Smoove_B wrote:Also possible, good call. I mean, I know he's a moron, but his laser-focused insistence on The Wall(tm) is beyond reason. I refuse to believe it has anything to do with keeping campaign promises or improving his approval ratings with his base because he's eerily fixated on this project. Maybe he thinks it'll have Trump branding on it and it'll be around long after he's gone. Or maybe it's the last ditch effort of a racist septuagenarian to save America as he's looking at the clock. I'm at a loss.
I think it's more likely an ego thing, feeding into his real estate developer personality. "I have the tallest building. I have the best hotels. I have quality resorts. I have the best wall."
If there was proof of malfeasance however, that would just be the icing on this shit cake of a presidency and of course it can be both ego and corruption!
"Who's going to tell him that the job he's currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?"
-Michelle Obama 2024 Democratic Convention
Wise words of warning from Smoove B: Oh, how you all laughed when I warned you about the semen. Well, who's laughing now?
And I could also imagine agents of Putin feeding Trump's ego by showing him clips of Sicario, knowing the financial boondoggle would cause problems for us. In the same way that Osama Bin Laden knew he couldn't "out fight" the American military, perhaps part of Putin's strategy is to screw with our financials.
Smoove_B wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 6:09 pm
Also possible, good call. I mean, I know he's a moron, but his laser-focused insistence on The Wall(tm) is beyond reason. I refuse to believe it has anything to do with keeping campaign promises or improving his approval ratings with his base because he's eerily fixated on this project. Maybe he thinks it'll have Trump branding on it and it'll be around long after he's gone. Or maybe it's the last ditch effort of a racist septuagenarian to save America as he's looking at the clock. I'm at a loss.
He doesn't want the Wall built. He wants the possibility of the Wall talked/argued/screamed about.
He ran on racism. Arguing about the Wall allows him to continue to run on racism, generating talking points and TV coverage at no cost and no chance of failure.
Smoove_B wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 6:36 pm
And I could also imagine agents of Putin feeding Trump's ego by showing him clips of Sicario, knowing the financial boondoggle would cause problems for us. In the same way that Osama Bin Laden knew he couldn't "out fight" the American military, perhaps part of Putin's strategy is to screw with our financials.
It would be a huge boondoggle, but I seriously doubt it would have any impact on America's finances in the way you're implying. As others have pointed out, the military could sneeze out without noticing the $5B needed to get the ball rolling, and could keep on doing so for decades to come. And that's only if you want the military budget to pay for it. I'm sure congress could find the money somewhere.
Smoove_B wrote:Also possible, good call. I mean, I know he's a moron, but his laser-focused insistence on The Wall(tm) is beyond reason. I refuse to believe it has anything to do with keeping campaign promises or improving his approval ratings with his base because he's eerily fixated on this project. Maybe he thinks it'll have Trump branding on it and it'll be around long after he's gone. Or maybe it's the last ditch effort of a racist septuagenarian to save America as he's looking at the clock. I'm at a loss.
I think it's more likely an ego thing, feeding into his real estate developer personality. "I have the tallest building. I have the best hotels. I have quality resorts. I have the best wall."
If there was proof of malfeasance however, that would just be the icing on this shit cake of a presidency and of course it can be both ego and corruption!
I'd say it's 50% that he wants to win, 30% he's genuinely afraid of large numbers of brown people and thinks a wall would stop them; and 20% he's worried about running for reelection without having fulfilled his most famous campaign promise.
Smoove_B wrote:Also possible, good call. I mean, I know he's a moron, but his laser-focused insistence on The Wall(tm) is beyond reason. I refuse to believe it has anything to do with keeping campaign promises or improving his approval ratings with his base because he's eerily fixated on this project. Maybe he thinks it'll have Trump branding on it and it'll be around long after he's gone. Or maybe it's the last ditch effort of a racist septuagenarian to save America as he's looking at the clock. I'm at a loss.
I think it's more likely an ego thing, feeding into his real estate developer personality. "I have the tallest building. I have the best hotels. I have quality resorts. I have the best wall."
If there was proof of malfeasance however, that would just be the icing on this shit cake of a presidency and of course it can be both ego and corruption!
I'd say it's 50% that he wants to win, 30% he's genuinely afraid of large numbers of brown people and thinks a wall would stop them; and 20% he's worried about running for reelection without having fulfilled his most famous campaign promise.
If I can play the role of a pop psychologist, Trump has an overriding fear of just being wrong and acts like a little boy who tells one lie after another to cover for the first lie.
"Who's going to tell him that the job he's currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?"
-Michelle Obama 2024 Democratic Convention
Wise words of warning from Smoove B: Oh, how you all laughed when I warned you about the semen. Well, who's laughing now?
In spite of the fact that the entire testimony was immediately made public AND was televised, Trump is insisting that the intel chiefs were misquoted and taken out of context. He now believes they agree with him 100 percent.
Jesus H. Christ, I mean...really? It's like watching a nine year old with crumbs on his face and a half eaten cookie in one hand deny he ate a cookie.
I want the entire GOP burnt to the ground and its ashes ground up and mixed in with the cocaine that Trump Jr. snorts every night off the ass of a prostitute that Melania hired from her old agency.
hepcat wrote: Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:22 am
In spite of the fact that the entire testimony was immediately made public AND was televised, Trump is insisting that the intel chiefs were misquoted and taken out of context. He now believes they agree with him 100 percent.
Oh, those intel chiefs, for a second there I thought he was going after computer processors.
Paingod wrote: Fri Feb 01, 2019 8:57 am
Why is anyone surprised by the complete fiction Trump lives in on a daily basis? Why do people keep seeming shocked by him?
Trump's presidency is like a political Norovirus, and we're all stuck on the same cruise ship with malfunctioning bathrooms.
To continue your analogy the posts and articles are not coughs of surprise, they are projectile vomits of disgust.
The Pentagon is sending 3,750 U.S. forces to the southwest border with Mexico for three months to provide additional support to customs and border agents, the Department of Defense said on Sunday.
The deployment will raise the total number of active duty forces supporting Customs and Border Protection agents there to approximately 4,350, it said. The additional units will be deployed for 90 days.
I wonder if they're bringing any heavy construction equipment.
"What? What?What?" -- The 14th Doctor
It's not enough to be a good player... you also have to play well. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
The cynic in me says that executive time is cover for Trump wanting to do the actual job as little as possible, and mostly watching cable news and rage tweeting. The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if they're using the executive time label to paper over meetings and discussions about and with people that they don't want entered into the record. The realist in me says it's probably both.
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Chaz wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:57 am
The cynic in me says that executive time is cover for Trump wanting to do the actual job as little as possible, and mostly watching cable news and rage tweeting. The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if they're using the executive time label to paper over meetings and discussions about and with people that they don't want entered into the record. The realist in me says it's probably both.
Remember that we're dealing with a president that sees his job as one that involves getting the highest ratings on TV and Twitter, and runs the White House like it's a season of Survivor. Executive time has got to be his free time. The man puts every other president to shame in terms of shirking job duties and taking vacations.
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Chaz wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:57 am
The cynic in me says that executive time is cover for Trump wanting to do the actual job as little as possible, and mostly watching cable news and rage tweeting. The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if they're using the executive time label to paper over meetings and discussions about and with people that they don't want entered into the record. The realist in me says it's probably both.
It's both.
Insiders who've quit have been pretty consistent in saying that Trump watches TV and tweets and talks on the phone with celebrity friends all morning. At the very least, executive time also hides the president's meetings with his criminal defense lawyers.
President's assistant: Mr. President, I have the head of NATO on line one. He wants to discuss plans for the INF withdrawal and how best to approach it on the international stage.
Trump: Meh.
President's assistant: I also have one of the contestants from Bachelor season 8 on the line. She wants to ask you what time it is here.
Trump: PUT HER THROUGH TO THE RED PHONE AND HOLD ALL MY CALLS!
By any standard, Trump’s administration lags behind its predecessors when it comes to filling top posts throughout the government — even though the president’s party has controlled the Senate for his entire time in office. The Partnership for Public Service, which has tracked nominations as far back as 30 years, estimates that only 54 percent of Trump’s civilian executive-branch nominations have been confirmed, compared with 77 percent under President Barack Obama at the same point in his administration.
“The Trump administration is slower to fill jobs and has higher turnover than any administration we have records for,” said the group’s president and chief executive, Max Stier.
Republicans have largely blamed Senate Democrats for slowing down the consideration of executive-branch nominees.
But according to an analysis by the Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post, the White House has not bothered to nominate people for 150 out of 705 Senate-confirmed positions.
Three departments are facing a particularly high number of vacancies: Only 41 percent of the Interior and Justice departments’ Senate-confirmed posts are filled, and just 43 percent of such positions have been filled at the Labor Department.
The third-highest-ranking position at the Justice Department — which, like the Interior Department, has been operating without a permanent secretary for weeks — has been vacant for nearly a year, with no nominee in sight.
All things being equal, I'm surprised that State didn't make the top three for vacancies.
"What? What?What?" -- The 14th Doctor
It's not enough to be a good player... you also have to play well. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "“I like taking the guns early...to go to court would have taken a long time. So you could do exactly what you’re saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second.” -President Donald Trump. "...To guard, protect, and maintain his liberty, the freedman should have the ballot; that the liberties of the American people were dependent upon the Ballot-box, the Jury-box, and the Cartridge-box, that without these no class of people could live and flourish in this country." - Frederick Douglass MYT
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken
Trump Jr. Instagrammed a screen of his daddy's tweet quoted by someone named Michael Malice (USSR-born troll and FOX phenom).
Malice said, "The Native American genocide continues with another murder by the president"
And Trump Jr. responded with his "Savage!!!" comment.
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "“I like taking the guns early...to go to court would have taken a long time. So you could do exactly what you’re saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second.” -President Donald Trump. "...To guard, protect, and maintain his liberty, the freedman should have the ballot; that the liberties of the American people were dependent upon the Ballot-box, the Jury-box, and the Cartridge-box, that without these no class of people could live and flourish in this country." - Frederick Douglass MYT
Wow. Just wow. That totally flew by me like missed exit on the expressway. I didn't understand Lawbeef's response at all. I threw away the CAPITALIZATION as Trump's nonsensical and inconsistent posting style, meaning I didn't even notice it.
A year ago it was said to be 239 pounds, which was laughably unlikely. Since then, his chin has gone from bulldog to walrus, and he is visibly larger in the gut, but maybe that's all just MAGA.
