The Former Trump Presidency Thread

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:50 pm

Andy Borowitz says there will be no parade. The military can't make it due to bone spurs.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:49 pm

Fitzy · Post by **Fitzy** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:03 pm

That is a disgusting insult to Darth Vader.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:47 pm

I read somewhere a mention that the Pentagon sees a grand parade as a possibility in November.

If it's late November that's one thing, but if it's the weekend before the election then Mattis deserves a huge "Fuck You" for caving to Trump's campaign rally authoritarianism.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:43 pm

They’re targeting Veterans Day, which would be almost a full week after Election Day.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:43 pm

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/russian ... icial.html

"We saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated," Manfra told NBC.

ANY number of state voting systems penetrated by the Russians is not exceptionally small, but rather alarmingly large.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:03 pm

They likely didn’t do any alteration of actual votes, but I imagine there was A LOT of ad targeting on social media platforms based on the demographic data gathered.

But hey, no big deal. Total nothingburger, right?

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:46 pm

A small number of states Trump won by less than 1%: Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan? The states Trump surprised everyone by winning?

The GOP will deny this has any meaning while insisting millions of illegals voted, despite many studies to the contrary.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:20 pm

Zarathud wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:46 pm The GOP will deny this has any meaning while insisting millions of illegals voted, despite many studies to the contrary not having literally a single piece of evidence that it actually happened.

FTFY

Combustible Lemur · Post by **Combustible Lemur** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:16 am

Zarathud wrote:A small number of states Trump won by less than 1%: Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan? The states Trump surprised everyone by winning?

The GOP will deny this has any meaning while insisting millions of illegals voted, despite many studies to the contrary.

While there will always be that chunk of the population who won't be reached. One thing out of this year is that Republicans have straight up lost the moral majority tag and service member strangle hold they've cleaved to for my lifetime. Between Trump, direct contradiction of compassionate conservatism, body cams, shifting demographics, etc. WASP fundamentalism just isn't the monolith it once was.

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Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:48 am

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/sta ... 2387167238

Will be heading over shortly to make remarks at The National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. Great religious and political leaders, and many friends, including T.V. producer Mark Burnett of our wonderful 14 season Apprentice triumph, will be there. Looking forward to seeing all!

A new high for Trumpian self-unawareness.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:53 am

Also featuring 3 times more Russians.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:16 am

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:28 am

That reminds me of Rise of the Lich King.....

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:54 am

I consider it a personal point of pride that I have never watched even one episode of the apprentice.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:01 am

hepcat wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:54 am I consider it a personal point of pride that I have never watched even one episode of the apprentice.

Oh ye of little faith.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:52 am

I watched very episode of every season. I loved it in a "train wreck" sort of way. It was high camp. Trump was a buffoon. Never in a billion years would I have imagined that cartoon character would be President. Never underestimate human stupidity and Russian hackers, I guess.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:58 am

hepcat wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:54 am I consider it a personal point of pride that I have never watched even one episode of the apprentice.

Can we call that treason? Why not!

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:02 am

hepcat wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:54 am I consider it a personal point of pride that I have never watched even one episode of the apprentice.

You'll have plenty of opportunities when you're sent to your neighborhood reeducation center...

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:26 am

I've had a theory for a while, backed by small amounts of anecdotal data gathered from Trumpers I've met, that the people who are most in the bag for Drumpf are the ones who watched the Apprentice and actually bought into the idea that Drumpf was some sort of business genius rather than an actor playing a role.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:37 am

Otherwise known as fools. Sounds about right.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 12:53 pm

The same people mistake an entertainment channel for fair & balanced news.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:34 pm

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mi ... ef3c0a8594

Trump has been great for the Democrats.

Democrats flipped a Missouri state House seat Tuesday, marking the 35th seat that has changed from red to blue since Donald Trump became president.

Mike Revis, 27, defeated his Republican opponent in a special election Tuesday by 3 percentage points.

The 97th District in Jefferson County went for Trump in the presidential election by 28 points. The area is historically Democratic but has recently tilted Republican.

In other words, the district has swung 31 percentage points toward Democrats since Trump won last year.

msteelers · Post by **msteelers** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:41 pm

YellowKing wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:52 am I watched very episode of every season. I loved it in a "train wreck" sort of way. It was high camp. Trump was a buffoon. Never in a billion years would I have imagined that cartoon character would be President. Never underestimate human stupidity and Russian hackers, I guess.

I never watched the show because I thought it was well established that Trump was a terrible businessman. It wasn't until the election that I realized a large number of people believed he was not only a successful businessman, but one of the best on the planet.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:41 pm

Oh and the DOW drops another 550 points today. Maybe the way to fix 'Merica is to sacrifice Trump to a volcano.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/08/investi ... index.html

msteelers · Post by **msteelers** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:44 pm

Daehawk wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:34 pmTrump has been great for the Democrats.

This has always been the silver lining for Democrats. Trump could destroy the Republican party and usher in a new era of progressive and liberal politicians. The trick is going to be making sure he doesn't destroy the country in the process, not to mention all of the individual lives he's certainly ruining in the process.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:55 pm

I am very ashamed of the way him and this administration has handled Puerto Rico. There are still over 440,000 people without power all these months. One little town has gathered their own people...teachers, repairmen, garbage workers...and started raising power poles and trying to string the old wires back up to get power. Elderly are sweltering in the heat and have no cold storage..you name it. NO POWER still. These are basically Americans and for some unknown reason to me nothing is being done. Theres not even any coverage of this happening. I find it deeply shameful.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puerto-ric ... wer-coamo/

It took only minutes for Hurricane Maria to kill power to the Puerto Rican town of Coamo, cracking wooden poles, snapping power lines and hurling transformers to the ground. For months, residents begged Puerto Rico's power company and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to bring back their electricity -- with few results.

So the people of the town of 40,000 -- high in the mountains of southern Puerto Rico -- have started restoring power on their own, pulling power lines from undergrowth and digging holes for wooden posts in a do-it-yourself effort to solve a small part of the United States' longest-running power outage.

"If we don't do this, we'll be without power until summer," said Vice Mayor Edgardo Vazquez, who is using hand-drawn maps to organize a brigade that includes teachers, handymen, a postal worker and an accountant, backed by municipal workers with professional equipment, tools and experience in light electrical work.

Heres a little vid of what their Gov thought Trump would do for them back when it happened. look at Trump the asshole sit there totally disinterested. How anyone thinks he cares about anyone but himself I dont know. He is a moron...worse he is an egotistical moron. A narcissist.

http://www.newsweek.com/puerto-rico-rec ... ria-760965

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 2:03 pm

We're a racist nation - end of story. If any state in the US had no power for any period even close to this long -- and had white people -- we'd have people up in arms about the incompetence of the government. Instead the media doesn't even bother to cover it. They don't even know how many people have died because of this. It is morally reprehensible so I agree - it is deeply shameful.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 2:51 pm

"Federal disaster aid for Puerto Rico isn’t foreign aid — but Trump acts that way"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mon ... -that-way/

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:10 pm

Makes me sick at my stomach and all I can do is shake my head at the arrogance and the stupidity. The uncaring the inhuman and the maddening unsympathetic view Americans and our Government have for Puerto Rico and her people.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:23 pm

msteelers wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:44 pm This has always been the silver lining for Democrats. Trump could destroy the Republican party and usher in a new era of progressive and liberal politicians.

I look forward to the "Clinton threw the election so the Dems could get their plant Drumpf in the WH to destroy the GOP from within, this is all Hillary's fault" posts.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:24 pm

If Trump ruins the GoP and helps the Dems and its a positive outlook from the American people then he'll claim it was him all along and take all credit.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:35 pm

I think race is certainly a factor in coverage - no way they'd get away with people still not having power in Texas, for example. However, the other part of it is that there's not enough room to cover all the stuff Trump has fucked up. In a "normal" Presidency, there would slow days to bring up ongoing criticism, much as Bush was criticized for Katrina. The media can barely finish pointing out one scandal in this administration before having to move on to the next one.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:40 pm

malchior wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 2:03 pm We're a racist nation - end of story.

Was reading a piece this morning comparing BLM to Philly "Celebrations". It's embarrassing, really.

Can't find the piece but this will suffice.

http://www.newsweek.com/philadelphia-ch ... say-799421

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:52 pm

YellowKing wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:35 pm I think race is certainly a factor in coverage - no way they'd get away with people still not having power in Texas, for example. However, the other part of it is that there's not enough room to cover all the stuff Trump has fucked up. In a "normal" Presidency, there would slow days to bring up ongoing criticism, much as Bush was criticized for Katrina. The media can barely finish pointing out one scandal in this administration before having to move on to the next one.

Sure they have wall to wall coverage of the scandal du jour. Despite that they still could find ways to communicate this stuff. A 'Days Without Power in PR' ticker in the bottom right of the screen. Anything at all. Instead they look right past it.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:27 pm

Curious what the impregnable liberal bastion that is OO thinks. I'm seeing a lot veterans turning their back on their Trump support over this parade nonsense. (I would have never guess that was going to be the straw) Do you welcome them in to the fold as woke or do you continue your attacks for not being woke before?

It's also interesting to watch "patriots" turn their backs on veterans to rally their continued support of a draft dodging president's flouting his military to stroke his... vanity.

I was already seeing this phenomena when I caught this on social media.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/bin-lad ... -idea.html

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:33 pm

Are they really switching sides or are they just waiting for the next ideologue to blow their dog whistle and not serve them a shit sandwich when they come a-running? Like a pet that shits on the carpet, their nose has to be rubbed in it until the behavior modification is complete.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:36 pm

LordMortis wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:27 pm Curious what the impregnable liberal bastion that is OO thinks. I'm seeing a lot veterans turning their back on their Trump support over this parade nonsense. (I would have never guess that was going to be the straw) Do you welcome them in to the fold as woke or do you continue your attacks for not being woke before?

It's also interesting to watch "patriots" turn their backs on veterans to rally their continued support of a draft dodging president's flouting his military to stroke his... vanity.

I was already seeing this phenomena when I caught this on social media.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/bin-lad ... -idea.html

Hell, even Rip criticized Trump over the military parade nonsense.

That said, criticizing Trump over this parade doesn't really tell us much about whether they will support him in large numbers when it matters.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:43 pm

Jeff V wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:33 pm Are they really switching sides or are they just waiting for the next ideologue to blow their dog whistle and not serve them a shit sandwich when they come a-running? Like a pet that shits on the carpet, their nose has to be rubbed in it until the behavior modification is complete.

I can't speak to sides. Lord knows I'm not on Hillary's side or Pelosi's side and I despise Trump. But I'm seeing veterans turning their backs on Trump and in doing so their being attacked (ironically by those who see themselves as patriots yada yada yada yada), alienating them from "their own side" I guess.