Trump

[Digby]

Trump revealed as an avid fan of Grange Hill going with the solution to the opioid crisis of Just Say No. Though he'd do well to remember Grange Hill actually went for the double negative approach of Just Say No, No - possibly Trump lost concentration before they got to the 2nd No

An he's also said raining down fire and fury the likes of which the world hasn't seen wasn't actually a tough enough statement, whether he's actually got even worse plans in mind is doubtful, more likely he's having a hissy fit that Tillerson and several State Department briefers made him sound like a petulant toddler who didn't know what he was talking about and didn't need to be taken seriously

[canta_brian]

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[WaspInWales]

#FightTonight is trending on Twitter. Nice to have a little build-up to these things.

Tiny hands retweeted this from the US Pacific Command:

Fucking bonkers...but hey, it's the other side that are insane.

[WaspInWales]

Loved this Trump retweet:

Obsess much?

Ignoring the source of the poll and the obvious bias with these type of Twitter polls, one would have to be of a very sensitive nature to use something like that in order to make oneself feel superior.

If anyone is wondering about this "Progress Polls," so was the WaPo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... 3690cf4fad

Aye, I was aware of the dubious nature of the source. Just amazed that tiny hands retweeted approval from an obviously slanted and heavily flawed poll.

Speaks volumes about the twat.

[Digby]

It's quite possible he really tried with his speech yesterday about the nation coming together under all the great things he's doing as a president to boost the economy, and he's just a really shit public speaker and an even worse president.

[Buggaluggs]

It's quite possible he really tried with his speech yesterday about the nation coming together under all the great things he's doing as a president to boost the economy, and he's just a really shit public speaker and an even worse president.

Nah, fuck the pissboy. "From many sides." He can eat a shit, the pusillanimous cunt.

Ooh. Pussy and cunt in the same sentence. Bravo!

[WaspInWales]

Very classy response by tiny hands after Merck chief Ken Frazier resigned from the American Manufacturing Council as a result of Trump's response to Charlottesville:

What an odious piece of shit.

[WaspInWales]

No hint of irony at the increased cost of membership at Trump's resorts since he was elected.

[Digby]

No hint of irony at the increased cost of membership at Trump's resorts since he was elected.

Is this just because he's benefited to the tune of millions of dollars as President? Seems harsh, in other industries (football or example) they'd allow this sort of blatant corruption and there'd be barely a mention, or Alex Ferguson would kick the BBC out of Old Trafford for mentioning it and then there'd be no mention. And really when Trump is maybe on an ethical par with FIFA who are we to comment?

[WaspInWales]

[Which Tyler]

[Digby]

On the face of it that request for information seems far too broad.

[canta_brian]

No hint of irony at the increased cost of membership at Trump's resorts since he was elected.

Is this just because he's benefited to the tune of millions of dollars as President? Seems harsh, in other industries (football or example) they'd allow this sort of blatant corruption and there'd be barely a mention, or Alex Ferguson would kick the BBC out of Old Trafford for mentioning it and then there'd be no mention. And really when Trump is maybe on an ethical par with FIFA who are we to comment?

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=ht ... _pid=90151

Corbyn showing like many of the greats he doesn't do, or at least get, irony. He's not wrong that Trump's comments on his naziesque supporters were woeful, but after his Corbyn's own piss weak commen......

Seems you are doing an awful lot of deflection from the behaviours and attitudes of Trump lately Digby. With my American friends, friends on Facebook it tends to be "oh but when Obama was in office..." with you it's Corbyn and football. Same technique though and I didn't have you down as a Trump apologist.

[Digby]

No hint of irony at the increased cost of membership at Trump's resorts since he was elected.

Is this just because he's benefited to the tune of millions of dollars as President? Seems harsh, in other industries (football or example) they'd allow this sort of blatant corruption and there'd be barely a mention, or Alex Ferguson would kick the BBC out of Old Trafford for mentioning it and then there'd be no mention. And really when Trump is maybe on an ethical par with FIFA who are we to comment?

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=ht ... _pid=90151

Corbyn showing like many of the greats he doesn't do, or at least get, irony. He's not wrong that Trump's comments on his naziesque supporters were woeful, but after his Corbyn's own piss weak commen......

Seems you are doing an awful lot of deflection from the behaviours and attitudes of Trump lately Digby. With my American friends, friends on Facebook it tends to be "oh but when Obama was in office..." with you it's Corbyn and football. Same technique though and I didn't have you down as a Trump apologist.

The only deflection in this is suggesting I'm a Trump apologist, and really just 'cause Trump does some disgusting things isn't a reason not to call out Corbyn for (on a much smaller scale) also being rather disgusting at times.

[canta_brian]

Is this just because he's benefited to the tune of millions of dollars as President? Seems harsh, in other industries (football or example) they'd allow this sort of blatant corruption and there'd be barely a mention, or Alex Ferguson would kick the BBC out of Old Trafford for mentioning it and then there'd be no mention. And really when Trump is maybe on an ethical par with FIFA who are we to comment?

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=ht ... _pid=90151

Corbyn showing like many of the greats he doesn't do, or at least get, irony. He's not wrong that Trump's comments on his naziesque supporters were woeful, but after his Corbyn's own piss weak commen......

Seems you are doing an awful lot of deflection from the behaviours and attitudes of Trump lately Digby. With my American friends, friends on Facebook it tends to be "oh but when Obama was in office..." with you it's Corbyn and football. Same technique though and I didn't have you down as a Trump apologist.

The only deflection in this is suggesting I'm a Trump apologist, and really just 'cause Trump does some disgusting things isn't a reason not to call out Corbyn for (on a much smaller scale) also being rather disgusting at times.

So the comments of the leader of an opposition party regarding events in a foreign state are compatible to those of the head of state if the country in which something has occurred?

[Digby]

Trump is trying to get his infrastructure plan up and running, and actually it's the one part depending on the use of private firms that I might be truly interested of his known (to me) campaign ideas. But given he's spent the last few weeks pissing off Republicans in both houses of Congress, and a lot of Republicans will not like his plans to fund infrastructure and will not like if being done at a federal level he's got some problems.

Trump can in this perhaps bring a number of Democrats into his camp to get his plans through Congress and Senate, but he's going to need to put in a lot of work at a very detailed level to ensure the plan makes financial sense, is actually funded, doesn't allow the public purse to be gouged by private firms, that he identifies schemes with actual returns and advances for local societies, that he gets the votes and that the whole isn't toppled by pork barrel concessions in gaining those votes.

There is nothing in his work so far to suggest he's going to do the work, there's plenty in his work so far to suggest he'll derail his own plan by twittering off in random directions allowing the focus to shift too easily. This is the one area I'm holding out hope for in this administration, however slim that hope is

[Digby]

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=ht ... _pid=90151

Corbyn showing like many of the greats he doesn't do, or at least get, irony. He's not wrong that Trump's comments on his naziesque supporters were woeful, but after his Corbyn's own piss weak commen......

Seems you are doing an awful lot of deflection from the behaviours and attitudes of Trump lately Digby. With my American friends, friends on Facebook it tends to be "oh but when Obama was in office..." with you it's Corbyn and football. Same technique though and I didn't have you down as a Trump apologist.

The only deflection in this is suggesting I'm a Trump apologist, and really just 'cause Trump does some disgusting things isn't a reason not to call out Corbyn for (on a much smaller scale) also being rather disgusting at times.

So the comments of the leader of an opposition party regarding events in a foreign state are compatible to those of the head of state if the country in which something has occurred?

On a global scale no. In Britain they're both significant public figures, so here (the UK) to have a major political commentator in Glorious Leader™ again show himself up as rather two faced seemed reasonable for comment, just not maybe on a thread about Trump

[Digby]

There is nothing in his work so far to suggest he's going to do the work, there's plenty in his work so far to suggest he'll derail his own plan by twittering off in random directions allowing the focus to shift too easily. This is the one area I'm holding out hope for in this administration, however slim that hope is

I'd overlooked he might make a demented twitter rant live in public in support of facists. At the speech yesterday where he lost the plot bigly he was supposed to be talking about infrastructure, and to get anywhere on what's a hell of a challenge he can't allow his agenda to be so easily diverted, he's got to learn to pivot, and he can't allow the urgent to so overwhelm the important. I'm not remotely sold the executive should have such power in a governmental system, but in the USA it does and this one is all over the shop, and in a disgusting manner right now

[morepork]

There is nothing in his work so far to suggest he's going to do the work, there's plenty in his work so far to suggest he'll derail his own plan by twittering off in random directions allowing the focus to shift too easily. This is the one area I'm holding out hope for in this administration, however slim that hope is

I'd overlooked he might make a demented twitter rant live in public in support of facists. At the speech yesterday where he lost the plot bigly he was supposed to be talking about infrastructure, and to get anywhere on what's a hell of a challenge he can't allow his agenda to be so easily diverted, he's got to learn to pivot, and he can't allow the urgent to so overwhelm the important. I'm not remotely sold the executive should have such power in a governmental system, but in the USA it does and this one is all over the shop, and in a disgusting manner right now

He doesn't understand the practicalities of anything he proposes. Is this not abundantly clear by know. He a thick spineless, clueless old man.

[Sandydragon]

There was a report in the times about th potential deployment of thousands of mercenaries to Afghanistan in lieu of US troops. What is concerning is that despite the objections of th military hierarchy, the former head of Blackwater is pushing this agenda on Fox and the other channels Trump is glued to, so expect a decision sometime soon.

[Digby]

There was a report in the times about th potential deployment of thousands of mercenaries to Afghanistan in lieu of US troops. What is concerning is that despite the objections of th military hierarchy, the former head of Blackwater is pushing this agenda on Fox and the other channels Trump is glued to, so expect a decision sometime soon.

You say soon but he's been dithering on this for a while. If he ends up with a solution that costs an awful lot more, delivers more atrocities, and doesn't help it'll be distressingly the sort of crap that's expected of the idiot

[morepork]

t would be so easy to convince Trump to outsource mercenaries. One dusty copy of Red Dawn or Rambo on VHS would swing a potentially lucrative contract. If military contractors have his ear, endless war and profiteering is a depressing possibility. Pretty soon, he will have no one in his inner circle but his dick kids and an alternative media presence in his ear. He can't lead, and the possibility of Mike "Victorian Dad" Pence is a real possibility (sorry weemin). Will these civil militia end up being his new Brown Shirts on the domestic front? It is hard to overstate how bad the terrible decision to shield racial motivation from criticism of the past few days. There is also a very concerning privatization of education being pushed that would see many vulnerable communities subject to a watered down version of academic martial law. I really hope the big private institutions like Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, etc provide some stiff informed resistance. Very interesting times, if that is the right word for it. Educated young people have a huge role to play in this theatre. Americas strength is it's diversity and it's weakness is the aggressive resistance to using diversity for the common good.I'm here, I'm diverse. wear bear feet cruising round the city. They see this is madness, but I talk them around.

[Digby]

he will have no one in his inner circle but his dick kids and an alternative media presence in his ear.

Maybe, only so many times he'll be invited to Ivanka's and Jared's if he's going to so defend people chanting the 'jews will not replace them' and he's very keen on spending time with Ivanka, albeit it seems not for fatherly reasons

[morepork]

He's organising a "campaign rally" in Arizona. Great idea dickhead, stir up another mob of angry white people into a frenzy straight after Virginia. Jesus titty fucking christ.

[belgarion]

He's organising a "campaign rally" in Arizona. Great idea dickhead, stir up another mob of angry white people into a frenzy straight after Virginia. Jesus titty fucking christ.

Campaigning for what? Presidency for life for small handed, orange skinned, mentally incompetent, reality TV stars?