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

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I'm not going to edit it, but the post above should properly read "traffic collision" rather than "accident". As Simon Pegg says in Hot Fuzz: "'accident' implies there's nobody to blame".
 
Fast Eddie B said:
Prediction: They’ll say he was just joking.
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He probably was just joking. What he refuses to acknowledge is that those jokes, coming from the president, are not as innocuous as those coming from, say, Belz, whose jokes are equally funny.
 
TofuFighter said:
He probably was just joking. What he refuses to acknowledge is that those jokes, coming from the president, are not as innocuous as those coming from, say, Belz, whose jokes are equally funny.
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Trump's jokes are decidedly unfunny, but you flatter Belz...

(Note again: I like Belz... just as much as I like a newly adopted kitten who attacks one's toes in the middle of the night as one sleeps. Totally decent ass, honestly)
 
Belz... said:
I take your comment as a personal insult. Trump's jokes are NOT funny.
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Yes, this honestly has to be a slur on your sense of humor. I totally agree.

Obviously, I took that slur and ran with it in the above post, but you should be offended when your sense of humor is said to be comparable to Trump's. You have been insulted, I think.
 
When Democrats win the House, one of their first priorities will be to restore the government oversight functions that Republicans have anesthetized.

Trump Intervened In FBI HQ Project To Protect His Hotel, Democrats Allege

President Trump intervened in a big federal building project to help protect business for his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, a group of House Democrats alleged on Thursday.

Trump wants to demolish and rebuild the FBI's headquarters, the Democrats say, to preserve the site's government ownership and deny any potential competitors to the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office Pavilion up the street.

The Democrats called that an abuse of power and a violation of the regulations that are supposed to protect such arrangements from political influence.
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This is blatant, in-your-face, self-serving abuse of power, and it's how history will remember the self-obsessed con-man that trumper shills adore.
 
WilliamSeger said:
When Democrats win the House, one of their first priorities will be to restore the government oversight functions that Republicans have anesthetized.

Trump Intervened In FBI HQ Project To Protect His Hotel, Democrats Allege



This is blatant, in-your-face, self-serving abuse of power, and it's how history will remember the self-obsessed con-man that trumper shills adore.
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Once again, I'm reminded that Lex Luthor (an actual comic-book villain) had more integrity than Trump in this area.
 
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Belz... said:
Trump IS a comic book villain. Were he in a real comic book he'd be rightly decried as unrealistic.
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Well, yes, but also as uninteresting. He has no depth.

But you're right. No comic book fan would buy that such a vapid, ignorant man could persuade the nation to elect him. Luthor manipulated the folk due to his guile and expertise. Trump did too, in a sense, but his only skill has to be deceiving rubes. A bit shallow, uninteresting and really unlikely. How could such an untalented man really be elected? It stretches credulity.

ETA: Might work if we regard Putin as Brainiac, I guess.
 
Pixel42 said:
Trump praises Gianforte for assault on Guardian reporter: 'He's my guy'
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Slings and Arrows said:
“Democrats have become the party of crime. They would rather devastate America’s communities than defend America’s borders. Democrats produce mobs, Republicans produce jobs.”

-- President Donald J. Trump (Oct 18, 2018)
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Posted shortly after a post in which Trump is quoted advocating for violent criminal assault.

The consistency with which our clown car of resident conservatives self-own continues to be hilarious.
 
Civilization is learned, not genetically gifted to newborns. All it took was for an entire generation to completely fail to take up the mantle of modernity, learn something of the dangerous past, and then assume the hard tasks that come with being civilized -- oh, such as self restraint -- and here we are: abject ignorance, therefore Trump, and soon, global fisticuffs.

An apex predator species lacking a satiation response, possessing a wild imagination, limitless appetite, and unleashed from all restraint... what could go wrong? Libertarians assure us that, unlike any time in recorded history, strongmen facing no rules or limits will be, gosh, enlightened and fair. This they have read in weighty books... none of them history, all of them fiction.

Delusional apex predators. In possession of nukes. Righteous Christians. Lookout.
 
Despite trying to 'talk tough' and dumping money into the Military, it looks like President Stubby McBonespur's support among the military has dropped.

From: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/...ding-among-active-duty-troops-new-poll-shows/
About 44 percent of troops had a favorable view of Trump’s presidency, the poll showed, compared to 43 percent who disapproved. The results from the survey, conducted over the course of September and October, suggest a gradual decline in troops’ support of Trump since he was elected in fall 2016, when a similar Military Times poll showed that 46 percent of troops approved of Trump compared to 37 percent who disapproved. That nine-point margin of support now appears gone.

Usually military people are quite reliable Republican supporters, so to see his approval/disapproval rating become a statistical tie is a bit shocking.

How long before the republicans have to try to find a way to suppress military votes?
 
Segnosaur said:
Despite trying to 'talk tough' and dumping money into the Military, it looks like President Stubby McBonespur's support among the military has dropped.

From: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/...ding-among-active-duty-troops-new-poll-shows/
About 44 percent of troops had a favorable view of Trump’s presidency, the poll showed, compared to 43 percent who disapproved. The results from the survey, conducted over the course of September and October, suggest a gradual decline in troops’ support of Trump since he was elected in fall 2016, when a similar Military Times poll showed that 46 percent of troops approved of Trump compared to 37 percent who disapproved. That nine-point margin of support now appears gone.

Usually military people are quite reliable Republican supporters, so to see his approval/disapproval rating become a statistical tie is a bit shocking.

How long before the republicans have to try to find a way to suppress military votes?
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This doesn't surprise me. There's a strong belief in integrity and personal responsibility in the military (not that even the majority live up to those values, but they're more common there than in the general population, I think...and those are a core part of the "warrior mythos" the military embraces). Trump's constant scapegoating, lying, and refusal to take responsibility for his actions would grate against that.
 
Trump Tweets

"Beto O’Rourke is a total lightweight compared to Ted Cruz, and he comes nowhere near representing the values and desires of the people of the Great State of Texas. He will never be allowed to turn Texas into Venezuela!"
 
Trump Tweets

"When referring to the USA, I will always capitalize the word Country!"
 
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