45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 5)

45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 5)

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Gameface

16,565 posts

76 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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Europa1 said:
Challo said:


Seems someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
Dear Mr Trump,

It's "Counsel", you cretin.

Yours sincerely,
And he's totally council, despite his money.

Gameface

16,565 posts

76 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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It's hard to know where to begin, but...

How exactly has Mueller been disgraced and discredited?

Since when is collusion with a foreign power a phony crime?

Berating the Dems for lies and firings! rofl Priceless!

Moaning that they "scream obstruction". So he never screams WITCH HUNT, NO COLLUSION, or 12 angry Dems over and over again then?

I hope he's stting himself every single day because he knows the net is closing.

Disgusting excuse for a politician and a man.

vonuber

17,868 posts

164 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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Why is there a ten minute gap between the 1dt and 2nd tweets

Byker28i

58,851 posts

216 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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vonuber said:
Why is there a ten minute gap between the 1dt and 2nd tweets
McBreakfast? biggrin

Byker28i

58,851 posts

216 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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Gameface said:
Moaning that they "scream obstruction". So he never screams WITCH HUNT, NO COLLUSION, or 12 angry Dems over and over again then?
It used to be 11 but progressed to 13 now

He's now said:

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
58s58 seconds ago

I hope John Brennan, the worst CIA Director in our country’s history, brings a lawsuit. It will then be very easy to get all of his records, texts, emails and documents to show not only the poor job he did, but how he was involved with the Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt. He won’t sue!

Byker28i

58,851 posts

216 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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Ivanka's old business partner is being sued by the DOJ for defrauding the US for $60m

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/17...

All these people connected to trump hiding their money so they don't have to pay tax.

Byker28i

58,851 posts

216 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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Seeing as trump is off on one about Bruce Orr and the dossier again, it's worth reminding ourselves of this very good article

https://www.justsecurity.org/44697/steele-dossier-...

Tony33

1,065 posts

121 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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Europa1 said:
Challo said:


Seems someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
Dear Mr Trump,

It's "Counsel", you cretin.

Yours sincerely,
smile and a phony crime that doesn't exist!

ferrisbueller

29,260 posts

226 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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_dobbo_ said:
Vanden Saab said:
If I was a golfer and owned a string of golf courses you can be sure I would visit them and play golf.
I love that your standard for the leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world is "he seems to work five days a week". good old Donnie is getting his 37.5 hours in, why all the hate?

Anyway you're spectacularly missing the point. He's using government money to pay himself to play golf, whilst he gets paid to be president, and should be, you know, being president.

Flint doesn't have clean water, but Trump has spent tens of millions of dollars of tax payer money on playing golf at his own properties.

He also said, many many times that he wouldn't play golf at all.

It's fine though, I guess, because he's hitting his minimum contracted hours.
I must admit I am curious as to what his contract of employment says i.e. the expectations therein and who holds him to it.

His golfing and spending time at his own properties is clearly not the most effective use of tax payer money but he's doing it. Where is the body of individuals charged with making him accountable? He appears to be able to do it with no negative implications.

Maybe he's the king of delegation. I've seen people work 37 a week with zero stress whilst their reports would be doing twice that and be completely strung out. Per above, maybe it's better he hasn't put more time in.

Justices said:
A schedule perhaps, but is any work actually being done? Lots of time seemingly spent watching Fox and bashing everyone else (clearly watching his own coverage) and being a Twit on Twitter. Let's all be very real about what's going on here.

Hopefully Trump is the man that, due to the ridiculousness of him being put in a position of power and complete lack of professional leadership, forces the country to come a little closer together to elect someone who can govern with common sense, class and decorum.
A key point for me. Maybe this is the extreme wake-up call required. Maybe the swamp will get drained, just not in the way originally intended. There are numerous long term social and economic challenges in the US which haven't been addressed. There are massive divides which haven't been bridged. Trump being so openly careless about many of them maybe gets them back on the agenda. Perhaps that's the positive of his tenure.

One wonders what shock will be required for the UK to similarly address its issues.

Seventy said:
I've just spent twenty minutes reading through some of Barack Obama's tweets.
I have no words any more for what Trump is doing to the Presidency.
From the outside looking in he appeared to be a consummate professional intent on doing what he and his supporters felt were the right things to do. His use of social media appeared to be well considered and a guide for others to pursue and his relationship with the media, whether they were for or against, was respectful and professional. His White House Correspondents' dinners are well worth watching. As a modern President he looked very impressive. However, I'm not a US citizen and I don't have a vested interest; Llarge swathes of America hated Obama and everything he stood for.

Also, no doubt there were many people with noses in troughs doing things which would be frowned upon - it's just they weren't the president and weren't so open about it.

Byker28i

58,851 posts

216 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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ferrisbueller said:
Llarge swathes of America hated Obama and everything he stood for.
He was black. The same people feel empowered under trump
We had an uncomfortable conversation with someone in Bakersfield, well off gentleman, who said Obama "was an uppity n*gger"

Edited by Byker28i on Monday 20th August 17:31

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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Trump unlocked and legitimised the demons that have laid dormant in American politics and society for many years. That's the bad. news

The good part is that the demons will eventually catch up with him.

ferrisbueller

29,260 posts

226 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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Byker28i said:
ferrisbueller said:
Llarge swathes of America hated Obama and everything he stood for.
He was black. The same people feel empowered under trump
We had an uncomfortable conversation with someone in Bakersfield, well off gentleman, who said Obama "was an uppity n*gger"

Edited by Byker28i on Monday 20th August 17:31
I'm fairly certain it's not all racism.

fatbutt

2,631 posts

263 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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ferrisbueller said:
I'm fairly certain it's not all racism.
Not that they'd admit to. Wife's dad once said they 'should string up that n*gger' when referring to Obama. And he's swears he's not racist. And yes, he voted for Trump.

No-one in the US is a racist but, at least where I lived (Texas), the whites hate the blacks and latinos, the blacks hate the whites and latinos, the latinos probably have the most balanced outlook and they all hate the yellows. Its a mad place to be. Hence, now back in the UK.

paulguitar

23,104 posts

112 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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fatbutt said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'm fairly certain it's not all racism.
Not that they'd admit to. Wife's dad once said they 'should string up that n*gger' when referring to Obama. And he's swears he's not racist. And yes, he voted for Trump.

No-one in the US is a racist but, at least where I lived (Texas), the whites hate the blacks and latinos, the blacks hate the whites and latinos, the latinos probably have the most balanced outlook and they all hate the yellows. Its a mad place to be. Hence, now back in the UK.
It’s very sad, but I think racism is very much alive and well in the USA. It is as well to remember that the US was an ‘apartheid’ setup until really relatively recently. I am not sure if anyone here has read a book called ‘Black Like Me’, but that is an eye opener of how things were not too long ago.

My feeling when spending some time in Charleston, South Carolina, was that bubbling under the surface there are plenty of white folks who would be quite comfortable to go back to something close to how things were a couple of generations ago. I think for many of those types of folks, having a partly black president was all a bit much really.


The orange baboon has, I think, made them feel better about themselves.

Byker28i

58,851 posts

216 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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So deripaska, the Russian oligarch who's linked to Manafort, has got the tapes and recordings from Rybka, the escort that was arrested in Thailand following a visit from the Russians to the police, after she said she had these tapes.

She's said she'd been promised something in return for not publishing the tapes. Life probably.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory...

Byker28i

58,851 posts

216 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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The Manafort jury has been sent home again, told not to talk about the trial with anyone or read anything, watch the news, as trump rants about the trial, calls Manafort a good man, says it's a sad day he's on trial.
Surely that's attempting to influence the jurors.

https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/08/20/mana...

paua

5,649 posts

142 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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paulguitar said:
fatbutt said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'm fairly certain it's not all racism.
Not that they'd admit to. Wife's dad once said they 'should string up that n*gger' when referring to Obama. And he's swears he's not racist. And yes, he voted for Trump.

No-one in the US is a racist but, at least where I lived (Texas), the whites hate the blacks and latinos, the blacks hate the whites and latinos, the latinos probably have the most balanced outlook and they all hate the yellows. Its a mad place to be. Hence, now back in the UK.
It’s very sad, but I think racism is very much alive and well in the USA. It is as well to remember that the US was an ‘apartheid’ setup until really relatively recently. I am not sure if anyone here has read a book called ‘Black Like Me’, but that is an eye opener of how things were not too long ago.

My feeling when spending some time in Charleston, South Carolina, was that bubbling under the surface there are plenty of white folks who would be quite comfortable to go back to something close to how things were a couple of generations ago. I think for many of those types of folks, having a partly black president was all a bit much really.


The orange baboon has, I think, made them feel better about themselves.
What does it tell you about someone, who continually needs to put others down, in order to feel good about themselves. It's a rhetorical Q, I know the answer.

paulguitar

23,104 posts

112 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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paua said:
paulguitar said:
fatbutt said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'm fairly certain it's not all racism.
Not that they'd admit to. Wife's dad once said they 'should string up that n*gger' when referring to Obama. And he's swears he's not racist. And yes, he voted for Trump.

No-one in the US is a racist but, at least where I lived (Texas), the whites hate the blacks and latinos, the blacks hate the whites and latinos, the latinos probably have the most balanced outlook and they all hate the yellows. Its a mad place to be. Hence, now back in the UK.
It’s very sad, but I think racism is very much alive and well in the USA. It is as well to remember that the US was an ‘apartheid’ setup until really relatively recently. I am not sure if anyone here has read a book called ‘Black Like Me’, but that is an eye opener of how things were not too long ago.

My feeling when spending some time in Charleston, South Carolina, was that bubbling under the surface there are plenty of white folks who would be quite comfortable to go back to something close to how things were a couple of generations ago. I think for many of those types of folks, having a partly black president was all a bit much really.


The orange baboon has, I think, made them feel better about themselves.
What does it tell you about someone, who continually needs to put others down, in order to feel good about themselves. It's a rhetorical Q, I know the answer.
And therein, I suppose, is what fuels racists. It's pathetic, really.

vonuber

17,868 posts

164 months

Monday 20th August 2018
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This was n interesting article:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive...

The fault line in America really does run deep.

Byker28i

58,851 posts

216 months

Tuesday 21st August 2018
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The donald's now threatening another former CIA official Phillip Judd because he didn't like his tv interview where he was was critical of trump
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