Bolton was bad enough with his moustache but I can't stand a man with a Beard. Fake hirsute.
The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated
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This is a couple of years old, but it tells the story. Although as bad as Trump is, and he's probably going only going to get worse, I'm sure he'll always have the support of some far-right Europeans who wish they were Americans.
Disappointing yet not surprising that we have that many cnuts in Britain.
He can, France called them out during Powell's UN speech on Iraq.
Look at what they did to them
Look at what US did to China
And that's a big country, good luck if you're smaller nation like Venezuela or god forbid Iran
In 12 years every single person here will be pining for the restraint of Trump.
This is how a member of the younger generation viewed Bush in 2003, after the United States had invaded Iraq on the basis of false claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction:
Strong stuff, suggesting the kind of experience you don’t easily recover from. If such feelings of betrayal don’t overwhelm you with a corrosive cynicism, inducing you to withdraw from politics, they provoke an incipient realism or an irrepressible radicalism. The Gulf War, which happened when I was twenty-three, set me on the latter path, guided, I’d like to think, by some sense of the former. But whether one opts for realism or radicalism or both, such great disillusionment would seem to preclude making statements like this, fifteen years later:
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The truth is that we’re captives, not captains, of this strategy. We think the contrast of a burnished past allows us to see the burning present, but all it does is keep the fire going, and growing. Confronting the indecent Nixon, Roth imagines a better McCarthy. Confronting the indecent Trump, he imagines a better Nixon. At no point does he recognize that he’s been fighting the same monster all along — and losing. He doesn’t see how the rehabilitation of the last monster allows the front line to move rightward, the new monster to get closer to the territory being defended.
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Donald Trump is making America great again — not by his own hand but through the labor of his critics, who posit a more perfect union less as an aspiration for the future than as the accomplished fact of a reimagined past.
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/04/forget-about-it/
This is how a member of the younger generation viewed Bush in 2003, after the United States had invaded Iraq on the basis of false claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction:
Strong stuff, suggesting the kind of experience you don’t easily recover from. If such feelings of betrayal don’t overwhelm you with a corrosive cynicism, inducing you to withdraw from politics, they provoke an incipient realism or an irrepressible radicalism. The Gulf War, which happened when I was twenty-three, set me on the latter path, guided, I’d like to think, by some sense of the former. But whether one opts for realism or radicalism or both, such great disillusionment would seem to preclude making statements like this, fifteen years later:
You get to lose your innocence only once. But Ezra Klein, the author of both these statements, loses his every night as he scans the day’s report of the latest Republican Party outrage. American liberalism is also a party of the born-again.
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The truth is that we’re captives, not captains, of this strategy. We think the contrast of a burnished past allows us to see the burning present, but all it does is keep the fire going, and growing. Confronting the indecent Nixon, Roth imagines a better McCarthy. Confronting the indecent Trump, he imagines a better Nixon. At no point does he recognize that he’s been fighting the same monster all along — and losing. He doesn’t see how the rehabilitation of the last monster allows the front line to move rightward, the new monster to get closer to the territory being defended.
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Donald Trump is making America great again — not by his own hand but through the labor of his critics, who posit a more perfect union less as an aspiration for the future than as the accomplished fact of a reimagined past.
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/04/forget-about-it/
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He didn't. It was all a show for him. No one in his campaign expected him to win.
Interesting insight. I do worry how bad things will be like in politics if we ever get to a point where Trump is deemed "not as bad as I thought". I'm worried because I'm pretty positive it'll happen.
I don't think we have anything to worry about. W. has gained popularity from mostly staying out of sight and sometimes playing the polite, moderate statesman role. Trump is probably clinically unable to replicate that. He's not going to stay out of politics no matter what happens in November. If he wins, he's forever going to brag about it, antagonizing everyone, and if he loses he's going to forever rage about a coup and stolen elections, antagonizing everyone.
He's going to spend the rest of his life reminding us why we hated him in the first place, and with social media he doesn't need any help doing it.
He's going to spend the rest of his life reminding us why we hated him in the first place, and with social media he doesn't need any help doing it.
For funny reasons, Don Jr, (at least his father started his businesses). For scary reasons, Tom Cotton (at least Trump only deployed the military, he didn't bomb DC and Iran at the same time)
They should do a movie about Trump's episode in the bunker like they did with Hiter in Der Untergang. Think it would become an instant blockbuster.
Two positive Tweets for a change. But... I can't help but feel the timing of them stinks and wonder the motive behind them too. I just can't ever believe he does something for someone else with nothing to gain himself.
Because you’re right.
First ever african American....”I’m not racist, my 2 best friends are black”.
Covid response to job losses - after not caring about the impact of the disease initially.
Upcoming elections I guess.
US hiding beneficiaries of $500bn Covid-19 corporate aid
'Businesses have taken at least half a trillion dollars in coronavirus aid from the American public, and the US government is refusing to disclose which companies are getting the money, write Emily Holden and Daniel Strauss in Washington for the Guardian US.
The lack of oversight in the system for US lawmakers’ “paycheck protection program” makes the historic levels of spending ripe for abuse. The media and watchdogs cannot scrutinise the payments to ensure against waste, fraud or favours to political allies.
Eleven national news publications are suing for public records, yet little public attention has gone to the problem, as the government has scrambled to respond to a cratered economy and unemployment that has soared past 40m jobless claims.
“It’s absolutely mind-boggling that we’re in a situation where we’re shovelling so much money out to private businesses, and we don’t know where it’s going,” said Kyle Herrig, founder of the watchdog group Accountable.US.'
(Guardian U.S.)
'Businesses have taken at least half a trillion dollars in coronavirus aid from the American public, and the US government is refusing to disclose which companies are getting the money, write Emily Holden and Daniel Strauss in Washington for the Guardian US.
The lack of oversight in the system for US lawmakers’ “paycheck protection program” makes the historic levels of spending ripe for abuse. The media and watchdogs cannot scrutinise the payments to ensure against waste, fraud or favours to political allies.
Eleven national news publications are suing for public records, yet little public attention has gone to the problem, as the government has scrambled to respond to a cratered economy and unemployment that has soared past 40m jobless claims.
“It’s absolutely mind-boggling that we’re in a situation where we’re shovelling so much money out to private businesses, and we don’t know where it’s going,” said Kyle Herrig, founder of the watchdog group Accountable.US.'
(Guardian U.S.)
Is that real?
Is Trump actually in that pic, or is he so white that he's invisible?
Yes, so far as I can tell. Though as comments in that thread point out a contributing factor might be who actually wants to work there and not just who is accepted.
Further to earlier posts:
Seems like the family is considering buying OANN.Twitter said:
At least they didn’t put the token black guy smack dab in the middle of the photo, but I question the look to put the two (!) non-Caucasian interns off to the side.
What a blinding photo to look at.
They Ashley Coled him.
Its obvious why he's appointed an african american surely, even the most politically incorrect has gone politically correct you could say.
Seat’s too close to the others, though.
Give it a few months and it'll be:
'LOSER "General" Brown didn't resign - I fired him. I never thought he was a good Chief, even when I thought he was a good Chief. Just can't get the staff!'
'LOSER "General" Brown didn't resign - I fired him. I never thought he was a good Chief, even when I thought he was a good Chief. Just can't get the staff!'
...which will be filmed by Leni Riefenstahl.'Press said:
That was from 2016.
Oh.... my bad!
That's mental even by his standards. We have the POTUS tweeting literal crackpot conspiracies he saw on TV. What a time to be alive
I remember the South Park creators saying as much. They said they got tired of trying to parody trump because the real thing was so ridiculous.
It's like he's let Alex Jones have a go on his phone. Come to think of it, I have my doubts that Trump knows the word "provocateur"...
The only way he knows that word is through the Agent Provocateur lingerie company!
His face when he came out that night said it all. From what I've read there were a lot if unhappy people in the entourage that night. Their level of unpreparedness was astonishing which is very telling.
Wow,how did I miss this gem ?
There's no bottom to this guy.
I double and tripled checked before posting. I couldn't believe it wasn't fake
Jaysus not a ringing endorsement is it?
What are the redeeming qualities of the president? Well for one thing he's the President
As a wealthy, white American-born man it's no surprise that Johnson thinks like this.
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