We need to talk about Donald: the cursing & swearing thread

[Scot Dutchy]

If he had intelligence he would be dangerous.

[Tero]

Constitution? Who care? We are talking Trump here.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/34 ... n-if-trump
Poll: Half of Republicans would back postponing 2020 election if Trump proposed it

[Scot Dutchy]

Pollsters found 47 percent of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote.

I mean how stupid do yo have to be to live in America.

[Brian Peacock]

You're obsessed with the US, and don't deny it.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Constitution? Who care? We are talking Trump here.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/34 ... n-if-trump
Poll: Half of Republicans would back postponing 2020 election if Trump proposed it

After many of them spent years of growling to each other about how 'Emperor Obama' was going to cancel the 2016 election to stay in office. Perhaps that was a case of mass projection: "It's what we'd do if we had the chance."

[L'Emmerdeur]

I guess an apologist for Il Douche could say that he was being ironic, but irony doesn't seem to be part of his standard repertoire.

"Trump thanks Putin for cutting US diplomats: 'We want to reduce our payroll'"

President Trump thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday for ordering the U.S. to cut its diplomatic staff by 755 people, his first public comments on the extraordinary move by Moscow in response to new sanctions legislation that Trump signed into law.

Trump said he was thanking Putin because the decision allows the U.S. government to "cut down our payroll."

“I want to thank him because we’re trying to cut down our payroll and as far as I’m concerned I’m very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll," Trump told reporters at his Bedminster, N.J. golf club.

"There’s no real reason for them to go back. I greatly appreciate the fact that we’ve been able to cut our payroll of the United States," he continued. "We’re going to save a lot of money.”

[JimC]

He could send them all to NK instead...

[L'Emmerdeur]

They may be getting sick of so much winning.

Rural America feels the effects of Trump’s trade policies

There was a fascinating piece in Politico yesterday on the country’s agricultural sector, which has struggled for a while, but which saw an exciting new opportunity take shape last year. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (or TPP) was seen as “a lifeline,” offering Rural America a chance to reach millions of new, international customers.

Donald Trump, a fierce opponent of the trade pact for reasons he’s never been able to explain in any detail, was quick to close that window. Now America’s rural exporters are watching other countries reach deals on their own, leaving the United States on the sidelines. China, in particular, may not have been a part of the proposed TPP, but it stands to benefit greatly: as the Politico piece explained, China “smells blood in the water,” and is “moving quickly to assert itself, rather than the United States, as the region’s trade arbiter.”

When the Republican president killed the TPP soon after taking office, he assured Americans he’d replace it with a “beautiful” alternative. Nearly eight months later, the Trump administration still has no meaningful trade policy or strategy.

As a matter of domestic politics, there is an unfortunate irony to this: many of the areas that stand to suffer the most as a result of Trump’s approach also backed Trump – usually by large margins – in last year’s election. The Politico piece highlighted some folks in Rural America who hoped the Republican president would adopt a more constructive posture.

[Stu Swanson, who farms corn, soybeans and pork] acknowledged his own household is split over its support for Trump…. Swanson was less sure where Trump drew the line between campaign-trail bluster and real action. There was, he thought, far too much at stake for his rural base to make any rash decisions. Then, three days after he was sworn in, Trump made good on a promise to drop U.S. support for TPP.

“I was disappointed Trump kind of broadly wiped out TPP before there was even a discussion,” Swanson said.

Jerry Maier, a Wright County corn and soybean farmer who supported Trump, said he feels the same way.

“If you’re at the table and nothing happens, that’s one thing. But if you aren’t even at that table, that’s frustrating,” he said.

If you think this is reminiscent of the health care debate, we’re on the same page.

Not long after the election, many Trump voters scrambled to get health care benefits under “Obamacare,” which they desperately hoped the new White House wouldn’t repeal – even after Trump spent a year and a half on the campaign trail telling voters that if he were elected, he’d make destroying the Affordable Care Act one of his top priorities.

I won’t soon forget the quote from one voter, whose daughter relies on the ACA, who helped elect Trump anyway. “I think he was bluffing,” she said.

He wasn’t.

[Animavore]

Remember when drooling, Trump-cultist cabbages said Clinton was a warhawk and Trump was going to usher in peace?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/don ... ed-levels/

I remember.

[Forty Two]

Pollsters found 47 percent of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote.

I mean how stupid do yo have to be to live in America.

How stupid must one be to believe that one country's people is smarter than another. Quite a lot of people are below average intelligence, even in the land of dikes, windmills and wooden shoes.

[Forty Two]

Constitution? Who care? We are talking Trump here.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/34 ... n-if-trump
Poll: Half of Republicans would back postponing 2020 election if Trump proposed it

After many of them spent years of growling to each other about how 'Emperor Obama' was going to cancel the 2016 election to stay in office. Perhaps that was a case of mass projection: "It's what we'd do if we had the chance."

You mean one political party's supporters hold themselves and their political opponents to different standards? No! Perish the thought...

[Forty Two]

Remember when drooling, Trump-cultist cabbages said Clinton was a warhawk and Trump was going to usher in peace?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/don ... ed-levels/

I remember.

It's all directed at ISIS. He promised, specifically, to ramp up the anti-ISIS war.

But, yes, indeed, Clinton was a warhawk. There hasn't been a war that Clinton didn't support. She was all in favor the Libyan War, she supported the Iraq War, etc. She ran on putting up no-fly zones in Syria, which would have been a direct provocation to Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/h ... ussia.html and http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/07/the ... mir-putin/ and https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2642378/n ... en-russia/

Nuclear war with Russia is LESS likely under Donald Trump ‘because Hillary Clinton was more likely to use Nato to threaten Russia’
Clinton was more likely to pull Ukraine into Nato 'putting Russia on edge', a former CIA analyst and intelligence chief says

http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/201 ... y_cli.html

and

Now this is where The Donald scores above his sensible, sane, intelligent and diplomatic Democratic opponent. Donald gets it. He gets that if you decide to run your foreign policy devoid of moral content with the sole guiding principle that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” (copyright Joseph Stalin), then peace, cooperation, even alliance with Russia is possible, indeed desirable.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cou ... 79051.html

[Tero]

Total BS. Trump is a game show host shooting for ratings, press, anything!

[Feck]

Still trying to justify the Fucking Clown with " But Hilllary........ " not saying much about E-mail scandals recently I notice , now the e-mail record shows Trump is the Manchurian candidate .

[Tero]

Trump 2012 Tweet: Obama Might Start a War Because of Bad Poll Numbers