Trump, So Far So Good

I didn't vote for him but so far, I can't complain. Still wish it was Cruz in there but Trump is doing pretty well in his first few weeks.

He's doing better than any President since Reagan.

He's doing better than any President since Reagan.

This is the only important issue

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s
In deepest consequence.

Once upon a time there was a nuclear blast and the only survivor was a lowly bank clerk with Coke bottle glasses,
who seemed quite happy to have survived the blast because he had got his beloved books in the bank vault with him
--until he had to go looking for food outside and accidentally stepped on his glasses...

Trump is as bad as Obama from point of view of dealing with opposition in parliament.
So far both used "My way or highway" approach.
Without building bridges we would get even nastier elections in four years.

How can we assure that a more collaborative president than Obama/Trump is elected next time?
This is the only important issue. All other issues are unimportant from point of view of preservation of American democracy.

Trump is as bad as Obama from point of view of dealing with opposition in parliament. So far both used "My way or highway" approach. Without building bridges we would get even nastier elections in four years.

Navy says over half of its air fleet can't fly
US Navy officials have alerted Congress that budget cuts and other factors have led more than half of its air fleet to be grounded.

Not good.

What’s going on was explained lucidly by a senior Pentagon intelligence official, who stated that “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM,” meaning the White House Situation Room, the 5,500 square-foot conference room in the West Wing where the president and his top staffers get intelligence briefings. “There’s not much the Russians don’t know at this point,” the official added in wry frustration.

None of this has happened in Washington before.

Donald Trump to John Travolta: Sorry Your Son Died; Can I Bang Your Wife?

Yes, Donald Trump, who would've been 62 years old at the time, thought it was appropriate to offer his condolences to a grieving mother by first telling the story of his unsuccessful attempts to have sex with her.

We outspend China, KSA, Russia, France, UK, India, Germany COMBINED!!

More trillions, it's the only answer.

You wrote an article for Slate in November, comparing the rise of Donald Trump with the rise of Adolf Hitler. Why did you feel the need to publish such a piece?

It’s very important that we use history to our advantage now, rather than finding in history taboos and ways to silence one another. The history of the 1930s is terribly important to Americans (and Europeans) right now, just as it is slipping from our memories. I was not trying to provoke one more fruitless series of conversations about comparability. I was trying to help Americans who were generally either shocked (people who voted against Trump) or surprised (people who voted for him, who generally thought he would lose) find their bearings in a new situation. The temptation in a new situation is to imagine that nothing has changed. That is a choice that has political consequences: self-delusion leads to half-conscious anticipatory obedience and then to regime change. Anyway, I didn’t actually compare Trump to Hitler, I didn’t use these two names. What I did was to write a very short history of the rise of Adolf Hitler to power without using his name, which might allow Americans to recognize certain similarities to the moment they themselves were living through. I know that these comparisons are a national taboo in Germany, but at the moment its rather important that Germans be generous with their history and help others to learn how republics collapse. Most Americans are exceptionalists, we think we live outside of history. Americans tend to think: “We have freedom because we love freedom, we love freedom because we are free.” It is a bit circular and doesn’t acknowledge the historical structures that can favor or weaken democratic republics. We don’t realize how similar our predicaments are to those of other people.

All I get is penis lengthening ads, and anyone west of the Mississippi can tell you that is the last thing I need!!

Trump is doing pretty well in his first few weeks.

The end result of this, though, is that our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see, as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial, and will not be questioned.

All I get is penis lengthening ads, and anyone west of the Mississippi can tell you that is the last thing I need!!

what you need is to post up a picture of your hands to verify this...

He's doing great, if you're deep in the military industrial complex, and don't mind destroying the Earth through war, pollution and famine

I've survived long enough to have lived under the terms of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Papa Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, and Obama.

I wasn't necessarily proud of some of them, but Trump is the ONLY one that that ever made me feel embarrassed.

August West, the fact that Trump has the vocabulary of a five-year-old embarrasses me. Nixon's vocabulary was more adult.

I didn't vote for him but so far, I can't complain. Still wish it was Cruz in there but Trump is doing pretty well in his first few weeks.

1: Hillary lost.

2: Complete repudiation of Obama's pathetic presidency.

3: Watching liberals completely melt down is about the most heartwarming entertainment I have witnessed in eons.

zBrown, you are an idiotic moron.

Trump, with all his faults....

Take out CA and Trump beat her handily in the popular vote.

Curt, I base my opinions about someone on what they actually DO, not on what others think and feel about them. Of the EO's I have seen, I can't complain. His Obamacare EO and "Two for One" EO are most welcome and two of his best so far.

Curt, I base my opinions about someone on what they actually DO.

Maybe it will work out.

the liberal meltdown and "sky is falling" mentality is the most heart-warming entertainment I have ever witnessed.

Well then that changes everything...

Flynn was sacked for lying to Pence, not for talking to the Russian ambassador. Back channel
'talks' have been done since time immemorial. That he did so before he was officially in office
is just nit-picking. How is talking to somebody grounds for blackmail?

That he did so before he was officially in office
is just nit-picking

TOP DEFINITION
Dumpster Juice
That liquid which continuously oozes from urban city dumpsters across the planet. The liquid is a comglomeration of the contents there-in with a touch of acid rain, sugar, spice and the occasional severed limb.
John Doe did so hate having to urinate in public alleys, if not for the simple fact that this required extended periods of time standing in the dumpster juice of the alleyways of the world.

Your mom's stew taste like last week's dumpster juice.

Flynn violated the Logan Act

Flynn violated the Logan Act

No he didn't. He only talked to the ambassador. NOBODY has ever been
charged or convicted under the Logan Act.

He was just doing his job

Well, in case you hadn't noticed, Obama was actually president at the time...

Keep reading the posts on this thread and the other Trump threads...like I said...the liberal meltdown and "sky is falling" mentality is the most heart-warming entertainment I have ever witnessed.

IMO, it makes it WORSE that a sitting president was doing that.

To put the story in simplest terms:

1) Russian spies hacked Democratic Party communications in order to help elect Donald Trump.

2) Donald Trump welcomed the help, used it, publicly solicited more of it—and was then elected president of the United States.

3) President Obama sanctioned Russia for its pro-Trump espionage.

4) While Russia considered its response, its ambassador spoke with the national security adviser-designate about the sanctions

5) The adviser, Flynn, reportedly asked Russia not to overreact, signaling that the new administration would review the sanctions; Russia did not respond.

6) As president-elect and then president, Donald Trump has indicated that he seeks to lift precisely those sanctions caused by Russia’s espionage work on his behalf.

. I am all for more cooperation with Russia.

“There can be no question that it is a terrible idea for Donald Trump to be accepting the registration of these valuable property rights from China while he’s a sitting president of the United States,” said Norman Eisen, who served as chief White House ethics lawyer for President Barack Obama. “It’s fair to conclude that this is an effort to influence Mr. Trump that is relatively inexpensive for the Chinese, potentially very valuable to him, but it could be very costly for the United States.”

Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, called the situation “highly improper.” Since foreign governments know Trump cares deeply about his family’s business, Painter said, “they will give him what he wants and they will expect stuff in return.”

Why is it such a bad idea to be allies with Russia.

Why is that guy making fun of Trump?

10b, you are delusional, get your prescription refilled and follow the doctor's orders. Idiot.

Let's imagine how much more damage he could do if he could get his act together.

Exactly my thoughts, I would rather lurch from one chaotic episode to another for four years rather than have him quit and let Pence do real harm.

BASE104 posted.
I've gone against the Republicans lately because they cut taxes instead of paying off the debt, or balancing the budget, like Clinton did.

Jan 21, 2017 - 04:52pm PT

(Norton's reply follows)
this is a typical uniformed attempt to deflect blame away from the Republicans

watch closely

In 2010 the Republicans took over majority control of the spending arm of the Federal government, the House of Representatives. They have been in control of that ever since, ok?

now, per our Constitution all government spending must be voted on to become law by the House, therefore since 2010 it is the Republican House that has voted on and approved into law virtually all of that 10 trillion, understand now?

BASE104 posted
We need to cut spending and raise taxes. If anyone can figure out a better way to pay down the debt, or simply balance the budget, I'm all ears.

BASE104 posted
I would cut taxes for those who employ more people. Not for billionaires who hide their money in offshore banks, or with stock and real estate speculation, which contribute nothing to the economy.

You're right, Jody. This thread is very entertaining.

Want any easy, reasonable, and directed tax increase? How about the proposals to tax stock trades of greater than a certain value, at cents per share.

Dirtbag, Trump is stupid, but his advisers even Bannon and Steven Miller (like what are his qualifications and experience to be a senior adviser to the POTUS, go figure) are not that stupid to do anything rash.

WASHINGTON — Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.

The National Security Agency, which monitors the communications of foreign intelligence services, initially captured the communications between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russians as part of routine foreign surveillance.

will you please act like you have more than a two word vo-cab-uh-lary?

So using Norton's logic (Which is usually pretty darn good)

Ronald Reagan was not responsible for the increase in the debt during his total 8 year administration.
Bill Clinton was not responsible for the decrease in debt during the last 6 years of his administration.
George W Bush was not responsible for the increase in the debt during the last 2 years of his administration.

If Norton is mistaken, then a good part of our national debt belongs to Obama.
I suspect that it takes two to tango and politics is a shell game that works both ways. Much goes on behind closed doors and leaks are strategically leaked to the media by anonymous sources...conveniently ;-)

You people are the swamp.

Yer all psycho insane ......

Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence

So we won't go, until it is to late( again)
I know cause like back then,in 1932 we, as a nation, blew it off too
and they have had decades to fortify against it
But a much more appropriate fit than just Perswig' cool share is the fact that russian troops in
nonspecific uniforms; jeans & hoods, ( No Insignea )are rolling over small countries in Europe.
But the most obvious & real threat:
PLACING NEW MISSEL SYSTEMS IN LANDS THE HAVE OCCOPIED

We are, like I said if & when WE? choose to. (Dos Gringo's 1st YouTube video)
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Amazing--8 years of Obama and basically zero scandals...

24 days of Trump and we got scandals, botched military raids, incompetence, Russian intrigue and corruption pouring out of every facet of his administration...WTF?

This is a f*#king $hit show folks.

This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.

The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by "intelligence" like candy. Very un-American!

Trump will not finish his term. Once he becomes a liability for the GOP he will be impeached.

You can't make sh#t like this up

Senate Republicans are set to repeal an Obama administration regulation that prevents individuals with mental health conditions from purchasing firearms. The Senate vote on a resolution of disapproval to scrap the rule is expected to happen about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The rule, which was implemented in December 2016, extended federal background checks for gun purchases by some Social Security recipients with mental disabilities. The Obama-era measure requires the Social Security Administration to report to the FBI’s background check system those individuals who receive disability benefits and have mental disorders. An estimated 75,000 beneficiaries are affected by the rule.

am also getting great joy out of watching people melt down

This is no joke. We've got to cool things down re Trump,
his finger's in charge of the nuclear button and there's no
backup safety.