Trump rejects John Bolton not because he's deranged but because he has a mustache. You can't make t

[riversedge]

Well--in this case, I am glad Trumpy does not like Bolton's mustache. That man is dangerous to all living creatures!!





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Trump rejects John Bolton not because he's deranged but because he has a mustache. You can't make this up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-is-holding-a-government-casting-call-hes-seeking-the-look/2016/12/21/703ae8a4-c795-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.e98fb12a8cb2 …




https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-is-holding-a-government-casting-call-hes-seeking-the-look/2016/12/21/703ae8a4-c795-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.1a71b124ba20

[unblock]

1. Again, it's prolly a good thing he doesn't realize his power

I mean, couldn't possibly ask someone to shave it off, lol

[Nevernose]

2. please be a joke please be a joke please be a joke

please be a joke
please be a joke
please be a joke

Shit like this is why/how my psychiatrist can afford to send her kids to college.

I swear to God: this whole thing was contrived by Jeb Bush and the BFEE just so Dubya wouldn't go down in history as the worst American president. I don't have words anymore.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Seriously, making GWB look good isn't much of a recommendation, but that's where we are.

smh

[Nevernose]

9. My alternative theories:

The Captain and crew will arrive, in the nick of time, to correct the timeline.

In 2020, just before the next inauguration, Trump takes off his mask and Surprise! It's been Andy Warhol all along. Greatest piece of performance art that ever was or ever will be (including faked death).

[tblue37]

12. More like Andy Kaufman. nt

[onethatcares]

28. with the

Captain and Tennile.

the dumpter would have had a real hard time with Einstein.

[DBoon]

15. I keep hoping the Doctor shows up

in his TARDIS. To save humanity from a fate worse than Daleks.

[Generator]

14. GWB looks like a scholar and a statesman!

In comparison to scumbucket Trump.

[Raine]

18. Yup really, plus W looks like an absolute genius compared to the brainless orange one..

[JHan]

3. lol.

[MrScorpio]

4. Are you kidding?

Is he kidding?

You can't make this shit up.

Is this any way to run a government?

[Bucky]

39. No way to run a government, but it makes for grrreat TV

Drama, glamour, nuclear arms race, pizzazz!

I can't turn away!

[pnwest]

6. may i very gently point out this is a click-bait, misleading headline? we can't stoop to

faux news tactics. REading the headline I thought there was a definitive statement of some type verifying he rejected Bolton because of his mustache, but the story states merely that staffers THINK that may have played a role. Please don't sensationalize like they do. So many people are just headline readers, the headlines we put out ought not be misleading...

[Maru Kitteh]

36. May I gently point out that "playing fair" has landed us in a handbasket full of deplorables

on a quick trip to hell?

It's time to get DIRTY, LOUD and MEAN. The headline is based upon the observations of those who know him best and it's well-documented that he uses "casting call" language and is obsessed with appearances. The headline is valid.

[Bucky]

40. That's not the same as click bait

It's a story with only "background" sources, but it follows conventional journalistic practices and deals with an issue of substance.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. So.... I guess I won't be sitting by the phone, then.

Author, author:

Philip Rucker is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post, where he has reported since 2005.
Follow @PhilipRucker

Karen Tumulty is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post.
Follow @ktumulty

[TexasTowelie]

8. Yes, I wouldn't want to look at his mustache for four years either.

The porn mustaches of the 70s look bettter than that hideous growth under his nose.

[rurallib]

10. but...but... he took Iowa's beloved Branstad

who was born with his 'stache.

'Beloved'

[JPPaverage]

44. But braindead will be in China

Out of sight, out of mind?

[tandem5]

11. In that case I can think of another uggo that should be replaced:

[BainsBane]

13. No kidding.

[AwakeAtLast]

16. +1000! n/t

[treestar]

27. Yes!

We don't want an orange combover President! Get one that owns up to his hair loss!

Oh, wait, maybe we do have that

[IMG][/IMG]

[QC]

17. If this is the only way to keep Bolton out of power, I'll take it. n/t

[BillyBobBrilliant]

19. Aesthetic?

All I see is TACKY & GAUCHE!

[louis-t]

20. Wow, I thought it WAS made up.

[SubjectiveLife78]

21. Mattingly! Get rid of those sideburns!

[Else You Are Mad]

26. One of the best Simpsons episodes ever. Nt.

[Fearless]

47. +1

[Takket]

54. "I still like him better than Steinbrenner" ;)

[BlueMTexpat]

22. Please let Bolton be

rejected for ANY reason whatsoever.

He is Evil Incarnate. That is NOT hyperbole.

[Vinca]

23. Well, at least he's honest that it's a casting call.

[skypilot]

24. Is this some of that fake news...

...I've been hearing so much about? This can't be fucking serious.

[Retrograde]

25. I like Bolton's mustache

I don't like anything else about him, but it is a pretty cool 'stache.

[awoke_in_2003]

29. It is the least offensive thing about him. nt

[Bucky]

41. I applaud your bipartisanship

I mean, he's no Burt Reynolds... in terms of qualification for diplomatic leadership

[longship]

50. And a "Coo Coo Cachoo" to you, too.

[NewJeffCT]

30. Trump would have rejected Albert Einstein for this reason

http://a4.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fit,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,h_1200,q_80,w_1200/MTE5NDg0MDU0OTU2OTAxOTAz.jpg

[DFW]

31. The end does not justify the means. HOWEVER..........

In THIS case, the end is fine, and the means make the one employing them look like even more of a crude oaf than he already looks like.

I'll take it.

[hurple]

32. So, he...

rejects Bolton because he has a moustache

But, keeps Kellyanne Conway despite....

Oh yeah, I went there!

[dae]

33. Get the Gorilla Glue & fake mustaches, we have work to do!

[Bucky]

42. !!

:lol:

[Major Nikon]

34. He has a point. Anyone who looks just like Ned Flanders isn't the best pick for that reason alone

[Grins]

35. "Hes very aesthetic..."

"He’s very aesthetic,” said one clueless twit who has absolutely no clue how stupid he or she sounds.

Have you seen photos of the horribly gaudy place with the the horribly gaudy furniture in which he lives? Hell, he has a gold commode on his airplane!

[Paladin]

37. Somebody nominate Bolton's moustache for the Nobel Peace Prize. (nt)

[iluvtennis]

38. I'm no Bolton fan, but it shows you just how superficial Traitor Trump is. GAH nt

[George II]

43. And yet he's been walking around with that dead animal on his head for years!

[Pachamama]

45. If looks were a basis for qualification in the Comrade Trumpski administration, then his excellency

....should immediately remove himself from office. The ugliness of this mans soul (or lack thereof) is emanating so strongly that it is festering out of him and he truly has become even uglier in last few months. I was in an airport lounge 4 days ago and overheard a few people talking who after having to see his excellency on the TV, remarked how truly ugly he was, and that they never really had noticed just how ugly. Then a third person commented that he really seems to be showing his "true face and nature" which is pure evil. This by the way was before his Christmas Nuke Tweet for an arms race. But I just shook my head as I realized that what these 3 people were observing was in fact the truth. That this ugly man is even uglier than we realized and his ugliness is starting to show more and more.

[Fearless]

46. Bolton is also grossly GROSSLY unqualified.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

48. Make mustaches a big new trend to get in tRump's face.

I've had one for years and now I would not shave it off until tRump is out of power at the very least.

[Javaman]

49. good thing putin didn't have a mustache, huh? if only nt

[Warpy]

51. Yeah, he seems to be filling positions by how people look, for the most part

Government by central casting, except for sensitive economic stuff still to be controlled by the iron fists at Goldman Sachs.

For once I don't care why someone was disqualified, only that he was. Bolton is a fucking diplomatic disaster.

[calimary]

52. John Bolton! What a total fuckwad.

However, it wouldn't have been his ridiculous mustache that I would (or DO) find so off-putting. It would be his constant throbbing hard-on for war. Probably the only way he can get hard, anymore. He wanted war like an infant wants its mother's breastmilk.

He was a signatory of the highly notorious and war-mongering cabal PNAC - Project for a New American Century. This den of evil started pushing then-President Bill Clinton to go to war in Iraq. They were unsuccessful. But they did get their way after bush/cheney stole the election in 2000. And a bunch of 'em turned up in that foul scrum of White House counselors and other officials.

This group was a piece-o-work. Chaired by Mr. Perpetually-WRONG himself, Bill Kristol. Other nasty war-mongering weasels whose names you might find familiar, from their infestations of several CON administrations from ronald reagan onward, included dick cheney, Elliott Abrams, Scooter Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, THREE Kagans (Donald, Frederick, & Robert), Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ken Adelman, retired General Barry McCaffery (TV talking head), Michael O'Hanlon (!!!!?!?!?!?! - who, being from the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution, should have known better), Richard Allen, Gary Bauer, Bill "national scold" Bennett, Charles Krauthammer (Pox Noise columnist/talking head), Stephen Cambone, Steve Forbes (!), John Lehman, Frank Gaffney, Ed Meese (reagan's oft-investigated Attorney General who's other claim to fame was his ridiculous pornography report), Richard Perle, John McCain (!?!), Dan Quayle (THE infamous Mr. "Potatoe" Head, himself), Robert Zoellick, Norm Podhoretz, Randy Scheunemann (watch out for this guy. He keeps turning up again and again. He was the guy who tried to "coach" Sarah Palin for her VP debate with Joe Biden and finally went away shaking his head in dismay, William Schneider (another columnist/talking head), Malcolm Wallop, Vin Weber, and James Woolsey. AND "jeb!" bush. Yep. He's on there, too.

These were true chicken-hawks. A whole insidious, scheming, conniving, card-carrying coven of them. In every sense of the word. NEVER served in the military. NEVER wore their country's uniform. NEVER saw combat. NEVER got their hands dirty. NEVER had any skin in the game. NEVER went to war (except, for some of them, from the comfort and safety of the White House Situation Room). NEVER put their asses on the line. NEVER shed a drop of blood for their country. They just wanted everybody else to have to do that, while they stayed home where it was safe and sheltered and comfy. One exception: Rumsfeld, of all people. He actually did serve. But lucky for him, he served between conflicts. After the Korean War. So, yeah, he did wear his country's uniform. But he, too, never had to put himself in harm's way.

I must admit, the first time I scanned this list, I was shocked to see Michael O'Hanlon's name on it. What the fuck was HE doing, lying down in the same bed with those human vermin? For awhile, early in the bush/cheney regime, he was just about the ONLY voice any hapless purported "news" network seemed able to find to voice any opposition to that criminal squatters' White House. For awhile, back then, the Brookings Institution was the ONLY think tank or corresponding organization on the left, to even try to counter the metastasizing onslaught of CONservative groupings like the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institute, the Cato Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute (which was the spawning ground, home, and haven of the PNAC). Even back then, there were at least these FOUR on the side of the bad guys, compared to only ONE, Brookings, on our side, and it was pretty damn flimsy at that.

http://www.publiceye.org/pnac_chart/pnac.html

[lunatica]

53. All I care about is that Bolton was rejected!

What a relief!

[On the Road]

55. That Man Can Start a Fight in an Opium Den

Have never seen a situation he can't screw up, North Korea being a prime example.

I am so relieved he's not I may be in the minority in thinking that left to his own devices, Trump wouldn't start another Iraq-like war. But he's a hothead, and if he surrounds himself with enough other hotheads, they can probably create a war by repeating "Carthago delenda est," especially Trump and Pence lack foreign policy experience. Bolton is the the worst of the bunch.