Donald J Trump

[paddyfool 379]

1 hour ago, The Mad Hatter said:

He has strengthened his grip on congress and most of his endorsed candidates won governorship in their respective states. Realistically it looks like four more years for Mr Trump.

 

Not really. He's lost the house, and went from being 2% behind in the popular vote in 2016 to 9% behind this year. Obviously the popular vote is not what decides US elections (or Hillary would be President now), but even the quirks of the US electoral college can't really make up a gap of this magnitude.  Also, the Republicans particularly lost support in the Midwest and Rust Belt states which were key to the 2016 victory.  And the Dems flipping 7 out of 28 state governors up for grabs, some in key swing states, vs the Republicans flipping just 1 safe republican state (Alaska) gives them a welcome advantage in those areas too. 

[CaptainChorizo 1,977]

2 hours ago, The Mad Hatter said:

He has strengthened his grip on congress and most of his endorsed candidates won governorship in their respective states. Realistically it looks like four more years for Mr Trump.

 

Outside of Florida which always is a 1-2% for both parties,he flipped Senate seat's in State's Dems were not realistically looking to compete in 2020 on the Presidential level(Indiana,North Dakota,Missoura)   His 2016 coalition won't be enough to hold on in Michigan,Pennsylvania and Wisc due to demographic changes and a likely decrease in 3rd party votes. Unless the Dems *** up and back someone bad as Hilary again,he will need to win over some new voters in a way that doesn't piss off his base coalition

[Joey Russ 7,220]

Yeah, I’d say if they nominate someone like Beto O’Rourke, his chances of a second term would be really fucked. Besides, flips in Nevada and potentially Arizona show that the bases there are growing as well. 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Nearly assassinated?  
I mean to tell you, people, we were THIS close!

[Joey Russ 7,220]

Chief of staff John Kelly is out.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

31 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

Chief of staff John Kelly is out.

 

I thought it was him in the tea-rooms I popped into a few years back.

[charon 4,943]

20 minutes ago, Cat O'Falk said:

 

I thought it was him in the tea-rooms I popped into a few years back.

 

 

 

[Joey Russ 7,220]

 

 “Smocking gun”.  

[YoungWillz 21,044]

5 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

 

 “Smocking gun”.  

He has the best words, he was top of his class, he is a genius with a very big brain.....

 

NOT!!!!!!!!!

[DeathByArsenic 46]

The walls are closing in

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Trump Foundation to be dissolved following allegations it was used for his personal and business benefit: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/dec/18/michael-flynn-sentencing-donald-trump-latest-live-updates

[Joey Russ 7,220]

James Mattis now resigns. Probably the best member of Trump’s administration as he was at least qualified for the job, but still pretty bad...

[Clorox Bleachman 2,415]

Could Trump make Drop 40 again?

 

Blind, dead clairvoyant Baba Vanga thinks so. She predicted 9/11 and the rise of Daesh. In her 2019 forecast, she claims The Donald will be afflicted with a mystery illness which will lead to hearing loss and brain trauma.

 

Be sure to pencil him in. A lock if ever there was one!

 

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/fabulous/3606711/blind-mystic-baba-vanga-2019-forecast/

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Trump address alternative: Stormy Daniels to fold laundry in her underwear on Instagram live

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

LOL - This is going viral. In 1958, a television western produced an episode about a conman who drifts into a town and tries to dupe the citizens into building a protective wall. The conman's name just happens to be Trump.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/1083140191362048000

 

Snopes says it is legit:

 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trackdown-trump-character-wall/

[markb4 892]

In "very good health" apparently:

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47184751

[Skinny kiltrunner 553]

5 hours ago, markb4 said:

In "very good health" apparently:

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47184751

It's not like they would ever actually say anything else, regardless of the circumstances,  while he is still in office.  

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

So, given the legal shitstorm surrounding Trump and the number of plea-bargain cases already in the bag. Assuming he stands and can't get beyond the 35% hardcore who still support him does he do the traditional walk from office, board Airforce 2 and touch down to find federal agents waiting to arrest him in January 2021?

[paddyfool 379]

Just seen an excellent rant posted by a Nate White on Quora, after someone asked why many British people don't like Donald Trump:

 

"A few things spring to mind.

 

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

 

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

 

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll.

 

And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

 

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a bully's snivelling sidekick instead.

 

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.

 

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

 

- Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

- You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

 

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

 

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

 

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created?’

 

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

 

My apologies for the loss of paragraph separation and its somewhat ad hoc replacement during that copy paste.

[Skinny kiltrunner 553]

Sure, but could you tell us what you really think?

 

Seriously though, I think that is one of the most apt descriptions I have seen.  Well done.

[Joey Russ 7,220]

[alt obits guy 3,371]

On 21/08/2018 at 19:03, Joey Russ said:

Big day in for trump associates. First, Paul Manafort has been convincted of 8 counts of fraud. And Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty on 8 counts. Now watch both of them be pardoned...

Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/07/trump-manafort-trial-sentence-news-latest-live-updates-us-politics-today

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Just now, alt obits guy said:

Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/07/trump-manafort-trial-sentence-news-latest-live-updates-us-politics-today

 

 

Pardon?

 

Oh, sorry, pardon in 3....2....1.....

[Joey Russ 7,220]

On 07/03/2019 at 18:18, alt obits guy said:

Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/07/trump-manafort-trial-sentence-news-latest-live-updates-us-politics-today

 

 

An additional 43 months have been added on, making his sentence total 7.5 years...

[YoungWillz 21,044]

When Barr's microphone cut out on the announcement of the Mueller Report, I thought he was redacting his own speech!

 

Anyhow, interesting that there is still speculation because he's making his speech before anyone (apart from Whitehouse and personal Trump counsel) have seen it.

 

It sounds like there's damning evidence on obstruction, but Barr seems to imply that either Trump was too dumb or was so frustrated and under pressure he made decisions that were not intentionally criminal. White, elite privilege? Is it a matter of time that Barr also falls foul of the Trump firing machine, regardless of his obvious blind loyalty?

 

Used to be mud stuck......