The Trump Presidency

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

Let's not forget this little lovefest:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/15/million-maga-march-trump-supporters

 

[John_8581]

Let's not forget this little lovefest:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/15/million-maga-march-trump-supporters

That's still not going to overturn the election. How many court cases has the Trump campaign now lost? Let's see ... every single one of them.

Look, and for the most part, no one has masks on! You can forget social distancing. That's impossible to control.

With the Pandemic, in fourteen (14) days, unless they all go into quarantine, they'll all be dead or all their relatives will be sick and dying.

Great Thanksgiving present to bring home. The gift that keeps on giving.

 

[gmase]

Let's not forget this little lovefest:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/15/million-maga-march-trump-supporters

No more 'good people on both sides'?
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/5...rotestors-trump-supporters-following-dc-rally

"Radical Left ANTIFA SCUM was easily rebuffed today by the big D.C. MAGA Rally crowd, only to return at night, after 99% of the crowd had left, to assault elderly people and families. Police got there, but late. Mayor is not doing her job!"

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

The problem is big or small a Home grown insurrection is not going to be fun.,

 

[mongo18]

The problem is big or small a Home grown insurrection is not going to be fun.,

I've heard that according to the official civil unrest handbook created by the US government's own security and intelligence experts, if things go loud you can expect a minimum 6 year commitment.

 

[gmase]

The media doesn't silence conservative voices, they seem to self-silence. What are they afraid of?
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...-gop-senator-declined-interviews-this-weekend

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

The media doesn't silence conservative voices, they seem to self-silence. What are they afraid of?
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...-gop-senator-declined-interviews-this-weekend

Certainly seems to be true here.

 

[Luxman]

The Republican Party Is Dead. It’s the Trump Cult Now.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160212/republican-party-dead-its-trump-cult-now

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

The Republican Party Is Dead. It’s the Trump Cult Now.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160212/republican-party-dead-its-trump-cult-now

Everything I read says that this has been in the works for a long time. And is not going away.

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

I am sure this is just another "joke":

https://www.yahoo.com/news/racist-maga-sign-saying-coming-094959409.html

And of course:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hes-vengeance-mode-intelligence-veterans-180510165.html

 

[mongo18]

The Republican Party Is Dead. It’s the Trump Cult Now.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160212/republican-party-dead-its-trump-cult-now

That was a really fucking good article.

If they cared about populism, or crushing Goldman Sachs, or building The Wall, these people would have been up in arms. But what they really cared about was that Trump was willing to stand up for the Very Fine People who marched in Charlottesville and tell the uppity congresswomen to go back to where they came from.
He mounted a hostile takeover of the GOP because he alone understood what Republican voters wanted. They wanted the spirit that had animated his birtherism gambit: a politics devoted not to policies and ideologies, but to grievances and combativeness.
...cruelty and contempt are not just the essential ingredients of Trumpism but exactly what Republican voters hunger for. They don’t want deregulation, or a lower marginal tax rate, or even The Wall. What they want is the liberation to talk freely about the people they hate.

It's all 100% spot on.

 

[gmase]

Trump wants to leave Afghanistan and Iraq ...
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/...rder-to-withdraw-troops-from-afghanistan-iraq

... and give Biden a house-warming gift in Iran
https://thehill.com/policy/internat...suaded-president-from-military-strike-on-iran

 

[stefidungo]

I've heard that according to the official civil unrest handbook created by the US government's own security and intelligence experts, if things go loud you can expect a minimum 6 year commitment.

It's a short headline with a long aftermath.

The United States is awash in firearms. Around 395 million, about 46% of the world's civilian held firearms. Whether or not it's what the Founders intended, it's what we have. Relatively equal footing with ones minders, excepting heavy arms. And that's what makes for such a short headline. You can be assured that the US military will never conduct street-to-street actions against its population (as if, so Euro!). Rather, they will cordon off the affected area, irrespective of its size (looking at you, Seattle) and wait it out. Because inside that cordon is a Hell of a lot of legally owned guns and ammunition. And everyone in there looks American, see? Sweet American liberty. And that's just one of them! 😄

 

[xfire]

Seattle, or Wilmington, North Carolina... One never knows.

 

[gmase]

... and give Biden a house-warming gift in Iran
https://thehill.com/policy/internat...suaded-president-from-military-strike-on-iran

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/...ed-to-prepare-for-trump-strike-on-iran-report

 

[mongo18]

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/...ed-to-prepare-for-trump-strike-on-iran-report

FFS. I really hope the pentagon overrules him on that one.

 

[mongo18]

FFS. I really hope the pentagon overrules him on that one.

Ok, some good news. Even though trump has decided to withdraw from the open skies treaty and immediately start liquidating the assets in yet another massive betrayal of long standing US allies, it appears that the air force will not immediately start getting rid of the assets so that a real president will have a path to return to the agreement - Despite reports the Trump administration might be scrambling to get rid of the OC-135B planes, a congressional source said the Air Force plans to keep the planes until the end of fiscal 2021 and service leaders had yet to make a firm decision about what to do with them.

It's a shame the US doesn't have a congress, only whatever you'd call that corrupt shitshow mcconnell is running, or they might step in and stop him from burning down the entire house on his way out, but at least the military are working against him to try to salvage what they can. Hopefully if and when he calls on them to attack Iran they'll either tell him to fuck off or arrest him and put him in a cell until January 20.

 

[gmase]

This would go into the Satire thread if it wasn't real:



[It is a desk used for bill signing photo ops. This is not the first time Trump has sat at the bill-signing desk either. In fact, years ago, he even remarked, “This is a child’s desk, but that’s okay.”]

 

[xfire]

Interesting fact... That desk was purchased in the waning days of the Obama Administration and Trump is the only president to have ever used it.

*just kidding, I have no clue how long that desk has been around.

 

[gmase]

Interesting fact... That desk was purchased in the waning days of the Obama Administration and Trump is the only president to have ever used it.

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*just kidding, I have no clue how long that desk has been around.

Making up facts like a Trumper. Go big.

It was actually borrowed from Ben Franklin's home in 1776 for use in signing the Declaration of Independence. The signers then gathered for the famous photo taken by John Trumbull. Shortly after photo, the Continental Army began occupying airports.