What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[gosub]

Other items on his agenda for today - playing with his colouring crayons:
Trump to redesign Air Force One to be 'red, white and blue'

Axios reported that a source said the president wanted to make the planes look "more American" and move away from a "Jackie Kennedy colour"
Odd time to be thinking about things in terms of Kennedy, or maybe not

 

[Flavour]

He has just said people who criticize him have "Trump Derangement Syndrome"...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

He has just said people who criticize him have "Trump Derangement Syndrome"...

It's been cribbed from elsewhere:

Obama Derangement Syndrome is different. It isn't so much paranoia about President Obama's policies as it is paranoia about the man himself — that he is, in some fundamental way, different, foreign, untrustworthy, even traitorous. What's odd is that it is attached to a president whose presidency has been, in almost every respect, conventionally liberal. Bush Derangement Syndrome sought extraordinary explanations for extraordinary events; Obama Derangement Syndrome seeks extraordinary explanations for an ordinary presidency.

Obama Derangement Syndrome

 

[krtek a houby]

Yeah, it's an alt-right thing, been around for a while and now Trump's given it legs.

I think I am deranged, after listening to this guy's bullshit day after day

 

[not a trot]

It's got to the stage now where you wake up in the morning wondering how much madder this world can get.

 

[Don Troooomp]

He has just said people who criticize him have "Trump Derangement Syndrome"...

Yep, along with a claim many people high in the intel world loved his performance in Russia.
He didn't mention if it was people high in Russian or US intel, or if they were just high.

 

[Dogsauce]

Axios reported that a source said the president wanted to make the planes look "more American" and move away from a "Jackie Kennedy colour"
Odd time to be thinking about things in terms of Kennedy, or maybe not

Is the current one flecked with brain-coloured paint?

 

[CRI]

This explains why Trump is so obsessive in his insistence the Russian Government had nothing to do with the 2016 US elections, and why GOP politicians are talking from both sides of their mouths about it.

Trump’s Crisis of Legitimacy

Republican leaders in Congress have felt obliged to state unequivocally that Russia did interfere with the election. But as they speak, they face an uncomfortable problem. Here’s Paul Ryan’s version of that problem. “They did interfere in our elections—it’s really clear. There should be no doubt about that.” Then he immediately added that it was also “clear” that the interference had “no material effect” on the outcome of the election.

Trey Gowdy, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, issued a statement post-Helsinki: “It is possible to conclude Russia interfered in our election in 2016 without delegitimizing his [President Trump’s] electoral success.”

Republicans want to argue that Russia did something wrong to influence the election’s outcome, while rebuffing questions about whether the outcome of the election was wrongly influenced. This is not a sustainable position, something Trump has recognized more clearly than most of his followers.

Trump is the lawful president, but legitimacy is not decided by technicalities.

His supporters may not care. But legitimacy is important precisely because it shapes the behavior and beliefs of non-supporters. And in Trump’s case, those non-supporters are the large majority of the American population.

 

[DexterTCN]

 

[CRI]

Made me think of this . . .

I went home with the waitress the way I always do
How was I to know she was with the Russians too?
I was gambling in Havana I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money Dad, get me out of this, hah!

 

[CRI]

The US State Department cans statement critical of Russia's 2014 downing of plane

Every year since a Russian missile downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew, the U.S. State Department has issued a statement to mark the anniversary. But on the anniversary this year—a day after U.S. President Donald Trump met in Helsinki with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin—the State Department was conspicuously silent about it.

Officials there prepared a draft statement that was sharply critical of Russia for its alleged role in the attack. But for reasons the State Department has not explained, it was never issued.

'You have nothing': MH17 victims' father delivers blistering attack on Trump over Russia
Holland’s Struggle With Its 9/11

 

[a_chap]

Trump doesn't see why NATO members (i.e. the US) should support Montenegro if attacked by, say, Russia.

'Stupid statements' - Trump WW3 jibe stuns Montenegro

In an interview with Fox News, Mr Trump suggested that this country of fewer than a million citizens could somehow provoke a global conflict. His reply to interviewer Tucker Carlson caused jaws to drop on the Adriatic coast.

"Let's say Montenegro, which joined last year, is attacked," Carlson told the president. "Why should my son go to Montenegro to defend it from attack?"

He was referring to Article 5 of the Nato founding treaty, which sees an attack on one member as an attack on all. Mr Trump understood his point.

"They're very strong people, they're very aggressive people. They may get aggressive and, congratulations, you're in World War Three," Mr Trump extemporised.

 

[a_chap]

Depressing, but is anyone really surprised?

"A Reuters/Ipsos poll this week found that despite a firestorm of media criticism, Mr Trump's Finland summit had no real impact on his overall approval ratings.

In the survey, 42% of all registered voters approved of his job performance, which is consistent with averages thus far.

Some 71% of Republicans polled approved of his response to Russia, while only 14% of Democrats were in favour."

Trump lashes out at Putin summit 'haters'

 

[CRI]

Depressing, but is anyone really surprised?

"A Reuters/Ipsos poll this week found that despite a firestorm of media criticism, Mr Trump's Finland summit had no real impact on his overall approval ratings.

In the survey, 42% of all registered voters approved of his job performance, which is consistent with averages thus far.

Some 71% of Republicans polled approved of his response to Russia, while only 14% of Democrats were in favour."

Trump lashes out at Putin summit 'haters'

Nope, not surprised at all. They are like a cult now. They worship Trump like they used to worship Jesus.

 

[CRI]

Mentioned this on the Browder thread, but think it's worth putting here, too.

Sarah Sanders Says Trump Will Discuss Helping Russia Question Former US Ambassador

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Wednesday that President Donald Trump will discuss “with his team” whether or not to help Russia prosecute former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

“Russia’s already yesterday named several Americans who they want to question who they claim were involved in, quote, unquote, crimes, in their terms, including a former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul. Does President Trump support that idea? Is he open to having US officials questioned by Russia?” asked the New York Times’ star White House reporter Maggie Haberman.

“The president is going to meet with his team and we’ll let you know when we have an announcement on that,” replied Sanders, who was fielding questions from reporters during the first White House press briefing since July 2.

 

[Humberto]

Trump's game seems to be to undo so much progress and to preserve the interest of the ruling class/wealthy few. Take for example Melania wearing that message on her back on the way to visit the detention centre. They don't actually give a fuck. He and his gang do represent authoritarianism, but only insofar as it is useful in entrenching privilege.

The far right come in as a bulwark. A support base, and one that is virulently opposed to everything they deem 'socialist'. How far he will go to placate them would depend on how sincere he is (not very) plotted against his doesn't give a fuck about anyone attitude, which is more sincere. So I'm not sure he is stupid or crazy. And its easy to sound like I treat this as some academic exercise when I am thousands of miles away. I will say though that class politics remains very relevant over there as some kind of counter movement. That's just my take.

So, to go back to what I said; Trump does seem very inconsistent (on the surface), but in terms of fucking things up for the majority, not so much.

 

[CRI]

- The Washington Post

Op Ed trial balloon for the idea of stripping birthright citizens of their US citizenship.

The article is shit, btw, so I won't bother quoting any of it, but WaPo wouldn't have touched something like this with a barge pole even two years ago. Now, hardly anyone blinks.

(Tip - if you use Firefox, you can create several containers so if you run out of free articles, just open the next in a different container.)

 

[Don Troooomp]

Given the latest spy and the previously found dodgy money, this is a fucking silly thing to do

 

[CRI]

I'm sure this has been the plot of more than one movie.

How a Suspected Russian Agent Allegedly Used Guns, Sex and Billionaires to Peddle Influence

 

[CRI]

Given the latest spy and the previously found dodgy money, this is a fucking silly thing to do

Gosh, almost makes you wonder if the NRA was put on the list because of the latest spy and dodgy money scandals, y'know, to cover the tracks.

 

[CRI]

This happens all the time btw.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Depressing, but is anyone really surprised?

"A Reuters/Ipsos poll this week found that despite a firestorm of media criticism, Mr Trump's Finland summit had no real impact on his overall approval ratings.

In the survey, 42% of all registered voters approved of his job performance, which is consistent with averages thus far.

Some 71% of Republicans polled approved of his response to Russia, while only 14% of Democrats were in favour."

Trump lashes out at Putin summit 'haters'

My Trump supporting cousins in South Carolina has posted this:



“The mayor of Livermore California explains Trump’s popularity and success. This is perhaps the best explanation for Trump's popularity ....

Marshall Kamena is a registered Democrat and was elected mayor of Livermore, CA.. He ran on the democratic ticket as he knew a Bay Area city would never vote for a Republican. He is as conservative as they come. He wrote the following:

Trump’s 'lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship' By Marshall Kamena, Mayor of Livermore, CA.

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”

Here’s my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.

We tried statesmanship.

Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?

We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?

And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.

I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.

I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent.

Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale.. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.

The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.

With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.

During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming.

Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today.

Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking.. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.

Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”

That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis.

It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.

Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN.. He made it personal.

Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. ... They need to respond.

This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.

Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church.

Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.

So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do.

These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.

So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!

Please pass this on..over and over, and again and again...”

 

[Yossarian]

That wasn't written by some conservative mayor in California as the opening lines claim, it was a conservative comedian called Evan Sayet, who nobody's ever heard of because there aren't any good conservative comedians.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Whoever wrote it, wherever it comes from, it’s being shared by Trump supporters in response to recent criticism.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Whoever wrote it, wherever it comes from, it’s being shared by Trump supporters in response to recent criticism.

This is what really gets me.
Trump has, in full view of the world, fucked up the US by sucking Putin's dick, but his idiotic supporters still push his cause.
I find it hard to imagine greater stupidity .... then I noticed a story about a bunch of Austrian politicians wanting a register of known Jews and Muslims.
Fucking hell, please tell me there are decent human beings left in the world.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Putin wins again.

A world without America

The story is all about a trade agreement that totally ignores the US, no, totally cuts out the US.
Trump is really fucking that county up in royal style, just as you'd expect from a Russian agent doing a great job.

 

[chandlerp]

Yep, along with a claim many people high in the intel world loved his performance in Russia.
He didn't mention if it was people high in Russian or US intel, or if they were just high.

He wasn't referring to the Intelligence agencies, he LITERALLY meant people of higher intelligence.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Putin wins again.

A world without America

The story is all about a trade agreement that totally ignores the US, no, totally cuts out the US.
Trump is really fucking that county up in royal style, just as you'd expect from a Russian agent doing a great job.

Whatever you say about Putin, whatever his plan is it is working out beautifully for him.

 

[DexterTCN]

I was discussing the recent events with one of my daughters last night when out of the blue she said

"If I was round your house just now dad I would smash your fucking face in."

I said "um...."

"She continued "Oh I meant I WOULDN'T smash your fucking face in...easy mistake, sorry."

 

[DexterTCN]

heh...google the word idiot.