BS: Trump is a one trick pony

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Nov 17 - 10:16 AM

I meant to bracket "barefoot hero" with quotation marks. Twit was just hocking up the usual NRA answer to these tragedies, the only solution to all these guns is more guns.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Nov 17 - 12:20 PM

#45's tweet: "NoKo has interpreted America's past restraint as weakness. This would be a fatal miscalculation. Do not underestimate us. AND DO NOT TRY US."

Getting some idea how he thinks (or doesn't).
He thinks not being afraid of batshit crazy leaders = perceived weakness. Easier to see why he thinks letting the cray-cray out to play is smart. Just proof that he's really far out of his demographic. It doesn't fly with smart, rational people. Cray-cray is still cray-cray.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Nov 17 - 01:43 PM

Trump demanded that his CIA director Pompeo meet with a conspiracy theorist who claims the Russian release of HRC e mails was an inside DNC job. The meeting finally happened after weeks had passed.

I hope he was given a complimentary tin foil hat.
Boy is Trump desperate for supporting witness'.
He should buy some.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Nov 17 - 02:03 PM

From the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the rotten tree dept.:

Twitler Jr. urges Republicans to vote on the wrong day, twice.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Nov 17 - 08:48 PM

It has to gall the orange floating turd that more people than expected, by a wide margin, have been signing up for the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare"). The GOP Senate is thinking about trying to remove the individual mandate, another way to gut the coverage.

Meanwhile, in Maine: https://thinkprogress.org/maine-medicaid-ballot-measure-708e7cc1f90b/ they put it on the ballot and health coverage won. They voted to expand Medicaid. This does an end run around the Republican retrograde governor who kept defeating attempts to expand coverage. Next thing they need to do is get themselves a new governor.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 12:51 PM

After Tuesday's election results "the sinking orange turd" might be more appropriate.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Greg F.
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 01:20 PM

"the sinking orange turd" might be more appropriate.

Gilly, it pains me to see you losing faith in the awesome power of stupidity wielded by the U.S. electorate.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 02:11 PM

I'm sorry to bring you pain, Greg, but unlike your good self I'm an optimist and I was heartened to see folks turn out in large numbers in a purple state, in inclement weather to register their disapproval of the OFT and the GOP. A number of reasonable people held their noses and voted for him a year ago while asking "how bad can he be?"
Now they know.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Greg F.
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 04:09 PM

A number of reasonable people held their noses and voted for him

If they voted for him, under ANY circumstances they were hardly reasonable --- unless they were deaf and blind. It was obvious from the get-go how bad he could be, based on past p0erformance. ;>)

I'm cautiously optimistic myself, but I'm not willing to put any money on it. Been burnt way too many times.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: John P
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 05:23 PM

No one who is reasonable voted for Trump. They are, to a person, racists, slavers, theocrats, and think that sexual assualt is just fine. They also think that stupidity and hate are fine.

Either that, or Trump voters are all astonishingly stupid themselves, if they believed anything he had to say. Trump made it very clear who and what he is before the election, and everyone who voted for him chose that.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 06:13 PM

Hey, I didn't say what number, boys.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 07:22 AM

In this island of misfit toys the trump supremacy has become the trump ultimatum and soon will be the trump finale.

Are we going to have to watch the russian honey pot video?
ugh

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 07:52 AM

I feel certain that the outing of misbehaving public figures is a response to the current Teflon status Trump is enjoying as an accused sexual predator. He admitted to it in his own words and STILL got elected. The Critical Mass is here - enough people willing to speak up that careers are faltering, if not crumbling. The female gaze has been on Trump since before the election, but it is the frank disbelief that enough people turned out for him (whether or not they were duped by inflammatory and bogus news bots) that has encouraged credible voices to speak up about their own abusers from years past. Voices of women (and men) who know that in the past these accusations would have put their own careers on the skids. Weinstein, Louis CK, Kevin Spacey, now the Alabama politician Roy Moore - are getting what they had coming for a long time. These accusations cross party lines - it is about much more than politics. And Trump's turn will come soon. So far Trump's attorneys have scared off the woman who he assaulted when she was 13. But she will have a lot of support when she finally comes forward.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Greg F.
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 08:36 AM

And Trump's turn will come soon.

?tis a consummation devoutly to be wish?d.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 08:41 AM

Will Republicans draw the line at pedophile candidates or excuse all Republicans due to fake news?

Judge Roy Moore liked 14 year olds - too much.
The Rep. establishment is screaming IF, IF. "He is being framed by deviant democrats".

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 08:46 AM

Exposing Sexual crimes have moved from the Clergy to the entertainment industry to Society in general. (except Trump who has caused a backlash)
Now its Louis C K comedian.

To catch a predator is one thing. What if it becomes criminal* for any male to initiate sex? Will only women be allowed to initiate sex? Or should Puritanism apply to all?

I am stirring the pot but there are additional questions regarding the arena of misconduct. What are the new rules and is there a statute of limitations?

*Non violent 1st degree Male aggression


Perhaps the war of the sexes will be beneficial to Republicans as a distraction and diversion

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 09:43 AM

Psychologically people tend to believe lies when they learn lies in an emotional context. lock her up lock her up

Democrats believe fewer lies because they learn based on rational cognition.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 09:44 AM

There were some stunning biblical revelations out of Alabama in the wake of the Roy Moore scandals, it seems that Joseph was a pedophile and his coupling with an underage virgin, Mary, produced a son, Jesus, rendering an immaculate conception unnecessary:

?There is nothing to see here,? Alabama State Auditor Jim Ziegler told the Washington Examiner. ?The allegations are that a man in his early 30s dated teenage girls. Even the Washington Post report says that he never had sexual intercourse with any of the girls and never attempted sexual intercourse.?

Ziegler?s defense then took on Biblical proportions.

?Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter,? he added. ?They became parents of Jesus.?

Bannon seems to be as effective a "King Maker" as Donal Dumbass is a president.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Greg F.
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 09:48 AM

Yeah, well, it ain't just Alabama and the states of the old Confederacy.

Read this:

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/proof-trumps-supporters-will-stand-behind-him-no-matter-what

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 09:53 AM

Your posts are better than mine gillymor

Alabama - Where the Southern Belles are 'Judged' young and beautiful.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 10:02 AM

Don, it isn't the attempt to initiate a sexual situation, it is the refusal to take "no" for an answer; the insistence upon the unwilling participation on some aspect of a sexual act that gratifies the person in the power position regardless of the wishes of the person who is powerless, who realizes that refusing will cost a job or a career or a reputation.

#MeToo

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 10:39 AM

That further defines the crime but you can be fired for giving the finger to a Trump motorcade. Power can abuse people in ways to extort and punish in many ways. If Ignoring the 'NO' is a crime then so is the extortion. Is the mere threat of extortion a crime? If so the biggest extortion tool of the FBI investigator is a crime.

It then depends upon who legally extorts and who criminally extorts.
There are tricky legal arguments here that are not black and white.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 11:23 AM

My remark above should be qualified - initiate a sexual situation under appropriate circumstances and surroundings. When both parties are there willingly, understanding the context. And we're not talking about workplace romances.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 11:31 AM

We should sell the Impromptu Dating Contract (short form)
and the Celebrity Dating Contract (long form)

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 11:36 AM

They could be in vending machines like condoms used to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 02:47 PM

Too soon to joke?

It is a shame credibility requires 3 or more women. If they reported right away some would think they wanted something. When the story comes out years later it actually helps prove the veracity of the story.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 17 - 10:35 AM

No surprise - Former U.S. intelligence officials: Trump being 'played' by Putin.

Two top former U.S. intelligence officials said Sunday that President Trump is being 'played' by President Vladimir Putin on Russia's interference in the 2016 election and accused him of being susceptible to foreign leaders who stroke his ego.

"By not confronting the issue directly and not acknowledging to Putin that we know you're responsible for this, I think he's giving Putin a pass," former CIA director John Brennan said on CNN's "State of the Union." "I think it demonstrates to Mr. Putin that Donald Trump can be played by foreign leaders who are going to appeal to his ego and try to play upon his insecurities, which is very, very worrisome from a national security standpoint."

Appearing on the same program, former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said he agrees with that assessment.

"He seems very susceptible to rolling out the red carpet and honor guards and all the trappings and pomp and circumstance that come with the office, and I think that appeals to him, and I think it plays to his insecurities," Clapper said.

Trump told reporters traveling with him in Asia that Putin had assured him at a conference in Danang, Vietnam, on Saturday that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, and he indicated that he believed Putin was sincere.

Meanwhile, his cronies make the Sunday morning TV talking head circuit and dismiss the critics.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Nov 17 - 11:23 AM

Trump is honey trapped by Putin.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Nov 17 - 04:37 PM

Strange comparison

Every time there is a plane crash investigators and engineers work to make improvements to make air travel safer.

Every time there is a massacre by guns investigators and engineers work to make improvements to make guns deadlier.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 14 Nov 17 - 10:16 AM

From The Atlantic:

So, to put it bluntly: At this point in the proceedings, there can be no innocent explanation for Donald Trump's rejection of the truth about Russian meddling in last year's elections. Earlier, it may have been suggested, sympathetically, that the case had not yet been proven. That Trump's vanity blocked him from acknowledging embarrassing facts. Or - more hopefully - that he was inspired by some Kissingerian grand design for a diplomatic breakthrough. Or that he was lazy. Or stubborn. Or uninformed. Or something, anything, other than . . . complicit. Not anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Nov 17 - 11:36 AM

Even if Donal-Jerk is not directly involved in collusion with the Russians his insecurity and his massive ego just won't let him do his job properly and denounce the Russian meddling in our elections and give his blessings to the investigations into these very serious attacks on our ability to conduct free elections.
He just can't entertain any notion that calls into question his glorious victory last November, an election he lost by 3 million votes.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Nov 17 - 04:01 PM

Jeff Sessions testified today with a third version of answers.
The answers about Russia were either I do not recall or vague like vanilla fudge. "fudgy answers"

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Nov 17 - 10:31 PM

Randy Rainbow strikes again.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: meself
Date: 14 Nov 17 - 11:22 PM

One-trick phony. His trick is to lie, lie, and lie again.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 15 Nov 17 - 10:12 AM

He's once again trying to pull the banana republic trick of urging (ordering?) the Justice Department to prosecute his political rival by "investigating" Hillary. More sleight of hand trying to distract from his own misbehavior and inept occupation of the White House. Meanwhile, the Zimbabwean Army has managed to remove President Mugabe and his ambitious wife Grace Mugabe from power, working to restore the recently ousted (by Grace) vice president Mnangagwa to the party and vice presidency.

We live in interesting times.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Greg F.
Date: 15 Nov 17 - 11:06 AM

His trick is to lie, lie, and lie again.

Not much of a trick.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 17 - 03:11 PM

Brainwashing for dummies http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/john-oliver-breaks-down-trumps-dangerous-speaking-tactics-w511598

You will love it.

Go John

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 15 Nov 17 - 04:03 PM

Don, that Oliver video was hilarious, terrifying and depressing all at the same time.
(Didn't J.O. coin the slogan "Make Donald Drumpf Again")

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Nov 17 - 06:01 AM

Trump REVERSES Ivory imports into the US. Elephant tusk and Rhino horn will have a new market for Zambia and Zimbabwe. Permits will be sold.

follow the kickbacks. Mugabe of Zimbabwe is apparently de facto deposed.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Nov 17 - 11:04 AM

I've given up the notion that he can't sink any lower. His lack of humanity is bottomless.

Sign seen at an anti-Trump rally in my hometown last weekend:

TRUMP: PUTIN AMERICA FIRST

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Vashta Nerada
Date: 16 Nov 17 - 03:09 PM

A frenzy of "he did it also!" reports coming out, fast and furious. The gush of reports from victims serve a couple of purposes - they put serial offenders on notice, that whether by shunning or prosecution, their days of sexual abuse are numbered. But there is the Tu quoque (Whatabout so-and-so?) logical fallacy happening right in front of our eyes as well, intended to draw attention away from the crimes and misdemeanors of Donald Trump.

Harvey Weinstein was a bad actor, so to speak, as is Roy Moore. And Donald Trump. Kevin Spacey and Louis C.K., they've been outed by people who endured their nonsense. But do you see what is happening? By naming so many others, attention is drawn away from Trump.

I can pretty well guarantee that anyone who is over age 21 has probably offended someone else in their lifetime. They may have been drunk, have been foolish, have been head-over-heels in a one-way love affair, and crossed a boundary they shouldn't have. If it involved anyone with a hint of a "name" today, all of that is proceeding to be tossed into the mix, and I suspect as long as most of these names being thrown out there are liberal, Democratic, popular names, Trump and his ilk couldn't be happier. Remember how Richard Scaife (the late unlamented hater millionaire from Arkansas) helped Kenneth Starr pull Paula Jones into the public eye at the eleventh hour, resulting in the impeachment of Bill Clinton? He got his comeuppance - he was impeached. He was a player. End of that story. But Trump is going to pull all of that out of the history books, to try to nullify the rape and assault charges that are pending against Trump himself.

Stop clicking on every silly headline and keep your attention focused on the true criminal here - the fool who by hook and by crook ended up in the White House. Who is continuing to bend, break, and change what he can to benefit himself and his rich friends. (Today we hear that he lifted a ban on elephant trophies being brought in from Africa - so Donny Jr. and Eric can bring home their big game souvenirs.) His tax attempt will benefit no one but the very rich, and take insurance away from millions in the process. The fox is plundering the hen house big time.

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/11/16/day-301/

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Nov 17 - 08:11 PM

I guess I get bewildered easily these days. What's this "honeypot" thing?

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Nov 17 - 09:16 AM

Trump Moscow visit, hotel room with hookers and the resulting Steele Dossier.

Bodyguard during Trump's travel to Russia.

What the former security chief said about women for Trump during [2013] Moscow trip

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 17 - 09:30 AM

Clinton: We Have A Man Accused of Sexual Assault Sitting in the Oval Office, Accusations Not Taken Seriously.

Now that the Troll is out of the picture, we can bring up Clinton's name as part of this discussion and actually continue the discussion.

Hillary Clinton is the single most important reason that women are coming forward to tell their stories of abuse at the hands of powerful men. She pushed back at the patriarchy that silences women, discounts their complaints, dismisses their charges. She broke that glass ceiling in all but actually ending up as president. The way Trump keeps evoking her name, he needs a straw man to push against to try to justify his presence in the office. We're not buying it.

In this interview Cosby kept trying to say "What About Bill," and the whole point is this is a GOP trick of trying to change the subject, the tu quoque logical fallacy that is pulled out routinely to cloud the issue of a sexual predator occupying the White House.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Greg F.
Date: 19 Nov 17 - 10:40 AM

Its genetic:

"The Trump brothers, Eric and Donald Jr., have embarked on a new business venture to open luxury hotels in Mississippi as part of an effort to cash in on the state's blues music culture. These hotels will be far removed from commercial airports or interstate highways and will be in a majority black, economically depressed area "surrounded by cotton and soybean fields," according to the Washington Post. To complete this outrageous picture, the hotels will reportedly be designed to resemble an "antebellum plantation.""

Continued HERE

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 21 Nov 17 - 05:58 AM

Hey, Dumbass Sr. used race hatred to get elected, why shouldn't his nitwit sons cash in on it as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Nov 17 - 10:44 AM

Reality check for the folks that still maintain that the Trump voter/supporter is not a moron:

Florida business owner Mark Lee, who was on CNN?s "New Day" Monday morning as part of a panel of Trump voters, told host Alisyn Camerota that if Jesus Christ himself said Trump had colluded with Russia to influence last year?s presidential election, he?d still be skeptical.

?Let me tell you. If Jesus Christ gets down off the cross and told me Trump is with Russia, I would tell him, "Hold on a second, I need to check with the president if it's true," Lee said.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: gillymor
Date: 22 Nov 17 - 07:31 AM

Twitler has redefined the GOP, it now stands for "Gross Old Pedophiles".

endorses Roy Moore

Turds of a feather, I suppose.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Nov 17 - 11:34 AM

Astonishing how he has managed to last this long. The stubborn willful support of people who don't care about the laws he has broken, about his attitude towards women and minorities, toward immigrants, conveys acceptance of his sense of entitlement to scour the government of support for large swaths of the population. Conveys their sense of superiority over those groups, or that they don't understand they're cutting off their own access to things like health care. Something will eventually get their attention - what a day that will be.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump is a one trick pony
From: Greg F.
Date: 22 Nov 17 - 03:59 PM

Something will eventually get their attention...

Not.

A.

Chance.

In.

Hell.