President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

If there was a grain of truth to it, Chachi wouldn't be out of intensive care yet.

 

Maybe a heartfelt recitation of his tournament bracket would be even better.

 

You are easily led and seriously misinformed. I suggest you broaden your reading material.

 

This is why The New York Times gets bashed for liberal bias more and more these days ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Thursday named David Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer aligned with the Israeli far right, as his nominee for ambassador to Israel, elevating a campaign adviser who has questioned the need for a two-state solution and has likened left-leaning Jews in America to the Jews who aided the Nazis in the Holocaust.

Mr. Friedman, whose outspoken views stand in stark contrast to decades of American policy toward Israel, did not wait long on Thursday to signal his intention to upend the American approach. In a statement from the Trump transition team announcing his nomination, he said he looked forward to doing the job “from the U.S. embassy in Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem.”

 

Everything in those two paragraphs is completely accurate. What's the bias?

 

That may be, but it still seems to drip with undertones of disdain.

 

If it's accurate, the undertones of disdain are in your head and not in the story.

 

If you were concerned with Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel, you'll love David Friedman!

 

I look forward to their companion piece to this one, written by a Muslim, criticizing Islam's treatment of women:

I’m not blaming my sense of ruin on the Virgin Mary, not entirely. Protestants do not claim Mary in the way Catholics do, but every Advent I feel a sense of kinship. I know what it’s like to be a good girl whose life got upended by what someone did to her body. Of course, her story plot was good and mine was bad. Plus she was, well, a saint. And I’m not.

Still, I study her this time of the year — always dressed in blue with downcast eyes — and want to ask: “How was it really? And how do you feel about what the patriarchy has done with you?”

I’m convinced of this: Mary is not responsible for what we’ve done to her story. Church culture has overfocused on virginity and made it into an idol of sexual purity. When it comes to female experience, the church seems compelled to shrink and distort and manipulate.

 

If the FBI and CIA have evidence the Russians were behind a cyberattack and actively tried to influence the election, should the response be a shrug?

The Democracts/Green Party folks are all using legal means to confirm the election results.

Do you see Hillary on a stump or tweeting out that her supporters (which outnumber Trump's) shouldf rise up and refuse to accept Trump as president?

I haven't but maybe I missed it.

Do you think Trump would be doing that if this situation was reversed? I think it's very possible.

 

Welcome to the kleptocracy ...

 

Didn't president Obama respond to the Russian interference with a shrug, both because he assumed Hillary would win, and because he didn't want to upset the Russians, who he hoped would work with him on resolving issues in Syria?

It's just hysterical. Between Obama and Trump, Obama knew more about Russian interference, and was in a position to do more about it, yet liberal anger appears to be directed at Trump, not Obama.

Then there's the whole idea that Putin is going to play Trump. LOL. Obama got played by Putin right in front of our eyes. He didn't press Putin on the election interference, but got nothing in return for it. Could Trump do worse?