People who are as narcissistic as he is do not put themselves in a position to be ridiculed.
“How did Shakespeare predict trump?” How did Serling?
“This is Roswell G. Flemington, two hundred and seventeen pounds of gristle, lung tissue and sound decibels. He is, as you have perceived, a noisy man, one of a breed who substitutes volume for substance, sound for significance, and shouting to cover up the readily apparent phenomenon that he is nothing more than an overweight and aging perennial Sea Scout whose noise-making is in inverse ratio to his competence and his character. But soon our would-be admiral of the fleet will embark on another voyage. This one is an uncharted and twisting stream that heads for a distant port called…the Twilight Zone.”
“And where some men leave a mark of their lives as a record of their fragmentary existence on Earth, this man leaves a blot, a dirty, discolored blemish to document a cheap and undistinguished sojourn amongst his betters.”-
“Where will he go next? This phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare. Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there’s hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s bigotry. He’s alive. He’s alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He’s alive because, through these things, we keep him alive.”
Seriously? You’re asking why aids who want to keep their jobs might deny the claims are true? And any disgruntled aides know turning out to be a snitch isn’t going to help their careers.
Um. Sure. All you’d need is someone who could pose as multiple White House insiders; feed Woodward, et al organized lies credible enough to be true but NOT so credible as to be tough to DISprove; convince them all these lies are true without providing proof; keep all the lies straight; gather proof of a negative; and then arrange for the big reveal. Easy-peasy.
Well, we haven’t SEEN the proof firsthand, that’s true, but it’s a big leap from “They’re unproven” to “Maybe the plan is REALLY a diabolically clever plot to fool all those gullible journalists!”
Sure you could be right. It’s extremely unLIKELY, but it’s possible. It’s also possible that Trump had a secret alliance with Barack Obama to act like a big buffoon and derail the GOP so the Dems could reveal all and show up the GOP as fools. In other words, incredibly unlikely.
On the cui bono principle, it’s not hard to see who can sit back and smile at the spectacle of general chaos and loss of confidence in American institutions, whoever in the end is telling the truth and whoever isn’t. Putin doesn’t care if his useful idiot goes under the bus or survives: the job is done when enough people are unsure who to believe.
I take it that you are not familiar with 4D chess. The basic plan is:
- Look like a fucking idiot, who’s only interesting in enriching himself and his self-image, and shows utter contempt for American institutions, the american public, the wider world and even reality itself.
- ???
- MAGA!
If he gets impeached maybe we’ll find out what (2) was?
It sounds like yet another way to keep in denial about how dumb Trump is, by claiming his apparent stupidity is a clever and deliberate facade. Perhaps this approach might buy you a few more months of self-delusion before the final crash.
I wouldn’t count on months. It was just a week or so ago that they were trying out the “Don’t worry about Trump being an idiot. We’ve surrounded him by smart assistants who manage him.” theory.
We heard that same reassurance about Dubya, too. How’d that work out?
Y’see, there’s two separate issues here:
One, that the focus on Trump’s scandals and on his personal ignorance, intemperate character and low morals is a distraction from the ultraright being allowed to run rampant dismantling every safeguard against an oligarchy that rules at whim and will a people deprived of any safety net other than the favor of the powerful; something which should be fought against regardless of who’s the figurehead.
The other, that Trump is embroiled in multiple scandals as well as personally ignorant, intemperate and of low moral character, which is also something that should not be tolerated from the man in power.
You don’t have to exclusively choose the one or the other.
In comparative terms, with W it was brilliant, which just goes to show how bad it has gotten since. His problem was he was too eager to *follow *the advice of those who “knew better”.
That is charitable at best. Under the W Administration, we got involved in two destructive wars, one of which is still ongoing and the other created a power vacuum that directly lead to the rise of ISIS, and of course an extralegal “detainment camp” in Guantanamo Bay which will remain open for the foreseeable future even though nearly everyone agrees that it was a poorly conceived and badly managed solution for what to do with non-state “enemy combatants”, many of which were misidentified and of the remaining there is no country willing to receive them even if we wanted to release them. The federal deficit rose to new levels and saddled the nation with a debt it can likely never pay down significantly, resulting in currency weakness, notwithstanding the 2007–8 mortgage crisis (although the roots for that go well back into financial deregulation during the Clinton Administration).
The W Administration was comparatively better insofar as George W Bush, the frat boy clown that he was, could at least rise to the occasion of sounding presidential when necessary, and the people scamming the system weren’t as blatant about it as Scott Pruitt or Steve Mnuchin. Oh, and Russia was not clearly manipulating and coordinating with people in the election campaign who were then appointed to senior advisory positions. So…there’s that. On the other hand, Dick Cheney was competently evil incarnate in a way that Steve Bannon wishes he could be.
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So the words that come out of Trump’s own mouth are false?
If it is faked then I have much greater respect for the man. He has laid the groundwork for this over more than thirty years of consistent public statements and actions.
Stage 1: President Trump is brilliant, you only say he sounds stupid because of your liberal bias and fake news.
Stage 2: Well, maybe Trump says things that are not quite real now and then, but he’s just trolling liberals in service to a larger greater plan for America.
Stage 3: Well, maybe Trump says things that are not quite real pretty often, but it’s a negotiation tactic that’s made him rich and will make America rich, too.
Stage 4: Well, maybe Trump says things that are not quite real every day, but Congress will keep him in check.
Stage 5: Well, maybe Trump says things that are not quite real several times a day, but his inner circle will keep him in check.
Stage 6: Well, maybe Trump says things that are not quite real constantly, but it’s in service to a deep plan that will MAGA, you’ll see.
Stage 7: President Pence is brilliant, you only say he sounds stupid because of your liberal bias and fake news
Well, we got through eight years without a nuclear holocaust. I am not as optimistic about the administration of Donald Trump.
They don’t come from “an elite source,” they come from dozens of sources and reported by professional journalists with strong track records for factual reporting. Trump himself, according to Washington Post fact checkers, has made thousands of false statements since taking office. The Post is no friend of Trump, but facts are facts.
Much of the Dope embraces facts over emotional accusations. Your statement seems to missing any facts.
Bush did some stupid things, but Trump is trying to subjugate our form of government and assume absolute power. He thinks that our government works like his real estate business, where he says something and everybody jumps on it because he controls the money. I think his staff is at least trying to preserve our form of government.
Trump is working from the assumption that the President is the boss of the country, and has no concept of how to be the servant of the citizens.
This is almost certainly bang-on, but Trump is not alone in that assumption. A lot of Americans seem to think that the president is boss of the country, and therefore everything is or should be under his control (if they like him) or everything is his fault (if they don’t).
You’re right. It’s pretty much all lies. Trump’s tweets? Never happened.
The “porn star scandal”? Made up. There was never a non-disclosure agreement!
Many on Trump’s staff think he’s incompetent and work to “restrain” him? That’s just made up talk that the blind liberal left want you to believe!
If you believe these things are true, you’re desperate and blind. You’re biased. You just don’t admit that your side does it too, and worse! How can you believe what the media tells you, they’re just getting big money from Hollywood liberal elites!? If Bill Clinton had done it, you wouldn’t even care, you hypocrites. But Trump didn’t even do it. It’s fake news!