It is pure idiocy to support a man simply because he is outspoken, or says popular things, or has mastered the art of titillation. Have you people forgotten Chris Christie??
— Stephanie says, “People are rallying behind him not because they agree with him, but merely because they find him to be the most truthful.” About … what truth?? The man vacillates between whatever “truth” is the most popular.
— Sensetti thinks the guy is great because he’s rich … as if that’s a legitimate marker.
— Starfcker likes him because Trump is supposedly different; — “I’ve argued for six months, trump is our UKIP, our five star, our national front. Someone’s got to do the dirty work. You wouldn’t hire a choir boy to break kneecaps. It’s gonna take a real bull.”
— Other people like Trump because he is “not them”. “Them” being all the other rich, deceitful, lying fucks running for POTUS. No, The Donald is “different” in this alternate universe!
— Several people have become single issue voters, and love Trump’s illegal immigration stance, and to hell with everything else … even if it means more loss of liberty, as long as we’re “safe” from the brown taco-munchers crossing our southern border.
— Lastly, there are a certain segment of you, such as goofyfoot, who says – “How much worse could Trump be compared to President Zero and the First Grifter family?”. To which I shake my head in disbelief and where I want to scream out; “Are you fucking kidding me???!! You really don’t think it can get worse????”. Apparently, these scholars have never heard of Adolph, Josef, or Mao.
Here’s a typical Trumpeteer Worship Meeting. I wonder if the fawning bimbo realizes that in a Nov. 1992 interview in New York magazine Mr. Trump said about women; — “You have to treat ’em like shit.”
It’s all emotional bullshit because what one hardly ever reads about from these Trumpeteer Marionettes is an actual discussion about Trump on the issues. It’s more important to squeeze out yet another orgasmic fountain of joy because he threw out some Univision reporter; “Oh, look! Isn’t zee Donald just Wunderbar!!”
Screw that. So, let’s look at what The Donald believes …. by his own words. And, although I can, I will not spoon-feed you links to his quotes. If you think I’m lying, look up the quotes yourself. You might actually learn something about the Donald in the process.
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THE POLICE STATE: —- “…. we have to give power back to the police, because we have to have law and order. We have to give strength and power back to the police.”. He absolutely loves the Department Of Homeland Security. It will be the centerpiece of his immigration policy, and will become more onerous and evil than ever. This is how crazy it will get. Earlier this month, the National Zoo’s female giant panda gave birth to twin cubs. He called them “anchor babies”. I’m not kidding, and neither was Donald. He asked the National Zoo to turn over the twin cubs to the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) so that they can be deported back to China. “We have to equally enforce our immigration laws. We should treat animals in the same way we treat humans. We should not allow people or animals to abuse our immigration system by coming to the United States and having babies.” Deporting anchor pandas …. God help America!!
THE MILITARY: — Openly states that we must have American troops on the ground in Iran, Iraq, and the “Islamic State” in parts of Syria and Iraq. Way back in 1987 on Meet The Press, he said we should use the firing of a single bullet as a reason to invade Iran, seize its oil, and “let them have the rest” of their country. Proudly stated this past August 10th on Morning Joe –— “I am the most militaristic person there is.” If that doesn’t convince you that America’s endless wars will not cease under his administration, then I don’t know what will. But, he’s not militaristic when it comes to himself. He avoided the Vietnam draft by claiming a medical exemption …. bone spurs.
KILLING WHISTLE-BLOWERS: —- “I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor, and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country — you know what we used to do to traitors, right?”
GUNS: —- “I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun”
YOUR BANK ACCOUNT: — To reduce federal debt Trump said the federal government should directly loot the bank accounts of private citizens ….. he said it would be a “one-time tax”, yeah whatever —— and would only affect the very rich. Yeah, right. That’s the standard procedure for oppression of everyone’s rights, sooner or later. First, soak “the rich”, and when that inevitably fails, then they come after YOU.
YOUR PROPERTY RIGHTS: — You better hope your home isn’t on some land Trump wants to develop. Trump used eminent domain to seize an elderly widow’s Atlantic City home in order to build a limousine parking lot for his clients. “Everybody coming into Atlantic City sees that property, and it’s not fair to Atlantic City and the people. They’re staring at this terrible house instead of staring at beautiful fountains and beautiful other things that would be good.” Good for The Donald, not so good for the old lady.
THE FREE MARKET: — The Donald is a pure statist, through and through. Has zero problems with using the government to prop up corporations, including banks. Advocated for TARP. Said the Big Three auto companies should NEVER be allowed to fail. “You cannot lose the auto companies” Clamored for a government takeover of healthcare in the 1990s …. “We must have universal health care”
ECONOMY: — Trump promises to be “the greatest jobs President that God has ever created.” Of course, we have no fucking clue how he will do this. Maybe you Trumpeteers can help out .. not with YOUR ideas but, actual quotes from your hero, cuz I can’t find a single quote of substance. Don’t believe me? Check out The Donald’s latest video just released. No substance, 100% pure bullshit. But, I bet it makes you Trumpeteers feel all goooood and fuzzy inside. “Murika! Hell yeah!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nKqCEuv5c6M
FREE TRADE: — The Plan: slap tariffs on everyone you don’t like, and hire smart people. Problem solved!! “Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people but we have people that are stupid. We have people that aren’t smart, and we have people that are controlled by special interests, and it’s just not gonna work.” And, “I have lobbyists that can produce anything for me, they’re great.” Wants a 35% tax at the Mexican border, a 20% tax on all imports from anywhere, and promises to repatriate all “jobs stolen by China” with a heavy tax on Chinese goods … amount yet to be determined. No nation will retaliate and everything will be A-OK.
TAKING OIL FROM OTHER COUNTRIES: — Trump on the O’Reilly show; — “To the victor belongs the spoils. So when we go to Iraq, we spend $1.4 trillion so far and thousands of lives are lost, right? And not to mention all the poor guys and gals with one arm and no arm and all the facts, right? You stay and protect the oil and you take the oil and you take whatever is necessary for them and you take what’s necessary for us and we pay our self back $1.5 trillion or more. We take care of Britain, we take care of other countries that helped us and we don’t be so stupid.”
ISRAEL: — Netanyahu will get a four year long blowjob from the Donald. I don’t know to what degree we are controlled by Israel, but whatever it is, it will ONLY INCREASE. If the Donald is elected president, the United States will have its first Jewish daughter in the White House. X-ray scanners will reveal the status of penises, and only those who have snipped the dick will be allowed entrance into the Holy of Holies.
THE CONSTITUTION & THE FED: — Not enough data. Go ahead and do a search “Donald Trump quotes about the Constitution”. Bupkus! You won’t find a single Ron Paul-ish article anywhere, or even any quotes. It’s as if he doesn’t care about the Constitution, or even knows anything about it. The same with The Fed. One can safely assume that hopes about abolishing the Fed, or even auditing it, are off the table. Trump will maintain that status quo … if not increase the power of The Fed since the Donald is at heart a Big Government guy who thinks he can control everything by simply issuing commands. Not to mention The Great Unknown: to what extent is Trump and his vast wealth beholden to banks? Who “owns” whom??
SUPPORTING SCUMBAGS —- Trump has spent a big fortune supporting and/or buying-off a Who’s Who of American Scum; Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Tom Daschle, Joe Biden, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Charlie Rangel, Ed Rendell, Rahm Emanuel, Karl Rove’s SuperPAC American Crossroads, and over $100,000 to the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation. Negotiation skills are pretty easy when it basically consists of buying off people.
“I’M RICH!!”: — Sure, compared to us. BUT … he’s “only” ranked as 414th richest man in the Forbes 2015 Richest People list! They estimate his net worth at about $4.2 billion …. a far cry from his braggadocio claims of being worth $10 billion. And a far cry from Bill Gate’s net worth of about $80 billion. And THAT’S who people like Trump compare themselves to … others, like themselves. And Trump barely makes a ripple in a room full of billionaires. With an ego as large as his, that probably eats away at him. Therefore, I call into question the whole meme that Trump isn’t in it for the money, or that he can’t be bought. You just wait and see. If Trump gets elected, he will leave office much richer, as he gets laws passed that benefit HIM. A thinking person should question if Trump’s motives are to “make America great again” or, if he just wants to enrich himself. Lastly, his exaggerated claims regarding his wealth just point to him being yet another Liar-In-Chief. But, as Americans, we’re used to that by now after eight years of Oreo, aren’t we?
PERSONAL LIFE: — Trump’s family values include years of keeping a mistress, Marla Maples, and who, after not having marital relations with his wife for more than 16 months, flew into a rage, tore hair from her head, and violated her sexually. Abandoned his daughter with Maples, providing financial support, and nothing else. Beyond any shadow of a doubt it is a known fact that he has mob connections … and has a documented history of cheating workers and vendors, and skirting the law via bribes and payoffs.
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Now, just in case you think I’m of the opinion that The Donald is all bad ….
IMMIGRATION: — He is 100% correct regarding the problem of illegal immigration. But, his solution to rounding up the millions already here will turn this country into even more of a Police State. His belief that we can force Mexico to pay for a fence is patently fucking insanely absurd. Even more insane is the belief that a fence would be effective … unless one is willing to plant thousands of land mines, and willing to execute border hoppers. But, even land-mines didn’t keep East Germans from fleeing. It’s also a shame that some people are too goddamned stupid to understand that what keeps some people OUT, keeps even more people (YOU!!) in, and that you’re halfway to an entire nation imprisoned. Up next? Fence out Canada to complete the prison. And, you’re ignorant as hell if you think that’s impossible, forever. Even when Trump rightfully identifies a problem, his solution to the problem is childish.
ENVIRONMENT: — Trump has called Globull Warming “bullshit”.
EDUCATION: — “Common Core has to be ended. …. It’s a disaster.” And, “Cut the Department of Education way, way down.”
DRUGS: — He’s in favor of legalizing drugs and using tax revenue to fund drug education. I guess SSS won’t vote for him. Nevertheless, in his tolerance, he fired a Miss USA crown winner due to her drug over-indulgence.
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OK, YOUR TURN!! — I know why you like Donald. He’s a rich celebrity, and Americans just loooove their celebrities. Just check out all the Trash Rags at your grocery checkout line. You love his claim that he can’t be bought, even if it’s probably a lie. You love his image of the White Knight riding to the rescue, a real Marlboro Man hero. You love his bombastic in-your-face persona, even though you surely know in your heart that national and international politics aren’t effectively conducted that way. And, you absolutely love his entertainment value …. as do I. But, is that all you got?? Surely, you have something of substance to convince us doubters that he is worthy of occupying the White House. I’ll be waiting ….
NOW THAT YOU HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF WHERE THE DONALD STANDS ON THE ISSUES ….. WHERE WOULD YOU PLACE HIM ON THIS CHART?
MY CONCLUSION: — While Mr. Trump is on the correct side on a few issues, it doesn’t make up for his being on the wrong side in so many others. In the above chart, The Donald is clearly on the far left side on almost all issues. In other words, he is no different than the Same Old Crap Sandwich you’ve been fed for decades now. Yet, you Trumpeteers believe he’s The Great White Hope. Yeah, well, hope in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up faster.
Both his words and actions prove his rejection of the free market and a propensity for confiscating wealth and placing it in the hands of corporate elites and government bureaucrats. But, key to me is that he has no respect for individual rights. His non-existent stance for the Constitution is extremely problematic. Whether he has any adherence to liberty and justice is questionable at best considering his support of the most vile politicians in the nation, while running around with mobsters. This is no reformer!
People say a politician’s moral life is of no consequence in leading a nation. This ignores the fact that a politician’s life is consumed with making DECISIONS, and what a man (or, woman) chooses is largely based on that person’s character. It is impossible to make decisions in a moral vacuum. The fact that Trump’s personal life has been one comprised by one immoral decision after another — including three marriages, infidelities, and four bankruptcies — indicate to me that he does not have the qualities of being an effective humble public servant. Rather, he possesses a tremendous ego and a disturbing lust for power. Why can’t people see this? You who say he can’t be worse than the crap we’ve had with the evil Troika of Bush(es), Clinton, and Obama, please stop kidding yourselves. This man possesses an extraordinary damage potential, worse than you’ve ever seen, if he ever directly wielded the power of the presidency.
In a March 1990 Playboy interview Mr. Trump said; — “I know what sells and I know what people want.” The Donald is still using that strategy in 2015, and he’s playing you Trumpeteers for fools.
Look, if you guys want to elect someone who squints a lot and says stupid shit, may I suggest you consider David Puddy? He’s not as rich, but he’ll do far less damage to this country.
Note: For 199 outrageous, provocative, and hilarious Trump quotes, please click the following link;
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/the-absolute-trumpest-121328.html#.Vd48t8ltjBI
Phil from Oz,
So choosing to not get ass-raped in trade negotiations and taking control of our own borders make a guy Hitler? Yeah, I don’t think so.
Iska, you didn’t show your work, it’s basic math, 5×11 = 55 and 1M x 1K = 1Bx55= 55B. I was just yanking your chain because I had said it would cost a gazillian.
You are a reasonable person, thanks!
Hitler promised a whole lot of stuff but his methods were beyond what the public expected. In time, brown folks will fear the governmental repression and they will slowly lose all rights of citizens, no matter how reasonable you expect a tyrant to be, he will abuse his power.
You expect that removing certain colored people will make things pure in the USA. Druggies, gangsters, whore-mongers, thieves, crooks, swindlers, murderers, child molesters, porn addicts, adulterers, etc. come in all colors. When you empty the country of one group, you create opportunity for another group. Your wall to end all walls will only become a pricey tourist attraction.
Seriously. EC, you’re getting hysterical. I expect and Trump expects and most of Trump’s supporters expect that most of the current crop of illegal denizens will be allowed to stay under some sort of regularization. And of course, many if not most of the “brown people” (by which I assume you mean Latinos) are American citizens and perfectly welcome here (not that they need my welcome). You need to get out of SoCal and talk to a few Tejanos. I predict that Trump will get as big a percentage of Chicanos in the general election as did George W Bush. I don’t want to kick out all of the brown people. Really. If anything, I’d start with the Finnlanders and their stupid “St Urho’s Day”.
But, but, I am ‘tejano’. Actually, the term applies to the type of music, it comes form the Mexican term for people from Texas, it isn’t commonly used by Texas beaners. They say Tex Mex.
A long time ago in dog years, I said that those of us who grew up on the border resented those across the border because they stole our girls, our bikes, our jobs.. then one day in the early 70’s I went downtown and was surprised to see the flood of Mexicans all over the place. They came, they multiplied and suddenly my own dad’s sacrifice was cheapened. Here he had been jailed for a year, deported, allowed back in and legalized due to his anchor babies or maybe it was the fact he was married to my mom, who was born in Fort Collins, CO.
You think I haven’t bitched about illegals? You haven’t been paying attention. I’m not the person Billy painted when he was calling me Haysus and tarring me with the La Raza smear. Shit, I told you about that effort on my cousin’s part. I have been pouring my soul out bleeding to death here and you fucks keep thinking I’m just a fucking assclown.
And I told you of the irony of it all, that having foamed at the mouth about Reagan’s Salvadoran invasion of LA in the 80’s, I came to marry a Salvy. Talk about Oedipus eating crow.
Yes, I’m hysterical. My point is that a noble cause can turn into a nightmare once you give the power of persecution to a megalomaniac. He will build the wall using illegal laborers and handing the contract to his company.
OTOH, Bush will pack the border with lots more BP agents and drones. At that time, you might as well avoid the border region if you value your rights because you will have none there, body cavity searches will become commonplace in addition to confiscation of your vehicle, personal effects and any cash.
” I have been pouring my soul out bleeding to death here ……..” —— El Coyote
That’s one of the many things I like about you. Don’t change. Keep it up.
Iska et. al., Read the book.
Then tell me the “big differences” between your Great White Hope (repeat bankruptcies swept under the carpet) and Adolf Hitler PRIOR to the Reichstag.
You all whinge non-stop about “Statists” and Statism, yet you are prepared to “elect” an individual with very dubious business acumen (good Businessmen DO NOT suffer repeat bankruptcies, and somehow avoid jail time. Obviously helps to have “connections”), and a STATED intent to increase the powers of The State (along with the stated intent to really crack down on traitors (aka whistleblowers)), which translates directly to increased and unopposable power for the NSA / DHS / TSA / CIA / FBI to do whatever they like, with zero accountability to you, and zero oversight by you.
Your “Three Branches of Government” are already in effect the one, under the covert (but no doubt direct) management of those who profit from the MIC. Trump’s stated intention is to re-invade the ME to seize their oil (to “pay for American expenses” – incurred during your illegal wars over there), which translates to “More for the MIC” – so, guess who is backing Trump – and who is going to expect a “return on their investment”??
Anyway – go ahead and vote him in. You obviously like warmongers, seeing you all consistently vote for them. Have your Fourth Reich, complete with C21st Gestapo, “rules for you, not for us”, and pretence of “American Exceptionalism”. Just don’t start WW3.
Phil from Oz,
Old man Bush invaded Kuwait/Iraq. His continual crowing about it, feeling no shame about bombing 100,000 Iraqi conscripts on the “Highway of Death”, was the main reason I made the mistake of voting for Bill Clinton in ’92 (the only time ive ever voted for a demonrat for president). His son George invaded Iraq again. Hillary voted to authorize W to invade Iraq. Obama deposed Gaddafi and armed ISIS. Jeb said less than three weeks ago that his brother’s Iraq war was a “pretty good deal”. And you want to paint Trump – who was against the Iraq war – as a warmonger? If Trump is a warmonger, he’s a rank amateur compared to any of the others with the remotest of chances to actually attain the presidency.
Iska, he said he would go back into Iraq to get the oil. If that isn’t war-mongering then it’s at least saber rattling.
El Coyote,
I appreciate the honest pouring out of your heart, but goddamnit all we want is the rule of law and common sense security. We stole this country fair and square, and we have the right to defend its borders. I’m ok with regularizing most of the illegals, but we need to seal the border and get rid of the thugs. There’s only one guy promising these common sense steps. A little megalomania never hurt anyone.
Regarding oil within Iraq: Trump’s talking about depriving ISIS of its significant oil revenue (“I’d take the money source away”.) He’s specifically ruled out American boots on the ground to fight a war against ISIS. Among the GOP contenders, he’s the least warmongery, with the possible exception of Rand Paul who’s at 1-2% in the polls. Trump isn’t one of these “let’s bring democracy to the Middle East” guys. The only plausible candidate who could be considered less likely to start anther war is Bernie Sanders. I like Bernie, but socialism is stupid.
Look at Europe, they tried to stop the migrants and they overran the cops. They do not fear death on the high seas and the concertina wires do not faze them.
Then ask yourself, why are they coming? Let’s see, we shipped off Mara Salvatrucha gangsters to their native land. We gave them cell phones to create an international web, we provided a market for their contraband drugs, we provided a destination for economic refugees, we created an opportunity for smugglers to expand into kidnapping, extortion and human trafficking, we provided guns, we provided military training, we facilitated the money laundering, etc.
What I got from HSF’s essay on Free Range Prison is that this country is dual-minded, wanting security and the rule of law on the one hand and on the other hand, the freedom to do anything and everything; marry another guy, change sex even, in spite of the law.
EC, I love you like a brother, but I didn’t get the gist of HSF’s post, nor do I understand your last one. I’m a simple man. All I want is a goddamn wall.
Everyone is still debating the merits of Trump as if WE have a profound choice to make; as I alluded to and only a few are starting to talk about, this is not the issue. You are not going to be given that choice. The issue is that the Republican Party is simply not going to allow Trump the nomination. The primaries are a function of the party. They can choose to nullify any primary results that go Trump’s way on technical grounds. They can deny ballot access. They can stifle him at the convention if need be. Don’t believe me. We saw it happen first hand with Ron Paul in 2012, as the Republican machine lined up against him because he was deemed “not a real candidate.” His supporters were not allowed to speak, not allowed to vote in straw polls, in some cases escorted out of buildings.
You can debate the merits and motivations of Trump, fine. But his supporters better wake up, dust off their overalls and stop waving their American flags for just a second, and start figuring out how they’re going to take on the Republican machine. Because if their plan is simply to vote once for him in their state primary, it will not be enough. And you know who will be left standing when its done? Jeb. Bush. The only candidate with a giant war chest and a political dynasty going all the way back to grandaddy Prescott. He will simply outspend all the other Republican runts (who in actuality are jockeying for Vice President at this point) and let the party do the dirty work by declaring Trump “not a real candidate.” 2012 exposed what a farce the electoral system is to Paul supporters. But this time the whole country is about to realize it.
It’s an interesting essay, he discusses the Trump phenomenon with an easy eloquence and language way above our pay grade.
In it, he paints a country in contradiction with itself. The confessions of the mouth vs the contents of our hearts. Greed, he says, is the American condition. In reaching for more and more, we seek out those who promise to give it to us without sacrifice. This explains the popularity of Donald Trump. We are so enamored of his easy solutions that we are willing to suspend our disbelief. We are willing to short circuit our reasoning and overlook his contradictions. At times HSF channels The Onion, saying that we understand The Donald’s inconsistencies are inconsequential and are the result of new inputs. Here is a man who changes with the weather and the situation and we are perfectly OK with that.
I guess that makes us all Trump chumps.
Disclaimer: It’s all I could understand of his essay using my 85% IQ. Anybody smarter is encouraged to provide his own summary/analysis of HSF’s essay.
Tumbleweed, calm down, these are spineless cowards running the RNC. See how quick the federal government backed down in murrietta, and at the bundy ranch? The RNC isn’t government, and the party is out of power and at odds with their voters, they won’t do a damn thing. They will lose, cause that’s what losers do.
EC, my IQ is at least in the low 90’s, so I’ll try to condense hardscrabbles wisdom. He’s basically making two points, best that I can tell. First, he thinks it’s time to man up, as a country, or we don’t deserve a country. And second, he thinks stucky is as queer as a three dollar bill. That may not be exact, but it should be pretty close.
You know, Starfuck, you made me think of something. Could it be the expansion of college enrollment is an insidious plot to dilute the Republican supply by filling it with Democrats? Fill and kill as they say in supply circles. Fill the classrooms with dolts and make sure they know where their tuition money is coming from. Hillary proposed a tuition amnesty recently.
Ah, politics, where, sooner or later, the ass turns the other cheek.
Most of you may not realize, but stucky used to work in film years ago. Here he is, starring in a two minute short, titled “breakfast of champions.” Enjoy
HSF says: You can’t fight city hall. We are too cowardly to do that. The Donald is showing us the way to buck this paper dragon. We are thrilled with his leadership at the moment.
EC says: When and if they crucify him, they will only make a martyr out of him. They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
Starfuck, when you watch porn, you also are thrilled by the man thing doing all the action. Stuck has an admirable man thing we would all be thrilled to watch in a porno. I live vicariously through this guy. I love him 90% of the time and the other 20%, I fake an orgasm.
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
And the other point about the Caligula-Incitatus story is that Caligula was making the point that the post of Consul was so meaningless that even an animal could do it.
Which is a point that could be made about any branch of the fed.gov currently.
So go ahead, elect Trump with whatever hapless fool that joins the ticket, knock yourself out.
Nero and his fiddle will be along soon.
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Nero Caesar Augustus found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Just sayin’ 🙂
Well, I suppose we should all wait until Mr. Stucky finds his perfect candidate. Caspar Milquetoast, call your office. Stucky is one of those folks who don’t really think there is anything REALLY wrong with the country, nothing that a smart guy like him couldn’t fix in an afternoon. Typical Libertarian. Mr. McGoo in Cloud Cuckooland. As I have said, Trump is far from perfect but the mere fact that he makes the national media and the rest of the Establishment crap their pants and pee all over themselves is reason enough to vote for him. Trump is Hitler or Mussolini? Yeah, sure. Call me when the election is over. Trump has already appointed me Obersturmbanfuhrer in charge of inbred Southerners. I think we can find a place for Stucky in our salt mines.
TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS IN OFFICE
January 20, 2017: In his inaugural speech, Trump assures the nation it now has a “dealmaker in chief” who will renegotiate all the lousy agreements from the last two administrations. He singles out Iran, Iraq, South Korea, China, Mexico, Rosie O’Donnell and Heidi Klum by name. Stock markets fall 4% on fears of trade wars and global tension.
First full day in office: After his first close-up glimpse of Air Force One, Trump decides to fly on his own 757 instead because the presidential jet is “too dumpy.” “Leave it to the govenrment to build a piece of crap like that,” he tells reporters in a kickoff press conference.
Day 2: Trump rescinds immigration measures enacted by his predecessor, Barack Obama, that kept about 5 million illegal immigrants in the United States from being deported. Those so-called DREAMers—typically, the parents of children who reside legally in the U.S.—must now leave the country. Trump designates Vice President Scott Walker as the “alien counter” whose job is to make sure the government tracks down every illegal immigrant ordered to leave the country.
Day 5: Trump fulfills a campaign pledge by sending Congress the Make America Safe Again Act of 2017. This bill would fund construction of a 2,000-mile-long triple-layer fence along the U.S.-Mexican border, while adding 25,000 new border-patrol agents to the federal payroll. Trump proposes new tariffs on imports from Mexico to help pay the wall’s $25 billion cost. Bechtel, Haliburton, Northrup Grumman and other contractors hire hundreds of lobbyists to make sure the bill becomes law.
Day 8: Trump sends Congress the Make America Great Again Act of 2017, which would impose a 25% tariff on Chinese imports and offer generous incentives to any company that can figure out how to manufacture television sets in the United States. Stock markets fall 4% on the news. China hires hundreds of lobbyists to prevent the bill from passing.
Day 15: Trump sends Congress the Make America Rich Again Act of 2017, which would kill the estate tax, eliminate corporate taxes except for companies that outsource jobs (which would be taxed at a 20% rate), and slash rates for most families to four basic tiers, with a maximum rate of 15% for millionaires. It would also raise the Social Security retirement age to 70 by 2035. Stocks rally, cutting their loss for the year to 5%.
Day 17: Trump holds a press conference complaining that Congress is taking too long to build the border wall with Mexico. He calls Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “stupid” and says House Speaker John Boehner is a “puppet.” McConnell holds a rebuttal press conference and says “President Trump doesn’t understand how things work in this town. Congress makes the laws, not the president, and if we want to spend 17 years turning a bill into a law, we will.”
Day 25: President Trump’s first meeting with a fellow head-of-state is with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai. “I can do business with this man,” Trump declares. Three days later, Edward Snowden is flown from Moscow to Guantanamo Bay aboard a Trump Organization aircraft with the windows blacked out.
Day 32: Secretary of Defense Lindsay Graham announces that the Pentagon is sending 100,000 troops to the Middle East to defeat ISIS, half-a-dozen factions in Syria, Iranian units that stray beyond their home-country borders and anybody else who gets in the way. The U.S. will bill Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia $1 billion per day for as long as it takes to complete the mission. Stocks fall 5% and are now down 8% for the year. Oil prices surge from $50 per barrel to $75.
Day 49: Russia invades Ukraine. Secretary of State Carly Fiorina says that if Europe doesn’t like it, they should ask Germany to do something about it. Stocks drop another 4% and are now down 13% for the year. Wall Street analysts refer to this as the Trump Correction.
Day 54: The U.S. government sues OPEC for violating antitrust laws. Stocks fall further as oil rises to $110 per barrel. OPEC hires hundreds of lobbyists to help get Congress to block the suit.
Day 57: Education Secretary Rick Perry announces that the Trump administration will eliminate the department he heads, and possibly one or two others.
Day 64: As Congress holds its 23rd hearing on the border wall, the president says “everybody in Congress is a clown” and orders the Trump Organization to begin constructing the wall. Trump adds 25,000 people to his company’s payroll and deputizes them as border patrol agents.
Day 72: Trumps hosts Chinese premier Xi Jinping for a round of golf at the Trump National Doral course in Miami. “Now this is power,” Trump tells Xi, sweeping his arm across the first fairway as they tee off. As a sign of hospitality, Trump presents Xi a complimentary “Trump Card” entitling the holder to exclusive privileges at select Trump hotels.
Day 81: Trump proposes a Constitutional amendment giving the president the power to fire every member of Congress. Stocks jump by 10%.
Day 82: McConnell and Boehner threaten to block funding for all government activities to protest President Trump’s repeated attempts to bypass Congress. Trump calls the two Congressional leaders “losers who couldn’t build a sand castle.” Stocks tumble.
Day 88: Trump sends Congress the Make America Work Again Act of 2017, which would abolish Congress. Congress hires thousands of lobbyists to assure the bill fails.
Day 91: The Trump Organization completes construction of the border wall, 14 years ahead of schedule and $10 billion below the projected cost.
Day 95: The Trump Organization suffers a massive hacking attack that disrupts virtually all of its business activities. Officials identify China as the likely source of the attack.
Day 99: The House of Representatives begins impeachment proceedings against President Trump. His approval ratings reach 70%.
Day 100: Trump resigns, saying that with the border wall completed, he accomplished what voters sent him to Washington to do. “I’ve been the greatest president in American history,” Trump declares. “No president has ever gotten more done in less time.” Vice President Walker is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Oil prices fall back to $50 and stocks soar, regaining all the losses of the prior 100 days.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-s-first-100-days-as-president-153917269.html#
“Stucky is one of those folks who don’t really think there is anything REALLY wrong with the country” ——-Southern Idiot
Congrats! With that comment you just received TBP’s greatest recognition —- Diseased Donkey Dicklicking Dumbfuk Douchebag of the Decade
“…Among the GOP contenders, he’s the least warmongery, ” ———– Iska Warran
You’re just not very smart, are you?
Donald Trump’s “solution” to ISIL is to “BOMB THE HELL” out of the oil fields in Iraq. “If I win, I would attack those oil sites that are controlled and owned — they are controlled by ISIS,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t send many troops because you won’t need ’em by the time I’m done.” Dick Cheney on steroids!
Trump Idea #1: Just bomb them all!!!! Sure ISIL doesn’t run most of them but whatever, just BOMB IT ALL.
Trump Idea #2: It won’t take a lot of troops to BOMB IT ALL, — just another Quickie War — so it’s a real win in Trump’s book.
Trump Idea #3: Trump will give contracts to Big Oil and other Cronies to clean up our mess after BOMBING THEM ALL. You know how good the oil companies are about cleaning up our messes.
Nope!! Not very “warmongery” at all!! LMFAO!
Stucky,
I am So sorry! I had no idea that the spell in a Turkish prison had so injured your pride, your self-esteem and so many other things. I understand your rage, I embrace it, sort of.
Basically, tRUMP, is Mcain on roids.
Nutbags both.
Make Murika great by stealing other countries resources.
Exceptional!!
YHWH does not approve.
This is pretty damn funny ……….. TRUTH!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-ep53vIAV9c
Trump’s real first hundred days:
The colluding Congress blocks absolutely everything Trump tries to do, including all the things you naysayers are losing sleep over. This is actually good for America, as government gridlock at least allows the people to be left free from constant increasing harassment for the first time in decades.
btw that video was not at all funny, a good example of why no one under 60 finds late night comedians relevant anymore.
Because nobody under 60 has an attention span longer than 20 seconds
Your closing in on 200, Stucky
Is there any correlation between TBP coverage and eventual election of a candidate?
Were TBPers this passionate about Obama to dedicate several articles to him?
W?
There is no one person who can :
A. fix an astronomically diluted currency
B. put back 2 generations of brains sucked out of American heads.
C, Restore physical dimensions to a ghost market.
I quit voting years ago, but may vote for Trump if they let him live…
not because of his leadership attributes, but because he’s
reminding people they need to be pissed off, and defining what they need to be pissed about !
His speech admitting that he bribes politicians was brilliant!
Before the system can be rebuilt , it must be exposed and torn down…
Trumps egocentric rants are refreshingly honest… he’s
biting the hand that fed him… lets see how long they let him get away with it.
Pressing on towards #200. (Maybe El Coyote can find pics of The Donald playing accordion?)
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Imperial America — Or: Have we gone crazy?
“May you live in interesting times” — that old (supposedly Chinese) curse seems to define the world today. “Interesting” is meant in the snarkish sense: it is a euphemism for unpleasant, or even intolerable, although in the present context I think a more appropriate term is baffling.
The political elites are baffled by the rise of Donald Trump: how is it that the celebrity equivalent of a circus clown could be number one in the GOP presidential race? Here, after all, is someone who wants to deport upward of some 11 million people — kick down their doors, put them on a train, and send them off to Mexico, in spite of the fact that many of them were born here. Asked by Hugh Hewitt if he’s an authoritarian, Trump didn’t deny it: instead he answered: “Everyone is weak. We need someone strong.”
At the considerable risk of sounding like an old fogy, I must confess to waking up some mornings and thinking: Where in the hell am I? No, it’s not the onrush of senility, although that day may not be far: it’s the indisputable reality that things that wouldn’t have been tolerated, or even taken seriously, as little as 15 or 20 years ago are now utterly commonplace, and even the norm. Trump is only a symptom of the normalization of the bizarre, and, for lack of a better word, the debased.
I was struck, the other day, by this piece in The National Interest, which discusses the odd changes we have experienced in terms of the foreign policy discourse. Too often, Richard Burt and Dmitri Simes complain, the debate takes the form of a battle of the bumperstickers: what we see are competing slogans rather than rival policies being bruited about. Or, as they put it:
“[T]he debate over international affairs is now badly debased, particularly in Congress. The media, meanwhile, lacks the interest and the expertise (particularly in the digital space) to present vital issues to the American people. At the same time, despite a number of national-security setbacks — including in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya — voters appear ready to delegate authority to political elites with few questions or constraints, perhaps because ordinary Americans see no direct negative impacts on their daily lives.”
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A disengaged citizenry, a political class imbued with hubris and the spirit of Caesarism: where have we seen this before? It is late imperial Rome, perhaps at the height of its power — or, perhaps, at the moment before its long descent. There is indeed a certain Romanesque quality to the triumphalist tone of the foreign policy discourse in this country, as Burt and Simes go on to relate:
“With victory in the Cold War and absent a rival superpower to limit and shape U.S. choices, America’s new foreign-policy establishment has adopted a simplistic, moralistic and triumphalist mindset: foreign policy by bumper sticker. This mindset abandons traditional foreign-policy analysis, which emphasizes establishing a hierarchy of priorities, making difficult decisions over tradeoffs and considering the unintended consequences of US actions. It also ignores the fact that America’s political system has consistently failed to sustain costly international interventions when vital national interests are not at stake. Prominent voices dismiss those raising such concerns as cynical realists, isolationists or, more recently, unpatriotic Putin apologists. Many tacitly accept this form of intimidation by interventionists who substitute chest-thumping for coherent and serious, historically grounded arguments.”
What Burt and Simes are really complaining about is the fact that America has made the transition from republic to empire. An empire, particularly one such as the United States, doesn’t need — or thinks it doesn’t need — to establish priorities because, after all, we’re all-powerful, aren’t we? Traditional foreign policy analysis — who the heck needs it? As some anonymous White House aide told Ron Suskind back in 2004:
“The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ … ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'”
In the age of the Caesars the function of reporters, analysts, and commentators is akin to that of ancient scribes: their job is not to note the facts and discern the truth but to reflect the self-created “reality” of the political class, and particularly its Great Leaders. Their job, in short, is to shout “Hail Caesar!” and record his (or her) great achievements for posterity.
“We’re an empire now” … well, yes. That old scold Garet Garrett, a former New York Times editor turned prophet, warned us at the dawn of the cold war of what was not only coming but was already a reality in 1952:
“We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: ‘You are now entering Imperium.’ Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: ‘Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.’ And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: ‘No U-turns.'”
No, there are no painted signs, but there are indications, portents, auguries of our fate: Trump, the cartoon Caesar, may be one of them. The Iraq war, and the ceaseless conflicts that followed in its wake, are less subtle symptoms of the imperial disease, the decadence that eats away at the heart of all republics similarly afflicted with the virus of imperialism. And the symptoms are not limited to the foreign policy and political realms, as the conservative theorist Claes Ryn has pointed out: there are cultural and psychological traits that infiltrate and eventually overthrow the old “republican virtues” of self-restraint, modesty, and civic duty. In our own case, these have been replaced, much to Ryn’s disgust, by recklessness and narcissism, and in this piece he relates his personal experience with the phenomenon.
Ryn describes lunchtime at a McDonald’s in “one of the most affluent and pretentious suburbs in America just outside of Washington, D.C.” It is, in short, the territory of America’s ruling elite, and the behavior of the children is described by Ryn with damning precision: they scream if they don’t get their French fries fast enough, they make noise as if the decibel level measures the degree of their enjoyment, and of course the parents are oblivious to how all this impacts on everyone else in the room. The children are merely reflections of their egotistical parents: in short, both children and parents are spoiled brats. Ryn goes on to write:
“Yes, this picture has everything to do with US foreign policy. This is the emerging American ruling class, which is made up increasingly of persons used to having the world cater to them. If others challenge their will, they throw a temper tantrum. Call this the imperialistic personality — if ‘spoilt brat’ sounds too crude.”
An arrogant, ingrown patrician class, increasingly out of touch, and contemptuous of those who live in “flyover country,” is, in turn, matched in its debasement by America’s plebeians.
Here we see the “trickle-down” theory of cultural decadence demonstrated in the rise of a new form of journalism: news reporting as a function of what Jacob Heilbrunn calls the “entertainment-industrial complex.” Citing an essay by Sam Tannehaus in The American Prospect, Heilbrunn avers that it’s the media and not Trump who are responsible for The Donald’s rise on account of “the temptation to turn every event into a mini-drama.” He notes Tannehaus’s point that this is “deeply injurious” to the journalistic profession which has even infiltrated the newsroom over at the New York Times, that temple of journalistic punctiliousnes — but is this really something new?
Didn’t the “reporting” of Judith Miller turn the run-up to the Iraq war into a “mini-drama” — a story of brave “dissidents” like Ahmed Chalabi & Co. uncovering the alleged deception of the bloody tyrant Saddam Hussein? Going farther back in history, what about the Hearst papers reporting the sinking of the Maine as an act of Spanish treachery? And then there were those Belgian babies supposedly speared on German bayonets whose grisly and entirely fictitious fate inspired us to enter the Great War — a lie that was limned by the Great Lantos Hoax which provoked the first Gulf War. Is it really something novel that journalism is no longer about the truth but rather about selling a “narrative”?
Yes, American journalism in the age of empire has become a form of entertainment. In chronicling the decline of the Roman republic, the writer Juvenal disdained the abdication of civic duty by citizens who were content to suffer demagogues so long as they were the source of plentiful “bread and circuses.” The latter surely fits Heilbrunn’s description of the “entertainment-industrial complex.”
Disengaged yet disgruntled, kept down and yet increasingly uppity, average Americans are both apathetic and angry when it comes to politics. They are ready for someone who simultaneously entertains and entrances them with the prospect of an American Caesar. As that grumpy old republican (small-“r”) George Will puts it:
“Some supporters simply find Trump entertainingly naughty. Others, however, have remarkable cognitive dissonance. They properly execrate Obama’s executive highhandedness that expresses progressivism’s traditional disdain for the separation of powers that often makes government action difficult. But these same Trumpkins simultaneously despise GOP congressional leaders because they do not somehow jettison the separation of powers and work conservatism’s unimpeded will from Capitol Hill.
“For conservatives, this is the dispiriting irony: The administrative state’s intrusiveness … may benefit the principal architect of this state, the Democratic Party. This is because the other party’s talented critics of the administrative state are being drowned out by Trump’s recent discovery that Americans understandably disgusted by government can be beguiled by a summons to Caesarism.”
It is truly ironic that today’s “conservative” Trump supporters long for a Caesar to undo the effects of … Caesarism, i.e., Big Government. And yet there is more irony to be had in the rise of Trumpismo, which first caught the nation’s attention on account of the immigration issue.
Every empire has open borders: it cannot be otherwise. Just as we claim the “right” to invade the world, so the world claims the corollary right to invade us. Where else will those Vietnamese allies who fled our defeat find sanctuary? What of the Iraqis made homeless by our wars of “liberation”?
Half a century after Sen. Ted Kennedy’s immigration “reform” changed the demographics of this country forever — legislation that caused barely a ripple at the time — the Trumpkins have decided to make a last stand of it. Indeed, one can locate the date when the issue was decided much farther back — all the way back to the war with Mexico that handed us Texas and the rest of the American Southwest, including California.
Trump wants to send the Mexicans back in railroad cars and buses — but they were here first, and no mere wall will keep them out. We conquered them and they are ours. We’re a global empire — so why are we surprised to wake up one day to find the peoples of the world teeming in our streets?
Once we succumbed to the temptation of empire, all else followed: the altered demographics, the bread and the circuses, the demagogues and the Caesars. Garrett, the prophet of our doom, gave us plenty of warning: he told us there are “no U-turns” — and perhaps he was right. However, that’s one prophecy that has yet to be proved true.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Imperial-America–Or-Ha-by-Justin-Raimondo-American-Facism_American-Foreign-Policy_American-Hegemony_Caesar-150828-246.html
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Trump would clear out all m Brotherhood in W H I am sure.Fire turd Eric Holder then try him, put him in orange jumpsuit with Lois Lerner as well.Audit Jarrett, Clinton foundation, Michael Obama, and his mother.Next bankers, the ones Holder said could money launder.Big list of house cleaning.
Shut down TPP Scam Trump has a lot of corruption to squash
This Stucky guy (?) sounds like he is trying to out-Trump Trump. Sorry, there can be only one. And you ain’t him.
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We’re getting close to 200 comments. Let’s get this bitch going again.
1) Make America Great Again
2) who do you want as First Lady – Melania or Huma?
Give it up, Iska this bitch will never see 200 unless Stuck dopples himself a few times.
There will never be a sequel to Camelot, if only because sequels tend to be a rehash.
However, since the other candidates are only serving up shit on a shingle when the only thing that sells is “NEW” & “IMPROVED” not “BLUE DRESS” or “BROCCOLI” there might be a slim chance.
On a less serious and slightly prurient note, what if the blondes rooting for Trump were to flash tits, wouldn’t that be something?
If I were there, I’d vote for Trump.
You Americans don’t deserve a leader as strong as Trump.
From the shadow of Denali I saw a cipher in the snow – a totem – that said … “From the east comes a warrior… With a comb-over.”
Make America great again.
#201 happy monday. Stuck
Something is really rotten in Cuckytown when a former rapid Republican war of turrah’ supporter, who on another blog years past threatened to come to admin’s house with a shotgun for posting pics of Iraqi dead babies, disparages another for comments made in their past..
Now that Sir Suckalot is transmogrified from bitter Republican clinging to fits of blubbering neocon stupid into Saint Agnostic believing in nothing but rainbows, womynz rights and free internet porn , he can condemn those he refers to as Trumpeteers , because his past is behind him and most newbies have never heard of the Raging Debate….long live the internetz , but may the archives of Raging Debate rest in the pit of the eternal void along with those of Hiltery’s server.
Regardless how the Manboob feels about Trump or even what Trump himself believes, the important thing to keep in mind is that Trump has rattled the Republican brand to it’s core and now that the base has caught a glimpse of the Cucks behind the curtain, they can never go back to being totally hitched to the GOP’s bullshit wagon.
Look for a third party to arise, attracting the core base of the Republican star which Trump has set on a irreversible path towards super nova. I imagine the collateral damage will be felt for years to come…meanwhile get some popcorn and watch the amazing Manboob totally not get any of this, nevertheless he’ll not hesitate, as is the nature of the bloviating Manboob , to create a great wallow in his very personal butthurt.
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“#201 happy monday. Stuck” ———–starfcker
Indeed. And all without doppling! Smokey comes back from the dead. RE, also. Russia Is Strong circumvents his lifetime ban. And, flash’s second paragraph is something I might put on my tombstone.
This all brings a tear to my eye.