First we had Sean Spicer hiding in the White House bushes and now we have this:
The ceremony occurred in the Blue Room of the White House, where many senior law enforcement officials — including the Secret Service director — had gathered. Mr. Comey — who is 6 feet 8 inches tall and was wearing a dark blue suit that day – told Mr. Wittes that he tried to blend in with the blue curtains in the back of the room, in the hopes that Mr. Trump would not spot him and call him out.
“He thought he had gotten through and not been noticed or singled out and that he was going to get away without an individual interaction,” Mr. Wittes said Mr. Comey told him.
But Mr. Trump spotted Mr. Comey and called him out.
“Oh and there’s Jim,” Mr. Trump said. “He’s become more famous than me.”
With an abashed look on his face, Mr. Comey walked up to Mr. Trump.
“Comey said that as he was walking across the room he was determined that there wasn’t going to be a hug,” Mr. Wittes said. “It was bad enough there was going to be a handshake. And Comey has long arms so Comey said he pre-emptively reached out for a handshake and grabbed the president’s hand. But Trump pulled him into an embrace and Comey didn’t reciprocate. If you look at the video, it’s one person shaking hands and another hugging.”
He literally tried to use the blue drapes as camouflage.
I can’t stop laughing.
Newfs!
Now this is the sort of analysis we need right now.
“What are we to make of this breaking news?”
“Aw, lookit the doggies! Soooo cute!”
<reach through screen to scratch behind Newfie’s ears>
Notably, Trump didn’t try his alpha-monkey arm-yank routine.
Comey is SO tall! It cracks me up that he wanted to stay out of the limelight and thought he could be hidden by the drapes.
Again and again, we see Trump making terrible faux pas with protocol and those who actually know and understand what’s right and what’s wrong are the ones who are embarrassed.
Those who support Trump are working overtime to try and keep him on a leash, but he’s determined to charge ahead and do things his way. It’s pathetic that his handlers have to modify his daily briefings so he can understand the words. It’s terrifying that he has the attention span of a gnat and has to be coached on how to perform simple tasks that a sitting president should know.
It will be interesting to see how he fares on his first international trip in the role as president. I imagine the leaders he visits will treat him with respect and I hope he doesn’t pee on the carpet. But that’s asking a lot of him.
not a faux pas it’s a thug tactic – and it worked. I, for one, thought they were bffs after that circulated
her really is a thug; sending his long time body guard to fire Comey,
He’s 6’8″; he’s never going to be inconspicuous. He should have realized that by now.
The pussy grabber’s prefiring embrace. Who could resist?
I think that this is even funnier, myself…in a graveyard laughing sort of way, of course.
Breaking!!! Joe Lieberman (!!!) Frontrunner For Top FBI Job.
AG
P.S. This too.
Wall Street gains as Trump rout eases
Like…they think it’s over???
AG
Kinda foolish to read too much into market swings. About as foolish as those who predict imminent economic collapse.
It’s only “imminent” just before it happens, ishmael.
Then suddenly people start leaping off of tall buildings and turning on the gas.
It’s a surprise when it happens. That’s why fools keep on blowing up the bubble.
This country is overextended on so many levels. It’s in debt up to its corporate asshole; it’s in the midst of a spiraling inflation due to printing money in order to hold off creditors; its underclasses are continually in near revolt; its infrastructure is falling apart and it has now elected a flamethrower for a president.
When the break happens, it won’t be “unexpected” for people with an ounce of sense, any more than say Al Capone’s or John Gotti’s falls were unexpected. Career criminals always think they’ll get away with it forever.
That’s why the three crooks in the above image are laughing their asses off.
It’ll happen.
It’s just a matter of when.
Every empire implodes eventually, because “empire” is always based on theft and murder.
It’s just a matter of when.
it could be tomorrow from some impulsive, senseless presidential move.
It could be in a year or two or three, as the bad karma continues to pile up.
Or…considering the size and power of ther corporate interests that actually own and urun it, it could take decades.
Maybe the blowup will come once the burgeoning AI system gets smart enough to see the handwriting on the wall and takes steps to continue its power supply before the plebes take the whole shebang down.
I really do not know “when,” but I do understand this abosolute truth.
What goes up, must come down.
Watch.
AG
Again.. such a useless prediction because you will eventually be right. Could be 3,5, 15 years from now but until then you’re selling snake oil like the rest.
You can’t use it. You will not use it. You and all the rest of the lesser-of-two-evils choice-makers will continue to back the ones who make your life a little less miserable than the lives of the people from whom they steal even more.
3 weeks?
3 years?
3 lifetimes?
Guilt is guilt.
What evolutionary progress we humans have made over our time here on earth has been powered by those who refused to go along in order to get along.
The rest?
Crocodile tears on Golgotha and then back to slavery.
Sleep well.
They will. Their various Dr. Feelgoods will see to that.
Or…wake the fuck up!!!
AG
Arthur, come up with some new insults and talking points. I don’t care who you vote for and you are from the only one on this blog who doesn’t identify with our main two political parties.
I find you amusing because you are a committed proselytizer, frustrated that your audience doesn’t accept your gospel but ever-hopeful that they will one day wake the fuck up.
Until then, keep selling the snake oil like all the other libertarians.
Thank you, ishmael.
You prove my point.
AG
P.S. I am not “the only one on this blog who doesn’t identify with our main two political parties.”
What?
You haven’t noticed?
. . . sayin’ sumthin’!):
No, actually they more likely starved alone in a ravine somewhere.
The ignorance behind and pervading that pretty-much-diametrically-wrong claim is downright jaw-dropping.
The science is pretty solid that a (probably the) main driver of human evolution was the selective advantage gained by organizing ourselves into cooperative bands (with the additional feedback loop that such cooperative banding specifically for hunting enriched our hominid ancestors’ nutritional resources in ways crucial to the evolution of human brains).
But never mind; carry on spouting whatever cockamamie ignorance pops into your head to support your counter-factual notions and theories.
And adding a calculatedly offensive photo into the bloviating.
Oh.
You find it offensive, too?
Great.
AG
At least this time his vandalism didn’t include egregious racism.
. . . actually read the prediction (it’s ag!), but this seems the most quintessential and succinct description possible of ag’s shtick (and its core flaw) that I have seen.
(Actually, though, even if, in “3, 5, 15 years from now”, some vague ag prediction eventually, arguably proves “right”, it means nothing. It’s the stopped clock/blind squirrel phenomenon illustrated. Such “performance” can only be evaluated within the broader context of how many such predictions failed to come to fruition.)
“Predictions are hard, especially about the future.” –widely attributed (whether apocryphally I don’t claim to know) to Yogi Berra