32nd Weak of the Dick Head!

[JackLuis]

Historian warns Donald Trump may have to be removed from the White House at gunpoint

An expert on Latin American dictators says President Donald Trump may refuse to leave office.

“What if Donald Trump refuses to leave the presidency peacefully when it’s time for him to go?” Tim Rogers asked at Fusion. “And after watching his deranged cult rally in Phoenix this week, I’m starting to think that Trump could be positioning himself to stay in power at all costs, especially in the case of an impeachment attempt.”

Trump promises to ‘Make America Work Again’ — then pulls the plug on Obama’s jobs program

So much for “Making America Work Again.”

According to the New York Times, President Donald Trump has cancelled a jobs plan set in place by former President Barack Obama that would have increased local hiring for public works projects.

Proposed in 2015, the Obama-era regulation was thrown out by the Department of Transportation just before it was supposed to go into effect on Friday.

Mnuchin insists Trump adviser Gary Cohn ‘excited’ to work in White House despite writing resignation letter

I'm getting tired of 'so much winning'?

 

[sr71plt]

I've been living in countries where and when the chief of state was removed from office by gunpoint. Trump's use of the office indicates that it's not beyond the realm of thought that it would happen to him. If so, it's because of what he is doing to the office and country.

 

[JackLuis]

The Media Is the Villain – for Creating a World Dumb Enough for Trump

The craziest part of Donald Trump's 77-minute loon-a-thon in Phoenix earlier this week came when he rehashed his shtick about the networks turning off live coverage of his speech. Trump seemed to really believe they were shutting the cameras off because "the very dishonest media" was so terrified of his powerful words.

"They're turning those lights off so fast!" he said. "CNN doesn't want its failing viewership to see this!"

Trump is wrong about a lot of things, but it's hard to be more wrong about any one thing than he was about this particular point.

We spent years selling the lowest common denominator. Now the lowest common denominator is president. How can it be anything but self-deception to pretend this is an innocent coincidence?

 

[JackLuis]

Impeaching Trump is America’s favorite solution: poll

Most people in a new survey said the best response to Donald Trump’s actions while president would be to impeach him or otherwise remove him from office.

Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies and research marketing firm Harris Insights and Analytics this week published the results of their monthly national poll, in which respondents were given three choices for how to deal with the president: 43 percent said he should be impeached or otherwise removed from office, while 42 percent said nothing should be done and 12 percent said he should be censured by Congress.

Why Trump Impeachment Talk Is Dangerous, According to Obama Adviser David Axelrod

Axelrod, who oversaw Obama's presidential campaigns, said he respected Clapper's views but was left feeling nervous.

"Remember: A third of the country supports this president," Axelrod added. "That's a very dangerous road to go down. And if you ever did go down that road, you’re opening a Pandora’s box that will never end."

On the other hand two thirds do not support the President, or are agnostic about him.

 

[phrodeau]

What a stupid thread. Trump is a good man doing an impossible job surrounded by weak allies and obsessive liberals who can't grasp basic economics and rather than try to fix the problems of the nation look to tear it apart. Do you always assume the worst case dire consequences without any evidence to back it up? The fact is... the people that are truly dangerous... are people like you. It's beyond your basic comprehension that maybe he is just a man trying to fix a lot of stuff that your preferred candidates have broken. What a bunch of imbeciles you people are.

He said that he alone can fix it. Name anything that Trump has managed to fix so far.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

He said that he alone can fix it. Name anything that Trump has managed to fix so far.

but he's a good man

 

[phrodeau]

but he's a good man

True, many men are proud to call him Comrade.

 

[sr71plt]

True, many men are proud to call him Comrade.

Fuhrer even (*snort*).

 

[Hypoxia]

but he's a good man

That's quite a demotion from God-Emperor, hey? "God-Emperor" gets to grab pussy, launder Russian mafiya money, pimp his daughter, bribe officials, lie constantly, default, etc. "Good Man" merely needs to... ummm... err...

[/me draws blank]

Help me here.

How are we supposed to know the Lying-Sack-Of-Shit-In-Chief is a good man?

 

[JackLuis]

What a stupid thread. Trump is a good man doing an impossible job surrounded by weak allies and obsessive liberals who can't grasp basic economics and rather than try to fix the problems of the nation look to tear it apart. Do you always assume the worst case dire consequences without any evidence to back it up? The fact is... the people that are truly dangerous... are people like you. It's beyond your basic comprehension that maybe he is just a man trying to fix a lot of stuff that your preferred candidates have broken. What a bunch of imbeciles you people are.

I don't agree with you. The Trupanzy is way out of his league. He does not have the knowledge to 'fix' the problems that the "Establishments" have inflicted on the country. He doesn't even have the incentive to enforce the law by inditing those who broke it.

If he hadn't been born rich he would have been dead long ago, killed by his own incompetence and arrogance.

 

[JackLuis]

L.A. Times says Trump’s support is caving fast: ‘Shedding supporters like no president in modern history’

Which is not news to anyone.

 

[JackLuis]

‘The president speaks for himself’: Tillerson distances himself from Trump’s Charlottesville comments

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson defended American values on Sunday after a UN panel criticized the official response to racist violence -- but conspicuously declined to speak for President Donald Trump.

Trump triggered outrage earlier this month when he suggested both sides were at fault after unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a woman was killed when a white supremacist drove his car into a group of counter-protestors.

Interviewer Chris Wallace then gave him another chance to defend Trump, asking: "And the president's values?"

"The president speaks for himself, Chris," Tillerson replied.

"Are you separating yourself from that, sir?" Wallace persisted.

To which Tillerson replied: "I gave my own comments on our values as well in the speech I gave at the State Department last week."

 

[LincolnDuncan]

That's quite a demotion from God-Emperor, hey? "God-Emperor" gets to grab pussy, launder Russian mafiya money, pimp his daughter, bribe officials, lie constantly, default, etc. "Good Man" merely needs to... ummm... err...

[/me draws blank]

Help me here.

How are we supposed to know the Lying-Sack-Of-Shit-In-Chief is a good man?

momadesness said so. So ya know, it must be true

 

[Carnal_Flower]

He's utterly disgusting.

I can't wait til he goes to a rally only to start ranting and raving and abusing his base, and has to be dragged off in a straightjacket.

 

[phrodeau]

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-local-police-using-military-equipment-report

President Trump is planning on reversing a ban on allowing local police forces to use surplus military equipment, according to a new report.

The Trump administration will now allow local police forces to take and use armored vehicles, high-caliber weapons and other kinds of heavy equipment that were once used in the military, USA Today reported Sunday.

 

[SweetCupcake]

I am very pleased to see that 6 out of the 7 posters here are sane. Encouraging.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s election reveals a deeply troubling development in American culture

Among the large percentage of Americans who are aghast at the election of Donald Trump as president, one sometimes hears, “How could this have happened? How could we Americans have elected such a clueless fool?” A man who bragged that because he was a “star” he could grab parts of women’s bodies whenever he wished. A man who made so many outlandish statements, many of them reflecting his colossal narcissism, that one hardly knows where to begin.

Yes, Hillary Clinton ran a poor campaign against him. Yes, as HNN’s Rick Shenkman indicated in 2009, the average U.S. voter is poorly informed. And yes, there are numerous other explanations for why Trump won a majority of the Electoral College and was as popular as he was in small towns and rural areas. But these admissions do not go deep enough. Blame falls not just on Trump voters, but also on our entire system, including our culture and values, which has nourished these voters.

In the broadest sense and in the way many anthropologists use the term, culture embraces the whole way of life of a group, including their physical and mental activities: thus, Chinese or U. S. culture. How do we characterize the latter? In 1963, anthropologist Jules Henry wrote in Culture Against Man that the U. S. culture of his day was “a culture increasingly feeling the effects of almost 150 years of lopsided preoccupation with amassing wealth and raising its standard of living.” He believed that the two main “commandments” of U. S. culture were “Create More Desire” and “Thou Shalt Consume,” and that these two commandments contributed to planned obsolescence, instability, “technological drivenness,” and to making any religious or moral restraint on wants outmoded. In 1987, over 90 percent of U. S. teenage girls in one survey listed shopping as their favorite leisure activity.

 

[JackLuis]

Flashback: Trump took $17 million payout for hurricane damage that reportedly only cost $3,000

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“The only permits that appeared hurricane-related were for $3,000 in repairs to storm-damaged outdoor lighting and the vacuuming of sand from the property’s beachfront pool,” the news agency noted. “Likewise, records of the city’s Landmarks and Preservation Commission reflected no repair work conducted following the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons.”

In the 2007 deposition, Trump admitted that he had pocketed some of the insurance money, which was permitted under his policy.

“We continue to spend the money because we continue to suffer the ravages of that hurricane,” Trump insisted. “We’re continuously spending money. It really beat up Mar-a-Lago very badly.”

Grifter in Chief!

 

[JackLuis]

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September will bring chaos as Trump, Congress face deadlines​

President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are facing a September of chaos as they race to avert a government shutdown and a default on the national debt, and face deadlines on popular programs like children’s health insurance and flood insurance.

Congress is on its August recess and won’t officially get back to work until September 5. When the members return from the monthlong break, they’ll have precious few legislative days to work before they face hard-and-fast deadlines—most notably the September 30 due date to fund the government or face a shutdown like the one that paralyzed the federal government in 2013 for 16 days, causing markets to roil and the economy to slow, and resulting in millions of small businesses and ordinary citizens experiencing disruption and financial loss.

Your helpful Congress will not fail you in your hour of need, right... right?

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-were-the-same-person/?utm_term=.cc15d83f088a

On Monday, however, Trump decided to keep rolling, after getting through the standard four inquiries.

“I know there might be a couple of more questions,” he said, turning to (Finnish President Sauli) Niinistö. “Do you want to take one more? Would you want to take one more? Go ahead. Pick.”

A visibly surprised Niinistö obliged and gestured to a third Finnish journalist. “Please,” he said.

“Again?” said Trump, mistaking the woman for another female reporter who had asked a question earlier in the news conference. “You’re gonna give her — the same one?”

“No, she is not the same lady,” Niinistö replied. “They are sitting side by side.”

“We have a lot of blond women in Finland,” the reporter interjected.

I suppose those people all look alike to him.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump says ‘massive’ cheering crowd proves he was right to pardon Arpaio

Fox News host John Roberts asked during a press conference why he had decided the pardon the controversial sheriff as Hurricane Harvey was bearing down on Texas.

“Well, a lot of people think it was the right thing to do, John, and actually in the middle of a hurricane, even though it was a Friday evening, I assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally. You know the hurricane was just starting and I put it out we were pardoning as we say Sheriff Joe.

“He has done a great job for the people of Arizona. He is very strong on borders, very strong on illegal immigration,” Trump replied. “He is loved in Arizona. I thought he was treated unbelievably unfairly.”

“When I mentioned him the other night, you saw the massive crowd we had, the people went crazy,” the president said. “The place went absolutely crazy when I was in Arizona last week.”

Angry Trump fired event organizer after disastrous half-full Phoenix rally

The former organizer of President Donald Trump’s rallies — who now does the same for the Republican National Committee — was reportedly fired after the president became enraged at a half-full hall for his Phoenix rally last week.

According to Bloomberg Politics, George Gigicos, the former White House director of advance events, was told in no uncertain terms that he would never organize another rally for the president after Phoenix.

Massive Crowd of crazy!

 

[JackLuis]

‘He’s an asshole, but he’s our asshole’: California congressman ‘praises’ Trump at GOP retreat

According to the San Diego Union Tribune, Rep. Duncan Hunter was addressing the Riverside County Young Republicans this past weekend when the topic of his relationship with the president came up.

“He’s just like he is on TV,” Hunter quipped. “He’s an asshole, but he’s our asshole.”

According to the UT, Hunter’s comment was confirmed by four witnesses, none of whom wished to give their names.

As for the San Diego congressman, he is currently under investigation for campaign fraud by the FBI.

"Put your best asshole forward." is the new Rethuglican motto!

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-finland-harvey-arpaio-russia.html

Trump Eyed ‘Far Higher’ Ratings in Pardoning Joe Arpaio as Hurricane Hit

“A lot of people think it was the right thing to do,” Mr. Trump said on Monday of the pardon. “Actually, in the middle of a hurricane, even though it was a Friday evening, I assumed the ratings would be far higher than they were normally.”

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

AUG. 28, 2017

Rep. Duncan Hunter gives President Trump a profane compliment

Tami Sims, who was also in attendance, said Hunter’s assessment of the president was shocking because it portrayed a man in a venerated office as devoid of character.

“I may not be a Trump supporter, but the president of our United States is supposed to be incredibly respected,” she said. “But for someone on his side to say that, it really did surprise me. I thought it was incredibly derogatory.”


http://www.latimes.com/politics/ess...all-of-rep-hunter-s-1503792877-htmlstory.html

 

[JackLuis]

‘But wait — there’s more’: Morning Joe calls Trump campaign a Russian ‘money-making scam’ gone wrong

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough covered the latest bombshell revelations about President Donald Trump’s business dealings in Moscow with a running joke about infomercials.

Several news organizations broke stories Monday that show Trump was pursuing a real estate deal in Moscow nearly six months into his presidential run, and an email from his associate Felix Sater to his attorney Michael Cohen show the two men hoped to get campaign assistance from the Kremlin.

“It just keeps going,” Scarborough said. “You keep thinking they couldn’t have done anything dumber than this — but they just did.”

The “Morning Joe” host repeated his claim from the day before that Trump never expected to win, but instead ran for president to enhance his brand.

“This was all a money-making scam,” Scarborough said. “He thought Jeb Bush was going to beat him. He was going to — straight-out Steve Miller Band and ‘Take the Money and Run.'”

But there is more...