The Trump Presidency – 2016

[Easy Mac]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Maybe you're overlooking the obvious: he can do it because a whole lot of his supporters are likely to be on board with removing his target from the list of oxygen consumers.

It isn't that we don't know EM, it's that he's probably doing what we'd do ourselves given the same opportunity.

To be fair, you could probably do so and get away with it with a pardon in a few years, as long as you made it a federal crime.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

To be fair, you could probably do so and get away with it with a pardon in a few years, as long as you made it a federal crime.

But there's the travel, the logistics, it's just a lot simpler matter for him than for the average Joe.

[PilotMan]

The Inauguration Parade Almost Had Tanks And Missile LaunchersÂ*

“They were legit thinking Red Square/North Korea-style parade,” a member of Trump’s transition team told The Huffington Post, and which jibes with his previously expressed desire for American military parades.

[NobodyHere]

I tend to be skeptical of any online article that uses anonymous sources

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

I tend to be skeptical of any online article that uses anonymous sources

Nixon has nothing to fear from you then I guess.

[CrescentMoonie]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

Nixon has nothing to fear from you then I guess.

Woodward and Bernstein aren't working for FluffPo.

[JPhillips]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

I tend to be skeptical of any online article that uses anonymous sources

A few days ago Trump himself said he wanted military parades in various cities around the country so he could show off the military. Given that, this story isn't hard to believe.

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by CrescentMoonie

Woodward and Bernstein aren't working for FluffPo.

They worked for the Washington Post, which according to Trump, is pretty much the same thing.

[JPhillips]

"American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, current and former senior American officials said."

What happens next week when the investigations are stopped by the Trump admin?

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

What happens next week when the investigations are stopped by the Trump admin?

Same thing that's happening now - anti-Trump people complain, pro-Trump people don't care? I'd like the actual intelligence agencies to have a grasp on it, but I don't believe there's a smoking gun that would lead to impeachment or it would've been found by now, and even if the FBI released a statement clearing or casting more doubt on him it wouldn't change 95% of people's minds, so I don't see the point of hoping for a public release of info.

[TroyF]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

I keep seeing Democrats hedging about various appointments, proposed laws, anything else with, "Well, there could be 1 or 2 Republicans who could go against Tillerson, DeVoss, Price... they seem concerned..." In what world do these people live? When have these people shown a spine to actually do what they might think as right, as opposed to what is going to keep them in office? I saw where people think Rubio might go against Tillerson because he really grilled him on Russia. There is less than a zero percent chance Rubio would do this. He won re-election by 7%. It would be political suicide to go against Trump at any point in the next 4-8 years.

Remember when Trump said he could murder someone in the street and still have support? He's completely right. He knows the media somehow has less of an attention span than he does. He can get away with anything because the media is too lazy/scared to actually put forth the effort to do anything about it.

And I'm going to spin this the other way: When on Earth has the other side of the aisle shown ANY fortitude at all to stop corruption? You have a handful who didn't vote for the Iraqi war. Beyond that, we are looking at a group of people who do anything they can to stay in power. The democrats less than a year ago ran a primary where the top levels of the organization conspired to ensure one candidate won it.

The media? You mean the same one that chirped out lies about Obamacare? The one who painted Hillary as a living goddess while bashing Trump at every turn when his campaign ran? The one who dismissed it out of hand and didn't really get serious about attacking Trump as a candidate until mere weeks before the election?

I hate to break this to you, but we are in a world of hurt and it isn't because of (R) or (D) or the media or anything else. It's because we have all allowed ourselves to get caught up in WINNING. At all costs. The other side is evil. Every single politician lies through their teeth and very few ever get called on it. I mean, seriously called on it.

Go to politifact, which is fairly biased in what they call the truth/lies by party. They have 596 comments from Obama. He was either mostly true or completely true on 48% of them. He's by far the best we have. He tells halflies or worse 52% of the time and we go "WE LOVE YOU MR. PRESIDENT, YOU LED A GOLDEN AGE"

Ugh. Trump, by the way is at about 15%. Which is Pelosi territory. You know her, right? The minority leader for that other party? Go ahead and speak out against her and see where that lands you on the D side of the aisle, ok?

I'm for Obamacare, I'm against Trump, I hope Trump does something so stupid he gets impeached tomorrow morning. But acting like the press is giving Trump a free pass? Please.

[Easy Mac]

I didn't say they give him a free pass. They're too lazy, get bored too quickly, to actually deep dive into things instead of just splashing a headline, then splashing a different headline. If they put effort into reporting, they might actually report something the public would take offense to.

[Easy Mac]

I was perusing Senator Tim Scott's website, and the first thing on the homepage is "Applying with the Trump Administration." If you click the link, you get a 404 error that says "Sorry, but nothing exists here." I found that amusing.

Additionally, I did eventually get to the webpage about joining the trump team, and I like that it tells you that:

Consideration is taken for possible conflicts of interest. Financial holdings and sources of income must be disclosed.Any conflicts must be remedied by divestiture, the creation of special trusts, and other actions.

First off, that's hilarious.
Secondly, I copy and pasted directly, and there's no space after the period. Do they not have grammarly on their computer?

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Had a pretty good chuckle reading all the articles on various liberal websites where they were lamenting how horrible the inaugural concert was because there were no 'big' names involved.

This just in: Most people don't care and you're just acting like a petulant child. I can honestly say I've never watched a minute of the inaugural concert in my 42 years on this earth. I only care what Mr. Trump does (or doesn't) do in office. That's when I'll decide if I like his presidency or not.

[QuikSand]

Possible solution pic.twitter.com/f1W8RxOOEH

— rebecca roache (@rebecca_roache) January 16, 2017

I did laugh.

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan

Had a pretty good chuckle reading all the articles on various liberal websites where they were lamenting how horrible the inaugural concert was because there were no 'big' names involved.

This just in: Most people don't care

Ahh, but the key is that Trump cares.

[Galaril]

Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan

Had a pretty good chuckle reading all the articles on various liberal websites where they were lamenting how horrible the inaugural concert was because there were no 'big' names involved.

This just in: Most people don't care and you're just acting like a petulant child. I can honestly say I've never watched a minute of the inaugural concert in my 42 years on this earth. I only care what Mr. Trump does (or doesn't) do in office. That's when I'll decide if I like his presidency or not.

We can at least agree on this point.

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Ahh, but the key is that Trump cares.

But apparently he didn't let it get in the way of achieving his goals.

[Easy Mac]

Buzzword Bingo
Which of these exact words or phrases will Trump say?
Make America Great Again
1/50
Reagan
1/5
Tremendous
1/2
ISIS
1/2
China
1/2
Incredible
1/2
Beautiful
1/2
Clinton
4/6
Huge
Evens
Folks
Evens
Israel
Evens
Russia
Evens
FBI
6/4
Great Job
6/4
Build A Wall
2/1
ObamaCare
2/1
Drain The Swamp
2/1
UK
2/1
Corrupt
2/1
Divided Nation
2/1
Hard Working Families
2/1
Hillary
2/1
Take Back Control
2/1
Founding Fathers
2/1
Putin
3/1
Fake News
3/1
Heal The Wounds
3/1
Very Sad
3/1
NATO
3/1
Mexico is Going to Pay
4/1
Brexit
4/1
Hackers
4/1
Great Guy
4/1
Washington Bubble
4/1
Climate Change
5/1
Twitter
5/1
Biased Media
5/1
Liberal Elites
5/1
Give Me A Break
5/1
Totally False
5/1
Yes We Can
5/1
Nasty
5/1
Pollsters
5/1
Scotland
6/1
Bigly
8/1
Chelsea Manning
8/1
Farage
10/1
You're Fired
10/1
Man on Mars
10/1
Buzzfeed
10/1
Garbage
16/1
Total Loser
16/1
The Apprentice
20/1
Post-Truth
25/1
Meryl Streep
25/1
Saturday Night Live
33/1
Piers Morgan
33/1
Tartan
33/1
Norway
50/1

Who wants to go in with me on some bets?

Ladbrokes

[digamma]

Originally Posted by Dutch

But apparently he didn't let it get in the way of achieving his goals.

Depends on what his goals were.

[cartman]

Originally Posted by digamma

Depends on what his goals were.

But he has the best goals. Tremendous goals. So many goals you won't believe.

[Easy Mac]

Schumer not being too subtle in digging at Trump. I can't wait to see if Trump adlibs something in.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

Schumer not being too subtle in digging at Trump. I can't wait to see if Trump adlibs something in.

Have you not been paying attention? That will come in the form of a tweet during the inaugural ball.

[Easy Mac]

You will never be ignored again

Can I make sure my wife was listening to the inauguration.

Well, he didn't crap himself, so that's a positive start to his presidency.

Also, people complain about Ted Cruz's face, can we find something to call Paul Ryan's standard face? Its stuck between smug and bitter beer face.

[cartman]

The ball is happening at 4am?

[Dutch]

That was a badass speech.

[cuervo72]

MANDATORY PATRIOTISM

[PilotMan]

I've got my patriotic undies on today. No seriously, I really do.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Awesome move by both administrations to take time to greet Bob and Elizabeth Dole on the way out.

[Easy Mac]

Do you think that when the Clintons have an argument, Bill just says, "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention, I was busy remembering how I was the one elected President."

[tarcone]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

Do you think that when the Clintons have an argument, Bill just says, "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention, I was busy remembering how I was the one elected President."

That is really funny. But I doubt those 2 have said 5 words to each other since 1998.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Here, if you're curious, I have a few thoughts.

O Happy Day … sorta | Jon's Three Cents

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

LOL. An entire relationship summed up in 16 seconds of video. Hillary catches Bill checking out Ivanka Trump.

http://710wor.iheart.com/articles/po...anka-15488980/

[JPhillips]

You sure do spend a lot of time and energy on things you don't care about.

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

MANDATORY PATRIOTISM

You just refuted your own quip! Good job!

[Dutch]

These cops are having some fun dropping those pressure grenades on the small handful of suburbanite internets protesters. I'm a little jealous.

[Kodos]

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[digamma]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Here, if you're curious, I have a few thoughts.

O Happy Day … sorta | Jon's Three Cents

We're edging into hour three. One more and you shouldn't forget to see your doctor.

[wustin]

I'm looking forward to everyone's faces when Trump does something to get kicked out of office and Pence steps in.

[JPhillips]

Is there a good example of a country prospering with policies of protectionism and isolationism?

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

I've got my patriotic undies on today. No seriously, I really do.

[tarcone]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Is there a good example of a country prospering with policies of protectionism and isolationism?

Singapore?

[cartman]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Singapore?

They are a founding member of ASEAN (Association of South East Nations), a huge player in the international banking scene, and over 7,000 multinational companies operate in Singapore.

[Easy Mac]

Antarctica. No one even tries to mess with them.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Is there a good example of a country prospering with policies of protectionism and isolationism?

Best Korea

[whomario]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

Antarctica. No one even tries to mess with them.

Well, except melting it down of course

[cartman]

I guess part of making America great again involves removing references to climate change and LGBT from whitehouse.gov and putting up ads for Melania's clothing lines and jewelry.

[Groundhog]

I'll never understand how some Americans believe this rich dude who has profited from the system he claims he's going to rally against will hold his word. Speaks out about Washington fat cats, while at the same time surrounding himself with the same fat cats. I liked Obama as a human being, but all the "change" stuff he spouted during his first election campaign never happened... Trump was elected on the same broken promise, just coming at it from a different angle, appealing to a different crowd.

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

I liked Obama as a human being, but all the "change" stuff he spouted during his first election campaign never happened... Trump was elected on the same broken promise, just coming at it from a different angle, appealing to a different crowd.

Modern politics in a nutshell.

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

I've got my patriotic undies on today. No seriously, I really do.

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

You may need to avert your eyes from so much patriotism.