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hightor
 
  7  
Mon 25 May, 2020 04:59 am
@Builder,
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Why don't you direct your question to your compatriots, eternally attacking your president?

If the current president ceased saying stupid things and began to actually govern the entire country instead of attempting to divide it and destroy its institutions there would be no need for his opponents to attack him. Political leaders don't enjoy immunity from criticism.
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Albright was the SoS for the nation, and so was HRC.

That doesn't make them part of a "DNC stable". Read up on the DNC and maybe you'll understand.
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See the connection?

Yes, I pointed out that they are both former office holders. As a senator, Clinton was automatically a member of the DNC but neither of them are currently members. There is no "DNC stable".
Builder
 
  -2  
Mon 25 May, 2020 06:30 am
@hightor,
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If the current president ceased saying stupid things and began to actually govern the entire country


You want to grant your president powers over the states? Really?

bobsal u1553115
 
  3  
Mon 25 May, 2020 06:36 am
@Builder,
Adolf Hitler was elected leader of Germany, and Trump was elected leader of the US. Don't you see the connection? I didn't think so.
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Walter Hinteler
 
  3  
Mon 25 May, 2020 06:36 am
@Builder,
The powers of the president outlined in Article II are known as "formal powers", but over the decades (centuries) presidents have claimed other powers, known as "informal powers".

You think that the US-citizens want them abolished?
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bobsal u1553115
 
  2  
Mon 25 May, 2020 06:40 am
@Builder,
Do you really thing the Federal government has no power of the states??? You think the Federal government and state governments run in parallel?

You know less about how our government is set up than I do about how the Australian government is set up. I wouldn't have thought that possible.
farmerman
 
  5  
Mon 25 May, 2020 07:36 am
@bobsal u1553115,
I was eating my shredded wheat and I had a thought.
Trump, if he doesnt win this election, is probably going to jail.
WoW another first for this administration

bobsal u1553115
 
  3  
Mon 25 May, 2020 08:10 am
@farmerman,
World class felonies!
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bobsal u1553115
 
  5  
Mon 25 May, 2020 08:30 am
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blatham
 
  3  
Mon 25 May, 2020 10:03 am
@farmerman,
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Trump, if he doesnt win this election, is probably going to jail.

We can be certain that he's guilty of much criminality including money laundering and that once his exemptions from prosecution are gone there will be a serious threat of jail.

But we can be equally certain how he'll play this:
- years of delay through legal maneuvers
- actions presently and over the next months designed to hide/erase records (his firings and sycophantic replacements in Justice and intel surely have this as part of their rationale)
- massive social media projects with rightwing media support encouraging his fans including the people with weapons threatening civil disobedience and violence when any moves to drag him towards the courts. The threat of civil war will be a prominent feature of this. And it would be unwise to imagine this an empty threat. He'll have no other option than civic chaos.
coldjoint
 
  -2  
Mon 25 May, 2020 10:46 am
@blatham,
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We can be certain that he's guilty of much criminality including money laundering and that once his exemptions from prosecution are gone there will be a serious threat of jail.

Tell us how we can be certain? We can be certain Obama illegally spied on Trump's campaign and through the transition period. We can be certain the media lied like the Democrats for three years with no evidence to support their claims. We can be certain Killary paid for a pack of lies that was used to get a FISA warrant.

So, again, how can we be certain? Accusations have never been guilt. They never will be as long as our justice system remains in tact. Obama did his best to destroy that system. Trump has appointed people that will restore it to its original purpose
.
coldjoint
 
  -1  
Mon 25 May, 2020 10:53 am
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coldjoint
 
  -2  
Mon 25 May, 2020 11:00 am
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coldjoint
 
  -2  
Mon 25 May, 2020 11:01 am
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hightor
 
  3  
Mon 25 May, 2020 11:03 am
@coldjoint,
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Tell us how we can be certain?


Evidence.
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We can be certain Obama illegally spied on Trump's campaign and through the transition period.


Not without evidence.
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We can be certain the media lied like the Democrats for three years with no evidence to support their claims.


No, we can only be certain that Trump's media buddies spread this lie.
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We can be certain Killary paid for a pack of lies that was used to get a FISA warrant.


There's no one named "Killary", nor was money spent to obtain any warrant.

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So, again, how can we be certain? Accusations have never been guilt.

All your side has done is make unsubstantiated accusations.

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They never will be as long as our justice system remains in tact.

Republicans discovered a long time ago that accusations were all that was necessary.

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Obama did his best to destroy that system.


He did nothing of the kind.

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Trump has appointed people that will restore it to its original purpose.


Only if the original purpose were to protect the guilty.


coldjoint
 
  -2  
Mon 25 May, 2020 11:06 am
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coldjoint
 
  -2  
Mon 25 May, 2020 11:13 am
@hightor,
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There's no one named "Killary", nor was money spent to obtain any warrant.

There sure as Hell is. And DNC and Killary paid for the information used to get the FISA, another fact. Your reply is nitpicking double talk . There is ample evidence Flynn was framed and Obama abused his power. What will be done about it remains to be seen.
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bobsal u1553115
 
  1  
Mon 25 May, 2020 11:15 am
@blatham,
Grinding him down over the years and out of his pockets will have its own satisfactions, too.
coldjoint
 
  -2  
Mon 25 May, 2020 11:29 am
@bobsal u1553115,
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Grinding him down over the years and out of his pockets will have its own satisfactions, too.

It will not restore Obama's legacy. Either way Trump has won his battle with Obama. Trump has exposed him as a lying power hungry asshole directing others to commit crimes so him and his party could retain power. By the time the evidence comes out Obama will become Americas most corrupt president ever. Period.
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hightor
 
  5  
Mon 25 May, 2020 11:41 am
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The concept of brand is increasingly accepted in academic circles as a productive way to think about politics and politicians. But there are still, according to professors Christopher Pich and Bruce I. Newman in the Journal of Political Marketing,

very few pragmatic models—frameworks that can be used by political brands to assess their identity, image, reputation or position that will ultimately support the development of strategy and political brand management.

In other words, there are no branding handbooks for political operatives in the way there are for businesspeople. There are books about effective political language—for example, the GOP consultant Frank Luntz’s Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear (2007)—but these largely focus on messaging for campaigns, not on the question of how to build a lasting party brand. Corporations have long understood the importance of managing the social and cultural meaning of their products. They don’t think of a brand as an analytic tool but as an actual thing—an intangible asset, capable of being valued by accountants, that can make or break a company’s fortunes. The stakes are no different for political parties.

What are Democrats doing about this? Very little, so far as one can tell. For years, their party-branding strategy, to the extent that one existed at all, has been to rely on the personal qualities of the president, or the quadrennial presidential nominee, to confer brand value on the party’s other candidates: the “coattails” effect. Even someone as charismatic and competent as President Obama couldn’t make that work after the 2008 election. When the White House is occupied by a Republican, Democratic branding is left even more to chance. A miscellany of liberal personages (the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, John Lewis) serve as the faces of the party while they pursue their differing political and messaging agendas. From the point of view of branding, the Democratic Party is a mess.

Republicans, by contrast, understand the importance of party branding. They understand that favorable generic perceptions are crucial to the success of their candidates. As a result they are highly disciplined and highly aggressive communicators who notoriously stick to their partisan “talking points.” When Obama was president, the economy was always a “disaster.” When Trump became president, the same economy was instantly touted as an “amazing” triumph. This cohesion had an effect: within a month of Trump’s moving into the White House, Americans held their most positive opinion of the US economy in a decade.

nyrb
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coldjoint
 
  -3  
Mon 25 May, 2020 12:25 pm
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