Donald Trump, what am fucking joke. Looking back I would have now voted for any one of those 16 republicans to avoid this McDonalds, Fox News junkie watching moron!
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Donald Trump, what am fucking joke. Looking back I would have now voted for any one of those 16 republicans to avoid this McDonalds, Fox News junkie watching moron!
There is a prurient interest in how powerful people live; we wonder if they have the same habits as we do. It may or may not be interesting to note that the President and his wife have separate bedrooms, that he goes to bed at 6.30 if there are no evening engagements, that he turns up for work around 11am, and so on. A lot of the content of Fire and Fury was already known.
But while the early morning tweets are designed to dominate the news of the day, elsewhere the Republican Party with the President's support is removing regulations that protect the environment, immigrants, veterans and people in need of health care, while proposing to spend billions of dollars on defence that should be irrelevant if 'America First' is the policy and foreign entanglements to be unravelled.
This is an administration that has attacked the USA's institutions, such as the FBI -one wonders if it will be shut down and its operations given to the Department of Homeland Security, after all why are there two major Federal agencies doing more or less the same thing? The USA has driven a truck through the Middle East peace process, taking its cue from the extremist government in Israel that has never believed in it, just as Israel supports the USA's full frontal assault on the UN and its agencies and, one suspects, is also supported in this by dictators and autocrats everywhere who loathe the mere idea of external scrutiny and are at one with the USA's indifference to free speech (at home and abroad), and human rights. In practical terms, the USA has issued threat after threat, but has yet to act on any of them, so it is still hard to know how the forthcoming year will pan out. The Republican Party in Congress, having succeeded in getting its tax bill through, may now be turning its attention to welfare, the elephant in the room that is surely ready to be shot and its tail cut off, waved in public like a prized trophy. Especially now in case they lose control of either the House or Senate, or both, in November.
I never saw a single episode of "The Apprentice" until today. Trump's stunt of letting the Press into his DACA meeting was obviously a stunt to have both Republican and Democrat lawmakers take seats as contestants hanging on to everything Trump Commanded from his Throne of Power, with Fire and Fury! Maybe they could hook them all up to lie detectors some time, just for laughs.
Instead of bumping up Military spending building cutting edge weapons, they should spend the money on hiring army men and women for two years, like they used to, and grab some of these at risk youths from the inner cities and deserted no-job little towns. The ARMY could be the prison/school discipline these people could use, and they could be randomly sent to fight wildfires, combat crime, monitor the border and ports, kind of like FDR's CCC programs. I think I heard that the Cost Of a Military Jet Could House Every Homeless Person In U.S. With a $600,000 Home.
welp- bannon just lost his gig at breitbart. i guess that's the last we'll be hearing from him (unless someone else needs to write about trump)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-news-network/
also, one of the biggest biopharmaceutical companies in the country has just claimed to end it's research into alzheimer's and parkinson's treatments and shift the budget to other programs. looks like they've adopted the model to outsourcing the early drug discovery work to tiny companies, so that shareholders only see winners and there are no failures.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ons-treatments
It's not about the money, it's about what you'll do to get it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7bInqjmEN4
I guess when it was all said and done, Steve Bannon was the one who was the "cuck".Quote:
Originally Posted by bluesoul
Bannon made the mistake of thinking Trump's rise was about some kind of populist/nationalist ideology, when it is really a personality cult - and the first rule of personality cults is that The Leader can do no wrong in the eyes of followers.
Say, is there a way to change my name from buttslinger to shitholeslinger??? I am trying to be more politically correct.....
WAKE UP WHITE PEOPLE!!
You've let Putin put a child in charge!!!!!
relax: bannon will be appearing before the house of representatives committee on tuesday to not only due his twitching thing, but answer about the alleged russian interference of the 2016 u.s. elections.
meanwhile, trump just called africa and haiti "shithole countries" in reference to him wondering why immigrants from that continent and that nation keep "coming here". guess who he'd rather have here instead? why the fine people of norway, of course. skaal
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The USA backed dictatorships in El Salvador, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo and many others when it suited them, just as the shithole-in-chief has been stuffing his pockets with money from the unelected butchers of Saudi Arabia and the criminal classes of Russia, but who is surprised by that or his dirty mouth?Quote:
Originally Posted by bluesoul
At least this poor excuse for a human being has yet again put off visiting the UK, where he is not welcome.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018...ain-cancelled/
Years after Trump has been impeached, years after denial after denial, he's going to admit that he was a tad drunk with power and if we had a tenth of the backbone he had....we would have stopped him. For many businessmen, business is war where survival of the fittest is license to steal. If you lose, you're weak.
Lucky for us, Robert Mueller has tried and convicted many a punk like Trump before, if we can get 16 years of Democratic Presidents out of Trump, I figure I'll die happy.
A year after the election and nearly a year after the Inauguration, Barack Obama continues to be the inspiration of the 45th President of the United States. He now says that he will not visit London in February because of Barack Obama's decision to re-locate the US Embassy from its Grosvenor Square address in the plush district of Mayfair, to Nine Elms in the old docklands not far from where the re-located Covent Garden fruit & veg wholesale market now stands. Thus
Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-mass-protests
Meanwhile in Arizona, convicted and pardoned felon Joe Arpaio has doubled down on his claim that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a8154706.html
Hail to the Chief? But who be he?
Well I guess Trump has proven that the merit of a "shit hole" really depends on your point of view.
And there is only one point of view that matters. The depressing thing is not just what he is reported to have said, but that he has what may be a psycho-pathological need to be the main story of the news every day. All he has to do is wake up at 5am and start tweeting anything he knows will provoke outrage, and he becomes Editor-in-Chief of the news and everyone dances around that pole while the real issues are ignored in favour of something more sensational. One wonders how much more of this people can take, while the reputation of the USA declines and the gravity and pride of the Office of President sinks into a smelly hole.Quote:
Originally Posted by sukumvit boy
I'm praying that the only point of view is Robert Mueller's and that 20 years of conservative media and 20 years of KGB tricks are about to be t-boned by American Intelligence Agencies and the Long Arm of Killer Lawyers that eat smaller Lawyers for Breakfast. I'm hoping that if Trump gets quietly impeached, all that means is that Mueller didn't want to leave a bigger mess to clean up. Or I don't know, maybe Mueller wants to make a statement. Loud and Clear.
At the end of the day, take away Trump's millions and he's just a fucked up little brat.
They say Putin spent about 500,000 bucks on the US Election. He should have spent more.
The Donald Trump Show really has gone beyond nauseating, I wish I had the strength to turn away.
Apparently the deal was done in the closing days of the George Bush administration.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Also, I am sure the people of Mayfair are glad to see it go. Out of curiosity, not having been there for a while, I walked around Grosvenor Square to take a look at the old embassy a year or so ago, and the security perimeter extended way out onto the surrounding streets of London where there were a number of blacked out SUV parked at strategic places with their engines running. The square has also been redesigned since the 70s and 80s to channel and break up a crowd to prevent a repeat of the Vietnam era riots.
You are right about the original decision to move being made by the GW Bush Presidency, the papers saying 2008 though I read 2007 somewhere as the first date it was announced. The jury is out on the Grosvenor Square building as some regard it as a modernist classic, and I have read it may become a listed building if it isn't already, which will lower the value of the property which has been sold I think for £500 million (£600 million in the Independent article linked below) to Qatari Diar, the development branch of the Qatar government, the irony being that the US has backed the campaign led by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey to isolate Qatar economically and politically owing to its 'close' relations with Iran, a policy that has so far failed to take effect, being another foreign policy flop for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his American buddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by skirtrustler
And, indeed, in addition to the building no longer being fit for purpose, it had become a security nightmare even with those hideous boulders, just as the new embassy is described as being a squat, fortified cube inside a moat...
https://www.economist.com/blogs/pros...ising-property
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...-a7079346.html
These facts have come to light on this side of the pond as well, it took the news a day to catch up, chalk up one more lie for Trump. There is a problem, however, if you turn on Prime Time Fox News, and that was all you watched, you would be clued in that Trump's lies are just responses to FAKE MEDIA propaganda outlets that are one arm of a pompous, over-educated, skinny-armed pussy liberal PTA who exist only to send your money to Shithole Countries and crackhead welfare Moms. I'm sure the same thing goes on with peejaye's TV.
Obama found out the hard way that when you mention somewhere about "Republicans clinging to their guns and religion"
or "when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody" that words like that, although true, shouldn't be uttered.
By now Trump has decided that his base thrives on lie after lie, it makes them feel good.
I think we're in the phase of Trump's Presidency now where Limbaugh and Coulter and Ingraham are starting to say if Trump doesn't get his big beautiful Wall and grants citizenship to Dreamers, there may be some dissention in the ranks.
The SECOND after Trump called Mexicans drug dealing rapists, he was in like Flynn.
More than anything else, Trump supporters want to keep the English version of the Christian/Caucasian bloodline flowing large and in charge like the star spangled banner. To them, White People that vote Democratic are voting against their own best self-interests. Politics is pretty twisted.
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Ann Coulter was on Channel 4 News in the UK a few days ago to voice her dissent from her idle's policies on immigration and also to criticize the nepotism. She concludes that he can go down as 'the greatest President in American history or the President who wrecked America', which at least proves she thinks in grand terms and doesn't seem to give any credit to Congress. She has the most sumptuous hair, it really is quite distressing when you consider the drivel that comes from the head underneath it.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttslinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL0kaPIY5kI
Kill it before it breeds!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
I don't know anything about English Conservative Media, in fact, the conservative media in the US is beyond belief half the time. Hannity is the worst, in my book. I used to like Pat Buchanan, even though he was crazy-Right, by now John McCain, Mitt, even W look sane! Some of the Media actually speak as if they've got half a brain, and they are serious about their beliefs, but I think in Coulter's case her Father was a very distant hard right Judge that messed up her mind from an early age. Laura Ingraham is almost interesting enough to be watchable, but I think she has some weird personal issues intertwined with her philosophy that is almost fascinating, but quickly turns into nausea. Trying to make sense of what they're saying is harder than Friday's Soduku. Fox News has an entire collection of weird-ohs they bring in to flesh out the propaganda, much worse than Ann Coulter even. I'm glad I don't have a gun in the house, because every time I see Kellyanne Conway, I want to shoot the TV.
Even in Blue Northern Virginia, we have a radio station that features all the top conservative voices 24 hours a day, where the hosts cry about the state of the Nation in between selling plastic windows and siding. Even curiouser, they play rock music in their intros that lean as left as you can get if you ever listened to the lyrics. I can't get no satisfaction. Wall St meets Madison Ave meets Pennsylvania Ave.
Walter Cronkite was very proud of the fact that all his listeners presumed he belonged to the same Political Party they did. I kinda doubt America will ever be that Great again.
I guess it's going to be Xanax all around for the next few months, what, is Trump going to have goon squads pulling six year olds out of their homes to send them back to a Country they've never been in? And blame it on the Democrats? No Wall-No DACA.
When F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Orson Welles were young men, they all went to Europe.
Zelda and Scott drank champagne with Picasso and Gertrude Stein in Paris, Papa drove an Italian Ambulance in WW I, got blowed up, fell in love with his Nurse and wrote a book about it, and Welles worked with the great stage actors of London when film had become the New Lit. They all sopped up the Culture, experienced things from a new perspective. Stepping Out. Living Large.
But they all told the exact same story about going home. They all were looking forward and excited to get back to the place of their childhood, home sweet home.. the USA. The story they all told is that they were all shocked at how racist America is. And they were all amazed how it took them totally by surprise. Came at them sideways. It was the same place they remembered but this time with fresh eyes they saw racism everywhere.
The grim record of 'the least racist person' you will ever know -but that does not mean he is not a racist.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...l-right-region
Two elements of Trump's Presidency are unbelievable to me: his racism and collusion with Russia.
Trump's base see him as THE ONE INDIVIDUAL they can trust to override Congress and preserve White Supremacy at all costs. And on that, I think they are right, I can't see any other human being alive who could make that promise and stick with it, Trump's being an asshole is seen as a PLUS for his base, in that regard.
RUSSIA, however, is where he's going to get in trouble. Mnuchin yesterday named all the criminal Oligarchs who have profited for years under the power of Putin. Congress had to overwhelmingly force Trump's hand to sign off on it. Being Putin's asshole is what is going to fry Trump, there are too many old school Republicans who hate the KGB more than they hate RAP music.
One thing I can't see is how Mitch and Paul would react to Trump being exposed as one of Putin's cast of Thieves and Scoundrels. The Republican Party could certainly survive without a WALL or a MUSLIM BAN, but I'm not sure how they could explain having a Soviet Mole as the Head of their Party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/u...imes&smtyp=cur
Here is an article about Trump threatening to fire Mueller and white house counsel threatening to resign as a result. There was also speculation a few days that Wray had threatened to resign over undue pressure put on him with respect to McCabe who Trump suspects is a Democrat and also that Trump asked McCabe who he voted for. I haven't followed too closely but it's more of the same.
The script is heading towards the Biggest ONE on ONE ever, In the Gold Trunks, coming in at 239, Donald "Fire and Fury" Trump. In the red white and Blue Trunks Bob "Long Arms" Mueller. If ever there was a case a seasoned FBI guy would want to sink his teeth into, this would have to be it. You're going to see a case riveted tight as you can get. I don't see any way Trump goes into that room with Mueller to get carved up like a fat ham. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
This article in today's Guardian throws some light on attempts by supporters of the President to discredit Mueller and the FBI, and raises the question to which I do not know the answer: can the FBI be abolished and by whom? There seems to be an overlap between the work of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, and, as both Democrats and Republicans were outraged over the behaviour of the FBI duriing the election campaign, maybe its days are numbered? This administration has attacked and vilified the institutions of the US like none other I can recall, as well as international institutions, and maybe this is the moment for 'radical change'.
Can it be done?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...iety-discredit
no, no no, the Rebublicans are just bitching about Mueller's team, because they can't control the Investigation like they do in the House and Senate. If anything the FBI is far Right, remember Giuliani and his New York branch of the FBI hinting they had dirt on Hillary a couple days before the Election? (my memory is fading fast)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
I'm sure that since the FBI wasn't created until the 1900s, it could be uncreated, but, no, this is all about Trump's most rabid supporters fighting THE TRUTH,not the FBI. Looking for SECRET SOCIETIES that aren't there.
The larger question for me is....What is Trump going to do? Having zero shame probably works in his advantage. He CAN fire Mueller, claiming he's "fighting back" but even in my imagination I can't predict the monster blow-up that would follow. Probably any restraint Mueller's team has in place for the good of the Country would be nulled and voided, you'd have leaks to the PRESS that would make the Inside Hollywood tape look refreshing.
After that Stormy Daniels thing, I think even Melania is rooting for Mueller.........
These are interesting times.
Memo to people who voted for Trump:
You made a deal to pay 12.5 Billion dollars for a wall after you were promised a 25 Billion dollar wall.
And for that you get 1.8 billion illegals legal.
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so he;s not a feminist but is for women....ok.
i often wonder if he's ever fucked a trans woman. as a man whore, i'd be surprised if he hasn't.
Trump White House sends out typo ridden State of the "Uniom" invitations , that about sums it up...
http://washingtonpress.com/2018/01/2...n-invitations/
Devin Nunes is the perfect Cover Boy for this Administration
This could get ugly..........
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That looks about right....what a weasel he is. I knew it the first time I heard him speak which was fortunately only about a year ago....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/julian...g-trump-russia
Speaking of weasels. Two of them.
If you're wondering what Trump will talk about tonight, just take a look at the guy in charge of writing it: Stephen Miller.
When it comes to immigration, he's just a tad right of Joseph Goebbels.
I'll be nice and give him a 36 hour bump if he sticks to the script,
unless he fires someone in the FBI during the speech.
I guess it's not possible to sit Mueller's entire team in the front row, Hunh?
https://preview.ibb.co/j4xCPR/miller1.jpg
Maybe The Republicans are cracking up. All their Spin Doctors tell them they've got less than a year to live. Even if Mueller had only the tax and bank records....What's the Penalty for Money Laundering? How about a hundred counts?
For Mueller, those are Lay-ups.
Just like Johnson lost the entire South for the right reasons, Trump could cost the Republicans THE BASE for all the wrong reasons
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I like Ted Lieu. He's a dedicated, no nonsense guy. Here's what he has to say about the memo. https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/...o-russia-probe
Trump also said today that he has confidence in the rank and file people at the fbi but not the leadership. The leadership first of all are all Republicans and second of all are just doing their jobs. He has now also indicated that he has lost confidence in Rosenstein, which is where everyone thought this memo was going.
Finally, because this memo was such a transparent attempt to undermine the Mueller investigation, was based on nothing substantive, and compromised our intelligence gathering services, it's important to prioritize Nunes' upcoming race. I know nothing about his opponent, but Nunes is a uniquely unethical person and I hope this memo ends up unseating him. For more on his opponent:
https://twitter.com/JanzforCongress
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trum...-that-one-out/
If he fires Rosenstein, I have trouble believing it would not make the obstruction charge 100 times stronger. The reason is that the memo asserts nothing extraordinary and the entire political stunt seemed entirely designed to allow him to do it, but hit was a total dud because there was no misconduct at all.
Nunes (pronounced Nunes) is in a very safe Republican District, they always pick the goon squad from safe Districts, to do their dirty work.
My un-educated guess is that Trump is in the very comical position of being the most Powerful Man in the World who can't do a thing about the noose tightening around his neck. He's thinking about the unthinkable, going down in History with Benedict Arnold and the Rosensteins. If he can make the FBI and Democrats into a dangerous threat to national redneck security, ....aw, forget it. He's nuts. I'm just a watcher, everything I hear is hearsay, Mueller is getting depositions straight from the horse's mouths. I think he just flipped Rick Gates, Manafort's buddy.
So while the four page memo is proof of cheating so Trump can flip the Gameboard,
Mueller probably has rooms full of papers, devices, emails, witnesses, foreign intelligence, hard evidence.
I guaranteed Trump's loss in the Election, now I'm guaranteeing his Incarceration.
Maybe The New Jersey Generals will win the Superbowl, this thing stopped making sense a couple years ago. When Reagan got ditzy, nobody even noticed. Those were the Days.......
When Russia was hoodwinked, not us. Is all of this Putin's Revenge???
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Although Lieu makes an interesting and pertinent point about what the Memo does not say, this seedy piece of theatre is aimed at supporters of the President who want to hear re-assuring words that their man is not corrupt, but that their governing institutions are. On the BBC 2 Newsnight programme late Friday night, Ryan Crocker -he was taking part on a discussion on Syria- argued the key element in this was the consolidation of partisan division in Congress, and that this polarisation was the greater threat to democracy. In the case of Watergate, Nixon was at the head of the Republican Party establishment, but so transparent did his lies and corrupt behaviour become that they had little choice but abandon him -indeed, the whole of the Watergate crisis became an exercise for students in how the deep strength of the US political system can stand up to and survive the kind of ridicule and abuse Watergate represented.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
The difference this time is that the President is not only not a Republican, but attacks them on a regular basis, given that most of the men in the FBI and CIA and Justice Department are Republicans. That the Republicans are part of his campaign may seem odd, even contradictory. The party has been badly split since GW Bush's second term, but crucially, the election of Obama became a line in the sand beyond which these people felt the USA should not go. Bi-partisan agreements in Congress have been deteriorating since the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s, but there is a core group of White Americans who regard the entire history of their country since 1776 as a validation of the right of White Christians to rule in their own interest. Put simply, America belongs to them, and to no-one else. The election of Obama was the future they have dreaded ever since the tired, poor, huddled masses moved from Europe, the Americas and Asia to populate the country and 'threaten' the dominant culture.
It seems to me that a hard core of Republicans are determined to either roll back every vestige of the US that emerged from the Civil Rights era, or in effect smash the system to pieces. They never accepted Obama as the President, and never will, and still today dream of the day when he and both Bill and Hillary Clinton are in prison, key elements of Civil Rights are overturned, and the US returned to their wet dream, either the 1950s or the years before the Civil War. This is not a conservative Republican agenda of the kind one associated with William F. Buckley or Bill and Irving Kristol, this is nothing less than a racist, White Nationalist agenda which in its practical expression is in effect, a re-run of the Civil War.
Just as the more extreme elements want to break up California, to either neuter or get rid of Federal institutions such as the FBI, one can see these men taking a path which will once again lead to the secession of those States that present their aim to preserve the America they believe in, dismissing the rest as some sort of 'fake America'. Ideally they would like to begin with mass deportations, Muslims first, Blacks second, take your picks after that between Latinos, Asians and Jews. But they realise this is too gargantuan a task. Best circle the wagons and create a state within a state.
The US political system has the mechanics to get rid of the President, but unlike Watergate and Nixon, the President and the Republicans who support him disregard the rules, show no interest in the integrity of the Union as expressed in the Constitution, and regard every tactic they can find as an acceptable, even necessary part of their war against the America they hate. This, to me, is the most serious crisis since Watergate, with implications that go far beyond it.
I think what makes this Story more than just the Traffic Accident you can't look away from is the almost guaranteed surprise ending that's going to pop out of the cake when Mueller announces his findings. tick tick tick. The Suspense is building like a Hitchcock script with the body in the trunk while the guests walk around it. Mueller is going to be "The Decider" with tinsel covered revelations, Acid Accusations, and global implications. Must See TV. I don't see how we're not going to see some Biblical-Type Jaw-droppers coming out of his dossier, a Final Chapter of the Story that lives up to and completes the unbelievable story. How he's going to make it a-political, I don't know. Who'll clean up the mess, Pence?
WHITE PEOPLE!!! sheesh!!