Editorial: "THE REPUBLICANS GUIDE TO PRESIDENTIAL ETIQUETTE"

[procon]

By The NY Times Editorial Board
JAN. 20, 2018


When the editorial board published the first edition of the Republican’s Guide to Presidential Etiquette last May, we hoped to provide a helpful reminder to those morally upright members of the G.O.P. who were once so concerned about upholding standards of presidential decorum. Remember the hand-wringing when Barack Obama wore a tan suit or tossed a football in the Oval Office?

Yet even as the current occupant of the White House continues to find new and shocking ways to defile his office, congressional Republicans have only lashed themselves more tightly to him. The examples come so fast that it’s easy to forget that the last one happened just four days ago, or just this morning.

As part of our continuing effort to resist the exhausting and numbing effects of living under a relentlessly abusive and degrading president, we present, for the third time in nine months, an updated guide to what Republicans now consider to be acceptable behavior from the commander in chief. As before, these examples, drawn from incidents or disclosures in the last three-plus months, do not concern policy decisions — only the president’s words and actions.

And no, we’re not even opening that Michael Wolff book.


IF YOU ARE PRESIDENT, YOU MAY NOW:

Imply, without evidence, that a television anchor was involved in a murder

Question the authenticity of a recording of you bragging about sexual assault, even though you previously admitted it was real

Say the F.B.I.’s reputation is “in tatters — worst in history” and call members of the intelligence community “political hacks”

Retweet inflammatory and fake anti-Muslim videos from an ultranationalist British group



Much more, long list, but worth the read:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/20/opinion/the-Republicans-Guide-to-Presidential-Etiquette.html

[orleans]

1. kinda makes my head swim

makes me feel rather
nauseated
disgusted
angry

for shame, for shame

[GusBob]

2. Ya at first it was interesting

Then after it kept going on it made ya angry
And still it went on, and on and it made me deeply depressed

[LuckyCharms]

3. K and R. Damn, reading this list makes me want to puke.