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Cont: The Trump Presidency IX: Nein, Nein!

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jimbob said:
Neither of those are the gotcha that you think.

Context is everything, Obama used the N-word in a thoughtful speech, where it was better to say it than pretend it wasn't being used.
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We saw that with the Trump “grab’em’ by the pussy” tape. Some conservative pundits were running whataboutism on the use of the word “pussy,” either disingenuously ignoring the meaning conveyed - bragging about sexual assualt, or truely believing the outrage was over the utterance of a taboo word.

The N word is not the problem. It is the historical concepts of the place of African Americans in relation to white America that are carried forward when someone wields it as a slur, which Obama so obviously was not.

Words dont have essential meanings and their power is not in their mere utterance as if from some dark grimoire.
 
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jimbob said:
Neither of those are the gotcha that you think.

Context is everything, Obama used the N-word in a thoughtful speech, where it was better to say it than pretend it wasn't being used.
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And I think the whole N word instead of the actual word is silly anyway. Yes, it is a disgusting word, but I don't get why this term of racial abuse gets the F Word treatment but every other term of racial abuse is OK to spell out.
 
dudalb said:
One Trump supporter here says we should stop reading Trump's tweets and concerntrate on what he does.in other words, ignore that Trump's tweets increasingly show him to be paranoid and mentally unstable, as well as a being incredibly ignorant.
But hey, what does that matter as long as I get my tax cuts...
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It isn't clear to me that what he does presents a more attractive picture.

Maybe we're supposed to ignore that, too.
 
One Trump supporter here says we should stop reading Trump's tweets and concerntrate on what he does.
in other words, ignore that Trump's tweets increasingly show him to be paranoid and mentally unstable, as well as a being incredibly ignorant.
But hey, what does that matter as long as I get my tax cuts...
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Aren't tweets official statements from the Office of the President?
We shouldn't read official statements from the President?
 
Stories all over the place that Trump wanted Omorosa arrested, but Sessions refused because Omorosa has broken no federal law.
If Trump now thinks he should have the right to have people arrested on his whim, then his delusions are worse then we thought...if that is possible.
 
dudalb said:
Stories all over the place that Trump wanted Omorosa arrested, but Sessions refused because Omorosa has broken no federal law.
If Trump now thinks he should have the right to have people arrested on his whim, then his delusions are worse then we thought...if that is possible.
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I've heard something of this, but not from a reliable source. The Times or Post or PBS or NPR on this story? Sorry if I missed it on their sites.

ETA: Never mind. It comes from Vanity Fair originally.
 
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phiwum said:
I've heard something of this, but not from a reliable source. The Times or Post or PBS or NPR on this story? Sorry if I missed it on their sites.

ETA: Never mind. It comes from Vanity Fair originally.
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Yes.
And Trump told advisers that he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to have Manigault Newman arrested, according to one Republican briefed on the conversations. (It’s unclear what law Trump believes she broke.)
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/death-spiral-why-omarosa-totally-triggered-trump

Trump literally thinks he was elected emperor.
 
This past week has been kinda good for my schadenfreude fix. Snowflake, triggered Trump has been dancing to Omarosa's tune, she of his creation who has equaled, if not bettered, her mentor. Those tapes of hers are delicious sauce for that increasingly cooked goose. Trump is being driven to intensifying mania that will push him to accelerate his political demise.

And I hope the Trumpists are feeling a quickening panic, too. Especially the evangelicals who think their powerful and wise God has arranged to install this immoral, amoral, self-absorbed, un-Christian criminal as head of a nation.
 
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Part IX already? How time flies! For the tag line I would have used “trump harder” or “trump strikes back”
 
Trump Tweets

"Turkey has taken advantage of the United States for many years. They are now holding our wonderful Christian Pastor, who I must now ask to represent our Country as a great patriot hostage. We will pay nothing for the release of an innocent man, but we are cutting back on Turkey!"
 
Trump Tweets

"How can “Senator” Richard Blumenthal, who went around for twenty years as a Connecticut politician bragging that he was a great Marine war hero in Vietnam (then got caught and sobbingly admitted he was neither a Marine nor ever in Vietnam), pass judgement on anyone? Loser!"

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NYT: Little-Known Justice Dept. Official Makes Trump’s Security Clearance List “Such access is particularly inappropriate when former officials have transitioned into highly partisan positions and seek to use real or perceived access to sensitive information to validate their political attacks,” Mr. Trump said in a statement read at the daily White House briefing by his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She also announced that John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director, was losing his clearance altogether.
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The President, his party, and his voters are openly traitors to the nation (Russia), democracy (vote suppression), and the rule of law (Regal Trumpism). Meanwhile, public officials across the spectrum in government have been silenced about everything from climate change to Russian hacking.

It is important for critics to validate their efforts with facts, which are, OMG, a deadly threat, apparently. Sigh. At least this presidency is doing away with every single little fig leaf Republican racists have been hiding behind since 1980 and Reagan's inauguration of full-on Magical Thinking for White People: A How-To for Good Ole Boy Leg Ups.
 
jimbob said:
No, nothing abnormal about Trump's mental health, how very dare you suggest such a thing.
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I wouldn’t dare to impugn my beloved god emperor. In light of the above, I have recalibrated my memory and I now believe agent orange was used in Apocalypse Now.
 
Regarding the revocation of security clearances...

A word that just popped into my head was “purge”. To date, I have not heard it used in this context.

It seems appropriate in this case. It’s a hallmark of authoritarians. Purge the government of all vestiges of prior administrations.

Thoughts?
 
it fits with the observations Fast Eddie B.
 
Making America great coincides with removing people the Dolt doesn’t like, holds grudges against etc

It’s an eerie coincidence, but just that. Clearly.
 
Department of Defence announced that Donald Trump’s military parade, scheduled for November has now been officially “postponed” until 2019.
 
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