Trump

[Digby]

Great cover for his ongoing hammering of ethics, financial and environmental standards

[WaspInWales]

Great cover for his ongoing hammering of ethics, financial and environmental standards

I think it's more to do with Mueller releasing some findings from the Russia enquiry today.

[Digby]

Nonetheless, and whilst the Mueller investigation should continue, the ongoing damage being visited on health care, education, housing, the environment, international relations, the role of science and truth, evidence based decision making, trade and so on are all more important

But the coverage focuses more on the stupidity and corruption that seem entwined with Team Orange than the actual policies

[morepork]

There aren't many actual policies being enacted. The evisceration of public education carries on at State level while health hasn't actually changed at all yet. The entirety of government is occupied with the reality TV show. Tax cuts were the most significant thing enacted. followed by frat boy supreme court comedy. Both have had plenty of media air. I am cautiously sensing here that pretty much everyone has been forced to admit that Trump is in fact largely irrelevant.

[Digby]

And he's not as dumb as a rock, which is nice

[WaspInWales]

And he's not as dumb as a rock, which is nice

What a bizarre attack.

Not at all surprising though...seems standard stuff from Trump, but I can't help feeling this Tweet, like many others will come back to haunt him.

I actually thought Tillerson was a voice of reason in an otherwise unstable administration. I was quite sceptical of his appointment initially considering his corporate oil background, but he was prepared to talk and listen with other parties.

[morepork]

How is someone not telling him to STFU? Making an oil exec look a model of diplomacy and state craft takes some doing.

[WaspInWales]

How is he getting away with such brazen lies:


He has commented twice now that people in France are chanting his name and that the riots are due to the Paris Agreement.

I don't know how he gets away with it, or why he isn't challenged face to face.

[morepork]

Because he is a fuckwit? Everything he engages in is a desperate bid to make himself look good. Macron may be a weasly little plastic man, but he has savaged Trump publicly using big words. President dumb fuck stews over it then makes some shit up in a tragically pathetic attempt to make himself look good. The media here have called bullshit on it, but bear in mind that the Trumpet very rarely gives press conferences, and when they happen, they are complete car crashes. Also, once social media picks up on it, which is inevitable with the perplexing insistence on using Twitter, then it turns into a vast conspiracy shit pie. It is impossible to extricate reason out of a shit pie, and the average septic that enjoys this particular dish is a lost cause. It's all "socialism doesn't work" and all of this sort of nonsense. It is a waste of time trying to reason with cunts like that. Climate denial and immigration have been burned into their psyche and they are just lost causes with these people. Trump originally picked up on the fabricated anecdote from a Rush Limbagh radio show. Thanks social media.

[Digby]

In fairness socialism never has worked, and this is people's lives, it's no smocking matter

[WaspInWales]

In fairness socialism never has worked, and this is people's lives, it's no smocking matter

He has the best words

[Digby]

In fairness socialism never has worked, and this is people's lives, it's no smocking matter

He has the best words

And this is a word he keeps using, stable genius that he is

[morepork]

Yet another full public melt down.


Never go full retard.

[WaspInWales]

Yet another full public melt down.


Never go full retard.

The Oval Office one, or the continued Twitter tantrums?

The former shows what a great negotiator he is, as he strats by blaming Schumer for the previous government closure, but then accepts blame for that and claims he will be proud to shut down the government again.

The art of the deal

Surely there's a tech whizz in the Trump administration who is capable of creating a sandbox Twitter environment just for Trump that would mean his Tweets don't actually make it to the www but he would continue to think they do? I'm amazed that someone there doesn't block Twitter in the firewall or something.

[morepork]

Fucker would probably just try and use a pay phone (if he could find one).

[Buggaluggs]

Yet another full public melt down.

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Surely there's a tech whizz in the Trump administration who is capable of creating a sandbox Twitter environment just for Trump that would mean his Tweets don't actually make it to the www but he would continue to think they do? I'm amazed that someone there doesn't block Twitter in the firewall or something.

Maybe there is. And what we see are the edited versions that make him look less stupid.

[WaspInWales]

Yet another full public melt down.

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Surely there's a tech whizz in the Trump administration who is capable of creating a sandbox Twitter environment just for Trump that would mean his Tweets don't actually make it to the www but he would continue to think they do? I'm amazed that someone there doesn't block Twitter in the firewall or something.

Maybe there is. And what we see are the edited versions that make him look less stupid.

[morepork]

All the nuance of immigration policy can be contained by a finite physical barrier that ultimately serves as a metaphor for racist ignorance? Way to go. Be best mother fucker. Be best. 'Murica...you've lost the plot and the shat bed you are lying in defines you now more than the sum of all your preposterously deluded faith in a non existent exceptionalism. You are naked to the world now, with shit up your back. Frankly, I expected better.

[Which Tyler]

Yet another full public melt down.

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Surely there's a tech whizz in the Trump administration who is capable of creating a sandbox Twitter environment just for Trump that would mean his Tweets don't actually make it to the www but he would continue to think they do? I'm amazed that someone there doesn't block Twitter in the firewall or something.

Maybe there is. And what we see are the edited versions that make him look less stupid.

[Digby]

Frankly, I expected better.

So basically you're trying to deflect your own problems off onto Trump, presidential harassment some might say

[morepork]

Lyin leaking Digby. SAD!


Trump really can't handle women as equals can he? What a silly old orange dinosaur he is.

[morepork]

Nonetheless, and whilst the Mueller investigation should continue, the ongoing damage being visited on health care, education, housing, the environment, international relations, the role of science and truth, evidence based decision making, trade and so on are all more important

But the coverage focuses more on the stupidity and corruption that seem entwined with Team Orange than the actual policies

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/ ... al-article

"Before Pruitt resigned amid a flurry of ethics investigations earlier this year, EPA replaced academic researchers on its science advisory boards with researchers supported by industry groups. Pruitt declared that scientists who received EPA grants had conflicts of interest, while those who are paid by polluting industries deserved a louder voice. That's when he named Cox to lead the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee."

[Digby]

Nonetheless, and whilst the Mueller investigation should continue, the ongoing damage being visited on health care, education, housing, the environment, international relations, the role of science and truth, evidence based decision making, trade and so on are all more important

But the coverage focuses more on the stupidity and corruption that seem entwined with Team Orange than the actual policies

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/ ... al-article

"Before Pruitt resigned amid a flurry of ethics investigations earlier this year, EPA replaced academic researchers on its science advisory boards with researchers supported by industry groups. Pruitt declared that scientists who received EPA grants had conflicts of interest, while those who are paid by polluting industries deserved a louder voice. That's when he named Cox to lead the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee."

I'm coming around to some of their views,clearly coal is clean and part of any solution

Also Ben Carson is a man of intelligence, caring and diligence, and never better than on the subject of guns

[morepork]

I might run for office on a platform of beastiality, witchcraft (with jesus), and AM Radio.

[Digby]

Do you like beer, I bet you like beer? At which point my vote comes down to whether you like mass produced tasteless beer