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The Trump Presidency: Part 18

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Rumor has it that everyone in his circle is bracing for The PDJT's thrashback when this whole Impeachment business is over, regardless of the outcome. They think he's going to look for Rambo-style payback, big time.
 
acbytesla said:
Lets just call Melania what she is. A TWO FACED Bitch.

Barely mention Barron and she throws a hissy fit. Her husband attacks a 16 year old girl and she doesn't utter a word.
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Melania's defense is that Barron isn't "an activist who travels the globe giving speeches".

Somehow, in her mind, that justifies her bully of a husband mocking a teenager on the autism spectrum. Trump wasn't replying to anything Thunberg had said or done. He was attacking her because she was chosen to be Time's Person of the Year and he wasn't. Just Be Best, Donnie!
 
alfaniner said:
Rumor has it that everyone in his circle is bracing for The PDJT's thrashback when this whole Impeachment business is over, regardless of the outcome. They think he's going to look for Rambo-style payback, big time.
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It would be totally in line with his petty, revenge seeking behavior history. He's certainly going to be emboldened knowing the GOP has his back no matter what he does.
 
Stacyhs said:
Melania's defense is that Barron isn't "an activist who travels the globe giving speeches".

Somehow, in her mind, that justifies her bully of a husband mocking a teenager on the autism spectrum. Trump wasn't replying to anything Thunberg had said or done. He was attacking her because she was chosen to be Time's Person of the Year and he wasn't. Just Be Best, Donnie!
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She can justify it any way she wants. The DOESN'T make her any less a cowardly two faced bitch.
 
JoeMorgue said:
It's not an exact science, and of course people have multiple motivations and reasons much of the time, but if I had to put a very rough number on it (not adding up to 100% to account for variance and overlap)

~ 10-20% of Trump supporters have honestly and truly turned him, on some level, into a kind of demagogue figure.
~ 20-30% of Trump supporters are doing the whole "Yeah he's bad, but the Democrats would be worst" thing.
~20-40% have just drunk the Koolaid and really think he's the best thing for the country.
~10-20% are just trolls hopping the system fall apart for various nihilistic or selfish reasons.
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Where do the "Trump supporters who would support Mickey Mouse If he were a Republican" come in?
 
alfaniner said:
Rumor has it that everyone in his circle is bracing for The PDJT's thrashback when this whole Impeachment business is over, regardless of the outcome. They think he's going to look for Rambo-style payback, big time.
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Which is why I contiure to suggest it might come down to literal civil war.
 
Maybe it's my partisan bias, but I honestly do not understand why someone would be upset by the Barron comment. I'm also not a parent, perhaps that factors into it too.
 
Horatius said:
Well, that's obviously also God's will!


And that's what really pisses me off about these guys - it's all "God's will!" when their candidate wins, but they never stop to ask, oh, let's say, "Why did God want Obama to win?"
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When their guy wins, it's a reward; when the other guy wins, it's a test. That's the nice thing about having a faith where god's will is simply "whatever happens"- there are no goalposts, so every action is a score.
 
So looks like the Supreme court will be ruling on whether Trump's financial records should be released by summer of next year.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...peals-subpoena-fights-over-financial-n1101901
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear President Donald Trump's appeal of lower court orders, now on hold, that require his banks and accountants to turn over financial records to the House and local prosecutors in New York.The cases could yield major rulings on the power of the House to demand records for its investigations and the authority of a president to resist such demands. By granting review now, the justices made it possible for these cases to be heard during the current court term, in March, with a decision by the end of June...

I've kind of got mixed feelings about that.

On one hand, it would have been good for them to have ruled sooner, so that if the courts ruled against Trump the information could have been included in any impeachment proceedings. (But I do recognize that these cases take a long time to work its way though the courts.)

On the other hand, having the information released in the middle of the election could be much more damaging to Trump. And if the courts should happen to rule in Trump's favor, it might help encourage Trump's opposition to go to the polls (since they would have the "Look how Trump is rigging the system" argument to use.)
 
Segnosaur said:
So looks like the Supreme court will be ruling on whether Trump's financial records should be released by summer of next year.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...peals-subpoena-fights-over-financial-n1101901
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear President Donald Trump's appeal of lower court orders, now on hold, that require his banks and accountants to turn over financial records to the House and local prosecutors in New York.The cases could yield major rulings on the power of the House to demand records for its investigations and the authority of a president to resist such demands. By granting review now, the justices made it possible for these cases to be heard during the current court term, in March, with a decision by the end of June...

I've kind of got mixed feelings about that.

On one hand, it would have been good for them to have ruled sooner, so that if the courts ruled against Trump the information could have been included in any impeachment proceedings. (But I do recognize that these cases take a long time to work its way though the courts.)

On the other hand, having the information released in the middle of the election could be much more damaging to Trump. And if the courts should happen to rule in Trump's favor, it might help encourage Trump's opposition to go to the polls (since they would have the "Look how Trump is rigging the system" argument to use.)
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I read this and concluded democracy has died in America. The court should have just passed on taking the case. There is nothing new in this case that hasn't been ruled on countless times before. The ONLY reason the court took up the case was political partisanship. It's clear that they are protecting Trump.

The AMERICAN experiment is over.
 
acbytesla said:
I read this and concluded democracy has died in America. The court should have just passed on taking the case. There is nothing new in this case that hasn't been ruled on countless times before. The ONLY reason the court took up the case was political partisanship. It's clear that they are protecting Trump.

The AMERICAN experiment is over.
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I agree that it should probably have been a slam-dunk case. But, according to the article, there were 'no noted dissents' to taking the case, so for some reason the more Liberal judges also think there are valid reasons rule on it.
 
alfaniner said:
Rumor has it that everyone in his circle is bracing for The PDJT's thrashback when this whole Impeachment business is over, regardless of the outcome. They think he's going to look for Rambo-style payback, big time.
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They're not doing so well when it comes to their investigations of perceived political enemies. And "regardless of the outcome"? You think they'll get any traction if he's removed?

I don't think he will be, of course.
 
alfaniner said:
Rumor has it that everyone in his circle is bracing for The PDJT's thrashback when this whole Impeachment business is over, regardless of the outcome. They think he's going to look for Rambo-style payback, big time.
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Of course he will. He can't even restrain himself from going after a 16 year old autistic girl because she dared criticize him and was chosen Person of the Year.
 
turingtest said:
Theodore Roosevelt once called the Presidency a "bully pulpit," with "bully" meaning "excellent, first rate"; the thrust of his phrase just being that the Presidency as a position is a great one for getting one's view's out there. Trump, I think, takes the "bully" bit too literally- he thinks it's a place from which to browbeat people into submission.
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I doubt if Trump has any idea that TR meant something different.
 
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