Cont: The Trump Presidency 11: Insert something funny

[Skeptic Ginger]

The controversy, such as it is, about Blumenthal is that he was in the service during the Vietnam war, but was never actually deployed to Vietnam. Apparently he sometimes referred to his time in the Marine Corps Reserves as "in Vietnam," rather than "during Vietnam."

It seems pretty clear that he was referring to veterans generally as "we," not to his personal service. In any case, he's no saint, but if that's the worst thing you can say about him, he's a paragon of virtue in comparison to Trump and his enablers.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/richard-blumenthal-vietnam/
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18blumenthal.html

Isn't this like really old news?

 

[Stacko]

Isn't this like really old news?

It's the beauty of Individual One's presidency. Every boomer political scandal is coming back. We're even getting to relitigate Iran-Contra thanks to him nominating the AG that let Bush the greater pardon his way out of it for AG.

 

[Stacyhs]

Sorry but your comments lack insight here. Trump is constantly compensating for his severe insecurity with his delusions. If you understood that you'd have those answers to your comments.

Trump was so embarrassed by the Correspondents' Dinner that he's spent the last two years getting back at Obama by executive orders.

I agree. Trump overcompensates for a severe inferiority complex by being narcissistic:

The Mayo Clinic research group defines narcissistic personality disorder as “a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.”
Narcissism is often interpreted in popular culture as a person who’s in love with him or herself. It is more accurate to characterize the pathological narcissist as someone who’s in love with an idealized self-image, which they project in order to avoid feeling (and being seen as) the real, disenfranchised, wounded self. Deep down, most pathological narcissists feel like the “ugly duckling”, even if they painfully don’t want to admit it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...ways-narcissists-compensate-their-inferiority

 

[jimbob]

Sorry but your comments lack insight here. Trump is constantly compensating for his severe insecurity with his delusions. If you understood that you'd have those answers to your comments.

Trump was so embarrassed by the Correspondents' Dinner that he's spent the last two years getting back at Obama by executive orders.

That's my reading of it too.

Utterly insecure. Those insults on twitter really seem to get to him.

 

[Cain]

"3 Chief of Staffs in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason why @BarackObama can't manage to pass his agenda." -- realDonaldTrump

 

[newyorkguy]

Trump tweets

Very sad day & night in Paris. Maybe it’s time to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement and return money back to the people in the form of lower taxes? The U.S. was way ahead of the curve on that and the only major country where emissions went down last year!

The protests:

The protesters in Paris are demonstrating against a planned fuel cost hike, which the government has since backed away from, and cost of living increases...

The video purporting to show Paris demonstrators chanting We Want Trump. (Would it be possible to trade Donnie for Emmanuel Macron?):

In the video, which was first posted online in June, demonstrators chant “we want Trump” in English as a man in a rubber Trump mask stands on top of a bus. In the video police officers are seen wearing the uniform of London’s Metropolitan Police and St George’s flags are visible.

It is believed to have been filmed on June 9, and shows demonstrators at a rally for Tommy Robinson, an English far-right agitator who was recently prosecuted for broadcasting information that police claim could have led to the collapse of a trial of a group of men charged with sexually abusing minors. Demonstrators have held a series of rallies in London in his support. Newsweek

 

[acbytesla]

"3 Chief of Staffs in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason why @BarackObama can't manage to pass his agenda." -- realDonaldTrump

How many is this for Trump? Obviously 2 at least.

 

[Trebuchet]

"3 Chief of Staffs in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason why @BarackObama can't manage to pass his agenda." -- realDonaldTrump

How many is this for Trump? Obviously 2 at least.

Likely 3 by year's end.

 

[a_unique_person]

Richard Blumenthal is an American attorney and politician who has served as a United States Senator from Connecticut since 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He has been the state's senior senator since 2013 and is ranked as the second wealthiest member of the Senate. Wikipedia

Next question is what triggered this bat crap crazy reaction.

nm

 

[Ranb]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...on-says/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3818ef1d331d

Carlson said he cannot stand Trump’s self-aggrandizement and boasting. Then, when asked whether Trump has kept his promises, the usually quick-witted and long-winded Carlson had just one word: “No.”

I guess Tucker found it a bit crowded up in Trumps ass; has to get out for a while.

Ranb

 

[Stacyhs]

"3 Chief of Staffs Chiefs of Staff in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason why @BarackObama can't manage to pass his agenda." -- realDonaldTrump

Fixed that for ya, 'Genius' Donnie Boy.

 

[SezMe]

... Or are you just being your usual arse. ....

Yes.

 

[SezMe]

Absolutely correct and fully and well described!!!

Thirded. Well said and spot on.

 

[SezMe]

In fact, the three outfits are so intertwined that both the NRA’s and the Trump campaign’s ad buys were authorized by the same person: National Media’s chief financial officer, Jon Ferrell.

Read the whole disgusting story here.

Wayne La Peter and his NRA honchos belong behind bars.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Read the whole disgusting story here.

Wayne La Peter and his NRA honchos belong behind bars.

What shows either ignorant hubris and/or just plain ignorance is how easy it is to coordinate PACs and campaign finances without breaking the rules. Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert demonstrated it a few years, collecting > $1 million for a generic-ish PAC and having a campaign finance lawyer on the show telling them all the things they could do that were legal from eventually Jon signing the money over to Stephen IIRC, (or vice versa?).

 

[CapelDodger]

Sorry but your comments lack insight here. Trump is constantly compensating for his severe insecurity with his delusions. If you understood that you'd have those answers to your comments.

I'm with Ladewig on this. Trump lacks any capacity for self-doubt or insecurity. His delusions are of grandeur.

Trump was so embarrassed by the Correspondents' Dinner that he's spent the last two years getting back at Obama by executive orders.

Trump was angry through frustration, not embarrassment. He wasn't allowed to answer back or have his say, and he would so have zinged Obama if he could, but none of the reports mentioned that, oh no. His anger is childish, and I mean toddler level.

He wasn't angered by the laughter of the UN General Assembly - a little bemused, true, but they were foreigners with their peculiar ways, and they were no doubt laughing with him at all those other Presidents who achieved so little. He got angry later, at the media : foreigners only see what's on CNN, so they don't know about all the great things he's achieved.

 

[Bob001]

What shows either ignorant hubris and/or just plain ignorance is how easy it is to coordinate PACs and campaign finances without breaking the rules. Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert demonstrated it a few years, collecting > $1 million for a generic-ish PAC and having a campaign finance lawyer on the show telling them all the things they could do that were legal from eventually Jon signing the money over to Stephen IIRC, (or vice versa?).

Colbert didn't just use a "campaign finance lawyer." The guy was Trevor Potter, a Republican and McCain advisor who was former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and who himself has expressed concerns about loopholes in the campaign laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_Super_PAC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Potter

 

[Stacyhs]

Read the whole disgusting story here.

Wayne La Peter and his NRA honchos belong behind bars.

Do you mean Wayne La Pierre?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I'm with Ladewig on this. Trump lacks any capacity for self-doubt or insecurity. His delusions are of grandeur....

He's deluded all right. But the fact some people don't understand the insecurity underneath that requires constant reassurance explains why he's so believable to people (not you necessarily).

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Colbert didn't just use a "campaign finance lawyer." The guy was Trevor Potter, a Republican and McCain advisor who was former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and who himself has expressed concerns about loopholes in the campaign laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_Super_PAC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Potter

Yes, yes!! Thanks for hunting that up. So Colbert signed the money over to Jon then.