Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Edge-]

TIL that I need ID to buy groceries (Trump's excuse for Voter IDs)

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...-buy-groceries

Was about to post this.

It's one thing not to know the price of milk, which is the common "out of touch rich folk" thing. (but hell, I'm far from rich but given how infrequently I buy milk I don't even know it)

But thinking you need to present ID to buy groceries is...that's something special. I don't even know how he makes this shit up.

[Breccia]

But thinking you need to present ID to buy groceries is...that's something special. I don't even know how he makes this shit up.

The video I linked cuts out too quickly, but I'd wager 25 quatloos that the crowd cheered when he said that.

[Ripster42]

And as @PCOX says, Trump tells a campaign rally crowd in Florida “You know if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. You need ID.” Wanna see the video?

I'm not sure you can seem more out of touch. Nothing screams, "I've never been grocery shopping," like making a horrible metaphor to grocery shopping, in an attempt to disenfranchise poor people.

[PACOX]

I just got back from Walmart empty handed. Had $70 worth of groceries in my cart, cash in hand, but I forgot my ID...good looking out Walmart checkout clerk!

Trump was right! Don't want kids out there buy Cheerios, thats stuff is gross! Cap'n Crunch only!

[Vizardlorde]

Seriulsy they dont even ID you when you use a credit card the only time they ask for an ID is if you have a babyface and are buying alcohol.

[Edge-]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...great-campaign

"You could do it before the election or after the election," he added. "I think it’s a great campaign issue. I think it would be great before [the elections]. I actually think we’d get more and there’d be more pressure on the other side, because we’re doing it because the Democrats are not giving us the votes."

He also noted that "I’m not doing it for politics."

I'm truly at a loss for words. Were this even hinted at by a former sitting president there would be hell to pay, but I guess this is just "business as usual" for this travesty of an administration.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...riefing-756922

Asked Wednesday about the last time the president, a Manhattan billionaire with his own fleet of private jets and helicopters, entered a grocery store, Sanders replied: “I'm not sure. I’m not sure why that matters, either.” Pressed by reporters who responded that, no, photo IDs are not required to buy groceries, Sanders offered that they were for alcohol purchases, to which a reporter replied that the president does not drink.

These people fucking suck at spinning shit.

[Blur4stuff]

The best possible spin you could put on the ID for groceries thing is that you may have to show ID to use a check. But, I've seen maybe one or two 80+ seniors do that in the past decade.

[Breccia]

If you were wondering about the tweetstorm, and Trump's demands Sessions end the investigation -- he can't, he recused himself -- well, here's your answer.

ABC News reports that Mueller's team is ready to question Trump about obstruction charges.

Naturally, that's panic.

[Skroe]

If you were wondering about the tweetstorm, and Trump's demands Sessions end the investigation -- he can't, he recused himself -- well, here's your answer.

ABC News reports that Mueller's team is ready to question Trump about obstruction charges.

Naturally, that's panic.

And President Stable Genius goes and commits more Obstruction of Justice on twitter.

The definitive book on this entire stupid era is going to be titled "Imagine What Would Have Happened If These People Were Competent?"

[Edge-]

So some families are raising a storm about the EPA delay on banning TCE from drinking water, because it causes cancer. Who are these leftist?

Well...they're military families living on bases. And the article is in Stars and Stripes.

[Themius]

So some families are raising a storm about the EPA delay on banning TCE from drinking water, because it causes cancer. Who are these leftist?

Well...they're military families living on bases. And the article is in Stars and Stripes.

I honestly don't get how they can be so blatantly just... terrible and get away with it.

[Edge-]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...h-means/?amp=1

And in other news, Trump still seems to think that stealth jets are literally invisible. I'm sure others have explained this to him by now, but he continues to seem to not understand it. Or if he does, speak about it incorrectly/poorly.

[Skroe]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...h-means/?amp=1

And in other news, Trump still seems to think that stealth jets are literally invisible. I'm sure others have explained this to him by now, but he continues to seem to not understand it. Or if he does, speak about it incorrectly/poorly.

Maybe we can use this this as some kind of yardstick as to the depths of Trump's mental devolution as his Russian problems worsen. Like if by this time next year, he thinks the F-35 actually thinks, like a person, or something.

[Elegiac]

Maybe we can use this this as some kind of yardstick as to the depths of Trump's mental devolution as his Russian problems worsen. Like if by this time next year, he thinks the F-35 actually thinks, like a person, or something.

Skroe; I want you to rewatch The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover and tell me that Trump isn't a dead ringer for Albert Spica, both in terms of bearing and thematic commentary.

[Cthulhu 2020]

I don't understand why they wanted the SC seat so badly after the Citizens United case. It's like wanting really badly to shove a cactus up your ass.

Trumpkins and most conservatives tend to see themselves either as wealthy people, or someone who will be wealthy in the future. And if it's neither of those, they are old fashioned wealth worshippers. The same people who worshipped the idea of a royal family being necessary back in 16th, 17th and 18th century Europe, while the rest of the world was adopting Democracy.

We literally formed the United States to get away from people who worshipped the idea of an elite ruling class, and now they're back, trying to insist that the wealthy deserve every penny that crony capitalism has gotten them, even when they admit that crony capitalism is at odds with their free market beliefs. You want to raise taxes to take back the wealth unfairly earned by crony capitalism? Nope, can't have that, taxes = theft/communism.

These people very much do want to fuck their own anuses with a cactus.

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Russian Collusion with the Trump Campaign, one of the most successful in history, is a TOTAL HOAX. The Democrats paid for the phony and discredited Dossier which was, along with Comey, McCabe, Strzok and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, used to begin the Witch Hunt. Disgraceful!

Seems he has a thing for lisa page though! I laughed at this tweet way too much.

The Trump campaign is probably the biggest Chinese hoax in American history.

[Travis B]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/01/us/na...rnd/index.html

Someone took down the American flag in a public park in Wyoming and crumpled it on the ground, and raised the Nazi flag to the top of the flagpole. No one knows who did it, but word is they are some "very fine" people.

[Breccia]

Sean Spicer -- yes, he's still around -- went on NBC for some reason and tried to move the goalposts on Trump's affairs.

“The Republican Party stood for family values. And if our president is the philanderer-in-chief, don’t you think the American public deserves to know that?” co-anchor Natalie Morales asked.

“Look, that’s between him, his wife, and his God,” said the ex-Trump spokesman.

“But don’t you think you give up that ability to keep it between your wife and your God when you become president of the United States?” pressed guest correspondent Mike Catherwood.

“Not if it didn’t happen while he was in office,” said Spicer, author of the new book “The Briefing,” about his time working in the Trump administration.

“That absolves him of all guilt?” Morales asked.

“Again, I think that’s between him and his wife, what he may or may not have done. Or what he said he did or didn’t do,” replied Spicer.

When asked for comment, God said



Of course, Spicer's comments are true to form, which is to say, a twisted version of events unrelated to the truth. If someone has multiple affairs before being elected, and you vote for them anyhow, then you can no longer claim that marital fidelity is important to you. Or, at least, not as important as the money you'll save, so you're literally selling out your morals, ethics, and faith. Also, if during a campaign, you pay money to keep the truth of an affair secret, and you don't declare it, that's a campaign finance violation, That's a felony. So, not only did Trump's rabid fanbase literally sell out their morals, ethics, and faith for money, they elected a felon to do it.

[Masark]

When asked for comment, God said

Are you sure about that?

[Breccia]

Are you sure about that?

When it's carved in a stone tablet -- twice, technically -- yeah, I think God means it.

[RobertoCarlos]

When it's carved in a stone tablet -- twice, technically -- yeah, I think God means it.

Its almost like those stone tablets/rules were written by men who were scared of losing their wives.