Grant's memoirs isn't the first thing to read, but it is an exceptional piece of writing.

yep, trump looked without glasses #solareclipse pic.twitter.com/PDzRNtXL4n

— kelly cohen (@politiCOHEN_) August 21, 2017

Of course he did :lol:

Catton was my Civil war era historian of choice during college.

I've now seen at least three different times Trump looked at the sun including one where he took off his glasses to do so.

The sun is fake news, we all know this.. It's a shill for Soros and the earth is flat, so Donnie's gonna expose that shit just like he has exposed all the corruption in government and become the greatest president of our time. MAGA you cucks!

Don't give the The_Donald subreddit any ideas!

Wow, coordinating military, diplomatic and economic power! Who but Trump could have ever thought of that?

so we're invading pakistan now?

I thought Trump was against getting more involved in these middle east quagmires. Isn't that a reason people voted for him?

Who will have the courage to leave?

Not Bush or Obama and now not Trump.

Neocons always win out. His supporters don't care.

This guy will be joining the Trump administration soon I think:

Idaho state rep shares conspiracy theory accusing Obama of staging Charlottesville

In hindsight, we should have left once Bin Laden was dead. That was the whole reason we gave a damn about that craphole. The British and Soviets couldn't pacify it, why should we bother?

Brilliant, so not only set up the rally, but somehow orchestrates Trump's inflammatory response as well.

How do some of these guys get elected? Oh wait...

I have to say while I didn't vote for the man I must certainly say he has entertained me. Who do the democrats have lined up that can beat Trump in a general election? Biden?

Potentially, Booker is always in the conversation as well. I myself like Joe Manchin, who is more moderate and would appeal to a wider cross section of voters IMO. Of course the party seems intent on gravitating further left, which I think is a mistake.

So the headline for the email mailer from the WH today is:
"New American Strategy For Afghanistan Will Undo Past Failures"



Without even reading the email, or hearing anything about his speech yesterday, it strikes me that this is an example of a major issue with this President. I'm not sure that attempting to undo history is the best foot forward toward a winning solution in anything. Progress is about going forward, and certainly recognizing mistakes and acknowledging them is necessary, for success in the future. However, the end goal shouldn't be to undo history.



It's also indicative of the whole statue argument. In cases, like Gettysburg, where you are literally acknowledging and preserving history to tell a tale of an event, not all statues are representative of that. To simply remove them doesn't erase or change history, but it acknowledges that maybe the correct path forward doesn't involve that statue. That's a completely different argument than erasing history, which would be that we outlaw anything that even proves that the confederacy ever existed in the first place.

I've known Joe for 25 years. He would be a great president but like you said I don't think he could win the nomination and I don't think he thinks he could win it either.

I have always been impressed by him, and for the life of me I can't get why either party would spurn a candidate that might have some crossover appeal. Both within the house/senate and among the population.

Booker wouldn't be moving further left from Obama or Hillary. Manchin would be moving very far to the right. I like Manchin as a Senator from West Virginia and have gotten into numerous arguments from strategically brain dead people on the left who think we should primary both him and Heidi Heitkamp, but he's completely wrong as the Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.

Manchin/Sanders/Warren/Clinton/Biden are all in their 70s by 2020 and should be unfit to serve.

Surely we can cross Clinton off the list. She had her shot against the weakest candidate in memory and still lost.

Please let us be done with our parents' generation as presidential candidates. They've had their time and say, move along.

The fight is not against rich and poor and D and R. It is time to vote out as many boomers as possible because they've totally ran the country into the ground while building a giant and often times untouchable nest egg for themselves.

What would be Manchin's platform? He's great with local issues, but what would he sell as his policies for the economy and who would be excited by those policies?

Holy shit YES!!!

Didn't we abandon running on policies and platforms about 30 years ago? :D

I'm sure he could say he's in favor of more jobs and against more taxes and 60% of the population would be satisfied. :lol:

Out of all the people who might take down Trump, my money's on the goober.

Trump, McConnell not on speaking terms: report - MarketWatch

dola:

If McConnell does end up spearheading a successful GOP revolt against Trump, it would be totally amazing that a guy could be the head of one branch of government and end up dictating the personnel of both other branches (Garland/Gorsuch)

"McConnell is privately questioning his competency"

Well effing welcome to the party, Mitch.

The photo of Trump looking into the sun is so perfect that it almost validates him being voted into office in the first place. Almost.

It takes something like 4000 cops to keep a city like Pittsburgh in order. I'm guessing that will be more than enough troops to get Afghanistan pacified.

I love that Trump is now claiming that nobody thought 1% GDP growth was possible.

It is, without words, the definitive statement on Trump, and his entire presidency. Dennis Green couldn't have said it better.

"If you wanna crown 'em, go ahead and crown their ass"? ;)

So is it fair to say that there are no viable candidates from the Democrats? I agree with the earlier comment about no more last generation democrats. I would prefer someone who is more moderate versus the wide left (who like the wide right scares me to death).

In 2013, who would you have said was a viable republican candidate? Jeb? Rubio?

A lot can change in two years.

I agree but those were at least known prospects. At this point I think I am going to vote for Dewayne "The Rock" Johnson.

2 years out Obama wasn't really considered a viable candidate and was largely an unknown outside of those that really follow politics.

In another year or so we should start to get a feel for who's viable for 2020.

I asked my wife that if we won the lottery and offered Trump our winnings and could find someone to guarantee him a TV show, if he would step down.

I honestly think there's a 75% chance he'd take it.

Win, Easy. Win!

During the campaign I suggested offering him a billion to drop out.

She said I wasn't allowed. I said, what good is lottery winnings if everything is so radioactive there's nothing we can buy.

You can afford to make your bunker a good 10 feet deeper than everyone else around you!

Yeah, Trump keeps importing the people from the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers parade to his rallies.

I saw these earlier and wondered how living here for 23 years I could have missed seeing this part of the city before :)

And the "followers" are probably Russian bots.

How many times is the same twitter guy going to be able to successfully fool people with the same Cavs parade image?