Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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Segnosaur said:
Could be wrong about this, but I don't think a single senator (even the chairman of the armed forces committee) can really do much to stop the renaming at this point.

Both the house and senate have passed defense spending bills that include provisions to rename bases, and the senate bill passed 86-14.
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He says he's going to do "something", but won't say what.

Inhofe is now vowing to keep provisions to strip Confederate names from military bases out of the final National Defense Authorization Act -- although it's unclear how he could pull it off after both chambers of Congress approved similar efforts to get rid of the names with veto-proof majorities this week. Inhofe, who voted for the bill in the Senate, will be one of one of the four main negotiators in the conference committee to hammer out the final bill.
"We're going to see to it that provision doesn't survive the bill," Inhofe told The Oklahoman on Friday. "I'm not going to say how at this point."
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Stomp his feet and hold his breath until they agree to remove the provision?
 
Armitage72 said:
Re: Trump claiming Inhofe ws going to prevent removal of confederate names from army bases...
Could be wrong about this, but I don't think a single senator (even the chairman of the armed forces committee) can really do much to stop the renaming at this point.
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He says he's going to do "something", but won't say what.

Stomp his feet and hold his breath until they agree to remove the provision?
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Start a snowball fight in the senate?

(Inhofe was the senator who brought a snowball into congress to 'prove' global warming was a hoax.)
 
Giordano said:
When will people learn? Everything Trump touches dies. Well, more accurately everyone who gets involved with Trump comes off the worse for it. Business partners, contractors, friends, relatives, customers, staff, lawyers, political supporters, etc. They come away with their wallets emptied, their reputations in ruins, or both.
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On a related note:

From: Vanity Fair
Guilfoyle, a former Fox News personality and girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., formally joined the president’s re-election bid as a senior adviser in 2019 and has been serving since February as the campaign’s national finance chair...according to Politico, she’s also overseen a money-raising operation rife with chaos, cronyism, and backstabbing.... staffers have reportedly been further upset by Guilfoyle claiming credit for their work—and for apparent disregard for rank-and-file campaign workers, as evidenced by an episode earlier this month in which she and Don Jr. left junior staffers stranded in South Dakota after she tested positive for COVID-19....The couple had originally made plans to road trip back to New York from South Dakota, where the president gave a dark and divisive speech in front of Mount Rushmore, but apparently took a private flight instead, leaving several junior campaign staffers who’d been in contact with the infected Guilfoyle behind to quarantine alone in their hotel rooms, “scared they’d get sick in a city they’d never set foot in before."


I don't really have any sympathy for those staffers... They knew what Trump and his clan were, with a history of turning on former supporters. They knew the risks of holding a large-scale gathering during a pandemic. But they went along.

Hard to know what part of the story that I like more...

- Seeing more Trump minions suffer because of their association with the Trump administration.
- That Trump has someone handling campaign finances who may be almost as incompetent as he is. (I am sure they will raise plenty of money, but probably not as much as they would have had they had someone competent in charge.)
 
The Lincoln Project just uploaded a powerful follow-up to their Maxwell ad. The implication of what she might have on Trump is indeed troubling, and they set up the accusation wonderfully. Honestly, it's little more than a conspiracy theory setup, but god, do they do a good job setting it up and delivering it.

I would ask the Trump supporters what they make of all this, but it seems they haven't discovered this new thread yet. I'm sure they'll make their way over from the other threads any time, though :thumbsup: .
 
Belz... said:
Where? I can only see their first Maxwell add from this morning on their channel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqnCLoI9Eio

Oh. They took it down. Maybe it was accidentally uploaded too early.

Either way, it consisted first of a montage of Trump verbally abusing women, mostly female reporters, and then asking the question of why Trump is suddenly so nice and respectful when talking about the leader of a sex slave ring, and then, with this two-part setup delivered, asks what Maxwell has on Trump.

It's a powerful implication -- that Donald Trump, with his already established history of womanizing, sexual assault allegations, and being caught on tape bragging about forcibly kissing and groping women, is or has also been involved in organised sexual abuse of children.

It reminds me of the Pizzagate debacle, only it's a heck of a lot more plausible. Heck, if Trump's ever mentioned Pizzagate, it might even have been his usual projecting.
 
alfaniner said:
The really funny/sad thing is that it's not just the same clip repeated of him saying the list, it's him repeating the list so he says it four different times during that interview. And it looks like he was struggling by the last effort.
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Not surprising, given he usually can't remember the start of a sentence by the time he gets to the end of it.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
It's a powerful implication -- that Donald Trump, with his already established history of womanizing, sexual assault allegations, and being caught on tape bragging about forcibly kissing and groping women, is or has also been involved in organised sexual abuse of children.
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I think it might be a decent time to put out a reminder that Trump has indeed been accused of sexual abuse of children in connection with Epstein.
 
Ladewig said:
A genius.
There are chuckleheads who consider him a genius.

We are so *******
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Pretty sure Kevin Kline was playing Trump in a Fish Called Wanda.

Wanda: Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?

Donnie: Apes don't read philosophy.

Wanda: Yes they do,. They just don't understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Donnie. I looked them up..
 
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