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Post by htmb on Sept 1, 2023 1:10:55 GMT
Whine, whine, whine, whine
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 4, 2023 13:51:01 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 12, 2023 14:47:24 GMT
More insanity from Trump's alternate universe.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 27, 2023 1:40:01 GMT
Javier Milei may have eyes that are even colder and deader than Trump's, which one would have thought impossible. "After two votes, Argentina’s presidential race now heads into its decisive round with the final two political survivors vying to lead a country where people are desperate for a financial turnaround. They are Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian economist and television pundit who has embraced comparisons to Donald J. Trump, and Sergio Massa, Argentina’s center-left economy minister who oversees an economy that has a nearly 140-percent annual inflation." source {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
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Post by bjd on Oct 27, 2023 7:21:28 GMT
Yes, it's frightening about Milei. Massa's lead in the previous round was a surprise, given the disastrous state of the Argentinian economy, but Milei is really scary -- a mix of Trump + Bolsonaro. Where do these horrors come from?
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 31, 2023 11:07:20 GMT
Every day there is a new video showing the next president's rapid cognitive decline. Even the shows of support from his audiences seem to be becoming more hesitant, since they are embarrassed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 31, 2023 16:24:54 GMT
Those bizarre pronouncements and examples of garbled speech have been there a long time. Those of us who hate him see that as evidence of his grandiose blustering and lack of true intelligence. I suppose that those who worship him only pick up on bits of his catch phrases and intonation that support their poorly formulated world views. Here is a headline: Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?The headline is from 2017. Here is the accompanying article: www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/
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Post by htmb on Oct 31, 2023 17:27:42 GMT
If you read/watch info from the left and radical left outlets, especially the more independent groups such as MTN, Pakman, Midas Touch, TYT, etc, you’re bound to see just what you want when it comes to Mafia Don. Most of the time the more established networks like CNN and MSNBC are not reporting these crazy behaviors. The late night talk show pundits like Kimmel and Fallon often feature his blunders because they make for entertaining television. I have learned to keep my hopes and expectations low.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 1, 2023 19:27:33 GMT
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Post by htmb on Nov 1, 2023 19:46:35 GMT
Saw that…….MSNBC, proving me wrong. Still, I have no hope for anything to happen anytime soon. I’ve been wanting people to come to their senses for too many years.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 2, 2023 15:51:33 GMT
Trump, the stable genius, has all the best words, that I can tell you. Not.
Precise transcription of some of Trump's remarks in Iowa on Sunday:
“I can't imagine myself being a politician — it has cost me a couple of billion dollars to be a politic — everyone else makes — they make — I said no we can't do that — I could've made a fortune — countries are coming — we've got to build a job, and we'd like to have you involved — billions I say — I tell my kids, sorry kids, we can't do it, I’m President — I respected the office — and then I get out, and I see the stuff Biden's been doing, and I say, well I did it the right way — you know (tittering) — the money — and my kids say, dad could we build a job here or there — in the Middle East — certain countries — they got a lotta money — and they’d love to build a nice Trump job — no kids you can't do that, it's a conflict — I didn't do that (sniff) — so I was willing — and the of course they made it much worse with legal fees — I have $100 million worth of legal fees — and they are doing good — at least I have a good lawyers — you could spend $100 million on lousy lawyers too — it happens (faint laughter from the crowd) — but no I said, I said, right from the beginning — I told Ben and Candy a long time ago — I said you know it's incredible — as soon as you win, they start coming to you — wanna do this — and I told my kids you can't do that, you can’t do that — too much respect for the office — and uh ...”
And MAGAts say Biden is cognitively impaired. (Except they don’t use big words like that.)
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 2, 2023 16:40:39 GMT
Perhaps by stable genius he meant he was good with horses.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 2, 2023 17:05:46 GMT
, Mick! What Kimby quotes may well be to a degree calculated. Trump's casual, conversational style obviously appeals to his base, who undoubtedly feel this powerful, wealthy, brilliant business man is including them as friends by sharing his emotions and world view.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 11, 2023 10:54:20 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 11, 2023 17:03:08 GMT
Gawwwwwd. It is scary and sad that these people have so little inner life, so little ability to truly regard and assess the world that they dress up in their ugly costumes and worship a demagogue.
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Post by mossie on Dec 12, 2023 8:04:29 GMT
Thick as s--t
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Post by whatagain on Dec 12, 2023 8:12:49 GMT
It is scary to think these people actually have a right to vote and use it AGAINST others not to make a better world.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 12, 2023 15:24:49 GMT
Trump's buddy-buddy relationship with Putin is still pervading US politics and is quite scary. Much of that was aired in today's essay by Heather Cox Richardson, wherein she discusses how House Republicans are blocking aid to Ukraine by loading a bill for that with outrageous demands to further their immigration agenda. She writes: This unwillingness to fund a crucial partner in its fight against Russia has resurrected concerns that the Trump-supporting MAGA Republicans are working not for the United States but for Russian president Vladimir Putin, who badly needs the U.S. to abandon Ukraine in order to help him win his war.
Media outlets in Moscow reinforced this sense when they celebrated the Senate vote, gloating that Ukraine is now in “agony” and that it was “difficult to imagine a bigger humiliation.” One analyst said: “The downfall of Ukraine means the downfall of Biden! Two birds with one stone!” Another: “Well done, Republicans! They’re standing firm! That’s good for us.”
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 16, 2023 0:04:46 GMT
And yet more on Trump's association with the Russians: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/politics/trump-binder-classified-material-russia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GE0.buMz.YWSRu8Y9CASb&hpgrp=c-abar&smid=url-shareAbove is a link to the article which NYTimes claims I have the right to share. If it won't open, here is the text: Material From Russia Investigation Went Missing as Trump Left Office A binder given to the Trump White House contained details that intelligence agencies believe could reveal secret sources and methods.
By Maggie Haberman, Julian E. Barnes, Charlie Savage and Jonathan Swan Dec. 15, 2023 Updated 3:33 p.m. ET
Material from a binder with highly classified information connected to the investigation into Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election disappeared in the final days of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, two people familiar with the matter said.
The disappearance of the material, known as the “Crossfire Hurricane” binder for the name given to the investigation by the F.B.I., vexed national security officials and set off concerns that sensitive information could be inappropriately shared, one of the people said.
The material’s disappearance was reported earlier Friday by CNN. The matter was so concerning to officials that the Senate Intelligence Committee was briefed about it last year, a U.S. official said.
The binder consists of a hodgepodge of materials related to the origins and early stages of the Russia investigation that were collected by Trump administration officials. They included copies of botched F.B.I. applications for national-security surveillance warrants to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser as well as text messages between two F.B.I. officials involved in the inquiry, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, expressing animus toward Mr. Trump.
The substance of the material — a redacted version of which has since been made public under the Freedom of Information Act and is posted on the website of the F.B.I. — is not considered particularly sensitive, the official said.
But the raw version in the binder contained details that intelligence agencies believe could reveal secret sources and methods. (The publicly available version contains numerous portions that were whited out as classified.)
It is not clear if the missing material comprises the entire original binder of material provided to the White House for Mr. Trump’s team to review and declassify in part before leaving office.
Among other murky details, it is not known how many copies were made at the White House or how the government knows one set is missing.
The binder has been a source of recurring attention since January 2021, just before Mr. Trump left office. At the time, Mr. Trump’s aides prepared redactions to some of the material it contained because the president — who was obsessed with the Russia investigation and believed his political enemies had used it to damage his presidency — planned to declassify it and make it public.
Officials made several copies of the version with the redactions, which some Trump aides planned to release publicly.
Mr. Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had a copy of material from the binder given to at least one conservative writer, according to testimony and court filings.
But when Justice Department officials expressed concerns that sharing some of the material would breach the Privacy Act at a time when the department was already being sued by Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page for having publicly released some of their texts, the copies were hastily retrieved, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Trump was deeply focused on what was in the binder, a person close to him said. Even after leaving the White House, Mr. Trump still wanted to push information from the binder into the public eye. He suggested, during an April 2021 interview for a book about the Trump presidency, that Mr. Meadows still had the material.
“I would let you look at them if you wanted,” Mr. Trump said in the interview. “It’s a treasure trove.”
Mr. Trump did not address a question about whether he himself had some of the material. But when a Trump aide present for the interview asked him, “Does Meadows have those?” Mr. Trump replied, “Meadows has them.”
“We had pretty much won that battle,” Mr. Trump added, referring to questions about whether his 2016 campaign had worked with Russia. “There was no collusion. There was no nothing. And I think it was maybe past its prime. It would be sort of a cool book for you to look at.”
George J. Terwilliger III, a lawyer for Mr. Meadows, said the former chief of staff was not responsible for any missing material. “Mark never took any copy of that binder home at any time,” he said.
A person familiar with the matter said, shortly after the court-authorized search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 by F.B.I. agents looking for classified documents, that they had not found any Crossfire Hurricane material.
Adding to the confusion about the material and who was in possession of it, a set of the Russia investigation documents that Mr. Trump believed he had declassified did not have their classification markings changed when they were given to the National Archives, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
At the time, Mr. Trump was in a standoff with the archives over the reams of presidential material he had taken with him upon leaving the White House on Jan. 20, 2021, and was resisting giving back. So Mr. Trump told advisers he would give back those boxes in exchange for the Russia-related documents.
Aides never pursued his suggestion.
In the run-up to the 2020 election, John Ratcliffe, then Mr. Trump’s director of national intelligence, declassified around 1,000 pages of intelligence materials related to the Russia investigation, which Trump allies used to try to discredit the inquiry.
In 2022, Mr. Trump made John Solomon, a conservative writer who had been briefly given the binder before it was retrieved, one of his representatives to the National Archives. This allowed Mr. Solomon to see Trump White House records deposited with the agency. He later filed a lawsuit against the government asking a court to order the Justice Department to send the binder to the archives so that he could have access to it.
A court filing he submitted in August described the binder as about 10 inches thick and containing about 2,700 pages. The publicly released version includes fewer than 600 pages, many heavily redacted; it is not clear what accounts for the discrepancy.
The filing said Mr. Solomon had been allowed to thumb through a version of the binder at the White House on Jan. 19, 2021. The contents, it said, included a 2017 F.B.I. report about its interview of Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier of unverified claims about Trump-Russia ties; “tasking orders” related to an F.B.I. confidential human source; “lightly-redacted” copies of botched surveillance warrant applications; and text messages between the F.B.I. officials.
The filing said Mr. Solomon or an aide had gone back to the White House that evening and had been given a copy of the materials in the binder in a paper bag, and that separately a Justice Department envelope containing some of the documents had been delivered to his office.
But as Mr. Solomon’s office was scanning the larger set, the filing said, the White House requested that the documents be returned so certain private details could be removed. Mr. Meadows promised Mr. Solomon he would get back the revised binder, it said, but he never did.
When Mr. Solomon later tried to see the binder within the Trump White House records at the National Archives, he said, the agency denied him access to a box of 2,700 pages “with varying types of classification and declassification markings” that it said it was obligated to treat as highly classified. The agency also told him it did not have the declassified version of the binder that Mr. Solomon had briefly possessed, because the Justice Department still has it.Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the 2024 presidential campaign, down ballot races across the country and the investigations into former President Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman Julian E. Barnes covers the U.S. intelligence agencies and international security matters for The Times. He has written about security issues for more than two decades. More about Julian E. Barnes Charlie Savage writes about national security and legal policy. He has been a journalist for more than two decades. More about Charlie Savage Jonathan Swan is a political reporter covering the 2024 presidential election and Donald Trump’s campaign. More about Jonathan Swan
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2023 17:43:36 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2023 21:13:58 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Dec 31, 2023 12:01:31 GMT
What every Trumper needs: (And in case you need one of your own, here’s how to order.)
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 31, 2023 15:24:18 GMT
Yes! That’s for me!
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 31, 2023 16:56:41 GMT
It makes me curious about what other oriented products have been put on the market (not just for Trump). All major manufactuers have to worry about which people might boycott them if they market something that is conroversial. And so the majority of them prefer not to.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2023 17:33:59 GMT
That is a rich bit of irony, considering how pitiful the train system is now in the US -- a very large country which could use a good train system. And of course that is one of Biden's goals, to build the train system up again, something the party-of-trump doesn't want because it's a damned democrat giveaway program. I guess Bluto is counting on Biden getting it done & then the orange pustule will get reelected & take the credit.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 8, 2024 22:44:07 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jan 9, 2024 7:07:09 GMT
One problem is that the people who appreciate such magazine covers or articles warning of the damage to democracy if Trump is re-elected are not the ones voting for him. His voters don't read The New Yorker or listen to PBS. It's preaching to the converted.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 9, 2024 7:31:09 GMT
That's a given. New Yorker covers are more comments on times, events, the seasons, etc. They can be whimsical, pensive, incisive or as in this case, political/historical commentary.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 9, 2024 7:52:55 GMT
In any case, Trumpists would probably find that illustration admirable.
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Post by htmb on Jan 12, 2024 4:06:08 GMT
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