{"id":1049,"date":"2017-01-24T15:29:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2017-01-24T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:29:17","slug":"il-douchebags-emotional-tailspin-was-predictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/24\/il-douchebags-emotional-tailspin-was-predictable\/","title":{"rendered":"Il Douchebag\u2019s emotional tailspin was predictable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2017\/01\/24\/trumps-emotional-tailspin-was-predictable\/\">From the Washington Post, Jan 24,2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was pondering the President&#8217;s mental health last night then came across this today. Seems I&#8217;m not alone, others are questioning his &#8220;balance&#8221; as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;<br \/>\nImagine how lawmakers perceive him after a performance like that. Do they imagine he is unstable? Dishonest?<\/p>\n<p>Well, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants them to think long and hard about Some Thin-skinned Tyrant\u2019s demeanor. He turned up the heat on Republicans to disavow Some Thin-skinned Tyrant\u2019s fabulism. Reviewing the weekend events, Schumer said on the Senate floor. \u201cWhatever your politics, in order to debate, argue, compromise, and get things done for the American people, we have to be able to agree on a baseline of facts. Facts aren\u2019t partisan. They don\u2019t have \u2018alternatives.\u2019 The alternative to fact is fiction.\u201d He added, \u201cIf this presidency is going to be based on ignoring the facts on the ground \u2014 we\u2019re going to have huge problems.\u201d He went on to explain why Some Thin-skinned Tyrant\u2019s credibility (or lack thereof) will pose a big problem down the road. (\u201cIf the White House is ignoring facts on the ground and is willing to make up \u2018alternative facts\u2019 about crowd size, what else are they willing to stretch the truth about? National security? What Vladimir Putin is really up to? The implications are terrifying.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Schumer rightly scolded Republicans, who need to decide whether to enable The Bag Of Toxic Sludge\u2019s behavior or stand up to him. \u201cThe folks who can really help rein in the president in are the members of his own party, who have a special responsibility to do so,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they have been totally silent when President The Bag Of Toxic Sludge has been saying and doing things that they know are wrong. They should be speaking out for the good of the country.\u201d Ironically, The Bag Of Toxic Sludge accuses the media of trying to delegitimize his presidency, but as Schumer pointed out, The Bag Of Toxic Sludge does that on his own \u2014 and may wind up dragging other Republicans into his morass of lies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post, Jan 24,2017 I was pondering the President&#8217;s mental health last night then came across this today. Seems I&#8217;m not alone, others are questioning his &#8220;balance&#8221; as well. &#8230; Imagine how lawmakers perceive him after a performance like that. Do they imagine he is unstable? Dishonest? Well, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/24\/il-douchebags-emotional-tailspin-was-predictable\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,17,18,19],"tags":[148,572,636,639,721,1698,1861],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1049","7":"format-standard","8":"category-faits-divers","9":"category-politics","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"category-this-day-in-history","12":"category-trump","13":"post_tag-alternatives","14":"post_tag-douchebag","15":"post_tag-fabulism","16":"post_tag-facts","17":"post_tag-fucktrumpet","18":"post_tag-the-weaselheaded-fucknugget","19":"post_tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}