Donald is here to stay, now what? Cursing and swearing OK

[Brian Peacock]

Are we to assume that Trump is now God's representirive on Earth?

[Tero]

Clueless.CNN:
"The country is doing well in so many ways. But there's such divisiveness."

What's amazing here is that Trump seems entirely unaware of the role he has played in the country's divisiveness. That's not to say we weren't divided before 2016 -- we were -- but it is to say that Trump exacerbated those divisions for political

"I like to go under-budget, ahead of schedule."
Same.

37. "I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with."

This is the most revealing thing Trump said in the entire 55 minutes. He doesn't have any hard-and-fast views on immigration. Not really. He wants the wall because he promised the base he would get the wall. But, really, he just wants a deal.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/09/politics/ ... index.html

[Brian Peacock]

The Trump administration plans to loosen constraints on the use of nuclear weapons and develop a new low-yield nuclear warhead for US Trident missiles, according to a former official who has seen the most recent draft of a policy review...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... _clipboard

Remember when they said Hillary was a dangerous hawk and Trump would be a peacemaker?

I remember.

[Tero]

Politics is a game show:
Behind curtain 1, Trump MAGA
Curtain 2, Hillary Benghazi!
Curtain 3, a goat.

We’ll work on the goat next time. Do a total makeover!!!

[Tero]

This just in! Trump once had average IQ and could sort of function, in a game show sort of way:
'Art of the Deal' ghostwriter Tony Schwartz says Trump 'has clearly deteriorated' as he insists president is 'either lazy or incapable of working'
Scathing interview about Trump with 'Art of the Deal' ghostwriter on CNN
Tony Schwartz says president has mentally 'deteriorated' since they worked together in 1987
Cites president's 'utter inability to pay attention for any long period of time, the garbled syntax when he tries to speak, the utter and complete self-absorption'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z53k9zJdgG
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[L'Emmerdeur]

Renowned gobshite Corey Lewandowski inserts his foot firmly into his piehole, referring to a unanimous decision made by a commission composed of four Trump appointees and one Obama appointee.

The deep state is very real. More government officials who don’t support the Trump agenda.

Corey R. Lewandowski‏ 4:49 AM - 9 Jan 2018

'Energy regulator rejects Perry's plan to boost coal'

Federal energy regulators on Monday rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposal to prop up struggling coal and nuclear power plants, a major defeat for the former Texas governor and the coal companies that have urged the Trump administration to help them.

Perry had ordered the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to act by this week to guarantee financial payments to the plants that could be facing retirement because of the rise of natural gas and renewable energy, a strategy that many critics said would undermine the power markets the regulator has spent decades building.

But in a 5-0 decision announced Monday, FERC formally axed Perry’s proposal and instead ordered the nation’s regional grid operators to submit information about their ability to judge "naturally occurring and man-made threats" to their systems within 60 days. That order essentially puts off any action until at least April, if the agency decides to implement any measures at all.

...

Analysts have said the rule proposed by the Energy Department would have its biggest impact on the PJM power grid that stretches across 13 states from the Midwest to the East Coast, and would be a boon to Murray Energy, a coal mining firm run by Bob Murray, a major Trump backer who has met frequently with Perry and Trump.

...

At a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in October, Perry dismissed concerns that his plan would cost consumers several billion dollars a year. “What’s the cost of freedom? What does it cost to build a system to keep America free?” he said, contending that the power grid's vulnerabilities posed a threat to national security.

In a September letter to FERC calling for it to act quickly, Perry wrote that "the resiliency of the electric grid is threatened by the premature retirements of these fuel-secure traditional baseload resources." And he said FERC's power markets had failed to take into account the need for keeping coal and nuclear power plants on the system.

But in its Tuesday order, FERC said the feedback it received from grid operators on the Perry proposal "do not point to any past or planned generator retirements that may be a threat to grid resilience."

Many people are saying that US citizens subsidizing crony capitalism is synonymous with freedom.

[Brian Peacock]

Trump at his Tennessee rally, "Oh are you so happy that you voted for me... and you are so lucky I gave you that privilege."

[Tyrannical]

North Korea is going to the Winter Olympics in South Korea, and it is sending athletes, spectators, and even cheerleaders to the Games, according to multiple media outlets.

North and South Korea held the first high-level talks in two years Tuesday, and in the aftermath of the 11-hour meeting, the two Koreas issued a joint statement announcing North Korea’s planned participation in the Winter Olympics scheduled to be held in PyeongChang, South Korea in February, Reuters reports.

Weren't we getting ready to Nuke them or something Guess Li'll Kim is done antagonizing Trump

[Tero]

Nuke them right after American team leaves Olympics of course.

Meanwhile, Trump fails to deport child-foreigners:
Alsup said Attorney General Jeff Sessions' conclusion that the program was illegal appeared to be "based on a flawed legal premise."

Unless halted by a higher court, the ruling will allow former DACA recipients who failed to renew by an October 5 deadline a chance to submit renewal applications and will also require the administration to allow renewal of applications expiring in the future. The decision does not require officials to accept new applications for DACA status.
Politico

[Tero]

Analysis:”please give me something to sign. I’m not a complete asshole.” He needs a figleaf, even if no wall.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/politics/ ... index.html

[Tero]

Trump has almost 100% record of siding with the bigger player, stronger side or majority vs minority in any fight. Now
Donald Trump Has Sold Out Family Farmers
Trump claims he’s “fighting for our farmers,” but his policies mainly benefit agribusiness.
https://www.thenation.com/article/donal ... y-farmers/

[laklak]

Lets see - North Korea talking to South Korea for the first time in, what, a decade? And they're likely to attend the Olympics. The Donald holds an open, unannounced, bipartisan meeting on immigration. The sneering nabobs of negativity were left, literally, speechless. Dow at record levels. Consumer confidence at it's highest since 2000. New business regulations and taxes have made me reconsider selling every-fucking-thing, particularly the ability to expense property repairs immediately instead of amortizing them over 30 (You got that right - fucking 30) years. Taxes down for the vast majority of Americans.

But but but but PUSSY GRABBER!

Lol. If he keeps this up I might have to buy a MAGA hat.

[Forty Two]

If the Democrats want to compromise, they've got DACA if they'll give Trump his border fence and border security. If the Democrats are truly interested in helping the innocent Dreamers who came here innocently and have grown up here, this is their chance. The only thing that would stop them is if what they truly want is to keep allowing folks to bring kids here illegally and create new Dreamers through violation of immigration law.

An agreement along the lines of what Trump has proposed sounds eminently reasonable. Help the innocent now, but beef up the border security so we don't recreate this problem a few years down the line.

[Animavore]

Consumer confidence is at it's highest everywhere. What the fuck has NK talking to SK got to do with Trump? The Dow has been rising steadily for years. How is that Trump's doing but not Obama's?

Do you want to give him credit for the good year I just happened to have last year too?

[Forty Two]

Lets see - North Korea talking to South Korea for the first time in, what, a decade? And they're likely to attend the Olympics. The Donald holds an open, unannounced, bipartisan meeting on immigration. The sneering nabobs of negativity were left, literally, speechless. Dow at record levels. Consumer confidence at it's highest since 2000. New business regulations and taxes have made me reconsider selling every-fucking-thing, particularly the ability to expense property repairs immediately instead of amortizing them over 30 (You got that right - fucking 30) years. Taxes down for the vast majority of Americans.

But but but but PUSSY GRABBER!

Lol. If he keeps this up I might have to buy a MAGA hat.

I remember when I was in fifth grade and kept losing tennis matches to a kid I despised. After one match I slammed down my racket and fumed to my mother that my nemesis was a really terrible tennis player. She brought me back down to earth by placing her hands on my shoulders, looking me in the eyes and saying: "How bad can he be, if he keeps beating you?"

Which brings me to the trash talking from the media and others on the intellectual left about Donald Trump in the wake of Michael Wolff's new anti-Trump screed, "Fire and Fury." The talking heads are now out in full force, once again thrashing Trump as a moron, a dangerous fool who is intellectually and temperamentally "unfit for office," and even "mentally ill." This is what they have been saying since the day Trump announced he was running for president.
The consensus among the never-Trumpers was that his chances of winning the election were somewhere between 5% and zero; Hillary Clinton was going to win one of the greatest landslides in the history of American politics and even deep-red Texas would go Democratic. New York magazine called Trump during the campaign "the crudest and most vacuous presidential candidate in human memory." Then the dream team of top economists piled on and universally trashed Trump's economic agenda as a recipe for "another great depression" and a "stock market crash."

Trump not only defied the political sages by winning but also in just a year has unleashed one of the most ferocious economic revivals in modern times. The very day that the left began again hurling its latest accusations of Trump being too unstable to be president, the Dow plowed through the 25,000 mark for the first time ever. Instead of the stock market crashing as a result of the Trump economic agenda, we've had a 40% and $6 trillion gain in financial asset wealth since Election Day. More than 100 companies have announced bonuses or pay hikes for their workers as a result of the tax cut — the same tax cut that pundits insisted would not help working-class Americans.

This isn't the first time the left has questioned the aptitude of a conservative president. Throughout Ronald Reagan's eight years in office, liberals dismissed the Gipper as a B-list actor who attended tiny Eureka College and who was so stupid that he thought ketchup was a vegetable. He was accused of "a penchant for offering simplistic solutions to hideously complex problems," and ridiculed for watching "Little House on the Prairie" reruns with Nancy in the White House at night. This simpleton won two landslide presidential elections, resurrected the stagflation-ravaged economy of the 1970s and won the Cold War. What an imbecile.

My friend Craig Shirley, one of the definitive Reagan biographers, tells me that "one similarity between Reagan and Trump is that both were always underestimated by their political adversaries."

Yes, Trump says and tweets crazy things. He exaggerates the facts. He puts his foot in his mouth. Meanwhile, he keeps winning and winning.

As my mother would say: If Trump is such an idiot, what does this say about the intelligence quotient of the elites on the left whom he keeps outsmarting?

https://www.investors.com/politics/colu ... -and-fury/