clothes.

[twik]

in the next segment, the Glorious Leader has reorganized the National Security Council. Steve Bannon, declared white nationalist, is in. Of course that means someone must be out, because you can't just stick another chair at the table.

Who's out? No one important. Just the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence.  Because why on earth would you need to have them involved?

I know there are at least a couple of people on this board, people I consider sane and of good character, who supported Trump. Can you say today, this is what I wanted when I voted for Trump? Because to my eyes, this has moved beyond madness.

[BazBear]

I wouldn't have voted for this clown for dog catcher, but I thought his campaign rhetoric was probably a bunch of radical crazy populist B.S.; but once elected and in office, I thought cooler, saner heads would prevail. It looks like I was very, very, very self deluded.