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February 21, 2017 at 8:23 AM #805696February 21, 2017 at 1:47 PM #805702
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Participant[quote=harvey]McMaster has an impressive resume, and it seems unlikely he’ll be a yes-man to Trump:
It will be interesting to see how their relationship develops.[/quote]
Interesting, indeed. Let’s hope for the best.
February 21, 2017 at 2:50 PM #805703FlyerInHi
Guest[quote=harvey]McMaster has an impressive resume, and it seems unlikely he’ll be a yes-man to Trump:
It will be interesting to see how their relationship develops.[/quote]
I like that McMaster is an academic in addition to militiary.
February 25, 2017 at 9:57 AM #805743GuestI’m having fun watching Trump voters staging boycotts of stores that pulled the ivanka line.
Ivanka dresses are work or evening wear. What woman would wear that brand? So I’m not surprised sales fell.
Trump supporters are now boycotting Nordstrom. Ha, like they shopped there to begin with.
I read ivanka perfume is a best seller on Amazon. That’ll enrich Jeff bezos, the owner of the Washington Post.
March 3, 2017 at 9:06 AM #805814ParticipantI think that trump thinks that he can just say, “do it our way or fuck you” to the rest of the world, and the rest of the world will respond with, “oh my god! We better do it their way!”
That seems to be his idea of “America first.”
The state department, with all its experience in international affairs, knows that won’t work. So trump wants to cut them out of the loop.
That won’t end well.
March 3, 2017 at 4:00 PM #805817Anonymous
GuestThe implication built into his “America first” rhetoric is that for a long time no president has been acting in America’s best interest – that all the trade deals, regulations, and foreign policy decisions in the past several decades were intended as giveaways to the rest of the world.
March 3, 2017 at 4:20 PM #805818GuestZK, i agree, it will not end well. Trump doesn’t understand that soft power and commercial ties are more powerful than the military. We are alienating our friends who are now falling in the arms of China for trade reasons. Meanwhile we are fighting ennemies of our own creation. Trump wants the population to be very afraid so they continue to support him.
This is not like voting for Bush. I will never forgive Trump supporters. It turns out that Americans are just as gullible as Russians who support Putin. Freedom my ass! They just want an authoritarian to stroke their wounded egos. They take pride in feeling badass, never mind that they are impoverishing themselves and all of us.
So the retaliations are starting. The EU votes to end visa free travel for Americans. For those of us who travel, an American passport lost value. A Canadian passport has been superior for international travel since 2001.
March 4, 2017 at 9:50 AM #805824GuestTrump is a whackjob just like his supporters. Always feeling entitled to a certain lifestyle, thinking they are being wronged, and despite plenty of advantages, never ever taking responsibility.
If Obama had such great powers as president as to wiretap Trump tower, Trump has the same powers today. Trump is president for god’s sake. He should stop thinking people are out to get him.
March 13, 2017 at 10:40 AM #805961Participanthttp://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-twitter-staffer-235263
I’m not sure how one could be at all informed and not come to the conclusion that Donald J. Trump is a loser, but to read that article and still not see that is ridiculous.
I used to think that trump really had his finger on the desires and beliefs of his followers. That he wise to all the right-wing media manipulation that goes on and that he was using it to his advantage to further manipulate those idiots into continuing to follow him. It’s obvious to me now that he actually believes all that ludicrous drivel. He isn’t a leader of idiots, like most leaders. He is an idiot.
What a pathetic excuse for a human being you idiots have elected president.
March 13, 2017 at 3:32 PM #805971GuestZK, Trump is the typical patriarch wackjob. Because he’s rich and powerful people can’t say NO to him. You see that within families also — the patriarch business owner who berates his employees, bullies his business partners, maninpulates his family, etc… A demanding, controlling, insecure piece of shit. A man fixated on his own ego, incapable of intellectual growth.
People like Trump are nothing without money and power.
March 14, 2017 at 7:15 AM #806012Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
People like Trump are nothing without money and power.[/quote]
It’s interesting to picture drumpf without the money and power. I highly doubt anyone would take him the least bit seriously. People would recognize the toxicity of his… of him. They would mostly stay away from him and laugh at him. He’d be the guy talking about that one time he made a great play when he was on the high school baseball team. Over and over. Bragging about that one hot girl he says he got in college. Over and over. That guy whose actual self was comically dwarfed by his opinion of himself. Driving people away with his neediness, self-centeredness, pushiness, stupidity and ignorance.
It wouldn’t even occur to people to say, “imagine how fucked we’d be if that clown were president.” Because it would never occur to anybody as conceivable that such a person could be elected president. But there he is. There’s that buffoon, that clown, that pathetic joke, right there in the oval office. That laughable bozo is the face of our country.
March 20, 2017 at 9:40 AM #806078GuestHere’s a very good article on how Trump will hurt his very supporters who are too stupid to realize it. Meanwhile his supporters are rationalizing that the “deep state” is hurting them and their man.
Screwed up people only screw themselves in the end. I hope they can eat nationalism.
American born doctors don’t want to practice in podunks so the government actually tries to bring physicians there. Really? Why pick winners and losers. The marketplace should take care of itself.
The Delta Doctors program has placed more than 500 U.S.-trained, foreign-born physicians from many different parts of the world — Latin America, Asia, the Indian subcontinent — in clinics throughout the region, largely in red states such as Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Alabama’s Black Belt, the group says. It has placed more than 80 in 2016 alone. One medical professional can go a long way.
March 29, 2017 at 10:54 PM #806184ParticipantI’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Congressional republicans are pathetic cowards. They’d rather risk ruining this country than put a scratch in their chance of reelection. Selfish bastards.
March 30, 2017 at 9:41 AM #806191Guest[quote=zk]I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Congressional republicans are pathetic cowards. They’d rather risk ruining this country than put a scratch in their chance of reelection. Selfish bastards.
Zk, congressional replublicans respond to their voters.
And why do those imbeciles vote the way they do? And why do we countenance them instead of pointing out their stupidity?
To me, any person who voted for Trump without a good rationale is dumb and should be treated as such. If one is rich and wants lower taxes, then fine. But if one is just angry, then that person is plain stupid for voting Trump.
Here’s an article from wapo. Rural whites are the worse deadbeats. But they voted for Trump, wtf!?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/03/30/disabled-or-just-desperate/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_decidedisabled-prebuild%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.7fc629abe22eDavid Frum said they are so screwed up and unhappy that they have nothing else to lose. They want to blow up the system to stick it to the “snobs”, the snobs being happy, educated people who have their lives together.
April 4, 2017 at 11:13 AM #806237Participant[quote=zk]I predict that the shrinking of the middle class will accelerate.
I predict the lower-middle class, working class, and poor will all be economically worse off.
Trump promises to bring back jobs to the middle class. His policies will have the opposite effect. He’ll hurt unions, which will hurt the middle class. He may cause a trade war, which would hurt the middle class. His lowering of corporate taxes will do nothing for the middle class; it will only help raise corporate profits and widen the gap between worker pay and ceo pay. Health insurance will be more burdensome for the lower middle class and poorer. If he is successful in screwing with medicare (which I predict he will try to do), that will really hurt the lower middle class and poorer.
I predict that international relations will suffer. Possibly a trade war, possibly conflicts over Syria, isis, and North Korea, and with Russia and China.
I predict that he will repeatedly act poorly in response to insults/negative comments, resulting in friction between him/his administration and many other entities: foreign countries, senators, congressman, governors, corporations, unions, government agencies, individuals, etc. And I predict that this friction will, in many cases, result in harm to our country and its people.
I predict he won’t build the wall that he promised, and that whatever pale shadow of that wall he does get built, if any, will not be paid for by Mexico.
I predict that the deplorable tenor he has brought to our national discourse will continue for a couple years, until cooler heads prevail, the tide turns against that kind of talk, he’s no longer cheered for it, and trump himself reins it in. But the damage is done.
I predict more made-for-tv deals like the Carrier one. I predict that they will have negligible effect on anything, except distracting from the real economic issues at hand.
I predict that America’s standing in the world will suffer. We may even no longer be looked at as the leaders of the free world (an outdated term, but that’s what we’re seen as).
I predict that he will continue to lie about easily-verifiable things, and this will cost him credibility around the world, as people learn to doubt anything he says.
I predict that his selection of morons like Ben Carson, scary fucks like Jeff Sessions, lunatics like Michael Flynn, and other assorted jackasses/losers, along with his reliance on family and those who have been loyal to him (regardless of their other merits – or lack thereof) will result in a general condition of infighting, incompetence, conflict, and malevolence in the trump administration.
I predict that the right-wing media will either blame all this on the “liberals,” or they’ll say everything is great, despite it not being great. I predict that trump supporters will buy whichever b.s. they decide to go with.
That’s most of it.
I’m hanging it out there, trump supporters. You can point to all this in 4 years and tell me how wrong I am, if I am (I hope I am).
One more: I predict that no trump supporters will have the guts to make any substantive, positive predictions about trump’s presidency.[/quote]
We’re two and a half months into con man don’s disgraceful presidency, and most of these pretty-obvious-to-anyone-not-brainwashed-by-right-wing-media predictions are already coming true.
What a surprise.
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