Sound The TRUMPets! A Thread for Presidential Pondering 2016-2020(?)

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Karl Henning

Indeed, when he uses cuss words, he is being truest to himself....
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
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Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
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His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

SimonNZ

Vanity fair:

IVANKA TRUMP, UNIRONICALLY: I GOT MY MORAL COMPASS FROM MY DAD
This is an actual thing the first daughter said, out loud, in front of people.


"Like many of the most terrible people in history, Donald Trump should never have been allowed to reproduce. Nevertheless, he has famously spawned numerous children, each of whom has inherited some of his specific traits. Don Jr. got his dad's IQ. Eric got his head for numbers. Tiffany got use of his last name. Barron got tacit acknowledgement that they're related. And what gift did he bestow upon Ivanka? The answer may surprise you:

At a mid-August fundraiser in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Ivanka Trump was asked to name the personality traits she inherited most from her parents. Without much of a pause, Trump told the crowd of roughly 120 high-end donors that her mother gave her an example of how to be a powerful, successful woman. And her father? He passed onto her his moral compass, she said, according to two event attendees."


(princess...what your mother taught you was The Stockholm Syndrome)

Todd

Not Trump himself, but one of his boys: Kavanaugh accused of more unwanted sexual contact by former classmate: report

Maybe tough guy Dems can try to impeach Kavanaugh once they retake the Senate.  Hopeful mush-brained lefties ought to read up on ol' Sammy boy first.  Ah, fuck it, go get him.

This will certainly offer fresh opportunity for virtue signaling.
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BasilValentine

Quote from: Todd on September 15, 2019, 04:21:58 AM
Not Trump himself, but one of his boys: Kavanaugh accused of more unwanted sexual contact by former classmate: report

Maybe tough guy Dems can try to impeach Kavanaugh once they retake the Senate.  Hopeful mush-brained lefties ought to read up on ol' Sammy boy first.  Ah, fuck it, go get him.

This will certainly offer fresh opportunity for virtue signaling.

Yeah, virtue signalers! As if anyone could really be outraged about serial sexual assault. Who are they kidding? I mean we've all done it, right?  ::)

71 dB

Virtue signaling works nicely when all you care about is your own (political) career.  0:)
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drogulus

Quote from: BasilValentine on September 15, 2019, 05:15:28 AM
Yeah, virtue signalers! As if anyone could really be outraged about serial sexual assault. Who are they kidding? I mean we've all done it, right?  ::)

     I assault women just so I won't be accused of virtue signalling, which is worse and mush brained.

     Dept. Of Nonvirtue Signalling

     https://www.youtube.com/v/IrlDGvuUxMY

     Dem interrogator is very unfair to Corey.
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drogulus


     Ukrainian Official: We're Ready to Investigate Biden's Son—if Trump Asks Officially

     Well, thanks for clearing that up. But truly, it only confirms what we're discovering drip by drip.

     The request to investigate Biden's son, if it had legitimacy, would be handled professionally, not by the personal attorney of the President. There will be no official request.
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drogulus


     Allow me to speculate.

     July 25: Trump holds a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

     July 28: Trump announces Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats will resign in August.

     Aug. 12: Whistleblower files complaint.

     Aug. 15: DNI Coats leaves.

     ?
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drogulus

     Yeah OK it wasn't Coats.....happy?

     The Witness and the Whistleblower: Some Thoughts

The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, it bears emphasis, has no application to noncriminal, political judgments. So Congress gets to deploy a different standard here—and in my judgment, it should. With respect to Lewandowski, the president has the power, at least in the short term, to direct him to refuse to answer certain questions. And Lewandowski has the power to resist answering other questions, as he did. In addition to moving to compel him to answer those questions—in other words, contesting the president's assertions of privilege—the House Judiciary Committee should regard itself as free to read such refusals as effective confirmations of the worst reasonable inferences from the relevant passages of the Mueller report. If Lewandowski refuses to provide information that mitigates the inferences one could reasonably draw about what Lewandowski's interactions with Trump suggest about the president's intent, the committee should draw those inferences.

In the case of the whistleblower matter, there is a particular reason for Congress to take this posture: The president's actions may be doing ongoing damage to crucial foreign policy interests—not to mention the integrity of a coming presidential election and the civil liberties of Americans. Congress, in other words, may have an exigent need to take action and simply be unable to assume that the executive confidentiality being asserted is not enabling illegality. So it needs to adopt the posture that if it cannot get the information it requires to evaluate the situation, it has to assume the worst and act on that assumption.


     
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Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

drogulus


     Trump won't do anything on Ukraine that isn't consistent with the TrumPutin complex.

     He doesn't want military aid and will look for an excuse to withhold it.

     He wants to be reelected very strongly.

     What's the play here? The play is to undercut the Mueller report by casting doubt on the Manafort conviction, and to undercut Biden via his son.

     In the process he's trying to find a way to keep faith with Putin on aid to Ukraine. For Trump appeasing his frenemy in Moscow is as existential as being President for the rest of his so-called life.
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drogulus

     Rudy Giuliani accused me of exposing Paul Manafort's Ukraine deals to help U.S. Democrats. That's a lie.

     One of the "terrible people" sets the record straight. An interesting point for ironists is in the immortal words of Megatoady Pence he and Mr. Trump "have great concerns about issues of corruption.", when the record is that they are trying to smear the anti-corruption probe that brought down Paul Manafort.

     Vladdy hasn't seen a clown show like this since the spire of Salisbury Cathedral, the tallest in Europe, was visited by a pair of Russian tourists who wouldn't harm a fly.
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Todd

Quote from: Pencil-Neck Adam SchiffThat may be the only remedy that is coequal to the evil that that conduct represents


Oh boy!  That there's some tough talk!! 

What say the members of the GMG Big Brain Brigade, the very same crew that has been so unfailingly right about impeachment, the Mueller Report, the 25th Amendment, the Emoluments Clause, the Blue Wave, Big Bad Brett Kavanaugh, and so very many other things only true Big Brains can be unfailingly right about, is this IT, is this what brings Trump down?  There's already much blabbering, so maybe, maybe.
The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

71 dB

Quote from: Todd on September 22, 2019, 09:55:22 AM

Oh boy!  That there's some tough talk!! 

What say the members of the GMG Big Brain Brigade, the very same crew that has been so unfailingly right about impeachment, the Mueller Report, the 25th Amendment, the Emoluments Clause, the Blue Wave, Big Bad Brett Kavanaugh, and so very many other things only true Big Brains can be unfailingly right about, is this IT, is this what brings Trump down?  There's already much blabbering, so maybe, maybe.

Trump is above the law because of extreme corruption in both Republican and Democratic party. Nothing brings him down, but Bernie Sanders can replace him. That's how the World gets rid of this orange buffoon.
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Todd

Quote from: 71 dB on September 22, 2019, 02:56:35 PM
Trump is above the law because of extreme corruption in both Republican and Democratic party. Nothing brings him down, but Bernie Sanders can replace him. That's how the World gets rid of this orange buffoon.


Derp.
The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

SimonNZ

Quote from: Todd on September 22, 2019, 09:55:22 AM

Oh boy!  That there's some tough talk!! 

What say the members of the GMG Big Brain Brigade, the very same crew that has been so unfailingly right about impeachment, the Mueller Report, the 25th Amendment, the Emoluments Clause, the Blue Wave, Big Bad Brett Kavanaugh, and so very many other things only true Big Brains can be unfailingly right about, is this IT, is this what brings Trump down?  There's already much blabbering, so maybe, maybe.

"Derp."

Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

SimonNZ

Trump claims Nobel Peace Prize is rigged against him

"President Donald Trump on Monday revived his beef with the selection committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that the process is rigged against him.

Speaking to reporters before a bilateral meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Trump asserted that "I would get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they give it out fairly, which they don't."

Trump was discussing the latest developments in the disputed region of Kashmir, which is sandwiched between India and Pakistan and which India has clamped down control over for the last several months. After Trump advertised himself as "an extremely good arbitrator," a foreign reporter suggested that should Trump successfully broker peace, he would "very likely and definitely" receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Trump then offered up former President Barack Obama as an example of the prize being unfairly awarded.

"They gave one to Obama immediately upon his ascent to the presidency and he had no idea why he got it," Trump said, joking: "You know what? That was the only thing I agreed with him on."

Obama received the famed award in 2009, less than nine months into his term in the White House for what the Nobel Committee said were "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy" and his calls for nuclear nonproliferation. The honor drew confusion at the time from some in the international community who questioned what he could have done so soon in his presidency to merit such an achievement, especially with wars in the Middle East still raging. Even some in the White House expressed surprise at the win.

Trump has repeatedly floated the idea that he, too, deserves the peace prize for his efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula.

In February of this year, Trump announced that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to broker peace between North and South Korea. Prior to that, South Korean President Moon Jae-in reportedly said last April that Trump deserved the Nobel Prize for his work to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, remarks Trump called "very generous" at the time.

Asked during a Cabinet meeting at the time whether he thought he deserved the honor, Trump told reporters: "Everyone thinks so, but I would never say it."

No such peace has occurred on the peninsula, and Trump's last meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended without a deal on denuclearization. Trump has downplayed the North Koreans' recent short-range missile tests, and has suggested he could meet with Kim again prior to next year's election.

The president has also yet to produce his administration's plan to broker peace between Israel and Palestine, which Trump has said would be the "deal of the century." Nor has he been able to entice Iran back to the table to negotiate fixes to the 2015 nuclear deal that he unilaterally withdrew from last year.

And earlier this month, he scrapped talks with the Taliban at the last minute after U.S. negotiators said they reached a deal in principle to bring an end to the war in Afghanistan.

Winners for the six Nobel prizes are expected to be announced sometime next month.

BasilValentine

New entry for the Devil's Dictionary:

Virtue signaling (v): Making a Trumpster nostalgic for his conscience.

Daverz

Quote from: BasilValentine on September 23, 2019, 05:31:54 PM
New entry for the Devil's Dictionary:

Virtue signaling (v): Making a Trumpster nostalgic for his conscience.

I would demur that they could be nostalgic for something they never had.

Another entry:

Vice signaling: communications intended to convey that their authors are too worldly-wise, too cynical, and too successful to pay any attention to the pleas of "social justice warriors" (a phrase that they consider devastating, since they don't believe in social justice, and think anyone who does is a fool).

The purest form of vice signaling is to support Donald Trump, since really the only reason to support Trump if you're not a one percenter is to own the libs, which means making fun of the SJWs 24/7, even if it destroys the planet in the process.
- Paul Campos

I totally ripped this off from Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money blog

For those that don't want to click through, the context was Greta Thunberg, so just go watch her speech and ignore the vice signalling replies to the post.

https://www.youtube.com/v/u9KxE4Kv9A8