President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

There's some mornings I wouldn't be allowed in these buildings, either, then.

 

Maybe it's just white Americans? When the Capitals went to the White House, Brett Connolly (Canadian) and Braden Holtby (Canadian) declined. Connolly because he was close friends with the Caps' only black player (Devante Smith-Pelly). Holtby because he's been an outspoken advocate for gay rights throughout his career. I don't know if any of the Russians/Swedes/Danes/Czechs, etc. on the team gave a fuck about American politics enough to care either way.

 

there you go again with the identity politics it was celebrated when richard pryor blew through $30m with nothing to show for it but *our* president does it and now it's a bad thing hmmmm wonder why that is you really need to look inside yourself and ask why so much trump hate

 

I’m 42 and I have never seen Trump’s tax returns.

 

Jemele Hill - journalist - could always ask a few of them. She could ask Kim Mulkey the questions she raises in the column. I'm pretty sure Mulkey takes a call from Hill.

 

Why do we need to?

 

It’s one of the undeniable achievements of his presidency that Trump has not altered his lifestyle at all since ascending to the most important job on earth. Everything that Trump did before he was president he still does now, and does just about as much. Trump clearly believed that being president was fundamentally a simple job that a series of idiot weaklings had failed at because they overthought and overcomplicated it; as with many things that Trump believes, that’s an argument that could almost be made to work, but which he is fundamentally incapable of and uninterested in making. There’s no deeper critique to find: He just didn’t understand why everyone wasn’t doing the Good Smart Deals instead of the Bad Stupid Deals. Trump clearly still thinks all this is true—he thinks that everything that he’s ever thought is true—and gets very angry when he is forced to do things like “work” or “listen,” both because they are things he dislikes and because they are outside what he understood to be the job description for President Of The United States.

 

We know a couple. They own two island homes, one in Florida and one near Seattle. Husband works as some international scrap metal magnate. Worth millions.

When the wife had a series of medical problems, they applied for and received Medicaid. Because he was able to show all kinds of "losses" in his businesses.

How that relates to Trump I have no idea. But that's the kind of shit these people pull all the time.

 

A couple things here:

1. I don't recall if there were additional justifications Tim Thomas listed outside of his statement for not going. I don't know. I know his statement doesn't mention health care, so maybe you're pulling that justification from a different news source. I just know it's not in the statement.

2. Here's a Bleacher Report piece written at the time about Thomas. I think we can agree that, whatever one thinks of Cora's decision - I have no issue with it - Cora hasn't received a criticism like this:

Tim Thomas: The Ugly Truth Behind His Refusal to Meet the President

Now, if Thomas was a real man, he would have gone to the Boston Bruins management and ownership, returned the money from his contract and quit the balance of it by retiring–so he could exercise his rights as a free citizen.

You see, I am all for exercising your rights. I am all against abusing them. And Tim Thomas abused those rights.

There are soldiers who fought and died so that Thomas would have the right, as a free citizen, to freely choose to sign a contract worth millions and millions of dollars with the Boston Bruins. Included in that contract would be his obligations to represent the Boston Bruins in public. Unless I am sadly mistaken, there was no clause in there which stated that Thomas would not have to represent the Boston Bruins if it involved a trip to the White House.

The piece goes on to compare Thomas to a British nobleman from the 1700s who was an affront to the Founding Fathers.

 

There are millions of Americans who would think a bidet is a water fountain for a dog if they entered a bathroom with one.