Dr. X's Free Associations

Meanwhile, in Montreal...

#snowday #WinterisHere #Snowmageddon #FirstSnow ❄️❄️❄️

Meanwhile in #Canada

📹ig: Wall Street Journal pic.twitter.com/LvapBVFb3D

— The Invisible Man (@invisibleman_17) November 15, 2018

Scary

Fire crews douse flames right next to drivers along the 118 Freeway in Simi Valley, California. https://t.co/S9C002LuSr pic.twitter.com/HC8C03p4I7

— USA TODAY Video (@usatodayvideo) November 13, 2018

Tools

He Lies

All the time:

"I don't know Matt Whitaker," Trump told reporters on Friday as he left the White House for a trip to Paris. "Matt Whitaker worked for Jeff Sessions. And he was always extremely highly thought of and he still is. But I didn't know Matt Whitaker."

In fact, Trump has met with his hand-picked appointee more than a dozen times. As Sessions' chief of staff, Whitaker reportedly accompanied his boss to the Oval Office on multiple occasions.

"Matt Whitaker is a great guy. I mean, I know Matt Whitaker," Trump told Fox News last month. At the time, Trump also sidestepped questions about whether he was preparing to get rid of Sessions. "I'm not doing anything," he said. "I want to get the elections over. We'll see what happens." Sessions' dismissal came one day after the midterm votes were tallied.

Not enough or too many?

Lindsey Graham in 2018:

"We’ve got to address the suburban women problem."

Lindsey Graham in 2012:

“We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

I think your problem with suburban women in 2018 is that you've generated more than enough angry white guys.

Good Morning

"He didn't say one word, just pulled out a gun and started shooting," -
Holden Harrah a witness at the #Borderline Bar and Grill where 12 people are confirmed dead at a mass shooting in CA. pic.twitter.com/mEBpD3nIpp

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 8, 2018

He tweeted this about himself

“There’s only been 5 times in the last 105 years that an incumbent President has won seats in the Senate in the off year election. Mr. Trump has magic about him. This guy has magic coming out of his ears. He is an astonishing vote getter & campaigner. The Republicans are.........

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2018

I too am outraged when the propagandist guy at my propaganda organ does propaganda https://t.co/OYCT6WrO3u

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 6, 2018

An actual billboard in St. Louis

Yep. It's real.

If you have to reach back to the 1860s to find evidence supporting your claim that your political party is "the party of civil rights," please know that you sound like Pabst insisting it's a "blue ribbon beer" because it won a competition all the way back in 1893.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 26, 2018

Trump to Christian Broadcasting on Air Force One: "Nobody's done more for Christians or evangelicals or frankly religion than I have." https://t.co/qxW2H8LbYo

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 3, 2018

In ordinary times this would be the most preposterous thing I've ever heard a president say. Now it's just one of dozens of idiotic presidential utterances in the past week.

Like Father Like Son

Now when they commit atrocities they can cite the President of the United States

NYTimes:

The Nigerian Army, part of a military criticized for rampant human rights abuses, on Friday used the words of President Trump to justify its fatal shootings of rock-throwing protesters.

Soldiers opened fire this past Monday on a march of about 1,000 Islamic Shia activists who had been blocking traffic in the capital, Abuja. Videos circulated on social media showed several protesters hurling rocks at the heavily armed soldiers who then shot fleeing protesters in the back.[...]

Amnesty International as well as leaders of the protest said more than 40 people were killed at the march and two other smaller marches, with more than 100 wounded by bullets. A Reuters reporter counted 20 bodies at the main march.

Responding to criticism, the Nigerian army posted this video to their twitter account:

Please Watch and Make your Deductions. pic.twitter.com/05yVwULFoh

— Nigerian Army (@HQNigerianArmy) November 2, 2018

It isn't the job of the press to cut the president a break

“I think that often, the media doesn’t cut him a break.” It isn’t the job of the press to cut the president, or anyone in power, a break. We are not his press shop or his spokesperson. We are a check on power. Period. https://t.co/GhlhufpPco via @mediaite

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) November 1, 2018

More of Less

The Democrats' closing message: Protect healthcare, restore voting rights, repeal the Trump tax cut for the rich

The GOP closing message: Shoot little kids in the face if they throw rockshttps://t.co/3GkwIqbV27

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) November 1, 2018