Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

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thaiboxerken said:
I get the feeling that if/when Trump leaves the White House, Republicans will "finally" see reason and talk about how horrible Trump being in office was. Until then, they will support everything he does.
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I expect something akin to Khruschev’s speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" that was given several years after the death of Stalin.

Khrushchev charged Stalin with having fostered a leadership cult of personality despite ostensibly maintaining support for the ideals of communism.

Aftering perusing the speech on Wikipedia, all the speech maker should have to do is swap a few words and (hopefully) remove the references to purged and mass imprisonments.

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Slings and Arrows said:
A belated apology from Fake News Network NBC:
"CORRECTION: An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as "incredible" at a rally in Ohio. It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee. An attached video clip lacked the full context for Trump's remark. Here is the full clip."

-- NBC News (Oct 14, 2018)​
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You can tell it's not fake news because they make corrections. That's something the filthy Russian whore you're so enamored with should try.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Democrats have:
- checks and balances
- healthcare
- immigration
- safeguarding the Mueller investigation
- no more taxcuts for the rich

The Republicans have:
- some Democrats are mean! Don't vote for them.

All I can say is: if Trump supporters are so scared of a Blue Wave, they should come out and vote on Nov. 13th.
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Nah, the Republicans are all for healthcare for all during the midterm campaign, while banking on voters not checking the candidate's voting record.

Most blatant is probably the Missouri state AG who is running for senate on a platform of protecting people with pre-existing conditions, while at the same time spearheading the lawsuit to gut the ACA of protection for people with pre-existing conditions.

Even Trump is getting in on the act (quelle surprise, I know), claiming “Republicans only will always protect patients will pre-existing conditions,” while his AG is refusing to defend ACA against the lawsuit mentioned above.
 
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"That Painting of Trump Having a Diet Coke With Abraham Lincoln Is Now Hanging in the White House...."


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http://time.com/5424453/donald-trump-painting-andy-thomas/
 
Cabbage said:
Nice cherry picking and editing of a quote! It's a shame you don't get similarly outraged when conservatives (such as the president) make divisive comments.
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Or when Trump suggested to his supporters that they should assassinate Hillary Clinton during his campaign.
 
fagin said:
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"That Painting of Trump Having a Diet Coke With Abraham Lincoln Is Now Hanging in the White House...."


[qimg]https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/the-republican-club-30x45-final.jpg[/qimg]

http://time.com/5424453/donald-trump-painting-andy-thomas/
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No fewer than half the men at that table would be strangling Trump to death with his own necktie 30 seconds into a conversation with him.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Democrats have:
- checks and balances
- healthcare
- immigration
- safeguarding the Mueller investigation
- no more taxcuts for the rich

The Republicans have:
- some Democrats are mean! Don't vote for them.

All I can say is: if Trump supporters are so scared of a Blue Wave, they should come out and vote on Nov. 13th.
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Republicans have stances on those issues, they just have the other stances.
 
Matt yglesias had my favorite take on the 60 minutes interview

At one point Trump, when asked about reports that Mattis had tried to explain the value of NATO to him, snapped “I think I know more about it than he does.”

Later, Trump explained that Mattis is “sort of a Democrat, if you want to know the truth.”

Mattis is, of course, not a Democrat. He is a career military officer and defense hawk who was fired by Barack Obama’s administration for his unwillingness to get on board with their diplomatic opening to Iran. That, in turn, is how he ended up working for Trump.

But Trump refuses to listen to anyone about anything, even subject-matter experts who clearly know more than he does. Instead he concocts a bizarre mirror universe in which Mattis holding a very normal Republican Party view about NATO becomes evidence that he’s a crypto-Democrat.
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fagin said:
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"That Painting of Trump Having a Diet Coke With Abraham Lincoln Is Now Hanging in the White House...."
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Is it hanging next to the dogs playing poker painting?
 
fagin said:
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"That Painting of Trump Having a Diet Coke With Abraham Lincoln Is Now Hanging in the White House...."

http://time.com/5424453/donald-trump-painting-andy-thomas/
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So, why are these fun-loving guys giving such a big **** you to Harding?

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I just found this quote on Wikipedia. From a biographer

The success of Harding with the Star was certainly in the model of Horatio Alger. He started with nothing, and through working, stalling, bluffing, withholding payments, borrowing back wages, boasting, and manipulating, he turned a dying rag into a powerful small-town newspaper. Much of his success had to do with his good looks, affability, enthusiasm, and persistence, but he was also lucky. As Machiavelli once pointed out, cleverness will take a man far, but he cannot do without good fortune.[14]​

Obviously President Trump didn’t start with nothing, but he did have a fondness for stall8ng, bluffing, withholding payments, and manipulating. I would describe the POTUS. As having a veneer of affability, enthusiasm, and persistence.
 
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Ladewig said:
So, why are these fun-loving guys giving such a big **** you to Harding?
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They aren't they are just laughing at trump, who doesn't get the joke, and Harding is miffed because of all the scandals that marred his reputation after his death. How could he know that a president wallowing in scandal might one day be acceptable.
 
fagin said:
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"That Painting of Trump Having a Diet Coke With Abraham Lincoln Is Now Hanging in the White House...."
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Who is the woman standing in the background supposed to be? Nancy Reagan?
 
Well, that's that then. King Salman's denials are obviously as convincing to Trump as Putin's.

"Donald Trump has speculated that “rogue killers” may have been responsible for the presumed death of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, as he announced he was dispatching the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to Riyadh to discuss the deepening crisis with King Salman of Saudi Arabia.

After speaking to the Saudi king by phone, the US president said Salman “denies any knowledge of whatever may have happened” to the journalist and was “working closely with Turkey” to find out what happened to him.

“The denial was very, very strong,” Trump told reporters. “It sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?”

“All I can do is report what he told me. He told me in a very firm way that they had no knowledge of it. He said it very strongly,” Trump said."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ission-search-saudi-arabia-consulate-istanbul
 
fagin said:
“The denial was very, very strong,” Trump told reporters. “It sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?”
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Maybe it was the zodiac killer.

Does anyone know where Ted Cruz was at the time?
 
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