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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.....