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

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Another view of how we got here:
Over the years that I traveled to Southeast Missouri to go canoeing and fishing, the Democratic Party began its strategy of concentrating on the “battleground states.” You’d watch the political coverage, and it was all Florida and Ohio and Pennsylvania. Democrats went from contesting the whole country in elections to counting on holding the Northeast and West and what did they call it before it fell in 2016? Oh yeah, I remember. The “blue wall” in the “rust belt:” Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The mistake Democrats have made over the last 40 years is to think that the people in Missouri who worked in that baseball cap factory are stupid, that they wouldn’t notice when Democrats stopped courting labor and went looking for contributions from hedge funders and venture capitalists on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, the same guys — and they are almost all guys — who started paying themselves so much money they’d make even Harold Geneen blush, if he was still with us. CEO pay went from about 25 times that of an average worker in the 1970s to 361 times as much. Indexed yearly income of the average American worker in 2016 was about eight times what it was in 1970.
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https://www.salon.com/2018/11/10/making-sense-of-missouri-after-the-midterms/
 
The psychological scarring caused this latest meltdown. Lookit his early tweet where he was delighted to be in France to "celebrate" the end of WWI.

He actually expected a celebration and more importantly "I wuv a parade! I wuv to see a parade!" This was to be the weekend of Donnie's Big Parade of Really Pretty Planes, Tanks, Trucks and Missiles! And since it was Macron who inspired that particular penis envy, he figured if Bustle Day was so impressive the actual end to a Great War is gonna have a Great Parade.

Kelly should've given him a big red balloon and a corn dog. I'll leave you guys to suggest what he should do with them.
 
BadBoy said:
Maybe he got blind drunk and his "handlers" just can't do anything to placate him. I can imagine him going from anger to tears and back to anger. Tears because no one loves him and he can't get his hair under control, anger as he decides he will just nuke all the F#$#g libtards who keep spoiling stuff for him, and that Bill Gates has got more money than him.
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He apparently eventually showed, two hours late. For all we know it could have been another publicity stunt.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
He apparently eventually showed, two hours late. For all we know it could have been another publicity stunt.
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Not drunk then.

Perhaps just caught up playing Battlefield on his hotel rooms Play Station and no one had the nerve to remind him it was time to leave.
 
Here's the quote from the second event (the one he couldn't skip).

"You look so comfortable up there under shelter as we're getting drenched," he called out to a group of American veterans. "You're very smart people."
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BadBoy said:
Not drunk then.

Perhaps just caught up playing Battlefield on his hotel rooms Play Station and no one had the nerve to remind him it was time to leave.
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I don't think it drinks. It has always said it doesn't so that could be a lie but you'd think that you'd hear about its drinking from disgruntled staff telling tales.
 
Trump actually read an article, but of course came to the wrong conclusion:

President Trump doesn't want to give Puerto Rico any more federal money for its recovery from Hurricane Maria, White House officials have told congressional appropriators and leadership. This is because he claims, without evidence, that the island’s government is using federal disaster relief money to pay off debt.

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In late October, Trump grew furious after reading a Wall Street Journal article by Matt Wirz, according to five sources familiar with the president's reaction. The article said that "Puerto Rico bond prices soared ... after the federal oversight board that runs the U.S. territory’s finances released a revised fiscal plan that raises expectations for disaster funding and economic growth."

Sources with direct knowledge told me Trump concluded — without evidence — that Puerto Rico's government was scamming federal disaster funds to pay down its debt.

On Oct. 23, Trump falsely claimed in a tweet that Puerto Rico's "inept politicians are trying to use the massive and ridiculously high amounts of hurricane/disaster funding to pay off other obligations."

At the same time, White House officials told congressional leadership that Trump was inflamed by the Wall Street Journal article and "doesn't want to include additional Puerto Rico funding in further spending bills," according to a congressional leadership aide. "He was unhappy with what he believed was mismanagement of money," the aide said.

A second source said Trump misinterpreted the Journal article, concluding falsely that the Puerto Rican government was using disaster relief funds to pay down debt.

A third source said Trump told top officials in an October meeting that he wanted to claw back congressional funds that had previously been set aside for Puerto Rico's recovery. "He's always been pissed off by Puerto Rico," the source added.
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Linky.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
Has there been a response from the usual suspects about Trump ditching the WWI centennial yet? Or are they trying to sit still and hope the story goes away?
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Trump was merely doing Parisians a favour, according to a statement quoted in the Guardian
"Donald Trump didn’t attend an event honouring US military dead because he didn’t want to disrupt the traffic in Paris, the White House said on Sunday, as the fallout for his no-show on Saturday continued."
 
Pixel42 said:
Are we only supposed to honour/mourn/regret the senseless loss of life of soldiers who are the same nationality as us, then? If so I've been getting it wrong for 65 years.
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To be fair he's probably had quite a few meetings with the parents of these brave solders and promised them that he will do his best to get their remains back from a foreign land so they are more on his mind.
 
Darat said:
To be fair he's probably had quite a few meetings with the parents of these brave solders and promised them that he will do his best to get their remains back from a foreign land so they are more on his mind.
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Please give a warning before writing such things. I just spewed coffee all over my keyboard.
 
The Man said:
I see another possible side effect that people who dislike what you say and do, take some particular action and find that stops you on some particular media.

I have to wonder if Trump has any inclination to join the boycott in support of his PR sycophants?
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Think how this could effect Twitter if it became a movement? The average quality of tweets could sky rocket!
 
Craig B said:
Trump was merely doing Parisians a favour, according to a statement quoted in the Guardian
"Donald Trump didn’t attend an event honouring US military dead because he didn’t want to disrupt the traffic in Paris, the White House said on Sunday, as the fallout for his no-show on Saturday continued."
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Yeah, it's not like the occasion was something important. Traffic disruption is for Trump rallies.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
How are they slandering him? By quoting him? Citing government action against his scam business?
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Remember running a scam business is the height of respectable and presidential activities to modern republicans. So clearly it is praising him not slandering him. Look at what he did to the Rubes! Genius!

Best scam since Trump U.
 
Horatius said:
Wasn't it just a few months back that he was bitching and complaining that other countries in NATO should be building up their own military? Isn't that exactly how they "pay their fair share" of NATO?
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Yes but he doesn't know that. He thinks he will get the check. Must make republicans proud how incapable of learning basic facts the head of their party is.

But they are now all post fact anyway.
 
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