The Trump Presidency 15

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

54% in Poll! I would be at 75% (with our great economy, maybe the best ever) if not for the Phony Witch Hunt and the Fake News Media!

 

[AnonyMoose]

Linky.

The President trolling us on election security and freedom of the press with his dictator BFF.

Un-fricken-believable.

This moron just keeps getting more and more infantile as the days go by. There doesn't seem to be any limit to how low his IQ can drop.

And to think we're all living eyewitnesses to this period of time that'll be recorded in the history books and scoffed at for decades to come.

 

[Cabbage]

Nice little strawman you've built there. I'll give you a hand to set fire to it when you can't quote someone saying it.

I've said before: your comprehension are as bad as you allege your maths skills are good. I did not say that anywhere, nor even give the impression of thinking it. You've either straight-out made it up, or haven't understood what you've read, and I'm being kind by suggesting the latter.

I never said you said it. I was still talking to the person I quoted in the immediately previous post, bro (duh!). But thanks for the nice tidy demonstration of your "intellectual acuity" LOL!

Yes, its true... Trump's popularity is under water. However, that doesn't mean we should feel happy or comfortable about the situation.

After years of scandal after scandal, after a Mueller report that pointed out evidence of various crimes, and after the most recent rape accusation, his popularity is not only stable but GOING UP. (Assuming its not just some statistical error.) And there is nothing I can think of that might justify the increase... no big legislation that he managed to help pass through congress, no big international problem he's helped to address. The only thing that i can think of is maybe the Iranian situation, but its hard to see how "I was going to bomb them but decided not to" would really affect his popularity.

That doesn't give much leeway for the democrats. Pick the wrong candidate, or have some unexpected November surprise, and Trump may still pull off a victory.

I want to see Trump lose, and not just by a few percentage points... I want to see him utterly humiliated, and I want to see the entire republican party dragged down with him, followed by at least a decade of them being shut out from any hint of power, as a warning to them that picking a racist con-artist as your leader and engaging in underhanded shenanigans can lead to ruin.

Well given the fact that a waltz is a form of physical activity, I can't see Trump waltzing anywhere (unless he can figure out how to do it while driving a golf cart).

Seriously, I think you're getting hung up on the phrasing here. Yes, "waltzing to victory" implies an easy win, but I think the term could apply to to the 2016 election... Trump's campaign was often labeled a "dumpster fire", but he still managed to pull off a victory, despite not putting any effort into coming up with decent policies or making any serious attempts to appeal to voters outside of his base.

 

[Stacyhs]

Are. You. Serious?! That is the first I've heard of such a thing, and I don't know how I will carry on.

Standing to wipe? Good god! Some people are just uncivilized animals! If God meant us to stand, he wouldn't have invented toilet seats.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump Tweets

54% in Poll! I would be at 75% (with our great economy, maybe the best ever) if not for the Phony Witch Hunt and the Fake News Media!

And I could fly if I had wings!

 

[Cabbage]

From the looks of it, I'll say 66.6 million votes for Trump, and 65.5 million votes
for the democratic candidate. In the last election Trump raised about 250 million
dollars, this election his campaign manager has a billion dollar budget planned.

Still it's early in the process. But I wonder, where are the twenty republican
candidates for president? Shouldn't we at least hear a name or two in the press?

Wow, that's a rather impressive display of pulling numbers out of your ass! Is that what you do for a living?

 

[Ladewig]

Trump Tweets

After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!

And international relations has sunk to this level.

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

Trump's emergency border funding loses in court.

 

[Foolmewunz]

Trump Didn't Tweet (but said out loud)

“We may go to the DMZ, or the border, as they call it. That, by the way -- when you talk about a wall, when you talk about a border, that’s what you call a border. Nobody goes through that border. Just about nobody. That’s called a real border.”

Not only has he never read War And Peace, but doesn't understand the juxtaposition of those two words. He actually looks longingly at the Korean DMZ??!!

 

[alfaniner]

Trump Tweets

After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!

Maybe he could bring Lionel Ritchie along to sing it for him.

 

[newyorkguy]

Trump eyed the reporters at a photo opportunity with the Russian leader and told him, “Get rid of them, fake news. You don’t have the problem in Russia. We have it; you don’t have it.”

Right, Putin has them murdered. Donnie is joking with a leader who has had opponents murdered, Trump finds that humorous. And the American public has become so numbed to Trump's daily assaults on decent and democracy, there's little reaction.

Remember the Bill O'Reilly interview in February 2017?

O'Reilly pressed on, declaring to the president that “Putin is a killer.”
Unfazed, Trump didn't back away, but rather compared Putin's reputation for extrajudicial killings with the United States'. “There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers,” Trump said. “Well, you think our country is so innocent?” Link

Not the first time.

In a 2015 interview on “Morning Joe,” Trump was pressed on the same issue and gave a similar answer. “[Putin] kills journalists that don't agree with him,” the show's host, Joe Scarborough, pointed out.
“Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too, Joe,” Trump said.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

Not only has he never read War And Peace, but doesn't understand the juxtaposition of those two words. He actually looks longingly at the Korean DMZ??!!

With visions of a TMZ* dancing in his head.



*Trump Militarized Zone

 

[Craig4]

In American English, 'spit' is used as the preterit and the past participle.
We're such rebels!

Meh, I'm not going to worry about it too much. It's just one of the Trump nits who grew into lice. It's not like it happened to a person.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

(rolleyeslet'sdothisyeah)
I also momentarily stopped at the highlighted "many years" part, but that was just trump retweeting Lindsay Graham, so no problem there.

Oh. I don't think that was clear it was a retweet. I'll revisit it... maybe... nah, so unimportant.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

How would data on this even be gathered as most rapes go unreported?...

Surveys using various methodologies.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Or a game show.

Did Pres. Donald J. Trump Really Tweet That?

Play the exciting new game where contestants try to determine which tweet was actually written by the former president or a monkey playing with a keyboard, a 10 yr. old boy, or an inmate at an insane asylum! Available online or as a board game. Rated for Mature Audiences only.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

And just in case you didn't think Trump has increase the deficit enough, or given enough benefits to the wealthy....

From: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/w...tion-and-bypassing-congress-report-2019-06-27
The White House is considering a plan to index capital gains to inflation -- and do so in a way that bypasses Congress...Such a move would likely draw legal challenges over whether it has such authority. The top 1% would receive 86% of the benefit from such a move...and would cost $102 billion over a decade.

So we have a potential plan that 1) helps the rich, 2) takes away power from congress, and 3) increases the debt even more.

Don't forget the billions in tariffs Trump is collecting from the average consumer, pretending that is a tax on China and Mexico, et al.

 

[Stacyhs]

Surveys using various methodologies.

Like what?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

The government must demonstrate there is a valid reason for asking and that this is the least onerous way of asking.

Given that the census is for reapportionment, a process which citizenship is not a factor of, they fail on the first point.

Given that asking this question will skew participation and thus the results of a constitutionally mandated process, certainly a survey that is not the census would be less onerous.

ETA: I'm not particularly a fan of any demographic identifying information in the census. The only metric that matters is "number of persons residing."

They can't give the real reason: they are hoping to further gerrymander districts to solidify a permanent GOP majority in Congress. So they have to make a reason up.

It might have worked but they got busted when email discussions of the real reason were leaked.

If they admitted the real reason, who knows, maybe the court would have said, Oh, okay, that's political not judicial, have at it.

 

[The Atheist]

Still it's early in the process. But I wonder, where are the twenty republican
candidates for president? Shouldn't we at least hear a name or two in the press?

Nobody's that dumb.

If you were a Republican and fancy your chances of becoming president, you'd wait until 2024, because Trump would beat any candidate out of sight.

I never said you said it. I was still talking to the person I quoted in the immediately previous post, bro (duh!).

When you make things up, who the post was to is irrelevant.

You know this, but are dishonest enough to try to cover for the fact that you used strawman.

LOL!

LOL... bro... I can see I'm in the company of an intellectual giant alright.