President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Nah, that's bullshit, and you know it is. Nobody in Washington, including Republicans, is obligated to line up behind this president. Everyone knows Trump is a clown show, and on top of that he's growing more unhinged week by week.

 

The enduring legacy of the Trump presidency will be the level to which Congress failed to provide its check on the unbalanced executive branch.

 

You know, I can understand this. When I was working at another paper, I asked another reporter what the attendance was for a high school football game. He gave me two estimates, and said he went with the higher number because that's what the publisher would want.

If the big boss says it, it's true.

 

No surprise, when the President of the United States calls neo-Nazis "very fine people."

 

We’re in agreement here. Maybe you misunderstood my “And they’re not.” I meant they’re not obligated in the least.

 

Not if you know the big boss is gonna get caught out in a ridiculous lie. It's the subordinate's job to keep that from happening, and if he/she can't, to fucking quit. What Trump has really shown is how many of we Americans, a group so overly proud of our alleged rugged independence, are actually eager bootlickers.

 

I don't know if Obama lied, or overrated his ability to persuade Congress to work together for the common good of the citizens who had no access to insurance, or he underestimated just how partisan things were in D.C. Congress used to be able to find a way to compromise. The other party was the Honorable Opposition, who you debated with, but in the end you tried to get out the best legislation possible. No longer. Now it's "Fuck those guys. We'll win, and if we can't we'll fuck things up so they can't get what they want" - and if the citizenry suffers, well... they should have voted more of us in.

And that's both parties. IMO, the R's moreso, but I freely admit bias.

 

Party over the common good is poison to a democracy.

 

What goes around comes around. The Republicans started this trend (undeniable historical fact) so they can expect no mercy when the shoe's on the other foot.

 

Ultimately, no one (voters, congress, law enforcement) will hold Trump accountable because politicians who served before him lied.

 

My biggest question is the levels at which Trump is blantantly lying versus completely delusional?

 

When I was younger I worked in a place or two, usually a warehouse, that had a sign that somebody thought was funny but it really wasn't that said "Rule No. 1: The boss is always right. Rule No. 2: If the boss is ever wrong, see Rule No. 1."

That, I suspect, has always been the culture in Trumps' businesses. You don't correct the boss. You don't contradict the boss. You don't call the boss a liar. You don't call the boss a racist and you certainly don't ridicule the boss. He think's he's boss of the country and those rules apply to all of us.

The people who elected him wanted a businessman in charge and this is a part of it, I guess.