âAnd Iâm not a lawyer, so let me be clear on that, too, Iâm not a lawyer, so it wasnât fair of me to be giving him legal advice,â he said. âBut I knew a bit about immigration laws. And so on occasion I would have to say to him: âWell, we canât do it that way.â And I think I said, you know, âitâs going to get challenged in the court and youâre going to lose, you know.ââ
âI donât know nothinâ about nothinâ, but Iâm not an idiotâ
When Rex Tillerson looks like one of the good guys, you know weâre in real trouble.
Iâm trying to figure out why Tillerson would perjure himself before this committee, because obviously everything he said is a lie.
âThe President was on a steep learning curve,â he continued. âAnd so sometimes I would use material that I would put in front of himâŚâ
The only surprise here is that anyone thinks this is a surprise. Even back in his prime, Trump was a clueless conman in regards to real estate, which should have been his expertise. He was even worse at everything else, which is how he turned a vast fortune into a giant pile of debt while disgracing himself every step of the way.
Even now I see people looking for method to his madness, but itâs all madness. Had he spent his life doing drugs and playing video games, itâd have been the smartest thing he could have done. Sad!
âThe President was on a steep learning curve,â he continued. âI mean, he didnât know a lot of the legal aspects of the immigration laws or certainly other aspects of how the government operates within the congressional law making system and oversight. And so, you know, these were early days when he was doing a lot of learning on it.â
Followup question.
What constitutes steep to a fucking moron?
these were early days when he was doing a lot of learning on it.
What days are we in now?
Trump being King of the World.
Even the President of Iran can see that the President is developmentally disabled.
Only the GOP pretends to be blind to it.
Pretends? The GOP doesnât need to pretend that they are deaf, dumb, and blind. They think they are clever!
I used to be a TA (teacherâs assistant) in a class for intellectually handicapped kids. You know what? They tried so hard! Most of them wanted to understand and remember. I really admired that.
Trump is insane, stupid, and lazy. What my grandfather (born late 1800s, died late 70s) would have called âA bumâ. Nothing but a lazy bum.
They are all aware of exactly what he is - a moron. They know it. They pretend he isnât as they prop him up.
Jared Kushner having secret meetings with Arab leaders is absolutely something that should be among the biggest scandals in American history. But, like out and out rape by our president, it is the new normal and barely gets a rise out of either side.
We have, quite effectively, been buried in bullshit by Trump and the right and appear feckless and powerless because we continue to use sanity, norms and process in an effort to return to sanity. You cannot win a chess game against someone who does not play chess and whose strategy is to overturn the board each time you try to set it up.
The longer I watch this, with the SCOTUS giving an all clear for radical weaponized gerrymandering, the growing intransigence of a Senate where 30% of the populace is represented by 70% of the senators and the stacking of the Federal judiciary is happening at a rate not thought possible 10 years ago, the more I start to arrive at a very scary conclusion. I am starting to think that democracy is going to lose and the American experiment is going to fail. I am no longer sure that we can vote our way out of this.
Well, the Conman is not the only GOP moron.
But I quibble. Weâre on the same page.
I feel your pain. But much worse, I feel it too.
That certainly is huge and so is âNone of your business.â He is just growing the inevitability of his impeachment.
it caused me to have to get very, very focused on, you know, whatâs the
most important thing I want him to remember about this discussion,â
Indeed. I think what will happen is the states will continue to polarize and if you want any semblance of a decent life, you will have to live in a blue (or at the very least, purple) state. The trick is to keep those states viable in terms of affordabilityâŚ
Yes - that ânone of your businessâ just disappeared. Itâs appalling and outrageous.