Donald Trump discussion Thread IX (threadbanned users listed in OP)

Headshot

Itssoeasy wrote: »

It’s a load of waffle and a bit of lying.

Funny Trump is actually right in one part when ranting on Mitch

""He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country"

never a truer word from Trump

Mitch has so much blame laid at his feet for what Trump has done to the GOP and the country

EltonJohn69

Looking a lot like trump is going to cause a civil war in the Republican Party

Water John

That Trump attack on McConnell reads like it was written by Jason Millar.

PropJoe10

Water John wrote: »

That Trump attack on McConnell reads like it was written by Jason Millar.

You can be sure that it wasn't written by Donnie, that's for sure. Civil war in the GOP ensues.

duploelabs

Rudi is no longer representing trump

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump/index.html

Headshot

Hopefully they destroy each other

Cody montana

Headshot wrote: »

Hopefully they destroy each other

And we get loads of free entertainment.

Brian?

Headshot wrote: »

Funny Trump is actually right in one part when ranting on Mitch

""He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country"

never a truer word from Trump

Mitch has so much blame laid at his feet for what Trump has done to the GOP and the country

Any links to this to this rant?

Headshot

Brian? wrote: »

Any links to this to this rant?

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/trump-mcconnell/index.html

aloyisious

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Poor Mitch.... Trump is not happy

It's beginning to look like L Graham is sticking with Trump with a probable eye for Mitch's Senate minority leader position (if he can rely on Trump to support him 100% along the road). Trump might be playing a long game here of playing Cruz off against Graham.

Headshot

It’s obvious he didn’t write it himself

I doubt trump knows what dour and sullen mean

Water John

Headshot wrote: »

It’s obvious he didn’t write it himself

I doubt trump knows what dour and sullen mean

Well he'd know, if he ever looks in the mirror.

Headshot

Headshot wrote: »

Funny Trump is actually right in one part when ranting on Mitch

""He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country"

never a truer word from Trump

Mitch has so much blame laid at his feet for what Trump has done to the GOP and the country

Ironically it's true in both cases, trump land and reality, because when saying this trump only meant that he didn't do enough to overturn the election.

Nody

aloyisious wrote: »

It's beginning to look like L Graham is sticking with Trump with a probable eye for Mitch's Senate minority leader position (if he can rely on Trump to support him 100% along the road). Trump might be playing a long game here of playing Cruz off against Graham.

Trump's long game is about 5s ahead if he's having a good day; he's simply happy to have a sycophant and will throw either or both under the bus when it gains him 1c in profit.

PropJoe10

aloyisious wrote: »

It's beginning to look like L Graham is sticking with Trump with a probable eye for Mitch's Senate minority leader position (if he can rely on Trump to support him 100% along the road). Trump might be playing a long game here of playing Cruz off against Graham.

Lindsey Graham's devotion is the closest Trump will ever get to having a pet. It's pathetic to see.

duploelabs

PropJoe10 wrote: »

Lindsey Graham's devotion is the closest Trump will ever get to having a pet. It's pathetic to see.

Seems a fallacy to say Trump was the only president in the white house to not have a pet

pixelburp

PropJoe10 wrote: »

Lindsey Graham's devotion is the closest Trump will ever get to having a pet. It's pathetic to see.

"Craven" seems the only and best way to describe Graham, and Cruz as well. I have often wondered how Cruz's wife reconciles his devotion to Trump, having never come to her defence when Trump insulted her.

In fact, to completely appropriate the language of the alt-right ... they're cucks. They really are when you think about it. Spineless and without an ounce of self-respect, they have latched themselves to Trump out of pathetic self-preservation.

Lindsey Graham is _that_ guy in the bully's gang: the remora who himself has neither spine nor swagger, but has sycophantically positioned himself within the slipstream of the bully's wake. He has no power himself, never part of the actual fight as such, and still gets pushed around by the bully; but to the Lindsey Graham's it's better to be inside the tent píssing out, than outside.

EltonJohn69

It’s actually mad that Biden, Cruze, Ghrame are the best either party have.
The field is open for someone young and charismatic, and a good to great head of hair .

Brussels Sprout

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

It’s actually mad that Biden, Cruze, Ghrame are the best either party have.
The field is open for someone young and charismatic, and a good to great head of hair .

I don't think anyone thinks that Cruz and Graham are the best that the Republicans have. Like most Republican Senators they get elected from states where it's practically impossible for a Republican to lose a Senate campaign. The fact that Cruz nearly did 2 years ago just shows you how poor of a candidate he is. His stock has been plummeting for years. As for Graham - he's a pity of a man. I cannot do better than this description of him by Steve Schmidt:

"The way to understand him is to look at what's consistent. And essentially what he is in American politics is what, in the aquatic world, would be a pilot fish: a smaller fish that hovers around a larger predator, like a shark, living off of its detritus. That's Lindsey. And when he swam around the McCain shark, broadly viewed as a virtuous and good shark, Lindsey took on the patina of virtue. But wherever the apex shark is, you find the Lindsey fish hovering about, and Trump is the newest shark in the sea. Lindsey has a real draw to power — but he's found it unattainable on his own merits."

I'd imagine if you got the National Approval/Disproval numbers of every GOP senator that Cruz, Graham and McConnell would be in the bottom 3 - and maybe Josh Hawley after the events of the 6th January.

Toeuptony

Headshot wrote: »

It’s obvious he didn’t write it himself

I doubt trump knows what dour and sullen mean

He'd have a fair idea when he looks in the mirror.

Edit: Water John got there before me.

aloyisious

A question for the U.S residents mostly but open to others as well: was it chance or choice that Joe Biden and CNN chose Wisconsin for their Q&A televised townhall meeting or did the fact that Senator Ron Johnson [R] is one of the hardline Trump supporters in the senate have a bearing on the location? Did Joe deliberately take [as it were] the fight for the minds and hearts of his spending policy, the economy and Covid-19 to Ron Johnson's backyard to turn needy GOP voters towards a fresh mind when it come to their voting?

Water John

Don't think anything like that if left to chance. Strategy team would plan these things.

Headshot

I see Trump supporter Rush Limbaugh has died

I dont like speaking ill of the dead but I don't foresee alot of people mourning his death anyway

StringerBell

A despicable human being in life, presumably he will be missed by his family and those close to him. Leaves a massive gap as a raging conservative firebrand for trump to step into now in his retirement.

Water John

His death gave Trump an opening to go on Fox News and whinge about 'the stolen election'. That's the footnote he means to Trump.

looksee

America could solve a lot of its problems by having a version of the Press Council - or maybe they did and it got lost along the way? Anyway if they could curb the insidious promotion of rubbish news, vitriol, lies and spite they would get on a lot better.

Infini

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Looking a lot like trump is going to cause a civil war in the Republican Party

Honestly, GOOD. If they fracture its because they built their house on sand made of idiocy, corruption, greed, lies and deceit. Would be Karma if the price of their betrayal of standards to utter self interest were to kneecap them politically for the next decade.

Tell me how

looksee wrote: »

America could solve a lot of its problems by having a version of the Press Council - or maybe they did and it got lost along the way? Anyway if they could curb the insidious promotion of rubbish news, vitriol, lies and spite they would get on a lot better.

They had the Fairness Doctrine which was abandoned during the Reagen Administration.

Link (Bold mine for emphasis)

The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC eliminated the policy in 1987 and removed the rule that implemented the policy from the Federal Register in August 2011

looksee

Tell me how wrote: »

They had the Fairness Doctrine which was abandoned during the Reagen Administration.

Link (Bold mine for emphasis)

Yes, I had a notion in the back of my mind that something of that had happened, but I could not figure how to search for it. Reagan really set it up for Trump's campaign of disinformation.

Brian?

looksee wrote: »

Yes, I had a notion in the back of my mind that something of that had happened, but I could not figure how to search for it. Reagan really set it up for Trump's campaign of disinformation.

Wasn't it dropped because it only applied to network news and not cable news?