Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 26

[JoeMorgue]

This seems very odd. It makes me want him to elaborate on the thought and that's never happened before.

I can see why he thinks he's been anointed to say America, but the world?

//Slight hijack as I very, very, very much doubt this is anywhere whatever passes for Trump's motivation and am using this as a broad jumping off point, not a direct one//

It's not impossible to imagine a "White Man's Burden" version of nationalism, where your country, which is great and perfect and needs no help, has to spend all its resources helping the lesser countries.

It's not something that is likely to arise in American politics giving how our "sides" are laid out, but a weird, twisted inverse of the "We can't help other countries because we have so many problem to fix here" could arise in a political environment where a country has trouble admitting they have problem.

 

[Dave Rogers]

Trump Tweets

I just want to stop the world from killing itself!

I suppose killing it himself would have that effect.

Dave

 

[Aridas]

This seems very odd. It makes me want him to elaborate on the thought and that's never happened before.

I can see why he thinks he's been anointed to say America, but the world?

Looked at in the context of the Climate Crisis... He's working hard to save the world by stimulating a world-wide fever that will do a lot to eradicate the infection.

 

[a_unique_person]

Trump Tweets

Now it turns out that my phone call to the President of Ukraine, which many, including me, have called “perfect”, was even better than that. I predicted Biden corruption, said to call the A.G., who perhaps knew of the corruption during the impeachment hoax?

Trump thinks he did something perfect. Wow.

 

[Dr. Keith]

Trump thinks he did something perfect. Wow.

No, it is "perfect" in the same way that a kids painting is "gorgeous" or your dog is "talented" for only peeing on the tile floor. That's how sarcasm quotes work.

 

[Ladewig]

Trump thinks he did something perfect. Wow.

I was always so disappointed no reporter ever asked, “you describe your phone call as perfect. Would you say that every aspect of your presidency has been perfectly executed? Yes Could any of the other candidates have run his or her administration as perfectly as you? No So when you say “perfect” you don’t simply mean a very high level which other people could achieve, you mean that you are without equal, that you are peerless?Yes And not to put words in your mouth, but you would say that no future president will ever run his or her presidency as perfectly as you? YesLast question, tomorrow many right-wing pundits will say you were joking or that you were speaking metaphorically or that you were just trying to tease the press. Do any of those reasons apply or did you literally mean perfect? None of those things apply. My presidency has been perfect.

It would not have any significant impact on his presidency or his popularity. But I would sure enjoy watching the evangelicals tap dance as they tried to pull all that off the stage.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Trump Tweets

I just want to stop the world from killing itself!

Do you, sweetheart?

Piss off, then.

 

[Trebuchet]

Just to remind us all of what an ******* he is, he's now ordering the FDA head to approve the vaccine or resign.

 

[rdaneel]

Just to remind us all of what an ******* he is, he's now ordering the FDA head to approve the vaccine or resign.

That way he can claim credit for "making it happen", even though it was going to happen anyway.

 

[slyjoe]

That way he can claim credit for "making it happen", even though it was going to happen anyway.

I think it is notable this all happens on Friday. He fires people on Friday. The deadline for the FDA was Friday. The SC tossed him out on Friday...woops.

 

[acbytesla]

Just to remind us all of what an ******* he is, he's now ordering the FDA head to approve the vaccine or resign.

If I'm the head of the FDA, I'm either resigning or I am just going to ignore him.

 

[Horatius]

Just to remind us all of what an ******* he is, he's now ordering the FDA head to approve the vaccine or resign.

Meanwhile, in Canada....it turns out that allowing normal functioning of the public service during a crisis without stupid political interference actually works.

Good job, Trump!

 

[dudalb]

Just saw Donnie's video cliaming credit for the vaccine. Warnng: Don't view it right after eating.
I supsect it is full of crap,and he refers to the virus asn the CHina virus. Gotta keep the bigotry going.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Meanwhile, in OZ it will be about March next year:

Emergency approval reflects desperate situation, TGA head says

Before the British Government announced the news, head of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, John Skerritt, told ABC RN Breakfast the UK and US were operating on a very different timeline to the Australian Government because of the stark contrast in the coronavirus caseload.

"They're not approvals that those two countries are talking about, they're emergency use authorisations, and they're really reflecting the desperate situation of those countries," Adjunct Professor Skerritt said.

"We have to remember on many days, day after day the US is having more deaths than we've had in the whole year of the pandemic here in Australia, so it reflects the desperate situation of those countries and these authorisations require the delivery of the vaccine to be very tightly and closely monitored."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12...hunt-britain-approval-pfizer-vaccine/12944440

https://www.health.gov.au/sites/def...-the-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19.pdf

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump retweets

Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
Today’s Left can’t cancel everything. Merry Christmas!
Quote Tweet

Niels Lesniewski
@nielslesniewski
BREAKING: Christmas Eve is now a federal holiday in 2020, according to an executive order signed Friday by President Trump.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump retweets

Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
Today’s Left can’t cancel everything. Merry Christmas!
Quote Tweet

Niels Lesniewski
@nielslesniewski
BREAKING: Christmas Eve is now a federal holiday in 2020, according to an executive signed Friday by President Trump.

Was Jim Jordan dropped head first onto a concrete floor as a baby or does imbecility just run in his family?

 

[Norman Alexander]

Was Jim Jordan dropped head first onto a concrete floor as a baby or does imbecility just run in his family?

Someone needs to tweet him "Happy Hanukkah" and "Happy Kwanzaa", on the minute, every minute, until 2021.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Trump supporters at a pro-Trump rally chant "Destroy the GOP"

Going all in behind Trump really worked for the Republicans, didn't it?

 

[Aridas]

Trump supporters at a pro-Trump rally chant "Destroy the GOP"

Going all in behind Trump really worked for the Republicans, didn't it?

It's probably worth asking... how many of those chanters voted for Trump in 2016 BECAUSE they wanted to destroy the rotten state of the GOP and Trump was offering a notably less radical and corrupt vision for the GOP? Nevermind that Trump was brazenly lying, of course.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Trump supporters at a pro-Trump rally chant "Destroy the GOP"

Going all in behind Trump really worked for the Republicans, didn't it?

I'd like to hear them chant "Hang Moscow Mitch!"

But seriously, these people are such lunatics that you could just as easily get them to chant "Death to fascism!", or "Je suis Charlie", or "Kinder, Küche, Kirche", as long as they thought it was in support of Trump.