Cont: The Trump Presidency VIII

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The mindset of a Trump supporter: story time

Two years ago I shared a Facebook post showing 3 people of different height standing behind a fence trying to watch a baseball game. Because of the fence height the shorter people couldn't see the game and it used crates to stand on in various ways to demonstrate the difference between equality and equity.

A full fledged alt right Trump supporter commented a rant about freeloaders and how the people should have purchased a ticket instead of trying to watch from the fence. This had nothing at all to do with the post I shared and multiple people replied explaining that he literally missed the point.

Now, two years later he posts the same thing with a few alterations. The words equality and equity are still there but the substantive explanation is removed. Further, those words are crossed out and underneath is written "Tresspassing. Buy a ticket like everyone else *******". And lastly, the color of the people in the picture were changed from white to black.

So not only did he learn nothing, but he managed to make it racist too.
 
What is truly scary is the idiots in the crowd applauding and cheering for this clown. To applaud and cheer him telling them not to believe what they're seeing and reading because it's all "fake news" is just stupid. There is no other word for it. And the problem with their stupidity is that stupid is permanent unlike ignorance.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Reading this, I was assuming some editorialising, but no, she really did say that Trump was looking into revoking the security clearances of anybody who had publicly criticised him over his meeting with Putin
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And it looks like her response was planned including the fake question.

Remember when GW got tossed a fake question in a press conference?

Jeff Gannon aka James Dale Guckert
The controversy over Gannon's background started after President George W. Bush's January 26, 2005, press conference, at which Gannon asked the president the following question:

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Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. (Senate Minority Leader) Harry Reid was talking about soup lines. And (Senator) Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet in the same breath they say that Social Security is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work – you've said you are going to reach out to these people – how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?[5]

Gannon's question was ridiculed on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart sarcastically dubbed him "Chip Rightwingenstein of the Bush Agenda Gazette"[14] and by a number of bloggers who considered it an excessively deferential question for a reporter to ask at a presidential press conference. The question also contained a factually inaccurate assertion: the supposed comments about soup lines had not been made by Reid, but had been satirically attributed to him by conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.[5]
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AnonyMoose said:
The moron is perjuring himself on Twitter and is too stupid to even realize it.

Canada and Mexico (and I believe the EU as well) have taken their cases against the US to the WHO, claiming his "national security" issue is bogus and therefore the tariffs were illegally implemented.

Everything this idiot says on Twitter will be used against him once the WHO gets around to looking at these cases and making a ruling for or against the US in the very near future.

So while Mango Mussolini is busy bragging about his tariffs with twitty tweets, the WHO is taking notes.

Every day is fricken comedy hour with this clueless clown.
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That's the WTO, and Trump is planning to leave that, or he isn't, or we'll see, or something. Anyhoo, Trump will lose no sleep over it.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

"Countries that have treated us unfairly on trade for years are all coming to Washington to negotiate. This should have taken place many years ago but,
as the saying goes, better late than never!"

"Tariffs are the greatest! Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. It’s as simple as that - and everybody’s talking! Remember, we are the “piggy bank” that’s being robbed. All will be Great!"

"Our Country is doing GREAT. Best financial numbers on the Planet. Great to have USA WINNING AGAIN!"

"MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

"I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!"
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The greatest for real america, they finally get the hand outs they always thought others people were getting but were not actually getting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-readies-plan-for-12-billion-in-emergency-aid-to-farmers-caught-in-trumps-escalating-trade-war/2018/07/24/7bec9af4-8f4d-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html?utm_term=.bacd30355fce

I mean why should they get their jobs saved when all the factory workers losing their jobs over this are just SOL? Lazy farmers.
 
Speaking of tariffs....

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/bus...on-to-announce-aid-for-us-farmers-on-tuesday/

Trump to offer U.S. farmers billions to ease trade pain

The Washington Post earlier reported that the White House was readying $12 billion in assistance, citing two people familiar with the plan.


Politico, citing two sources familiar with the plan, also reported the administration will pay for billions in trade-related aid through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s broad authority and two commodity support programs in a farm bill under consideration in Congress.


The USDA did not immediately comment.


Proposing federal subsidies for farmers is likely to place congressional Republicans, who typically resist large-scale government assistance programs, in a difficult position. Some were quick to denounce the proposal.


“This trade war is cutting the legs out from under farmers and the White House’s ‘plan’ is to spend $12 billion on gold crutches,” said Senator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican who frequently criticizes the president, a fellow Republican.


“Tariffs are taxes that punish American consumers and producers,” Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul wrote on Twitter. “If tariffs punish farmers, the answer is not welfare for farmers — the answer is remove the tariffs.”
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$12 billion in aid for suffering farmers during Trump's trade war. That welfare bill will skyrocket to much higher altitudes each and every day that his trade war carries on.


I wonder which social safety nets he's going to steal the money from to pay for this farmers' aid ? Because we all know he won't touch his prized military budget, so....



Medicare/Medicaid ?
Food stamps ?
Social security ?
Veterans' disability ?
Subsidized housing ?





Robbing Peter to pay Paul... what could possibly go wrong ?
 
AnonyMoose said:
Speaking of tariffs....

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/bus...on-to-announce-aid-for-us-farmers-on-tuesday/

Trump to offer U.S. farmers billions to ease trade pain






$12 billion in aid for suffering farmers during Trump's trade war. That welfare bill will skyrocket to much higher altitudes each and every day that his trade war carries on.


I wonder which social safety nets he's going to steal the money from to pay for this farmers' aid ? Because we all know he won't touch his prized military budget, so....



Medicare/Medicaid ?
Food stamps ?
Social security ?
Veterans' disability ?
Subsidized housing ?





Robbing Peter to pay Paul... what could possibly go wrong ?
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I predict that all the farmers who voted for Trump will cheer this plan, and gladly accept the government handout.
 
CapelDodger said:
Getting an excuse ready for a poor showing in November, should that occur.
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That's the first thing I thought when I saw that.

Alhtough a few writers on this..and they are by no means Trump supporters have stated if the main purpose of the Russian Government is to create chaos in the US, supporting the Dems would make perfect sense.
And that is a problem: we don't know if the Russian Goal is indeed making a US president a puppet or just weaken the US by creating maximum internal chaos. Intelligence experts themselves admit they are not such which strategy is in place.
 
And we don't know how much influence the Russian interference in 2016 had on the final outcome..and we might never know.
BUt it's an irrevelent question: ANy attempt to interfere in a US Election...successful or not...should be considered a hostile act. If the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor had been beaten off with minor damage to the US Fleet, it still would have been a act of war.'No Harm,No Foul" does not apply in international politics.
 
In the very back of my mind I'm thinking Russia will try to meddle, perhaps with softer effort, to appear as though they are trying to help the Democrats. Then Trump and his drones' suspicions will be "confirmed" that Russia never tried to attack the U.S. to help Trump win the election.
Logical fallacies still work against most people most of the time.
ETA: Ninja'd once again. Great minds think alike?
 
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Venom said:
In the very back of my mind I'm thinking Russia will try to meddle, perhaps with softer effort, to appear as though they are trying to help the Democrats. Then Trump and his drones' suspicions will be "confirmed" that Russia never tried to attack the U.S. to help Trump win the election.
Logical fallacies still work against most people most of the time.
ETA: Ninja'd once again. Great minds think alike?
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Again, it depends on what Russia's goals were. I tend toward the "Cause Maximum CHaos to weaken the US " theory. The are not stupid, they know Trump is limited in what the can do to help Putin (and they are under no illusions about the intelligence and competency of Trump) and are just out to weaken the US a much as possible by creating internal divisions.
 
dudalb said:
Again, it depends on what Russia's goals were. I tend toward the "Cause Maximum CHaos to weaken the US " theory. The are not stupid, they know Trump is limited in what the can do to help Putin (and they are under no illusions about the intelligence and competency of Trump) and are just out to weaken the US a much as possible by creating internal divisions.
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And in Trump they had the perfect useful idiot. The Russians have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. It's been like Christmas every day for Putin since Nov. 2016.
 
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