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

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Darat said:
I think in this case it was in terms of Trump's stupidity and mental issues an "honest" mistake. He could only take note of the "hugest" number, i. e. the 52% that shows he is the most voted for by women POTUS of all time.
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Right! In a sense, Trump hasn't the wherewithal to lie about such things. Sure, he can lie, but when it comes to matters of his own popularity, he seems literally incapable of seeing anything but the largest crowds ever, the greatest mandate, etc.

We don't blame a three year old for believing he's the center of the universe. We can blame Trump for this view, but I'm not sure it counts as a lie. Gross immaturity, sure.
 
phiwum said:
Right! In a sense, Trump hasn't the wherewithal to lie about such things. Sure, he can lie, but when it comes to matters of his own popularity, he seems literally incapable of seeing anything but the largest crowds ever, the greatest mandate, etc.

We don't blame a three year old for believing he's the center of the universe. We can blame Trump for this view, but I'm not sure it counts as a lie. Gross immaturity, sure.
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Technically I am not sure Trump can lie, I am not sure he can conceive of an objective world that is different than what he decides it is.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Republicans keep saying that talks of authoritarianism is silly, yet they keep taking more steps towards it.
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This isn't clear to me. If the issue is narrowly tailored to protecting political figures at the polling places, I'm okay with it.

I haven't seen the details and the officials in my own state of MA oppose the measure. They know more than I know.
 
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Trump says

"Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross will be speaking with representatives of the European Union about eliminating the large Tariffs and Barriers they use against the U.S.A. Not fair to our farmers and manufacturers."

I am sure a speaking to by Wilbur Ross will make the EU scrap all their food and product standards.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump says

"Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross will be speaking with representatives of the European Union about eliminating the large Tariffs and Barriers they use against the U.S.A. Not fair to our farmers and manufacturers."

I am sure a speaking to by Wilbur Ross will make the EU scrap all their food and product standards.
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That's assuming he can stay awake long enough.
 
Wait, didn't he just tick off the EU with the steel tariffs? And now he thinks they'll lower the ones for our stuff?

And not fair? But perfectly okay for us to do it to them?

Seriously, anyone have a secluded, self-sufficient island for sale? I'd like to declare it my own country and become a recluse and hermit. I'm giving up on the human race.
 
Hellbound said:
Wait, didn't he just tick off the EU with the steel tariffs? And now he thinks they'll lower the ones for our stuff?

And not fair? But perfectly okay for us to do it to them?
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That is the positions that won him the presidency after all. America First, and he must win these trade deals.
 
alfaniner said:
I might have added "working in the most stressful job in the world" but The PDJT probably doesn't feel that at all.
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On the other hand, it's not over until it's over. "Time and chance happeneth to us all."

But like the poor Afghanis who went from the Russian moonscape ruin to the Taliban, if there were a god we'd get Pence!
 
bruto said:
On the other hand, it's not over until it's over. "Time and chance happeneth to us all."

But like the poor Afghanis who went from the Russian moonscape ruin to the Taliban, if there were a god we'd get Pence!
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Who says that won't be Act 2?
 
I doubt it will do any good, but today I sent out this letter to:

Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell
GA Senators David Perdue and Johnny Isakson
Our congressman Doug Collins

Dear _________ ,

About six months ago I contacted my Republican representatives in the House and Senate about the need to censure the President regarding his behavior in office. I said then that President Trump’s attacks on the press, his insults and name calling, and his misleading or false statements all rose to a level of “Conduct Unbecoming of the President of the United States”, and that some sort of formal censure was in order. I received polite responses, but to date, other than isolated Republicans voicing general displeasure with the President, for the most part the Republican Establishment has been silent in face of the President’s continued outrageous behavior. That is inexcusable.

Now, we have the President not only calling Senators and congressmen derogatory names, but specifically mocking at least one member’s “low IQ”. Where is the outrage? Where is the congress speaking out vociferously in a unified voice against such attacks on their fellow representatives?

I have been a Republican my entire adult life. But I can no longer in good conscience associate myself with what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become. It has shamelessly sold its soul to a bombastic, narcissistic, authoritarian showman. I can only hope that eventually the party regains its moral authority, or a viable third party steps in as the voice of reason.

Sincerely,

xxxxxxx
Mineral Bluff, GA
 
Fast Eddie B said:
I doubt it will do any good, but today I sent out this letter to:

Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell
GA Senators David Perdue and Johnny Isakson
Our congressman Doug Collins

Dear _________ ,

About six months ago I contacted my Republican representatives in the House and Senate about the need to censure the President regarding his behavior in office. I said then that President Trump’s attacks on the press, his insults and name calling, and his misleading or false statements all rose to a level of “Conduct Unbecoming of the President of the United States”, and that some sort of formal censure was in order. I received polite responses, but to date, other than isolated Republicans voicing general displeasure with the President, for the most part the Republican Establishment has been silent in face of the President’s continued outrageous behavior. That is inexcusable.

Now, we have the President not only calling Senators and congressmen derogatory names, but specifically mocking at least one member’s “low IQ”. Where is the outrage? Where is the congress speaking out vociferously in a unified voice against such attacks on their fellow representatives?

I have been a Republican my entire adult life. But I can no longer in good conscience associate myself with what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become. It has shamelessly sold its soul to a bombastic, narcissistic, authoritarian showman. I can only hope that eventually the party regains its moral authority, or a viable third party steps in as the voice of reason.

Sincerely,

xxxxxxx
Mineral Bluff, GA
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Good for you. Principles matter.

I'm not particularly conservative, but I value a principled conservative party. I hate to see the depths to which the Republicans have fallen.
 
phiwum said:
This isn't clear to me. If the issue is narrowly tailored to protecting political figures at the polling places, I'm okay with it.

I haven't seen the details and the officials in my own state of MA oppose the measure. They know more than I know.
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That's a pretty big "if". It's more likely to intimidate voters, particularly minority voters. Republicans have done this with volunteers at polling stations, now they will have armed secret service to show more teeth with.
 
phiwum said:
Good for you. Principles matter.

I'm not particularly conservative, but I value a principled conservative party. I hate to see the depths to which the Republicans have fallen.
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Me too. I wish more of the real Republicans would stand up to this jerk POTUS.

Adam Schiff was asked by Rachel Maddow tonight, what about the other GOP members on the House Intelligence committee? He answered, even in private they held their pro-Trump anti-actual investigation positions.
 
Are the Leaders of the NPS, FWS, and BLM Illegitimate?

Per the complaint, the three acting directors were appointed in violation of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, meaning every action taken by these men, PEER executive director Jeff Ruch writes, “is incurably void and invalid.”
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Acting directors are meant to be placeholders in the absence of a Senate-confirmed pick, and the Vacancies Act gives a new administration 300 days to select a new leader. PEER’s complaint alleges that the Interior Department violated the Vacancies Act in two ways. First, the president alone can nominate acting directors. Yet Smith, the BLM’s Brian Steed, and Greg Sheehan, who was appointed acting director of Fish and Wildlife last June, were all appointed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Second, an acting director must have held a senior position in the department for 90 days during the past year prior to being appointed—another criteria all three lack.
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As of the beginning of the year, some 250 crucial jobs that required an appointee were unfilled across the government, many of which were being run by acting directors nearing their time limit under the Vacancies Act. This issue has been widely discussed, both in legal circles and among the media. As a reporter for NPR put it in an interview: “That law, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, gives a new administration 300 days to fill posts, a deadline for Trump that has come and gone. So now if someone in an acting position makes an important decision, it’s subject to a court challenge as being improperly made.”

Or as the Vacancies Act puts it explicitly, “any attempt to perform the functions and duties of that office will have no force or effect.”
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Nothing to worry about. Just a government with very dubious legal authority, barreling its way along with no attempt to fill positions the legal way.
 
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