What’s starting to scare me is that it’s beginning to get fun writing à la Tan the Conman’s “stream of consciousness”.
The 25th Amendment is a paper kitten. It’s completely meaningless. So long as the twerp (a) stays alive and (b) keeps his business interests, those toadies he has put on the Cabinet will never remove him from office. They will remain in fear of the monetary retribution he will exact. There are only two ways for this disaster to end before the next election: (1) impeachment or (2) TTC’s death (which, given his diet should be on the radar by now).
Removing a dangerous person from the office is self-defense. He’s dangerous and he’s destroying the country. There is literally nothing he has done while in office that is not one of the following: illegal, unconstitutional, detrimental to the country and/or our allies, or abjectly self-serving and profitable to himself.
Nope. He’s racist and this is one of the few things he’s come by honestly.
You are wrong. His attempts at establishing racist and bigoted policies have launched him into very public embarrassments that have not always worked out for him. Yes, he’s gotten attention, but that’s not the only thing TTC craves. He craves thanks, nay, worship. He will always do racist shit because he is a racist. Look at the racist shit he’s pulled when awarding minority members of law enforcement and/or the military. If he had the idea that mouthing that nonsense would make him look bad, then he wouldn’t do it. He does racist shit because he is a racist shit.
Well, that just shows that TTC’s a fucking racist, doesn’t it? He lives, breathes, and spits racist shit because, again, he is a racist shit.
Oh, and that’s not a bad line you have there. But I think it’d be better to say "Calling Trump racist is like calling Dahmer a Nouveau Cuisine chef. He’s cooking natural stuff; the problem is the natural stuff he’s using.
Apparently he tweeted from the presidential toilet that he can use the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
Wow, was that really his Twitter account? I’ve avoided it all this time because not only does he sicken me but also I don’t get how Twitter works. Message boards are so much easier to understand. Anyway, awful lot of idiots on there declaring that “Americans” stand with him and other barf-inducing comments.
To bring more tears, the administration is whining that they don’t need to vaccinate children in their custody because they expect the incarceration to last just a few days, while at the same time, Trump and his flacks are saying that they’ll keep the kids indefinitely.
I missed a turn somewhere, I’m confused. Trump announces he will hold off on imposing more tariffs until after the Christmas season. The Grinch who postponed stealing Christmas. But then I read he’s threatening to raise tariffs five to ten percent in the next couple of months. So, is that extra crunchy goodness on tariffs he isn’t gong to impose until later? Like, the tariff of twenty five percent he’s going to stick later becomes the thirty-five percent he will impose later? Or is it a ten percent tariff he’s going to go ahead and impose now and not wait till later?
And if we decide to hang stockings for Christmas this year, where can I get some clear coal to put in them?
On public radio yesterday, someone pointed out that the US has an election coming up, in fifteen months. Meanwhile, in China, no such election is coming up so the US might cave earlier than China.
Clear coal can be found in any jewelry store - ask to see their diamonds. Clean coal has to be requested from Santa; only a magical being can provide a magical fossil fuel.
The discussion between k9bfriender and Blank Slate and Monty is making me smile this morning. (Dialog paraphrased)
k9: Trump is a hateful, horrible, narcissistic misanthrope.
BS: No, Trump is a hateful, horrible racist.
k9: Yes, but even more so, he is a hateful, horrible, narcissistic misanthrope.
M: No, he’s a hateful, horrible racist.
A nice, pedantic debate about what kind of hateful, horrible bigot the president is. Everything must be labeled properly before the discussion is put away. That is so dope.
Maybe none of them heard the siren call of the 850 Spider in college, or could afford something more reliable, like an English sports car. :eek: But not prettier, the Spider having been designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, a demigod of Italian design.
It’ll be more fun when you can write them from the perspective of him sitting on his toilet in his jail cell while being under suicide watch.
They won’t let him have a phone, so we will just have to fill in for him.
Yeah, 25 is really meant for when the President is actually incapable of performing duties, like he’s severely disabled or in a coma. It’s harder to justify it just because he’s dangerously insane. It’s technically harder than impeachment if he contests it at all. I only bring it up as it is one of very few legal methods of removal, and in a rational world, being dangerously insane should invoke the 25th.
His death concerns me a bit too. He needs to be brought down first, otherwise, he’s a martyr. Pretty sure it wasn’t long ago in this thread that someone mentioned that cults have a living leader, religions have a dead leader. We don’t need Trumpism to turn into a religion.
We just have to keep on working on changing public perception. Congress is not going to lead on this one, they are going to follow. As soon as it seems likely that an impeachment will be confirmed in the senate, the articles will be passed, but until then, I think that Pelosi et al. see it as too much of a gamble with too much potential for blowback.
No, I agree and want him out. I just am not sure that we can get him out through the legal avenues that are made available to us. The impeachment process is meant to be hard, and it is made harder because there are a number of people who are also finding ways of profiting from having him in office, and as long as that is the case, it will not succeed in the senate.
He’s rewarded for racist behavior, so he continues with racist behavior.
He’s a sociopath, he doesn’t hate black people any more than he hates white people, he just sees more reward in being public with his hate towards minorities.
A racist hates minorities because he believes that somehow or other, those minorities cause him harm by existing. Trump talks about his hatred towards minorities because his followers like it.
It’s just that calling him a racist risks dismissing his actions as simply motivated by racism, when they are much more dangerous, they are motivated by wanting to impress and ingratiate himself with racists.
The point is is that he takes the same actions as a racist, but it is not motivated by racism, or at least, not solely by racism.
I guess the reason that I make the distinction is because I see many racists who are willing to accept harm to themselves, so long as it results in harm to those they don’t like. Trump is not willing to accept harm to himself in order to harm others, but harms others in an attempt to satisfy his own greed. Not that that doesn’t cause him harm as well, but that is due to short sightedness and incompetence, rather than design. If Trump were motivated by mere racism, it would be easier to secure, contain, and protect.
China also has time. The Chinese are savers more than they are consumers, so even if their economic growth slides down to near 2-3% (it’s currently around 5-7%), they can endure more pain. And politically, Trump is making it a lot easier on Xi because Xi’s opponents within the CCP and ordinary people on the street are going to be less inclined to suggest that Xi Jinping provoked Trump, but rather Trump is a deranged nutcase looking for a fight. Increasingly, from the Chinese vantage point, it doesn’t matter what they say or do - Trump wants a fight and he wants to embarrass the Chinese, and China’s not going to just sit back and take it.
When the trade war started, Trump had the advantage - he still holds some advantages. The US was clearly set up to win a short to mid-range tactical trade war that could produce some concessions. No doubt, China is still very vulnerable. But increasingly, the advantage is shifting to China. Case in point, American farmers are in danger of losing the Chinese market not just for this year, but for a very, very long time. I would not expect the Chinese to just forgive and forget. They will punish those who voted for this idiot, and punish them good.