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[–] [email protected] 4 points 57 minutes ago

Trump's M.O.: Try to do the craziest thing that you can think of. If it doesn't work, people will be more accepting of the 2nd craziest thing you can think of. Repeat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago

Reckless isn't the word for his perversity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Even if I survive the next four years I doubt my liver will…

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 hours ago

We'll see how baffled they really are after they unanimously approve him.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

This is not as surprising to me as him picking a Fox News host to be the secretary of defense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Neither is too surprising to me, but the TV star less so. A TV host picking another TV host to be in his cabinet was what I was expecting in 2016.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

He definitely wanted to, but there were still people around to tell him "no" back then. Not any more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

It's fine, I got a bottle of booze set aside for when WE3 or American Civil War: 2 Dumb 2 Prevent kick-starts our final doom.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

With a yes man here and a yes man there, here a yes, there a yes, everywhere a yes, yes. Old Macdonald had a farm…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

Old BigMac Donald had a farm…

[–] [email protected] 101 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What are they fucking baffled about? What is it they think they voted for?!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 15 hours ago

Some are disingenuous, Susan Collin style.

Others are genuine, utter dipshits.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 74 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Sadly, you'll need to be more specific.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The one who knocked up a 12 year old when he was 19, and who claims their son (that he raised) is her brother.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Is that who Nestor is?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Do you have a source for this?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

The one who people with morals is baffled is even allowed to BE in politics.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago

Isn’t that a foundational plank of the Republican Party?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

the one who looks like a real life version of a character from a cartoon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Not only people with morals, but even Republicans are baffled.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago

Those Leopards are gonna be stuffed to bursting!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Man, the US is going to be such a fucking clown show for the next 4 years. Holy shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Bold of you to assume there will be free and fair elections in four years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

4 years? Good God, that is an incorrect timeline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

Depends on how long Big Mac Don lives. Republicans first got elected when the democratic party split into 3 different branches with 3 different presidential candidates. I could see something like that happening in the near future with the republicans.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Bold to assume it's just 4 years before voters get another shot at unfucking all of this? 😉

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

😬😬😬😬

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It gives me flashbacks to his first term, many mooches ago.

He's going to play the Apprentice role again, in which he tries to increase tv ratings by randomly hiring and firing as many people as possible in every episode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What's a mooche for you??? Just curious, there's a song called The Mooche.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

It's the meme timeframe for employees under Trump. It's about 10 days, but really -3 days.

Trump hired Anthony Scarramucci (The Mooch) as White House Communications Director to start on August 2017.

As a good boi, he started the job right away on July 21, leaving his pregnant wife at the hospital.

Trump then hired John Kelly and John Kelly fired the Mooch on July 28.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If we're lucky, unfortunately this clown car was just purposely driven off a cliff willingly, because the rich have an insurance policy worth more than the idiot clowns they convinced to drive off the cliff.... problem is we're going to get totaled in the clown car, all of us reading this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Don't worry, the rich people aren't in the car and will be safely flying overhead while we crash and burn.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They'll be as "concerned" as Susan Collins for 4(+) years, won't they.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

Bet they'll vote to confirm. Assuming they get the chance anyway.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago

How are they baffled at Trump doing Trump stuff?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 16 hours ago

Whaaaat, the man who told us what he’d do for years is now going to do it!? Wiiiiiilllllld /s

[–] [email protected] 22 points 16 hours ago

Did they think his cognitive decline and bad decision making was exclusively directed at democrats?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 16 hours ago

Baffled how?

Like the cup game?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 15 hours ago

Is that the one where Pizza Hut raped a bunch of minors???

.....wait, that can't be right. Was it dominoes that raped the minors? Oh, I remember now. It was the noid. Avoid the noid....because he'll rape your children. Yeah, that makes more sense.

.......or was it Little Ceasars pizza pizza guy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Just a reminder to some members of the GOP. It was 'America First' and not 'Fist America'.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Russian asset.

Trump doesn't want any more nudes of his wife getting shared so Putin is calling these shots no, no question.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

In fairness, those nudes have been out for years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

and they might even be Donald's only remaining chance to see her naked

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

The same people who were concerned about the equity of affirmative action

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Whether or not he gets the slot, based on Trump's first term, a lot of the cabinet members aren't gonna last long anyway.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15071/how-does-trumps-turnover-compare-to-other-presidents/