“That’s what I do is I do things proper.”

Well I guess that settles that.

Why are we talking about some tweet when Trump just fired Mueller and appointed a friend to replace him and the GOP doesn’t care that we’re a fascist state now? Seems like a bigger deal.

@2: Really? As of 12:42 PST I haven't seen anything.

@3. If you say it then it’s true. That’s what the president does so why not apply that standard to everybody?

2018 is gonna be great.

Ah, the Ronald Reagan playbook... what did Reagan die of, again?

@5. I think it was trickle Down syndrome.

The only other person I know of who claimed to be a genius, and in fact a SUPER-GENIUS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STeVTzWe…

@2: Jebus, do your f'ing reading. That's the NY Federal Prosecutor, not the Special Counsel.

You know who didn't win the presidency on his first try? DONALD FUCKING TRUMP. He ran in 2000 (but not as a Republican that time).

Pro tip: If you’ve reached the point where you’re twitting out royal proclamations espousing your own genius and mental stability, you’ve already lost it, obviously.

Send in the men in white coats.

Richard Painter: “I am a very stable genius” is the way people talk on the way to the funny farm, not the Situation Room. Or so it was a year ago.

Josh Marshall: “The Tdumbp family deserves our pity, not contempt. They are a family of mental deficients with no experience following the law.”

As terrifying as it is peering into the abyss of our president’s dementia-addled psyche, without twitter his handlers would probably be able to contain him enough to project the illusion that he is a fully functioning adult. It’s disturbing but at least we know what we’re dealing with.

@12: I initially read that as 'peeing into the abyss of our president's dementia-addled psyche'

Contain him? Please,Give me a break! He would be in western state hospital (a psych ward) for 3 months by now if he were doing half the shit here in Washington state...

It's equivalent of someone's dating profile saying 'No drama'.

I think Dan is right. I mean just look at all the liberal wiz kids in Gollywood.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/photos-…

But honey @17, trolling is not wanted here. None of these other people are the President of the USA. You'd think a gay Catholic conservative boy such as yourself could work that out.

The book's assertion that he doesn't read anything, ever is... 1) Entirely believable without any sort of source credibility or vetting necessary, just based entirely on his public demeanor, and 2) Embarrassing and fucking pathetic.

The American system of government allowed this person to become President. Don't hate the player. Hate the Constitution.

I mean, someone needs to give him something to read and lock him in a room, if only in an effort to keep his brain engaged enough to maybe stave off Alzheimer's. Somebody there's gotta have a WSJ or copy of mein kampf lying around don't they?

“Yeah, it's too bad we live in a country where you ‘can say whatever comes to your head.’ Nothing tightening up those libels laws and feeding the U.S. Constitution into a shredder won't take care of.”

Schredding it* is just a start. What they have in mind for America, what with Mein Trumpfy’s 5 to 6 million majority vote/Mandate**, are all sorts of wonderful Ideas they can try out on US to make us Great, again. Think Kansas, circa the 1890s, just before the house lands on top of you. Only, with Slavery for off-Whites, And Poors. And probably Irish. Eyetalians. Jews. Short people. People with big hands. The Homos. 'Natives.' Commies. Leftys. The Infirms.

Are you: Wealthy? White? Wealthy? Straight? Wealthy? Male?! No worries. You are IN.

* “It’s just a stupid piece of paper!” --Gee Dubya Bush

**When you subtract (and they will) all those Illegal votes, it’s really closer to ten to twenty million

Fuck. Yes, trump et all, we have enough proof these people are evil and corrupt. You guys are like rabbits in headlights, frozen.
I've read somewhere on fb that people are moving on changing the Electoral College, so, you know, this can't happen again. Focus on that. Work towards that. As well as the mid terms.

And the liberal arrogance of @18 has just been proven by calling somone they don't know “honey”. Technically that is sexual objectification and/or sexual harassment by liberal legal standards warranting of a lawsuit. So pretty much my point on “smarts” being relative has been proven with some backup on how the wrong use of a word like “honey” could get very expensive and use in gender eventually wont matter if the wrong person takes the connotation wrong.

https://www.doi.gov/pmb/eeo/Sexual-Haras…

http://www.richmond.com/business/learnin…

http://www.diversityinc.com/things-not-t…

LBJ ran for the Democratic nomination in 1960 and lost to JFK.

But sweetie @24. My intention was to piss you off.. I do hope I've achieved my goal. Now run along dear boy and peddle your crap elsewhere.
Your country is being run by a sexist sadistic moronic pig, and you worry my words objectify you. Now, fuck off.

@24 don't worry, she's not sexually harassing you. She's just pointing out that you are not very intelligent. she's addressing you as if you are a young child.

@ 24 - "Smarts" are indeed relative, something you prove every time you post. You think you have them, but nobody agrees with you on that point.

I feel like every day there are multiple shouting headlines about some stupid tweet, then a inside-page story about undoing some crucial Obama-era policy, or, like, the Clean Water Act or something. Trump is not smart enough to play distraction games - the guy ain't playing 9-dimensional chess - but there are people in his administration, and in Congress, who are smart enough to take advantage of the never-ending distraction that is Trump.

@29: Yes, that's the heart of problem. You just described the machiavellian depravity of Senate Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House.

"Pathological Liar gives credit to respected news organization for correcting falsehoods, doesn't do so by name because then it might make people realize that they're not a cabal against Pathological Liar, but are doing the same thing for Pathological Liar's own constant lies."

Also, why is this coming from Camp David? The Christmas break just ended one week ago. Is he already taking a break again?

@24 Wait, those links were confined to the workplace. Is posting nonsense your job? How much do you get paid per post? Is it by the hour? What kind of shit tier degree do you have?

@6 muffy: Thanks for giving me something--anything--to laugh about, however briefly. Now, if only this current shit mess wasn't all so pathetically sad and cluster fucked up.
@10 & @11 Original Andrew: Forget the men in the white coats--it's too late. Only lining up the Trumpzillan Administration before a firing squad would help us now (like I just said to @14).
@14 Superhyrulean: Instead of chucking Trumpzilla into Western State at the 99.9999999999% of taxpayers' burden, how about we line up Trumpzilla and its swamp creatures before a firing squad? They love their guns--let 'em eat ammo. Biggest pig roast in world history. Char-B-Qued pig heads are a delicacy in Wall Street's snootiest restaurants where they eat their own. End of "weapons of mass destruction". Mission accomplished!
@23 and @26 LavaGirl and @28 Ricardo: Thank you. You both just plain rock the house as usual.
@33 Bloated Jesus is Bloated: O--kay.....I see you're among us.....I think........?

Trumpzilla's idiotic daily self-obsession with Twitter is Reason #1 as to why I avoid Twitter altogether, and am selective in my use of social media.

Its really bad that Trump is in power but the billionaires already rule. Both political parties are corrupt. Who keeps building jails and prisons holding largely incarcerated addicted and mentally ill poor and people of color; and the war machine at public expense? Both parties. We have to change this system if we want real change. The status quo is not working for the majority.

For example, in the seventies people got rid of Nixon and were able to help stop the war in Viet Nam. In Britain today people were able to radicalize the Labor party and to begin fighting austerity and poverty with the poor and working people.

@36: It really is alarming that a random billionaire can sweep everything else off the table, without the public knowing, and change things at a whim for the glut of so few.

Here's to The Great Fall of Humpty Dumpty in 2018!

@38 Honestly, you're so deranged, so estranged from reality, and so adament about destroying any chance of democrats having a coalition of the left in 2020 that I think it's just as easy that you are a Russian bot as any of these right wing trolls.

@39. Say what? How is one woman's authentic voice going to derail anything. What an offensive comment.

@40 Wow, so devoid of any actual point or even the beginning of any consideration of what I stated. My comment can be easily applied to you.

What is with these eldercare patients? Can they not see how distractingly insane they sound? Did I say that she would derail anything? No? Oh, well, I guess a dose of boomer blood will do the trick!

You can be as hyperbolic as you like, there is only one definitive group whom I dislike and they are independent of race, gender, and orientation.

Hey bloated Jesus. Fuck off you prick. I read you comment to Grizelda and wtf are you on about. Another idiot man who blabs bs and thinks he says something. Right, throw in a bit of ageism and you think it means anything to anyone.
" you're so deranged".
" so estranged from reality".
Another baby boy who misses his dummy and his mummy.

@Lava You've posted a lot about the EC, and I think getting rid of it would be fine though it's worth discussing ways to prevent total dominance by coastal urban areas in that case (especially in the reality in which coastal urban areas are nearly entirely responsible for the system in place- the conservative media machine and the financial sector) but generally fine- get rid of the EC.

But if we are talking about voting reforms, this seems to be one that gets inordinate attention from people not in the US because it's simple to understand how nuts it is. Even if it were gone though, we'd still have choices like the one we had last year- between Trump and Clinton. The real focus should be on A) campaign finance reform- getting money, corporations, lobbying groups etc entirely out of politics and B) voter disenfranchisement and C) voter apathy. I don't mean to harp on about this right now, but if you took care of these things, it would revolutionize the country, with or without the EC. On the flip side, if you simply eliminate the EC and don't do anything about those things, then we just have a choice between Clinton and Trump, Gore and Bush. So yea, it's way better to have Clinton and Gore than Bush and Trump- undeniably- but if we are going to transform the electoral system, why not aim higher than less evil oligarchs?

Why can't they all be focused on EmmaLiz.

Sure, Lava, I agree. I'm responding to you personally since in these conversations over the last few months I've seen you mention the EC repeatedly but not the other things (which doesn't mean you didn't- just that that's all I've seen). I just returned from Europe, and I found a similar thing among Europeans, so it made me think that people who aren't in the US might be giving the EC more significance than it deserves in the larger scheme.

@28. Cold dead right

Emma @ 45 - "people who aren't in the US might be giving the EC more significance than it deserves in the larger scheme"

The Dems lost two elections in this century because of that most undemocratic of institutions, and you think we exagerate its significance in the larger scheme? I'd say you're downplaying it way too much.

In a real democracy, the popular vote is the only vote that matters.

Ricardo, I'm not downplaying that. I said as much. I'm saying that even in that case, we'd have a President Gore and a President Clinton, which would be much better for us and the world than a President Bush and a President Trump. So sure, get rid of the EC.

However, if we are going to go about massive election reform, why can't we aim higher than that so that we have options other than millionaire sons/spouses of former politicians like Gore, Bush and Clinton in the first place?

I see two paths.

One - get rid of EC. The Dems will win more. This is good. Nothing else will change however, and there will be an additional issue of total coastal urban dominance of national politics.

Two- get money out of politics and run candidates who can therefore focus on disenfranchisement and voter apathy. The result would still be the Dems would win more, but we'd have more options and a more participatory Democracy.

So to me, the second route, which would start with campaign finance reform and more fair voting- both of which already have organized bipartisan and national campaigns working for them- would be better but more nuanced so it's not something that people tend to latch onto.