Oval Office, 6am.
Ivanka: DADDY! You can’t write you love to grab women by the…for fuck’s sake, we already went through this during the campaign! No, you can’t say you love looking at the sexy ones either. That’s not what Women’s Day is about!
DJT: Fine, whatever. SAD! Throws phone at Ivanka. You do it then.
No emolument! You’re an emolument!
Come on guys, are you all imprisoned? I mean 24 hours without a new post? What is happening, someone finally took his phone away?
David Fahrenhold at WaPo on one of Trump’s crazier real estate schemes - building a cemetery with Trump’s grave next to Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey.
It’s insanely tacky (at one point the Trump Organization suggested Trump’s mausoleum would also be used for weddings), grifty (the idea seems to have been you could charge a premium for being buried near Trump - pay for access Mar-a-Lago style!) and of course, since it involves Trump, chaotic and poorly thought out (the plan went through several iterations ranging from 1,000 graves to a much smaller variation that had only ten graves for select Trump family members - “Only the good ones” according to a Trump Organization representative. All of the plans seemed destined to be money losers, and so far nothing has been done other than getting planning permission.)
On the one hand, this is amazing and hilarious.
On the other hand, David Fahrenheld of the WaPo, I don’t need any more amazing and hilarious stories about how tacky, grifty, and chaotic Trump is. I already know. What I really, really, really need right now are stories about how something you found will lead to Trump getting out of office and into prison. I don’t really care how or where Trump is buried, unless it happens very soon. Please say this is only a small part of a much bigger story about how Trump meets Russian prostitute-spies on the golf course to pass on state secrets or something.
Perhaps he’ll appropriate public funds to have a solid gold pyramid built for himself. The upside is, perhaps certain individuals will have the honor of being buried alive with him!
Redhats (aka Trumpsters) literally believe anything.
An American started a fake news website to see how ridiculous a story had to be before Donald Trump supporters realised it was untrue – and ended up concluding that some of them would believe absolutely anything.
Despite aiming to write stories no-one would believe, James McDaniel found Trump supporters who believed that Barack Obama had been plotting a coup from a secret bunker near the White House, and that the British singer Adele had demanded he be jailed for such treachery.
They believed that Obama had tweeted “Trump must be removed as president by any means necessary”, and when one commenter, ‘Truthseeker’, dared suggest the story ‘Obama ran paedophile ring out of White House’ might possibly be fake, he was told: “Really “Truthseeker” if you had ANY clue of the truth, you’d KNOW that Wikileaks hasn’t published ONE thing that has been false. So please use your own mind. Stop listening to MSM [mainstream media] and realize what the TRUTH really is.”
Another commenter, ‘Mary’, said caustically: “Truthseeker? Really … but the truth is bothering you?”
She then – apparently without irony – posted a link to the now notorious ‘Pizzagate’ fake news story, about an alleged a Democratic child sex ring in a Washington pizza parlour, which had prompted one credulous reader to walk into the restaurant with a semi-automatic rifle and open fire.
Remember how Trump said he wouldn’t take a salary?
Guess what?
You’ll never guess!
OK, you guessed.
Well Fuck You worked on his tax returns; why not for everything else?
Canuck
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Did anyone honestly believe him when he said that though? We’re talking about a guy who’s stingy enough to stiff a teenage dancing girl group out of a few thousand bucks. Of course he’s not going to pass up hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Source, subject to change
The tweet replies to that are great.
This link here goes into some detail:
Fake News CNN brings a little snark
rowe33
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Yesterday on my late-to-the-party viewing of West Wing, Hoynes’ election bid was blasted by an allegation of unwanted sexual advances made upon a staffer. Remember when crap like that mattered? Ah, the good old days.
I don’t think I could bear to watch The West Wing these days.
rowe33
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It’s somewhat akin to watching Leave It To Beaver in the age of Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.
Shit, even The Wire and Oz feel crazy dated now. Both are terrific, but watching them now it’s so hard not to see the chintzy sets, bad lighting, and often rushed acting.
Are you kidding? That’s ALL we’re watching these days.
