President Trump is being who he is. He called this 30 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD5lFC4SQQA
Hey, you must know alot about a candidate betraying you, you elected Obama.
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I did? How odd, I don’t even remember voting? In fact, I didn’t even know I was allowed to vote in American elections. Well, next time I’ll be sure to send my vote in. Thanks for reminding me.
But seriously, who is this President Trump you’re talking about? You’re president is Stephen Bannon.
At this point the difference is academic. When I say Trump, I mean the administration, unless I’m specifically referencing something he said. Doesn’t matter who it is (and it’s not all Bannon, some of that ignorance and inferiority complex is Trump’s own, I guarantee you). One way or the other, the bill gets charged to Trump. Not that he’ll ever pay it, of course, but it makes for a tremendous tab.
This country is being led by my unemployed racist uncle who watches Fox “News” all day and thinks that every complex problem has a simple solution (which by odd coincidence is usually whatever the propagandists on Fox are pushing).
Trump is delivering on what he promised during his primary and general election campaign. Voters were fully aware of Trump’s plans to curb illegal immigration and restrict travel from countries with terrorist ties. Trump and the Republicans views on Obamacare were a cornerstone of their campaigns
We’re getting what his voters wanted.
I am very, very angry at the asinine and clumsy way he announced travel restrictions. Dragging people off planes was the stupidest blunder imaginable. It gave the press a huge opportunity to play up all the sob stories and fuel protests. It’s one huge mess now.
I can’t understand why they didn’t just announce a 90 day pause on issuing Visas from those 7 countries with known links to terror. That would be a much better and less painful way to do it. Especially since it’s a temporary measure while new vetting procedures are drawn up.
I hope the new administration avoids these clumsy blunders in the future. They have to implement changes in a thoughtful and deliberate way.
Since there was no option for ‘a disaster of epic proportions’ I just had to go with ‘very negatively’ instead.
Trump is the source of the clumsiness.
To quote another poster: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Bolding mine. I don’t think Trump is capable of thoughtful and deliberate.
It wasn’t a blunder. It was brilliance. a few people got inconvenienced and the dying dinosaur media, the radicals, and Islamists cried. boo hoo.
There are still persons being detained, he didn’t give them a chance to get freshly minted ISIS /Syrian passports, nabbed these bastards mid stream.
Meanwhile He’s signing an EO today that for every new regulation. there needs to be TWO repealed.
It’s like someone cares about creating jobs in this country and culling our out of control, bloated government.
Awesome. I pray he gets the full 8 years. Buckle up, the Trump Train has o brakes!
If they can get freshly minted passports, then they should just get Saudi ones. They’ll get right into the country no problem. Trump won’t anger the Saudis because he has business interests there. Never mind that the 9/11 hijackers were all Saudis.
He has the best maths.
Brilliance. Yeah, OK. Care to take a guess how many American people have been killed by terrorists that hailed from any of those seven countries since 1975? Zero. Zip. Zilch. No one.
As for the two-for-one thing, that’s just plain ignorant. As usual, it’s a facile attempt at reducing government without any thought of the effects.
It’s like someone doesn’t think at all, he just throws rocks at problems so he can look like he’s doing something about them when, in fact, either the problems never existed in the first place or they are totally unsolvable by his asinine attempts at remedies.
Endlessly repeating President Bannon does not somehow make him the President either in fact or in effect. Do you honestly believe that Trump with his massive ego would allow anyone else to usurp his decision-making? The idea is absurd.
And I still view Trump positively. He has done precisely what he said he would do unlike many elected Presidents. For those who agree with many of the positions he took that is a good and refreshing thing. Opponents, naturally, will think otherwise.
Was it just on this particular day “bastards” were flying into the US, or do you consider anyone from any of these countries who’ve travelled to the US in the near past a “bastard”? Or to put a different way, are there actual thoughts behind your words?
Bannon is the real ideologue and the one with the policies. Bannon’s methods are all over the Trump campaign so we can be reasonably sure his has tremendous influence over Trump. Bannon’s fingerprints can be seen throughout Trump presidency to date. With so much of the presidency being influenced by and for his ideology Bannon is, in may ways, the president.
Is calling Bannon ‘president’ rhetorical? Of course.
Does it express the point succinctly? Yes because I’m certainly not going to write out “Bannon, the person with the dangerous ideology and intentions whose advice Trump follows religiously” repeatedly.
As stated elsewhere, I think focusing on Trump, who is a repugnant person, is dangerous. He will continue to outrage as a distraction while Bannon moves towards his goal of tearing down the system. He’s unlikely to tear it all down, but he will wreck as much of it as he possibly can.
Now, some might say, maybe the system needs to be torn down. I say that’s somewhat extreme, but if you’re going to tear down the system would it be nice to have somebody in charge who wants to replace it with something decent? Bannon is not a nice person (that’s got to be the understatement of the decade). Bannon’s America will not be a nice place. Given enough time and with no opposition, he will snuff out everything that ever made America a good and decent place.
It is strange to see the celebration of the incompetent policy implementation, the Yosemite Sam jumping up and down incompetence in policy.
Today my employer, a large international firm issued a travel warning on the United States suspending all the non essential business travel to the USA due to the large uncertainties on the issue of the implementation of the poorly written, poorly implemented and due to the phrasing that seems to indicate anyone suspected of having the citizenship tie to the countries can be stopped at the border. For the essential travel it must be cleared now.
It is something I have only seen before issued on the third world countries or the semi dictatorships like the Russian republic.
It is not a public document, it is not political posturing, it is official orientation after the legal review since the weekend, by the international lawyers advising my employer.
It is quite extraordinary. The idea some here celebrate the US having given itself a huge black eye and made to look like an unstable and irrational actor like Putin’s Russia is quite bizarre.
It’s also reducing a lot of travel out of the U.S., because people are afraid they won’t be let back in. This is bad for overseas tourism (as if he gives a damn: “America Only!”) but it hurts American travel agencies, airlines, and other U.S. jobs too.
He doesn’t comprehend how interlocked the world economy is. You can’t just hurt one small segment in isolation.
So some takeaways from this poll:
90.63% of poll voted negative, with at least most of that chunk for very negative. At least 7.26% was positive. 2.11% wouldn’t give a damn or was undecided.
Trump hasn’t done shit–except for cheap political theatrics. He hasn’t eliminated ISIS. He hasn’t reduced domestic terrorism. He hasn’t built a wall paid for by Mexico. (And even if he did, there is a net outflow Mexicans already.) He hasn’t brought back the 5 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2000.
Most of the “problems” he said he’d fix were imaginary anyway.
But since you’re so happy with his week of smoke and mirrors, I know a Nigerian prince who has a business arrangement you’re sure to love, and some land in Florida to sell you.
We’re still in Day 13 of the Trump Presidency.
So far in Day 13, he has made a hash of a boilerplate Black History Month observance, hung up on the Prime Minister of our close ally Australia, called into question whether we were going to honor a prior commitment to them, threatened to invade Mexico, been called out (fairly or not, too soon to tell, but still WTF) by our military for rushing them into the recent Yemen fiasco, and continued to remain silent as the Russian bombs fall on Ukraine.
Fast work by our Fuckup-in-Chief.