45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 6)

[Byker28i]

Trump is still tweeting pictures of existing fencing as proof of new walls being built. It‘s replacing a structure from 1990 in California and it's a 30 foot section, part of the $18m existing refurbishment project.

I mean, it's not like he's done this before - oh wait
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/28/tr...


Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Fake News Media keeps saying we haven’t built any NEW WALL. Below is a section just completed on the Border. Anti-climbing feature included. Very high, strong and beautiful! Also, many miles already renovated and in service!

[JonChalk]

Byker28i said:

You've got to love Sarah Sanders response - she's unemployable outside so is staying to the bitter end

If you get a chance, History Channel's "Hitler's Circle of Evil" (& for the record, I am NOT comparing Trump to Hitler!) did a pretty good job of explaining / documenting how people with good intentions or a desire for power, believing it to be "everlasting", (or to be associated with it) get sucked into a path there is little escape from. Though, in some cases, they actually don't want to escape (Goebbels + family, as an example).
Repeat: For the record, NOT comparing Trump to Hitler.

[Byker28i]

JonChalk said:

Byker28i said:

You've got to love Sarah Sanders response - she's unemployable outside so is staying to the bitter end

If you get a chance, History Channel's "Hitler's Circle of Evil" (& for the record, I am NOT comparing Trump to Hitler!) did a pretty good job of explaining / documenting how people with good intentions or a desire for power, believing it to be "everlasting", (or to be associated with it) get sucked into a path there is little escape from. Though, in some cases, they actually don't want to escape (Goebbels + family, as an example).
Repeat: For the record, NOT comparing Trump to Hitler.

There's probably similar through out history, an obvious one would be Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, also known as Baghdad Bob, Sadam Hussain's spokeman

[Gameface]

The famous Chemical Ali could be another.

Nothing to see here.

[Byker28i]

An interesting report about the Wall GoFundMe, stating the real reason for all of Brian Kolfage fundraising was actually to build valuable email lists, and some of the other ways he's used fundraising to finance himself

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/behind-vira...

[Number_Six]

That's a first - reading about a triple amputee veteran and thinking 'What a tosser'!

[Seventy]

Byker28i said:

The NY Times are reporting that law enforcement officials were so concerned by Trump's actions after firing Comey that the FBI began investigating whether Trump was a Russian agent.

And, right on time:

[Gameface]

He just can't say anything without childish name calling. The man's in his 70's FFS!!

[Seventy]

He hasn’t finished yet.
Unfortunately you only get 280 characters on Twitter so he couldn’t fit ‘whatabout’ in.

[Gameface]

Sigh...

Pitiful really isn't it.

[paulguitar]

Gameface said:

Sigh...

Pitiful really isn't it.

It really is. What a tiny, pathetic man.

[anonymous-user]

Gameface said:

He just can't say anything without childish name calling. The man's in his 70's FFS!!

Thing is he's an angry moron, we shouldn't exactly expect an measured or reasoned, or in fact, even logical response......

[Countdown]

JonChalk said:

Byker28i said:

Lindsey Graham
@LindseyGrahamSC

Mr. President,

Declare a national emergency NOW.

Build a wall NOW.

....or if you could bring yourself to believe in a devious, calculating GOP (rather than the dim-witted, scared GOP), "let's keep pushing Trump to do stupid things, so that it makes it easier to disown him at a critical point later".

Granted this logic is flawed on so many levels, I don't really know why I suggested it :-).

There is another explanation - that the GOP and their supporters genuinely believe in what Trump is trying to do. IIRC 77% of GOP voters want the Wall. The Wall was one of the BIG things Trump promised during his campaign. We might not like it but that’s democracy and that’s what a lot of people voted for.

[JonChalk]

Countdown said:

There is another explanation - that the GOP and their supporters genuinely believe in what Trump is trying to do. IIRC 77% of GOP voters want the Wall. The Wall was one of the BIG things Trump promised during his campaign. We might not like it but that’s democracy and that’s what a lot of people voted for.

I think that's a sub-set of dim-witted and scared GOP though ;-) (joke, Byker, not disagreeing)

[minimoog]

Countdown said:

There is another explanation - that the GOP and their supporters genuinely believe in what Trump is trying to do. IIRC 77% of GOP voters want the Wall. The Wall was one of the BIG things Trump promised during his campaign. We might not like it but that’s democracy and that’s what a lot of people voted for.

Maybe so, but a responsible GOP (lol I know right) wouldn't be enabling this goal via a phony 'national emergency'.

[ou sont les biscuits]

Countdown said:

There is another explanation - that the GOP and their supporters genuinely believe in what Trump is trying to do. IIRC 77% of GOP voters want the Wall. The Wall was one of the BIG things Trump promised during his campaign. We might not like it but that’s democracy and that’s what a lot of people voted for.

But the campaign promise was that Mexico would pay. Now, it's American taxpayers, if he gets his way. Also, he could have pushed this through when the GOP controlled the House and the Senate. Why is it an issue now? If it was an issue during the campaign in 2016, he's been sitting on his fanny since he assumed office.

[Seventy]

Lest we forget.

[anonymous-user]

It's incredible isn't it, there really is a Tweet for every occasion isn't there!

(What it shows is that these people have a long history of sitting on their ass blaming everyone else for everything, but not actually doing ANYTHING themselves. Years of sitting there thinking "I could do better than that" despite actually not having any experience or skill to do any better, and so falling into all the same, usually blindingly obvious, traps.........

[hidetheelephants]

Seventy said:

He hasn’t finished yet.
Unfortunately you only get 280 characters on Twitter so he couldn’t fit ‘whatabout’ in.

I can't read those any more without hearing Colbert doing his 'dotdotdot, dotdotdots'.

[Eric Mc]

It's beyond parody - and has been for a long time. America needs to be delivered from this nightmare - somehow.