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The Trump Presidency 13: The (James) Baker's Dozen

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Captain_Swoop said:
US President Donald Trump has been savagely mocked and branded a figure “beyond parody” after he claimed noise from industrial wind turbines causes cancer.

The President made the extraordinary claim while speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner on Tuesday.

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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...rom-wind-turbines-causes-cancer-a4107841.html
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At one point during that speech, he complained that someone would probably "leak the damn speech to the media".

It was being broadcast live on C-SPAN :rolleyes:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4789849/someones-gonna-leak-damn-speech-media
 
Aridas said:
SezMe said:
I've recently become aware that Dump has no sense of humor. Have you ever seen him laugh? Or even smile? Or tell a joke?

I know that there's a LOT about him that's worse but not having a good laugh once in a while must make for a very, very dreary life. SAD!
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...This comes to mind -

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

“A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain, we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a sniveling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us and most are.

* You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of ****. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

‘My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”
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I think Mr. White went kinda easy on him.
 
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I would go further and say that many of those traits he cannot even define.

And before I get accused of having orange-man-bad syndrome, I want to point out that this is a man who, when told that the gold-star parents who spoke at the Democratic National Convention made the ultimate sacrifice that parents can make, responded I’ve made sacrifices, too; I’ve built great buildings.
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
US President Donald Trump has been savagely mocked and branded a figure “beyond parody” after he claimed noise from industrial wind turbines causes cancer.

The President made the extraordinary claim while speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner on Tuesday.

Video in link

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...rom-wind-turbines-causes-cancer-a4107841.html
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Who the hell is filling his head with this?

But overall his claims are a muddled version of what conspiracy theorists have pushed for decades.

Technology is a touchy topic for followers of fringe ideologies, with conspiracy theorists accusing things like airplane trails and cellular signals of causing cancer or being part of a secret government mind-control plot. Theories about wind turbines sometimes appear on Natural News, a large conspiracy site with a far-right bent. (On Wednesday, the site’s top three stories were an article claiming Trump is trying to protect the country from “electromagnetic pulses,” an article claiming Satanism is on the rise, and an article calling on Trump to release militias on immigrants.)

Believers in “wind turbine syndrome” seldom claim the machines cause cancer though.

But Trump is joined in the fringes by another, more extreme wing of the conspiracy community. Some of this set believes in chemtrails, a theory that falsely claims commercial planes are spraying mind-control drugs into the air.

Members of chemtrail groups on Facebook sometimes accuse wind turbines of being involved in weather manipulation or population control. An oft-shared video in conspiracy groups and blogs features a person claiming to be a former member of a conspiracy-plagued agency. The person claims wind turbines are somehow connected to a plot for “the full spectrum dominance of planet earth.”

Trump almost certainly does not believe wind turbines are part of a government mind-control plot. But his Tuesday night claims are the latest instance of him repeating conspiratorial claims from the depths of the internet. Previously, he has tweeted a discredited meme about immigrants carrying Muslim prayer rugs into the country, and a set of fabricated, racist crime “statistics” that falsely claimed African-Americans commit more crime.
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Trump caused Boeing crash.


CEO Dennis Muilenberg was addressing Wall Street on a conference call on April 26, 2017. He boasted about how quickly the company had brought the 737 Max to market — and praised the Federal Aviation Administration's "streamlined" certification process. He attributed that to the pro-business philosophy of the new Trump administration.
"That's helping us more efficiently work through certification on some of our new model aircraft such as the [737] Max as it's going through flight test and entering into service," he told analysts. "So we're already seeing some benefits there of some of the work that's being done with the FAA."
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Well, sort of.


https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/03/business/boeing-737-max-crisis/index.html
 
Oh dear.... is time up for Trumpy-poo?

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee asked the IRS on Wednesday for six years of President Trump’s personal and business tax returns, a request with which the president immediately said he was not inclined to comply.

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The IRS was given until April 10 to respond. The panel’s chairman was able to make the request because of a 1924 law that gives the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee broad powers to request and receive the tax returns of any American.
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Tick tock.

 
Stacyhs said:
I want to know what he is so damned afraid of us finding out?
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It is very likely that, at the very least, Trump made himself look really, really poor in order to get tax rebates etc.
And this puts him in a bind, because he must have signed the paperwork.
So either he is as poor as he claimed to the IRS, and is a liar condemned by his own words, or he committed a crime.

In either case, it is great ammunition that goes to the core of the Trump image.
 
Agreed. There is definitely something he desperately wants to hide. I'm hoping for tax fraud. Money laundering would be too much to ask the Good Fairy for.
 
Stacyhs said:
I want to know what he is so damned afraid of us finding out?
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.........yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada under-reporting earnings yada yada yada Deutschebank yada yada yada laundered Russian money from a sanctioned bank yada yada yada yada.....
 
I'm not saying this is exclusively what they'll find but I'm betting on lots of questionable charitable contributions related to the Trump Foundation. I'm guessing Trump and his nits who grew into lice were donating to the foundation and using the money on themselves.
 
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