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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA zoetrope of galloping despair
... too many emergencies to hold all of them in your mind ...
Lindy West
Today, during my morning routine of opening my laptop, clicking on literally anything, and just screaming and screaming, I made the astonishing discovery that Donald Trump has only been president of the United States for about three weeks. Which is weird, because I could have sworn we had fallen through a tesseract into the airless crush of a two-dimensional void at least seven eternities ago, or what would have constituted seven eternities if such a place had a linear concept of time. Turns out, though, it has only been 25 days, we are still on earth, and every cell in my body has not been excruciatingly flattened into pure math. It just feels like it ...
After Kellyanne Conways rumoured banishment from Sunday-morning cable news shows, the lucky public finally came face-to-face with senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who revealed himself to be a lizard who ... announced, with all the poise and charm of a bottom-tier meninist YouTuber who is one rejection away from a school shooting, that peasants shall not question the supreme leader and voter fraud is totally real ...
On the bustling patio at Mar-a-Lago, Trump discussed strategy regarding North Koreas ballistic missile launch with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, revealing that in essence he is selling access to classified meetings for $200,000 a pop to any bored, rich Florida dick. This is completely normal and good, unlike emails ...
He did .. find time to tweet this: Just leaving Florida. Big crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the FAKE NEWS media refuses to mention. Very dishonest! My mom says Im cool! ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/14/first-25-days-trump-despair-united-states
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,586 posts)"Stephen Miller . . . revealed himself to be a lizard who got a little too far from the heat lamp. . . . Ivanka, presumably, continued to pretend that she would ever in a million years have talked to Miller in high school."
"A zoetrope of despair" kind of says it all.
Rhiannon12866
(204,737 posts)This is a pretty comprehensive list of the egregious transgressions of the past 3 weeks - any one of which could have brought down any other administration. And, as the author states, there are so many that it's impossible to hold them all in your head at once...
malaise
(268,693 posts)Rec
Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Every liberal paper has its fair share of right-wing trolls, but I have been reading the G for a while now and it seems like the MAJORITY of their commenters are right-wing trolls.
They are the most miserable, hateful, negative bunch I have ever seen on a left wing publication. Even though it's the US version, I can tell by the way many of them express themselves in writing that many of them are not American. Do Daily Mail readers just sit there and wait to pounce every time the G publishes a left-leaning, controversial article or opinion piece?