192
   

monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

 
 
farmerman
 
  9  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 08:26 am
@oralloy,
Quote:
And why don't liberals ever learn to mind their own business?
By most recent tradition , this IS OUR BUSINESS. If you walk around with your head affixed elsewhere, don't mind it when other Americans wish to know things about this suspect president.
The question arises as to whether this president is
1 dishonest and lying for profit
or
2 Is a bit deranged and unable to distinguish truth from lies

Either case weighs heavily upon the presidency
blatham
 
  5  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 08:26 am
Well, well, well. Why did Miller say what he said about the engraving on the Statue of Liberty?
Quote:
The Trump administration’s new immigration bill, as CNN’s Jim Acosta noted, favors “highly-skilled,” English-speaking applicants.

Miller became angry, replying that the sonnet on the Statue of Liberty was “added later” and therefore, does not reflect American values towards immigrants.

While the argument surprised many observers, it is a popular refrain among white nationalists.

Miller’s comments were greeted enthusiastically by white nationalists on Twitter.
TP You'll want to follow some of the internal links here (though you'll end up in very ugly places)
0 Replies
 
blatham
 
  8  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 08:32 am
Winner of the week's NoShit, Sherlock! award
Quote:
VATICAN CITY — Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican’s good graces.

The authors, writing in a Vatican-vetted journal, singled out Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, as a “supporter of an apocalyptic geopolitics” that has stymied action against climate change and exploited fears of migrants and Muslims with calls for “walls and purifying deportations.”

The article warns that conservative American Catholics have strayed dangerously into the deepening political polarization in the United States. The writers even declare that the worldview of American evangelical and hard-line Catholics, which is based on a literal interpretation of the Bible, is “not too far apart’’ from jihadists.
NYT
blatham
 
  5  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 08:35 am
Quote:
David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 3h3 hours ago
In the press room: immigration is too high. In the West Wing: subpoenas for selling green cards.

Quote:
U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Kushner Cos. Over Investment-For-Visa Program
WSJ
0 Replies
 
ossobucotemp
 
  4  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 08:49 am
@blatham,
Good.
It's been 50 years since I was a catholic or even religious, but I'm not a religion hater as such. I do tend to follow what is going on in the catholic landscape, at least in part for the history. I do like Francis, by and large, as I liked John 23rd.
Francis is, to me, a breath of fresh air. I hope he keeps living quite a long time more.
georgeob1
 
  -2  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 09:01 am
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

Quote:
Trump thinks his Military advisors are useless.
Trump knows more than all the generals. He told us that long ago.

Trump cannot (or has very great difficulty) conceiving that anyone is smarter or more knowledgeable than he is. When he gets some clue that he's a doofus, he immediately tends to frame this deficiency in his mind as a deficiency common to most everyone else ("Nobody knew healthcare would be so complicated") but then he can be counted on to very quickly revert to the prior "I'm smarter than anyone else" notion. Expertise and education are derided pretty consistently. He's a dangerous idiot.


Change the details and I can think of several posters here, yourself included, against who this criticism could also be levied
blatham
 
  4  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 09:49 am
@ossobucotemp,
Quote:
Francis is, to me, a breath of fresh air. I hope he keeps living quite a long time more.
No kidding. His conception of the faith is pretty darned close to the community I grew up within. I like the guy a lot.
blatham
 
  5  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 10:00 am
@georgeob1,
Quote:
Change the details and I can think of several posters here, yourself included, against who this criticism could also be levied
Now there's some careful thinking.
0 Replies
 
Walter Hinteler
 
  4  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 10:08 am
@blatham,
blatham wrote:
His conception of the faith is pretty darned close to the community I grew up within. I like the guy a lot.
Ditto.
0 Replies
 
izzythepush
 
  2  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 10:11 am
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

You people are dirty of mind.


Christ yes, definitely the people of Falstaff... and Viz.

http://viz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/032-21-bertieblunt.jpg
maporsche
 
  9  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 10:22 am
@georgeob1,
Trump has successfully proven that just about anyone can be president, so maybe we should hold everyone up to the new presidential standard.

Remember when people said that Obama was disrespectful to the office of the presidency??
izzythepush
 
  3  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 10:30 am
Quote:
US President Donald Trump urged the Mexican president to stop publicly saying he would not pay for a proposed border wall, according to transcripts.
Mr Trump admonished Enrique Pena Nieto for publicly denouncing the wall during a 27 January phone call, transcripts obtained by the Washington Post show.
"You cannot say that to the press," he reportedly told him.
Transcripts of his first call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were also published.
In a rancorous call, President Trump tells him it was the "worst" conversation he had that day, and one with Russian President Vladimir Putin was more pleasant.
Mr Trump launched his presidential campaign on a promise to build a wall along the US southern border and vowed to make Mexico pay for the project.
But the transcripts show the US president acknowledged the funding would come from other sources, saying the money "will work out in the formula somehow".
He added: "If you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40817253
ehBeth
 
  4  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 11:08 am
@izzythepush,
I've just been reading those transcripts.

General Kelly doesn't seem to have scared the leakers much.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/australia-mexico-transcripts/?utm_term=.746c48af690a
revelette1
 
  4  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 11:23 am
Speaking of the wall, I don't even think it is too popular among republicans in those western states which would host (so to speak) the wall running smack through wildlife refuges, national parks, towns, and farmland.

The Department of Homeland Security just announced it would be waiving three dozen environmental laws to construct the wall near San Diego. (TP)

Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall Will Cut Through a Big, Beautiful Texas Wildlife Refuge (MJ)
0 Replies
 
izzythepush
 
  3  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 11:37 am
@ehBeth,
That happens a lot when military people return to civilian work, they're used to a certain amount of deference, and don't know what to do when it's not forthcoming. At the end of they day all your boss can do is fire you, they can't make you run an assault course or put you in the glasshouse or endure any of the other punishments so favoured by the military.
0 Replies
 
Sturgis
 
  2  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 11:47 am
@blatham,
Quote:
Zuckerberg...
If that guy decides he wants to be president and runs in 2020, I'll personally travel south and beat him to death...


You might have to get on line, there'd be others who'd want the chance too.
Finn dAbuzz
 
  1  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 11:51 am
@glitterbag,
glitterbag wrote:

Do you think it's possible that the Trump supporters believe the Russians aren't interfering in the Crimea and Ukraine?


Anything is possible with a few individuals, but in general, no.

Quote:
Some of them are feeling warm and fuzzy about the ridiculous performance by that lightweight Miller attempting to appear horrified that the Press would ask hard questions.


Miller may be many things, but it's simply foolish to call him a "lightweight." Acosta wasn't asking hard questions, he was speechifying as an activist, not a journalist. Not only was he rude to Miller, he was rude to the rest of the press corp. There had to be more than one of his colleagues in that room thinking "STFU Acosta! Stop grandstanding and give the rest of us a chance to ask a question!"


Quote:
Millers snappy retort at one point that the "Give me your...etc" was added later as if that mattered. Well printing "In God we trust" on the god damned money and the addition of "under God" into our pledge of allegiance was as recent as 1954. (I don't know when it became important to praise God on the money) This is pointless, intellectually dishonest and panders to the weak-minded.


Your point is obscure. The poem was added to the statue, and the original intent of it was to celebrate liberty, not open borders. You seem to have a problem with the addition of references to God to money and the Pledge. Fair enough, but how is this related at all to Miller's comment?

Quote:
We can do better than be fortified when the son of a Cuban immigant (1962) who fled Cuba's oppressive authoritarian rule, was fortunate enough to be raised here only to become a cheerleader for authoritarian practices and unlimited power for the president. It's embarrassing.


"Fortified?" Interesting choice of words. Are your referring to Miller, Acosta Marco Rubio, or someone else? Do you think that if Acosta has not made a spectacle of himself at this briefing that he would have rendered himself a cheerleader for tyranny? It would be interesting to see how you might try to prove that anyone, in the public spotlight, or here, is for unlimited power for the president

You've made it clear over a great many posts that you find a great many of your fellow Americans to be embarrassing. I'm pretty sure that none of them give a **** about your shinola or your chagrin.
0 Replies
 
Finn dAbuzz
 
  1  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 11:53 am
@glitterbag,
glitterbag wrote:

membership fees raised from $100,000 to $200,000 per year. Trump is cleaning up, and he keeps his overhead down by hiring Eastern Europeans with temporary Visa to work at his Margofriggingalow Cha Ching joint for below minimum wage.


You obviously want it both ways: Open our borders to unlimited immigration but the president can't hire any of them.

You don't have a problem with Eastern Europeans do you?
0 Replies
 
Finn dAbuzz
 
  1  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 11:54 am
@MKABRSTI,
MKABRSTI wrote:

Tuckers awesome only mainstream news person I watch.


He is and so is Mark Steyn
0 Replies
 
Finn dAbuzz
 
  1  
Thu 3 Aug, 2017 11:56 am
@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:

blatham wrote:
Has anybody seen any single word of criticism from Trump about Putin's move to expel US diplomats?
Actually, most of those 755 people are Russians ...


Well putting 755 Russian out of work will sure teach us a lesson!
 

Related Topics

Obama '08? - Discussion by sozobe
Let's get rid of the Electoral College - Discussion by Robert Gentel
McCain's VP: - Discussion by Cycloptichorn
The 2008 Democrat Convention - Discussion by Lash
McCain is blowing his election chances. - Discussion by McGentrix
Snowdon is a dummy - Discussion by cicerone imposter
Food Stamp Turkeys - Discussion by H2O MAN
TEA PARTY TO AMERICA: NOW WHAT?! - Discussion by farmerman
 
Copyright © 2025 MadLab, LLC :: Terms of Service :: Privacy Policy :: Page generated in 0.59 seconds on 07/03/2025 at 11:46:04