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

[drogulus]

     GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley Warns Trump: It's 'Suicide' to Talk About Firing Mueller

     Well it's some kind of "-cide" whichever way Trump chooses to go. Let's get down to it, Grassley doesn't want to be forced to do anything about Trump until the last possible moment, so he doesn't want the added pressure from Trump firing everyone he would need to fire to escape from immediate danger. Therefore Grassley advises Trump to hold still while he is being slowly strangled.

No, spending money on frivolities causes debt.

     National savings "cause" national debt. The only way the private sector can have positive savings is for there to be corresponding liabilities elsewhere. We run a trade deficit these days so the surplus in both sectors together should equal the liabilities on the money issuer side. Frivolity has exactly zero to do with it. Dollar assets equal dollar liabilities all sectors in. Since we want the surpluses where they are, we equally want the deficits/debt where they are.

[Baron Scarpia]

"At each step of the way, the actions that have angered El Tupé have been steps taken by senior officials specifically following the law."  Well, duh!  He's spent all his precious, privileged life muscling people with his money and influence, to avoid the legal consequences of his near-constant sleazery.

Tuperos choosing their generalissimo in preference to the Law?  Color me Not Surprised.

I suppose Trump naturally thought that being president he could get away with anything, that he would be the criminal-in-chief.

[Turner]

Bossert, homeland security advisor, is out too; resigns

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bossert/trumps-homeland-security-adviser-bossert-resigns-idUSKBN1HH2AM

[Karl Henning]

I suppose Trump naturally thought that being president he could get away with anything, that he would be the criminal-in-chief.

I do think his mind is about that narrow.

[Karl Henning]

No, spending money on frivolities causes debt.

That is a fine way to speak of the President's frequent golf outings.

[zamyrabyrd]

That is a fine way to speak of the President's frequent golf outings.

He's not drawing a salary. Obama never went on vacation?

[Mahlerian]

He's not drawing a salary.

We're still paying for his golf outings.

[Karl Henning]

He's not drawing a salary. Obama never went on vacation?

B.  Compared to El Tupé, no.  It is nearly shy of hyperbole, to say Obama never vacationed, compared to Mr. "Which golf course is nearest, this weekend?"

A.  You know the drill:  he's lied about charitable donations before.  So that, even if that were an answer (it isn't), you show me the receipts first, and then I'll join you in lauding the El Tupé's selflessness.

El Tupé's selflessness:  what a beautiful oxymoron!


The good news is, Mueller will in time compel him to disgorge his tax returns.  That will settle where his 2017 salary went.  Deal?

[Karl Henning]

Great closing line:

"It's an attack on our country, in a true sense," [El Tupé] said Monday. "It's an attack on what we all stand for."

He's right about that—he's just wrong about who's doing the attacking.

[Karl Henning]

It takes a Trump to make Hillary look like a Girl Scout . . .

The New York Times reports that, during the campaign, the Trump Foundation received a $150,000 "donation" from a Ukrainian billionaire for a video appearance by Trump. Michael Cohen, unsurprisingly, "solicited the donation." There are a host of problems here. If this is actually payment for services, it is income for Trump and should have been reported as such. If diverting the money to the foundation was an attempt to evade taxes or banking laws, federal laws may very well have been broken. Federal campaign finance laws may also have been violated if this was in essence a way to help Trump's campaign. (Foreigners are prevented from donating to a campaign.)

Let's take a step back on this. First, what in the world was candidate Trump doing getting money from a foreign government while running for president? (Cohen also worked on negotiations for a Trump Tower in Moscow while Trump was running for office.) It makes Hillary Clinton (who at least removed herself from the Clinton Foundation operation and stopped giving paid speeches once she began running) look like a Girl Scout.

[Karl Henning]

It takes a Trump to make Hillary look like a Girl Scout . . .

The New York Times reports that, during the campaign, the Trump Foundation received a $150,000 "donation" from a Ukrainian billionaire for a video appearance by Trump. Michael Cohen, unsurprisingly, "solicited the donation." There are a host of problems here. If this is actually payment for services, it is income for Trump and should have been reported as such. If diverting the money to the foundation was an attempt to evade taxes or banking laws, federal laws may very well have been broken. Federal campaign finance laws may also have been violated if this was in essence a way to help Trump's campaign. (Foreigners are prevented from donating to a campaign.)

Let's take a step back on this. First, what in the world was candidate Trump doing getting money from a foreign government while running for president? (Cohen also worked on negotiations for a Trump Tower in Moscow while Trump was running for office.) It makes Hillary Clinton (who at least removed herself from the Clinton Foundation operation and stopped giving paid speeches once she began running) look like a Girl Scout.

"No wonder Trump tried to draw a red line to prevent the special counsel from nosing around in his business operation. He could be justified in fearing that Mueller would discover unprecedented conduct inconsistent with the Constitution and with the essence of democratic government."

But, c'mon – he donates his salary!

[SimonNZ]

Pro-Trump TV network under fire for 'fake news' script

"Sinclair Broadcast Group is under fire for forcing its local news anchors to read in unison an identical script criticising 'fake' news stories in a video that has gone viral."

https://www.youtube.com/v/_fHfgU8oMSo

[BasilValentine]

No, spending money on frivolities causes debt.

As long as you are counting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as frivolities, I agree. Two trillion right there.

[Spineur]

Pan-European air traffic control agency Eurocontrol on Tuesday warned airlines to exercise caution in the eastern Mediterranean due to the possible launch of air strikes into Syria in next 72 hours.

Eurocontrol said that air-to-ground and/or cruise missiles could be used within that period and there was a possibility of intermittent disruption of radio navigation equipment.

The Eurocontrol statement included a broader area outside the airspace controlled by Damascus.

Source: Reuters

[zamyrabyrd]

As long as you are counting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as frivolities, I agree. Two trillion right there.

Sure, it's nice to agree now and then. Here is another whopper:

http://www.lifenews.com/2018/03/08/report-shows-americans-forced-to-send-1-5-billion-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-business-2/

[BasilValentine]

Sure, it's nice to agree now and then. Here is another whopper:

http://www.lifenews.com/2018/03/08/report-shows-americans-forced-to-send-1-5-billion-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-business-2/

That is legal and necessary medical care. Easily available birth control has benefited the country enormously both financially and socially. Money well spent, and a tiny drop compared to the deluge flushed down the Iraq War toilet.

[Baron Scarpia]

Sure, it's nice to agree now and then. Here is another whopper:

http://www.lifenews.com/2018/03/08/report-shows-americans-forced-to-send-1-5-billion-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-business-2/

You know there are 1000 billion in a trillion, right?

And Planned Parenthood is not an "abortion company." Only 3% of planned parenthood funding is used for abortion, and medicaid funding cannot be used for abortion. So the amount of federal funding spent on Planned Parenthood abortions is $0.

[zamyrabyrd]

That is legal and necessary medical care. Easily available birth control has benefited the country enormously both financially and socially. Money well spent, and a tiny drop compared to the deluge flushed down the Iraq War toilet.

Please don't get me started with PP and its infamous founder Margaret Sanger. Their MAIN business is killing babies, 7.6 million of them to date. How in earth we all as a society, did we slide down the primrose path in legalizing the uncommon instances of rape or when pregnancy caused a risk to the mother (there are heroic women who opted to give their lives for their unborn children, however) to massive convenience abortions and justifying it, too? At any rate, taxpayers should not be forced to feed this disgusting, bloated monster.

http://www.californiafamily.org/2018/planned-parenthood-killed-321384-babies-last-year-bringing-total-killed-to-over-7-6-million/

[zamyrabyrd]

That is legal and necessary medical care. Easily available birth control has benefited the country enormously both financially and socially. Money well spent, and a tiny drop compared to the deluge flushed down the Iraq War toilet.

Well, well, and WHO was on record saying that he did not support the invasion of Iraq? (Hint: he lives now in Washington.) And sure, a billion here, a half billion there, peanuts to those who spend the money but not to those who work hard to make it.

[North Star]

Well, well, and WHO was on record saying that he did not support the invasion of Iraq? (Hint: he lives now in Washington.) And sure, a billion here, a half billion there, peanuts to those who spend the money but not to those who work hard to make it.

I wonder if you are talking about the person who said "Yeah, I guess so" when asked if he's "for invading Iraq" in September 11, 2002. Sure, he's also on record lying about what he thought about it before it was apparent to everyone what a colossal mistake it was.
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