President Trump Optimism thread

OK, this is how the Trump story ends.

Trump is hauled into a small room, bare except for a table with three metal chairs. He’s wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, contrasting his paddle, sallow skin now that he is without his signature spray tan. His hair has been cut, showing a mostly bald, old man, grossly obese in his ill fitting uniform.

Shackled to the table, the guards leave him. A few moments later, Sean Spicer is led in and similarly shackled to the table.

“What the hell’s gong on, spicy?”

“I don’t know… They just dragged me out of my cell. Where did we go wrong, Donald? How did it all fall apart?”

Leak after leak had slowly eroded their administration, eventually exposing criminal tires to Russia that put them all away for the rest of their lives. No one had ever figured out the source of the leaks, or the forces that ultimately bright the Trump administration to it’s knees.

Just then, the door opens. In walks a tall man, in a well cut suit. Spicer immediately recognizes him. But as the man takes a seat across from Trump and Spicer, Sean can only stare at him, slack jawed.

The man sits, flanked by two large men in suits with dark glasses. One of them hands him a folder, which he proceeds to open and lay onto the table.

“Who are you?” Trump asks.

Ignoring him, the man says, “you are both being transferred to Guantanamo tomorrow. I wanted to let you know myself. It was my company which drove the campaign to expose you for the treasonous scum that you are.”

“Who the hell are you?” Trump shouts.

“He’s… Scott Fischer. He’s… The CEO of Dippin’ Dots.”

Stunned and confused, Trump tries to understand. “But why? WHY?”

A sly grin creeps across Fischer’s face as he whispers, “because we are the future, motherfucker.”

Fade to black, this song plays.

I read your post right after finishing Metro 2033, waiting for Metro 2034 to arrive from Amazon… so I picked up the first book in this trilogy. It’s a good read and very interesting. I like how, from the very beginning, it’s obvious that there are ethical strengths and weaknesses to both sides of the human modification argument. Thanks for mentioning the books!

Good to see you here, @Timex

I saw Darrel Issa interviewed on Bill Maher’s show. He said the the US needs to look at Canada and Sweden for health care, as they have some better ideas. I’ve also seen coverage of some of the GOP town halls, in which it appears that their constituents are finally realizing that Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing, and they don’t want to lose their insurance.

I’ve been moderately freaked out since the election, partly because of the fate of the ACA. I buy healthcare on the individual market, as a friend and I started a new business three years ago. It’s doing OK – we employ 12 people now, but we’re a long way from offering health insurance. So, I buy as a individual (I don’t get subsidies). I also have some pre-existing conditions. If the ACA is wholly repealed, I have no idea what happens to people in my situation.

Anyway, Issa’s comments gave me hope that some parts of the GOP are trying to be responsible in governing the country. Perhaps some sliver of optimism is warranted.

Yeah, the fact that a GOP party-line hack like Issa could actually come out and admit that the ACA has some good points is huge.

That said, he stopped short of actually saying that Canada and Sweden have good systems. He simply said that we shouldn’t be afraid of looking at them to see if there are any ideas there we can learn from.

So, baby steps.

The resistance movement manifesting at town halls is having an impact on the debate, I think.

That 17 point win in Delaware is also going to have an impact- that’s a huge red flag for the GOP.

More good from the mosque fire. One bad person brings out a lot of good people:

I don’t know if this has been posted before.

This part was amazing:

the bar has the semi-abandoned vibe of a faux-fancy pub in a lesser-used airport terminal at four in the morning.

There’s just me and Martin; Joe, who soon tells us he quit his job in Washington, DC just to come to New York City and spread the Trump gospel; a younger guy named Steve* who looks like a townie version of Christian Slater; a golden-maned, argyle-socked mini Trump in the corner drinking a whole bottle of wine by himself; an incredibly awkward couple off in the leather chairs in the corner who appear to be on the kind of stiff, banal date that preludes most softcore porn movies from the 1980s; and an older, glowering man in a suit whose sole preoccupation seems to be staring at me and Martin from a few tables away. I am convinced that he is a Trump spy, there to keep a wary eye on people like us—people who come to Trump Bar hoping to glean an inside look at what they assume to be the mania of Trump followers.

Issa’s district was changed in 2012 and went from solid red to purple. In 2016 he won by something like 600 votes in a district with 300,000 total votes.

He used to be quite the conservative firebrand, but he’s running quite a bit more to the center now.

http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/no-rights-750.jpg

I thought comics were supposed to be funny.

Is that from MerikaFreedomBaldeaglesGUNSPatriotJesus.com?

What.

This was a warning, not a recommendation…

General Mattis in 2013:
“If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.”

Some Muslims hold those beliefs, yes (particularly the most troublesome kind that subscribe to Wahabbism and belong to ISIL and such). And the reaction of reasonable Western liberals would not be the one portrayed in that comic. So, nice straw man there.

Dear god, a ridiculous comic and not even text with a point.