President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

A Paul Manafort and John Boehner reality show where they just travel from country club to country club, get drunk and tell us where all the bodies are buried.

 

"I am Grate."

CUT! OK, people, let's run it back and try again.

 

Google "Censored Eleven" and see where it leads. I think you'll find it helpful for your project.

 

Thank you.
These old caricatures are being dealt with, for better or worse.
I thought Apu was a racist depiction in the 90s, or at best ill-advised.
Then someone decides in the spring of 2018 that with our political culture as sepsis-ridden as it is, it's finally OK to finally condemn the character.

 

How many octaves can you get?

 

Someone mentioned Bob Woodward's new book down thread. This was in today's WaPo Daily 202:


"Bob Woodward has been quietly working on a book about Trump, entitled “Fear: Trump in the White House” that will come out Sept. 11. Manuel Roig-Franzia reports: “The hush-hush project derives its title from an offhand remark that then-candidate Trump made in an interview with Woodward and Post political reporter Robert Costa in April 2016. Costa asked Trump whether he agreed with a statement by then-President Barack Obama, who had said in an Atlantic magazine interview that ‘real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.’ At first Trump seemed to agree, saying: ‘Well, I think there’s a certain truth to that . . . Real power is through respect.’ But then he added a personal twist: ‘Real power is, I don’t even want to use the word: ‘Fear.' Woodward, who declined to be quoted for this article, has privately described the remark as ‘an almost Shakespearean aside.’

“While working on the book, Woodward has kept a lower profile than usual, limiting cable news appearances and attempting to stay out of the public eye. Instead, the author has told friends, he’s gone back to some of the signature moves of his youthful reporting days. Late at night, he’s been prone to show up at important people’s houses unannounced to ask for interviews. He’s told friends that it feels like a ‘rebirth.’”

 

Also from the Daily 202:


-- Six weeks after Trump declared that North Korea is “no longer a nuclear threat,” U.S. intelligence agencies are watching as the regime proceeds with new missile development at the Sanumdong research facility outside Pyongyang. That's where they also produced the first high-powered ICBM capable of reaching the mainland United States. “Newly obtained evidence, including satellite photos taken in recent weeks, indicates that work is underway on at least one and possibly two liquid-fueled [ICBMs],” Ellen Nakashima and Joby Warrick scoop. “The new intelligence does not suggest an expansion of North Korea’s capabilities but shows that work on advanced weapons is continuing … The reports about new missile construction come after recent revelations about a suspected uranium-enrichment facility, called Kangson, that North Korea is operating in secret. ...

“Senior North Korean officials have discussed their intention to deceive Washington about the number of nuclear warheads and missiles they have, as well as the types and numbers of facilities, and to rebuff international inspectors, according to intelligence gathered by U.S. agencies. Their strategy includes potentially asserting that they have fully denuclearized by declaring and disposing of 20 warheads while retaining dozens more.

“Buttressing the intelligence findings, independent missile experts this week also reported observing activity consistent with missile construction at the Sanumdong plant. The daily movement of supply trucks and other vehicles, as captured by commercial satellite photos, shows that the missile facility ‘is not dead, by any stretch of the imagination,’ said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. ‘It’s active. We see shipping containers and vehicles coming and going. This is a facility where they build ICBMs and space-launch vehicles.’”

 

Right, deficit spending is the key to economic growth. Thanks for the lesson. It only helps those who have the capital to leverage debt while keeping their $$ on the sidelines out of harms way.

Did you not live through the 80's? Oh yeah you were probably in diapers (YF, not you NC). That was implemented by the Reagan administration, all the while preaching "fiscal responsibility." What did that bring? Unbelievable economic growth? No, it brought the deficit burden that each one of us bears today. Before Reagan, the federal deficit was a drop in the bucket compared to what we have today.

What did that administration do? They cut taxes (to benefit the rich) and then INCREASED spending on the military while cutting social services? Sound familiar? Yeah, its called the social net for the wealthy (to the detriment of the everyday worker). All paid for by the "Contract with America".

Blaming the "prior administration" is so wrong. It wasn't Obama's fault, open your eyes.

 

(Very)Fine Art

 

I'm sure the Tea Partiers will be voicing their displeasure with the deficit.

 

If and when Democrats ever take the White House again, anything the Tea Partiers squawk about should be met with a collective, "Where the fuck were you during the Trump Administration?"