Politics Trump - What has he done now???

rogue49 · Jul 10, 2020

Not only is the Trump administration slowly tearing apart many departments and agencies
And they dismissed all the plans that were made for any pandemic
They're also letting all the terrorist and post 9-11 setups go to pot.

A top terrorism fighter’s dire warning

Well, this throws out traditionally conservative venues, created by Cheney and GWB.
But T isn't a traditional conservative...they've thrown out that book. (which is why the Reagan Republicans are in a tizzy)
He's more supported by extremists, radicals and anti-government groups.
So anti, they're destroying the system unless it supports their power and influence.

rogue49 · Jul 10, 2020

Well, he’s busy with shenanigans today

President Trump commutes prison sentence of his longtime adviser Roger Stone — The Wall Street Journal

Corrupt criminals stick together, y’know

Chris Noyb · Jul 11, 2020

ASU2003 said: ↑

Devastating anti-Trump Republican ad tells president his entire inner circle 'whisper about you'

I'm not even sure if the Democrats need to run a negative campaign at all... These Reagan Republican groups are just coming out day after day with the harshest commercials I've seen.
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Making Shyster even more paranoid sounds like a workable plan, but what actions that might lead him to take could be problematic.

Chris Noyb · Jul 11, 2020

rogue49 said: ↑

Well, he’s busy with shenanigans today

President Trump commutes prison sentence of his longtime adviser Roger Stone — The Wall Street Journal

Corrupt criminals stick together, y’know
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This surprises nearly no one.

But if I were the Democrats, or had the $$$ to mount a major anti-Shyster campaign, I'd hammer him with his pardons, commuted sentences, etc.

After Ford & Nixon, I thought some limitations would been placed on presidential pardons.

It doesn't help that Stone is such a smug prick who relishes his status as a supreme (Republican) fixer.

rogue49 · Jul 14, 2020

'Bye Don Jr.': New Attack Ad Turns Trump Son's Words Against The President — HuffPost

Now that’s a spot on hit on hypocrisy
Talking about turning someone’s words back on themselves...

These old guard conservative Never Trumper groups aren’t holding back.

FYI - The commercial in the article

View: https://youtu.be/9HJlk_EH1_Y

rogue49 · Jul 17, 2020

Terrible plot
Dismal lines
Poor casting

Chris Noyb · Jul 18, 2020

Trump has a very talented tailor.

Chris Noyb · Jul 19, 2020

A bit dated now, but Shyster is still at it.

redravin · Jul 22, 2020

Interesting take on The Lincoln Project

rogue49 · Jul 23, 2020

Trump's New Ad Is Amazing - The Bulwark

Most people can’t keep up with the smoke & mirrors

It’s not that the shit hit the fan
It’s that they are shoving dump truck loads into it
And made the fan into a jet engine
There’s so much deception going on

They’re seeing what sticks
Not even caring about any lies anymore

ASU2003 · Jul 24, 2020

The details don't matter much. It is the narrative that if conservatives like their lifestyles, they have no other choice but to vote Republican. Even if the only reason is that they don't want the liberals to be happy or get anything done.

rogue49 · Jul 25, 2020

‘Make America Normal Again’: Trump backers plead for a virus plan

It's not going to happen, it's not his nature.
He's elemental, focused only on marketing and hype. (and making money)
planning??? Only IF he got a competent lead who doesn't have an agenda, only to focus on the virus issues.

But he doesn't have the patience, tolerance or ego to allow this over time.
He gets involved, it crumbles, the lead is fired. (there's a big pattern)

The GOP has placed their faith in the wrong person.
And it will cost them...and the damage will continue on the nation from the virus.

rogue49 · Jul 25, 2020

US push for global alliance against China hampered by years of 'America first'

No, DUH

Being an obnoxious SOB is not appreciated
Especially since every leader has their own friggin nation
Why would they cater to you???

“What have ya done for me lately??”

rogue49 · Aug 2, 2020

True...in some ways, he’s just a symptom

How do we de-Trumpify America? It won't be easy, but it must be done

Chris Noyb · Aug 2, 2020

rogue49 said: ↑

True...in some ways, he’s just a symptom

How do we de-Trumpify America? It won't be easy, but it must be done
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I gave the article a quick scan; I'll need to give it a more thorough read later.

What would happen if a politician knew how to appeal to Trump's base, and managed to create another Perfect Storm of Discontent, but was much more palatable (smarter, much more clever) than Trump? Turning those voters against such a candidate would be extremely difficult.

ASU2003 · Aug 2, 2020

rogue49 said: ↑

True...in some ways, he’s just a symptom

How do we de-Trumpify America? It won't be easy, but it must be done
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The thrust of Feffer's argument is twofold: First, that Trump is backed by an amalgam of forces, including "the bulk of conservative civil society," and even if he's defeated, Trumpism — the particular articulation he's given to those forces — will survive the election and continue to be an existential threat. It "could succeed in finishing what Trump started — disuniting the country and destroying the democratic experiment — unless, that is, the United States were to undergo a thorough de-Trumpification." In fact, he notes that "a post-election insurrection is not out of the question."

Trump himself may be expendable, from the far right's point of view, but Feffer writes that "Trumpism — which lies at the intersections of racial and sexual anxiety, hatred of government and the expert class, and opposition to cosmopolitan internationalism — is not so easily rooted out." In part, that's because it's "a political chimera with the head of an establishment machine and the body of a radical social movement."

Second, Feffer argues that we must learn from the examples of the past, flawed though they might be in many ways, in order to do better. While I agree with Feffer's core argument, both his choice of past examples and the lessons drawn from them are less satisfying. That's not a reason to abandon his approach, but to pursue it more robustly.

Two of the examples — Nazi Germany and Saddam's Iraq — are classic examples of "pathocracies," which I've written about before, and thus led me to reach out to two experts I've consulted in the past: Ian Hughes, the author of "Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy," and therapist Elizabeth Mika, who wrote perhaps the most politically crucial chapter of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" (Salon review here).

"Pathocracy is the situation where dangerously disordered personalities predominate in positions of power." Hughes said. "Such individuals' propensity for violence and greed, their incapacity for basic human empathy and their disordered perception and cognition, which renders them unable to ameliorate their distorted worldviews with reality and reason, mark them out as a danger to others."

We may not be a full-blown pathocracy yet, Hughes and Mika agree, but we're headed in that direction.
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This is what I was worried the most about after the 2016 election. That the far right movement is going to be able to unify and organize. That the business owner class and their kids will become the most powerful group of people and get to make all the rules and control all of the ways to make money. They haven't been nearly as effective as I feared, but they are trying.

And I worry that the right wing political leaders like being in the opposition position a lot more than actually leading.

It is the "tough-guys" and internet trolls that I worry about. And lots and lots of them like to think that they would be able to use guns to wipe out their opposition if murder wasn't a crime in their dystopian world.

rogue49 · Aug 9, 2020

Yep
Not ‘Nuff sad
Call me biased

View: https://twitter.com/projectlincoln/status/1292299462300311552?s=21

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Chris Noyb · Aug 10, 2020

rogue49 · Aug 11, 2020

What???

View: https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1292956445944606721?s=21

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