Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

[Skeptic Ginger]

Does *anyone* still fall for this idle threat? Do even the gun nuts think this is a real possibility? Are any voters swayed by such threats?

Rhetorical questions, I suppose.

Someone needs to remind NRA supporters that the NRA ripped off their donations.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

What!!?? It is my understanding that government officials doing their assigned job cannot be individually sued. Is that right? What liability would FBI agents be subject to? Or is this just more BS from the Trump crowd?

I'm going with More Lies for $500, Alec.

 

[Stacyhs]

I'll die happy if Trump strokes out on camera next Tuesday.

 

[Dr.Sid]

All the jokes at Trump's expense if he loses the election will be epic.

All those jokes said now will also be epic, if he wins. Remember 2016 ?
Don't laugh till it's over.

 

[Ladewig]

Does *anyone* still fall for this idle threat? Do even the gun nuts think this is a real possibility? Are any voters swayed by such threats?

Rhetorical questions, I suppose.

There are a lot of people who consider it a bedrock truth.

If you doubt me, then start driving through a southern state. Leave the interstate and drive on a state highway until you come to a gas station or conveinence store selling MAGA hats. Then find a county highway and drive until you find a grocery store of liquor store selling Trump Wines. Then start asking around.

The other piece of evidence is a 20-year graph of annual gun sales. In election years people stock up on guns and ammo for fear that they will be outlawed soon.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump in Virginia

"We've taken NASA from fairways, gra-- I mean, you have to see. They had fairways along like a golf course. It was a better golf course than it was a runway." -- Trump tries to say "runways" but accidentally says "fairways," then tries to play it cool. He has golf on the brain.

"They now proved that Russia interfered in 2016. Unfortunately it was on behalf of Hillary Clinton, not Trump" -- Trump just absurdly accused Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia to run a disinformation campaign against herself

"We've gotta watch this ballot scam, because they're scamming us. And then they say, 'he doesn't want to turn over' Of course I do. But it's gotta be a fair election."

"We're not gonna lose this, expect if they cheat, that's the only way we're gonna lose"

Trump, sounded tired and slurring, rambles at length that NBC covered a hurricane in Florida instead of his Nobel Prize Nomination

Trump once again claims that Cory Booker is coming to destroy the suburbs if Biden is elected

"What would our popularity be if every day for almost four years, you didn't hear any of this ********? ( The media) With all we've done, I think they'd be very nice, the Democrats would say, 'yes, if you'd like, we could cancel the election.'"

"I'm extending a moratorium on offshore drilling but if you want oil rigs out there, just let me know, we'll take it off. I can understand that too."

 

[quadraginta]

Say what you will about President Camacho, but he at least found the smartest person he could to solve a problem that he knew he was unable to solve himself.

Trump Tweets

Working hard in New Mexico. I built the Wall (security) and will totally protect your Second Amendment (The Dems want to obliterate it!). Will be there soon!

So now he's saying "the Wall" has been built?

A couple hundred miles of easily bypassed oversize fence that blows over in a strong wind ... on a 2,000 mile border?

Well, at least it won't cost Mexico too much.

 

[quadraginta]

Say what you will about President Camacho, but he at least found the smartest person he could to solve a problem that he knew he was unable to solve himself.

Maybe we should start a poll... Who is the better president. Comancho or Trump.

Neither were very smart, but comancho got the smartest person on the planet to fix his problems... Trump got Kushner

There really isn't any basis for comparison. Camacho was trying to solve a problem for the country he was governing, knew he couldn't handle it without help, and picked the best man available for the job.

Trump couldn't care less about anyone else's problems, and only picked his SIL for a sinecure because he likes to have shills and yes-men close to him. (And probably because Ivanka told him to.)

 

[Ladewig]

There really isn't any basis for comparison. Camacho was trying to solve a problem for the country he was governing, knew he couldn't handle it without help, and picked the best man available for the job.

Trump couldn't care less about anyone else's problems, and only picked his SIL for a sinecure because he likes to have shills and yes-men close to him. (And probably because Ivanka told him to.)

I think there is one more reason. Kushner is the only Jew that Trump knew and respected. [Actually, let’s go with somewhat respected.]
He knew he needed someone to solve this whole Middle-East conflict.

 

[Lurch]

Back in my mid-20s I stumbled upon a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It was my first deep dive into the Nazi regime. With its you-are-there-in-the-room-as-witness immediacy (the tone was buttressed by Shirer's own experiences in Germany during part of that time), I was gripped, experiencing both dread and fatalistic dismay at the inexorable descent into Hell chronicled therein.

I've re-read it twice since. And much else covering that crucial period of history.

I've often wondered why enough people then didn't see the signs clearly enough, to realize the terrible fate awaiting so many millions, and thereby avert disaster.

Today I feel much the same dread at the approaching potential for calamity. Likely not at the same awful scale and magnitude as that which gripped the world in the 1930s. But of a nation-wounding level nonetheless. And not confined to the US, as the web of nations does not permit to hermetically seal in and isolate a ructious disruption within a Great Power.

The particular form of American Capitalism is inimical to a healthy society, in that its inevitable end result is an ever increasing wealth divide. This kind of Capitalism really is a coddling, socialistic favoritism for the wealthy, and a rough, hardscrabble fighting for scraps for the rest. In order to keep the disenfranchised from rising up against the rapacious few, a political system has been devised where the poor are given lessers to kick down upon, enemies to hate as the cause of their ills.

This mass insanity around the almighty dollar, the naked chasing and veritable worship of which has put so much into so few hands, is approaching breaking point. Too many of the citizenry are jaded, disillusioned, desperate. While some may not perceive the full and real picture, a general cynicism has resulted in either malaise or nihilism.

One result of disillusionment is a cleaving by some to a messiah-like Leader who they are lead to believe will deliver them from their current difficulties. Not unlike Hitler during the economic woes and political chaos of Weimar Germany. In America today this manifests in much the same cult-like adherence to a populist, where reality is ignored and delusion and fantasy are ferociously clung to.

To cut this short, I fear that, as in times past, too few will perceive the danger in time, and a terrible price due to inaction, or action taken too late, will be exacted. Just as for the dread- and frustration-inducing shenanigans during the rise of Hitler, Goebbels, Roehm, Goering, etc., the antics of Trump, Barr, McConnell and company have me almost shrieking to the heavens, "Wake up, fools!"

 

[Andy_Ross]

Watch the BBC series. 'Nazis: A Warning from History' and 'Rise of the Nazis'

they will send shivers.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

The "Intelligence" briefing on so-called "Russian hacking" was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!

Based on the strong recommendation of @SenDanSullivan and @repdonyoung of the Great State of Alaska, it is my honor to inform you that I will be issuing a Presidential Permit for the A2A Cross-Border Rail between Alaska & Canada. Congratulations to the people of Alaska & Canada!

The Obama Administration was not out to get the facts, they were out to “get Trump”. Ken Starr...And got caught red handed - All of them. “Trump was right”, they said!

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Trump Tweets

The "Intelligence" briefing on so-called "Russian hacking" was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!

More likely delayed to give sources of information time to get extracted before Trump tells Putin who they are.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump Tweets

The "Intelligence" briefing on so-called "Russian hacking" was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!

Based on the strong recommendation of @SenDanSullivan and @repdonyoung of the Great State of Alaska, it is my honor to inform you that I will be issuing a Presidential Permit for the A2A Cross-Border Rail between Alaska & Canada. Congratulations to the people of Alaska & Canada!

The Obama Administration was not out to get the facts, they were out to “get Trump”. Ken Starr...And got caught red handed - All of them. “Trump was right”, they said!

Who is 'they'? The same ones he hears in his head who tell him whatever he wants to hear that no one else hears?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Who is 'they'? The same ones he hears in his head who tell him whatever he wants to hear that no one else hears?

Pretty much, yeah. "Sir you were right."

Sigh.

 

[Fast Eddie B]

Back in my mid-20s I stumbled upon a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It was my first deep dive into the Nazi regime. With its you-are-there-in-the-room-as-witness immediacy (the tone was buttressed by Shirer's own experiences in Germany during part of that time), I was gripped, experiencing both dread and fatalistic dismay at the inexorable descent into Hell chronicled therein.

I've re-read it twice since...

That sounds like my story.

Have you read “Berlin Diary” by the same author?

Since you brought up “immediacy”, it has it in spades, since it’s a collection of writings by the author at the time, as things gradually and inexorably spiraled downhill. Highly recommended.

 

[Bob001]

John Mulaney explains it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZMxgPxXU&list=LLCafjVVFYrsmdjZ7O5SJ4Pw&index=201

 

[newyorkguy]

Obama has a plan to get Trump out of the WH if he loses the election:

“This is a man who enjoys watching television,” Obama told reporters. “What if, on Inauguration Day, he picks up the remote and nothing comes on? This seems like the most peaceful way to get him to go,” Obama said. Obama also said that, in order to avoid a constitutional crisis, the White House’s supply of Diet Coke could also be cut off, but added, “I don’t think it will come to that. Once it dawns on him that there’s no cable, his days will stretch out before him in a vista of emptiness,” Obama said. “No ‘Fox & Friends.’ No Tucker Carlson. And no Shark Week. He’ll be on the next helicopter out,” Obama predicted.

The New Yorker

Method to the madness. The one thing dictators can't deal with is being laughed at.

 

[alfaniner]

Method to the madness. The one thing dictators can't deal with is being laughed at.

I wonder, is the debate going to have an audience? It would be one of the few times since getting elected that The PDJT would have to face a mixed crowd. I'd love to hear Animal House responses from the gallery -- "<*cough ******** cough">.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

I wonder, is the debate going to have an audience? It would be one of the few times since getting elected that The PDJT would have to face a mixed crowd. I'd love to hear Animal House responses from the gallery -- "<*cough ******** cough">.

His last experience with a mixed crowd consisted of him flouncing after five seconds of "vote him out" from the crowd .