Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Machismo]

Only the best people

Ben Carson was a better pick than Moore... and that's saying something.

I was listening to people on NPR talking about Moore, and they all basically said that he has no qualifications whatsoever, and doesn't understand basic principles of economics and monetary policy. I remember one saying that he would basically be ignored by the other members the entire time he was there.

[Edge-]

Ben Carson was a better pick than Moore... and that's saying something.

I was listening to people on NPR talking about Moore, and they all basically said that he has no qualifications whatsoever, and doesn't understand basic principles of economics and monetary policy. I remember one saying that he would basically be ignored by the other members the entire time he was there.

There's not a single economist I'm aware of that has anything nice, or even neutral, to say about Moore. The general consensus is that, at best, he's a completely repulsive twit of the highest order who is lucky to figure out how to get his shirt on every morning without strangling himself.

His only claim to fame is being wrong on almost everything he's said with regards to the economy for decades. Nobody has a better track record of being wrong than him. Believe me.

[Adam Jensen]

Trump is "the youngest" and he is, his words, a "young vibrant man."

You wouldn't believe it!

[Rasulis]

Ben Carson was a better pick than Moore... and that's saying something.

I was listening to people on NPR talking about Moore, and they all basically said that he has no qualifications whatsoever, and doesn't understand basic principles of economics and monetary policy. I remember one saying that he would basically be ignored by the other members the entire time he was there.

This has been a hilarious presidency. He appointed 4 out 5 of the current Fed board members, and now he is crying foul because they won't do what he wanted them to do. He should have done a better job of interviewing them during the selection process.

[kaelleria]

I guess the Trump campaign takes after its namesake pretty well

ONLY ON ABC-7: Trump Campaign owes City of El Paso more than $470,000 for February rally

Deadbeats gonna deadbeat.

[Endus]

Too many people painted Nancy Pelosi as cold-hearted manipulative witch, or even worse. However, there is a reason why her constituents re-elected her almost unanimously eighteen times in a row. What other politicians won their elections by almost 90% of their constituents. The woman has saved millions of lives throughout the world through her AIDS advocacy. Obamacare would not have passed without her. She was the one that did all the backroom negotiation. She was the one that took the heat from Planned Parenthood because ACA does not cover abortions. She did the work and Obama took the credit. Although at that time it probably was not much of a credit.


Queer history for the people - Nancy Pelosi 30 years an aids advocate

I mean, I'm not saying she's a bad person, just that I'm not a particular fan of some aspects of her personal platform and strategy.

[Machismo]

This has been a hilarious presidency. He appointed 4 out 5 of the current Fed board members, and now he is crying foul because they won't do what he wanted them to do. He should have done a better job of interviewing them during the selection process.

Regardless of how long he serves, one thing I will be happy to know, is that he will go down as one of the worst Presidents in the history of this country.

I thought Bush Jr. was atrocious, but Trump makes him look like Lincoln, Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt all rolled into one.

[Adam Jensen]

Regardless of how long he serves, one thing I will be happy to know, is that he will go down as one of the worst Presidents in the history of this country.

I thought Bush Jr. was atrocious, but Trump makes him look like Lincoln, Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt all rolled into one.

Bush Jr. is probably laughing in his Texas Ranch while painting nudes of himself in the bathtub. "Heh heh, they said I was the worst President, but there can't be no one worse than that there Ronald Trump, heh heh."

I thought Bush was the worst during his term. Now . . . I almost yearn for those more civilized days.

[Machismo]

Bush Jr. is probably laughing in his Texas Ranch while painting nudes of himself in the bathtub. "Heh heh, they said I was the worst President, but there can't be no one worse than that there Ronald Trump, heh heh."

I thought Bush was the worst during his term. Now . . . I almost yearn for those more civilized days.

I worked on Bush's campaign in 2000, and I will say flat out that he was a terrible President. That being said, I do believe he is/was a good man. I think he is genuine, and honestly wanted to help. I also think he was too stupid to realize the people he insulated himself with (his daddy's golf buddies) were the real cancer.

[Breccia]

Ignoring that one of the current hold ups is Chuck Grassley in the Senate.

Grassley has asked for Trump to remove the tariffs before even voting on NAFTA 1.0.0.2 because the tariffs are having an effect he doesn't like.

For example, Trump personally increased the price of washing machines. The effect was a cost hike of $86 to $92, paid for -- of course -- the American taxpayer.

This is not part of the steel tariffs. This was separate and special.

[Rasulis]

https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/...987769857?s=19

I don't live in Wisconsin but if this is not used in political ads for upcoming elections would amaze me.

This goes more to Scott Walker, who is gone but you must educate the Wisconsin electorate that they are not on their side.

Scott Walker's Foxconn Deal Is on Its Way to Becoming a World-Historical Debacle


Wisconn Valley turns out to be as cheesy as the name.

[Edge-]

https://news.yahoo.com/kimberly-guil...114210181.html

Trump, apparently unable to find remotely competent folks to hire, is back to the nepotism train. The latest hire? His idiot kids new girlfriend and former Fox host, Kimberly Guifoyle, who will be a "senior campaign adviser".

I benefited from some nepotism to get my first gig, but it sounds like nepotism is simply how he operates everything.

[Orbitus]

Scott Walker's Foxconn Deal Is on Its Way to Becoming a World-Historical Debacle


Wisconn Valley turns out to be as cheesy as the name.

I mean, wasn't this predicted? I remember people talking about this when it was being negotiated. Because Foxconn has done this before.

[Daelak]

Scott Walker's Foxconn Deal Is on Its Way to Becoming a World-Historical Debacle


Wisconn Valley turns out to be as cheesy as the name.

Totally called that shit. Dow Corning did the same thing to a city here in Tennessee in 2010, but they atleast paid the city back for the infrastructure improvements.

[Dontrike]

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are putting the ball squarely in Trump's court in regards to infrastructure funding... They're going to meet back in 3 weeks for Trump to present a funding proposal. The pricetag - $2 trillion.

LOL

Apparently Trump also agreed that infrastructure needs to include broadband. I give it 2 hours before the republicans try to walk everything back.

I bet this ends up like Puerto Rico where a lot of the food was sitting in the open just going to waste.

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Only the best people

Why does every old white guy like to fuck with shit like this?

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I guess the Trump campaign takes after its namesake pretty well



Deadbeats gonna deadbeat.

Whaaaaaat?! Trump doesn't pay? No one could have seen something like this happening.

Seriously, what did they think would happen?

[Breccia]

Well, once again, it's time for Guess the Speaker!

That bill was so stupid

"Okay, I need WAY more context."

The topic is Infrastructure Week 1, the one that was interrupted by Nazis marching in the streets with torches and the spawn of my longest-running least-tasteful joke.

"Ah. Well, Schumer and Pelosi just met with Trump, so clearly it's one of them."

That's correct.

It's Trump.

"The fuck?"

Trump, meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), made clear that he was never supportive of the proposal calling for public-private partnerships because "you get sued," according to a senior Democratic source who attended the private meeting in the White House’s Cabinet Room.

"That was a Gary [Cohn] bill. That bill was so stupid," Trump told the Democratic leaders, according to the source.

A second person present at Tuesday’s White House meeting confirmed Trump’s remarks criticizing his administration's plan. Unveiled in February 2018, the proposal calls for $200 billion in federal spending that would be used to leverage at least an additional $800 billion in private investment over the next decade.

Cohn, Trump's first director of the National Economic Council, resigned from his White House post in April 2018, two months after rolling out the White House infrastructure plan.

"[Trump] said definitively he doesn't like private-public partnerships, and he did not at all support the plan that was put forward last year," recalled House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who was among the group of Hill Democrats who met with Trump.

"He said he never supported it," DeFazio added. "It was a product of a think tank guy, DJ Gribbin, and he said, 'That was Gary's thing. I never supported that.'"

Gribbin, an infrastructure policy adviser, also left the White House last year.

"So, wait, he's admitting he put his entire fatass weight behind something he hated? And has no plan of his own at all?"

That seems to be the obese size of it. Trump's past the halfway point and, once again, outsourced his own campaign promises to other people -- at least this time it was his own Executive Branch and not Congress -- then trashed it when it failed. Trump could see the irony like he could see his feet: not very well. Then he fired everyone involved and replaced their plan, the one he supported as strongly as the White House floor supports his lardbutt, with nothing.

This goes a long way to explaining why he took to Pelosi's green energy, education, possibly union and broadband plan like he took to another cheeseburger. He had nothing, he fired the only people who had anything, and pressure was mounting like his cholesterol and BMI. And I'm really looking forward to seeing what Pelosi, more or less at gunpoint, forces him to do, now that he destroyed all his realistic options.

"Okay, what's with all the body shaming? I know you throw the occasional jab, but now you're tearing into him like Trump into a bag of Doritos. OMG NOW I'M DOING IT!"

As I've mentioned before, it's 100% fair to body shame someone who body-shames others. Trump opened the door to this. But the pasty, puffy, bloated mass of it is a direct result of US Navy sailors being told to clap for Pence like they were at a strip club.

We can confirm that this statement was made by USS Harry S. Truman's Command Master Chief to Truman's Sailors, prior to the arrival of the Vice President

-- Lt. Cmdr. Laura Stegherr

So, yeah, he gets a double scoop today. In the meanwhile, we see yet another example of fatass Trump turning on someone as soon as they're no longer useful, ditching someone as soon as they're no longer perceived as the winner, letting someone else do all the work for him, and slowly suffocating under his own bulk like a beached whale.

[Edge-]

Wait, how can Gary Cohn be "stupid" and draft "stupid bills" if Trump only hires "the best people"?

Can someone explain this to me? Preferably in a form that makes extensive use of pictures and includes my name repeatedly to ensure that I don't get distracted.

[Grapemask]

https://news.yahoo.com/kimberly-guil...114210181.html

Trump, apparently unable to find remotely competent folks to hire, is back to the nepotism train. The latest hire? His idiot kids new girlfriend and former Fox host, Kimberly Guifoyle, who will be a "senior campaign adviser".

I benefited from some nepotism to get my first gig, but it sounds like nepotism is simply how he operates everything.

I don't even think it's nepotism per se. This is just more of how Trump got his wealth from his father: phony jobs contracted to family members in order to funnel funds from one place to another. Friends and family, the "inner circle", will get as many jobs as possible in order to quasi-legally siphon campaign funds into the Trump bank accounts.

[Breccia]

Wait, how can Gary Cohn be "stupid" and draft "stupid bills" if Trump only hires "the best people"?

It's like the same as "the numbers were fake until they Trump was elected, then they became real|. Trump only hires the best people and only fires the worst people, and the fact that they're the same person is something he expects the rabid fanbase to gloss over.

[Rasulis]

Totally called that shit. Dow Corning did the same thing to a city here in Tennessee in 2010, but they atleast paid the city back for the infrastructure improvements.

The full WSJ article.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...cid=spartanntp

I seem to recall somebody saying that the deal will turn Wisconsin into a tech hub to rival Silicon Valley.