Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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I think the racism and backlash to Obama is what sewed the seed. Trump simply poured the water with his birther crap. Yea, Clinton was a terrible candidate but she should have been beaten by the likes of John Kasich.
@abelard had a very informative post on the matter. We agree on several points, I believe. Here's an illustration of what Trump does with those tweets:
and - who is 2017's Democratic Woman of the Year?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...eives-2017-democratic-woman-of-the-year-award
Thanks man,
As I was typing I realized a few were open to debate.
I think what we see on twitter is Trump, I think none of his policy stuff is him. There are a whole lot of unsavory types in DC making hay while the sun shines and as long as Trump continues to keep the media gaze off them with his stupid tweets, the better for them.
So I think it's intentional chaos and trump is an unwitting puppet.
A very dangerous game to play.
I also think Mike Pence has a huge part to play in all of this.
dholliday
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Aye, it's very much Bush Jr again when the shots were called by those around him (poison like Cheney & Rumsfeld). Interesting theory of yours that Trump's tweets are a tactic (however intentional) to take the attention away from his men.
Well, this tactic is certainly working! I said earlier the mainstream media, and the many thousands of anti-Trump online commenters, are paying him far too much attention. Your theory is the best reason why this should calm down that I've heard yet.
It should calm down by any normal standards, but theres nothing normal about all of this.
Manafort will go to trial next April. It could be the end for Trump and Pence next Summer. After the way the republicans dragged the supreme court pick, there could be a very interesting mid term where we are essentially trying to vote the majority party in to the house so they can select their speaker/president. Electing the reps who then select the leader, how very British of us!
(open to correction on any and all of this
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dholliday
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Another problem in modern debating is dismissing your opponent before he has even replied.
It betrays an absolute faith in one's own opinion and total rejection of a dissenting view.
Black-&-whiteism. The bane of diplomacy.
Fair enough.
I personally just think he's a narcissistic sociopath and a disgusting human. I've never see or heard anything else to convince me otherwise. It's nothing to do with any media bias.
Trump's business has always been branding, much as he isn't responsible for the construction of the buildings bearing his name, neither is he responsible for the content of his Presidency, it merely bears his name.
The Russian's have a phrase поле́зная идио́тка, "useful idiot". The application here is quite apt, Trump is not a sophisticated man, he has never needed to be; it is entirely possible that Trump absolutely believes that he is in control, and certainly wants to.
That isn't to say that Trump is Russia's useful idiot, I'm not entirely sure they ever thought Trump could win - they were just working to weaken Clinton's eventual "inevitable" Presidency. I suspect he is a little too volatile for such a considered strategist as Putin.
However, he is remarkably useful for those around his administration as an ablative shield while they strip away restrictive legislation in the US; the repeal of environmental regulations, exit from the Paris accord, the 'opportunities' around health insurance from the repeal of the ACA and so forth... all of these are "good for business" if not for the American people.
The Russian's have a phrase поле́зная идио́тка, "useful idiot". The application here is quite apt, Trump is not a sophisticated man, he has never needed to be; it is entirely possible that Trump absolutely believes that he is in control, and certainly wants to.
That isn't to say that Trump is Russia's useful idiot, I'm not entirely sure they ever thought Trump could win - they were just working to weaken Clinton's eventual "inevitable" Presidency. I suspect he is a little too volatile for such a considered strategist as Putin.
However, he is remarkably useful for those around his administration as an ablative shield while they strip away restrictive legislation in the US; the repeal of environmental regulations, exit from the Paris accord, the 'opportunities' around health insurance from the repeal of the ACA and so forth... all of these are "good for business" if not for the American people.
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