American Politics Thread: Orange is the new POTUS (Archive)

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by Azure

Nevermind leaders of the province or country. None of us would like it if our boss acted like this, much less the POTUS.

I don't know, I'd love to have a boss like Trump. Just kiss his ass and stay in the shadows and you can probably do what you want.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

I don't know, I'd love to have a boss like Trump. Just kiss his ass and stay in the shadows and you can probably do what you want.

But he's volatile, unpredictable, vengeful, can take drastic turns on how he feels about an idea, and even his lawyers started to only take meetings with him in 2's because he would call people liars that suggested he said something he then later disliked, or didn't believe.

Either way, this man is a nightmare to work with.

[REDVAN]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

uh...
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybens...n-you-n2151620
So unless he has reconsidered his position from 2007, then he must logically only have hired people dumber than himself ,which would included Bannon.

Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Good for Trump then... he certainly is getting played by more than a few people. I also wonder how out-to-lunch he is on what "smartness" means to him. Yikes.

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Redvan back to 'just asking questions' mode.

I'm also in "don't make silly statements" mode. I think a lot of you guys are just bashing on Trump because it's the "thing to do" rather than actually hate on him. I mean, sure anyone can foam at the mouth with their Trump anger and SAY Trump is an idiot with low IQ or narcissistic personality disorder, or what-have-you. Unless you can prove it, or at least show a link please try to show a little restraint. Trump provides us enough hyperbole and alternative facts, we don't need his critiques to be mired in the same.

So let's look at what he's been up to- he is running this government exactly how he runs his businesses. He hires experts in their field (experts according to his other experts he's already hired...). Whether or not you politically agree or not, doesn't matter, this is how he is doing things.

I stand corrected on the "smartness" thing. As said above, I think he must have a strange idea of what smartness is.

[Senator Clay Davis]

I think this is an example of how it's easy to hate something from afar



https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.677f7ed4c7ca

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

So let's look at what he's been up to- he is running this government exactly how he runs his businesses. He hires experts in their field (experts according to his other experts he's already hired...). Whether or not you politically agree or not, doesn't matter, this is how he is doing things.

what? experts in their field? Bannon? Devos? Kushner?
how are they experts in their field?

or do you mean all of the goldman sachs people?


If you asked Trump who was smarter, him or Bannon, what do you think his answer would be?

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

If you asked Trump who was smarter, him or Bannon, what do you think his answer would be?

His head would implode.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

I'm also in "don't make silly statements" mode. I think a lot of you guys are just bashing on Trump because it's the "thing to do" rather than actually hate on him. I mean, sure anyone can foam at the mouth with their Trump anger and SAY Trump is an idiot with low IQ or narcissistic personality disorder, or what-have-you. Unless you can prove it, or at least show a link please try to show a little restraint. Trump provides us enough hyperbole and alternative facts, we don't need his critiques to be mired in the same.

Whether or not you politically agree or not, doesn't matter, this is how he is doing things.

I stand corrected on the "smartness" thing. As said above, I think he must have a strange idea of what smartness is.

You've been left to stand corrected multiple times.

Instead of taking it upon yourself to be the arbiter of truth and good taste, you could realise that while the reactions are charged, what inspires them are real, idiotic, deeply questionable and potential dangerous actions and attitudes.

To dismiss "hating" on Trump as "the thing to do" is laughable. Sometimes popular opinions are popular for a good reason: they're in line with reality.

Unless you forgot, he's the President of the United States. Whether or not people agree with his politics is exactly what matters.

[calumniate]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

Trump is picking up right where Kelly Anne Conway left off, claiming that the press is not reporting terrorist attacks.

Seriously, what is their goal here? Does he think CIA officers and military troops will just believe him?



https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cla...200917625.html

Somebody should do a meme of Trump and the KFC double down. He's sure doing a lot of it lately.. ugh

[DFO]

So how does Trump reconcile the fact that no right leaning news sites/organizations picked up on these alleged terrorist attacks? Are they just terrible at what they do?

[photon]

White House is going to provide a list of terrorist attacks that Trump claims the media did not cover. Spicer inserts the necessary wiggle room, "We’ll provide a list later. There’s several instances... There’s a lot of instances that have occurred where I don’t think they’ve gotten the coverage it deserved," by referring to coverage it deserved rather than Trump's claim of no coverage. Trump remains silent on the Quebec incident.

http://www.thehill.com/homenews/admi...acks-the-media

[Looch City]

They're going to find instances of a shooting involving a brown man and call it terrorism.

And it's going to be an intern's job to go through the records and find names matching Mohammed/Abdul/Khadar/Hussein/[BrownSoundingName]

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by photon

White House is going to provide a list of terrorist attacks that Trump claims the media did not cover. Spicer inserts the necessary wiggle room, "We’ll provide a list later. There’s several instances... There’s a lot of instances that have occurred where I don’t think they’ve gotten the coverage it deserved," by referring to coverage it deserved rather than Trump's claim of no coverage. Trump remains silent on the Quebec incident.

http://www.thehill.com/homenews/admi...acks-the-media

I wonder if the Bowling Green Massacre will make the list?

[jammies]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

I think a lot of you guys are just bashing on Trump because it's the "thing to do" rather than actually hate on him.

I think you don't have any idea what you're talking about and shouldn't impute motives to others unless you're willing to accept others imputing motives to you.

Hey, did you guys know Redvan is a paid shill for Brietbart? That's what I think, anyway. Can't blame a man for his opinion.

[troutman]

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by New Era

Intolerant liberals. A very interesting article that hits so many nails right on the head.

That kind of moralistic, dogmatic fervour is horrifying. Sounds like he's calling for a war based in Marxist ideology of using state power to 're-balance' the ledgers of group outcomes. It's been tried before - the American left better start buying more guns. A lot more.

Postscript: I’m a straight white, male. I have a Master of Divinity from an Evangelical Christian seminary. I voted for W both times. I was a conservative, Evangelical Christian, I’m speaking from experience.

Not surprising at all. It's remarkable how often people swing from one end of the political spectrum to the other - ardent ideologues of both the left and right share so many personality traits.

[JohnnyB]

Kakistocracy? Thanks for the new word, Alaska! Who knew you were such intellectual state?

[driveway]

As someone who teaches US History, seeing any state google "Who is Frederick Douglass" makes my heart hurt. That's it's Alabama, however, is not surprising.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by driveway

As someone who teaches US History, seeing any state google "Who is Frederick Douglass" makes my heart hurt. That's it's Alabama, however, is not surprising.

I found 3 doors down, disturbing.

[REDVAN]

Originally Posted by jammies

I think you don't have any idea what you're talking about and shouldn't impute motives to others unless you're willing to accept others imputing motives to you.



Hey, did you guys know Redvan is a paid shill for Brietbart? That's what I think, anyway. Can't blame a man for his opinion.

This is what I want people to stop doing. Unless you are backing up your opinion you shouldn't be allowed to say things like "he has a mental illness" etc.

Provide facts to back up your statements or you are no better than Trump and his.

[DuffMan]

Trump is 1000% undeniably mentally unstable. Just listen to him