Trump got his job by his hate for the country.
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I think Muellerās unsolicited speech yesterday was perfect. It clearly pissed Trump off, and heās got no coherent response to it. Just look at this word salad to the press. Golf club fees as a basis for a conflict of interest? How much of a refund are we talking here? Low four figures? High three figures? I mean come on. All this is such clear bs. Mueller speaks the formal language of law enforcement and, while Trump may be spewing out whatever flies into his head, ultimately the court is where this needs to be decidedāand with āthe courtā Iām including the House and impeachment. Thatās a political process, yes, but it has a formal, constitutional basis for prosecuting crimes. Trumpās crimes are documented in Muellerās report, which should be performed, reenacted, or otherwise dramatized in the House for public consumption on screen. This garbage coming out of his mouth, bad as it is, is just distraction.
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Trump Middle School is definitely in the future for some hapless students and teachers. I canāt imagine what their mascot will be, but the locker rooms will be hellish. No honor code, though.
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What a liar. Journalists should stop meekly accepting this con manās lies and tell him to his face heās spreading falsehoods.
Stop treating him as if heās president, and not an illegitimate Russian puppet.
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All true but how levels of panic are still ahead of us? To be followed by more pathetic presidential behavior. Things get ramped up till they canāt get any tighter/more intense, and then the networks and cable news explain it all to us, to then be repeated. Meanwhile Democrats have a Tea Party House rep leading the call for impeachment. But better yet, if we just wait long enough ā¦ everything will be fine.
Just caught some of this on MSNBC it had an air of panic and desperation to it. Muellerās press conference yesterday really shook him. Now Congress/Dems need to keep the pressure on him.
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Yeah, thereās going to be orange slime everywhere
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Maybe helping Elaine find a new shell company for their cash? Or trying a new lipless smile in the mirror?
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Him being caravaned to Walter Reed with a big shot of thorazine in his ass has always been in the range of possible endings to his presidency.
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Trump is an ass, but he understands how media works nowadaysā¦
I guarantee you that ābusiness disputeā will be used by every GOP commentator on CNN today and none of the anchors will stop the commentator, turn off their mike, and tell them that CNN is not going to play a role in Trumpās gaslighting propaganda.
No, they will let these liars tell five or six MORE lies, then turn to Ana Navarro and askā¦
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I needed that. Still laughing
Brick 1 My Life
Brick 2 Trump Wins!
Brick 3 Any day
And it looked liked a perfectly good washing machine.
Trump is not bright. When he spews certain things you just know the claim emanates from an advisor on his staff. Someone is whispering in his ear heās King and Emperor.
The president insisted the courts would protect him from impeachment. āI canāt imagine the courts allowing it,ā he said.
āSome day you ought to read a thing called Article II,ā he told reporters. āRead Article II, which gives the president powers that you wouldnāt believe. But I donāt even have to rely on Article II. There was no crime.ā
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/here-are-the-5-craziest-moments-from-trumps-bonkers-white-house-lawn-mueller-statement/
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He is looking more puffy than normal. In addition he looks totally exhausted. He doesnāt seem to get much sleep. It is pretty clear that he just canāt understand why most of the country isnāt supporting him. I wouldnāt be surprised if he doesnāt have some sort of medical issue in the next week or two.
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When using a dart gun, always aim for the largest target. You nailed itā¦
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What a liar. Journalists should stop meekly accepting this con manās lies and tell him to his face heās spreading falsehoods.
Stop treating him as if heās president, and not an illegitimate Russian puppet
[/quote]Some actual journalists should (quite often) say something like: āWith all respect to the office of the presidency, which you yourself do not have at all, you are lying againā and then ask a critical follow up question that will require some preparation time before the press gaggle or conference.
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Iāll trust you on this - I have to look away and plug my ears every time!
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Conservatives get free reign to engage in judicial activism and stretch the boundaries of the law by calling it originalism. Mueller should have ignored the Justice Department OLC memo and issued indictments. Heās a old school by the books guy so he didnāt want to go there.
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Rosenstein: āDo you love Comey?ā
Mueller: āYes, I love him.ā
Rosenstein: āBut do you really, really, deeply love him?ā
Mueller: āYes. I most definitely do.ā
Rosenstein: āYouāre hired.ā
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Paul Krugman
Opinion Columnist
āBe a mensch,ā my parents told me. If your ethnic or social background was different, your parents might have told you to āman up,ā be a stand-up guy, or whatever. And yes, the notion used to be gendered. But one imagines and hopes that many parents are saying something equivalent to their daughters.
Whatever the words used, the values our elders were trying to instill were clear: To be a good person ā maybe even more to the point, to be a grownup ā you had to be willing to take responsibility. You would do what needed to be done. You would be honest about and learn from your failures. A bit of pride in your achievements was O.K., but boasting and grandiosity werenāt. And you should never, ever whine.
Obviously few people ever lived up fully to this ideal. But many tried, and even those who didnāt at least pretended to be mensches. This was especially true of people who aspired to leadership positions. Who, after all, would follow a strutting, whining liar who wears his immaturity and insecurity on his sleeve, who boasts about imaginary successes while constantly blaming others for his very real failures?
The answer, unfortunately, seems to be a lot of Americans.
So what happened to us? How did we become the kind of society in which large numbers of people not only accept but admire Donald Trump, surely the least mensch-like person ever to occupy the White House, possibly the least mensch-like public figure in American history?
The ascendancy of the toddler-in-chief didnāt come out of nowhere. Way back in 2006 I wrote about the Bush administrationās āmensch gap,ā its officialsā inability to accept responsibility for the botched occupation of Iraq, the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, and so on. Readers of a certain age may go back even further, and remember how shocking it seemed at the time when a self-centered blowhard like Newt Gingrich became speaker of the House. But with Trump the demenschification of American leadership has reached its apotheosis.
The infantilization of our politicians presumably has deeper cultural roots, although I canāt claim any special understanding of what those roots may be. What I will say is that something has gone very wrong with at least that aspect of American values ā and to me, at least, this particular kind of moral collapse seems far more important than any of the things most pundits who rant about declining values like to talk about.
The good news is that this hasnāt happened to everyone in political life. In case you hadnāt realized this already, one thing made very clear by the events surrounding last weekās Trump infrastructure tantrum was that Nancy Pelosi is every bit the mensch Trump isnāt: self-possessed, disciplined, someone who is trying to do her job rather than gratify her ego. The whole disgusting tale of the doctored video purporting to show Pelosi drunk was in a way a tribute to her virtues; even to pretend to bring her down to Trumpās level the right had to engage in outright fraud.
And as far as I can tell, all the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination are also adults. Iād like to think that this will matter in the general election. But to be honest, Iām not sure that it will.
I personally believe, looking back at history, many people and races in charge have been whiney about how great they are, beneath them everyone else is, take credit for all good things, and no blame for any bad. Donald is just one of the worst that has made it to the current top of the heap of shit the Republican party has been pushing for decades.