The Trump Presidency

Whatever. It does not matter. In a free society, you can talk with everybody, the very idea to have to check before you talk with somebody sounds nonsensical.

Ok. The answer which one has to expect in a totalitarian state. In a free society, who cares what you remember or forget?

Sorry, no, I'm not objecting if Americans simply talk to other people. The issue becomes more problematic if they pay them, give them weapons, or teaching how to fight other states. But simply talking to other people is nothing I object to.

Please, more specific:

That they were willing to receive information from somebody else who knows something discrediting Clinton? Such evil information should have been, of course, thrown away, that's evil Clintonhate. And to search for such information should be illegal, minimum 20 years.

That they were willing to receive information even from the evil subhuman Russians? That's already completely evil, without words. Life without possibility of premature release.

But nobody knows if it is criminal behavior. Because you are not living in a state of law, where everybody knows, or at least is able to know, if some behavior is legal or not. And where it is in any case completely legal to talk to other people. Even of you are the son of some candidate for president.

 

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In the overview, the stakes have been raised: if Trump wins this he wins big.

 

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I think we all know why Pence took the extraordinary measure and formed his own PAC just 5 months into the Trump administration. It's kind of funny in that Trump has already begun raising money for a second term. It's crazy!

Who is delusional: Pence or Trump? I think the answer is obvious.

 

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It is nonsensical. Why are you posting nonsense? Nobody has any problem with anybody just talking with anybody here, that's got nothing to do with it.

You are very careful to forget the right things. Memory is your enemy.
btw: When you propagandize for American fascism, as you do, you aren't a spokesman for a free society. When you disparage the role of memory, as you just did, you are not a spokesman for a reputational society.

But that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about regime change, subverting honest and functional politics, taking people's sound governance away and installing cooperative regimes.

More nonsense. Why are you avoiding the issue?

That's not the problem. Any American can talk to Russians and get information from them - I do it myself, openly, without controversy.

Yes, they do. That's why the perpetrators covered it up, denied it ever happened, are currently working hard to keep as much as they can out of official court records and sworn testimony.

There is no question that it's criminal behavior. The only question is whether we can prove it happened, in court.

 

Meanwhile, in the world of actual Presidential duties, several observers have expressed puzzlement over an apparent US abetting - even instigation - of conflict between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It seems that Kushner and Tillerson were on opposing sides, and Kushner was pushing quarrel. There seemed to be no apparent motive.

Clues now emerge: https://theintercept.com/2017/07/10...get-a-half-billion-dollar-bailout-from-qatar/

This is what one can expect from failure to enforce divestments and tax form visibility and other barriers to conflicts of interest.

 

At this point, it bears bringing back up. No - Mexico is NOT paying for that wall...
https://news.vice.com/story/house-gop-confirms-mexico-aint-paying-for-the-wall

Hm... guess an unnecessary wall is more important than trying to fix our crumbling highways...

Oh, and of course, Trump lied. Again. What a shock...

 

Side point: the large contingent of Christian fundies who backed Trump might want to notice the Aussie's take on Trump's harming of American leadership - China is likely to step up.

America is the most Christian of the world's powers, by far - and China, which is stepping into the leadership vacuum created by Trump and taking control of the world's major trade routes in the South China Sea, is among the least Christian. So America's Christian fundies are losing access and leverage in Asia, where most of the world's people live.

But that's what you voted for, right?

 

They cut themselves off like that twenty, thirty years ago.

 

The hilarious thing is, Donald Trump wrote in his book, How to Get Rich, that he hates shaking hands, that he wishes people just bowed instead, it's more hygienic. I recommend this book highly for it's comedic value.

 

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I have to admit, I laughed at my wife's reaction to seeing that video - that she'd give him one warning to let go, and then deck him.

I'd LOVE to see someone do that to him. Sure, it'd no doubt be an immediate prison sentence for any American... but if one could make a convincing argument that they feared for their safety (He wouldn't let me go!), who knows

 

There's an intriguing aspect to this - Trump did, according to all biography and reliable witness, in fact hate shaking hands and similar germy, dirty conventions. He's got the purity kink. But he is a genuine master of his variety of confidence game, the bully, and that relies partly on physical contact - at least, one needs that in the repertoire for the big leagues.

Scott Adams is right: we've seen this guy learn, over the years and even over the weeks, how to do what he's doing - in the spotlight. We've seen it happen. He has clearly adjusted, quickly and even at his age, to some new circumstances, based on trial and corrected error (he's not orange any more. He's backing off on the hair, gradually and (he apparently estimates) imperceptibly). And in that vein, he appears to have learned how to overcome a personal weakness and shake hands routinely and effectively - to his purpose, which is the bully con. With the gleeful enthusiasm of the newbie he overdid it in the political arena, the major leagues where people watch game film, but consider for a moment the accomplishment: this man does in fact have small weak hands and an apparent balance problem along with the frailties of old age, so he had to learn and practice ways to dominate a handshake as if they were magic tricks or gymnastic stunts. He did - so well they seem natural to him.

 

There are many things that stand out with respect to the Trump administration, but the one thing that's glaringly apparent is the complete lack of leadership. Trump has outsourced the White House. He has outsourced military a significant portion of foreign policy to the "generals" in the Pentagon. He outsourced his Supreme Court nominee to the Heritage Foundation (i.e. the Koch brothers) and everything else has been outsourced to Congress.

Trump has exhibited virtually no leadership in budgeting or healthcare or with any of his many campaign promises. He has ceded all that to Congress and Congress is deeply divided. Trump doesn't even know what's in his signature piece of legislation, Trumpcare. That doesn't bode well going forward. Trump and his merry band of Republicans may not be able to do even the simple routine tasks like raising the debt ceiling. Now that's a scary thought.

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Why is the Trump White House so afraid of cameras? For some time now they have forbidden cameras in the White House briefing room. Why? It's a very strange thing. Are White House staffers trying to hide their identities? Are they ashamed to be associated with this White House? One has to wonder.


http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/19/media/white-house-press-briefing-donald-trump-media/index.html

 

Trumpcare has been stopped once again in the Senate. Four senators have come out against Republicancare 3.0. Republicans could only afford to lose 2. I was pleasantly surprised to see Senator Moran's continued resistance to Republicancare. In my state, the deep red State of Kansas, any non Republican constituent is normally told to eat shit and die. Yeah, I'm pleasantly surprised. Moran actually had the guts to hold town halls.

Maybe we are seeing the emergence of a new Republican Party? It's probably too much to hope for, but we can hope anyway. We are finally seeing some Republicans buck the Republican Party line.

 

Trump tried again to simply repeal Obamacare and not replace it. That too has failed. Three Republican senators who have said no to repeal only. That effectively kills the Republican repeal and replace effort, at least for now.

 

It also means that when Obamacare fails, as it inevitably will continue doing under rising costs imposed on increasingly burdened citizens, the Republicans can avoid being blamed by invoking amnesia.