The Former Trump Presidency Thread

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:26 pm

Sounds about right - he has to have some assurances he won't be linked to things he knows are wrong for the country but also being part of the process and guiding someone who is frankly inept has got to be compelling.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:53 pm

Rip wrote:
Smoove_B wrote:
Rip wrote:I'm wondering if he expects them to not confirm Sessions making it a cakewalk to get Cruz through......
I thought Cruz was being prepared for Supreme Court nomination?
I've heard he was going to pick one from that list he floated awhile back.

The names on Trump's list are:

1. Keith Blackwell
2. Charles Canady
3. Steven Colloton
4. Allison Eid
5. Neil Gorsuch
6. Raymond Gruender
7. Thomas Hardiman
8. Raymond Kethledge
9. Joan Larsen
10. Mike Lee
11. Thomas Lee
12. Edward Mansfield
13. Federico Moreno
14. William Pryor
15. Margaret A. Ryan
16. Amul Thapar
17. Timothy Tymkovich
18. David Stras
19. Diane Sykes
20. Don Willett
21. Robert Young
I'm thinking Mike Lee.

And I just vomited.

Besides, didn't Lee shoot that possibility down already?

NickAragua · Post by **NickAragua** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:20 pm

Paingod wrote:*Edit: As an aside, I actually feel much better since discovering AdBlock Plus let's me set specific images to "Blocked" - RIP's avatar was making me want to punch my screen every time I saw it. Not seeing it makes me so much happier.

Thanks for the tip, that'll drop my blood pressure a little bit.

Scraper · Post by **Scraper** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:47 pm

Smoove_B wrote:
Scraper wrote:Did you watch South Park this week? Spot on. It was brilliant and they even managed to combine the White House music with the Imperial March every time Drumpf/President Garrison was on.
Wow, no I did not. I guess I'm not as clever as I thought I was.

Check out the video clip in this article. They nailed it. http://decider.com/2016/11/17/south-par ... residency/

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:49 pm

RunningMn9 wrote:My conservative #NeverTrump sources, which were highly critical of Priebus (unqualified), Bannon (racist douche) and Flynn (crank), seem *very* happy with the Pompeo pick. West Point Grad, Army Officer, Harvard Law (including editor of the Harvard Law Review). Allegedly very intelligent.

They have labeled him a "conventional Republican" pick.

I'm sure this will make it easier for Edward Snowden to sleep at night...
Dramatic Headline!

Rep. Pompeo wrote: He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think that the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence for having put friends of mine, friends of yours, in the military today, at enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers.

NOTE: His quote is slightly less dramatic than the headline of course. Presumably "given due process" includes the possibility that he's not found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 2:02 pm

Due process in a secret court naturally. I'm sure that must comfort Snowden.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 2:20 pm

The more I think about it I wonder just how much a person might be wise to avoid the Sec of State job and exactly why Romney might be the guy for the job

Wouldn't being Sec of State for Trump be like being the guy Capone sends around to "give someone a message". Kind of a messenger boy.

Trump: OK, Mitt so here is what I want you to do. You tell Khamenei that we aren't afraid of his ass and he either accepts this agreement or they face the consequences. Then you spit in his face and storm out.

Not the kind of job you give to someone you actually like.

The only way I am taking that job is if I have a terminal disease.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 2:39 pm

Also, I cannot wait for the showdown between the Republican Congress and Trump when it comes to raising the nation's debt ceiling. I know how much the Republican Congress refuses to raise that and constantly threatens to shut the govt down over that.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 2:50 pm

That was before they had a budget and a plan. I predict for the first time we will actually get a for real budget and see it approved the way it is actually supposed to happen. The the debt ceiling becomes just what it is supposed to be, a simple formality to pay for what has already been discussed and approved of.

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 2:58 pm

Rip wrote:That was when a democrat was president

Fixed that for you.

I predict their aversion to deficit spending is also about to disappear like it always does when a Republican is in the White House.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:26 pm

I thought this New Yorker Obama interview was worthwhile.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:05 pm

Douche

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... n-kentucky

Combustible Lemur · Post by **Combustible Lemur** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:20 pm

LordMortis wrote:Douche

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... n-kentucky

Trump convinces Ford to keep pothead liberal McConaughey's Lincoln, blocks SUV jobs, and moves Focus production to Mexico. Sad.

This truthiness stuff is fun.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:34 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:I suppose not surprisingly, it doesn't look like Trump is making much of an effort to have diversity in his cabinet:

I dunno, seven of those photos are colored.

geezer · Post by **geezer** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:38 pm

Kraken wrote:
Ralph-Wiggum wrote:I suppose not surprisingly, it doesn't look like Trump is making much of an effort to have diversity in his cabinet:

I dunno, seven of those photos are colored.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 5:54 pm

Well done.

In other news, Trump has settled the Trump University lawsuit for 25 million dollars. I'm guessing part of the terms of the settlement is that he doesn't have to admit fault...

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:05 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Well done.

In other news, Trump has settled the Trump University lawsuit for 25 million dollars. I'm guessing part of the terms of the settlement is that he doesn't have to admit fault...

Easysauce.

Justice is blind.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:12 pm

He makes the best deals, so we know there was something there worth more than $25,000,000 to keep out of ongoing news cycles.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:14 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Well done.

In other news, Trump has settled the Trump University lawsuit for 25 million dollars. I'm guessing part of the terms of the settlement is that he doesn't have to admit fault...

To be fair, almost any settlement like this would include language refusing to admit fault.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:42 pm

He didn't settle and he'll never settle. He said so during the campaign.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:44 pm

tjg_marantz wrote:He didn't settle and he'll never settle. He said so during the campaign.

This just shows he can change and grow as a person. No one changes and grows like he does. He's the best at changing and growing.

Maybe someday, his hands will even grow to normal sized hands.

raydude · Post by **raydude** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 7:37 pm

The best hands! P**sy grabbing hands!

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 8:26 pm

The neutral budgetary groups (CBO) knew they are going to be asked to "dynamically" score the next round of Republican tax cuts. That means adding in assumptions that lower tax rates lead to more growth, thus more revenue, etc.

It was expected this budgetary "new math" would apply only to tax law changes. In the last week the reports are that the economists should start modeling how infrastructure and regulatory changes can also be "dynamically" scored to effect the economy and show economic growth.

Complete Republican control of Congress means they can assume the economic benefits of their plans in the math, so magically the economic models will show greatness and no deficits!

The snake oil is brewing. Thanks, Congress.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 9:50 pm

raydude wrote:P**sy grabbing hands!

That really needs to be a techno song.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 10:22 pm

hepcat wrote:
raydude wrote:P**sy grabbing hands!
That really needs to be a techno song.

Sounds like something The Prodigy could come up with...or Morrissey.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 10:54 pm

$iljanus wrote:
hepcat wrote:
raydude wrote:P**sy grabbing hands!
That really needs to be a techno song.
Sounds like something The Prodigy could come up with...or Morrissey.

NSFW obviously

Apollo · Post by **Apollo** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 12:21 am

RunningMn9 wrote:...
Sessions has been Alabama's Attorney General and has been a US Attorney. So whatever you think about how he did those jobs, he's not a fish out of water as the US AG. I have questions about his judgment (i.e. thinking that Trump would be a good President), but this seems like a fairly straightforward appointment. I don't like it because I don't like the man making the appointment, and I don't like the sorts of things that I suspect Sessions will focus on as AG (or rather what he'll choose to have the DoJ ignore). But I understand it...

As a Liberal from Alabama, I just wanted to chime in that RunningMn9 has the right take on this guy. Other than being a very conservative Alabama lawyer, there's nothing essentially wrong with this guy.

On the other hand, I'm really shocked that you guys are so excited about Romney for Secretary of State. The GOP has traditionally despised the State Department since at least the earliest days of the Cold War, and whoever Trump picks will be a figurehead who'll be hung out to dry ( think Colin Powell, not Henry Kissinger). Which, of course, makes Romney an excellent choice for the job...

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 7:41 am

malchior wrote: but also being part of the process and guiding someone who is frankly inept has got to be compelling.

So someone completely inept just handed the GOP, the media, the DNC, Hollywood, and Soros their collective @sses. If that guy is completely inept, give me some of that. LMFAO

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 8:47 am

No, someone completely inept when it comes to running a country beat all those folks by using his completely competent con man skills to sell a lot of gullible people what is essentially a course at Trump University. Sadly, they're about to find out what that really means.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 9:29 am

Yeah, being a competent con man doesn't imply competence at governing a nation of 320M people dealing with extraordinarily complex problems.

Smutly · Post by **Smutly** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 10:21 am

RunningMn9 wrote:Yeah, being a competent con man doesn't imply competence at governing a nation of 320M people dealing with extraordinarily complex problems.

You're looking at this all wrong. Now he's OUR con man.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 11:08 am

No, he's not. I'll give Trump no more respect than they gave Obama.

Where are Trump's tax returns?

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 11:23 am

Forget the racism, the misogyny, and the lies that come every other sentence.

The one thing that scares me the most out of the Trump presidency is that the guy has never held a single public office. He has absolutely zero experience. And I don't ever, ever, ever, want to hear another Republican bitch about lack of experience - because that's all I heard when Obama was elected.

And yes, I do believe Obama's lack of experience was a detriment in his first term. This is going to be a thousand times worse.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 11:28 am

I phrase is a slightly different way. For 70 years, Trump has never even spent a single moment in service of anything but himself. How anyone thinks that is going to change is beyond me. How anyone would even agree to let him experiment on us is beyond me.

But here we are.

It's a good thing the Trump International Hotel in DC is in a blind trust and diplomats aren't at all feeling pressure to stay there to curry favor with the soon-to-be Con Man in Chief.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 11:36 am

Thanks for setting the bar low.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 11:47 am

If he makes it through the first year without touching off a land war after tweeting out a disparaging remark about a foreign leader's wife and a basset hound because said leader forgot to call him Mr. President once, I'll consider his reign for that period a surprisingly good one.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:38 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: In other news, Trump has settled the Trump University lawsuit for 25 million dollars.

Documents in the lawsuit

From the first page:

We're going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific. Terrific people. Terrific brains. Successful. The best. We are going to have the best of the best. And, honestly, if you don't learn from them, if you don't learn from me, if you don't learn from the people that we're going to be putting forward, and these are all people that are handpicked by me, then, you're just not gonna make it in terms of the world of success. And that's okay, but you're not gonna make it in terms of success.

I bet Trump is feeling like an idiot - imagine, a whole audience of sixty million people that it's been shown these speeches work on, and he only conned money out of a few thousand?

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 9:13 pm

Defiant wrote: I bet Trump is feeling like an idiot - imagine, a whole audience of sixty million people that it's been shown these speeches work on, and he only conned money out of a few thousand?

Back then he was working the wrong market.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sun Nov 20, 2016 8:48 am

A senate rule change championed by outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid could leave Democrats powerless to stop any of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments.

In 2013, Sen. Reid and other Democrats pushed forward with a rule change dubbed the “nuclear option” to eliminate filibusters for all presidential nominations except Supreme Court justices. This means that a simple majority of 51 votes instead of 60 votes is necessary to confirm executive office appointments.

The Republicans are set to enter 2017 with at least 51 senators and can gain another seat with a likely win in the December senate run-off race in Louisiana.

So while Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile has called for the senate to reject Trump’s nomination of Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general, Trump’s cabinet will get confirmed as long Republicans vote along party lines.

Many Democrats have publicly displayed a lack of regret for the rule change.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/19/rule- ... confirmed/

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Sun Nov 20, 2016 1:22 pm

This is what our President-Elect is doing at 6 am. Attacking the cast of a broadway play because they dared to speak out against oh and

His business conflicts are already causing issues.