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Re: Trump

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 4:50 pm
by WaspInWales

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:16 am
by Puja
WaspInWales wrote:He has proper lost it!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 56356.html
TBH, I see that as a win.

Puja

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:49 am
by Digby
Puja wrote:
WaspInWales wrote:He has proper lost it!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 56356.html
TBH, I see that as a win.

Puja
I saw Jesus in my Shredded Wheat this morning, though it wasn't obviously an affirmation of Trump.

Luckily despite my and my bowl of cereal's possible reservations of Trump he's turning me around by really getting behind science with his latest appointment to the EPA

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:33 am
by Puja
Digby wrote:
Puja wrote:
WaspInWales wrote:He has proper lost it!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 56356.html
TBH, I see that as a win.

Puja
I saw Jesus in my Shredded Wheat this morning, though it wasn't obviously an affirmation of Trump.

Luckily despite my and my bowl of cereal's possible reservations of Trump he's turning me around by really getting behind science with his latest appointment to the EPA
Oh gods. Do I want to hear this?

Puja

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:37 am
by Digby
Puja wrote:
Digby wrote:
Puja wrote:
TBH, I see that as a win.

Puja
I saw Jesus in my Shredded Wheat this morning, though it wasn't obviously an affirmation of Trump.

Luckily despite my and my bowl of cereal's possible reservations of Trump he's turning me around by really getting behind science with his latest appointment to the EPA
Oh gods. Do I want to hear this?

Puja
My seeing the devine in cereal and milk, or Trump's latest climate change denier taking serious office in the face of any sensible rationale?

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:08 am
by Puja
Digby wrote:
Puja wrote:
Digby wrote:
I saw Jesus in my Shredded Wheat this morning, though it wasn't obviously an affirmation of Trump.

Luckily despite my and my bowl of cereal's possible reservations of Trump he's turning me around by really getting behind science with his latest appointment to the EPA
Oh gods. Do I want to hear this?

Puja
My seeing the devine in cereal and milk, or Trump's latest climate change denier taking serious office in the face of any sensible rationale?
Yes.

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:25 am
by Digby
In partial defence of Trump his latest appointment,John Christy, is perhaps better known as a climate change skeptic than denier, and he is a scientist. Specifically he contends the impact of greenhouse gases on climate is vastly overstated in the models of just about anyone but him

I'm sure team Trump landed on one of the few scientists who in broad terms could be taken as endorsing pollution, or accepting certain economic activities as having more benefit than arresting our output of greenhouse gases, by accident. In no way will they have ignored the CVs of the greater grouping of possible advisors to the EPA to seek the oddball

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 1:51 pm
by morepork
Digby wrote:In partial defence of Trump his latest appointment,John Christy, is perhaps better known as a climate change skeptic than denier, and he is a scientist. Specifically he contends the impact of greenhouse gases on climate is vastly overstated in the models of just about anyone but him

I'm sure team Trump landed on one of the few scientists who in broad terms could be taken as endorsing pollution, or accepting certain economic activities as having more benefit than arresting our output of greenhouse gases, by accident. In no way will they have ignored the CVs of the greater grouping of possible advisors to the EPA to seek the oddball
It's painful to watch the jebus-addled gun show cracker crowd painfully initiate a slow wide turn as the USS Illiterate Businessman is forced to avoid the reef of scientific consensus.

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:08 pm
by Digby
morepork wrote:
Digby wrote:In partial defence of Trump his latest appointment,John Christy, is perhaps better known as a climate change skeptic than denier, and he is a scientist. Specifically he contends the impact of greenhouse gases on climate is vastly overstated in the models of just about anyone but him

I'm sure team Trump landed on one of the few scientists who in broad terms could be taken as endorsing pollution, or accepting certain economic activities as having more benefit than arresting our output of greenhouse gases, by accident. In no way will they have ignored the CVs of the greater grouping of possible advisors to the EPA to seek the oddball
It's painful to watch the jebus-addled gun show cracker crowd painfully initiate a slow wide turn as the USS Illiterate Businessman is forced to avoid the reef of scientific consensus.
It's even odder that the fields of battle.whether the likes of climate change or vaccinations, are in areas where science rather unusually does seem to have settled on a consensus. Absent of all else it'd have guessed people would pick fights where there was scope to pick a fight, but it seems howling at the moon is actually very persuasive, indeed the louder one howls the more trustworthy many view them

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:26 pm
by morepork
Does not bode well for Space Force.

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 3:51 pm
by Puja
Digby wrote:
morepork wrote:
Digby wrote:In partial defence of Trump his latest appointment,John Christy, is perhaps better known as a climate change skeptic than denier, and he is a scientist. Specifically he contends the impact of greenhouse gases on climate is vastly overstated in the models of just about anyone but him

I'm sure team Trump landed on one of the few scientists who in broad terms could be taken as endorsing pollution, or accepting certain economic activities as having more benefit than arresting our output of greenhouse gases, by accident. In no way will they have ignored the CVs of the greater grouping of possible advisors to the EPA to seek the oddball
It's painful to watch the jebus-addled gun show cracker crowd painfully initiate a slow wide turn as the USS Illiterate Businessman is forced to avoid the reef of scientific consensus.
It's even odder that the fields of battle.whether the likes of climate change or vaccinations, are in areas where science rather unusually does seem to have settled on a consensus. Absent of all else it'd have guessed people would pick fights where there was scope to pick a fight, but it seems howling at the moon is actually very persuasive, indeed the louder one howls the more trustworthy many view them
It's hard to make people back something if there are two reasonable sides arguing - it's much easier to get them passionate if you can convince them that people are trying to hide the truth and that they are special for seein past the lies. Apart from anything else, any contradictory facts can be brushed off as "part of the establishment lies". Or "Project Fear" if you will.

Puja

Re: Trump

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 4:02 pm
by morepork
watching this buffon attempting to get PR leverage out of Black History Month is just painful.

Re: Trump

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:14 am
by cashead
I hope someone asks him about the Central Park Five.

Re: Trump

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 8:50 am
by Puja
cashead wrote:I hope someone asks him about the Central Park Five.
I understand he enjoys black music.

Puja

Re: Trump

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:01 pm
by morepork
Why someone hasn't called him out on that I don't know.

Re: Trump

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 4:59 pm
by morepork
CBS’s Margaret Brennan asked Trump about this contradiction in the interview (telegraphing the Syria withdawal via social media after a history of criticizing the previous administration for making military plans known before the event), pointing out that “you’re telegraphing your retreat” from Syria. Here’s Trump’s full answer to Brennan’s challenge:

"I’m not telegraphing anything. No, no, no. There’s a difference. When President Obama pulled out of Iraq in theory we had Iraq. In other words, we had Iraq. We never had Syria because President Obama never wanted to violate the red line in the sand. So we never had Syria. I was the one that actually violated the red line when I hit Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles, if you remember. But President Obama chose not to do that. When he chose not to do that, he showed tremendous weakness. But we didn’t have Syria whereas we had Iraq. So when he did what he did in Iraq, which was a mistake. Being in Iraq was a mistake. Okay. Being in Iraq — it was a big mistake to go — one of the greatest mistakes going into the Middle East that our country has ever made. One of the greatest mistakes that we’ve ever made."

The President of the United States ladies and gentlemen. So much fuck in one statement. There seems to some confusion what the metaphor "a line in the sand" actually means. Tango One Bedpan Foxtrot appears not to know which side of it he is on.There also seems an issue with knowledge of exactly who was in charge when the Iraq debacle was initiated.

I feel that the recent focus on Venezuela could not be in better hands.

Re: Trump

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:54 pm
by Mikey Brown
morepork wrote:CBS’s Margaret Brennan asked Trump about this contradiction in the interview (telegraphing the Syria withdawal via social media after a history of criticizing the previous administration for making military plans known before the event), pointing out that “you’re telegraphing your retreat” from Syria. Here’s Trump’s full answer to Brennan’s challenge:

"I’m not telegraphing anything. No, no, no. There’s a difference. When President Obama pulled out of Iraq in theory we had Iraq. In other words, we had Iraq. We never had Syria because President Obama never wanted to violate the red line in the sand. So we never had Syria. I was the one that actually violated the red line when I hit Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles, if you remember. But President Obama chose not to do that. When he chose not to do that, he showed tremendous weakness. But we didn’t have Syria whereas we had Iraq. So when he did what he did in Iraq, which was a mistake. Being in Iraq was a mistake. Okay. Being in Iraq — it was a big mistake to go — one of the greatest mistakes going into the Middle East that our country has ever made. One of the greatest mistakes that we’ve ever made."

The President of the United States ladies and gentlemen. So much fuck in one statement. There seems to some confusion what the metaphor "a line in the sand" actually means. Tango One Bedpan Foxtrot appears not to know which side of it he is on.There also seems an issue with knowledge of exactly who was in charge when the Iraq debacle was initiated.

I feel that the recent focus on Venezuela could not be in better hands.
I remember hearing a thing about Bowie (I think) getting his lyrics by cutting up newspapers and jumbling all the words around. It often makes me think of that when I hear Trump speak.

Re: Trump

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:55 pm
by Sandydragon
And that’s why American foreign policy is such a mess!

Re: Trump

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:51 pm
by morepork
On firing Mattis:

"He resigned because I asked him to resign. He resigned because I was very nice to him. But I gave him big budgets, and he didn’t do well in Afghanistan. I was not happy with the job he was doing in Afghanistan. And, if you look at Syria, what’s happened — I went to Iraq recently. If you look at Syria, what’s happened in Syria in the last few weeks, you would see that things are going down that were not going down, that things are happening that are very good. So, I was not happy with him, but I wish him well."

Why the fuck would you let him out without a nanny?

Re: Trump

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:50 am
by Puja
In other news, a Trump-packed court has ruled that bans on gay conversion therapy, or brainwashing and abuse of minors as it should more properly be know, is unlawful because it violates the conversion "therapists" right to free speech.

Next up, a bunch of hitmen to bring a case to the courts clsiming that the murder laws are government unfairly impinging on their ability to do their jobs.

Puja

Re: Trump

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 2:04 pm
by morepork
That's Pence. He has been wanching himself into rapture trying to stack courts with religious weirdos. They want to waive human rights for a perceived slight to a civil right. That's some classy logic right there. Academics and physicians really need to step up here and fill the void that seems to exist between some judicial ears.

Re: Trump

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:07 am
by Digby
Having heard we'd have been at war without Donald I'm pleased to say he's convinced me, build the wall, ideally having been inspired by This is Spinal Tap

Re: Trump

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 4:51 pm
by Digby
So just to be clear when it comes to the economy ripping up trade deals isn't problematic, nor imposing tariffs which hurts producers and manufacturers and also undermines improvements to infrastructure, intentionally exploding the deficit is also of no consequence, but to investigate Trump for being a criminal, well that would ruin the economy.

We can only be grateful he finds the time to illuminate us mere mortals

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:13 am
by Digby
We can all get behind the idea of the abolition of civil rights being a great achievement that Trump can be proud of, not good but great

Or his thoughts simply come out as a word salad

Re: Trump

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:47 pm
by morepork
He can't even fucking read unassisted, the syphilitic Satsuma.