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

[Karl Henning]

A new CNN poll released Sunday put Trump's approval rating at 35%, his lowest level in that survey.

[Karl Henning]

He's been pouring forth bullshit for so long, he doesn't even recognize the nature of his bullshit.

But so neither does his voters.

A new CNN poll released Sunday put Trump's approval rating at 35%, his lowest level in that survey.

So, say one-third of the US electorate, no matter how abysmal El Tupé's performance, no matter how false or vile soever his utterances, will continue to approve of him.

And, be fair:  we see some of them, right here.

[Karl Henning]

(* munches popcorn *)

What did [El Tupé] know, and when did he know it?

A review of the president's public comments from a database reveals no specific denial that he knew about Russian interference during the 2016 election. But, [El Tupé's] denial of collusion got very specific over the weekend.

[Baron Scarpia]

What he actually said was, "I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon."

That may be entirely truthful. He may actually believe that.

Just saying. 

[André]

« He increasingly leveraged events of his life to make himself more marketable »

That's not Trump, but another colourful boaster and grandstander who firmly believed in his own legend, lying, inventing, and discarding unfavourable elements: his name is Buffalo Bill. To this day many still think of him as a true american hero  .


https://truewestmagazine.com/was-he-a-hero/

[Sergeant Rock]

Trump is now saying he would have run into Stoneman Douglas High School and faced flying bullets to rescue students whether or not he was armed

The stupid man brings a knife to a gun fight.  Trump does not even make that level of stupid.

[Baron Scarpia]

The stupid man brings a knife to a gun fight.  Trump does not even make that level of stupid.

He was thinking of himself as the Robert Duval character in that movie, Falling Down.

[SimonNZ]

Court Orders Trump Administration to Enforce Obama-Era Methane Rule

"A federal judge reinstated a widely supported methane waste rule that President Trump's administration has repeatedly tried to stop.

Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court for Northern California ruled Thursday that Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) decision to suspend core provisions of the 2016 Methane and Waste Prevention Rule was "untethered to evidence."

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US Supreme Court refuses to hear Trump bid to end DACA

"The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an attempt by the Donald Trump administration to have it intervene in the legal fight over a programme that protects hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants from deportation.

The Supreme Court justices said on Monday they would not hear the government's challenge to a federal court injunction issued last month, blocking Trump's effort to end the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme."

[SimonNZ]

Trump is now saying he would have run into Stoneman Douglas High School and faced flying bullets to rescue students whether or not he was armed. With all due apology to innocent excrement the world over: What a ludicrous POS!

The running would have killed him before the bullets did. He'd have to take a golf cart. And stop to barge in at the girls' locker room.

I love that the second part of his quote is "You'll never know until you're tested.", and he didn't see the irony at all.

[Baron Scarpia]

The running would have killed him before the bullets did. He'd have to take a golf cart. And stop to barge in at the girls' locker room.

ROTFL

[Mahlerian]

I love that the second part of his quote is "You'll never know until you're tested.", and he didn't see the irony at all.

The president of the US is impervious to irony.

[SimonNZ]

US Lifeguards To Carry Sharks, To Protect Beachgoers From Future Shark Attacks


I also just heard someone say that the only thing that can stop a bad drunk driver is a good drunk driver.

[Que]

Nixon was a big crook, George Bush a big idiot, but my, Trump takes the cake....

I guess he has an unique combination of personal "qualities"! 

Q

[71 dB]

Nixon was a big crook, George Bush a big idiot, but my, Trump takes the cake....

The first stable genius POTUS in history!  0:)

Who invented the word covfefe? Nixon? Bush? Clinton? No! It took a stable genius to invent such a great presidential word!

[Karl Henning]

What he actually said was, "I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon."

That may be entirely truthful. He may actually believe that.

Just saying. 

Aye, just so 

[SimonNZ]

Florida deputy denies he was a 'coward' during school shooting

"DiRuzzo said Peterson believed the shooting was taking place outside the school and followed protocol for such an incident. That included taking up a "tactical position" outside the building and initiating a Code Red lockdown.

Peterson, DiRuzzo said, had the "presence of mind" to have school administrators go to the school's video room and review the closed-circuit cameras to locate the shooter and then obtain a description for law enforcement.

The deputy gave his keys to the Coral Springs SWAT team and provided handwritten diagrams of the entire Stoneman Douglas campus for student evacuation, the lawyer said.

"It is our understanding that Sheriff Israel acknowledged that the investigation remains ongoing and that 'investigations will not be rushed or asked to jump to conclusions,' " DiRuzzo said. "We question why this statement would not also apply to Mr. Peterson?"

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is examining the response of all officers in the case. DiRuzzo said Peterson will cooperate with the inquiry that "we believe will ultimately clear Mr. Peterson's name."


(I'm glad to hear this news, because I'd been feeling sorry for that guy. Even if he had "choked" its horrible that the Witchhunter-In-Chief, Mr "Due Process", should be scoring points off him and pushing him to an ultimate and inevitable suicide when he'll already be living in an emotional and social hell.)

[Baron Scarpia]

Florida deputy denies he was a 'coward' during school shooting

"DiRuzzo said Peterson believed the shooting was taking place outside the school and followed protocol for such an incident. That included taking up a "tactical position" outside the building and initiating a Code Red lockdown.

Peterson, DiRuzzo said, had the "presence of mind" to have school administrators go to the school's video room and review the closed-circuit cameras to locate the shooter and then obtain a description for law enforcement.

The deputy gave his keys to the Coral Springs SWAT team and provided handwritten diagrams of the entire Stoneman Douglas campus for student evacuation, the lawyer said.

"It is our understanding that Sheriff Israel acknowledged that the investigation remains ongoing and that 'investigations will not be rushed or asked to jump to conclusions,' " DiRuzzo said. "We question why this statement would not also apply to Mr. Peterson?"

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is examining the response of all officers in the case. DiRuzzo said Peterson will cooperate with the inquiry that "we believe will ultimately clear Mr. Peterson's name."


(I'm glad to hear this news, because I'd been feeling sorry for that guy. Even if he had "choked" its horrible that the Witchhunter-In-Chief, Mr "Due Process", should be scoring points off him and pushing him to an ultimate and inevitable suicide when he'll already be living in an emotional and social hell.)

Well, the guy is no hero, probably, but it is easy to look back in hindsight and decide what he should have done. The claim that he had no idea where the gunfire was coming from and therefore did not realize he should go inside seems quite plausible to me.

[kishnevi]

What he actually said was, "I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon."

That may be entirely truthful. He may actually believe that.

Just saying. 

Context requires the mention of an actual BSO deputy who ran into the school unarmed. But that deputy was
--married to one of the school's assistant athletic directors
--father to a student then inside the building
--present on an outside athletic field because he helps maintain the fields as a volunteer
--at that moment, off duty in terms of being a deputy?

[Karl Henning]

All that, and he wasn't thinking about how it would get in the way of some golf?

[Wendell_E]

What [Trump] actually said was, "I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon."

That may be entirely truthful. He may actually believe that.

Just saying. 

Five minutes before the event, the deputy probably had the same belief about himself.