The Trump Presidency: Part 18

[Regnad Kcin]

It's become clear to me that if Trump really wanted to lock Hillary up, he should have hired her.

Hee!

 

[Regnad Kcin]

“My support for Donald Trump has never been greater than it is right now. It is paramountly obvious watching this, these people have to go. You elected Donald Trump to drain the Swamp, well, dismissing people like Yovanovitch is what that looks like. Dismissing people like Kent..

....and Taylor, dismissing everybody involved from the Obama holdover days trying to undermine Trump, getting rid of those people, dismissing them, this is what it looks like. It was never going to be claen, they were never going to sit by idly and just let Trump do this!” Rush L

Rush is Right a Pig!

 

[SezMe]

Trump Tweets

Our great Farmers will recieve another major round of “cash,” compliments of China Tariffs US taxpayers, prior to Thanksgiving. The smaller farms and farmers will be big beneficiaries. In the meantime, and as you may have noticed, China is starting to buy big again. Japan deal DONE. Enjoy!

The GOP constantly bitched about Obama's auto bailout saying the government shouldn't pick winners and losers. Eventuallly, Uncle Sam got his money back - and then some.

Now we have a farm bailout that is more than twice as large as the auto bailout, that contributes to the deficit no matter what the Idiot-in-Chief says, and is an example of picking winners and losers.

And, by the way, the deficit was endlessly whined about during the Obama years when deficits were required to pull out of the Great Recession but now we have a very good economy and Trump's deficits are IIRC 40% great than the recent past.

I don't see how any GOP legislator can look at him/her self in the mirror.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

A mighty uncivil reply to a request for information. Thanks, nonetheless.

You're welcome.

I suppose I should have posted LMGTFY.

 

[SezMe]

They could see where his tweets are coming from.

It might be hard to spot them among all the McDonald's french fries.

 

[SezMe]

Here we go, open your mouth for some spoon feeding

Totally unnecessary,

 

[BadBoy]

Clinton's victory, and the American inclination for divided government, plus Conservative Inc., led to Republican control of the House in 1994. The fact both parties have a good shot at controlling Congress has probably been the most important factor when it comes to increased polarization. In other words, the core of the problem is institutional rather than cultural.

It used to be the permanent minority party could extract concessions from the majority when it came to shaping legislation, especially when the minority party controlled the executive branch. Now that both parties have a shot at control, there's less of an incentive to cooperate. If you frustrate the other guy's legislative agenda, then you can go back and tell voters, "see, they've failed. Vote US into power." There's also room for logrolling and compromise when interest groups and media can inform voters about your failing B-minus rating with the NRA.

The system was not designed to handle two political parties, much less parties that are somewhat ideologically coherent. It's a system that would need regular revision. Patch updates. The framers first tried the Articles of Confederation, but that union, "which shall be perpetual," did not work out so well according to elites we now idolize. They scrapped the AoCt, brazenly ignoring the unanimity requirement, as well as the alleged aim of the first Constitutional Convention itself ("sole and express purpose" of revising the Articles of Confederation ). The framers thought it was a good idea that the second-place finisher in presidential elections should be condemned to the Vice Presidency. Brilliant idea. Most of the framers probably believed that no one other than a person with the national profile of a George Washington could secure a majority of votes in the Electoral College, which would send most elections to the House. That was wrong as well. We've gone without many fixes because the Constitution has been deemed such a raging success. Never mind that little event known as the Civil War. A relatively bloodless affair. Just a dust-up.

I watched the whole Ken Burns "The Vietnam War", it's quite the documentary - very long.

However, he suggest the current polarization in the USA has it roots in that War. The NYT and Guardian both have articles on it

No one understands the divided states of America better than Burns, whose 1990 breakout series vividly exhumed the civil war through contemporary photography, music and letters. A century after that conflict, the Vietnam war left more than 58,000 Americans dead, triggered deep social unrest and sowed the seeds of the country’s present polarisation. The new film “offers an uncannily well-timed reflection of our current societal fractures”, the New York Times wrote, “a kind of origin story for the culture wars that still have us asking: Which side are you on?”

 

[Stacyhs]

The GOP constantly bitched about Obama's auto bailout saying the government shouldn't pick winners and losers. Eventuallly, Uncle Sam got his money back - and then some.

Now we have a farm bailout that is more than twice as large as the auto bailout, that contributes to the deficit no matter what the Idiot-in-Chief says, and is an example of picking winners and losers.

And, by the way, the deficit was endlessly whined about during the Obama years when deficits were required to pull out of the Great Recession but now we have a very good economy and Trump's deficits are IIRC 40% great than the recent past.

I don't see how any GOP legislator can look at him/her self in the mirror.

Easy; their mirrors only reflect what they want to see. Kind of like mine that says I still look like I'm 25.

 

[a_unique_person]

The GOP constantly bitched about Obama's auto bailout saying the government shouldn't pick winners and losers. Eventuallly, Uncle Sam got his money back - and then some.

Now we have a farm bailout that is more than twice as large as the auto bailout, that contributes to the deficit no matter what the Idiot-in-Chief says, and is an example of picking winners and losers.

And, by the way, the deficit was endlessly whined about during the Obama years when deficits were required to pull out of the Great Recession but now we have a very good economy and Trump's deficits are IIRC 40% great than the recent past.

I don't see how any GOP legislator can look at him/her self in the mirror.

Does Trump think he is taking money from China to pay the farmers with?

 

[The Don]

Does Trump think he is taking money from China to pay the farmers with?

Maybe. Certainly he thinks that farmers are willing to believe that he is.

 

[Bob001]

Donald Trump kills people, even if he doesn't pull the trigger.

While Donald Trump stood at a podium next to Vladimir Putin, as he did last year in Helsinki, and called the Russian president a “strong leader,” Ukrainians were being killed by Russian military forces that had invaded their country under Putin’s orders. At the same time Donald Trump stood next to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as he did in the White House on Wednesday, and referred to the Turkish president as “a tough guy who deserves respect,” Kurds were being killed by Turkish forces who invaded Syria with Trump’s explicit approval. Last summer, when Donald Trump sat across a table in Osaka, Japan, from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and called him “a friend of mine” who is doing “a spectacular job,” Yemeni civilians were being killed by American supplied “smart bombs” and armed drones, and the dismembered body of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, murdered by Saudi assassins last year in Turkey, still had not been found.

https://www.salon.com/2019/11/16/do...ot-just-a-narcissist-and-a-liar-hes-a-killer/

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Donald Trump kills people, even if he doesn't pull the trigger.

https://www.salon.com/2019/11/16/do...ot-just-a-narcissist-and-a-liar-hes-a-killer/

This is pretty weak tea. The hands of every modern president are absolutely drenched in blood. It's unavoidable so long as the US continues to operate as an imperialist power.

Trump's grave sin, at least as far as neoliberals are concerned, is that his killing the wrong people and is generally uncouth about it. They prefer Obama's gentlemanly style when it comes to making policy decisions that result in the large scale death.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Never has the Republican Party been so united as it is now. 95% A.R. This is a great fraud being played out against the American people by the Fake News Media & their partner, the Do Nothing Democrats. The rules are rigged by Pelosi & Schiff, but we are winning, and we will win!

Our Crazy, Do Nothing (where’s USMCA, infrastructure, lower drug pricing & much more?) Speaker of the House, Nervous Nancy Pelosi, who is petrified by her Radical Left knowing she will soon be gone (they & Fake News Media are her BOSS), suggested on Sunday’s DEFACE THE NATION....

....that I testify about the phony Impeachment Witch Hunt. She also said I could do it in writing. Even though I did nothing wrong, and don’t like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!

 

[Armitage72]

Even though I did nothing wrong, and don’t like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!

Expect it to happen right after he releases his tax returns, issues a statement about his wife's citizenship status, and everything else he said he was going to do but never did.

 

[JPK]

Good morning. There is next to 0% chance of Trump testifying. The saddest part is that if he took the stand and said "I did everything the Do Nothing Dems are claiming I did and so much more that you guys wouldn't even believe me capable of. Guess what??? I'm still doing it in other countries as well and plan on doing it over and over for the rest of time.." , the Senate would still not vote to remove him from office saying that it might not be what they would do but it isn't an impeachable offense.

 

[Hellbound]

I think the phrase yes-men is. Somehow too mild for what POTUS is looking for.

Obsequious flunkeys?

Yes-sir-men.

I prefer "unctuous lickspittles".

"Bootlicking Toadies" comes to mind.

Rectal Spelunkers.

Oh good a trolley problem.

It's more of a reverse trolley problem, though. On one track, you have Trump. On the other, you have Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham. You can only run over one set...

 

[TragicMonkey]

Rectal Spelunkers.

No, I think that's circling back around into compliments and good time fun.

 

[Horatius]

It's more of a reverse trolley problem, though. On one track, you have Trump. On the other, you have Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham. You can only run over one set...

If I time the switch just right.....

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Just finished a very good & cordial meeting at the White House with Jay Powell of the Federal Reserve. Everything was discussed including interest rates, negative interest, low inflation, easing, Dollar strength & its effect on manufacturing, trade with China, E.U. & others, etc.

 

[plague311]

Trump Tweets

Just finished a very good & cordial meeting at the White House with Jay Powell of the Federal Reserve. Everything was discussed including interest rates, negative interest, low inflation, easing, Dollar strength & its effect on manufacturing, trade with China, E.U. & others, etc.

How many times has he **** talked Jay Powell?