Whale, I have to remind everybody that the GOP was thumbs down on Trump about 96% throughout the Republican Debates. Now they are 96% Pro-Trump.
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Whale, I have to remind everybody that the GOP was thumbs down on Trump about 96% throughout the Republican Debates. Now they are 96% Pro-Trump.
Hey! my post just posted itself without me hitting the button!
What a fucking day.
My point was going to be that THE PEOPLE are the danger now, and I don't see a cure for that.
Happy birfday, Unca Donald, seventy three years young.
You are quick-witted and versatile. Your nature is a tad contradictory, as you crave change and adventure, yet you also need stability and security. At times impulsive, and other times very deliberate, your dual nature can be both intriguing and frustrating! You are a person who enjoys building and accumulating, and you can be very resourceful. Famous people born today: Yasmine Bleeth, Steffi Graf, Lucy Hale, Marla Gibbs, Che Guevara, Donald Trump, Burl Ives.
The key content of today's meeting on the DMZ between the leader of the Workers Party of Korea and the President of the USA, coupled with the President's words of praise for Mohammed bin Salman: the USA endorses dictatorship, torture and terror, and dismisses democracy, freedom and the rule of law.
The USA -and most other states- does not recognize that North Korea is a legitimate state, yet Kim Jong-un is desperate to be acknowledged as the supreme leader of his country along with the Eternal Leader Kim il-Sung. To him, little else matters as this underlines his authority, and firms up the claim North Korea and the Workers Party has to rule the whole of the Korean peninsula.
Surely Congress, the Senate in particular, must remind the President the USA does not recognize North Korea, that the President alone cannot do that, so that neither man can legally enter either country. The US doesn't even have an ambassador in South Korea.
Or maybe the truth is that Congress is now irrelevant, that the Constitution is worthless, that power is all that matter and only one man has it, and will use it as he sees fit, to spite Obama, to make himself rich, to piss in the mouth of every American because he can, and because he thinks he knows better than anyone how to conduct the political affairs of the USA.
What an idiot, what a fool, what a menace to freedom this man is -get rid of him, America, and do it now!
Stavros totally agree
I think we all agree the other side is wrong, the rednecks are just as afraid that the queers and wetbacks are going to take over as the limp-wristed libs are afraid the backward racists will rule.
If you live in the city, you're used to crime, traffic, high costs, locking your door. Not knowing your neighbor. Trump didn't attack the Democrats, he attacked the illegal immigrants. And he won.
Small Town America doesn't want the World's problems. The World is murdering them.
You won't beat Trump by calling him a dumb racist. You'll beat him by proving he laundered millions of dollars from Oligarchs and Putin made him his sissy because of it. And on Fox TV, that never happened.
When I used to go to the Chronic Fatigue Group meetings, they could tell me the doctor to go to if I wanted to have Lime Disease, and they could tell me the doctor to go to if I didn't want to have Lime Disease. Frustrating.
Can someone confirm that when George Washington and his troops stormed into John Wayne Airport in 1775 crying "where's the Duke! Where's the Duke!" An eight year old Mexican boy replied, " senor he is at school in Dublin"--?
And it was the Air Force that won the war against the British. Ok?
We had a huge advantage because all of the British Airways flights were cancelled. The redcoats, stuck on a layover in Atlanta, weary from trying to get their muskets through airport security and trapped by flight commander Sherman at the luggage carousel, finally surrendered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Their slogan in 1812 was, "this time we fly first class" and they made reservations months in advance, all accommodations paid for. It was a masterclass in travel planning that gave the yankees absolute fits.
But then – as he discussed his trade war with China – came a new twist as Trump bestowed himself with a new title certain to launch a million Twitter memes.“This is a trade war that should have taken place years ago… somebody had to do it. I am the Chosen One.”That last line echoed a tweet the president had sent earlier in the day, in which Trump quoted the conspiracist Wayne Allyn Root, who in the past has said that violence including the murder of a peace activist at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “probably paid actors & infiltrators hired by Soros”.“The Jewish people in Israel love him,” Trump quoted Root as saying on Wednesday, “like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...wish-democrats
Nurse! Come quickly!
The link below is to an article that argues P45 has three qualities that can win him a second term: authenticity, consistency and emotional resonance. A lot thus depends on whether having used all three or one at the same time will win it again -nobody doubts his ability to connect, but will voters still be seething with rage and resentment when the judgement being made is not on Obama but his successor? And does a new generation of voters connect with that authentic voice and the consistent messages if they don't agree with them? He has to maintain his 37% and maybe more -and a lot depends too on who the Democrats choose, and the skills they employ in their campaign.
There is also an interesting review of P45's August tweetery, which may be disturbing enough to undermine the thoughts in the first link...
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-2020-campaign-success-bill-clinton-strategist-branding-republicans-a9093216.html
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trumps-wacky-angry-and-extreme-august-twitter
Well, if there is a consistency in his utterances, it is his strangulation of the English language. Show this to any American prior to the year 2000 and ask them who wrote it, then stand back when telling them it is the 'President' of the USA.
"@realdonaldtrump
To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!"
Russia, Ukraine -turning out to be, or to potentially be the graveyard of this administration. One wonders if the US has given a commitment to Russia not to defend Ukraine if another slice of its territory is occupied by the Russians.
Here is a curious thought about the man who claims to be the 45th President of the USA. There is one politician he seems to respect above all others: Vladimir Putin, a man who joined the KGB when he was a teenager and presumaby the Communist Party too, and who seems to me to have been a Communist all his life. I understand he has a framed photograph of himself with the Communist leader of North Korea in a prominent position in the Oval Office. And if the US Government has refused to offer even verbal support to the democracy movement in Hong Kong, it is because the President does not want to offend the Communist Party of China and its leader as they celebrate 70 years in power.
All that anti Communist rhetoric and action in the Cold War, and here we are, the US is now all but allied to Communist countries and at war with Democracy. Maybe the choice at the next election should be between Americans and Communist Fellow Travellers, the slogan for the Democrats handed to them on a plate:
Vote American, Vote Democrat.
Because a vote for the Republican Party is a vote for Communist sympathisers in the Republican Party prepared and willing to sell the US to the highest bidder, with or without the Red Flag, though it be the welcome sign.
I don't know if it is true but I read somewhere the Pentagon was not involved in the decision to move US troops from their current bases and that US support for the Kurdish militia was going to end. An agreement with Turkey suggests that the US is now willing to withdraw, wholly or partially from Syria (it is not that clear) on the assumption that Turkey will extend its occupation of the border area to 20 miles. It has been noted that Erdogan may want to both take on and crush or weaken the Kurdish militia groups that he claims are allied to Kurdish separatists in Turkey, and that they also have a plan to re-locate up to 3 million Syrian refugees which would also extend the Arabization of traditional Kurdish areas (which were not exclusively Kurdish anyway).
There is an obvious problem here, not just for the Kurds, but the fact that Syria is in the slow business of restoring its sovereignty with Russian and Iranian help, and that by abandoning its Kurdish allies in Syria (and presumably in Iraq too at some point soon), the US President, as I suggested in the earlier post, is delivering for Russia, yet again. Iran also benefits from this move, just as it benefited from regime change in Iraq. Putin must have danced with joy at the news.
Now, one could argue that the US military has been on the ground in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria and its achievements are pitiful, the cost staggering, in terms of lives killed and injured, and dollars. The logic is that if it is not working, then leave. On the other hand, this Republican President seems either indifferent to diplomacy, or simply incapable of doing it. There are ways of leaving, and leaving with a legacy in the form of a peace agreement ought not to be beyond the ability. But the US has been a weak partner in the peace talks that are supposed to bring the parties in Syria to some form of compromise agreement on a settlement to the war. Walking out on the Kurds does not just hand the military control to Russia, it implies that in any peace agreement, it is Russia that becomes the broker. Similarly, frustration in Afghanistan suggests the man wants out, rather than use US power and influence to bring the parties to serious negotiations, just as the government of Iraq appears to be losing control of the streets, and in both Iraq and Syria, remnants of al-Qaeda and Daesh are attempting to regroup and start their campaign for a revived Caliphate all over again.
At some point, the US must decide what its role is, and if it is going to turn its back on its allies, on its commitments, and retreat into an isolation from the world, which many of the President's supporters may want him to do. But there are consequences. The US has stationed troops in Saudi Arabia, and this was a primary cause of al-Qaeda's declaration of war in 1998 that led directly to the bombings in East Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in the Yemen and of course 9/11. The absence of diplomacy may suit a President who conceives of everything as a one-on-one deal where he calls the shots, but the world doesn't work that way. In the past, in Central America, the US paid the governments greenbacks to keep out the wet-backs. The apparent end of that system allied to abysmal corruption and violence has led thousands to vote with their feet and head north -it is this President's utter failure in diplomacy that has provoked a worse crisis on the US border than needed to happen, just as the shabby withdrawal of support for the most successful group that ended Daesh's grim command of territory speaks volumes for the man's complete lack of interest in the US's concept of alliance -even the freedom given to Turkey has a sinister add-on with any extra-ops leading to a threat to obliterate the Turkish economy as if that could be done and would benefit anyone other than crooks and terrorists.
Or maybe he is a 'wise guy', a fully paid up member of the Russian Mafia, dedicated to delivering what Putin wants (for example. the Ukraine)-one has to wonder at the ineptitude of a man who, deep in a Ukrainian hole alienates his closest US allies, I mean, even Mitch McConnell is upset. Obama's caution now stands as the rational response to uncertainty. He too did not achieve much in diplomatic terms other than the JCPOA with Iran, but he was weakened by local politicians squabbling among themselves, unable to or unwilling to compromise and committed to violence -but this President has made the situation worse, and guaranteed that the politics of the Middle East will remain volatile and very dangerous.
And who knows what he is going to do next?
As long as Trump doesn't paint his name on the White House, or declare war on somebody, the Senate Republicans will let him collude with Putin all he wants, and amuse their inbred base all he wants. They make deals with the Devil all the time if it keeps them in power and gets Judges elected, and keeps their goddam donors ecstatic, they consider it better than giving Democrats eight years. We've all seen how far they'll go.
I think today's stunt might force the question if anyone has reins on Trump.
I think the Democrats throwing IMPEACHMENT across home plate has Republican Senators nervous, if evidence keeps mounting they are fucked if they are the first ones to kick a President crying and screaming out of the White House, and they are also fucked if they cover for overwhelming evidence of criminal activity in the highest seat in the land.
Trump asked a Foreign Nation for dirt on a Democrat one day after he was "cleared" of getting help from a Foreign Nation against a Democrat. That's carved in stone no matter how many variations are thrown against it. I think the worm has turned. No way in Hell Trump being President wouldn't end in disaster for somebody(s). Only Time will tell who survives.
I now return you to your normal programming.
Is he working on an insanity plea,or are you guys really fucked?
Hmmm...MAYBE, and YES. Your guess is as good as mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
The one thing I am sure of is that you know What the Guardian knows, and I know what CNN knows, and God only knows the truth, no, strike that, I don't even think God knows.
I fear there is an office high above the New York Stock Exchange that knows the West is in decline and China is THE FUTURE and the smart people are cashing in grabbing as much money is they can to buy an Estate overlooking the Mediterranean. The United States I knew as a kid is long gone, and Trump is a symptom of that. Trump keeps saying he is the only person who could have survived what we put him through these past few years, and I think he's right. If he leaves the Oval Office in cuffs or a straightjacket, that's fine with me. I only hope he takes the Republican Party and Putin with him, maybe then we've got a fighting chance to walk out of this nightmare.
Nancy Pelosi summed it up perfectly yesterday-
Pelosi explained to Trump that Russia has always wanted a “foothold in the Middle East”, and now it now had one with the US withdrawal, according to a senior Democratic aide who was also granted anonymity.
“All roads with you lead to Putin,” the speaker said.
Then things escalated.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-trump-meeting
More on the activities of William Barr travelling the world to find material he can use to attack and discredit the Intelligence Services of of the US, presumably on behalf of Vladimir Putin?
Trump and Barr have also been asking other foreign governments for help in investigating the FBI, CIA and Mueller investigators. The US president has called on the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison for assistance, while the attorney general has been on similar missions to the UK and Italy.
And the information being requested has left allies astonished. One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that “it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services”.
Two weeks ago Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, revealed that Barr had visited his country twice in the previous two months, alongside John Durham, the Connecticut attorney he had appointed to lead his investigation, and had pressed for information about the activities of the US intelligence services.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9181641.html
'I don't know Prince Andrew..'
Unverified quote "But I played golf with him and I beat him. I beat everyone I play golf with. If I were not so successful in business and President of the USA I would be the greatest golfer of all time. Sad."
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/asse...xlarge-169.jpg
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/03/p...tos/index.html
Honest question: Have you reconsidered this view?Quote:
Originally Posted by peejaye
The Guardian reports on those 'evangelical Christians' ecstatic at the sight of their man standing outside the 'President's church' in Washington DC holding up a Bible. Indeed, one was so excited she burst into 'tongues' which has always made me laugh as there are no 'tongues', just gibberish. Whatever. One in the family put it like this:
“I believe it’s like Ephesians 6:10 through 19,” Horbowy said from Florida. “I believe this is a president who wears the full armor of God.”
Pity he didn't turn some pages back for this:
Ephesians 4:31-32:
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...p-evangelicals
The Russian Connection is back...but will it become headline news?
"The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released the fifth and final volume of its report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, which details "counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities."
Why it matters: The bipartisan, 996-page report goes further than the Mueller report in showing the extent of Russia's connections to members of the Trump campaign, and how the Kremlin was able to take advantage of the transition team's inexperience to gain access to sensitive information."
- Senate Intelligence acting chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “We can say, without any hesitation, that the Committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election. ...
- Senate Intelligence ranking member Mark Warner (D-Va.): “At nearly 1,000 pages, Volume 5 stands as the most comprehensive examination of ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign to date – a breathtaking level of contacts between Trump officials and Russian government operatives that is a very real counterintelligence threat to our elections. ... This cannot happen again."
https://www.axios.com/senate-intelli...6220ab35b.html
Listen up, all you suckers and losers-
"Speaking from the Oval Office on Friday, Trump publicly denied the Atlantic article and claimed to have done more for the military than “almost anybody.”
-https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/sep/04/donald-trump-military-officers-north-carolina-votes-joe-biden-coronavirus-covid-19-latest-news-updates
Hmmm, anybody? Including General Wlliam DePuy?
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Port...ooks/depuy.pdf
And how about the time when the President accused US troops of being thieves?-
"He suggested that troops in Iraq stole the money they were supposed to be handing out: “I want to know who were the soldiers that had that job, because I think they’re living very well right now, whoever they may be.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-even-know-it/
Hmmmm....Spooky....
"Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...b-spy-new-book
he's a cunt
I watched all of the 45th President's speech at CPAC last night, and it was as expected, deluded and pathetic. A tribute act that took the viewer down memory lane, repeating more or less everything he has said since 2015 as if nothing had happened since that needed to change. The same litany of fears, to which he did brandish a new lance, the spectre of women's sport dying as so many transgenders smash their records, or 'biological males' as he called them, in what was probably scripted for him. Were he asked to name one transgedered athlete, who would he ID?
He talked about peace in the Middle East which 'they said could never happen' (who are 'they'?), as if he had accolades to share, when the US was, under his watch up to its neck in the savage war in the Yemen he did nothing, absolutely nothing to end, just as he complained about Joe Biden and the USA's 'Endless Wars' but did not end them himself by withdrawing all US troops from foreign fields.
He lied and lied and lied, at one point claiming he was responsible for creating in the US 'the greatest economy in the history of the world' or some similar rubbish, the kind of rubbish that makes you wonder if his speechwriters are as thick as he is -does anyone know who, when where and how had 'the greatest economy in the history of the world'? It can't be the USA with its trillions of dollars of household debt, its trillions f dollars of government debt, and the fact there were fewer people in work when Trump left office than when he entered it.
The call for election reform is already under way in those States where Republicans are determined to make it harder for people to register to vote, and presumably to vote on election day.
He went through the list -the New York Times, ominously, calls it a 'hit list'- of Senate and House Republicans who voted against him, and whe naming Mitch McConnell provoked almost as many boos as Liz Cheney. He only made one categorical statement, that he is no going to break away and form a new party, but that handcuffs the party to a man who refuses to accept that he not only lost the Presidency, but under his leadership, lost the House and the Senate, a triple whammy not experienced since the 1930s, but as the election was 'stolen' he cannot be blamed.
And that is the problem the party has -no attempt to engage with failure and ask why it has no policies other than, on education -'open the schools now!' (On a Sunday?). On Immigration -'stop it!', on elections -'one day only!', and on energy 'Stop the Windmills, they kill birds and don't work when there ain't no wind!'
Most shameful of all, but not surprising, no mention of Mike Pence, whose life was at risk throughout that grim January 6 when Trump called him a coward, inflaming the mob. No mention of the people who lost their lives that day, indeed, no mention at all of the most sustained attack on the Capitol since 1812, or the para-military insurrectionists who did it, chanting his name. One wonders if they consider this lack of recognition a betrayal of their 'sacrifice'. But if this man cannot accept losing an election, cannot accept the responsibility for the sedition that took place on January 6, then he remains unfit to hold public office.
It is fine for an insignificant nobody like Schlapp to attack Christians for their humility and the need to apologize when things go wrong, he says the time has come for 'Conservatives' to stop it- 'never apologize' he recommends. But if this is what the Republicans offer, four more years of grievance politics, a constant complaint that the 2020 election was 'rigged' or 'stolen', at what point in the next four years will people say 'enough!' Change the record!
Teasy-weasy may ask 'Who will it be?', but with only 55% at the Conference wanting it to be him, he may need to be more emphatic sooner rather than later, or maybe he prefers being 'Kingmaker' in the Court, every new Republican candidate making the trip to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the Ring, and wear the Halo of Donald's Endorsement?
The mid-terms will beg the question, but what will be the answer?
So Mike Pence is still dismissed as a coward, and Mitch McConnell has gone from being a political 'hack' to a 'dumb son of a bitch' -but does this mean that both Pence and McConnell will campaign for the Republican Party of Trump and not respond to the abuse of a man it sees they cannot live without? The oddest thing of all is that in the UK it is considered a fact of political life that voters don't vote for divided parties, but will Trump's now relentless attacks on his own party and some of its most prominent representatives have a negative impact on the mid-terms? And what is Murdoch doing from his Cotswold's hideaway? Fox News does't seem to be interested in the 'civil war' in the GOP, but has Murdoch stopped talking to Trump? I am not in the US so I don't get the daily nuances but it seems the disarray in the party has not become headline news.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...hao-mar-a-lago
It's not much of a civil war when the shots are mostly being fired by one side and the targets are afraid to fire back. The Republican establishment's plan to de-Trumpify the party seems to be to hope that he'll just fade away without them having to do anything to make that happen.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...ty-spat-481222
McConnell is too shrewd to ever tangle with Trump except to put a final nail in his coffin. He's not going to get into a public spat with him because Trump is the better demagogue whereas McConnell is a master manipulator. It is a battle between a man who supports pure partisanship and a man who is single-mindedly selfish. McConnell is loyal to party over principle and Trump to self over his constituents.
If McConnell is as committed to the GOP as I think he cannot really go after Trump because it would fracture the base. It may be in the best interests of the GOP to move away from Trumpism but they can't be seen to be doing it deliberately or they will lose voters. And what does a move away from Trumpism mean? Continued partisanship, obstructionism, bad faith, but do it in a way that is not as obviously corrupt, buffoonish, and unhinged looking.
Athough I agree with the point you are making, it means that in Congress the Republican Party represents nothing, merely a rejection of whatever it is that the Democrats and the President are proposing. McConnell has no other agenda than the one that was developed when Obama was President, but it also means that the people who voted for them can expect nothing other than the 'partisanship' and 'obstructionism' you list.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
But in the States, the Republican Party of Trump is not so coy or locked into a condition of atrophy. They are busy demolishing the right to vote, to merge Tucker Carlson's hysterical view with their own, that there are simply too many 'obedient' Democrat voters and they must be taken out of the process.
The Party of Trump thus stands revealed as a Party that does have policies -to replace the US Constitution with a separate agenda that defines US politics in terms of an Either/Or dichotomy shaped by the historic 'heartbreak' of race. No attempt to re-define the purpose of the party, to amend its policy platform to appeal to a more diverse set of voters, many of whom are probably 'Conservatives' who in normal times would vote GOP.
Instead we have Trump's Revenge, Trump's Resentment, Trump's Bitterness, Trump's Accusation, and a lexicon of foul language and loathing, much of it directed by Trump at people, cowards and 'dumb sons of bitches' who he knows will continue to prostrate themselves before him, tongues ready to lick leather.
Why would anyone vote for such people? But is the base of Trump's support so solid they will turn out and vote in 2022, even for those members of the Trump Party their leader has called 'sons of bitches' or whichever is the latest slur?
They seem to be stuck in a trap where they can't reject Trump because the rank and file love him, but at the same time Trump and his supporters' behaviour alienates the swing voters they need to win elections. The only solution they seem to have is to double down on electoral manipulation so they can govern with minority support.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
If McConnell is committed to the party's interests then the question is what is the party committed to. In the past it has been primarily the party of business interests, but that seems to be subordinated increasingly to tribal culture wars. The Republican establishment has assumed that cultural issues could be harnessed to advance its pro-business agenda but the tail may now be wagging the dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ts-us-politics
Contrary to Stavros I don't think the Republican Party stands for nothing. What it stands for increasingly is angry cultural nationalism. Its core support comes from people who feel threatened by economic and social change, which they associate with nefarious forces seeking to undermine their way of life. They love Trump because he is so effective at channelling this sense of grievance.
You make a fair point with regard to my use of language, but if the Republican Party of Trump is now just one long, loud complaint about Immigrants, 'cancel culture' and rigged elections, what does it amount to? It might not be nothing in literal terms, but in terms of the political debate it doesn't amount to much compared to the real issues that concern most people -jobs, health, education, transport, the environment, and as a hot issue right now, policing. Trump has little or nothing to say about real issues, while McConnell sits in Congress hoping, perhaps praying that Trump will just fade away, as if he had not noticed Trump has alowed grudges going back to his childhood to dominate his agenda, and will carry on regardless of that dumb son of a Mitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by filghy2
The real question now it seems to me, is, will someone challenge Trump after 2022 when the time comes to make a real decision about 2024? And if he decides not to run, he will still want to be the 'Infuencer in Chief'.
Ah the coincidences of history....
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First published in 1903, in 1912 it was taken over by the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party.
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First announced 22nd October 2021, the media platform of the Trump Media and Technology Group.
Truth, and Truth Social, from two of the greatest, most notorious liars in history. One led a revolution that created a one-party dictatorship, the other....
I see reports from Florida that Cry-Baby Trump is still stamping his feet and crying because Ameriicans didn't vote for him to be their President. Just as unsurprising has been his claim Putin is 'Smart'. If you are as ignorant as Trump of course Putin is going to look smart. If you have a functioning brain, however, Putin's actions in Ukraine look so risky they might even end up finishing his career. How smart is that?
Now consider this, because Trump, for whom repetition is as dreary as the repetitious Hallellujah! chorus in Handel's Messiah, has said yet again
"No president was ever as tough on Russia as I was".
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...esidential-bid
If you want a bland version which facts check the claim try this-
https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...ssia-barack-o/
A more exact thus more damaging debunk is here-
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...ight-rcna17565
But let's go back in time. JFK faced down the USSR in 1962. The negotiations with the USSR ended with the missiles being withdrawn from Cuba, and though secretly agreed at the time, the US agreed to remove its own missiles from Turkey. Publicly, it was the USSR that was viewe to have been beaten, and as a result, within two years, Khrushchev had been removed from power.
If that is not tough enough, consider Ronald Reagan's response to the USSR's entry into the power stuggle in Afghanistan in 1979 -funding and arming the Mujahideen throughout the 1980s, in concert with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, in a devastating military mistake for the USSR that was fundamental to the succession of Gorbachev as General Secretary of the CPSU, ending the USSR's involvement in Afghanistan and thus becoming one step toward what Gorbachev had not in fact intended, the dissolution of the USSR. Tough!
And has any US President ever relied so much on Russian money to survive? How many had business interests in Russia? How many US Presidents fawned all over the Russian leader of their day, even claiming Russian intelligence is better than their own? And how many President, during an election campaign they know had been infiltrated by the Russians, chose not to defend the US at the time, but take sides with Russia against the USA?
In a company of one, the most unique traitor in American history.
The latest from the 'Greatest President of all Time' -pleading with ordinary Americans to fund his Trump Force One (because he can't afford it?)-
"So, in the history of our country, nothing like me has ever happened," Trump said. "I don't say that positive, negative. You know, you've never had a businessman."Trump went on to explain that most US presidents have a background in politics or the military.
"So you had soldiers and you had politicians," Trump said. "There's never been an outsider."
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-hist...165803315.html
Same old Trump- ignorant, self-obsessed, absurd, doesn't know what Google is.
Here are the Presidents who were businessmen-
https://time.com/4547837/donald-trum...ss-presidents/
"I ran twice and won twice, and I did much better the second time than we did the first," Trump said, calling the election results "rigged."
Trump also hinted that he would make another run for president in 2024.
"Now, we may have to run again," he said to applause and cheers from the crowd. He added: "In 2024, we are going to take back that beautiful, beautiful White House."
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-floa...075706082.html
Hmmm...if he won twice that's it, he can't run for a third term. Or maybe he lost? Just maybe...
On the basis of these riveting hearings, not that his supporters can be bothered to watch them (but he does, obsessively, of course), history may ask how it was that such a deranged man held hostage other men one might assume to be intelligent enough to know when they have been taken for a ride. I don't know what 'Beast' the Fake President was in when he lunged for the wheel, and it is no surprise that men disputing Ms Hutchinson's account are believed to be so loyal to the Beast to deny her account, whatever, the stunning fact to me was Mark Meadows simply shrugging his head in complete indifference to the events that were unfolding in the Capital of his country. That combination of Judicial Activism and political indifference may be defined as the key components in the decline of the US as a Union.
As for the deluded fool who may be fighting the next ten years on the last ten years-
"Holder: Donald Trump is not a rational player. I mean, he just isn’t. You can’t have a conversation with him in the same way that you can have a conversation with most other people. He is somebody that lives in a different reality. He had started the lie about the election back in 2016. What I saw after the first interview with him in the White House was that he now became someone who believed in his own lie, and that is a person who is delusional. That is a person who is incredibly dangerous, because you can't debate with that person. There is no way that anybody can persuade Donald Trump that he’s wrong. And this is something that’s characteristic of him all the way through his life, and the series goes into this in the sense that he will never accept that he had done anything wrong. He will always double back. He’s always right, and it’s always somebody else’s fault. I mean, he lives in cloud cuckoo land."
Filmmaker who gave footage to Jan. 6 committee: Trump is 'dangerous,' living in 'cloud cuckoo land' (yahoo.com)
This is weird, as if he were a Medieval King prone to extreme fits. But what should the Music Man play for the 45th? I am trying to think of something venal, but I love music too much. As for me, for what that's worth, I link the sort of thing guaranteed to lift anyone from the pit -with Kleiber at his peak in Munich, my destination in a few weeks time. The whole opera is worth watching too.
"Stephanie Grisham, Donald Trump’s ex-press secretary, has said this week that her boss’s temper was so furious at times during his presidency that his staff would summon an aide dubbed the Music Man, who would play songs to soothe him. The repertoire reportedly consisted of the president’s favourite show tunes, including Memory from the musical Cats.
With this in mind, we would like to hear from readers about their most calming musical choices. What are the tunes you turn to in times of great stress?"
Tell us: what is the song that calms you down? | Music | The Guardian
Enjoy!
Direttore CARLOS KLEIBER - Die Fledermaus - "Overture" - Monaco di Baviera 1987 - Live - YouTube
"Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Monday his investigators found just one dead voter after thoroughly reviewing findings from a partisan review of the 2020 election that alleged 282 ballots were cast in the name of someone who had died."
Arizona AG says most alleged 2020 dead voters were alive (yahoo.com)
Trump: I believe, sincerely, those people are dead. (This is not a quote, but an assumption based on what we are told his lawyers will argue is Trump's defence of the Jan 6th Insurrection against the USA).
And if it is illegal for a former President, or anyone else, to display the Presidential Seal of Office at their private golf clubs, why hasn't this man been arrested for breaking the law?
Trump plasters presidential seal across golf club during Saudi-backed LIV tournament despite complaints | The Independent
Is the law catching up with Trump-world? Hope springs eternal...
"Regarding Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, James said: “Mr Trump represented that his apartment spanned more than 30,000 sq ft, which was the basis for valuing the apartment.
In reality, the apartment had an area of less than 11,000 sq ft, something that Mr Trump was well aware of. And based on that inflated square footage the value of the apartment in 2015 and 2016 was $327m.
“To this date, no apartment in New York City has ever sold for close to that amount.
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“Claiming you have money that you do not have does not amount to the art of the deal. It’s the art of the steal… No one is above the law.”
New York attorney general announces civil lawsuit against Trump and family (yahoo.com)