Apprentice: White House Edition

28 thoughts on “Apprentice: White House Edition”

1. This made me LOL at my desk, Patrick. Thank you.Report

2. Apprentice: White House Edition has gone through the low hanging fruit, and now we’re in the dog-eat-dog section of the midseason where alliances are forged and broken and folks actually start trying to take down the stronger players.Report

3. Hot take: King Joffrey’s Small Council had less infighting than the Trump White House. Worst: there’s no analogue to Tywin Lannister.

   Patrick, you and I were thinking along the exact same lines. Yours is just funnier.Report

   1. Nu, and people wonder why I say truth is stranger than fiction.

      I don’t think people quite understand what I’m saying when I say that Hillary Clinton knew where all the bodies were buried.Report

      1. oh Kimmi. We do. We really do.Report

         1. Why do we find Kimmi amusing? Notme generally does not post things I agree with but at least he isn’t circular in his writing or pretends to have all sorts of secret knowledge that Kimmi claims to possess.Report

            1. If this were a Greek tragedy the oracle would pronounce your doom: “You will not find true love until you appreciate the ways of Kimmi.”

               Fortunately there are no such things as Greek Tragedies.Report

               1. The Greeks believed in true love?Report

                  1. True love, to blave… I confuse myself sometimes.Report

               2. I also see like more like a play by Aristophanes.Report

            2. LeeEsq:
               Why do we find Kimmi amusing? Notme generally does not post things I agree with but at least he isn’t circular in his writing or pretends to have all sorts of secret knowledge that Kimmi claims to possess.

               You answered your own question.Report

            3. Lee,
               Welp.
               Enough of what I say is verifiable that you might want to consider believing me.
               Of course, it’s probably safer for everyone if you don’t.

               Where have I been circular?Report

               1. Enough of what I say is verifiable that you might want to consider believing me.

                  Today is Thursday
                  Donald Trump is President
                  The Cleveland Cavaliers have a small lead for best record in the NBA East
                  Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature
                  [Random batshit crazy assertion that I can’t possibly know]

                  Eighty percent of what I say is verifiable. You ought to consider the rest.Report

                  1. CJ,
                     When I mention stuff that is verifiable, I mean more like the whole Pot-smoking Elmo incident. Or the one where Chevron blew a man up, and sent the whole town pizza coupons. Or Mr. Peanutbutter on a risque magazine cover over at rule34 (art is safe for work, rest of site is not).Report

   2. Our very own King Henry VIII but without the Falstaffian jocularity.Report

   3. @burt-likko

      That’s because Trump isn’t Joffrey, he’s Cersei.Report

      1. Heh.Report

      2. Correct. And Hillary Clinton isn’t Cersei, she’s Stannis.Report

         1. Ugh, so true. God(ess?)damn it grrl, you had one job.Report

         2. If Hillary Clinton isn’t a Lannister, your understanding of her is severely lacking.
            Do you think Stannis knew where any bodies were buried? Nope.

            People who worked for Hillary Clinton were comparing her to Cersei, for god’s sake!Report

            1. Clinton’s relationship with her daughter is more like Cersi’s with hers, than Stannis with his, I’ll give you that.Report

         3. The one true king, with an ambitious plan for social reform, who is willing to earn his kingship by defending the realm? That’s the most complimentary thing I’ve read about Clinton in a long time.Report

            1. And got misled by advisors, had a stubborn insistence that they were on the correct path when they were not, and sacrificed all that they stood for to get power, but in the end got nothing.Report

               1. There’s an incredibly nerdy guest post to be written comparing the relationship between show Stannis and book Stannis to the relationship between Fox News HRC and real HRC. Oh, and to be clear I’m much more invested in defending Stannis than Hillary.Report

                  1. Stannis had no heart, which is why he’s named after the Tin Man.Report

               2. And got misled by advisors, had a stubborn insistence that they were on the correct path when they were not, and sacrificed all that they stood for to get power, but in the end got nothing.

                  Show me a tragedy and I’ll write you a hero(ine).Report

4. Admit it @patrick , you’ve been just waiting for things to reach a point where you could write this.

   Well doneReport

   1. Originally I was going to make it a weekly joke.

      I couldn’t do it.Report

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