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Cont: The Trump Presidency, Part II

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And then there is this

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/b...-focus-cannot-be-on-the-tweet/article/2627654
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price appeared on two Sunday shows trying to sell the Republican healthcare bill that is currently stalled in the Senate.

Price responded strongly when questioned about the tweets by NBC host Chuck Todd.

"We have incredible challenges across this nation, incredible challenges around the world," Price began.

"The challenge I've been given is to address the healthcare issues, and your program, a program with the incredible history of 'Meet the Press,' and that's what you want to talk about?" Price asked.
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Of course, it is his friggin boss that is the one sending out the sophomoric tweets.

What is Price's "focus on the issues" implication here? That we should ignore the President? I would like to agree, but then again, he's the friggin president!!!!

The answer to Price is simple: get him to shut up. He is the one that is distracting everyone from their job, not the press.
 
Childlike Empress said:
Die normative Kraft des Faktischen.
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If this means what I think it does, saying the facts are on Donald's side, no. This is not a powerful argument for him. He has a problem with reality. Yes, he won the electoral college vote. No, it wasn't a landslide. No, he didn't win the popular vote. No, Bernhard Langer was never standing in line to vote and he related no anecdote to Trump. No, he did not see thousands of Muslims celebrating 9/11. No, The NFL never called him about debate scheduling. If you are saying Trump has the facts on his side, he almost never does. He is attractive to people who want to see weak U.S. leadership that serves Vladimir Putin's interests. Trump is good for Russia. He's horrible for the U.S., unless his presidency opens people's eyes enough to see why we never want such a president again.
 
Twitter has turned into a precious ocean of triggered pre$$titute tears. Apparently it never occured to these freaks that wrestling is a show.

And btw, it takes something very unhealthy to convince oneself that the POTUS is a "loser". Just saying.
 
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Minoosh said:
If this means what I think it does, saying the facts are on Donald's side, no. This is not a powerful argument for him. He has a problem with reality. Yes, he won the electoral college vote. No, it wasn't a landslide. No, he didn't win the popular vote. No, Bernhard Langer was never standing in line to vote and he related no anecdote to Trump. No, he did not see thousands of Muslims celebrating 9/11. No, The NFL never called him about debate scheduling. If you are saying Trump has the facts on his side, he almost never does. He is attractive to people who want to see weak U.S. leadership that serves Vladimir Putin's interests. Trump is good for Russia. He's horrible for the U.S., unless his presidency opens people's eyes enough to see why we never want such a president again.
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It means that the facts on the ground win over every "ideal", in this case whining about unworthiness of Trump by Capel Dodger. Die normative Kraft des Faktischen is why not every US president alive is in some prison cell as a war criminal. The Hague would be bombed before that happens, as openly stated under Bush the Lesser, and that's beyond where even Dutch idealism is willing to go while staring down the barrel of a gigantic gun.
 
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CapelDodger said:
Actually I'd love to see Trump v Brand in a cage-fight, metaphorically speaking.
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I'd love to see it literally speaking. Brand is over 6 feet tall and reasonably buff last time I checked :blush:. But then Trump has that slabby kind of fat that is almost as good as muscle, so he has mass on his side.
 
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Childlike Empress said:
It means that the facts on the ground win over every "ideal", in this case whining about unworthiness of Trump by Capel Doger. Die normative Kraft des Faktischen is why not every US president alive is in some prison cell as a war criminal. The Hague would be bombed before that happens, as openly stated under Bush the Lesser, and thats beyond where even Dutch idealism is willing to go while staring into the barral of a gigantic gun.
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Thanks. I learned something. I predict Trump will commit war crimes, if he hasn't already, and according to you that will insulate him from prison. I'm not big on the concept of "war crimes." There's an argument to be made that if you're at war, the aim should be total victory, complete subjugation of the enemy by whatever means possible. So Trump's self-proclaimed ruthlessness doesn't bother me as much as it does some people. Of course it completely undermines the concept that the U.S. is better than that, that there is any high ground to be claimed.

But the facts on the ground do not support Trump in many different ways. He doesn't know more than the generals. He doesn't have a secret plan to defeat ISIS, unless it is simply riding on Iran and Russia's coattails. He can't deliver on any of his promises and some his Cabinet members are beginning to show signs of disillusionment at Trump's ignorance, incompetence, self absorption and utter inability to face facts on the ground. If the U.S. elects him again, it's over. I'm sick for my country. Many times it has failed to live up to its ideals, but IMO those ideals are worth striving for. You live in a country that has embraced idealism after blood-soaked genocidal nationalism turned out to be a dead end. If it rises again I don't have much hope for the world.
 
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That gif is exactly the sort of thing I might have created for facetpost.com. In context it may be humorous. The fact that The PDJT reposted it himself, sans comment, is what is so alarming about it.

Perhaps if he had added something like "Look at this funny gif someone made!" it might have taken some of the intensity out. As it stands, it reads as official policy.
 
alfaniner said:
As it stands, it reads as official policy.
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I imagine that it was meant to. As loathsome as I find Trump to be, his repulsive traits have been plainly on display since the campaign trail. We got what it said on the tin.
 
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