Donald Trump Presidency discussion Thread VII (threadbanned users listed in OP)

seamus

Leroy42 wrote: »

What was the point of the walkabout?

He's talking to his base.

Standing in front of a boarded-up church holding a bible and talking about defending life and property from domestic terrorism.

This was a message aimed only at white christian conservative America telling them that their way of life is under attack and he's coming to save them.

This is straight out of the dictator's playbook.

looksee

At least the person in front of the church was the real Donald Trump, the one who looks as though he has no idea what is going on.

I am interested to know who this was https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/donald-trump-national-address-race/index.html

The content was standard speech-making, written by someone else and no more relevant or helpful than usual. But he spoke coherently, in sentences, looking around and being reasonably convincing as a person who was expressing his own thoughts. If you had never heard the stream of consciousness (or unconcsiousness) stuff you could think this was the real thing. He wasn't reading from a page or, apparently, from a prompter. What he said is not the point, how he said it is the question. Has he been practising, or have they found a stand-in?

RIGOLO

seamus wrote: »

He's talking to his base.

Standing in front of a boarded-up church holding a bible and talking about defending life and property from domestic terrorism.

This was a message aimed only at white christian conservative America telling them that their way of life is under attack and he's coming to save them.

This is straight out of the dictator's playbook.

Yep, the easily triggered liberal left see it as the action of a dictator.

Whilst others see it as the President of the United States walking across the street to the Church of St. Johns, commonly referred to as the Church of The Presidents, given every US oresident in history is thought to have attended service there. And holding up their book of prayer a few days after this historic builiding was nearly burned down by peaceful protestors.

I guess arson is a form of peacful protest for what passes for a liberal these days .

Penn

RIGOLO wrote: »

Yep, the easily triggered liberal left see it as the action of a dictator.

Whilst others see it as the President of the United States walking across the street to the Church of St. Johns, commonly referred to as the Church of The Presidents, given every US oresident in history is thought to have attended service there. And holding up their book of prayer a few days after this historic builiding was nearly burned down by peaceful protestors.

I guess arson is a form of peacful protest for what passes for a liberal these days .

And having peaceful protestors including the priests of that church teargassed and removed from the church grounds in order for Trump to have that photo-op? Is there anything in the book of prayer about that?

Billy Mays

RIGOLO wrote: »

Yep, the easily triggered liberal left see it as the action of a dictator.

Whilst others see it as the President of the United States walking across the street to the Church of St. Johns, commonly referred to as the Church of The Presidents, given every US oresident in history is thought to have attended service there. And holding up their book of prayer a few days after this historic builiding was nearly burned down by peaceful protestors.

I guess arson is a form of peacful protest for what passes for a liberal these days .

That's not exactly how Washington's episcopal bishop saw it

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/i-am-outraged-d-c-episcopal-bishop-decries-trump-clearing-protestors-with-tear-gas-to-use-church-as-a-prop/

Maybe she's just a triggered liberal aswell *shrug*

Leroy42

RIGOLO wrote: »

Yep, the easily triggered liberal left see it as the action of a dictator.

Whilst others see it as the President of the United States walking across the street to the Church of St. Johns, commonly referred to as the Church of The Presidents, given every US oresident in history is thought to have attended service there. And holding up their book of prayer a few days after this historic builiding was nearly burned down by peaceful protestors.

I guess arson is a form of peacful protest for what passes for a liberal these days .

Are you sure it is only the liberal left and democrats that are upset ?


It would appear to me that this is actually nothing to do with Trump per so, or politics. IT is an equality issue. People can see that things are very far from being right, that there is a large minority in the US that are clearly treated differently, until such time as they can become one of the rare cases of getting out from their background.

Why do you insist that it is political? Can you not set aside your own agenda for one minute to see that this issue is about America an how it conducts itself, and thus the moral authority to speak to countries like China for how they deal with their citizens.

The issue for Trump, is that through is singular inability to care, or if he does care then his complete inability to do anything, if making him look even weaker and further removed from the real US.

Given that he ran on a theme that the US was broken, and that only he could fix it, it is really telling that when faced with such a moment he has nothing to offer except a publicity stunt, in which he had to remove the rights of US citizens to hold a peaceful protest.

aloyisious

Leroy42 wrote: »

What was the point of the walkabout?

He clears the streets of peaceful protestors to stand by a church sign whilst holding up a bible. What is it supposed to mean? That religion will be the salvation? That he is leading through learnings from the Bible? Which, the New or Old Testament?

Again, all he had to do was stand up and call for calm.

Playing the God-card so that he doesn't lose any more of his religious base who have suddenly woken up to the fact they are part of the majority he has been heaping disdain and abuse on daily, with his insisting they not have access to mail-in ballots but MUST get in line to vote for him in Nov as fodder for the success of his campaign.

One thing he said was that the U.S was a nation of laws, something he clearly hijacked from the Democratic Party and it's lead prosecutor of the impeachment case against him in the senate. He's certainly pushing for that, only it's not a straight across the board equal application of criminal law except where the visual evidence forces his hand [as in the present case in Minneapolis].

Your last would imply he had to ask the public for something, not the act of the dominant person.

Mehapoy

8-10 wrote: »

This President is particularly poor at unifying his citizens. I'd argue he's doing the opposite.

In other news the Pope is fairly Catholic and Ian Paisley wasn't particularly a fan of his!

namloc1980

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I wonder do the likes of Scott Walker actually and genuinely believe the absolute guff they put out there about Trump. Utter sycophant.

ExMachina1000

4 police officers shot last night. Insanity

Authorities must retake control . Violent extremists from both left and right along with opportunistic rioters and looters must be stopped .

Gods Gift

Foxtrol wrote: »

The man holds the bible like he has never seen one before

https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1267594813710446593?s=20

He confused coz he’s not being asked to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
While holding it.

Midlife

RIGOLO wrote: »

Yep, the easily triggered liberal left see it as the action of a dictator.

Whilst others see it as the President of the United States walking across the street to the Church of St. Johns, commonly referred to as the Church of The Presidents, given every US oresident in history is thought to have attended service there. And holding up their book of prayer a few days after this historic builiding was nearly burned down by peaceful protestors.

I guess arson is a form of peacful protest for what passes for a liberal these days .

Yes, the eaily triggered liberal left in the states. Then all of Europe, then all of the rest of the world. So many people so easily triggered.

Sure they're all wrong and you and Kid Rock and Trump are right. Yeah that's the world view, the reality TV gold buildings one - go you.

Just FYI the church was built after some presidents had died so I doubt they attended service there.

Christy42

namloc1980 wrote: »

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I wonder do the likes of Scott Walker actually and genuinely believe the absolute guff they put out there about Trump. Utter sycophant.

Indeed. Biden has been out there talking to protestors. Trump has peaceful ones cleared out of his way so he can have a photo op.

20Cent

The governors have to refuse to mobilise the military against their own people' Trump will then order them in.

The military can either refuse or do it.

There's the tipping point between the rule of law and fascism.
Trump clearly wants fascism.

Leroy42

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

4 police officers shot last night. Insanity

Authorities must retake control . Violent extremists from both left and right along with opportunistic rioters and looters must be stopped .

And no rationale person is going to disagree with the overall sentiment.

The issue is that what are the options? There is clearly a cohort using these protests as an excuse for criminality. Unfortunately that the case for almost everything. But just like we cannot disband the police because of a few bad apples, cracking down, dominating or whatever is the term is not the answer.

No doubt, if you send the riot police, or army in, then control will be restored, but at what cost? The underlying issue has not been dealt with, and in fact you will have just created more people that fear and mistrust the government.

So Trump coming out with his slogan sounds great, works well in movies, but unfortunately this is real life.

There is clearly a major racism issue within the US, and that runs into the police force who continually distance themselves from the pubic with their balaclavas, heavy weapons and militarisation.

PropJoe10

I think it's very striking that even at this stage, he hasn't even attempted to say something that can calm or unify people. He's a disgrace to his office.

ExMachina1000

Leroy42 wrote: »

And no rationale person is going to disagree with the overall sentiment.

The issue is that what are the options? There is clearly a cohort using these protests as an excuse for criminality. Unfortunately that the case for almost everything. But just like we cannot disband the police because of a few bad apples, cracking down, dominating or whatever is the term is not the answer.

No doubt, if you send the riot police, or army in, then control will be restored, but at what cost? The underlying issue has not been dealt with, and in fact you will have just created more people that fear and mistrust the government.

So Trump coming out with his slogan sounds great, works well in movies, but unfortunately this is real life.

There is clearly a major racism issue within the US, and that runs into the police force who continually distance themselves from the pubic with their balaclavas, heavy weapons and militarisation.

There are over 300 million people in the Us. Law and order needs to be restored first and foremost.

No ifs no buts

robinph

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

There are over 300 million people in the Us. Law and order needs to be restored first and foremost.

No ifs no buts

So is the best way to do that saying that you're going to smash some heads together and lock people up and we couldn't give a damn what people as upset about, or might it be better to say you are going to resolve the issue that have caused the rioting and anyone still out causing trouble will get their heads smashed together?

aloyisious

20Cent wrote: »

The governors have to refuse to mobilise the military against their own people' Trump will then order them in.

The military can either refuse or do it.

There's the tipping point between the rule of law and fascism.
Trump clearly wants fascism.

Governors United against Trump, GOP included, as the danger is there for them as well if they let the precedent be established de facto. The image of N/G troops on state borders standing up against the regular Army bizarre as it sounds? The individual GOP senators in Washington will wilt at the thought.

Leroy42

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

There are over 300 million people in the Us. Law and order needs to be restored first and foremost.

No ifs no buts

Because if there is one thing that the US has learned is that military intervention always solves the problem!

The vast majority of the protestors are peaceful. They have every right to protest, and the government should listen to them.

So the question becomes how to do allow the constitutional right of every citizen to protest peacefully whilst at the same time dealing with the criminality.

You, and Trump, seem to think that the answer is to crack down, treat everyone as a threat and if that means rubber bullets and locking people in their homes then so be it.

Carfacemandog

PropJoe10 wrote: »

I think it's very striking that even at this stage, he hasn't even attempted to say something that can calm or unify people. He's a disgrace to his office.

Also no talk of "very fine people on both sides" like when neo nazis who support him were causing mayhem and violence in Charlottesville.

Christy42

robinph wrote: »

So is the best way to do that saying that you're going to smash some heads together and lock people up and we couldn't give a damn what people as upset about, or might it be better to say you are going to resolve the issue that have caused the rioting and anyone still out causing trouble will get their heads smashed together?

Indeed. I think DC shows up the lie that things would have been different with a peaceful protest. Some are looking to bash in heads whether or not the protests were violent.

There are many instances of individual areas where cops support the protestors rights from the start and do it right.

ExMachina1000

robinph wrote: »

So is the best way to do that saying that you're going to smash some heads together and lock people up and we couldn't give a damn what people as upset about, or might it be better to say you are going to resolve the issue that have caused the rioting and anyone still out causing trouble will get their heads smashed together?

Any and every protest is handled the same. Police forcibly take control. This is no different. The actions taken afterwards to prevent a re occurrence is what counts.

The riot is out of control.

Newstalk playing a blinder. Hazel Chu and some woman in direct provision telling us all our faults

robinph

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Any and every protest is handled the same. Police forcibly take control.

No it doesn't.

Plenty of peaceful protests happen in cities worldwide on a regular basis without the police going in with tear gas and rubber bullets.

People protest. Police stand around and watch. Everyone goes back home again.

8-10

Midlife wrote: »

Just FYI the church was built after some presidents had died so I doubt they attended service there.

Presidents like George Washington attending service at a church that was built after he died is one of the most believable statements from that particular poster in fairness

ExMachina1000

robinph wrote: »

No it doesn't.

Plenty of peaceful protests happen in cities worldwide on a regular basis without the police going in with tear gas and rubber bullets.

People protest. Police stand around and watch. Everyone goes back home again.

This isn't a peaceful protest. Don't even pretend different. I could link bomb 100s of videos of rioting, looting, violence, assault etc.
Four police officers shot overnight


Don't go down the "it's a peaceful protest " road

robinph

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

This isn't a peaceful protest. Don't even pretend different. I could link bomb 100s of videos of rioting, looting, violence, assault etc.
Four police officers shot overnight


Don't go down the "it's a peaceful protest " road

Where are the reports regarding the protest between the White House and the church having not been peaceful?

ExMachina1000

robinph wrote: »

Where are the reports regarding the protest between the White House and the church having not been peaceful?

It was peaceful. Trump got the police to clear his path so he could take a photo.

namloc1980

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Any and every protest is handled the same. Police forcibly take control. This is no different. The actions taken afterwards to prevent a re occurrence is what counts.

The riot is out of control.

Newstalk playing a blinder. Hazel Chu and some woman in direct provision telling us all our faults

The protest outside the WH was peaceful until the Trump gave the order to clear them with rubber bullets and tear gas so he could do a photo op outside the church to massage good bruised ego.

robinph

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

It was peaceful. Trump got the police to clear his path so he could take a photo.

It was peaceful until the police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd and beat journalists with their shields and chased the priests from their position of handing out bottles of water on the steps of the church. Very peaceful and a completely suitable way to get the president to have his photo taken.

And if you can admit that protest was peaceful then what happened to the line about the protests not being peaceful? You were right about protests only ending when the police forcible break them up admittedly.