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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rude Pundit does it again [View all]
That right there is the motherfucking president of the motherfucked United States of America, seated and grinning while grim pandemonium goes on around him. And he's at a dinner at his golf resort in Florida, where he spent the weekend golfing. The dinner is for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, who also golfed with the president, who happens to be a persimmon-topped wrecking ball named Donald Trump.
At dinner, the president and the PM were enjoying a salad. More precisely, they were enjoying "Mr. Trump's Wedge Salad," which is a chunk of iceberg lettuce coated in blue cheese dressing, bacon, and more blue cheese. Essentially, it's just edible plastic conveying cheese and bacon and cream to your bloodstream. Then, oh, the inconveniences of being president, North Korea tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile that landed in the Sea of Japan. It's kind of a big fucking deal because, see, North Korea has nukes and a mad leader with no checks on his madness, and Japan would be right in the crosshairs of any attack. Goddamnit, what about the main course?
So everyone leapt into action to find out more and figure out how to respond to a direct provocation. That's the flurry of activity you see up there. It's not, by the way, an effort to move the conversation to a more secure location. Oh, no, that'd interrupt dinner, and there was some goddamned meat on the way. Thus, in the middle of the dining area at a big golf club with tons of people watching, everyone with Trump and Abe started to read classified documents and talk about classified information. Even more fucked up was that the room was dimly lit so they used their goddamn cell phone flashlights to read the, let's say it again, classified information. Their phones. Pointed at the documents. Their easily-hackable phones. In the room where everything was being discussed. In front of dozens of civilians, many of whom were snapping photos of the events. As long as you paid your expensive dues, you could be there in that room. So, really, who the hell knows what agents of foreign governments could have been present?
This isn't about the level of transparency or whatever else you wanna make it about. Like so many things with Republicans, it's about the hypocrisy. Hillary Clinton's private email server was supposed to essentially allow ISIS to enter the country freely and kill all our dogs and enslave our wives. But here are seemingly multiple violations of any kind of safety protocols when it comes to dealing with classified material.
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Actually, a normal president wouldn't be in this position in the first place.
blue neen
Feb 2017
#24
My experience with Japanese folks, at least in the past, is that they REALLY do not like bleu cheese
jmbar2
Feb 2017
#48
The NY Times report on the incident says Trump enjoys displaying the "spectacle" of
tblue37
Feb 2017
#51
He doesn't drink, so he doesn't even have that excuse for looking stupid.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2017
#17
Yeah, but when you're high on coke, alcohol doesn't really mix or have much effect.
Ligyron
Feb 2017
#59
What's wrong with the White House or Camp David for these meets? Why does he get away with this?
SammyWinstonJack
Feb 2017
#16
$$$, DIRECTLY into his own personal pocket ... hosting foreign heads of state ...
mr_lebowski
Feb 2017
#40
Not sure if it's THAT ... or a Ceasar ... they're both pretty egregiously marked up ...
mr_lebowski
Feb 2017
#39