30th Weak of Trumpanzy Trouble

[JackLuis]

The Weak starts off with:

‘Any insinuations we are planning an invasion are baseless’: Pentagon shuts down Trump talk on Venezuela

he Department of Defense issued a statement to CNN Pentagon Reporter Barbara Starr refuting President Donald Trump’s press conference Friday night.

“I’m not going to rule out a military option” for Venezuela, Trump explained in a short press conference in New Jersey. “Venezuela is not very far away.”

The internet immediately lit up with a kind of “fury” of its own, but the Defense Department was quick to refute the claim that the United States was randomly readying for war against the South American country. However, they blamed the accusation on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro instead of Trump’s threatening words.

“Any insinuations by the Maduro regime that we are planning an invasion are baseless,” the spokesperson told Starr.

The Pentagon spin is only so they don't have to tell Trump to STFU.

 

[Hypoxia]

I'll post this again because it might relate:

Vladimir's Venezuela - Leveraging loans to Caracas, Moscow snaps up oil assets

Venezuela’s unraveling socialist government is increasingly turning to ally Russia for the cash and credit it needs to survive – and offering prized state-owned oil assets in return, sources familiar with the negotiations told Reuters.

As Caracas struggles to contain an economic meltdown and violent street protests, Moscow is using its position as Venezuela’s lender of last resort to gain more control over the OPEC nation’s crude reserves, the largest in the world.

Venezuela's state-owned oil firm, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), has been secretly negotiating since at least early this year with Russia's biggest state-owned oil company, Rosneft (ROSN.MM) - offering ownership interests in up to nine of Venezuela's most productive petroleum projects...

 

[JackLuis]

I'll post this again because it might relate:

Vladimir's Venezuela - Leveraging loans to Caracas, Moscow snaps up oil assets

I wonder what ReXXon has to say about this?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump touts employment numbers in Charlottesville violence address — then flees questions about white nationalists

Following the violence in Charlottesville that has claimed at least one life, President Donald Trump refused to condemn the white supremacists attending the “Unite the Right” rally.

“We love our God, we love our flag, we’re proud of our country, we’re proud of who we are,” Trump claimed. “So, we want to get this situation straightened out in Charlottesville and we want to study it and we want to see what we’re doing wrong as a country where things like this can happen.”

Trump also called on citizens to be loyal to his government.

“My administration is restoring the sacred bonds of loyalty between this nation and its citizens, but our citizens must also restore the bonds of trust and loyalty between one another,” Trump suggested. “We must love each other, respect each other and cherish our history and our future together. So important. We have to respect each other. Ideally, we have to love each other.”

Although Trump had personally billed the event as a press conference he fled the room as soon as reporters asked question.

“Do you want the support of these white nationalists groups who say they support you, Mr. President?” one reporter shouted.

“Mr. President, have you denounced them strongly enough?” the reporter follow-ed.

“A car plowing into a group of people, would you call that terrorism, sir?” another reporter asked.

Trump ignored the questions and fled the room.

Previously:

KKK leader David Duke confirms ‘Unite the Right” march ‘fulfills the promises of Donald Trump’

 

[JackLuis]

Republicans are left speechless after crowd demands Trump be imprisoned

WELL THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY! A REPUBLICAN TOWN HALL MEETING WAS IN PANDEMONIUM AS THE CROWD CALLED FOR PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S ARREST.

The meeting was in Little Rock, Arkansas, a deep red state for sure, and Sen. Tom Cotton Rep. French Hill heard the huge reaction as soon as he started to defend Trump’s foreign policy.

Yes, defend his foreign policy…as if any sane person could. Even another crazy SOB, Kim Jong Un hates Trump. That’s when you know things are looking bad for your administration, when you’re actually matching North Korea’s dictator in temperament.

Trump’s foreign policy of caveman like aggression have done nothing thus far but bring the U.S. into further conflict and result in the deaths of innocent civilians. How about dropping a 21,000 pound bomb in Afghanistan for no apparent reason except to brag about the size of the president’s weapon?

One thing’s for sure, when Trump leaves office, there is going to be a party in Washington and a sigh of relief from around the world!

 

[ChloeTzang]

Republicans are left speechless after crowd demands Trump be imprisoned

From a website called "Forever Democrat". And we all know lefties are crashing Republican Town Halls everywhere and doing their typical disruption and intolerance thing. I don't like Cotton, he's a sad RINO but honestly, you can do better than this blatant propaganda, Jack.

Here's a rather more interesting article on the Town Hall phenomena from Politico

 

[SimonDoom]

From a website called "Forever Democrat". And we all know lefties are crashing Republican Town Halls everywhere and doing their typical disruption and intolerance thing. I don't like Cotton, he's a sad RINO but honestly, you can do better than this blatant propaganda, Jack.

Here's a rather more interesting article on the Town Hall phenomena from Politico

I'm curious how you define a "RINO." Taking into account all his stated positions and his voting record, Tom Cotton is probably one of the more ideologically rigorous and consistent Reagan-conservative Republicans in the Senate, but you call him a RINO. What is the standard for what a true, principled Republican is? Is it Trump? Increasingly I get the sense that a growing body of people who call themselves conservatives see fidelity to Trump as a litmus test for "real" Republican-ness, but that makes no sense. The man has no history whatsoever of fidelity to Republican principles, or even of support for Republican candidates. He supported Hillary Clinton when she was in the Senate, and even when she was Secretary of State, although now he, of course, calls her a criminal. He does not seem to have any understanding of principles of limited government. He criticized the House plan to overturn Obamacare on the ground that it was too "mean", meaning, presumably, that it wasn't liberal enough. How is Trump NOT the ultimate RINO?

What in the world does it mean to be a RINO? Or to be a conservative? Does it mean anything? If Trump is the standard for what a "conservative" is, then being a conservative doesn't mean anything at all.

 

[JackLuis]

From a website called "Forever Democrat". And we all know lefties are crashing Republican Town Halls everywhere and doing their typical disruption and intolerance thing. I don't like Cotton, he's a sad RINO but honestly, you can do better than this blatant propaganda, Jack.

Here's a rather more interesting article on the Town Hall phenomena from Politico

Well the article was a good one, for a RW, but not NJ slant. Also, you have a lot of gall to call me out for being Partizan, when you're spouting Breitebart and Storm Front bullshit.

Congressional Town Halls are open to all constituents, Left, Right, and Center. If more Demo's show up to bitch than Republicans to suck Congressional Koch, that's the way the mop flops. Remember there are as many Independents, who don't care for either Establishment's bullshit, as there are Repug,s or Demo's.

The "Tea Party was co-opted by the Koch Bro's and subverted to advance the Rethuglican 1%er's bullshit. So the Tea Party is just Astro-turf now and means very little other than a means to convert the valid resistance to loading the middle classes with regressive taxes and letting the 1% skate, to serve the ends of the Koch Bro's and Goldman.

 

[ChloeTzang]

What in the world does it mean to be a RINO? Or to be a conservative? Does it mean anything? If Trump is the standard for what a "conservative" is, then being a conservative doesn't mean anything at all.

Trump's middle of the road. And I don't think conservative means much these days. The right is fragmented with a lot of them unable to bring themselves to support Trump coz he's not a purist (the Red State crowd), then theirs the Breitbart nationalists who'll turn on him if he abandons Bannons agenda, which is the one that one him the election, then there's the establishment republicans like Rubio and Jeb Bush who are pretty much the same as many democrats. And then there's the ouright nuts. I have no idea. I only got into all this stuff with this last election. And right now I'm not that interested. If pilot hadn't sparked me off I wouldn't be here. I've been avoiding the news for weeks.

 

[SimonDoom]

Trump's middle of the road. And I don't think conservative means much these days. The right is fragmented with a lot of them unable to bring themselves to support Trump coz he's not a purist (the Red State crowd), then theirs the Breitbart nationalists who'll turn on him if he abandons Bannons agenda, which is the one that one him the election, then there's the establishment republicans like Rubio and Jeb Bush who are pretty much the same as many democrats. And then there's the ouright nuts. I have no idea. I only got into all this stuff with this last election. And right now I'm not that interested. If pilot hadn't sparked me off I wouldn't be here. I've been avoiding the news for weeks.

My question, which you haven't answered, still stands: what makes one a RINO? What's a real Republican? Who is an example of a real Republican? Can you name one? After all, the term "RINO" doesn't mean anything unless there is such a thing as a "real" Republican.

For the last 40-50 years Ronald Reagan embodied the standard for conservative Republicanism and what it stood for: limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, individual freedom, and a strong stand against the Soviet Union and communism abroad. Trump doesn't represent any of this, except that he to some limited extent appears willing to restrict the regulatatory apparatus of the government. Tom Cotton represents Reagan's views much more than Trump does, but you call him a RINO. Ronald Reagan, by your standards (based on what you've written -- I don't presume to know what you believe), would be a RINO. Hasn't the term become meaningless?

 

[jaF0]

Trump's middle of the road. here.

There's that giant S for Stupid again. 'Rump is so far right they had to add to the scale. That and he's just batshit crazy assed nuts.

 

[Hypoxia]

'Real' Republican.
'Real' Democrat.
'Real' Christian.
'Real' American.

The 'real' ones agree with me and the rest are phonies, or satanic, or worse.

Some alt.righters seem to be HINOs, Human In Name Only. Otherwise they're scattered scurrilous sycophants of skepticism and solecism. Something like that.

 

[SimonDoom]

There's that giant S for Stupid again. 'Rump is so far right they had to add to the scale. That and he's just batshit crazy assed nuts.

I don't think it helps a dialogue to call people stupid. Chloe's not stupid. Trump isn't really far right in a lot of ways. He's not, and never has been, a consistent, principled conservative. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence are consistently right-wing conservatives. Trump . . . it's not clear what he is. Ignorant and out of his depth, sure, but far right? It depends on what you mean by far right.

 

[Hypoxia]

I don't think it helps a dialogue to call people stupid. Chloe's not stupid.

No, merely deplorable, and worthy of my iggy list.

Trump isn't really far right in a lot of ways. He's not, and never has been, a consistent, principled conservative. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence are consistently right-wing conservatives. Trump . . . it's not clear what he is. Ignorant and out of his depth, sure, but far right? It depends on what you mean by far right.

He did and continues to campaign as a far-right poseur. Does he believe the shit he spews? Dunno. But alt.right traitors seems to comprise a substantial chunk of his remaining base of support. If he doesn't disown them then they own him.

 

[JackLuis]

FBI and DHS warned Trump about Alt-Right terrorists just months before the attack in Charlottesville

Throughout his campaign and presidency, Donald Trump has been reluctant to criticize domestic terrorism and hate groups operating within the United States. The president has focused almost solely on foreign threats but the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security reportedly informed Trump months ago about the domestic threat.

In a May intelligence bulletin published by Foreign Policy magazine on Monday, DHS and the FBI pointed out that attacks by white supremacists on U.S. soil far outnumbered every other type of terrorist threat.

The agencies concluded that attacks by white supremacists “likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”

Proving once again that the Trumpanzyis a fool!

 

[Hypoxia]

FBI and DHS warned Trump about Alt-Right terrorists just months before the attack in Charlottesville

Proving once again that the Trumpanzyis a fool!

Or crazy as a fox. Klansmen, Nazis, bagheads, know-nothings are his base and he's not about to undercut them. The Tromp militia will be crucial to the takeover, just as were Hitler's brownshirts. The difference: Tromp's bullies aren't organized. Yet.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Idk if Trump himself is an alt-right racist. He's def a racist in an Old School way.

I get the sense he deeply resents having to call it out bec he interprets it as a personal slight, like Russia meddling. He CANNOT process that bec it hurts his ego and his glorious victory.

He seems to see this condemnation of Neo Nazis in the same way. Ego cannot compute, must reject. He sounds like a drugged up zombie when hes forced to read these statements and has to brag for ten minutes first. Why does he see it as a personal affront to Donald Trump?

 

[JackLuis]

Idk if Trump himself is an alt-right racist. He's def a racist in an Old School way.

I get the sense he deeply resents having to call it out bec he interprets it as a personal slight, like Russia meddling. He CANNOT process that bec it hurts his ego and his glorious victory.

He seems to see this condemnation of Neo Nazis in the same way. Ego cannot compute, must reject. He sounds like a drugged up zombie when hes forced to read these statements and has to brag for ten minutes first. Why does he see it as a personal affront to Donald Trump?

I think he has internalized the Bannon Nazi line and is unable to believe he is WRONG AGAIN. Like most of our pol's he believes his own bullshit!

 

[sr71plt]

I think he has internalized the Bannon Nazi line and is unable to believe he is WRONG AGAIN. Like most of our pol's he believes his own bullshit!

Quite so. We also have to remember that his news clippers are limited to "bring me no bad news."

 

[phrodeau]

Will Trump be paying James Alex Fields' legal fees?

 

[sharingfantasies]

Will Trump be paying James Alex Fields' legal fees?

I think his legal fees are probably the only thing he does pay, but I sure can't see him paying for someone else. Maybe he will try to get the Republican party to pay for this.

 

[sr71plt]

I think his legal fees are probably the only thing he does pay, but I sure can't see him paying for someone else. Maybe he will try to get the Republican party to pay for this.

Umm, no. Trump's most recent legal fee bills were sent to the RNC. One of the investigations (one of many) he's under is for paying legal fees out of his charity foundation--which is built on other people's money, not his.

There is no shyster activity this man won't employ.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump retweets meme of train running over CNN

President Donald Trump retweeted an image of a "Trump train" running over a figure with its head replaced by the CNN logo, just three days after the death of Heather Heyer at a counter-protest against a white supremacist march in Charlottesville.

Trump deleted the retweet within minutes, appearing to suggest that he knew the image was insensitive in nature after the vehicle-ramming attack. Users shared screenshots of the tweet by a user that read: "Nothing can stop the #TrumpTrain!!"

Will Trump now wear a Nazi lapel pin to show support for "His People'?

 

[JackLuis]

Former neo-Nazi warns Trump’s rhetoric could set off over 300,000 potential domestic terrorists

A former neo-Nazi claims that the U.S. is currently home to over 300,000 right-wing militia members immersed in military training at the moment just waiting for a spark to unleash domestic terrorism.

Speaking with CNN host John Harwood, former neo-Nazi skinhead member Christian Piccolini discussed burgeoning Nazi movement in the U.S. under President Donald Trump who, he says, encourages them with his rhetoric.

Asked by Harwood, if the movement is growing, the former skinhead said, “absolutely.”

“You know, I think it’s bigger now because there’s so much propaganda on the internet that’s recruiting young people who may not fit in in real life, searching for an identity and purpose,” he explained. “Because they are marginalized, they are trying to find solutions in simple ways and black and white terms that blame the other. It is bigger because the media is speaking about it so much, we are recognizing it more in our sons, daughters and co-workers.”

“At some point, we need to take this issue seriously,” he added.

Start at the Top, and run all the Nazi sympathizers out of the country! Send them to Russia where they know what to do with Nazis!

 

[JackLuis]

Oh God, Another ‘HOLY CRAP, WHAT A SHITTY TRUMP POLL’ Post? You Bet Your Ass!


Trumpanzy's approval ratings sinking? Yes it's true!

Trump responds!

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