Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

[Craig4]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/16/trump-press-job-performance-243842

Everything is great at the White House. It's never been better no matter what the fake news media says about us. They should spend more time giving the president more praise. Sad!

I love stories like these. It makes me happy when I know Trump is suffering.

 

[dudalb]

Trump's choice for the DEA just withdrew his name from consideration.
Winning!!

 

[Spindrift]

I only read the Business Insider story, but I don't see anything "explosive" there - it supposedly made it harder for the DEA to challenge pill shipments to high-use areas, but I'm not sure restrictions by area make sense to begin with. .

The example in the 60 Minutes episode was a small town (pop 500?) with one pharmacy that placed an order for 9,000,000 OxyContin.

 

[NoahFence]

Didn't the government start the crack cocaine epidemic, or am I remembering a stupid conspiracy theory?

 

[fuelair]

Or "Nigria".

Much more likely!!!

 

[Trebuchet]

Plus, whether he confuses Niger with Nigeria.

When I was in college, a good many years ago, I heard a local small-Montana-city radio announcer pronounce "Nigeria" with two hard g's. There was a civil war there at the time, with the breakaway province pronounced "Barfia".

Adding an on-topic element to this post, that civil war was essentially tribal. The same sort that Trump supporters are advocating today.

 

[TheSupermeerkat]

You don't need diplomats when you think that other countries should just do as they are told.

The UK will gladly put themselves in that position.

 

[Minoosh]

The example in the 60 Minutes episode was a small town (pop 500?) with one pharmacy that placed an order for 9,000,000 OxyContin.

What strength ?

 

[Spindrift]

What a strange administration this is. The Republican president is currently feuding with a former Republican presidential candidate (McCain), the Republican Senate Majority Leader (McConnell) and the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations (Corker). And the cherry on the sundae is an IQ pissing contest with his own Secretary of State who called him a moron. Surreal only scratches the surface.

 

[Bob001]

Trump's choice for the DEA just withdrew his name from consideration.
Winning!!

Not so fast. We don't know who the next guy will be.

 

[Stacko]

His ability to create new lows is gut wrenching.

Wilson was in limo w/ widow for POTUS call (on speaker), said Trump's “he knew what he was signing up for” made widow break down in tears.

...

Wilson says it was clear to her Trump had no script. "He was talking off the cuff,” she recalled, “saying the same thing over and over."

...

You might ask why Rep. Wilson was in car with widow? She’s close to the family. Johnson, the soldier, went through her mentoring program.​

He's completely incapable of empathy. It's frightening that he views death this transactionally.

 

[Minoosh]

The 9 million figure is for hydrocodone pills, not OxyContin. There is potentially a very large difference.

ETA: It's still very wrong, I don't dispute that.

 

[mgidm86]

His ability to create new lows is gut wrenching.

Wilson was in limo w/ widow for POTUS call (on speaker), said Trump's “he knew what he was signing up for” made widow break down in tears.

...

Wilson says it was clear to her Trump had no script. "He was talking off the cuff,” she recalled, “saying the same thing over and over."

...

You might ask why Rep. Wilson was in car with widow? She’s close to the family. Johnson, the soldier, went through her mentoring program.​

He's completely incapable of empathy. It's frightening that he views death this transactionally.

Context please. Did he say it here during this dramatic paragraph?

Wilson witnessed as the widow, who is expecting their third baby in January, leaned over the U.S. flag that was draping his casket. Her pregnant belly was shaking against the casket as she sobbed uncontrollably. Their daughter stood next to her stoically. Their toddler waited in the arms of a relative. .

Give. Me. A. Break.

This one?

Johnson's body made it to the U.S. Oct. 7 when Trump was playing golf with Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Graham said it was Trump's strategy to distract reporters from the important questions about the deadly ambush in Africa.

Ooookay.

"The broader question, of what the soldiers who were killed were doing and what went wrong, remains unaddressed by the president, and Trump’s jab at other presidents may, unfortunately, help to keep it that way," Graham wrote.

Oh the outrage and the - the cover up and oh my gawd!

What a well written, unbiased, totally informative article!

 

[mgidm86]

Can't edit my post so just wanted to ask if there is a quote for what Graham supposedly said?

 

[Spindrift]

The 9 million figure is for hydrocodone pills, not OxyContin. There is potentially a very large difference.

ETA: It's still very wrong, I don't dispute that.

Thank you for the correction, was going from memory and I keep forgetting not to trust my memory.

The actual drug is somewhat irrelevant, no matter what it is, the DEA can't do anything about it because of the new law.

 

[Minoosh]

He's completely incapable of empathy. It's frightening that he views death this transactionally.

What an ass.

 

[Spindrift]

What an ass.

Everyone has limits to their empathy. Trump's limit seems to be his epidermis.

 

[Civet]

His ability to create new lows is gut wrenching.

Wilson was in limo w/ widow for POTUS call (on speaker), said Trump's “he knew what he was signing up for” made widow break down in tears.

...

Wilson says it was clear to her Trump had no script. "He was talking off the cuff,” she recalled, “saying the same thing over and over."

...

You might ask why Rep. Wilson was in car with widow? She’s close to the family. Johnson, the soldier, went through her mentoring program.​

He's completely incapable of empathy. It's frightening that he views death this transactionally.

There's a lot wrong with Trump's attempts to interact with humans but the quote from the article is "he knew what he signed up for ... but when it happens, it hurts anyway". By no means the best thing he could have said but it has a massively different impact without the last bit.

 

[Minoosh]

Context please. Did he say it here during this dramatic paragraph?

Obviously not, since the conversation reportedly took place in a limo, not by a casket.

 

[Bob001]

The Constitution provides that the House may impeach a President in a process similar to indictment, and the Senate may convict him and remove him from office in a process similar to a trial. The 25th Amendment sets out a process for removal that starts with the vice president and cabinet. Question: Is there a process or mechanism by which the Senate could initiate a removal on its own?