US Politics

This Buzzfeed story is interesting.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/inside-the-private-chat-rooms-trump-supporters-are-using-to

Memes R Srs bzns

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/823968301483167744

Press working together.

#hawkward

What's the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?

Trump's never had a garbanzo bean on his face.

Nobody pissed on Trump. It's tremendously disappointing but it never happened, the escorts pissed on the bed. I don't think that counts as Golden Showers. The wee has to go on you. It's an important point.

What the hell is a garbanzo bean anyway

your right this joke is clearly fake

so trump can just introduce any policy he feels like
aren't there some kind of checks and balances in place to stop him running riot

in the uk can theresa may introduce policy without the authority of parliament ?

aren't there some kind of checks and balances in place to stop him running riot

Yes, Congress and the Courts. The former has Republican majorities in both houses, the latter is fairly balanced between Democrat and Republican nominees, but I think at least two places are due to come up for Presidential nominees in his term.

Meanwhile his people are deleting tweets from National Parks. It's going to be a long four years...

Yeah, he can use executive orders to skip over all the usual processes of bringing in new laws or legislation.

I imagine everything will be executive orders from now on. There really should be a cap on them.

The gag order on the EPA is super creepy.

This thread is fascinating on the possible reasons behind Trump's behaviour;

https://twitter.com/alexandraerin/status/823755209537110016

NP twitter ban. it's good to see book burning is back.

Alt-NP however now exist, can't gag someone doing it on their free time on an unofficial account can you?

Interesting. Makes him seem a bit like Corbyn under the spell of hard left puppet masters, or to give another example, like Susan Boyle under the firm control of Simon Cowell.

He's the perfect puppet, he just doing what it take to be president because it's the next best thing to do in his head.

I think that's unfair. Susan has perfectly normal-sized hands.

While the content's interesting, these twitter "threads" need to die in giant shit-fuelled fire unless people/Twitter start providing a plain-text alternative or something way less awful to read.

Well that's reassuring.

/s

This x 100000000

Agreed.

Especially when the subject they're on is the fragmented communications and messages of someone...

The point about performing conversational algebra to make sense of his statements to the conclusion that he's repeating stuff from advisers is really interesting.

Also the change in the way he talks since, say, ten years ago. I would go further and say his temperament and politics have changed too. Given his age, it could be early signs of dementia or some other degenerative brain disease. Early enough to not be officially diagnosed but obvious enough for the people closest to him.
As a result he says pretty awful things off the cuff in public that are interpreted as "speaking the truth" to some of his supporters. I've seen this before.

Also the fact his family are so involved...

A good theory but actually there is nothing wrong with his health

My father had similar issues with communicating in his last few years, not dementia/Alzheimer's but also caused by brain damage. The evidence is anecdotal but it fits.

^^loool

Edit: refresh fail, just clarifying that this is in reply to @boristrump 's post!

Is this real? Robert Reich is real but don't know where this is from. Expanding on the "Trump as a Republican patsy"