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    TRT-XStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/25/19 4:36pm

    This man has been alone in a room making deals with the likes of Putin and Kim Jong Un and I don’t think we’re going to know just how awful those deals were until it’s way past too late.

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      Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballsTRT-X
      2/25/19 5:16pm

      I really have to wonder what went on there and what the effects could actually be. I don’t imagine any contracts (or MOA’s, lol) came out of those discussions.

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      Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯TRT-X
      2/25/19 5:50pm

      Gotta wonder if there will be more than just a Korean translator in the room this week.  We know lil’ Kim knows English much better than Trump knows his own language. 

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    TropicanaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/25/19 4:58pm

    This is so humiliating. On an international stage we have to put up with toddler level understanding and the adult in the room has to not just humor him but pretend it made sense. It is full on child tantrum level shit.

    Trump: “I don’t wanna go Friday!!”

    Adult: •eyeroll• “Ok, we will go the day after Thursday, which we will now call Trumpday.”

    Trump: “Good!”

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      SpikeFiendTropicana
      2/26/19 1:33pm

      Trump: “My peanut butter and jam sandwich has the peanut butter on the wrong side! I want it on the top slice, not the bottom slice! This isn’t even a sandwich!”

      Waitstaff: [picks up plate, leaves room, flips over sandwich, returns]

      Trump: “Perfect!”

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      amazingmaoTropicana
      2/26/19 5:27pm

      FUCK YOU YOU SON OF A BITCH. NOW YOU’VE SPOILED FRIDAYS FOR THE REST OF US!

      Trumpday. AAHHH I used to love Fridays but now I can’t enjoy it anymore!

      Oh and here’s a star.

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    ArtistAtLargeStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/25/19 7:18pm

    I’ve said it before: Trump sadly, but accurately represents modern American society. A dumbass grifter who failed up all his life and thinks everyone else who didn’t is a loser.

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      Mr.DuckSauceArtistAtLarge
      2/25/19 7:47pm

      It’s ok, they pretend to be losing but they themselves winners while in reality, losing, the American dream.

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      PumpkinSpiesArtistAtLarge
      2/26/19 1:45pm

      See also: automatically hating things they don’t understand.

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    BIMming ItStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/25/19 4:44pm

    I honestly can’t believe the Chinese have been so damn cordial through all of this nonsense (not to excuse their exploitation of American IP), but I assume the expectation is that same as it is in Russia:  He may be an unstable moron, but at least he can be steered into a more beneficial position for China/Russia/etc.

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      TRT-XBIMming It
      2/25/19 5:08pm

      Why not be cordial? His ignorance and the inability of either his staff or Congressional GOPs to stand up to him have lead to China playing him like a fiddle in these trade talks.

      Not to mention, the one consistent thing about Trump is he will like you if you pretend to be nice to him. Because he’s too thick to realize you’re playing him.

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      Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballsTRT-X
      2/25/19 5:15pm

      And probably gets PLAYED a lot. You can’t convince me that any policy he has pushed was ever HIS idea, people just convinced him stuff is his idea and then he just runs with it in his nonsense-spewing manner.

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    BiturbowagonStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/25/19 6:06pm

    I wish that people would laugh in the face of the lazy corrupt racist orange santorum-covered enemy of the people.

    He deserves the humiliation. He has earned every laugh directed at him. He and what he says are risible.

    Mel Brooks made a good part of his career mocking terrible people like Hitler, making them into ridiculous figures and laughing at them.

    We must do the same with the Frothy One. He is deserving of such opprobrium.

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      DvsRey17Biturbowagon
      2/25/19 10:45pm

      The problem with laughing at the Supreme Clown in Charge is that immediately afterwards his sycophants start calling everybody a racist for dare mocking their Petulant POTUS and start planning Armageddon because how dare we point out how moronic the current dipshit president truly is.

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      SergioBiturbowagon
      2/26/19 7:36am

      They did laugh at him at the UN general Assembly, some months ago.

      NO discernible effect.

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    ARP2Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/25/19 7:21pm

    Letter of Intent- Expressing the desire to work together. The substance isn’t binding (the business transaction), but the ancillary stuff is binding(e.g. confidentiality, maybe a period of exclusive talks, etc.)

    Memorandum of Understanding- usually a binding, but high level agreement. This is appropriate for trade talks as you’d leave it to others to negotiate the details.

    Agreement- Legally binding, nuts and bolts, sometimes they’ll push details down further into Exhibits, Appendices, Statements Work, etc.

    As a person who’s negotiated as many deals as he has, he should know this.

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      Obfuscatio: philosopher at largeARP2
      2/25/19 11:09pm

      I have the distinct impression he himself has never negotiated a goddam thing.

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      grimjack28ARP2
      2/26/19 8:05am

      lots of definitions include this as a legally non-binding agreement too.

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    900turboStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/25/19 4:59pm

    Putin: “Glad we’re alone Mr. President, away from all those bureaucrats, da?

    Trump: “Yeah, I hate those guys.”

    Putin: “So, let’s get your signature on this MoU. Paper means shit but President Trump’s signature in nice frame in Kremlin is a YUUUGE honor!”

    Trump: “Absolutely!” (scribblescribble)

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    Jer-est of BearsStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/26/19 10:51am

    I mothafuckin hate Trump as much as the next rational person, but have you ever HAD a deep fried oreo? That shit is life-affirming. I’m not saying I do the frying myself, but I will eat one. Deep fried pickles, though, hard pass.

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      BlackMage2030Jer-est of Bears
      2/26/19 11:12am

      Never had a fried pickle I could get behind. Why are we frying our brined veg like this?

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      Jer-est of BearsBlackMage2030
      2/26/19 11:19am

      We shouldn’t be. No one should be. 

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    chubsyubsyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/25/19 5:00pm

    Trump is like a guy playing poker who asks the other players what his cards mean and how to play his hands, despite having world-class poker players available to advise him that aren’t also in the game.

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      Ezee21chubsyubsy
      2/25/19 6:00pm

      “What do you have?”

      “Three threes.”

      “Does two twos beat three threes? Not that I have two twos or anything.”

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      Berfincechubsyubsy
      2/25/19 7:56pm

      It sounds like what a clever con man would do! Are you saying Trump might be a clever con man?

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    Mr.DuckSauceStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/25/19 5:27pm

    This is how America dies, with morons taking over.

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      skefflesMr.DuckSauce
      2/25/19 7:00pm

      It could be worse, we could be Britain right now. I swear I am so grateful for the self inflicted idiocy of the English over Brexit, it is the only thing keeping us from being the world’s biggest laughing stock.

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      ArtistAtLargeskeffles
      2/25/19 7:20pm

      Sad but true.

      Damn.

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