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I am sure it’s all ‘fake news’ and people can’t see his long term vision.
It's like the NYT article got it right, his businesses are successful if you ignore the fact his dad was bailing them out over and over again, perhaps his strategy has not adapted to him being dead,
I'm sure Trump will take credit for the new unemployment stats but, in reality, they are only following the trend of the last 8/9 years. If anything, the trend has been slowing down since Trump took over:
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He does do one check every morning.
He does do one check every morning.
Dont think that is quite correct. I think his check is "are they talking about me?ME ME ME" If so then good else say something until they start talking.
Very compelling article in the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-kavanaugh-ford-allegations.html
Nah, that's not compelling at all, in fact it's not compelling enough to overthrow my initial impression i formed of him after watching his aggressive self gratifying performance whilst under questioning, he came across as a self-satisfied dick.
Doesn't make him a guilty dick though.
Tens of millions of dollars has been directed at the Kavanaugh confirmation battle from both sides, a sign of exactly how important a lifetime seat on a sharply divided Supreme Court is to the direction of the US for decades to come.
from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45714482
The truth doesn't matter to either side, all that matters is which side gets control. Both will play every dirty trick in the book to get their way, and use any pawns necessary to do so.
All this will backfire if guilty until proven innocent becomes the norm. Next time the sides could be switched around, the precedent now set. Such is the brass neck of these people the same scripts will simply swap hands (and sides) and be recycled.
The hypocrisy over #believeallwomen isn't getting enough scrutiny either. It should be #believeallwomenaslongastheyareonyourside. Lots of the people backing action as a result of these accusations are the same ones who will downplay or ignore the many more made about the Clintons over the years.
Republican drinking buddies of Kavanaugh when with him in college, have individually reported that he was often stumbling drunk and later, unable to remember what happened during these bouts.
They have had all the usual attacks from the lunatic right via social media and even death threats delivered direct to their homes, yet stand by their statements.
Leaving aside his sexual violence, the above evidence alone disqualified him for the Supreme Court job. He lied under oath.
His supporters in the GOP know this but push through on his behalf anyway. There are upcoming legalities ranged against Trump and he needs a buddy on the Big Bench.
Doesn’t make him a guilty dick though.
It doesn't make him a suitable person to be a lifetime appointment on the supreme court either.
Doesn’t make him a guilty dick though.
It doesn’t make him a suitable person to be a lifetime appointment on the supreme court either.
*Likes*
Leaving aside his sexual violence, the above evidence alone disqualified him for the Supreme Court job. He lied under oath.
This. He clearly, provably committed perjury in his testimony (an imprisonable offence!). Others have listed the many many ways in which he lied, but even down to simple things like claiming he was of legal drinking age when he was in college. He wasn't. It was 21.
He knew he was lying, he knew people could look it up and see for themselves, he knew that multiple perjuries would be overlooked by a GOP desperate to get him into power.
The GOP might take a hit in the midterms over this, but they'll have control of the Supreme Court for 30 years - doesn't sound like too much of a price to pay.
I wonder how Senator Susan Collins will feel when she realises that she may have just cast the first stone in overturning Roe vs Wade here.
Hmmmmm - THAT'S interesting. Don't know much about her, but it's occurred to me that she'd probably make an excellent future republican presidential candidate.
Hopefully this is a decision orchestrated by her - rather than Trump pushing her out to replace her with one of his crazies in order to derail the dialogue UN. I know she's denied it, but it really wouldn't surprise me if he tried to give the job to Ivanka.
He's already suggested Ivanka is the most qualified person, like, ever
What? More qualified than HE is?
But it's not nepotism, nopey nope. Suggesting that someone with no previous experience and no relevant qualifications would be perfect for a role when they just happen to be related to you. Nope that's almost the opposite of nepotism.
Doesn't picking handbags from a sweatshops inventory then paying to have your name put on the label automatically qualify you for a job at the UN?
So he is now trying to remove power from the #MeToo movement by stating it is all about political correctness (garn mad):
“Every Republican thinks they are going to win Pennsylvania, but I got it. I’d use an expression, you know there’s an expression, but under the rules of Me Too I’m not allowed to use that expression anymore, I can’t do it,” Trump said. “It’s the ‘person’ that got away.”
Yep. MeToo, not about inappropriate use of power and sexual abuse at all. Fake news. It’s just a bunch of PC hand-wringers worrying about the word “Gal”.
Sad.
Yep. MeToo, not about inappropriate use of power and sexual abuse at all. Fake news. It’s just a bunch of PC hand-wringers worrying about the word “Gal”.
Sad.
He seems to be forgetting who half his electorate are. The number of women standing for election is huge in comparison to previous years. His support among women is falling still.
Trump is in a pickle now, Saudi's are central to his mid East peace plan, he's got a lot of investment there ( which he's just denied, but videos of him discussing them have appeared)
Saudi's have him by the balls, huge arms sales (tho even some rep's uneasy with horrific war in Yemen) & a tonne of Saudi money invested in USA...
So his & popmpeo submissive defence of them inevitable.
Wonder how much of this is revenge by Erdogan on him for lira pressure & preacher release ?
Either way he's put himself in a bad position 3 weeks from midterms
I don't think most of his supporters care what happens outside of their trailer park/county let alone state or country so not sure this will have much of an effect on the mid-terms but we can hope.
under the rules of Me Too
What are they? Is there a book?
I don’t think most of his supporters care what happens outside of their trailer park/county let alone state or country
That is the nail on the head right there.
I see the Mandarin Moron is saying we are being unfair to the Saudis and that they are innocent of the murder of Kashoggi until proved guilty. He's right of course - it's perfectly possible that someone visiting the Consulate in Istanbul to pick up a routine document could accidentally slip over on a wet marble floor, fall on a bone saw and dismember himself, and then the bits be cleaned up by an over-zealous cleaner. It's the obvious explanation.
if the Turkish release the audio of this.....
The Wall Street Journal, citing Turkish official who had heard the recording, said Khashoggi was allegedly killed and dismembered in the office of the Saudi consul general, Mohammad al-Otaibi, who was in the room at the time. A voice on the recording can be heard inviting him to leave, the report said.
Forensics expert Salah Muhammad al-Tubaigy is reportedly heard putting on headphones to listen to music as he begins to dismember the body, and encouraging other people in the room to do the same.
According to Middle East Eye, Khashoggi was dragged from the office to Otaibi’s study next door, where Tubaigy began cutting up his body on a table while he was still alive.
Trump is going to have to do something he really cant do as he needs Saudi on side
even his base wont like this
even his base wont like this
It's difficult to believe his base will care unfortunately
And today he tweets this:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1052522197347119104
man he is seriously delusional.
man he is seriously delusional.
What I love there - in quoting someone who is supposedly espousing Trumps 'honesty' he's altered the quoted and removed a key detail -
The original quote is in three paragraphs - Trump has spliced together the first and last together and missed out the middle one which reads:
"Don't get me wrong Trump lies all the time. He said that he 'enacted the largest tax cuts and reforms in American history' (actually they are the eighth largest) and that 'our economy is the strongest its been in the history of our country" (which may one day be true but not yet). In part its a New York thing - everything is the biggest and the best"
So even in quoting some celebrating his honest he turns it into a lie- by leaving out the stuff about him lying. 🙂
Did anyone else hear Tony Schwartz* dissection of Trump on radio 4 earlier this evening? Certainly didn't mince his words!
* co wrote the art of the deal with trump 30yrs ago
Did anyone else hear Tony Schwartz* dissection of Trump on radio 4 earlier this evening? Certainly didn’t mince his words!
* co wrote the art of the deal with trump 30yrs ago
Just listened to it, I take it that it was recorded two weeks before the election. I simply cannot believe that with that kind of damning assessment from someone with direct experience of the man that anyone could have voted for him but I guess people see what they want to see and put a lot of faith in his anti-politician profile.
Link:-
What is it Like to Be Donald Trump's ghostwriter?
It’s the obvious explanation.
Occam's bone saw?
I don’t think most of his supporters care what happens outside of their trailer park/county let alone state or country
Most of them are unaware of anything at all existing outside their own county, let alone state. Many can’t even recognise their own country on a map of the world.
I don’t think most of his supporters care what happens outside of their trailer park/county let alone state or country
The bigger question is how many of them are there?
He lost the popular vote, had people voting against hillary and those who just went along. He can't count on all those who voted for him they are not "his" people.
So explosive devices sent to Obama, Hilary Clinton, CNN and George Soros.
I wonder whose conspiracy-laden narratives could be causing people to do such things...?
A decent leader would probably say something about how this is an attack on democracy and that violence is not the right way to oppose his enemies. Reckon Trump will even mention it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45969100
Also interesting to see tRumps take on Khashoggi;s murder.
'very bad original concept'
'carried out poorly'
'worst cover up in history'
presumably when he starts killing his opponents, he'll be doing in a more professional manner.....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45968185
I liked Trump's clarification that although Saudi Arabia is a "great ally" and big investors in the US, he does still think that dismembering someone alive is "something that is very bad"... if it happened... but y'know the arms deal is worth billions... so... "we're just hurting ourselves"
‘very bad original concept’
‘carried out poorly’
‘worst cover up in history’
He did also say it was "very poor execution" - not sure if he's seen the video
****wit
‘very bad original concept’
‘carried out poorly’
‘worst cover up in history’
all you need to add to then end of that is '...Darling' and it could be Craig Revel Horwood speaking.
Tweeting fro his unsecured phone
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1055458320390217728
The man is about as self aware as a dog licking it's own arse in public.
“very poor execution”
As in ‘very poorly carried out’?
al jazeera did a very good opinion piece about dTrump’s Amerika:
A dangerous, dangerous guy.
Unfortunately his legacy will live on in politics and the world, long after he has left office.
I see he is sending the army to make it look like immigration is a massive threat again. Panic at the polls.
According to conservatives and Republican supporters this is all fake, a deep-state project set up by Democrats to gain them sympathy.
For the Trump fans it's impossible that one of their own would logically follow the calls for violence and retribution against the left, so the improbable must be the truth.
They already know there is a deep state controlling things because there is, how else did trump win....
And so a nutter shoots people dead in a family ceremony whilst shouting antisemitic slogans, and the Donald tells us it's their fault because they didn't have an armed guard on the door?
Yep.... nothing at all about how the guy got the guns in the first place.
Must be some mid terms can't jeopardise those votes
Trump tells blatant lie again...
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/28/politics/donald-trump-nyse-false-claim/
He didn’t say which September 11th he was referring to. The NYSE was open for business as usual on sept 12th 2000 🙂
Former security chiefs take on parallels between Trumps rhetoric and that of ISIS/Daesh - not identical, but designed to attract a certain mindset;
America is still fighting its Civil War, with a Confederate President in charge:
Trump in more made up fake news shock horror!
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-makes-up-poll-751740/
It’s like he wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror and thinks ‘you know what, it would be great if (insert group that, on the whole, don’t like him) liked me’ and the mirror responds with ‘oh but they do, sire’ then he just relays that to the world.
I wonder if the House race will be closer than pollsters think.
Hes whipping up the fear of immigrants, sending 1000s of troops to the border, happy to capitalise on the Soros conspiracies about evil immigrants & even muslim terrorists in the migratnt caravan , it's all depressingly familiar to the way Gove & Johnson bounced off Farage s breaking point poster to lie about Turkey joining the EU.
Even though it contributed to the murder of Jo Cox, people still voted with them.
I'd like to be wrong maybe there are more decent Americans out there
Well the assessment is really a split with house going blue
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/
and Senate staying red
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/senate/
Of course it's all based on the polls with assessments and historic norms applied but I think the indicators are high for the house going blue, senate is the wrong seats for a flip.
It's in line with a hugely unpopular president upsetting lots of people along the way, is "his base" are the consistent 35% who always approve then they have a lot of voting to do.
That SNL clip is ace.
If there is a flip, how long do we think it will be before democrats are ‘enemies of the people’?
They already are, had the misfortune to see some of the attack adds, they are going to flood the country with immigrants to dilute your beliefs and take your guns away along with bankrupting the country and putting your taxes up.
Evil pure evil.....
It seems that the current style of aggressive, combative and toxic politics in the US, and increasingly in other countries, can be laid firmly at the door of Newt Gingrich:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
Good time to drop that in case people are voting on the way home
This was the guy whose private jet was mysteriously touring Trump rally locations in the weeks before the election, no?
Can't see why that would attract attention...
This seems a bit optimistic though
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1059881686140444674
Lowlifes like Cohen might do deals with the feds, but I imagine Russian oligarchs would have additional things to keep them quiet.
Apparently Meuller is looking at Arron Banks emails to the Russian ambassador too.
If russia did buy or compromise Brexiters, trump or anyone, Putin has made it very clear that people that betray him are not safe wherever they are.
Trump and the Republicans are quite keen on rendition, waterboarding and other rather dubious methods of information gathering, I wonder if they will be so keen to implement those methods to find the truth when they are in the cross hairs.
So democrates won a house or something....is Trump impeached yet
the democrat commentator on bbc early news made and interesting point that the now they (the democrats) have control of the lower house and therefore its committees they can subpoena documents (including donnies tax returns)
(including donnies tax returns)
I REALLY hope they show he was born in Kenya.
Yeah the heat is on for Trump
Some of these guys are going to keep flipping on him.
If the Democrats spend the next two years going after Trump then they will hand him a second term, they have to be really smart how they do things.
Yep, which is why they tried as much as possible not to mention him in campaigning, they don't need to go after him more than keeping the process going. Doing the committee things presenting the evidence and his republican support drops.
Trump has done enough to take himself down and will continue to give that to the world
agree wth pigface, dems did well but Trumps base stayed very resilient, even if some of the traditional rep base turned against him, they still backed plenty of upleasant candidates!
even if meuller produces a smoking gun, his supporters will still be able to call it #fakenews & carry on as normal
think the democrates did well considering they were sailing into a "The economy, stupid" headwind, though the US electorate does like to hamstring the sitting president as the incumbent with such good economic numbers he really should be doing better (they were run pretty close in a lot of very safe republican senate seats)
But according to his Twitter Trump still thinks that he won last night.
It’s almost a shame Ninny isn’t here to tell us how this was an unbridled success for him, and he’s got everyone right where he wants them. Couldn’t have gone better.
He didn't lose as badly as some people expected which is disappointing, now let's some tax returns.
Trump has done enough to take himself down
Has he? By losing one house he now has someone else to blame when the economy collapses. If he still had a free hand, then all f***ups over the next 2 years would have been down to him, now they're not. He's done enough to give himself a better chance of being re-elected.
Has he? By losing one house he now has someone else to blame when the economy collapses.
Nothing to do with that, meetings with the wrong people, money from the wrong places, debts to the wrong institutions, some of his direct interference in various departments (census is the recent one) all point to some very difficult times ahead for him.
Muller isn't onto nothing and some of that dirt will stick with the greater Republicans rather than what people think is his base.
After that he can move onto his mistakes in politics
The one good thing about the result is that he does have less power over the investigations and investigators so I hope you're right