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

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Captain_Swoop said:
Quotes from tonights fund raiser at Mar-a-Lago

On the election
"I'm telling you, it's a rigged system folks, I've been saying that for a long time. It's a rigged system. And we don't have the right people in there yet. We have a lot of great people, but certain things, we don't have the right people."

On President Xi
"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day."

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/03/...-remarks/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
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Typical of a pathological narcissist, Trump constantly runs on the false belief he can and will fix things. Even when the fantasy blatantly fails, he just keeps it going.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Quotes from tonights fund raiser at Mar-a-Lago

On President Xi
"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day."
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I predicted The PDJT would think almost exactly that.
alfaniner said:
My first thought was that The PDJT was going to see this on the news and think "Hey, that's not a bad idea! Glad I thought of it!"
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http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12197061&postcount=13
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
Quotes from tonights fund raiser at Mar-a-Lago

On the election
"I'm telling you, it's a rigged system folks, I've been saying that for a long time. It's a rigged system. And we don't have the right people in there yet. We have a lot of great people, but certain things, we don't have the right people."

On President Xi
"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day."

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/03/...-remarks/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
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I don't think The Hair really wants to find out just home much of the military and civilian bureaucracy sees themselves as serving the office of the president much more than the steward of that office.
 
"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day."
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Sorry , but the President should not even joke about crap like that.
And if he is not joking, time to look at the reset button in the Declration of Indepence....
 
Nessie said:
Is this accurate?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/03/donald-trump-jared-kushner-hope-hicks-tarriffs-nra

"There has been disarray in the White House before but this time, observers said, the checks and balances that have provided a modicum of restraint appear to be crumbling, leaving Trump isolated, angry and ready to lash out. It is, they fear, not inconceivable that the world’s most powerful country is now being guided by instinct, by impulse, by whim and by mood swing."
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I guess it could be run by collective neo-con fantasy recreating the world.
 
Right now Donald Trump has become a strong argument in favor of private gun ownership on "resistence to tyranny" basis.
 
Giordano said:
100 days of golfing puts Trump at somewhat less than twice a week. But the less time he spends making policy decisions the happier I am.
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You'd think. The problem is that he doesn't seem to need to make a decision in order to start issuing proclamations.
 
Yeah, those tariffs will make America great again.
The last time the U.S. imposed steel tariffs, back in 2002, the project was abandoned after 20 months. A 2003 report commissioned by industries that consumed steel estimated that the Bush steel tariffs cost in excess of 200,000 jobs—or more than the total number of people then employed in the entire steel industry at the time.

This time the cost-benefit ratio is likely to skew much worse. There are fewer steel jobs to protect this time. Auto sales growth has stalled. The first warnings of consumer price inflation are appearing.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/steel-tariffs-consequences/554690/
 
On President Xi
"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day."
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Trump truly thinks that by dropping such gems in the conversation, he makes it more likely to happen. Like Congress now knows what Little Donny wants for his birthday...
 
Darat said:
And it's a "but what does he mean?" - there is zero chance that he has any kind of understanding of the issues and problems involved never mind how they can be tackled by the government.

One thing that has struck me as very ironic, Obama was meant to be to - any moment now, he's just waiting for an excuse - going to unconstitutionally grab your guns, yet it is Trump that has gone on record saying he wants to unconstitutionally confiscate your guns and damn due process yet there isn't any signs (yet?) of a huge uproar about this gun grab.
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When Obama said something, it meant something.
When Trump says something, it means nothing.
 
blutoski said:
My impression is that budget-wise, the NRA is not beholden to their membership, but rather, to large donors, and the agendas do not overlap much.
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Gee, I thought it was accepted wisdom that the NRA really represents the small arms industry. IOW, the sellers, not the buyers.
 
dudalb said:
One theory:The tariff decision was to try to influence the upcoming special election in Pennsyvania, and after the election Trump will modify or drop completely his idiotic tariff proposols. That is about the best case scenario ws can hope for.
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If I understand correctly, all Trump did was announce that he was going to impose tariffs not that he had actually put them in place. Like so many of his oral farts, he was just bloviating. I suspect, again like so many other times, this will blow over and nothing will happen.

The cynic in me says this had nothing to do with the election in Pennsylvania but that some rightie pundit attributed that strategy to Trump AFTER Trump made his surprise announcement. But then, again, maybe Miller might have put the two together. But not Trump; he doesn't have an ounce of strategy on that bloated body of his.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Step 1: Trump says something insane that causes a stock market drop
Step 2: Certain someones (i.e., Carl Icahn) scoop up cheaper stock
Step 3: Trump backpedals, or it becomes apparent that he can't actually do what he said
Step 4: Stocks return to where they were before, yielding a tidy profit to anyone who bought when they were lowered
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Icahn sold millions of shares prior to the announcement. I don't know whether he repurchased them yet.
 
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