It's the Donnydämmerung! (new Trump thread)

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:47 am

...and body parts. Pence firmly pressing down on the one that describes him best...

TJrandom · Post by **TJrandom** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 4:00 am

ElectricMonk wrote:yep, it's the "entitlement" of the poorest that is the problem...

warfare with words.

Say what? I thought he was agett`n ready to go after the 1%ers... them being entitled to lower taxes, bigger tax rebates, more deductions, living on the backs of the 99%, etc.

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 4:12 am

Pence has already won gold in Junior High School Eye Rolling, Taunting Gay Athletes, Arriving Late/Leaving Early at Host Country Dinner, Bantam Weight Scowling, and Avoiding Eye Contact with Evil Technicals.

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 4:43 am

scrmbldggs wrote:As expected, puppy dog-eyed Paul Ryan is prepared to "fully deal with this debt crisis - it is entitlement reform"... more on the "deficit hawks".

Flatulence of the Fiscal Dorks

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 5:02 am

Something new about the newest Walmart greeter: According to Bernstein, Rachel Brand's husband (Jonathan F. Cohn) works at the law firm that's going to take over the defense of Rick Gates. Apparently, the White House has been aware of that, and that Rachel Brand would have to recuse herself from the investigation, should Rosenstein be fired...

Balmoral95 · Post by **Balmoral95** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 5:47 am

Statistical Mechanic wrote:
scrmbldggs wrote:As expected, puppy dog-eyed Paul Ryan is prepared to "fully deal with this debt crisis - it is entitlement reform"... more on the "deficit hawks".
Flatulence of the Fiscal Dorks

Nobody got that horseshite during Reagan's administration... Hasn't been a Rep who wanted to save a dime since Coolidge. But they lie about it steadily. Conts.

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:17 pm

Repubs to employees: it's simple, don't get sick - if you get sick, it will hurt business, so don't get sick, see

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:36 pm

...if there was only a yuge tax relief to help us poor guys out here...

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 4:14 pm

What we need is a tax increase on wealthier and higher-income people. And tax relief for lower middle and lower income people. And we do not need to keep bloating the military and fighting the very wars Trump ranted against during the campaign.

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:39 pm

@realdjt

Feb 11, 2018 01:21:48 PM - Blah blah blah...Fake News Media...Same negative stories over and over again!...blah blah blah...#BLAH

What can one say, that happens with a repeat offender...

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:15 pm

How the {!#%@} can someone be so bereft as to lose the PR war to NK? Well, Pence has answered that question. Jesus wept.

OlegTheBatty · Post by **OlegTheBatty** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:31 pm

Statistical Mechanic wrote:How the {!#%@} can someone be so bereft as to lose the PR war to NK? Well, Pence has answered that question. Jesus wept.

He did not lose the PR war to his base, only to the rest of the world. So, in his eyes, he wins.

ElectricMonk · Post by **ElectricMonk** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:31 pm

The tax cuts are diametrically opposed to Keynesian economics: now would be the time for the US to reduce its debt while the economy is doing well.
Instead, it is borrowing twice as much as before.
This means that the next recession will in all likelihood be longer and harder than the one Obama had to deal with.
No doubt the more clever Republicans fully expect their {!#%@} to hit the fan of the next Democrat's President.

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:33 pm

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

EVERYBODY TAKE NOTE: THIS NEEDS TO BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD. @tedlieu @RepAdamSchiff It is up to House Intel Committee, not Trump, whether to release Democratic memo on the Page FISA application

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:57 pm

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/02/08/89-of-readers-say-no-parade/ wrote:
As the Pentagon continues to work on parade options to present to President Donald Trump, an overwhelming number of Military Times readers have weighed in: Don’t have one.

Upton_O_Goode · Post by **Upton_O_Goode** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:15 pm

scrmbldggs wrote:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/02/08/89-of-readers-say-no-parade/ wrote:
As the Pentagon continues to work on parade options to present to President Donald Trump, an overwhelming number of Military Times readers have weighed in: Don’t have one.

I'll hazard a guess that this news will NOT be part of Trump's "intelligence" briefing tomorrow. He would fall apart if he knew how many people would pass up the chance to gaze admiringly on him while he reviewed the troops whose parents and grandparents he refused to join 50 years ago. (I also passed up the opportunity to join them, but then I'm not the one rattling sabers in the White House right now.) And why don't we call these "executive times" what they really are: ego-stroking stupidity briefings?

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:21 pm

What briefings? Seems he's pretty much cancelled them.

Hmm, I wonder - now that Porter is gone - if he'll have to look at the prepared kiddie placemats himself again...

Balmoral95 · Post by **Balmoral95** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:22 pm

Upton_O_Goode wrote:
scrmbldggs wrote:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/02/08/89-of-readers-say-no-parade/ wrote:
As the Pentagon continues to work on parade options to present to President Donald Trump, an overwhelming number of Military Times readers have weighed in: Don’t have one.
I'll hazard a guess that this news will NOT be part of Trump's "intelligence" briefing tomorrow. He would fall apart if he knew how many people would pass up the chance to gaze admiringly on him while he reviewed the troops whose parents and grandparents he refused to join 50 years ago. (I also passed up the opportunity to join them, but then I'm not the one rattling sabers in the White House right now.) And why don't we call these "executive times" what they really are: ego-stroking stupidity briefings?

Not to dismiss you point, but Trump had to sense that he'd have been fragged by his own guys before he ever heard a shot fired in anger.

Upton_O_Goode · Post by **Upton_O_Goode** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:24 pm

Where is Trump this week-end? I don't follow his tweets until they are reported on by CNN, but he seems preternaturally quiet right now. Maybe he's zoned out at Mar-a-Lago and won't come down until Monday morning? I was sure that by now he would be citing the Failing New York Times for revealing the NSA plot to bring him down. (That's gotta be confusing for him, since he was so focused on the CIA/FBI plots to bring him down.) Or maybe he realizes that you can't refer to the "failing New York Times and its Fake News" for two years, then suddenly cite it as the authority for a story you like? That would, I think, require a certain flexibility of mind, which he doesn't possess.

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:27 pm

OlegTheBatty wrote:
Statistical Mechanic wrote:How the {!#%@} can someone be so bereft as to lose the PR war to NK? Well, Pence has answered that question. Jesus wept.
He did not lose the PR war to his base, only to the rest of the world. So, in his eyes, he wins.

true . . .

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:29 pm

ElectricMonk wrote:The tax cuts are diametrically opposed to Keynesian economics: now would be the time for the US to reduce its debt while the economy is doing well.
Instead, it is borrowing twice as much as before.
This means that the next recession will in all likelihood be longer and harder than the one Obama had to deal with. . . .

Exactly, and with the government having fewer than ever levers to pull to try ending or ameliorating the downturn, assuming the master of this 3-ring circus would know what to do or try doing something other than figuring out how to get richer off it.

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:31 pm

scrmbldggs wrote:
Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

EVERYBODY TAKE NOTE: THIS NEEDS TO BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD. @tedlieu @RepAdamSchiff It is up to House Intel Committee, not Trump, whether to release Democratic memo on the Page FISA application

How so? I did read an opinion piece a week or so ago that members of Congress cannot be prosecuted for political statements made on the floor of Congress but does that apply to classified material? If so, why did Schiff not simply release his memo?

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:33 pm

scrmbldggs wrote:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/02/08/89-of-readers-say-no-parade/ wrote:
As the Pentagon continues to work on parade options to present to President Donald Trump, an overwhelming number of Military Times readers have weighed in: Don’t have one.

Jeffrey Lewis of Middlebury Institute in Monterey explains that Kim Jong Un will see such a parade as a symptom of American weakness, much as Mao Zedong saw things when scoffing at the US paper tiger. He thinks it will help reinforce Kim's conviction that the US is in the grip of a nuclear panic and too weak to act.

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:35 pm

Upton_O_Goode wrote:. . . I also passed up the opportunity to join them, but then I'm not the one rattling sabers in the White House right now. . . .

I illegally turned in my draft card during a protest in 1971 . . .

But Trump will be happy to get the libtards stirred up, I guess.

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:38 pm

Upton_O_Goode wrote:Where is Trump this week-end? I don't follow his tweets until they are reported on by CNN . . .

He's been tweeting. Dumb-ass stuff. One was on the NY Times NSA cyber tools story.

Gord · Post by **Gord** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:51 pm

(That video should start at 1:43.)

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:56 pm

I've never been able to make that happen unless I link directly to it.

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:57 pm

From my earlier post:

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

EVERYBODY TAKE NOTE: THIS NEEDS TO BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD. @tedlieu @RepAdamSchiff It is up to House Intel Committee, not Trump, whether to release Democratic memo on the Page FISA application

I now got a linky.

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:37 pm

thanks, that's extremely helpful and in sync with the previous article I read, but includes much more detail on the legal issues - the point of the earlier article I read was that the Dems are being wimps

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:53 pm

splits among Democrats?

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:48 am

“The President of the United States just called you a liar.” Jennie Willoughby: 'President Trump Will Not Diminish My Truth'

Gord · Post by **Gord** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:10 am

Trump has called many people liars, many people. Sad.

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:12 am

Gord · Post by **Gord** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:13 am

Is that Kelly?

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:22 am

On the left or right?

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:22 am

That's a shapeshifter. From the front it looks like a rat.

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:26 am

Whaddaya know, still approximately 30 preliminary security clearances in this administration without an end in sight soon, AFAIK. To some that means the vetting process needs to be changed.

Balmoral95 · Post by **Balmoral95** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:31 am

scrmbldggs wrote:Whaddaya know, still approximately 30 preliminary security clearances in this administration without an end in sight soon, AFAIK. To some that means the vetting process needs to be changed.

Which is fairly convincing evidence the FBI et al is doing its job properly

Statistical Mechanic · Post by **Statistical Mechanic** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:36 am

scrmbldggs · Post by **scrmbldggs** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:36 am

Dumpy just doesn't want his staff to outdo the Coiffed Calf.