Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 15 Mar 22 - 12:24 PM I like the Fraudvillian reperatoire remark. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Mar 22 - 06:50 PM Will the GOP Dump Trump? Republicans have a clear off-ramp, but it’s up to them to take it. Donald Trump withers in darkness. He needs sunlight—media attention—to thrive. Otherwise, he reverts to his natural state: Florida-based hotelier who will direct you to the omelet station or maybe give a toast at your wedding or bar mitzvah (though the toast is likely to focus more on the 2020 election than your blessed event). As Ukraine, gas prices, and other events of actual note dominate the news cycle, there is less and less room for Trump. Add in the fact that he’s also on the utterly wrong side of one of those events—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—and for the first time since 2015, Republicans have a relatively painless way to rid themselves of the Mango Mussolini once and for all. Will they take it? |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Dave the Gnome Date: 04 Mar 22 - 08:27 AM Is this piece in "The Independant" good news? Trump accused of ‘criminal’ attempt to overturn election. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 04 Mar 22 - 08:18 AM The thousands we were told to expect for the State of Union trucker anti mask and vaccine rally only had eleven or twelve attendees. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Mar 22 - 04:38 PM Dave, we do get The Guardian over here, and while they're very polite about letting people read for free, they prefer you name the amount you'll donate and for how long to wait till they ask again. I've been donating for several years now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Mar 22 - 04:32 PM At some point a huge chink in the wall of lies that Trump surrounds himself with will be prized loose and not only will everyone be able to see inside his domain, that house of cards will start to fall. Sorry about all of the metaphors, but his whole life has been lived based on bad ideas and selfish behavior. The GOP is two distinct factions - Old School Republicans who were rational people who happened to be fairly conservative, and the Tea Party loons who showed the way for the evangelical crowd. The old school folks aren't going down without a fight. I really really really hope that Merrick Garland has something going on in his Justice Department, though I fear he has a lot of previously embedded Trump folks in there who are making things difficult for moving forward (and are probably difficult to remove under Civil Service regulations). |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 01 Mar 22 - 12:26 PM Mc Connell (the human snooze button) the Rep. leader in the Senate does not go along with the Putin praise or white nationalism. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 01 Mar 22 - 12:18 PM Yes Dave this nonsense started with Trump. McCarthy the speaker of the house was heard asking over a hot mike "what are all these Russains doing over here all of a sudden?" Later on he was clued in and is going along with Trump. This does not mean the entire Republican party will go along with Trump's dream to share Russain oil fortunes etc. but it is an extreme wingnut branch of the party. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Mar 22 - 12:09 PM I seem to remember that you can access The Guardian over in the US Very good opinion piece today Putinism is breeding in the heart of the Republican party |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Steve Shaw Date: 28 Feb 22 - 03:09 PM How complacent. Either you fight to stop him or you are taking a terrible risk. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 28 Feb 22 - 12:53 PM You gotta talk the talk and walk the walk. Biden's walk is like a tiny wooden marching soldier taking small steps. As for a moving and extremely emotional talk, it too is a bit wooden. We won't soon see a President like Obama who ran down airforce one stairs without touching the hand rail. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 28 Feb 22 - 12:29 PM Steve was wrong about our last Presidential election and I believe he will be wrong again. Despite new voter obstruction measures the Republican vote will be split making for a another loss. The House and Senate is another matter. The sources and methods of a Trump stolen election coup are better understood today and can be overcome again even better. How a relative unknown dark horse like Emporer Rap can win the next election is unclear but not beyond the realm of quantum possibilities. :^/ |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Dave the Gnome Date: 27 Feb 22 - 04:01 PM What a turd. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Feb 22 - 03:09 PM Donald Trump's Detention Club convenes for Putin's Ukraine invasion Gloria Borger lets Trump have it right between the eyes. Former President George W. Bush condemned the "unprovoked and unjustified invasion" of Ukraine, expressing solidarity with "our friend and democratic ally" against Putin's thuggery. Ditto for former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Former President Barack Obama said Russia acted "in violation of international law and basic principles of human decency." |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Steve Shaw Date: 27 Feb 22 - 05:52 AM They would pick him because he'd win! Alternatively, give me a scenario in which Candidate Trump would lose, based on what we see and know now about the state of US politics. Biden is an old man and he shows it, he screwed up big time (in the eyes of the public) over Afghanistan and he is showing weakness right now. And he's heading for gloomy lameduckery. We hear lots of grumblings about Trump's dirty dealings and his dodgy family, etc., but, as with Johnson and partygate, he is ultimately non-stick. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Dave the Gnome Date: 27 Feb 22 - 05:34 AM In answer to your last question, Steve, maybe the party has seen sense. I just don't know enough about US politics. Comparing our own Tory party, do you think Bozo would still be supported by the PCP? |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Steve Shaw Date: 27 Feb 22 - 05:06 AM To respond to Dave, if he's nominated he's a dead cert to win the election, unless by some miracle a strong, honest and charismatic Democrat candidate steps up. I don't see one. Why would the Republicans nominate anyone but Trump? |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Steve Shaw Date: 27 Feb 22 - 05:02 AM From the Guardian: During an 85-minute speech to a packed ballroom at CPAC, Trump, who contested the 2016 and 2020 elections, also gave his strongest hint yet that he will run for president in 2024. “We did it twice, and we’ll do it again,” he said. “We’re going to be doing it again a third time.” Jail or the White House, Americans? |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Dave the Gnome Date: 27 Feb 22 - 03:18 AM Michelle Obama as Democrat candidate? On a more serious note, in addition to Steve's question, is the Republican party likely to nominate Trump again or has the balance of power there switched to the saner elements? I don't know how that side of it works so any info would be appreciated. And what are the chances of the well outdated electoral college system being replaced with one man one vote? Surely everyone can see how undemocratic it is to have some states carry more weight because they owned more slaves! Or have I got that wrong too? |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 26 Feb 22 - 10:59 PM #1 The Trump census was devised to eliminate millions of immigrants so we are more than 350 million. #2 The bat shit crazy Republicans are the Trump base while the sane former Trump supporters have been greatly eroded in the last few months. The house will go red but the Presidency is not predetermined and the Trump nomination is not secure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Steve Shaw Date: 26 Feb 22 - 07:34 PM It's because yanks are not thinking it is why it will happen. You have 350 million citizens. Where is your charismatic democrat who could oppose Trump? Where, apart from your wishful thinking, is your will to nail Trump for his illegal activities? Believe me, the rest of the western world is waiting... |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Feb 22 - 07:05 PM Don't even think it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Steve Shaw Date: 26 Feb 22 - 07:04 PM Time is ticking away. Your next president is Donald Trump. Let's hope that Putin has disappeared before that happens. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Feb 22 - 05:22 PM One wonders what Trump is saying publicly, but one isn't curious enough to go looking for it. He's not worth the trouble. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 26 Feb 22 - 05:14 PM Gnomester, yer not an outsider. You're a cosmopolitan citizen. No nationalism tests here. There are challenges of a common language, phrases and names/personalities but you're definately not an outsider. Outsiders are people like...people like folksingers. :^/ |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Dave the Gnome Date: 26 Feb 22 - 04:37 PM If you don't mind the input of an outsider, I think it is more important than ever to nail the bastard. If the world stage sees this despot brought to task it will shake his pal Vlad. How you can speed it up, I don't know. Sorry. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Feb 22 - 11:15 AM There are several recent interviews with Fiona Hill, all right before the invasion started. But she hit the nail on the head - Trump has a lot of blame in Putin's deciding to make this move now. Trump made it clear to Putin that he considered Ukraine Explaining Putin’s Decades-Long Obsession With Ukraine We spoke with Fiona Hill, a former Trump adviser, about how the Russian leader’s view of history has led him to the brink of war. Winston Churchill once described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” It’s a phrase that could equally apply to Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin’s leader, as the world awaits his next move on Ukraine. Fiona Hill says that Trump emboldened Putin to invade Ukraine by treating the country like a 'playground' She said Trump's foreign policy had not been driven by concern about the US national interest, but by personal interests and impulses. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 25 Feb 22 - 08:10 AM Trump and Fox's Tucker Carlson both praise the Putin Invasion. Trump calls Putin super savvy, Tucker asks viewers to lend him their ears for he has come to come to praise Putin and not to bury him. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 20 Feb 22 - 10:45 AM Democrats promise more $ and a bipartisan Military Corporate Complex, get elected and prove it. Republicans preach government doesn't work, get elected and prove it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Feb 22 - 09:07 PM He took 15 boxes of materials to Mara Lago that should have gone to the National Archives. Stuff that was classified and that if mishandled by other federal employees or elected officials, they would do time for or lose licenses, etc. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 17 Feb 22 - 06:59 PM ha ha ha It may be like watching the grass grow, the paint dry or 9 hours of Trumps repeating the 5th ammendment. What makes you think Donald will lash out and go off script? "YUROUT OF ORDER? YURALL OUT OF ORDER!" Judge claims Trump's Humpty Dumpty Defense insults the Court. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: robomatic Date: 17 Feb 22 - 06:21 PM To testify under oath he's gonna need a lawyer to the left of him, a lawyer to the right of him, and a shock collar tight on where it will do the most good. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Feb 22 - 06:05 PM Ha! Another judge rules against the Trump clan and they have to testify. N.Y. Attorney General Can Question Trump and 2 Children, Judge Rules Former President Donald J. Trump and two of his children had sought to block Letitia James, the attorney general, from interviewing them under oath. Lawyers for the Trump family had sought to prohibit Ms. James, a Democrat, from interviewing Mr. Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. They had argued that she was politically biased against Mr. Trump and was inappropriately using her civil inquiry to aid the district attorney’s criminal investigation, which she is also participating in. You know what about this reporting will really gall The Donald? They refer to him as Mr. Trump. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Feb 22 - 02:58 PM It sounded today (on the news) that the firm isn't saying the numbers are inaccurate, but I'm guessing that they want to get out from under all of exposure. Trump is probably driving away current clients and any new business. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 15 Feb 22 - 02:34 PM sort of They merely want to escape exposure so they will no longer attest to the acurracy of Trump's figures. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: robomatic Date: 15 Feb 22 - 01:48 PM Monday comes word that the Trump Organization's accounting firm is warning of 'inaccuracies' and is seeking to dump their client. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 14 Feb 22 - 06:58 PM We have the Trump silver dollar, chess set, Trumpy Bear, Trump the musical (sounds curiously like JC Superstar) and now the Trump Handbook |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 13 Feb 22 - 11:50 AM The showdown sounds like a lawyer commercial, or soon will be. "Ah'm callin yew out Bart, you low down Q hatin yella bellied sheike in the grass socialist". "My esteemed colleage from South Carolina may have mispoken regarding my political proclivites". "Ure nuthin but a child eatin piece of demo crap". "Again my friend may have mistated my dietary requirements". |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Feb 22 - 10:20 AM Politics in the Age of Trump. Republicans ‘Disgusting’: Republican Senate hopeful condemned over ‘showdown’ TV ad Jim Lamon’s ad depicts ‘shootout’ with Democrats including Mark Kelly, senator whose wife Gabby Giffords was shot in deadly attack A Republican Senate primary candidate in Arizona has been condemned for a “disgusting” campaign ad in which he shoots at lookalike actors portraying Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and the incumbent Arizona senator Mark Kelly. Jim Lamon, an energy executive, shared the ad on Twitter, saying it would be aired at this year’s Super Bowl. Lamon would face Kelly in a general election in the autumn should he secure the Republican nomination. Kelly is the husband of the former Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was shot in the head in 2011 while greeting constituents outside of a local grocery store. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: robomatic Date: 10 Feb 22 - 01:44 PM Lay off. We Neandertals are a proud race. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 10 Feb 22 - 12:51 PM I scanned a Margorie Taylor Greene workout photo with my B.S. bone structure app and it yielded a 50% match for Neanderthal. I need her empty Starbucks coffee cup for a DNA analysis. Anything above a 3% dna match for Neanderthal would be record breaking. I usually frown on eugenics but she may be a throw back worthy of being thrown out of the gene pool. She is not good natured. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 10 Feb 22 - 07:11 AM Marge Greene referenced the Democrat Nazi Gespacho police for the 1-6 commitee. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Feb 22 - 09:58 PM I love Terry's interviews - I just didn't remember which interviewer I'd been listening to. Here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area we have Krys Boyd, who is as close to Terry in her interview style as anyone I know. And I hear both of them most days. National Archives asks Justice Dept. to investigate Trump’s handling of White House records The request came amid revelations that officials recovered 15 boxes of materials from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence that weren’t handed back to the government as they should have been It would be sublime if a group of archivists and librarians were the ones to actually take down Trump. The National Archives and Records Administration has asked the Justice Department to examine Donald Trump’s handling of White House records, sparking discussions among federal law enforcement officials about whether they should investigate the former president for a possible crime, according to two people familiar with the matter. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: robomatic Date: 09 Feb 22 - 01:58 PM Don't be afraid to credit Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She is an American treasure. She typically has a preternatural gift of interviewing people who know what they are talking about ahead of such magazines as "60 Minutes". She is fearless, inquisitive, and inquisitively fearless. She deserves her own thread. But on to the snooze: I read in today's paper that Representative Don Young, longest serving Rep. at this time, has aligned himself with our senior Senator Lisa Murkowski to slam the recent RNC statement that the Jan 06 insurrection was "legitimate political discourse." 2 out of our national delegation still have a sense of smell. I never considered ol' Don good for much except as a milepost in time. But if he has not redeemed himself for a mis-spent career he has at least done the right thing. I also owe his campaign a thank-you for a timely donation of whiteout at a critical time during the Alaska State Fair, but that's another story. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Feb 22 - 10:30 AM Trump is a symptom of a really broken GOP that started down this path with the Tea Party folks. I was listening to an interview yesterday that described how Trump took that broken party, and not knowing how political things usually work, simply made his own "deals" with the religious right to do things other presidential candidates would never say out loud. He said he'd pass supreme court justices to eliminate Roe V. Wade. The book has to do with how "The GOP Lost their party and got everything they wanted." |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 09 Feb 22 - 09:27 AM Good news... The US Postal service has been given 57 billion dollars and is not under threat any longer. The poison pill legislation that sickened the USPS is gone. However DeJoie is still postmaster, for now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 09 Feb 22 - 08:45 AM Regarding the Republican party of Margorie Greene, there is hope the ship will escape the sinking rat. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 09 Feb 22 - 08:41 AM The thing about extremists is they don't know when to stop. The US white Nationalists are blind to their similarities to the antsematism, mysogeny and terrorism of Al Queada and the Taliban. Their next best idea is only to become more extreme. Right now its bomb threats over school board meetings over masks and black history month events. Their signs used to say "Make liberals cry", Then make liberals bleed and eventually make liberals die. We are at an intersection of high tech over manufacturing, Minority group majority over old white culture and hyper individualism over respondsibility to a nation. They believe everyone has rights but no one has responsibility. Our secret sauce was our immigration which is now under threat. I don't think Eienstien would want to come here now. People do not feel at home in their home anymore since the Wall Street foreclosure of homes. "If we stop immigration we will become old we will become tired, we will lose what is the essence of America". Quote Ronald Reagan. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Donuel Date: 09 Feb 22 - 05:48 AM The US is facing a changed electoral system to choose between domestic psychopathic physical violence and serene reasoning. Europe is facing foriegn violence with Putin regarding his test of will against NATO in Ukraine. I do not know crazy haired Boris the clown well enough to make a Trump comparison. |
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects From: Steve Shaw Date: 08 Feb 22 - 07:03 PM It wouldn't be pushing things too far to suggest that the mere existence of Trumpism has delivered Boris Johnson to us. The latter more and more thinks that he can lie with total impunity. No prime minister in our history could have even remotely got away with the kinds of transgressions indulged in by Johnson, including several in which he's deliberately tried to sidestep democracy, and there's little doubt that he takes his inspiration from your man. It's worrying a lot of us. |