#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

[Katheryne Helendale]

Trump admin hopes Pelosi will be too distracted by government shutdown to launch new Russia probes | RawStory

 

[Govi]

Trump's lack of imagination is evident in that hope. Does he think that he can keep the government shut down so that he can't be investigated? Does he imagine that a politician as experienced as Pelosi cannot delegate? Trump understands only one kind of management: his, which is totally authoritarian and dictatorial.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Trump Turns To Canada For Advice On How To Close A Southern Border

Widely considered to be the world’s foremost experts on how to grow and maintain a living border – one that doesn’t offend anyone, while only letting through wildlife, refugees, and visiting hockey teams – Canada hasn’t answered a phone call from the crank president since he drunk dialled them in early November to ask if they wanted to become America’s 51st state.

 

[Chin Rey]

Latest episode in this farce:
Trump Administration Auctions 150,000 Acres for Fracking Near Utah National Parks

Actually, it isn't the latest. This one was aired earlier this month while nobody was watching.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Interesting article in The New Yorker about Mark Burnett, the man responsible for The Apprentice, and thus Individual 1's re-invention as a successful businessman.

Burnett has often boasted that, for each televised hour of “The Apprentice,” his crews shot as many as three hundred hours of footage. The real alchemy of reality television is the editing—sifting through a compost heap of clips and piecing together an absorbing story. Jonathon Braun, an editor who started working with Burnett on “Survivor” and then worked on the first six seasons of “The Apprentice,” told me, “You don’t make anything up. But you accentuate things that you see as themes.” He readily conceded how distorting this process can be. Much of reality TV consists of reaction shots: one participant says something outrageous, and the camera cuts away to another participant rolling her eyes. Often, Braun said, editors lift an eye roll from an entirely different part of the conversation.

“The Apprentice” was built around a weekly series of business challenges. At the end of each episode, Trump determined which competitor should be “fired.” But, as Braun explained, Trump was frequently unprepared for these sessions, with little grasp of who had performed well. Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself during the contest only to get fired, on a whim, by Trump. When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to “reverse engineer” the episode, scouring hundreds of hours of footage to emphasize the few moments when the exemplary candidate might have slipped up, in an attempt to assemble an artificial version of history in which Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip decision made sense. During the making of “The Apprentice,” Burnett conceded that the stories were constructed in this way, saying, “We know each week who has been fired, and, therefore, you’re editing in reverse.” Braun noted that President Trump’s staff seems to have been similarly forced to learn the art of retroactive narrative construction, adding, “I find it strangely validating to hear that they’re doing the same thing in the White House.”

How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success

 

[Kara Spengler]

Trump's lack of imagination is evident in that hope. Does he think that he can keep the government shut down so that he can't be investigated? Does he imagine that a politician as experienced as Pelosi cannot delegate? Trump understands only one kind of management: his, which is totally authoritarian and dictatorial.

Unfortunately that is exactly what he is probably thinking. That completely shutting down everything (and I do mean everything) in government is a sane way to stop one thing. Anyone else will realise such a tactic is a shortcut to impeachment for failing to protect the country.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

China imports zero U.S. soybeans in November for first time since trade war started

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Clear message there.

 

[Soen Eber]

Maybe it's trying to chase down Santa's route to fix that phone call debacle.

Much more likely he's asking demanding requesting bribing negotiating forcing down his sleigh with F-16s having "frank and honest" discussions* with Santa to provide money for the wall, or to negotiate a Trump hotel at the north pole.

*Trump and his staff are still working on the precise methodology and wording.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Much more likely he's asking demanding requesting bribing negotiating forcing down his sleigh with F-16s having "frank and honest" discussions* with Santa to provide money for the wall, or to negotiation a Trump hotel at the north pole.

*Trump and his staff are still working on the precise methodology and wording.

Hopefully not!

As anyone rightly knows Santa lives in Lapland. It is already bad enough I have to deal with his residence and hotel down the street. Having another of his buildings in the country I plan to escape to when he screws this one up so royally we are all refugees?

 

[Soen Eber]

Hopefully not!

As anyone rightly knows Santa lives in Lapland. It is already bad enough I have to deal with his residence and hotel down the street. Having another of his buildings in the country I plan to escape to when he screws this one up so royally we are all refugees?

Hey, those Sami natives I'm descended from need some inspiration to think big and get rich too! ;P

 

[Romana]

I'm really wondering what Putin has on the GOP after reading this tweet:
Seriously, why would they tweet that? The responses are overwhelmingly negative. All the bots are concentrating their efforts on the Orange Orifice, who, by the way, outdid himself today: That is, the bots are pretty much the only positive posts in response to that.
But what is the GOP thinking? Do they also not know the bots are bots?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Interesting article in The New Yorker about Mark Burnett, the man responsible for The Apprentice, and thus Individual 1's re-invention as a successful businessman.

How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success

“The Apprentice” was built around a weekly series of business challenges. At the end of each episode, Trump determined which competitor should be “fired.” But, as Braun explained, Trump was frequently unprepared for these sessions, with little grasp of who had performed well. Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself during the contest only to get fired, on a whim, by Trump. When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to “reverse engineer” the episode, scouring hundreds of hours of footage to emphasize the few moments when the exemplary candidate might have slipped up, in an attempt to assemble an artificial version of history in which Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip decision made sense.

Yep. That pretty much sums up Trump's presidency.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Wow. Just when I thought he couldn't possibly sink any lower than he already has, he proves me wrong in spades. Fuck Trump, and fuck every slimeball asshole who still supports him after tweeting something like that!

 

[Kara Spengler]

Hey, those Sami natives I'm descended from need some inspiration to think big and get rich too! ;P

Maybe we can convince him to put his name on one of the ice hotels? That would make a perfect pic when it melts.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

In-duh-vidual One is becoming more and more unhinged by the day.

 

[Soen Eber]

Trump admin hopes Pelosi will be too distracted by government shutdown to launch new Russia probes | RawStory

While i whole-heartedly wish Pelosi a swift and peaceful retirement, I've never imagined her as someone who shouts "squirrel" or "shiny" and runs off distracted; a quality I find mostly associated with children or fools. Or men, of course. Quite the opposite.

Which says a lot about the Trump white house, that this is even a strategy.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Cristiano]

 

[danielravennest]

Remember this story from last year?

Russians Flock to Trump Properties to Give Birth to U.S. Citizens