The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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quadraginta said:
It isn't the condition which is being mocked, or the fact that he has it.

It is the utterly ridiculous and extreme lengths he goes to while failing to pretend that it doesn't exist. Like a guy with a toupée that looks like he picked up some beaver road kill and put it on his head.

If he just left it like it grows, or shaved his head, then few people would make any comment at all, and even fewer would pay any attention to such comments.

And your criticisms of the mocking would be entirely justified.

He invites the ridicule by his behavior, not by the condition.
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And his hair is one of the ways we can measure him. When an apparent recommendation for hair restoration from his ex wife went badly he assaulted her and pulled a clump of hair from her.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Latest tweet.

Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?"
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No one required that he accept Porter's resignation without due process.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Latest tweet.

Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?"
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https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/962036761722417156

– Porter: "Hope he has a wonderful career... says he's innocent"

– Lewandowski: "How do you know those bruises weren’t there before?"

– Roy Moore: "He totally denies it"

– Roger Ailes: "He helped those women"

– Bill O'Reilly: "I don't think Bill did anything wrong"
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In the mean time, he has privately been saying that the allegations against Porter are likely made up, and is "frustrated" with the way that Hope Hicks has handled the situation. So he's supporting the man accused of abuse, expressing the opinion that the three people accusing him of abuse are making it up, and blaming* the woman the man accused of abuse is currently in a relationship with.

Besides all that, where's his cries of "due process" when, for example, calling for Clinton to be locked up, or when accusing people not clapping him of treason?

*among others, to be scrupulously fair
 
Darat said:
And his hair is one of the ways we can measure him. When an apparent recommendation for hair restoration from his ex wife went badly he assaulted her and pulled a clump of hair from her.
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The word on record is "raped", although after the divorce settlement and the gag order she signed as part of that, she said that she didn't mean the word in "the legal sense".
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/962036761722417156



In the mean time, he has privately been saying that the allegations against Porter are likely made up, and is "frustrated" with the way that Hope Hicks has handled the situation. So he's supporting the man accused of abuse, expressing the opinion that the three people accusing him of abuse are making it up, and blaming* the woman the man accused of abuse is currently in a relationship with.

Besides all that, where's his cries of "due process" when, for example, calling for Clinton to be locked up, or when accusing people not clapping him of treason?

*among others, to be scrupulously fair
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Well duh! Of course it's the woman's fault - she shouldn't have made him hit her!
 
Nessie said:
Are North and South Korea competing together at the winter Olympics because they know they have to get along better and not let Trump tweet them into a war?
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Sure seems to be the case.

[Quick aside: The 38th parallel is really China's line in the sand, not Korea's. It marks the point past which China could not countenance US troops. I imagine both Koreas are being reminded daily by China that their trade with it is substantially greater than that with the US, a trend that will continue. Best bet: SK ends up asking US troops to leave, accepting Chinese guarantees as ultimately safer. Rather unthinkable until Trump's America; becoming more attractive by the day.]

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In other news, and sure to have been mentioned in thread already, boy, what a mess with the blocking of the Dem memo. Third world banana republic at this rate.
 
Hlafordlaes said:
Sure seems to be the case.

[Quick aside: The 38th parallel is really China's line in the sand, not Korea's. It marks the point past which China could not countenance US troops. I imagine both Koreas are being reminded daily by China that their trade with it is substantially greater than that with the US, a trend that will continue. Best bet: SK ends up asking US troops to leave, accepting Chinese guarantees as ultimately safer. Rather unthinkable until Trump's America; becoming more attractive by the day.]

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In other news, and sure to have been mentioned in thread already, boy, what a mess with the blocking of the Dem memo. Third world banana republic at this rate.
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We'd be safer too. The only reason the North has to build nuclear capable ICBMs is that we have troops on the Korea Peninsula. It's a bit hard to imagine though a guarantee China could make that South Korea could trust to that extent.
 
dudalb said:
Trump just basically attacked the whole Me Too movent in a tweet. Unfreaking believable.
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He's been accused of sexual assault by ~12+ women. The only unbelievable part is that it took him this long.
 
NoahFence said:
Doubt it. If the access Hollywood tape didn't do it, nothing will.
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Indeed. Women who weren't put off by him boasting about assaulting women (and indeed, in some cases, wore "Trump can grab me by the pussy" t-shirts), or by the allegations against him, or by him boasting about walking in on teenage girls when they were changing, or by his many defences of sexual and physical abusers, or, even, the many times he's said he'd like to **** his own daughter (the first time being when she was 12), aren't going to be put off by a tweet in which he says that false allegations against men can ruin lives and that due process is important. They won't even think of it as hypocritical.
 
It doesn't require past female Trump voters to jump ship. The newly enraged lot that will swell the phalanx of those who've already cast their ballots against him will effectively be as though there was defection in the ranks. A *lot* of former non-voters will be well and truly motivated to get to the polling booths. In this respect Trump is doing signal service.
 
I can tell you from watching and listening to Trump for almost forty years here in New York -- and not by choice! -- one fact of life about Donald Trump became clear, he does not wear well on most people. The ship may not be sinking but it has developed a decided list. This is from an article published in The Atlantic just two days ago:
No group [white women without a college degree] was more central to Trump’s victory, especially in the Rustbelt states that effectively decided the election. (Trump won at least 56 percent of those women in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, according to exit polls.)...

In the Rustbelt states that decided 2016, Trump has slipped into a much more precarious position with these women: Gallup put his 2017 approval with them at 45 percent in Pennsylvania, 42 percent in Michigan, and 39 percent or less in Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Compared to his 2016 vote, his 2017 approval among blue-collar white women in the Rustbelt represented some of his largest declines anywhere—18 percentage points in Ohio and 19 in Wisconsin and Minnesota. That erosion...intensified during Trump’s effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act... Link to Atlantic article
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This also illustrates a reality other polls have revealed. Many of the Trump voters wanted him to end Obamacare but not the Affordable Care Act. Up to one-third the electorate, more among Republicans, especially blue collar Republicans, either think Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are different programs or they are unsure. It sounds like many of the blue collar gals in the Rust Belt shared that confusion. They cheered when The Dunce promised to end Obamacare but when he tried to junk the Affordable Care Act they said, "Wait a minute!"

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newyorkguy said:
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They cheered when The Dunce promised to end Obamacare but when he tried to junk the Affordable Care Act they said, "Wait a minute!"

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I think even the people who understood that "Obamacare" and the ACA are the same focused on the Republican promise to repeal and replace it with something that would provide better coverage and cost less. Trump made it sound so easy. But they never wanted to lose the insurance they had. They're also starting to discover that the Medicaid expansion was part of "Obamacare." People who need Medicaid didn't want it to be cut back.
 
This business among the electorate of the late realization that Obamacare and the ACA are the same (and the confusion in other matters medical related) reveals their depth of ignorance--and the extent to which they've allowed themselves to be bamboozled. An educated populace is one of the most effective bulwarks against a Trump rising out of the muck and mire.
 
Lurch said:
This business among the electorate of the late realization that Obamacare and the ACA are the same (and the confusion in other matters medical related) reveals their depth of ignorance--and the extent to which they've allowed themselves to be bamboozled. An educated populace is one of the most effective bulwarks against a Trump rising out of the muck and mire.
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So you're saying we're in for another 7 years of Trump?
 
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