Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Skulltaker]

Pretty sure Trump has been isolated as to what state secrets he has access to. (He doesn't trust intel agencies and he knows that they reciprocate that feeling).
He's a mushroom; kept in the dark as much as they can, and fed shit.
Pentagon has already told him "Don't even think about nukes."

The fact alone that they have to tell him (or anyone) is so incredibly disturbing that I cannot put it into words.

[Masark]

Has Trump got anything on paper? Like, ever?

Yes. He had his shoe on paper that one time.

[Santti]

Yes. He had his shoe on paper that one time.

Lol, it's funny because it's true.

[Thekri]

Yes. He had his shoe on paper that one time.

Haha, well played.

It was the greatest, most presidential piece of toilet paper ever. People are saying they have never seen a finer piece of toilet paper or a larger foot.

[Draco-Onis]

Funny you should mention that...

“There Is Definite Hanky-Panky Going On”: The Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades

From yesterday, and all over the business channels today. The SEC refuses to investigate, because of course it does. Someone is making billions, and thanks to the SEC refusing to check, nobody knows who it is.

Not surprising these people are thieves and grifters, think for a second though with all the horrible things we know about what Trump and his people do publicly the stuff they do behind the scenes will be infinitely worse. We will be discovering the sheer depravity of Donald Trump for decades hopefully this fucker dies in jail.

[Rasulis]

Florida Can’t Block Former Felons From Voting If They Owe Money And Can't Pay: Judge

Trouble in the swamp?

[Masark]

Florida Can’t Block Former Felons From Voting If They Owe Money And Can't Pay: Judge

Trouble in the swamp?

Unlikely. They'll just fall back on their other tactics like "mistakenly" removing them from the voter rolls after the registration deadline or counting their votes slowly so they don't finish before the deadline. Or maybe send out some lies by mail threatening such voters.

[Paranoid Android]

Trump says he’ll host G7 summit at cost at his resort — but provides few details https://t.co/WRoHbrfY8m

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...962257920?s=19

Can't wait for the Trumpkins to boast that this is only violation of the Constitution at cost.

So here is still the problem: 1) July is the 2nd slowest month of Doral with around 38% occupancy. So at cost it still relieves the huge losses that property is facing. 2) It is still giving exposure or advertising in whatever advertising dollars.

https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watc...it-71626821554

Link to David Farenholdt, who has done multiple articles on Trump properties.

[Breccia]

Let's also add in this little nugget.

So many of Trump's "victories" are "I partially mitigated the damage I caused myself". His trade deal with Japan is a good example -- had he just stayed in TPP, not only would the deal have been better, he wouldn't have last the last 1,000 days.

[Belize]

Not specifically Trump, but 100% Trumpian.

Angry Trump Fans Accuse Bus Company Of ‘Deep State’ Plot To Strand Them But It Turns Out They Never Paid

Sooo... Can anyone just grab shit from a store, not pay and declare their First Amendment rights afterwards?

Asking for a friend.

[Edge-]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/polit...ech/index.html

And you do have to admit, at least between me and Meryl, we have some victories.

God damnit I love Mattis and his trolling. He even got a bone spurs joke in there.

[Edge-]

Remember how the State Department was re-looking into Hillary and conservatives were already doing a victory lap?

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...qa5-jmgV23qLGo

A State Department investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account found no widespread effort by her aides or other staffers to mishandle classified information.

The three-year-long investigation by State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security concluded that 38 individuals committed a total of 91 security violations involving emails sent to or from Clinton’s private server.

However, a report on the probe finalized last month seemed to dismiss the notion that the system was routinely used to discuss matters that diplomats or Clinton aides knew required handling through secure channels.

So a repeat of Benghazi and the FBI investigation. A whole lot of smoke and a whole lot of excitement at that smoke, and literally no fire.

Trump isn't delivering on his promise to send Hillary to jail. He can't.

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

Is anyone going to discuss the potential that Tulsi has of being female Trump??

[Edge-]

What the actual fuck is this video....

Mitt Romney: Democrat Secret Asset.

It's a garbage-tier ad anyways. Seriously, they lost their best strategists/ad guys to Never Trump movements, and this is all they have left.

So, how long until another investigation for this is called for?

I'd be more surprised if there hasn't already been calls for another/new investigation.

Maybe they can take a serious look into the allegations she sustains her long life by eating babies?

[Masark]

I read this article and it is the literal definition of a conspiracy theory.

It is not a conspiracy theory. It is grounds for several conspiracy charges.

[Thekri]

It is not a conspiracy theory. It is grounds for several conspiracy charges.

Lets not turn this thread into another 10 pages of chasing him in circles. If he wants to believe it is a conspiracy theory you aren't going to change his mind, and frankly you don't need too. The SEC isn't going to investigate it as long as a Trump appointee is the chair. By the time Warren's nominee takes over, all that money will be safely back in Russia.

[ringpriest]

Unlikely. They'll just fall back on their other tactics like "mistakenly" removing them from the voter rolls after the registration deadline or counting their votes slowly so they don't finish before the deadline. Or maybe send out some lies by mail threatening such voters.

Oh, they won't limit it to lies by mail - there'll be a full court press running the full gamut from official government sources to black propaganda across all forms of communication (flyers, emails, targeted mass mailings, internet ads, planted stories in the press, etc) targeting that particular demographic (ex-felons), and telling them that, no matter what their actual status and no matter what the law or the courts say, if they show up to vote they're going to be thrown in jail, that by trying to vote they'll be throwing their lives, their futures, and their families away; because that's part and parcel of how the American right-wing operates.

[Thekri]

I love how you tried to off-hand explain how it wasn't a conspiracy theory and then say "all that money will be back in Russia". You literally know nothing more about those transactions than what that article told you (some very smart/lucky people made some money), yet you can confidently make the conclusion that iTs tHe rUsSiAnS!!!

*Digs into bag of deflections*

It was a joke! Come on, you didn't think I was serious did you? Liberalz like you have no sense of humor.

Edit: side note, totally sincerely I approve of actually picking a historical quote for your signature that the person in question actually said (As far as we know anyway).

[Fugus]

One thing that kinda worries me, we end up having Trump TECHNICALLY win on paper but when you go look into it, he loses bigely where ballots can be easily verified and then only wins in areas where the ballots can not be easily checked and people are blocked and the records destroyed before anyone can look at them with many of them also being impossible to verify outright.

Also have to remember, old Moscow Mitch The Bitch is also blocking election security at every point and Trump has no issues having others lie, cheat, steal, and even kill if it helps him.

[Thekri]

Oh hey, remember when I was joking how Ben Carson had no scandals more serious then overpriced office scandals earlier today? I spoke a bit too soon...

HUD officials knowingly failed 'to comply with the law,' stalled Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds
Basically, two officials from HUD admitted to Congress today that HUD broke the law in deliberately slow rolling aid to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The cited a bunch of talking points about Puerto Rico's issues with corruption (Which is a very legitimate concern, but that is REALLY not the time to address it), but the fact remains that several thousand Americans died in the aftermath of the storm, in large part because the infrastructure was not stabilized in the aftermath of the storm. You know, the sort of infrastructure that HUD funding was supposed to go towards.

So lets replace Ben Carson's expensive sofa as his biggest scandal with "Mass Manslaughter caused by willful criminal dereliction of duty for political ends"