President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Well, duh! Haven't you read his book?!?!

 

Wait, are we supposed to be okay with the actions of an incompetent man just because he laid out his pyramid scheme manifesto in a book 30 years ago?

 

Featurey headline treatment. #Grrrr

 

Somewhere in the fires of hell, L Ron Hubbard realizes he aimed low.

 

Yes, back in 1987 when I was a sophomore majoring in finance with a goal of getting into commercial banking. None of it was memorable. Especially once I switched my major and began reading reams of Hemingway, Faulkner, Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, Maclean, McGuane, Muir and the rest.

 

You never got to the chapter where he turned the cabin into a time-share.

 

Things do not change; we change...that closet into a half-bath with subway tile and a vessel sink.

 

And the classic John Muir line of "God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild ... but, you know, some bulldozers and backhoes can improve on it when it's turned into a golf course."

 

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. When the visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up. It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another. However, I shall not name names of visitors to Walden, as it represents a grave security risk if I do so."

White House decides against releasing visitor records

 

Just What Is Trump Trying to Do in Syria?

"One week after President Donald Trump’s cruise-missile strike against Syria, one fact stands out above all others: The White House and secretary of state are inexplicably incapable of conveying American intentions to friends, foes, the American public and all other concerned parties. Leaders around the world can reasonably wonder whether the U.S. government has telegraphed its determination to do as little as humanly possible to step Syria’s long bloodletting or lit the fuse to World War III."

 

Jesus Christ. WWIII has become the new 'Hitler' in political debate.