President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

heyabbott · Apr 12, 2020

Neutral Corner · Apr 12, 2020

Michael_ Gee · Apr 12, 2020

He is not in control of his faculties.

tapintoamerica · Apr 12, 2020

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Longtime FATUS fixer Michael Cohen out of solitary. He is risen!
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Soon to follow: Michael Cohen obit, I fear.

swingline · Apr 12, 2020

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Does anyone else get the vibe that Jared is as gay as they come? (Not that there's anything wrong with it)
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From the very first time I saw him.

Neutral Corner · Apr 12, 2020

heyabbott · Apr 12, 2020

One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice
One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice - CNN

Republicans are turning this into a real 3rd world country

outofplace · Apr 12, 2020

heyabbott said: ↑

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
March 8, 2019 ~ Michael Stevenson

Someone on Quora asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
‘My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

Source: jobsanger: British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
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I really can't stand much of what you post here, but Stevenson makes some good points.
Describing President Trump as the result if "Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws" really works.

garrow · Apr 12, 2020

Trump has no real rationale or record for re-election. He is the Elizabeth Holmes of presidents: all hype, no results, no qualifications, a cult of personality, lack of transparency and convinced they know better than every expert out there. And Jim Mattis worked with both of them.

tapintoamerica · Apr 12, 2020

heyabbott said: ↑

One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice
One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice - CNN

Republicans are turning this into a real 3rd world country
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Bureau of Labor Statistics said there were 5,000 unemployed people in Sioux Falls in February 2020. That figure is about to jump by 74%. With one move, the city's unemployment rate will jump from 3.18% to 5.58%. In 2016, the mayor said "some people are calling this America's next boom town." Until the Trumpandemic. This truly sucks.

Neutral Corner · Apr 12, 2020

Don’t blame the politicians. Blame the economists.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-blame-the-politicians-blame-the-economists/2020/04/12/f092e168-7b39-11ea-9bee-c5bf9d2e3288_story.html

tapintoamerica · Apr 12, 2020

Trump has helped his hit a peak! And stay there.

Specifically, 150K tests/day would be nice, according to this.

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