The food had to be ice-cold.
The food had to be ice-cold.
Democrats lose again wrote:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1085207864224960519?s=20Democrats lose again!!!!!
go to white house for filet - get fed filet o'fish
No wonder they wouldn’t go to lunch with trump today!
It's not Trump's fault they had to order fast food.
They couldn't use the White House kitchen because of the shutdown.
Oh wait ...
Democrats lose again wrote:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1085207864224960519?s=20Democrats lose again!!!!!
Clemson football players' colons go home devastated! Well on their way to having Trump bodies.
I’ve lived in Clemson; never thought they’d have better food than the WH!
Trump is stuck with a ‘team of morons’ in his White House because they’re otherwise unemployable
by Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist
In a scathing column in the New York Times, economist Paul Krugman posed (and answered) the question that dogs many observers of Donald Trump’s White House: Why are so many of his top advisers sticking around when it appears that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has the goods on him?
According to the Nobel Prize-winning economist, what is left in the White House is the “worst and dumbest” of his hires who have nowhere else to go because they are incompetent.
Under the NYT headline, “Donald Trump and His Team of Morons,” Krugman wrote of Trump, “There have been many policy disasters over the course of U.S. history. It’s hard, however, to think of a calamity as gratuitous, an error as unforced, as the current federal shutdown. Nor can I think of another disaster as thoroughly personal, as completely owned by one man.”
“You can’t fully make sense of his policy pratfalls without acknowledging the extraordinary quality of the people with whom he has surrounded himself,” he continued before getting to the point. “And by ‘extraordinary,’ of course, I mean extraordinarily low quality. Lincoln had a team of rivals; Trump has a team of morons.”
In that vein, Krugman called out several of the President key advisers for their tone-deaf comments about the president’s shutdown, including Kevin Hassett, chairman of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, who said the furloughed workers should considered their enforced non-paid status a “vacation.”
“You don’t have to be a public relations expert to know that you’re supposed to express some sympathy, whether you feel it or not. After all, there are multiple news reports about transportation security,” Krugman wrote.
Krugman didn’t spare some of Trump’s advisers who don’t hold official positions in the White House, singling out Fox News personality Sean Hannity for lamenting the plight of rich people who may be forced to take less extravagant vacations in a down economy.
“Even if your real reason for favoring low taxes is that they let your wealthy friends engage in even more high living, you’re not supposed to say that out loud,” Krugman suggested before getting around to one of the many factors that ails his administration: those White House “morons.”
“There’s the Trump effect,” he explained. “Normally working for the president of the United States is a career booster, something that looks good on your résumé. Trump’s presidency, however, is so chaotic, corrupt and potentially compromised by his foreign entanglements that anyone associated with him gets tainted — which is why after only two years he has already left a trail of broken men and wrecked reputations in his wake.”
“So who is willing to serve him at this point?” he proposed. “Only those with no reputation to lose, generally because they’re pretty bad at what they do. There are, no doubt, conservatives smart and self-controlled enough to lie plausibly, or at least preserve some deniability, and defend Trump’s policies without making fools of themselves. But those people have gone into hiding.”
As he noted at the end, those who are still there have been distilled down from ‘the worst and the dumbest” to “even worse and even dumber.”
FULL ARTICLE AT
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/opinion/government-shutdown-trump.html
Yeah, trump thinks it’s great, finally he’s the ONLY story.
jesseriley wrote:
Yeah, trump thinks it’s great, finally he’s the ONLY story.
Truth. In the same way, Trump has no real incentive to end the shutdown - it is just generating more stories about him.
Asking Trump to step out of the news makes absolutely zero sense to him. His entire existence has been devoted to 1) money 2) new wives, new mistresses etc 3) media coverage.
Seeing himself on TV is his oxygen. Helping people isn't really his thing.
Nightmare scenarios coming soon as Trump’s shutdown will get exponentially worse
In a Month You’ll Wish the Shutdown Were Only as Bad as Today
Airport security screeners could quit en masse, grounding flights.
The federal courts could stop hearing civil cases.
City buses could stop running.
“Shutdowns don’t get bad linearly; they get bad exponentially,” said Sam Berger, a senior adviser at the Center for American Progress, who has previously worked at the Office of Management and Budget.
An administration official said the White House is game-planning for the shutdown to continue through at least the end of February.
TSA officers are expected to leave in large numbers, with the government struggling to find replacements ... crippling air travel and exposing passengers to greater terrorist risk.
The same goes for US prison guards. Criminals are likely planning how to escape en masse once they are controlled by fewer guards ... putting Americans at risk.
The same goes for border security ... more people crossing illegally because they are fewer agents to control them. ... so much for Trump caring about border security.
We could be talking about the confirmation hearing of William Barr for Attorney General.
Trump picked him to replace Jeff Sessions who Trump effectively fired for not not firing the guy investigating Trump.
That would normally be a pretty big story in any other administration.
Now. Meh
L L wrote:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dw7Kh_1WsAEXGLu.jpg:largeYes, that really happened.
But if Obama did it, you'd be worshiping him. What a bias specimen you are.
The out of work government employees should move to coal country and get secure jobs there.
LL. wrote:
But if Obama did it, you'd be worshiping him. What a bias specimen you are.
You really should consider never posting again. Every one of your posts reveals a new level of stupidity.
It is "biasED", moron! Saying anything about "a bias specimen" exposes you as an absolute imbecile.
Trump’s a stress specimen; you should see how much younger he looks in 2016 pics.
The end for Trump is VERY near.
Mueller's report is going to bring him down. But first, this shutdown will become MUCH worse. Then, Mitch will be a hero for doing "the hard part," saving himself and the party. Trump is going down, and this is the way they save face. You're watching history.
Interesting!
With all the major stories in the US today—the shutdown, courts overturning the Trump administration’s policies left and right, Barr’s testimony in Congress, and the Mueller investigation…I wonder how major, objective, reality based news organizations are covering these stories today….
https://www.apnews.com/c39334f65f99465582b49489c5077781
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46872412
Those headlines all make sense. Factual, reality based reporting all around. I wonder what the top story over on foxiness.com might be right now…..
Oh, huh….I wonder why that’s their lead story. Maybe…..LOOK!!! A bunch of scary brown squirrels!!!!!! It’s an INVASION!
agip wrote:
jesseriley wrote:
Yeah, trump thinks it’s great, finally he’s the ONLY story.
Truth. In the same way, Trump has no real incentive to end the shutdown - it is just generating more stories about him.
Asking Trump to step out of the news makes absolutely zero sense to him. His entire existence has been devoted to 1) money 2) new wives, new mistresses etc 3) media coverage.
Seeing himself on TV is his oxygen. Helping people isn't really his thing.
No, false. He's just not from your side. Funny how you think your sideline comments have any weight at all, as if you have some insight into his mind, but not the evil mind of Hillary the Lying Witch who suckered you big time:):):):):)
