Donald Trump Presidency-Day One

[LATSDog]

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!

[Stavros]

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.

[buttslinger]

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.

[bluesoul]

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

[buttslinger]

It's not about the money, it's about what you'll do to get it.

[blackchubby38]

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/

I guess when it was all said and done, Steve Bannon was the one who was the "cuck".

[filghy2]

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.

[buttslinger]

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!!!!!

[bluesoul]

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

[Stavros]

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

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?
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/