The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1)

She misspelled “everything is misinformation”, which would cover when Trump inevitably contradicts himself.

Unless you hear it directly from President Trump, it is all misinformation.

It’s the Führerprinzip extended to information.

Directly from Trump or from Goebbels, that’s the informational Führerprinzip.

Jeff Session just lost his primary race. :smiley:

Well of course, Der Fuhrer opposed him.

Wasn’t there some 3 letter job thing during the Great Depression? We might need to bring it back if movie theaters, bars, inside dining, live theaters, sports etc won’t be able to go “packed to the gills crowds” again. For a year or maybe ever.

Some kind of jobs that out of work people can do w/o much training or education. That pays a living wage.

It’s on the tip of my tongue. AMA? BLM? Oh, yeah, WPA Works Progress Administration: WPA & New Deal - HISTORY

Unfortunately, under the Trump Administration I could see “boondoggle” coming back into vogue.

Which is a shame as our infrastructure (bridges so very much) need re-built. There’s a little highway bridge near us that now has a sign up restricting it to one truck at a time. I believe hubby said 6,000 pounds one way and said one of our “just a truck” (not a semi) weighs ~5,000 pounds. Semis weigh a lot more…

I guess that’s why I haven’t heard any jake brakes the last month. That’s going to suck for the farmers who used to run semis of cattle/ pigs to the processing plants and corn/ soybeans either way to the co-ops on that road.

Trump collects another scalp hanging from his belt.

So what’s this guy Turdville like? Haven’t seen too much detail about him. Is he any semblance of a reasonable conservative Republican? Or a totally whacked-out right-wing Trumpist loon? One detail I see is that he has essentially zero political experience. And there’s some aura of financial impropriety around him?

When he faces Doug Jones in November, is he a shoo-in?

Construction work seems to be considered “essential” in some regions. So let’s put the unemployed masses to work rebuilding all the theaters, bars, restaurants, and all other indoor and/or large venues. Re-build them all six times larger than they were, with seats physically spaced out, so they can all accommodate the same number of people as before, without crowding!

Win-Win-Win! I should get a Nobel Prize for this oh-so-obvious suggestion!

My husband and 2 adult kids have been “essential” this whole pandemic. Their company doing steel stuff … is looking at going gone. As in … despite military contracts… the rest of what they do isn’t enough to keep people working.

There hasn’t been … not a suggestion or actual plan… from this government.

Actually opposite stuff.

:frowning:

Cheer up, it’s an anecdote, not data. Worth equally as much, both of my kids would slog through a blizzard to vote against Trump, even though Joe wasn’t 1st choice of any one of us.

Thanks! I do feel better now. There are all types out there, true. Let’s hope the “throw away my vote” young’uns are concentrated in states where (thanks to our stupid electoral college system), they’re actually right — this particular vote DOESN’T really matter much.

If it’s any consolation, I’m related to one young’un who would really prefer Bernie, but is constantly posting material on social media (from good sources) about the importance of getting DTS and his bootlickers out of Washington, even if it means voting for Biden. She (and her friends) have the sense to realize that even if Biden doesn’t stand for all the changes they want to see, he’s likely to be surrounded by people who have a more progressive view.

Yay!!

No idea but I’m enjoying the irony of an Alabama candidate named Tuber-ville representing the GOP. :rofl:
I do hope he never hears the end of people taking the piss out of him.
It’s juvenile, I know. Let me have my cheap laughs.

I like irony, especially directed against bad Repubs, but what’s so especially funny about his name-- are you thinking dick joke? And how is it pronounced? I figured “TUBE-erville” but on the news I heard it pronounced “TUB-erville”.

Oh wait, I just got it-- because he’s dumb as a:

I guess I am too :roll_eyes:

Some here watched trump’s so-called press conference yesterday, right?

The Washington Post quoted some things from it that sound completely wacko, even from trump (and that’s saying a lot). Is this right?

Biden would “incentivize illegal alien child smuggling,” Trump announced.

He would “abolish immigration enforcement," “abolish our police departments” and “abolish our prisons, I guess.”

Biden’s party is even “calling for defunding of our military,” Trump alleged.

And, yes, Biden’s energy plan “basically means no windows” in homes or offices by 2030, he said, and “cold office space in the winter and warm office space in the summer.”

Um, Biden would abolish windows?

“I’m not making this up!” Trump said, mid-jeremiad. (Actually, he was.)

He alleged that Democratic mayors possibly “wouldn’t mind” if terrorists “blow up our cities.”

“We could go on for days,” he said after 40 minutes. Indeed, the only limitation was Trump’s, and his staff’s, imaginations.

Trump’s instability seemed to have been set off by Biden himself, who earlier Tuesday did the very opposite of what Trump did: He delivered a reasoned and measured speech about his infrastructure plans, hewing closely to the teleprompter and taking no questions, and eschewing liberal favorites from the Green New Deal. “Look, these aren’t pie-in-the-sky dreams,” Biden said. “These are actionable policies.”

Confronted with an opponent who is conspicuously reasonable, Trump has pretended he is running against somebody else. He has tried to brand Biden as senile and corrupt, and his allies have tried to brand the presumptive Democratic nominee a sexual predator and a pedophile.

He has “the most extreme platform of any major party nominee by far in American history.”

Source, yeah, it’s paywalled, but I’ve quoted the best parts, and an annual subscription is only $29. For amazon prime members the digital subscription is free.

Dammit! why am I just now finding this out??

Tuberville is a successful college football coach (Auburn University). For 50% of the Alabama electorate, that puts him in demi-god status irrespective of any actual political opinions he may hold. Fortunately, the other 50% are University of Alabama fans who think he’s the anti-Christ.

That isn’t quite the same thing you get for $29, I don’t think. That is an app that lets you view the Washington Post in the app. A subscription allows you to view the Washington Post website directly.

I don’t know if the app also allows you to view the website directly; perhaps ThelmaLou or someone else who uses it can clarify.

So he’s a gym teacher. Excellent.