The Trump Presidency: Sweet/Sweat 16

[alfaniner]

It made me sad how in his interview today about vaping, he stated his concern about the use among young people with, "Melania, she has a young son..."

like he won't even acknowledge his own kid.

 

[Ladewig]

This is one date where The PDJT should just make one respectful Tweet, then stfu for the rest of the day.

You might as well be saying he should just levitate or he should just turn invisible or he should just play a round of golf without cheating.

 

[quadraginta]

I just thing the district involved is not really a swing district, and a blue win would be a pretty big upset.
I just think making a big deal out of this is a mistake. A red win should be expected, and the Dems should not go into a despair mode because they lost. If the win, yeah,they should be very happy, but acting like this is going to be a predictor of next year is a mistake.

I am unsurprised that Bishop won, although I will admit to disappointed. Certainly not to despair. I've lived in NC for over four decades. If I were to despair whenever a Republican won something I would have left the state or offed myself long ago.

As you say, it is an historically red district. In what has become, through chicanery and outright cheating, a red state.

But Bishop squeaked by with barely two percentage points. On what amounts to a bye election with the full weight of the national GOP apparatus bearing down on that tiny district for a month, and the demigod/ruler of the party making a personal appearance at the last minute.

Two points. This is not the behavior of an historically red district.

I'm not sure what technically makes a district a swing district. But a two point margin after over half a century of being solidly red has to come pretty close.

 

[quadraginta]

I can see a new position in the Trump admin.: Tweet Adviser to the President.
Duties would include being available to tweet for Trump when he is asleep or on the golf course and searching Trump positive tweets to re-tweet.

That's gonna take more than one person.

 

[quadraginta]

The article referenced doesn't say "detention centers". It says:



And:


It's Trump so maybe "health care and housing" is code for "work camps/detention centers."

Hard to say for sure, though.

If a "facility" used to house citizens forcibly removed from where they want to be and involuntarily housed is not a detention center then I am unclear what it ought to properly be called.

"Health care and housing" doesn't seem an adequate description. More like a euphemism.

 

[kellyb]

If a "facility" used to house citizens forcibly removed from where they want to be and involuntarily housed is not a detention center then I am unclear what it ought to properly be called.

"Health care and housing" doesn't seem an adequate description. More like a euphemism.

Where does the WaPo article say they'll be forcibly removed and involuntarily housed?

eta:
Also, it looks like (for whatever that's worth, which is not a whole lot) Ben Carson is looking to Japan and the reduction of homelessness in Tokyo for ideas on how to handle homelessness in Cali.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPh8_ggfpLM

 

[Jim_MDP]

It made me sad how in his interview today about vaping, he stated his concern about the use among young people with, "Melania, she has a young son..."

like he won't even acknowledge his own kid.

Man, that's brutal.
Buck up Baron, it'll get better... one day, Dad will have passed, the older sibs will be in prison* and you and Tiff can just relax.


*I have a dream that Eric is neither evil nor stupid, and will escape to just run the winery... Picard style.

 

[Dr. Keith]

*I have a dream that Eric is neither evil nor stupid, and will escape to just run the winery... Picard style.

There is a thread here on foraging. You should stop by to make sure you are picking the right shrooms.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1171631144414208000

No text in the tweet, just an image of a 2024 campaign sign.

So weird, there were a bunch of blocked Tweets supposedly marked 'sensitive'. So I changed the setting and all of them are simply nasty about Trump but no profanity or violence, and there were other similar Tweets not blocked that didn't seem any worse.

And the video of Clinton fainting in the heat getting into the SUV wasn't blocked.

Who is picking this stuff?

 

[Stacyhs]

If you can think of a way to get people to loan you money for nothing in return, do let us know.

The Bank of Mom and Dad.

 

[dudalb]

Is he kidding? He's been campaigning since the day after the inauguration.

And even if, God Forbid, he gets reelected (and can't run for reelection again) he will still be campaigning. It is what he does, he cannot do anything else.

 

[dudalb]

I am unsurprised that Bishop won, although I will admit to disappointed. Certainly not to despair. I've lived in NC for over four decades. If I were to despair whenever a Republican won something I would have left the state or offed myself long ago.

As you say, it is an historically red district. In what has become, through chicanery and outright cheating, a red state.

But Bishop squeaked by with barely two percentage points. On what amounts to a bye election with the full weight of the national GOP apparatus bearing down on that tiny district for a month, and the demigod/ruler of the party making a personal appearance at the last minute.

Two points. This is not the behavior of an historically red district.

I'm not sure what technically makes a district a swing district. But a two point margin after over half a century of being solidly red has to come pretty close.

And I was right in that, after weeks of building this up as a bellweather election, now the media is saying it's really not very indictive for the 2020 election.
CNN, Foxnews, MSNBC they all do it.They have built huge machines for covering elections, and they have to find something to use it on.

 

[kellyb]

And even if, God Forbid, he gets reelected (and can't run for reelection again) he will still be campaigning. It is what he does, he cannot do anything else.

I dunno. I can maybe see him moving on to his former plan of Trump TV.

 

[dudalb]

ANybody know what the hell Trump was taking about when he said if there is another Terrorist attack on the US,he will use a weapon such as the world has never seen????
I guess it could be nuclear weapons, but then the world has seen those used ..maybe Donnie forgot about Hiroshima.
Or maybe he just talking tough ..something he loves to do to make happy his idiot level macho supporters.
Who knows? Maybe he thinks he has the Infinity Gauntlet...

 

[dudalb]

I dunno. I can maybe see him moving on to his former plan of Trump TV.

Point is the main purpose of the first four years of his Presidency was to get himself reelected.Win or lose in 2020, he just lost that purpose.

 

[Jim_MDP]

There is a thread here on foraging. You should stop by to make sure you are picking the right shrooms.

You're almost certainly correct... I'l have to look into that.

 

[alfaniner]

ANybody know what the hell Trump was taking about when he said if there is another Terrorist attack on the US,he will use a weapon such as the world has never seen????
I guess it could be nuclear weapons, but then the world has seen those used ..maybe Donnie forgot about Hiroshima.
Or maybe he just talking tough ..something he loves to do to make happy his idiot level macho supporters.
Who knows? Maybe he thinks he has the Infinity Gauntlet...

It's the Dooomsday Device, of course. He got it from Russia.

 

[Andy_Ross]

ANybody know what the hell Trump was taking about when he said if there is another Terrorist attack on the US,he will use a weapon such as the world has never seen????
I guess it could be nuclear weapons, but then the world has seen those used ..maybe Donnie forgot about Hiroshima.
Or maybe he just talking tough ..something he loves to do to make happy his idiot level macho supporters.
Who knows? Maybe he thinks he has the Infinity Gauntlet...

A fuller quote

If for any reason they come back to our country, we will go wherever they are & use power the likes of which the US has never used before -- and I'm not even talking about nuclear power. They will have never seen anything like what will happen to them.

 

[kellyb]

A fuller quote

Sounds like generic "making **** up" to me. lol

 

[The Norseman]

ANybody know what the hell Trump was taking about when he said if there is another Terrorist attack on the US,he will use a weapon such as the world has never seen????
I guess it could be nuclear weapons, but then the world has seen those used ..maybe Donnie forgot about Hiroshima.
Or maybe he just talking tough ..something he loves to do to make happy his idiot level macho supporters.
Who knows? Maybe he thinks he has the Infinity Gauntlet...

Wouldn't matter if he did have it. Yeah, the gauntlet is magic and all, but it still wouldn't be capable of shrinking down quite that small to slip over his teeny tiny hands.