Trump Administration Meltdown Thread...

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 3:29 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote:https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/923237809187622912

Am I right in thinking that this comment deserves a response of WTF in 64 point font?

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 3:57 pm

Pruitt wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/923237809187622912

Am I right in thinking that this comment deserves a response of WTF in 64 point font?

Wasn't that in response to a specific question about whether he authorized the particular mission?

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:09 pm

Steve of phpBB wrote:
Pruitt wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/923237809187622912

Am I right in thinking that this comment deserves a response of WTF in 64 point font?

Wasn't that in response to a specific question about whether he authorized the particular mission?

Yeah, that's a very out-of-context characterization. Trump was just saying he didn't authorize that particular mission, but he is aware there are troops/operations going in Niger and elsewhere in Africa.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:47 pm

Okay, so down to 12 point font.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:43 pm

No - it's worthy of 128 font. He's entirely incapable of recognizing responsibility. He seeks to share / deflect blame.

Fuck him.

Dragons would be a cool thing to wish for about now.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:10 pm

This is the sort of thing that makes people look at the States and shake their heads in disbelief.

10 Year Old Girl Taken From Hospital To Shelter

She's lived here since she was 3 months old.

The family has received few details about the conditions of the shelter where Rosa Maria is being held. The shelter’s staff had been expecting her when she arrived and promised a smooth transition but did not have copies of Rosa Maria’s hospital discharge papers or access to her medical history, Gonzalez said.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:32 pm

Well I bet he still proud to an American anyway
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc- ... 750baa5f49

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:33 pm

Ad that played during Fox and Friends. Trump saw it.

https://youtu.be/GXl8vRmLeJk

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:41 pm

Savage! I love the thought of it enraging Trump.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:51 pm

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 7793580033
That song is trash.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:52 pm

Johnnie wrote:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/923894747793580033
That song is trash.

Dude. You're in the military. Are you even allowed to insult the national anthem?

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:57 pm

Crackerjack.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 7:58 pm

charges are happening

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:15 pm

I hope he bleeds out wondering if the walls were really closing in.

I have no fucks to give for his soul.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:16 pm

Of course, I say this listening to ELO, stoned immaculate.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:57 pm

Mueller comin' yo!

Let's hope he has the briefcase and the shotgun.

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 10:42 am

Flynn has to be the overwhelming favorite to be the person charged, right? Ever since if was reported months ago that Mueller had rejected Flynn's cooperation offer, charges against him have seemed inevitable. The question is if Trump reacts by immediately pardoning Flynn or trying to fire Mueller.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 10:54 am

my guess is Manafort

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:50 am

So excited to watch this!

Twitter and Fox are going to be incendiary on Monday.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:29 pm

Remember what happens when we expect something good? It’s going to end up being Obama or something.

Post by **brian** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 3:50 pm

Manafort -150
Flynn +135

That’s my guess anyway.

Trump pardoning either of them would be the end of his presidency. The GOP would have almost no choice but to impeach at that point.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:02 pm

brian wrote:Manafort -150
Flynn +135

That’s my guess anyway.

Trump pardoning either of them would be the end of his presidency. The GOP would have almost no choice but to impeach at that point.

Yea, ok. It's nice to think about, but despite months and months and months of connecting the dots between Trump and Russia all it took was a Clinton lawyer to have given money for opposition research and the right goes "Hillary has been in contact with Russia! Not Trump!"

I'm following the details and I hope Mueller rips the head of Washington, but the only feelings I have is that these people die suddenly like Scalia.

Post by **brian** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 5:04 pm

I wanna be pretty clear here. If Trump pre-emptively starts pardoning these guys and the GOP does nothing then it’s time to legitimately start looking to escape the United States.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 6:11 pm

brian wrote:I wanna be pretty clear here. If Trump pre-emptively starts pardoning these guys and the GOP does nothing then it’s time to legitimately start looking to escape the United States.

The GOP does nothing.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:41 pm

https://twitter.com/MamoudouNDiaye/stat ... 3719391232

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:13 pm

If Hillary Clinton has the acting chops, I think she does and if not Kate McKinnon, there needs to be a 'shadow president' skit where she's manipulating everything within the Trump administration.

And she needs to satirize literally everything being stated about her and Russia and everything else. And there has to be some scary 'evil villain' shit that confirms the paranoia of the Republicans.

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:41 pm

degenerasian wrote:
brian wrote:I wanna be pretty clear here. If Trump pre-emptively starts pardoning these guys and the GOP does nothing then it’s time to legitimately start looking to escape the United States.

The GOP does nothing.

The scary thing is that all the usual media suspects (Fox News, Wall Street Journal, NY Post) are now calling for Mueller's ouster or resignation. And I agree that if Trump did that, there would likely be no consequences from this Congress.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:12 pm

Johnnie wrote:If Hillary Clinton has the acting chops, I think she does and if not Kate McKinnon, there needs to be a 'shadow president' skit where she's manipulating everything within the Trump administration.

And she needs to satirize literally everything being stated about her and Russia and everything else. And there has to be some scary 'evil villain' shit that confirms the paranoia of the Republicans.

Hillary needs to quietly walk off into the sunset. Every time she opens her mouth or makes a public appearance, it turns negative attention from Trump to her. The RW media and Trump diehards will all attack Hillary no matter what, but herm appearances anger a large number on the Left and most of the Center. The Dems need a new face for the Party. Not just a leading contender for Presidential nominee or a dynamic person to become the voice of the Party, but an overhaul on the image of the Party. People don't like the Dem Party. The Right, the Center and the Left. Few people like Pelosi, or Harry Reid. The problem is the pull between people who want to shift the Party Left, and those who want to move to the Center to pull in Centrist Republicans. The anti-Trump Republicans are never going to vote for the status quo Dems, and the more they shift to the Right to grad votes, the further Right the GOP moves, and claims the newly Center positions of the Dems are radical Left Wing lunacy, despite the positions being identical to the GOP positions 10 years prior. But, the powerful people in the Dem Party don't want to lose power, so nothing will change.

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:41 pm

The Sybian wrote:
Johnnie wrote:If Hillary Clinton has the acting chops, I think she does and if not Kate McKinnon, there needs to be a 'shadow president' skit where she's manipulating everything within the Trump administration.

And she needs to satirize literally everything being stated about her and Russia and everything else. And there has to be some scary 'evil villain' shit that confirms the paranoia of the Republicans.

Hillary needs to quietly walk off into the sunset. Every time she opens her mouth or makes a public appearance, it turns negative attention from Trump to her. The RW media and Trump diehards will all attack Hillary no matter what, but herm appearances anger a large number on the Left and most of the Center. The Dems need a new face for the Party. Not just a leading contender for Presidential nominee or a dynamic person to become the voice of the Party, but an overhaul on the image of the Party. People don't like the Dem Party. The Right, the Center and the Left. Few people like Pelosi, or Harry Reid. The problem is the pull between people who want to shift the Party Left, and those who want to move to the Center to pull in Centrist Republicans. The anti-Trump Republicans are never going to vote for the status quo Dems, and the more they shift to the Right to grad votes, the further Right the GOP moves, and claims the newly Center positions of the Dems are radical Left Wing lunacy, despite the positions being identical to the GOP positions 10 years prior. But, the powerful people in the Dem Party don't want to lose power, so nothing will change.

I agree with all of this. I would also add that the idea the Democratic Party can win over any significant number of "Centrist Republicans" by moving right is futile. If those voters were ever going to abandon the GOP, it would have happened when Donald Fucking Trump was the GOP nominee. The Democratic Party needs to do two things to win elections: (1) find candidates or policies that actually excite people and inspire them to vote; and (2) fight GOP voter suppression efforts tooth and nail.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:48 pm

I'll be so pissed if the only guy indicted is Carter Page.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Oct 30, 2017 5:52 am

The Sybian wrote:
Hillary needs to quietly walk off into the sunset. Every time she opens her mouth or makes a public appearance, it turns negative attention from Trump to her. The RW media and Trump diehards will all attack Hillary no matter what, but herm appearances anger a large number on the Left and most of the Center. The Dems need a new face for the Party. Not just a leading contender for Presidential nominee or a dynamic person to become the voice of the Party, but an overhaul on the image of the Party. People don't like the Dem Party. The Right, the Center and the Left. Few people like Pelosi, or Harry Reid. The problem is the pull between people who want to shift the Party Left, and those who want to move to the Center to pull in Centrist Republicans. The anti-Trump Republicans are never going to vote for the status quo Dems, and the more they shift to the Right to grad votes, the further Right the GOP moves, and claims the newly Center positions of the Dems are radical Left Wing lunacy, despite the positions being identical to the GOP positions 10 years prior. But, the powerful people in the Dem Party don't want to lose power, so nothing will change.

I agree completely.

Perhaps she looks in the mirror and sees the face of the resistance? Maybe the fact that wherever she goes she gets paid?

And a 76 year old man is not going to be much of a "new face" by 2020.

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Mon Oct 30, 2017 6:25 am

Pruitt wrote:
The Sybian wrote:
Hillary needs to quietly walk off into the sunset. Every time she opens her mouth or makes a public appearance, it turns negative attention from Trump to her. The RW media and Trump diehards will all attack Hillary no matter what, but herm appearances anger a large number on the Left and most of the Center. The Dems need a new face for the Party. Not just a leading contender for Presidential nominee or a dynamic person to become the voice of the Party, but an overhaul on the image of the Party. People don't like the Dem Party. The Right, the Center and the Left. Few people like Pelosi, or Harry Reid. The problem is the pull between people who want to shift the Party Left, and those who want to move to the Center to pull in Centrist Republicans. The anti-Trump Republicans are never going to vote for the status quo Dems, and the more they shift to the Right to grad votes, the further Right the GOP moves, and claims the newly Center positions of the Dems are radical Left Wing lunacy, despite the positions being identical to the GOP positions 10 years prior. But, the powerful people in the Dem Party don't want to lose power, so nothing will change.

I agree completely.

Perhaps she looks in the mirror and sees the face of the resistance? Maybe the fact that wherever she goes she gets paid?

And a 76 year old man is not going to be much of a "new face" by 2020.

It wouldn't be difficult for a much younger candidate to embrace Sanders' economic policies, while also being better on foreign policy, which has never been a high priority area for him. But for so long, Democratic politicians have believed that fundraising requires making nice with big money donors, which naturally leads to watered down economic policies that fail to adequately address the scope of inequality in this country. The whole "Bernie Bro" garbage was a transparent attempt by the DNC and Clinton wing of the party, which has embraced big money politics for decades, to portray Sanders' attempts to target economic inequality as in tension with gender and racial equality. Which of course is totally bullshit, and goes a long way to explaining the unpopularity of the Democratic Party with the American Left.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Mon Oct 30, 2017 6:56 am

Manafort and Gates.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:11 pm

Post by **brian** » Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:35 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:48 pm So what's this Scaramucci thing? This is like the 10th time during this campaign/administration I see everyone talking about a story because it's common knowledge, but no regular news outlets discussing it because it's not fit for public discourse.

Who has two thumbs and got to give technical support to the "Mooch" today?

This guy.

psunate77 · Post by **psunate77** » Thu Nov 11, 2021 4:50 pm

Trump still doing good work. Thanks God he is still in the picture.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Nov 11, 2021 4:55 pm

TFW Trump is still doing good work:

pruitt2 · Post by **pruitt2** » Thu Nov 11, 2021 6:16 pm

Imagine having your head so far up your ass that you actually enjoy making pro Trump comments to a bunch of guys who hate you.

Oh well. Small minded people choose their heroes and there's nothing you can say to change their minds. I believe the Kremlin called them "Useful idiots."

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:03 pm

Incels gonna incel.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:17 pm

Fun little read!

Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun