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Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:00 pm
by Enough
Smoove_B wrote:...and now President Trump is taking shots at Mitch McConnell via Twitter. I guess morning golf was meh and he's now up from his afternoon nap. This is glorious!
I think Trump and Hannity were making pillow forts,

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/ ... 8906173442

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 9:54 pm
by El Guapo
Well, I do agree that McConnell should retire. So there's that.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:01 am
by tgb
Congratulations, you fucking orange man-child. You actually have me sympathizing with McConnell.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:25 am
by pr0ner
Trump's at it again this morning, attacking McConnell about health care, while retweeting both Fox & Friends and some unscientific Twitter poll saying Trump is a better president than Obama.

Oy.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:26 am
by malchior

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:34 am
by YellowKing
It's almost jaw-dropping how self-destructive Trump is. It boggles my mind that he ever managed to get dressed in the morning, much less become President.

At any rate, I'm all for him continuing his war with the GOP. It's the last impeachment puzzle piece that needs to fall into place after he burned his bridges with both the intelligence community and the media.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:45 am
by hepcat
The next communication director is going to be John Miller...

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:55 am
by $iljanus
pr0ner wrote:Trump's at it again this morning, attacking McConnell about health care, while retweeting both Fox & Friends and some unscientific Twitter poll saying Trump is a better president than Obama.

Oy.
We make fun of kids these days for their participation medals and parents over praising them but damn Trump is really needy.

Yes, yes you are better than Obama. Yes, there were millions at your inauguration. Yes, you beat Hillary in the electoral college. No you can't nuke that country but you can invite Mitch McConnell over for dinner and take his ice cream.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:29 am
by Archinerd
tgb wrote:Congratulations, you fucking orange man-child. You actually have me sympathizing with McConnell.
McConnell should know better. Everybody knows you risk getting burned if you try to use a Dumpster Fire to cook up your own schemes s'mores.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:33 am
by Isgrimnur
hepcat wrote:The next communication director is going to be John Miller...
At this point, I'd settle for Barney Miller.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:35 am
by YellowKing
Or Steve Miller (Band). The press briefings could be sing-alongs.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:53 am
by Dogstar
While I'm sure much can be influenced by the wording of the questions and while I know this is only one poll, this is still slightly unsettling:
According to a poll published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.
Other non-awesome numbers at the link.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:20 am
by gilraen
$iljanus wrote: We make fun of kids these days for their participation medals and parents over praising them but damn Trump is really needy.

Yes, yes you are better than Obama. Yes, there were millions at your inauguration. Yes, you beat Hillary in the electoral college. No you can't nuke that country but you can invite Mitch McConnell over for dinner and take his ice cream.
Trump gets a folder full of positive news about himself twice a day (no, it's not the Onion)

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:28 am
by El Guapo
Dogstar wrote:While I'm sure much can be influenced by the wording of the questions and while I know this is only one poll, this is still slightly unsettling:
According to a poll published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.
Other non-awesome numbers at the link.
From what I can tell the poll was designed to get a result like this - there are claims of millions of people having voted illegally, if so should the election be postponed to verify eligibility, etc.

I agree that it's slightly unsettling, but you can design a poll to get almost any result you want, so I don't think this is all that meaningful at the end of the day.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:41 am
by malchior
Dogstar wrote:While I'm sure much can be influenced by the wording of the questions and while I know this is only one poll, this is still slightly unsettling:
According to a poll published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.
Other non-awesome numbers at the link.
At least we have some evidence* that the GOP base is only about 50% nativist racists.

*Sorta - it was a mostly bullshit push poll

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:08 am
by $iljanus
Dogstar wrote:While I'm sure much can be influenced by the wording of the questions and while I know this is only one poll, this is still slightly unsettling:
According to a poll published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.
Other non-awesome numbers at the link.
Why do Republicans hate democracy?

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:23 am
by LordMortis
$iljanus wrote:Why do Republicans hate democracy?
Because libertarians have been repeating a mantra that democracy is the tyranny of the majority for over thirty years and libertarians and republicans have co-opted each other.

They will then use their hatred of democracy to pretend they have some sort of semantic pedantic superiority by claiming the US is not a democracy and was never meant to be one, like socialism and communism are meant to be, putting up deflector shields against any possibility of understanding a republic is a form of democracy.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:50 pm
by malchior
McConnell to Trump: LOL WUT?

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:57 pm
by Octavious
Holy shit he's fucking crazy. The worst part is that this is going to get them to try again as soon as they get back. Eventually *something* is going to get through. We just have to hope it's less worse than what they have already tried. Who am I kidding? It will be much worse. :P

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:58 pm
by Octavious
Also does he realize that Obama was actually involved in creating ACA? He wasn't standing around shouting from the sidelines like a geriatric cheerleader. :P

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 1:10 pm
by LordMortis
Octavious wrote:Also does he realize that Obama was actually involved in creating ACA? He wasn't standing around shouting from the sidelines like a geriatric cheerleader. :P
But Trump is involved.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/d ... are-220159

His plan in his own campaign is right here:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/ ... are-reform

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 1:14 pm
by Rip
I mean he did all the work for them.

He told them what he wants it to do AND he told them how much it should cost.

Do they expect him to do all the work. Just make it like he told you.

:mrgreen:

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:30 pm
by malchior
This administration truly works in lockstep!

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:42 pm
by LordMortis
Silly question. What does that mean, exactly? I'm not even blaming Trump on this. What does it mean to "the presidential opioid commission" for the President to officially declare a national opioid emergency that they pushed him for?

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:51 pm
by gilraen
LordMortis wrote:Silly question. What does that mean, exactly? I'm not even blaming Trump on this. What does it mean to "the presidential opioid commission" for the President to officially declare a national opioid emergency that they pushed him for?
If you declare a national emergency, you have to disburse funds from special accounts that are kept "for emergencies only".

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:11 pm
by Max Peck
Are we sure that Trump isn't under the impression that a "national emergency" allows him to deploy troops on the ground?

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:47 pm
by YellowKing
Keep in mind this is the same Trump that was (and still is) hell-bent on pushing through a healthcare bill that would have devastated state funds to battle the opioid crisis.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:14 pm
by malchior
It is more of an example of how incoherent his administration is. Tom Price is his face of this and said...not a national emergency...yet. Probably because they aren't ready for that declaration yet. Then the boss wanders out days later and just blurts out randomly that it is a national emergency. It is an indicator about how irresponsible the man is. Big problems need careful solutions.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:19 pm
by Fitzy
I would bet he doesn't know there's something special to a national emergency under the government. We'll see what HHS does I guess.

I read further Trump quotes and I was wrong.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:26 pm
by Dogstar
Trump responds to Putin cutting diplomats:"Thank you, sir. May I have another?"
“I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down our payroll, and as far as I'm concerned I'm very thankful that he let go a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll,” Trump said. “There's no real reason for them to go back. I greatly appreciate the fact that we've been able to cut our payroll of the United States. We're going to save a lot of money.”

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:42 pm
by Holman
gilraen wrote:
LordMortis wrote:Silly question. What does that mean, exactly? I'm not even blaming Trump on this. What does it mean to "the presidential opioid commission" for the President to officially declare a national opioid emergency that they pushed him for?
If you declare a national emergency, you have to disburse funds from special accounts that are kept "for emergencies only".
It also says "We're here to help you, white people!"

Compare the inner-city crack epidemic, which was treated entirely as a crime.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:46 pm
by hentzau
Dogstar wrote:Trump responds to Putin cutting diplomats:"Thank you, sir. May I have another?"
“I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down our payroll, and as far as I'm concerned I'm very thankful that he let go a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll,” Trump said. “There's no real reason for them to go back. I greatly appreciate the fact that we've been able to cut our payroll of the United States. We're going to save a lot of money.”
:shock:

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:09 pm
by Enough
He's like a little kid saying whatever, I didn't want it anyways.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:48 pm
by Scoop20906
Dogstar wrote:Drumpf responds to Putin cutting diplomats:"Thank you, sir. May I have another?"
“I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down our payroll, and as far as I'm concerned I'm very thankful that he let go a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll,” Drumpf said. “There's no real reason for them to go back. I greatly appreciate the fact that we've been able to cut our payroll of the United States. We're going to save a lot of money.”
Cowardice...

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:03 pm
by Chaz
This is what it looks like when you win big and negotiate great deals, right?

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:14 pm
by Max Peck
The Foxconn deal Trump championed won’t make Wisconsin money for 25 years, report says
The deal President Trump called “incredible” and Gov. Scott Walker hailed as a “once-in-a-century” opportunity to bring the electronic manufacturing giant Foxconn to Wisconsin wouldn’t generate profits for the state until 2042, a new legislative analysis projects.

The state’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau, a nonpartisan agency that analyzes proposed economic investments, looked at Walker’s bid last month to bring a new flat-screen-display factory to the state in exchange for a roughly $3 billion-incentives package.

Foxconn said it would break ground in southeastern Wisconsin and hire 3,000 workers there over the next four years, with the “potential” to create 13,000 jobs.

If the company hits that growth target, Wisconsin would break even after 25 years, said Rob Reinhardt, a program manager who worked on the report. If 13,000 jobs never materialize, it could take decades longer.
So much winning...

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:35 pm
by Holman
link
Philip Gourevitch wrote:President of the U.S. to U.S. diplomats expelled by Kremlin from U.S. embassy in Moscow: Fuck you for your service.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:09 pm
by Enough
But, but Benghazi.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:53 pm
by Skinypupy
hentzau wrote:
Dogstar wrote:Trump responds to Putin cutting diplomats:"Thank you, sir. May I have another?"
“I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down our payroll, and as far as I'm concerned I'm very thankful that he let go a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll,” Trump said. “There's no real reason for them to go back. I greatly appreciate the fact that we've been able to cut our payroll of the United States. We're going to save a lot of money.”
:shock:
He does realize that Putin can't actually fire US State Department employees, right?

Or maybe he can. Hell, at this point it wouldn't surprise me.

Re: The Trump Presidency Thread

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:19 pm
by Sepiche
hentzau wrote:
Dogstar wrote:Trump responds to Putin cutting diplomats:"Thank you, sir. May I have another?"
“I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down our payroll, and as far as I'm concerned I'm very thankful that he let go a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll,” Trump said. “There's no real reason for them to go back. I greatly appreciate the fact that we've been able to cut our payroll of the United States. We're going to save a lot of money.”
:shock:
That must be one hell of a pee tape the Russians have.