#NoPuppetNoPuppet | #PresidentStooge
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Hm... he's mad that the guy that was supposed to shut these investigations down decided to recuse himself... shocking.
At the end of the day, Jeff Sessions is a lawyer; he knew exactly what he had to do, and woe unto the lawyer who gets caught dabbling in this forbidden realm.
President Trump sometimes seems to not give a damn about this; he's a spoiled bullybrat who wants what he wants and wants it right goddamn mofo grabbembydahoohah
now.
Attorney General Sessions, being an attorney, is presently considering how he got himself into this mess, what he overlooked in his zeal to ascend the ivory tower, and how the hell he might keep himself out of prison.
My fellow Americans, it is my honor to present President Nopuppet N. Stooge.
Donald Trump likely has no idea how much trouble he is in. And, you know, given the amount of chatter about the #PutiPoodle's mental health, we might as well take the moment to consider the possibility that he actually lacks the capability of comprehending just how much trouble he is in.
I've lost track of an article, one of many amid a torrential, toxic tide, in which one or another Democratic-sympathizing analyst or commentator pointed out that the President is more and more isolated as time passes, and the potential loss of Jared Kushner as Russia-scandal questions verge toward
treason would leave Mr. Trump with Bannon and McMaster, neither of whom, apparently, he trusts. There are, of course, all manner of caveat and context about that, but the point is easy enough to grasp generally, and reminds that even the devoted son-in-law has his own foci to worry about.
President Trump is not getting his way about a number of these issues because reality itself requires otherwise. And I do wonder, as he gets more and more frustrated with each new disappointment, what question he is asking himself: What did he miss? What did who not tell him? It would be interesting to know, not simply for observing that he likely would blame others, but more particularly the laundry list of what people did not tell him: What did Donald Trump not know about what the hell he was getting into?
Part of what staggers me is an old conservative pretense that whatever strange thing a right-winger says is just as normal as nuts in a tavern, and the degree to which the Trump administration seems to be trying to play the game. It's not necessarily in McMaster's lexical dances for the press, or the #CommShop's hideously awful, worm-on-hook messaging; rather, as more and more of this emerges, there are moments in which they basically seem to be confessing or even pantomiming their guilt, and it feels really stupid to say, but on some level, inasmuch as anyone would admit to their boss that he and they were taking certain risks, Donald Trump and others in his administration, transition, and campaign behave as if they think they simply cannot get caught.
But let me be specific: Neither do I think they are palm-rubbing, gleeful villains recounting their exploits for their own satisfaction. It's more like they are accustomed to getting what they want, so, sure, here is the exposure, and here is our response, and, you see, all is good because we say so, or something like that.
It's like at some point Donald Trump is going to say, "Well, yes, of course we did—why wouldn't we?" and the rest of us are going to take more than a moment trying to figure out if he has any clue what he just said. And, you know, maybe if it's 1980, and a white supremacist sits in the principal's office,
maybe a white kid can beat a minority and say of course he did it because [
racist slur] and the principal will tell the minority to try harder to fit in. I mean, that's the thing, I recognize this behavior. But come on, it's 2017, and this is a Manhattan real estate developer turned President of the United States, not some two-bit, backwater white supremacist elementary school principal in a time and place where he could be seen physically bullying your own students in pursuit of a Little League baseball dispute and nobody think it strange.
Still, it's the behavior of someone who doesn't expect to ever have reason to answer under the rules. Is that some manner of cosmic hubris, then, or have they broken and this sense of denial is all they have left?
And while the latter is a tempting excuse, how would that reconcile with the idea of a lawyer like Attorney General Sessions getting himself into this mess in the first place? The former U.S. Senator and Alabama Attorney General is rather quite accustomed, politically speaking, to getting his way.
