Trump

[morepork]

Fucker is trying to walk it back. What a complete fucktrumpet. I rarely enjoy the HR training I have been compelled to take in various workplaces, but hey, some cunts really do need them some learnin'.

That surprises me. I felt sure he'd continue leaning into it.

Puja

Someone has had a word in his ear. I think we are nats pube away from possible inciting violence. Imminent lawless action has legal precedent and is not protected by the first amendment.

[Digby]

Fucker is trying to walk it back. What a complete fucktrumpet. I rarely enjoy the HR training I have been compelled to take in various workplaces, but hey, some cunts really do need them some learnin'.

That surprises me. I felt sure he'd continue leaning into it.

Puja

It's just outstanding to say he doesn't support the crowd chanting 'send her back' when this latest effort was started by him saying they should go back where they came from. He's not even agreeing with himself, again.

[Sandydragon]

Fucker is trying to walk it back. What a complete fucktrumpet. I rarely enjoy the HR training I have been compelled to take in various workplaces, but hey, some cunts really do need them some learnin'.

That surprises me. I felt sure he'd continue leaning into it.

Puja

It's just outstanding to say he doesn't support the crowd chanting 'send her back' when this latest effort was started by him saying they should go back where they came from. He's not even agreeing with himself, again.

Compare and contrast the moral courage of McCain who put a racist in her place during a previous presidential election to this buffoon who stirs something up then backs away.

[Digby]

That surprises me. I felt sure he'd continue leaning into it.

Puja

It's just outstanding to say he doesn't support the crowd chanting 'send her back' when this latest effort was started by him saying they should go back where they came from. He's not even agreeing with himself, again.

Compare and contrast the moral courage of McCain who put a racist in her place during a previous presidential election to this buffoon who stirs something up then backs away.

Can I assume we're talking about John not Meghan? And was that when he said Obama wasn't an Arab, rather than there's nothing wrong with Arabs?

Also McCain (John) did rather advance the cause of the Tea Party, promoted Sarah Palin to a lunatic level, and whilst it's not all on him we ended up with Trump he was no handbrake to the Republican Party abandoning reason, he was part of the bandwagon which has dumped the world in this mess

[Sandydragon]

Agreed to all of that. But he corrected one of his supporters when talking complete bull shit when it would have been far easier, and maybe vote winning, to agree.

[Puja]

Agreed to all of that. But he corrected one of his supporters when talking complete bull shit when it would have been far easier, and maybe vote winning, to agree.

Yeah, he almost certainly would have won if he'd gone full racist and mobilised the conspiracy theorists like Trump.

Puja

[Mikey Brown]

There was a bit of a ramble/context to go with this, but honestly what’s the point.

[Mikey Brown]

Yes it was.

[morepork]

That is fucking horrible to read. Is it taken from the Epstein trial?

[Digby]

Drain the swamp, drain the swamp, drain the swamp... or just flood it, your call Mr President



The balance in checks and balances would be well and truly toppled. Now maybe that's fine with a figure as honest as Trump, but try to imagine someone willing to put personal interests above national ones and it becomes a different story entirely

[morepork]

Jesus christ. How blatant will it need to get before some action is taken?

[Digby]

I assume the courts continue to rule they have no role in this process, in which case it's over to Congress, whether that's any sort of answer isn't clear. Though seeing as I thought the idea of Trump ever gaining the status of Republican nominee was just batshit crazy I should allow it's possible to get a batshit crazy judge who rules in favour of corruption

[morepork]

So the executive and judicial branches of government appear to spend a disproportionate amount of their available time working to shield the President's personal financial situation from the legislative branch, who are themselves occupied to a confounding degree with parrying conspiracy theorist nonsense regarding junior female legislators. The current secretary of state is preoccupied with creating photo opportunities for the Pres and his kids, while a bent real estate shaved Gibbon in a suit acts as de facto Secretary of state and is selling time shares in occupied Palestinian territories. The rest of the government apparatus is compelled to justify, somehow, blatantly xenophobic nonsense to the voting public in defence of an immigration ideology that is a case study in dangerous incompetence.


Who the fuck amongst these public servants is doing any actual work?

[Puja]

That is fucking horrible to read. Is it taken from the Epstein trial?

The most horrible thing is that, while there's obviously no way to know definitively whether that is true, no-one's sitting here saying, "That doesn't sound like something Trump would say". There's not definitive proof that he raped a 13 year old, but we all know that, if he did, that would absolutely be how he did it - it's 100% on-brand Trump.

Puja

[gransoporro]

I don't want to take sides. Just one thing, Trump is well known for being verbally violent, and allegedly for forcing himself on women; still he doesn't have a record for striking people (alleged or not).

So yes, that part would be out of character as we know it. It doesn't mean the accusation is false or true. Just stating.

[Digby]

So the executive and judicial branches of government appear to spend a disproportionate amount of their available time working to shield the President's personal financial situation from the legislative branch, who are themselves occupied to a confounding degree with parrying conspiracy theorist nonsense regarding junior female legislators. The current secretary of state is preoccupied with creating photo opportunities for the Pres and his kids, while a bent real estate shaved Gibbon in a suit acts as de facto Secretary of state and is selling time shares in occupied Palestinian territories. The rest of the government apparatus is compelled to justify, somehow, blatantly xenophobic nonsense to the voting public in defence of an immigration ideology that is a case study in dangerous incompetence.


Who the fuck amongst these public servants is doing any actual work?

Don't overlook Mrs Mitch McConnell as the Secretary of State for Transportation going above and beyond in service to corruption and nepotism that have little if not nothing to do with racism. Bar the current State for Transportation is in many respects the poster child for the possible positive outcome for immigration, as indeed is the President

[Digby]

I don't want to take sides. Just one thing, Trump is well known for being verbally violent, and allegedly for forcing himself on women; still he doesn't have a record for striking people (alleged or not).

So yes, that part would be out of character as we know it. It doesn't mean the accusation is false or true. Just stating.

Luckily amphetamine psychosis isn't a thing beyond any personality traits the President may have which haven't been on public display

[Mikey Brown]

Missed this absolute doozy at the time.

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/i ... nsion-deal

Not Trump, but I can't be bothered to find the 'America is full of garbage humans' thread. This is close enough.

[Digby]

Washington Post going with the subtle but hard to disagree with line that Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset. This concerns Moscow Mitch's efforts to rather than win a vote on taking no action to stop Russian interference in US elections to deny instead a vote even going to the Senate floor in the first place, Mitch's actions ignoring in the process the Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI, the Defence Department, the DHS... all asserting that Russia has and is ongoing in their efforts to undermine US democracy. The vote Moscow Mitch is blocking from actually proceeding to a vote asks that US campaigns be required to report offers of aid, offers of aid they're already not allowed to accept but would be required to inform the FBI of in future, and also a requirement to use paper ballots. I assume the use of paper ballots would be to offset the risk of the electronic voting machines being hacked, though what sort of switchover from electronic to paper is being considered I don't know, I do know the firms behind the electoral voting machines have very few minimum federal standards to which they need adhere which presents a security risk, and I do know in wholly unrelated news Mitch McConnell has taken some big donations from some of the biggest firms behind those electronic voting machines.

Flood the swamp, flood the swamp...


(Oh and most of the heads of those agencies reporting Russian attempts to interfere are I think all Republican appointees, mostly Trump appointees I assume, the Senate Intelligence committee is cross party but chaired by a Republican, and it was also in Mueller's report with Mueller being a long time registered Republican)

[Digby]

Yes, well, go Team Racist, fuck yeah

[morepork]

and now Baltimore moves to the front line of the internet meme war on facts. What a pack of cunts. More government resources get committed to burying facts in the name of propaganda. Is it any wonder people slip through the net in a system that prioritises arms sales, corporate welfare, and a medieval wall over health, education, and a humane standard of living?

[Digby]

The race rows were a means to get focus off the Mueller report perhaps but now he's now happy with his coverage as a nailed on racist we're back to trade wars and stepping back from unfair treaties with no idea how to replace those treaties

[morepork]

What planet does this spunk basket live on?

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[WaspInWales]

What planet does this spunk basket live on?

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Fucking staggering.

You see the tweet where he commented on Cummings house being broken into which was ended with 'too bad'?

What a complete cunt

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[Puja]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 25556.html

Outstanding. Is there any lie he won't tell?

Puja