Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 19

[Stacyhs]

Trump Tweets

As hard as I work, & as successful as our Country has become with our Economy, our Military & everything else, it is ashame that the Democrats make us spend so much time & money on this ridiculous Impeachment Lite Hoax. I should be able to devote all of my time to the REAL USA! GOLF!

Fixed t.hat for him

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Many Democrats say, if a Democratic president behaved this way, "I would not support them." I believe them; I wouldn't either. People really need to wake up. Trump isn't just a liar and deranged-acting. The man is dangerous.

If anything, liberals/Democrats are too quick to condemn people whose actions or statements are out of line, including when they are on their side. Which makes the stupid whataboutisms especially outlandish.

 

[Venom]

If anything, liberals/Democrats are too quick to condemn people whose actions or statements are out of line, including when they are on their side. Which makes the stupid whataboutisms especially outlandish.

Exactly.

 

[thaiboxerken]

If Trump was a Democrat, he'd be impeached and removed. It would've happened right after his election, with full support of Democrats.

 

[Ladewig]

Furthermore his base only stands by him because they're a new kind of fanatical cult-like body that seems to stand by him loyally regardlessly of what he does or says. Maintaining popularity when your base acts like mindless drones isn't much of an achievement either, particularly when you fail to gain new followers.

The FBI, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the NSA, UK intelligence agencies, German intelligence agencies all agree that Russia meddled in the election, but President Trump says they are all working together to discredit him and Trump’s followers say, “yeah, they are all trying to discredit him.” I’m having a hard time thinking of a more clear example of cult-like behavior.

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[Mumbles]

I give you that Trump is a successful con man.

No, that was more his father - although he was also a decent businessman. i'll grant that he's good at selling his name for buildings, and that's about it. Give him an ordinary father, and he's a three card monty dealer who was found stabbed to death in a dumpster or three.

 

[Mumbles]

If Trump was a Democrat, he'd be impeached and removed. It would've happened right after his election, with full support of Democrats.

If he were a dem, he wouldn't make it out of primaries without causing a massive, Goldwater-style shift in voting demographics to begin with. Between the obvious stupidity, and the raging white supremacism, he'd get nowhere.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

The FBI, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the NSA, UK intelligence agencies, German intelligence agencies all agree that Russia meddled in the election, but President Trump says they are all working together to discredit him and Trump’s followers say, “yeah, they are all trying to discredit him.” I’m having a hard time thinking of a more clear example of cult-like behavior.

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It's like 40% of the US adult population went all-out CTer. "I know vaccines cause are dangerous or that thermite brought down the towers, and all the experts in the entire world are just dimwitted sheeple, in on the conspiracy, or bought up their necks" .

Edit: okay, that's a stretch, all of Trump's base probably (hopefully) doesn't believe that, say, Russian meddling didn't happen. Surely.

 

[Upchurch]

He was pretty successful in his quest to become president.
Much to the chagrin of most posters here.
I certainly never thought he could do it.

You think he meant to become President? Interesting.

Consider that he had absolutely no plans in place for winning. He had no intention to do so.

As far as I can tell, he planned on spinning his loss into creating a media empire, often referred to as Trump TV. Unfortunately, he failed to lose the campaign. You can see the shock and disappointment in his face a he is walking up to give his acceptance speech. He only rebounds when he talks to his cheering crowd.

 

[Ladewig]

It's like 40% of the US adult population went all-out CTer. "I know vaccines cause are dangerous or that thermite brought down the towers, and all the experts in the entire world are just dimwitted sheeple, in on the conspiracy, or bought up their necks" .

Edit: okay, that's a stretch, all of Trump's base probably (hopefully) doesn't believe that, say, Russian meddling didn't happen. Surely.

I’m going to call rule-of-surely: when talking about Trump, if someone says “surely he (they) can’t believe that” then he/they almost certainly believe that thing.

I believe a fair number of them say things like, “the Mueller Report showed there was no Russian meddling.”

 

[thaiboxerken]

Yes, they do believe the strangest nonsense. But please, don't call me Shirley...

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

If Trump was a Democrat, he'd be impeached and removed. It would've happened right after his election, with full support of Democrats.

And if the Democrats controlled the Senate, there would be a fair trial and Trump would be impeached.

 

[thaiboxerken]

And if the Democrats controlled the Senate, there would be a fair trial and Trump would be impeached.

Removed, he's already impeached. But yes, I agree.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

You think he meant to become President? Interesting..

Maybe not but he's sucking it up now, even gone so far as to believe God ordained him, what with all those Evangelicals praying over him and telling him God sent him.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Removed, he's already impeached. But yes, I agree.

Fair point. But I would like people to take note given a few of them attacked me for this very pedantry just yesterday.

 

[Lurch]

Trump tweeting about 52 Iranian sites targeted, one for each of the hostages taken long ago, is reminiscent of Hitler raging about reprisals against partisan fighters. "For each good German, ten, a hundred of them!"

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Trump tweeting about 52 Iranian sites targeted, one for each of the hostages taken long ago, is reminiscent of Hitler raging about reprisals against partisan fighters. "For each good German, ten, a hundred of them!"

If Trump believed the Suleimani strike to have been effective at subduing Iran, he wouldn't have to bring up new threats.
I think he is scared ********.

 

[Stacyhs]

You think he meant to become President? Interesting.

Consider that he had absolutely no plans in place for winning. He had no intention to do so.

As far as I can tell, he planned on spinning his loss into creating a media empire, often referred to as Trump TV. Unfortunately, he failed to lose the campaign. You can see the shock and disappointment in his face a he is walking up to give his acceptance speech. He only rebounds when he talks to his cheering crowd.

I agree...he did not believe he was going to win. What he wanted was the attention and publicity and he still does. He's as addicted to that as a coke head is to cocaine. All his excessive tweeting and constant rallies are just more of his "look at ME!' addiction.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

For example, I think the Trump Tower Istanbul would be potential retaliatory target that would in effect destroy Trump's ability to make money by selling his name.

 

[Mumbles]

Trump tweeting about 52 Iranian sites targeted, one for each of the hostages taken long ago, is reminiscent of Hitler raging about reprisals against partisan fighters. "For each good German, ten, a hundred of them!"

That scrambling sound you heard right after this was DoD desperately trying to put together a list of 52 sites to attack that wouldn't leave anyone vulnerable to war crime charges.

It's obvious that the Idiot in Chief just picked the option he thought would make him look like a Big Man, figured "What's Iran going to do?", and is now lashing out and making noise when he realized that, actually, they can do quite a bit and have strong reason to do so. He fumbled and flailed his way into this, same as he always does, and managed to anger every possible ally (except Israel, who are themselves walking a serious tightrope in terms of international support) along the way.