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

aloyisious

Leroy42 wrote: »

My read of it would be that either the particular journalist or the NYT itself has something they are working on and getting close and this is a shot across the bows.

Why now? March 19 column and they are bringing it back up now? To what end? It is either a distraction or an attempt to get of ahead of something.

A small clip from Fox News online coverage about the report...

The lawsuit seeks "compensatory damages in the millions of damages," as well as punitive damages and legal fees. Knowing that then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller was about to exonerate President Trump, the campaign argues in the lawsuit, the Times sought to quickly "damage" the president's campaign "before the Mueller Report would be released debunking the conspiracy claims." I wont bother providing a link as anyone using the net to debate here can access Fox News themselves if they need to see it. The Fox News coverage is big, incl TV News studio clips.

peddlelies

I think it's dumb to sue over an op-ed, would be different if it was the editorial board. That said the Times pushed the Russia stuff harder than most with tonnes of innuendo and countervailing facts hidden at the bottom of articles, it was their article back in Feb of 2017 I believe, that mainstreamed the Russian collusion stuff, which James Comey called false during a hearing. I think the article was called "Senior members of Trump campaign were in constant communication with Russia Intel figures in the leadup to the 2016 election", or something to that effect.

Obviously this lawsuit is to lay a marker for 2020, it'll probably be thrown out but might cast doubt in the minds of some when writing attack pieces.

Englo

peddlelies wrote: »

Obviously this lawsuit is to lay a marker for 2020, it'll probably be thrown out but might cast doubt in the minds of some when writing attack pieces.

Just one of many reasons why this government n is correctly labelled as fascist by so many, that's point blank trying to intimidate the press into silence.

everlast75

Trump's press conference on the Corona virus was an absolute car crash. Objectively, he completely BS'd his way through it. He then named Mike Pence as the person in charge of dealing with it. What were the odds on there being a tweet.....

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/523237015329193984?s=19

Stallingrad

everlast75 wrote: »

Trump's press conference on the Corona virus was an absolute car crash. Objectively, he completely BS'd his way through it. He then named Mike Pence as the person in charge of dealing with it. What were the odds on there being a tweet.....

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/523237015329193984?s=19

The same Mike Pence that only 20 years ago said smoking didn't kill people. Beyond farcical.

sid waddell

Trump's reaction to the Coronavirus is like the Soviets' reaction to Chernobyl.

The US truly is run by utter morons.

Oafley Jones

Stallingrad wrote: »

The same Mike Pence that only 20 years ago said smoking didn't kill people. Beyond farcical.

And the same Mike Pence who's health policies, while Indiana's governor, led to a HIV outbreak.

sid waddell

Oafley Jones wrote: »

And the same Mike Pence who's health policies, while Indiana's governor, led to a HIV outbreak.

Mike Pence had the best HIV epidemic, the BIGGEST HIV epidemic, he's so great.

everlast75

everlast75 wrote: »

I'm going out on a limb here. I know this is absolutely out of left field.. but perhaps... and stick with me... just maybe... he is an utter moron? I mean objectively - what if the explanation here is his I.Q. is negligible. That would account for an awful lot of his behaviour.

RIGOLO wrote: »

Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Its a relatively free society.

Your entitled to call/think him a moron with negligible intelligence.

He seems to have done very well for himself, having managed a multi-billion dollar buisness and won a US Presidential election and looking likely to win a second term. So much for being a moron of negligible intelligence.

Watch any 10 min segment of this (it begins at 33 min to 1 hr 30) and tell me what part makes you think he is not an idiot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx7lhj25__c

I'll wait.

PS - dealing with your comment - he has bankrupted multiple businesses, was bailed out by his dad for screwing up a f'n casino, his family perpetrated tax fraud, his charity was shut down - but you know all of this. Why you insist on spewing the same BS lines defending his intelligence is beyond me.

sid waddell

I see the new fake "talking point" from dumb Trump lovers is that "the loony left think Trump is responsible for the Coronavirus".

Like, where do you even start with that sort of stupidity.

aloyisious

sid waddell wrote: »

I see the new fake "talking point" from dumb Trump lovers is that "the loony left think Trump is responsible for the Coronavirus".

Like, where do you even start with that sort of stupidity.

Where the buck stops!

duploelabs

sid waddell wrote: »

Mike Pence had the best HIV epidemic, the BIGGEST HIV epidemic, he's so great.

Soon, poor Mike will no longer be remembered and cast on the covfefe boy pile

pixelburp

Hurricane Maria was evidence enough that whatever skills Trump may have, or perceived to have, they do not include the capacity for an empathic or pragmatic response to a human crisis. I'd have no faith in that administration to organise an effective response to Corona, if indeed it ramps into something horrific. I don't even think Trump is the type to make the hard decisions, he seems more inclined to pass responsibility to his toadies, then blame them when they show an inability to enact his ill defined priorities.

eire4

sid waddell wrote: »

Trump's reaction to the Coronavirus is like the Soviets' reaction to Chernobyl.

The US truly is run by utter morons.

It is scary though because like it or not the US is the most powerful nation on earth today and the fact it is run by authoritarian leaning incompetents is very scary indeed. One of my biggest fears since 2016 is how badly wrong things could go if the US was faced with a truly serious crisis. I hope this coronavirus situation does not escalate to a crisis level in the US because if it does with this regime in charge I shudder to think how bad things could get not just for those in the US but for people around the world due to the knock on effect a US in crisis would have.

banie01

fr336 wrote: »

UK Chief medical officer says that in event of pandemic UK schools could be closed for more than 2 months. He says that if it's containable the UK will be able to contain it, but if it becomes a pandemic then there will be no escape (my words).

That's an A for the semester then!
Silver linings and all that jazz

On a serious note, that his handlers let him make such "safety" pronouncements on the same day that a patient in the US was confirmed to have a case of community acquired Kung Flu, rather than via contact with foreign place or traveller is actually stunning in its stupidity.

fr336

banie01 wrote: »

That's an A for the semester then!
Silver linings and all that jazz

On a serious note, that his handlers let him make such "safety" pronouncements on the same day that a patient in the US was confirmed to have a case of community acquired Kung Flu, rather than via contact with foreign place or traveller is actually stunning in its stupidity.

I posted in the wrong thread. Like Donald probably would.

Penn

pixelburp wrote: »

Hurricane Maria was evidence enough that whatever skills Trump may have, or perceived to have, they do not include the capacity for an empathic or pragmatic response to a human crisis. I'd have no faith in that administration to organise an effective response to Corona, if indeed it ramps into something horrific. I don't even think Trump is the type to make the hard decisions, he seems more inclined to pass responsibility to his toadies, then blame them when they show an inability to enact his ill defined priorities.

He's already spent most of his time complaining about the effects on the stock market from the coronavirus than any risk to people's health and lives.

salmocab

everlast75 wrote: »

Trump's press conference on the Corona virus was an absolute car crash. Objectively, he completely BS'd his way through it. He then named Mike Pence as the person in charge of dealing with it. What were the odds on there being a tweet.....

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/523237015329193984?s=19

Man he really didn’t like Obama. I wonder what it was.

Englo

salmocab wrote: »

Man he really didn’t like Obama. I wonder what it was.

I'm certainly in the dark as to why.

Outlaw Pete

Pretty pathetic that so many leftist US politicians are using such a serious issue as yet another way to attack the President.

Shows that she's not fit for the job at hand I suppose, not that she ever had a chance.


https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1233051272992915461

Englo

Yeah, they should just pray the sickness away like Pence did to cause an epidemic in Indiana. Diverting funds to an emergency is the worst thing I have ever heard in my life, so much worse than that time the republicans voted to withhold aid after Hurricane Sandy.

The Cult like nature of your posts never gets any less simultaneously pathetic and entertaining.

Gwen Cooper

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Pretty pathetic that so many leftist US politicians are using such a serious issue as yet another way to attack the President.

Shows that she's not fit for the job at hand I suppose, not that she ever had a chance.


https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1233051272992915461

Just so we're clear Pete, are you saying that using serious issues to attack political opponents proves that someone's not fit to be a president? Because I might have some bad news for you.

everlast75

Gwen Cooper wrote: »

Just so we're clear Pete, are you saying that using serious issues to attack political opponents proves that someone's not fit to be a president? Because I might have some bad news for you.

To be fair, what he said was.. "Pretty pathetic that so many leftist US politicians are using such a serious issue as yet another way to attack..." an opponent.

It's perfectly okay if you are on the right presumably

12gauge dave

Who do all of you want to win the democratic nomination?

Englo

Gwen Cooper wrote: »

Just so we're clear Pete, are you saying that using serious issues to attack political opponents proves that someone's not fit to be a president? Because I might have some bad news for you.

Oh I think you'll find Pete doesn't care, there is no way he is unaware of the sheer dishonesty and beyond-parody hypocrisy of his own posts.

Not one soul of this thread, Pete included, is under the illusion that he would have done but endlessly praise the below tweet from Trump. Yet when Trump does exactly what he claims Obama did in said tweet, we see Pete pretend to be ever-so-offended on a desperate attempt to push an agenda and prove he will remain completely loyal and doesn't need to be looked as with suspicion by the rest of the Cult. No. Matter. What.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/495379061972410369


I also stumbled across this gem when looking it up. I was certain it had to be fake, until the link took me directly to the tweet itself.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/495379061972410369

duploelabs

Yep, there's always a tweet to be found

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/523237015329193984?s=19

aloyisious

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Pretty good that so many OPPOSITION US politicians are using such a serious issue as yet another way to get the President energised enough to face up to and deal with the virus health threat to his fellow citizens.

Shows that she knows the job at hand I suppose.


https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1233051272992915461

I corrected some errors in your post.

Sonics2k

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Pretty pathetic that so many leftist US politicians are using such a serious issue as yet another way to attack the President.

Shows that she's not fit for the job at hand I suppose, not that she ever had a chance.


https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1233051272992915461

Approximately 3,000 people worldwide have died (assuming China is being honest with the numbers) since the virus showed up, not much more than a month ago. Around 80,000 are infected.

Trump says this is not a problem. Do you agree?

FatherTed

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Pretty pathetic that so many leftist US politicians are using such a serious issue as yet another way to attack the President.

Shows that she's not fit for the job at hand I suppose, not that she ever had a chance.


https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1233051272992915461

But that's exactly the point.... Trump cut funding of the CDC and HHS by billions and put billions into a pointless "wall". The US is behind where it should be in terms of the coronavirus outbreak. Now he put a science denier in charge. Just brilliant. It leads to stuff like this happening:

The Washington Post was first to report on the complaint and cited a redacted complaint obtained from lawyers alleges that HHS staff were "improperly deployed" and "were not properly trained or equipped to operate in a public health emergency situation." The whistleblower also alleges she was unfairly reassigned after raising concerns.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics/hhs-whistleblower-coronavirus/index.html

And now this....

The White House moved on Thursday to tighten control of coronavirus messaging by government health officials and scientists, directing them to coordinate all statements and public appearance with the office of Vice President Mike Pence, according to several officials familiar with the new approach.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronavirus-pence.html

everlast75

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1233160791899168768?s=19

I swear to God, the isn't a screed of information about trump that isn't beyond embarrassing.

An utter, utter incompetent and small man.