Blowing someone else's Trump-et

[amberdreams]

I had to laugh - there's a Twitter account that takes Trump's idiotic ranting tweets and translates them into the kind of measured, rational comment that you'd expect from a President.

Today I had a quick look at @therealdonaldtrump's tweets since Inauguration (partly to check Twitter hadn't made me follow either him or @POTUS by mistake). And I found this.



It's just too fucking perfect. Trump's own office are doing the translation for him - but they omitted to delete the original tweet.

Comments

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Somehow, people like him - when it suits him - conveniently forget that democracy isn't just about voting. Democracy is a large and complex system that includes things like peaceful protest.

Or that elections are not always 'the will of the people'.

Fun fact - I'm currently doing some research work about the Senate in Australia, and it is raising a whole bunch of questions about different methods of voting and how they express 'political will', and the flaws in them. There is a lot to be said about the problems with first-past-the-post (you guys need at least optional preferential for Presidential elections) and the electoral colleges.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I know a bit more about the US electoral system than I used to, and probably more than I want to know - I really wish we had proportional representation here in the UK because the two party system is just not diverse enough. Though if there were umpteen parties in Parliament how would you get enough agreement to make any decisions at all? *sigh* Government is a complicated business.

[toratio.livejournal.com]

You need a stronger House of Lords in the UK. We have a strong two-party system here, but a very strong, minor-party controlled Senate. It (mostly) works.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Ah no, that's the last thing we need - unless they totally change the House of Lords into a more democratic membership. But we need something.

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, of course, you need a proper elected House of Lords. Probably not a strong one made up of Bishops and hereditary peers. Seriously, it's kind of weird that there are Bishops.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

It is totally weird. Actually where it does seem to work quite well is in the appointed peers because successive governments tend to cancel each other out by appointing their own favourites but also because they have to appoint popular characters, like sportsmen and women, actors etc who bring a different (and often more liberal) perspective. But an elected house would be better.

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Really? They appoint actors and sportspeople? That. Is. Random.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's all part of the honours system - so we have people like Seb Coe, Kelly Holmes, Judy Dench - all eligible to sit in the House of Lords. Governments also reward big businessmen and suchlike too which is well dodgy. And each other - they often appoint ex MPs...

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Judy Dench in the House of Lords???!!! Dude, I am having this image of, like, Sir Ian McKellon and Billy Nighy sitting, making political decisions. There's a feel-good comedy in that...

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh it looks like they might not be - I thought they were... Mmm that's a pity! Looks like they stopped appointing life peers to the Lords in 2000. Huh. I should really keep up with these things, shouldn't I! LOL

I'm comforted to see Floella Benjamin is in there though - she was a children's TV presenter back in the day. http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/baroness-benjamin/4167

[toratio.livejournal.com]

There are eight-hundred and six people on that list. I can't even believe how massive Lords is. There are 76 people in the Australian Senate. And I'm pretty sure we have a bigger country.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I think our population is larger but that's beside the point. Most of those peers never show up to make any decisions, if you ever see photos unless it's something of epic importance 90% of the time there are a handful of people sitting around falling asleep.

[toratio.livejournal.com]

That totally never happens in our parliament

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Bwhahaha!

[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

OMG, I couldn't forward that link fast enough! It was funny, and so, so sad.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

IKR? This whole situation makes me simultaneously want to laugh and cry.

[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and you don't even live here!

[matchboximpala.livejournal.com]

Very funny.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[sinfulslasher]

Hahahahahaaa!!! Oh this is hilarious!

Can't really believe it would be Dump's own office doing the translation - there are only dimwits and yahoos and alt-rights in that office, after all, who think exactly like him so why would they undermine their own Great Orange One? Oh well, either way, this is ridiculously funny.

Whenever I hear "President Trump" on the news, I have the urge to laugh...because it's so completely absurd. Then I stop laughing because I realize it's the truth and then I just want to curl up in a ball and cry. Le Sigh.

(I saw a fake tweet somewhere - or would that be an alternative fact? /sarcasm - that had Trump welcome all the protesters in DC that just happened to be "a day late" to his inauguration. The scary part is, I wouldn't even put it past him to think that. *smh*)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling Trump is able to convince himself of just about anything.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Well, these are just...Yeah genius and yet slightly scary!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

The photo is the real one!

[be-my-precious.livejournal.com]

I follow him. Just to see the next ridiculous thing out of his mouth. And I reply viciously. Just a little thing I do lol.

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

You'll love this... Mark Hamill, who's been voicing The Joker for the animated version of Batman since the 90s, read some of Trump's stupidest tweets in his Joker voice. It is so awesome it blots out the light of the sun.

It's here.

[jimbobjoe.livejournal.com]

I missed all this because I don't twitter, but my local news pointed out the re-write. They called the second tweet a "retraction" because they were being polite, I guess, but I saw that and immediately said, "Trump didn't write that."

Working for him must be like working for a spoiled toddler (not that I have any sympathy for the people who do agree to work with him).