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Skeptic Ginger said:
How is that helpful? Bolton's out there starting little war fires all over the world.
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I think Trump and his minions are cornered on the legislative front. Even if there are Republicans with passable ideas for legislation (that is passable in another meaning ofthe word), the dimwit in chief has no vision and no one wants to work with him because he'll throw them under the bus on a whim. That's the chief reason they've got no program bits passed except for the "Oooh, I want mine, gimme gimme gimme" tax cuts.

What is frightening is that the government is being run by fiat. What Trump and his stooges, particularly the scary ones like Miller, are doing behind the scenes is sending directives to Homeland Security, CBP, ICE, etc..... All those rules were there - they just found uniquely Trumpian ways to interpret them in the most abusive way possible.

I'd rather NOT have his foreign advisors also working in the backrooms and slipping memos to State and to the diplomatic services with policy changes that they think they can get away with. Having bigmouth Bolton as an attention whore aids in that respect.
 
Babbylonian said:
Wanting something, though, is a far cry from making the want public. Undermining a president's staff is the same as undermining that president. This is a laudable goal for the press, at least if it's justified and in the public interest. It's a terrible thing for a spouse to do.
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For some surreal icing on the cake, consider that Melania called out "she". No name, just "she". Weird on top of weird.
 
varwoche said:
Another Trump is melting down article, this time from CNN. Highlights:
  • isolated, growing more furious by the day
  • friends say he's embittered by election losses and Mueller probe
  • longtime confidants worried for his health
  • blames advisers for losing the winning narrative of the midterms :D
My favorite bit:
I know we see this sort of reporting frequently. It seems like Trump will pull the full mental monte, and then it keeps plodding along. Highly enjoyable notwithstanding. I want this mother ****** to suffer.
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His touting non existent GOP victories in the mid terms reminds me of Hitler ordering non existenet military units around in his last days.
But I would not get to happy about this, we have a borderline psychotic man with his finger on the nuclear trigger. if that is not scary what is.
 
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Stacyhs said:
Amen to that.

I never believed he went into this expecting, or even really wanting, to be president. It was nothing but an attention getting stunt for him. And then the adulation started by the idiots who could not see him for what he is. Trump got addicted to the rallies and attention and the power. It fed his narcissism like never before. IMO, he doesn't give a damn about what's good for the country, but only what's good for him. I want it all to come crashing down on him. I want it to be the worst decision he ever made.
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I keep on reading that too; that it started as a publicity stunt, but he got addicted to the adulation. But I alos read that even after his nomination he never really expected to win;he thought he would lose but could from some kind of mass movement with his followers with an "the election was stolen from me" line.
But more then Trump,even, I want the GOP enablers who knew full well what he is but figured they could somehow control and then use him'thye are the ones I really want to suffer.
 
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I am now more convinced then ever that,in the end, Trump will decide that the one sure way to rally his base and recapture his glory days is war.
Everything about Trump screams the kind of leader who will get you into a war.
 
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The Big Dog said:
One does not have to claim the high ground to decry the misogynistic attacks on Melania Trump, all one has to do is avoid diving into the cesspool, something that many of our posters seem to be unable to resist.
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I’ll conceed part of the point. Perhaps one doesn’t need the moral high ground but one has to be at least at ground level to accuse others of misogyny. President Trump has dug a deep hole. Being upset with the left while ignoring the president’s glaring and undisgusable misogyny is laughable.
 
dudalb said:
I am now more convinced then ever that,in the end, Trump will decide that the one sure way to rally his base and recapture his glory days is war.
Everything about Trump screams the kind of leader who will get you into a war.
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Well it has been reported that Trump went into a big sulk after the midterm results returned a Democrat House. As someone who has suffered the pain and misery of living with a narcissist, this doesn't surprise me one bit... it is exactly how most narcissists behave when they have been rejected.

Narcissists are very dangerous when they get like this, they tend to lash out at anything and everything. That this particular narcissist is in a position of power makes him doubly dangerous.
 
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dudalb said:
I am now more convinced then ever that,in the end, Trump will decide that the one sure way to rally his base and recapture his glory days is war.
Everything about Trump screams the kind of leader who will get you into a war.
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Remember that one of his first acts was to release the Mother Of All Bombs, just to make a point that he could.

Wouldn't it be cool if Melania divorces him, leaving him destitute before the end of his term? (I know there are loads of signed papers designed to prevent that happening, but still...)
 
alfaniner said:
Remember that one of his first acts was to release the Mother Of All Bombs, just to make a point that he could.

Wouldn't it be cool if Melania divorces him, leaving him destitute before the end of his term? (I know there are loads of signed papers designed to prevent that happening, but still...)
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...one can dream.
 
Ladewig said:
I’ll conceed part of the point. Perhaps one doesn’t need the moral high ground but one has to be at least at ground level to accuse others of misogyny. President Trump has dug a deep hole. Being upset with the left while ignoring the president’s glaring and undisgusable misogyny is laughable.
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absolutely false. That is a complete ad hominem fallacy, and that is not debatable.

It is the same old lip service while trying to derail the actual conduct we are discussing.

Ridiculous
 
alfaniner said:
Remember that one of his first acts was to release the Mother Of All Bombs, just to make a point that he could.

Wouldn't it be cool if Melania divorces him, leaving him destitute before the end of his term? (I know there are loads of signed papers designed to prevent that happening, but still...)
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I have a different take on the MoAB detonation. I think it's more like the "Vrooom! Vrooom!" truck-driver miming. He did it because he wanted to see what it'd be like "blow 'em up real good"(someone insert the SCTV clip, if you want).

He's a big baby and wanted to play with his new toys. If we had a dead zone somewhere in the world, he'd be dropping nukes and watching the videos at night before bed.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Must be Fake News then.
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From CNN:

The timing for the President's fury couldn't be worse, considering the White House is heading into uncharted territory with Democrats assuming control of the House.
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I wish CNN wouldn't do this. If this is supposed to be a news article, under old-school (my age ;)) rules, it shouldn't be making this assertion. It veers into "analysis." And really, it's like dozens of articles I've already seen. Trump has had the worst week of his presidency - how many times have I read this? And though it may be freshly true each week, taken together such analyses are giving a distorted view of Trump's presidency.

When Trump first took office I gobbled this stuff up. He was going to get his comeuppance any day now, it seemed. It got to the point where I quit checking CNN, because I felt I was getting an unrealistic expectation that the country as a whole was sick of Trump, and it didn't match the reality I saw around me.

Besides which, "heading into uncharted territory" is just stale writing. For the first time his party does not control both houses of Congress. I can do the math.

After the shock of his election I wasn't about to believe anything I read ahead of the midterms. I avoided the news all last Tuesday. It came out the way I hoped, mostly.
 
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The Big Dog said:
absolutely false. That is a complete ad hominem fallacy, and that is not debatable.

It is the same old lip service while trying to derail the actual conduct we are discussing.

Ridiculous
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I've lost track of the plot. Who/what is the conductor/conduct?

Regardless, I wish everyone to maintain a degree of decorum. Maybe what Michelle Obama said is falling out of favor. I hope not. This sort of talk gets used against "the good guys" and could cost the 2020 election here on a sleepy backwater forum, ya sure

The immigrant call lady married to Trump is discussed frequently. Someone should start a thread one day.
 
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“The Republicans don’t win and that’s because of potentially illegal votes,” Trump told the conservative Daily Caller website. “When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody takes anything. It’s really a disgrace what’s going on.”
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- The Guardian

Guys in oversized trenchcoats are just kids standing on each others' shoulders.
 
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