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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

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The Atheist said:
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Not many people can be endorsed by both the KKK and the Taliban.

When you add in Kim Jung-Un, Vladimir Putin, Mohammed bin Sultan, Narendra Modi, Recep Erdogan and Jair Bolsonaro, how could you not vote for him?
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There was a day when that would have been the kiss of death for any presidential candidate, much less a Republican one. Now? Whoddathunkit? Strange days.
 
The Atheist said:
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Not many people can be endorsed by both the KKK and the Taliban.

When you add in Kim Jung-Un, Vladimir Putin, Mohammed bin Sultan, Narendra Modi, Recep Erdogan and Jair Bolsonaro, how could you not vote for him?
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See? He's everyone's friend! He's building relationships across the board with people past American presidents woud never even talk to! Nobel! Nobel! Nobel!
 
Beelzebuddy said:
Nixon's downfall is one contender for the trigger that set the GOP on its current path. The lesson they learned from his impeachment and disgrace wasn't "we need to have less morally bankrupt asshats," but "having standards is a poor political strategy."
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I'd say it helped cement the view that the only sin is being caught.

And with Trump it's now cemented the view that there isn't sin at all.
 
I want to wait and see who Hitler comes out for. I was really counting on that 2nd Debate…
 
I was just watching Superman: Red Son, an animated adaptation of the Elseworlds comic in which Superman's rocket landed in the Soviet Union in the 40s instead of Kansas. At one point, Communist Superman tells Lois Lane "The press is the enemy of the people." That sounds really familiar. I'm sure I've heard it somewhere else recently, but I can't quite recall where.
 
Armitage72 said:
I was just watching Superman: Red Son, an animated adaptation of the Elseworlds comic in which Superman's rocket landed in the Soviet Union in the 40s instead of Kansas. At one point, Communist Superman tells Lois Lane "The press is the enemy of the people." That sounds really familiar. I'm sure I've heard it somewhere else recently, but I can't quite recall where.
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It's from that USA scripted "reality" show that started in 2016, I hear its ratings have dropped so probably won't get renewed this fall.
 
GlennB said:
At the White House farce speech, Trump was sporting a hefty plaster (UK)/bandaid (US) on the back of his right hand, the kind of thing you have after a canula is removed, only much bigger. I've had a few of those and they were pretty small.
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Dang his hand is so pale, looks like he was sanding Sheetrock.
 
Latest article from NY Times reveals how Trump set up a massive and highly organized system of influence pedaling in exchange for campaign donations and direct payouts to Trump and his family.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Memberships at Mar-a-Largo (at $250,000 a year), booking rooms or affairs or parties at his hotels, and lavish spending for food and drinks at either bought corporate big wigs the chance to pigeon hole Trump and tell him about the gifts Santa should bring them for Christmas.

Often Trump would then turn to one of his stooges and tell them to work on it.

The size of the operation, and the direct links of payouts to Trump and his businesses (rather than “just” political donations) is unprecedented. Trump”s properties, especially Mar-a-Lago, served as the money laundering banks and the meeting hubs for the whole scheme.

Some of the deals never fully went through (reflecting Trump’s consistent willingness to screw even his clients IMO). A few of the back and forth dealing fell more into the traditional “pay a donation in exchange for the ear of a politician”). I am certain Trump apologists will try to focus on these to claim “everyone does it” or that it does not reek enough to prove it is massive corruption. But if you look at the money going directly to the Trump businesses and the scale and organization of the scheme, it is clear that rather than drain the swamp Trump reversed the connection and pumped the cess pool into the swimming pool.

The article is probably paywalled but I imagine the info will begin to appear at other news sites. Or just buy a subscription; newspapers can’t survive on air.
 
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shemp said:
I wonder if some of his followers will look back in ten or twenty years and realize how easily they were played like a fiddle?
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Ten or twenty years? Heck they could just look back 4 to 5 years ago where he literally told them 'I'm just telling you what you want to hear'.
 
Trump Retweeted

Andy McCarthy
@AndrewCMcCarthy
Did she do it? Of course she did it ... my weekend @NRO column on Hillary Clinton's orchestration of the Russia-Collusion Farce ...

Joe Biden Takes a Dark Turn on Blowing Up the Court - @charlescwcooke explains ... and rolls the tape of Biden (the 2005 version)

History Is on the Side of Republicans Filling a Supreme Court Vacancy in 2020 - in anticipation of this week, vital lesson from @baseballcrank

It takes 2 things to appoint a justice: POTUS's nomination and Senate majority approval. In 2016, if Dems had the latter, Obama would've gotten 3d justice. That would not have been 'packing.' Dems didn't have it, and Obama therefore didn't get 3d. That's how Const'l system works.
 
shemp said:
I wonder if some of his followers will look back in ten or twenty years and realize how easily they were played like a fiddle?
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Whatever the number, it will be smaller than the number of followers who will go to their graves believing that they helped save America from the gun-grabbing, baby-killing socialists (who are the real racists) intent on destroying the most wonderful nation in the history of the world.
 
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This made me chuckle.
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