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Participant[quote=spdrun]
Guy is either clueless about history and everything else or a shithead of unparalleled proportion.
[/quote]I think it’s pretty obvious he’s both.
Participant[quote=spdrunGuy is either clueless about history and everything else or a shithead of unparalleled proportion.
[/quote]I think it’s pretty obvious he’s both.
Participant[quote=svelte]
On a side note, one of my Republican friends posted today a photo of Lucy from “I love Lucy” making one of her classic stunned faces with the caption “the moment you realize this IS your circus and those ARE your monkeys”. It may be starting to dawn on some folks what a mistake they’ve made…[/quote]
I hope that’s what he meant. Most trump supporters, from what I can gather, seem to think he’s doing a great job. Are you sure he didn’t think all the people who are terrified and up in arms about trump were the monkeys? Was he/she a trump supporter?
Participanttrump’s pick for national security adviser turned down the job. His announcement said it was basically for personal reasons, but apparently he wasn’t guaranteed the freedom from political interference that he insisted on.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/robert-harward-national-security-adviser-trump-balks-235120
You gotta figure that trump’s not going to budge on that, and whoever ends up taking the job will be nothing but a stooge. I hope I’m wrong, because that would be exceedingly dangerous. Especially with Bannon completely running the show.
Participant[quote=svelte]I’m beginning to wonder if Howard Stern is right – the office will be terrible for Trump’s mental health. Stern submits that Trump has a strong desire to be liked and all of the darts that are shot at the President – any president, R or D – will send him tumbling over the edge.
What Stern says kind of makes sense. It would explain the ultra bully persona and love of rallies surrounded by his faithful and adoring fans.[/quote]
I agree. I just hope that if he snaps completely, he doesn’t take the country (or the world) down with him.
ParticipantI’m hoping (ok, maybe fantasizing) that a reporter can get him in a Colonel Jessup moment at a press conference. Trump feels the same way about the media that Jessup does about Kaffee.
Reporter:”Did you ask Russia to help with the election?”
Trump: “I did the job…”
Reporter: (Interrupting belligerently) “Did you ask Russia to help with the election?”
Trump (yelling): You’re god damn right I did!
My reaction would be exactly like Roger Daltrey’s in that video.
ParticipantYou have the money. You want it. It’s a bargain.
I guess you could keep the old one forever. Is that your plan, if you don’t buy the new one now? Keeping the old one forever? That could work. You like working on them. But if that’s not your plan, why not get a new one now?
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]ZK, do you watch Fox News? Sometimes I watch just to see what the other side is thinking.
Fox & Co are spinning a new conspiracy: the “powerful permanent government” is undermining Trump to prevent him from draining the swamps. “They” won’t stop at anything to take our liberties away.[/quote]
I do watch sometimes. It’s getting harder, though. It’s so disappointing to know that so many people are so gullible.
I’m not sure whether the people who fall for this stuff don’t know trump is constantly lying or they know but they don’t care. The former is outrageously gullible, and the latter is extremely dangerous.
I don’t know whether they actually like his appointees/executive orders/mental illness or they just like that those things piss off basically everybody who isn’t falling for the bullshit. The former is more gullibility, the latter is extremely dangerous.
In any case, it’s going to be a tough battle. Unless his narcissistic rage at being called out on his bullshit finally gets to him to a degree that he does something so stupid that even republicans decide he has to go.
Participant[quote=La Jolla Renter][quote=zk]https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/health/with-fda-vacancy-trump-sees-chance-to-speed-drugs-to-the-market.html?referer=https://www.google.com/
And another winner looks to join the trump administration. Let’s take the FDA and stop it from protecting consumers. Jesus.[/quote]
Are you implying that the FDA has been doing a great job protecting consumers or just pissing on anything related to our elected president?[/quote]
Great? No. Good? Probably not. Mediocre? Maybe. Poor? Possibly. But if it’s doing a poor job of protecting consumers, then reducing the amount of protection the FDA will give consumers (which is what O’Neill seems to want to do) certainly won’t help. What the FDA is doing right now to protect consumers might not be great, but it’s orders of magnitude better than the job it will be doing if Jim O’Neill gets his way.
I only piss on things that I think deserve pissing on. Everything that I’ve pissed on relating to trump’s presidency deserves pissing on, in my opinion. I’d be happy to debate you if you think anything I’ve pissed on doesn’t deserve pissing on.
ParticipantFlynn is out, and now it looks like Puzder is, too.
You know why their replacements will be better than them? It’s certainly not because trump is coming to his senses, or anything like that. It’s because trump’s first picks (for these positions, the same as almost all of his appointees) were absolutely the worst possible picks. So anything else has to be better.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]i don’t think Republicans would impeach Trump. That would tarnish their brand.
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I think they’ll impeach him if keeping him tarnishes their brand more than impeaching him. That’s all they care about, is their brand.
Participant[quote=flu]Svelte,
How sophisticated of an investor is your son? I ask because if this is the first time he’s trying to invest in a property, I don’t know I think perhaps he should try something more simple. Just my opinion.[/quote]
+1
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]ZK, don’t you think that after no drama Obama, we’re living interesting times? All self induced.
It’s like Trump’s own life. He could have wisely invested his inheritance and become wealthier not doing much. He created all the drama for no tangible return but an eventful life, i suppose.[/quote]
I think he wanted his name in big, gold letters on top of a tall building, and he didn’t care who he had to cheat, lie to, or steal from to get it. Then that wasn’t enough, so he wanted his name on the most important door in the world, and he didn’t care who he had to cheat, lie to, or steal from to get it. Unfortunately for him, it’s harder to cheat, lie, and steal when the whole world is watching.
Gotta say, though, he’s giving it a run. The whole world is watching, and still he lies. Not politician-type lies. Mental illness (narcissist-in-denial and pathological liar)-type lies. So far, he’s kind of getting away with it. I mean, really, what consequences has he suffered as a result of his lies? He dismisses any news reports of his lies as fake news, and he dismisses any entertainer who mocks him as “overrated.” At least half the citizens know he’s constantly lying, but he doesn’t care about citizens. And congressional republicans, who have real power to create consequences for him, are a bunch of craven losers.
So far, the republicans are pretty much in lock step with trump, being the pathetic, cowardly fools that they are. I’m sure there’s discontented grumbling in republican back rooms right now. Probably a whole lot of it. I think that, unless trump changes his act soon, that discontent will increase. And I think there’s a decent possibility that, at some point, that discontent will reach a critical mass. That critical mass won’t be reached when the country is in danger. None of them give a damn about the country. This critical mass will be reached when (if) republicans calculate that, unless they get rid of trump, they’ll lose any shot at reelection. Then, en masse, they’ll turn on trump. They’ll have no trouble finding something to impeach him on, and that’s what they’ll do (if that critical mass is reached).
Be careful what you wish for, though, unless you’re uber-conservative. Mike Pence is on deck.
ParticipantWTF is with this steven miller dude? Listen to him. He’s like a 14-year-old trying to be tough (particularly at 6:21 in the video). Who responds positively to that? Even most trump voters aren’t emotionally stunted enough to respond to that. Are they?
Might as well get a few laughs while you’re listening to him:
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