The Trump Presidency: Part 18

[Armitage72]

So, are we taking odds on the dam never being built, vs. being built incredibly shoddily because Trump encourages them all to shaft their contractors?

I'm betting that at some point he'll talk about cooperative international funding, ignorant of the fact that Ethiopia wants to build it entirely on their own specifically so Egypt can't pressure foreign backers to withdraw support.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Well, the swamp is deeper than we thought.



Yeah, you bet he doesn't want us to see his finances.

She takes too long to get to the point. Can you summarize or tell us where to skip ahead to?

 

[Aridas]

I have said this before and say it again: it's really hard to find a middle ground when people live in such very different realities.

The best example is the survey that showed that a majority of Trump supporters believe that white Christian men are the most discriminated against group in the US. This survey came out literally at the time when Trump was trying to ban Muslims from entering the US on the fact that they were Muslim. And still, the real victims were white men.

It's a completely different reality. White Christian men are the most discriminated against group in the US and Trump is extremely popular abroad. Where do you even start?

Well... This might be a way to start?

Why are the final Kentucky votes so slow coming in? Remote Scottish islands get their votes counted quicker than this

This reminds me of a complaint from the 2016 election. Really short version, though, is that the rules and equipment are not fully standardized when it comes to voting and counting the votes. Some places will naturally take longer to submit a final count than others, given the local rules and equipment. Sometimes, it can even take days.

 

[Aridas]

She takes too long to get to the point. Can you summarize or tell us where to skip ahead to?

2017 episode that pokes at that Trump Tower in Azerbaijan and that that alone would likely be grounds for locking Trump up under foreign corrupt practices law.

 

[Belz...]

She takes too long to get to the point. Can you summarize or tell us where to skip ahead to?

Yeah sorry about linking to a video. It's about shady dealings in Azerbaijan, in part by the Trump clan. You can read a New Yorker article on the topic from 2017 if you want:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

But seriously, it's usually worth waiting for Maddow to get to her point. Plus, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is always a fun topic.

 

[Paul2]

She takes too long to get to the point. Can you summarize or tell us where to skip ahead to?

I love Rachel, she does stuff no one else comes close to, but she can circle a topic and say the same thing again and again and it drives me crazy. I get why she does that technique (people don't hear much the first time), but she does it a bit too much.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I don't think refusing to provide online access to the Times for a few thousand dollars violates the First Amendment.

Really? Seriously?

Wow!

 

[plague311]

This reminds me of a complaint from the 2016 election. Really short version, though, is that the rules and equipment are not fully standardized when it comes to voting and counting the votes. Some places will naturally take longer to submit a final count than others, given the local rules and equipment. Sometimes, it can even take days.

John Oliver had a pretty good breakdown, as he always does, on the voting machines. I think a lot of people, outside the tech industry, don't realize how extremely terrible and insecure those machines are designed.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Doesn't matter, Donald Trump has a government job:
It's a product and Donald Jr is a relative.

It's illegal the same way Kellyann Conway endorsing Ivanka's jewelry was.* Both violations are drowned out in a sea of another outrageous thing.


*Unless the POTUS is exempted.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I love Rachel, she does stuff no one else comes close to, but she can circle a topic and say the same thing again and again and it drives me crazy. I get why she does that technique (people don't hear much the first time), but she does it a bit too much.

[Sidenote] She started out telling us how Seatac Airport got its name. How was that related to the end (I skipped to it myself) where she says Ivanka and Trump are doing deals with a gangster? [/sidenote]

And I had seen that episode before, I was expecting something new.

 

[Ladewig]

these things take time to fiddle

I prefer the word diddle. Fiddle can be a positive thing e.g. please fiddle with the knobs until the signal is clear.

Diddle can mean to cheat or swindle. It can also mean to deliberately falsify something. It can also me to **** someone.

 

[Ladewig]

Simply poison the nation's supply of chewing tobacco. We'll be more liberal than Canada within a week.

Cripes. I don’t ever want to get on the wrong side of you.

 

[Paul2]

[Sidenote] She started out telling us how Seatac Airport got its name.

Either she's the type of person who, when writing fiction, would spend a lot of time in description and atmosphere, as opposed to moving the plot along, or she's padding her time.

 

[acbytesla]

Isn't he still being questioned about why he had to go to Rick Perry to to get his story straight? I think he was asked, and all he said was to jog his memory.

I don't know.

But I did find interesting Rachel Maddow going over the texts back and forth to Sondland where it clearly shows he lied during the inquiry when they deposed him and actually lied when he revised his statement. Sondland was still couching the facts pretending he didn't know who or why military aid was suspended.

The texts show he definitely did know who and why the aid was suspended because he himself told Ukrainian leaders that military aid was suspended until they publicly announced an investigation into Burisma and Joe/Hunter Biden.

https://youtu.be/qPL-HBdnBy0

 

[Aridas]

Republicans so concerned about access to impeachment hearings, that they're not bothering to come

Shock! Such shock!

Also, looks like the Blue Wave hasn't really diminished even in these off-year elections. Looks like we're up to 9 state legislatures flipped since 2016, all to Democrats, and serious losses just about across the board for Republicans in numbers that help make Trump's removal more feasible politically.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Just had a very good call with President @RTErdogan of Turkey. He informed me that they have captured numerous ISIS fighters that were reported to have escaped during the conflict – including a wife and sister of terrorist killer al Baghdadi….

....Also talked about their Border with Syria, the eradication of terrorism, the ending of hostilities with the Kurds, and many other topics. Look forward to seeing President Erdogan next Wednesday, November 13th at the @WhiteHouse!

 

[Segnosaur]

Trump Tweets

Just had a very good call with President @RTErdogan of Turkey. He informed me that they have captured numerous ISIS fighters that were reported to have escaped during the conflict – including a wife and sister of terrorist killer al Baghdadi….

You mean the ones that escaped because you withdrew American forces and allowed Turkey to engage in open conflict with the Kurds (you know, the ones that had been American allies and were the ones holding the prisoners.)

 

[Aridas]

Trump Tweets

Just had a very good call with President @RTErdogan of Turkey. He informed me that they have captured numerous ISIS fighters that were reported to have escaped during the conflict – including a wife and sister of terrorist killer al Baghdadi….

....Also talked about their Border with Syria, the eradication of terrorism, the ending of hostilities with the Kurds, and many other topics. Look forward to seeing President Erdogan next Wednesday, November 13th at the @WhiteHouse!

A very good call with a guy who's claiming that he cleaned up a little bit of the mess that he made after engaging in a little spot of very illegal ethnic cleansing of American allies on territory that he doesn't have jurisdiction over? Yes, let's entertain that guy magnificently in the White House now!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump went to the World Series and got booed.

Trump went to a UFC fight and got booed.

Trump went to Kentucky and the next day the state elected a Democrat.

I see a pattern emerging.

 

[a_unique_person]

[Sidenote] She started out telling us how Seatac Airport got its name. How was that related to the end (I skipped to it myself) where she says Ivanka and Trump are doing deals with a gangster? [/sidenote]



And I had seen that episode before, I was expecting something new.

Have to agree. Perhaps she should do a weekly show that is the actual substance of the story from the nightly show.