Donald Trump, the road that might not lead to the White House!

[JimW]

OK, here's something you don't see every day on urban; someone admitting their ignorance.

What does a chief strategist actually do?

Strategises, chiefly.

 

[Idris2002]

Strategises, chiefly.

 

[krtek a houby]

And still nothing has happened yet. Maybe start panicking when it does?

In the meantime, we'll keep our heads buried in the sand, yes?

 

[Jurrihahay]

In the meantime, we'll keep our heads buried in the sand, yes?

No, no, keep the panic, 'grief' and moral superiority levels topped up and ready.

 

[krtek a houby]

No, no, keep the panic, 'grief' and moral superiority levels topped up and ready.

Oh you're doing the moral superiority on every thread you breathe your poison on. Belittling millions of people's fears and concerns, dismissing Black Lives Matter and so on.

Why do you bother, lletsa?

 

[Jurrihahay]

Oh you're doing the moral superiority on every thread you breathe your poison on. Belittling millions of people's fears and concerns, dismissing Black Lives Matter and so on.

Why do you bother, lletsa?

If you don't stop with all this kind of thing, I might have to kill myself. PLEASE STOP NOW etc etc (and other emotional blackmail/attention-seeking techniques...)

 

[krtek a houby]

If you don't stop with all this kind of thing, I might have to kill myself. PLEASE STOP NOW etc etc (and other emotional blackmail/attention-seeking techniques...)

Is that the best you can do, lletsa?

 

[Jurrihahay]

Is that the best you can do, lletsa?

It's all you're getting.

 

[krtek a houby]

It's all you're getting.

Making fun of mental illness; interesting. Similar to your trolling of disabled/benefits thread unde the lletsa moniker.

Back to the question I posed you; why do you bother?

 

[Jurrihahay]

Making fun of mental illness; interesting. Similar to your trolling of disabled/benefits thread unde the lletsa moniker.

Back to the question I posed you; why do you bother?

No, it's just making fun of your attention seeking in a mild way.

Anyway, let's not make it about you.

 

[krtek a houby]

No, it's just making fun of your attention seeking in a mild way.

Anyway, let's not make it about you.

Lol. Exact same m.o. as your previous incarnation. Meanwhile more incidents you might like to cheerily dismiss:

Racist Incidents Are Up Since Trump's Election. These Are Just a Few of Them

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/fbi-hate-crimes-muslims.html?_r=0

 

[Jurrihahay]

It isn't as if I deny that there are widespread 'hate crimes' (which used to be called racial incidents and so on before the rather odd category of all-embracing 'hate crime' was invented.) They happen all the time, perhaps do intensify in situations such as that in the US currently (or maybe there's an increased tendency to report them in such periods), and don't go away when things calm down. The tendency to report these 'spikes' could also be, for all we know, part of an attempt to create for us a narrative where we're supposed to think that we've somehow done wrong by not voting for the recommended options. So I'll keep hold of a sense of skepticism, if that's alright with some of you.

Now maybe you could go away and walk the dog or something (although I doubt that such activity would bring you any peace, as you're bound to be trying to unearth the bigotry that must certainly be hidden in the words 'walk the dog...')

 

[stupid kid]

Lol. Exact same m.o. as your previous incarnation. Meanwhile more incidents you might like to cheerily dismiss:

Racist Incidents Are Up Since Trump's Election. These Are Just a Few of Them

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/fbi-hate-crimes-muslims.html?_r=0

You know that Homer Simpson quote about how you can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true?

If a racist incident is reported to the media, it's false, because it wasn't reported to the police

If it's reported to the police, it's false because police haven't done anything yet, and anyway it's just alleged

If the charges are filed, it's just PC bullshit due to the liberal media hysteria, and anyway innocent until proven guilty right, and look how many of these incidents where people weren't targeted in public places with lots of witnesses didn't make it to be court, so it must all be bullshit, right?

And if someone is convicted, again, false, all a conspiracy to create a notion racism exists and is encouraged by electing racists. And anyone who says otherwise, they're a race baiting sheep.

 

[Jurrihahay]

You know that Homer Simpson quote about how you can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true?

If a racist incident is reported to the media, it's false, because it wasn't reported to the police

If it's reported to the police, it's false because police haven't done anything yet, and anyway it's just alleged

If the charges are filed, it's just PC bullshit due to the liberal media hysteria, and anyway innocent until proven guilty right, and look how many of these incidents where people weren't targeted in public places with lots of witnesses didn't make it to be court, so it must all be bullshit, right?

And if someone is convicted, again, false, all a conspiracy to create a notion racism exists and is encouraged by electing racists. And anyone who says otherwise, they're a race baiting sheep.

And I hope you know that racist assaults and so on would have been widespread if Trump had never even stood, were happening under Obama and would have happened under Hilary. And that they will be happening in, say, ten years' time no matter who is in government.

 

[Reiabuzz]

Late contender for headline of the year

Donald Trump ‘Is A Complete Maniac’ Says Top ISIS Commander | The Huffington Post

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Donald Trump wants his children to have access to America’s national security secrets, according to a report Monday.

Trump wants his kids to have top security clearance | New York Post


But....but.... nobody elected them!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

To sum up, this is the prospect we are facing. A populist but semi-engaged President who is less interested in governing than in soaking up adulation at big rallies. (He might hold more of them even though the campaign is over, the Times story said.) Meanwhile, his cronies and members of the permanent establishment make many of the actual decisions, which will largely benefit the already rich, including the ruling family. Debt mushrooms as El Presidente approves prestige construction projects but not the taxes needed to pay for them. And skilled propagandists, like Bannon, whip up nationalist fervor to keep the masses diverted from what is really going on.

We’ve seen this movie before, many times. But not here in the United States.

Six days into the Trump transition, one of the biggest bait-and-switch operations in recent history is already well under way. Trump campaigned as an outsider who would overthrow a hopelessly corrupt Washington establishment. Now we learn that many members of that very establishment will play key roles in a Trump Administration.

the idea that Trump, as President, would banish all the money men and billionaires who support and bankroll the Republican Party was always dubious in the extreme, and since the election it has been shown to be an utter sham. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that “at least a half dozen major Washington lobbyists and three top fundraisers for Mr. Trump’s campaign have been tasked with heading key portions of Mr. Trump’s transition team. . . . In many cases, the lobbyists are selecting administration officials for departments that will affect the interests of firms they represent.”

The Journal report helpfully listed some of the lobbyists, the special interests they represent, and the duties they have been assigned. Martin Whitmer, who shills for the Association of American Railroads and the National Asphalt Pavement Association, is leading the transition’s “transportation and infrastructure” team. In the magazine this week, my colleague Jane Mayer wrote about Michael Catanzaro, a veteran lobbyist for oil and gas firms who is overseeing “energy independence,” and Mike McKenna, the president of the lobbying firm MWR Strategies, who is overseeing appointments to the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Both men count Koch Industries as clients.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Conservative policy experts, many of whom turned up their noses at Trump during the campaign, are also—selflessly, no doubt—prepared to help. On Friday, the Journal reported that the Heritage Foundation, which for decades has been in the vanguard of promoting conservative policies such as privatizing Social Security and prisons, has dozens of staffers and alumni working on the transition. Have these free-market conservatives suddenly discovered the virtues of Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on China and Mexico? Hardly. But they can see much to like in his pledge to make a bonfire of financial and environmental regulations, and also approve of his tax plan, which, according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, would boost the annual after-tax income of the top one per cent by $214,690, on average, and annual after-tax income of the top 0.1 percent by $1.1 million.

One interest that will definitely be protected is the Trump business empire. Trump has said that he will hand his businesses over to his children to run while he’s in office, but three of them—Donald, Jr., Eric, and Ivanka—have been named members of the transition team’s new executive committee, as has Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Perhaps because nothing seems shocking anymore, this mingling of family and political interests didn’t provoke much comment when it was announced. But, as my colleague Ryan Lizza pointed out, it represents a “massive/unprecedented conflict.” Imagine the outcry if Hillary Clinton had won the election and then appointed Chelsea Clinton and Donna Shalala, a board member and the president of the Clinton Foundation, to her transition team.

Donald Trump’s Great Bait and Switch - The New Yorker

 

[bimble]

Trump wants his kids to have top security clearance | New York Post

""The security clearance would designate the kids as Trump’s national security advisors."
But then again, not really that surprising: Hard to imagine him knowing how to deal with people who don't just say Yes, and do what they're told, and shuffle out of the room backwards. He just gets very angry when challenged, and probably shouts something about how he'll sue you. That man who he hired to ghost-write his biography for instance whom he refused to talk to and who ended up having to write it by eavesdropping on trump's phonecalls. And the campaign team who totally failed to get hm to do the disclosure bit because he didn't want to.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

As the other article says: just imagine the outcry if Clinton had won, and made Chelsea her National Security Adviser.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

One depressing conclusion to be drawn from this: there will be another war.

The policies of the Trump administration will have negative if not disastrous effects. Even the Trump supporters will begin to recognize that he's pulled a bait-and-switch, and that they've elected another lying flim flam man, who isn't any better than the previous career politicians.

And there's lots of historical precedent for what follows next in that scenario: a distraction for the faithful. A war, to whip up nationalist fervour, to unite the people behind the Leader, and to draw attention away from the terrible conditions at home.

 

[8den]

And still nothing has happened yet. Maybe start panicking when it does?

Nothing's happened because he's president fucking elect you simpleton. He doesn't have any authority until he's sworn in, by Miss Universe on a copy of "The Art of the Deal" while Ted Nugent sings the national anthem.

 

[killer b]

Christ, that's going to be a day to leave the TV off isn't it?

 

[Jurrihahay]

Nothing's happened because he's president fucking election you simpleton. He doesn't have any authority until he's sworn in, by Miss Universe on a copy of "The Art of the Deal" while Ted Nugent sings the national anthem.

Hey, I didn't know that. But talk about crying before you're hurt.

Anyway, it's President Elect, not President Election.

 

[8den]

As the other article says: just imagine the outcry if Clinton had won, and made Chelsea her National Security Adviser.

Chelsea Clinton would infinitely more qualified than Trump's children, they look like the kind of people who are quite keen on introducing the Purge.

 

[Lucy Fur]

Hey, I didn't know that. But talk about crying before you're hurt.

Anyway, it's President Elect, not President Election.

Fuck me you've got a really tedious posting style.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Chelsea Clinton would infinitely more qualified than Trump's children, they look like the kind of people who are quite keen on introducing the Purge.





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We'll know we're in real trouble when Trump tries to appoint his horse to the Senate.

 

[Jurrihahay]

Fuck me you've got a really tedious posting style.

Thanks.

 

[8den]

Hey, I didn't know that. But talk about crying before you're hurt.

Anyway, it's President Elect, not President Election.

A) Then you're an idiot.

B) Suddenly you're an Expert?

C) It's perfectly logical to extrapolate what Trump's Whitehouse will do from the people he is hiring.

D) Fuck off.

 

[Jurrihahay]

A) Then you're an idiot.

B) Suddenly you're an Expert?

C) It's perfectly logical to extrapolate what Trump's Whitehouse will do from the people he is hiring.

D) Fuck off.

Shouldn't you be refining that excellent election predicting technique of yours?