Apprentice: White House Edition
Brent: Well, we’re into week four of Apprentice: White House Edition and let’s give a brief recap of the season so far. Joe?
Joe: Well, we saw Flynn drop out in Week One, and a bunch of the other contestants have had very rocky beginnings, this season. DeVos’s handling of the challenge in Week One was barely enough to get her past the cut, but she’s managed to be a quiet support role since then. Ducking and covering, my guess (chuckle)
Brent: We were all kind of astonished to see the folks that didn’t even show up in Week One. The previews for this season indicated that we’d see Christie and Rudy as a couple of front-runners, but they didn’t show up!
Joe: Rudy’s there.
Brent: Wait, where? I haven’t seen him in any of the challenges?
Joe: I watch the taping of the show, he’s delivering water on the set. Every once in a while you can spot the top of his head in the background, but you have to be looking for it.
Brent: Hah! That’s hilarious. So what’s your takeaway for this week?
Joe: Well, it seems like Bannon went heads with Kushner in the last challenge this week and he’s been bumped down from a clear frontrunner to a second player. I’m not saying he can’t come back to win this, but he’s apparently got a long way to go. Trump really didn’t give him a good chance to explain himself in the Board Room, I think.
Brent: I have to say I think Kushner has the inside track. He always gets a good review from Ivanka in the Board Room, she seems to favor him as a candidate, and Trump listens to her.
Joe: Any insights on this week’s challenge?
Brent: No. I have to admit I didn’t see this one coming. Trump’s always throwing those curveballs, that’s why folks tune in to watch the show!
Joe: A good hard challenge might be just what this season needs, from a ratings perspective! The first few weeks, viewership is really down.
Brent: We’ll just have to see what this week brings!
This made me LOL at my desk, Patrick. Thank you.Report
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
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
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
oh Kimmi. We do. We really do.Report
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
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
The Greeks believed in true love?Report
True love, to blave… I confuse myself sometimes.Report
I also see like more like a play by Aristophanes.Report
You answered your own question.Report
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
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
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
Our very own King Henry VIII but without the Falstaffian jocularity.Report
@burt-likko
That’s because Trump isn’t Joffrey, he’s Cersei.Report
Heh.Report
Correct. And Hillary Clinton isn’t Cersei, she’s Stannis.Report
Ugh, so true. God(ess?)damn it grrl, you had one job.Report
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
Clinton’s relationship with her daughter is more like Cersi’s with hers, than Stannis with his, I’ll give you that.Report
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
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
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
Stannis had no heart, which is why he’s named after the Tin Man.Report
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
Admit it @patrick , you’ve been just waiting for things to reach a point where you could write this.
Well doneReport
Originally I was going to make it a weekly joke.
I couldn’t do it.Report