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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by Strelnikov » Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:23 pm

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Strelnikov wrote:Adam Davidson at The New Yorker is claiming that the Michael Cohen raid is the beginning of the end of the Trump administration: Michael Cohen and the End Stage of the Trump Presidency.

Yeah whatever. I've seen so many bloggers and pundits whining "ANY DAY NOW, MAYBE TOMORROW" ever since the election. All for naught. Seriously, I doubt anything will happen to him until the 2020 election, or if a very wealthy super-PAC operator decides he wants The Big Fat T out of power.

Donnie's a great liar precisely because he's too arrogant to admit he might be wrong. To at least some idiots, that is the most important trait of a "great leader". It worked for Sean Hannity!......lol.....


And the irony in bringing up Sean Hannity is that Cohen was his lawyer on some level, what that level is, we don't know.

I've seen so many bloggers and pundits whining "ANY DAY NOW, MAYBE TOMORROW" ever since the election. All for naught.

Well it went like this: Michael Moore thought Trump would possibly bail before the Inauguration, he didn't, but he wouldn't put his businesses into a blind trust, beginning the Emoluments saga and it's been Flynn, Comey, Bannon, etc., on a rollercoaster that might crash into a wall, or it might go where people hope it goes and Trump becomes an ex-president before 2020.

In many ways Trump is returning us to the crud of the past: Nixon's bizarro attempt at spying on the Democrats in the Watergate building during his re-election campaign; Andrew Johnson was impeached late into his sole term (1865-1869); the Grant administration was filled with scandals for two terms (1869-1877) to the point where they called it "Grantism." The other impeachment was Bill Clinton's after the inconclusive Whitewater investigation, "Travelgate", the Vince Foster suicide, R. Emmet Tyrell's stupid "Arkansas Project" that sank his own magazine (The American Spectator, which was resurrected a few years later only to exist online*), and President Clinton's stupid belief that he could get away with a victory blowjob before his term in office ended (which is what the stupid impeachment revolved around ultimately.) Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra affair was not impeachable, the lies over the Iraq invasion during the Bush II administration somehow OK.

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* So it has to fight it out with outfits like Breitbart and The Federalist, sites Alex Nichols looked at in his "guide to conservative publications" last year for TheOutline. It should be said that one of the publications, Heatstreet, was shut down two months after Nichols' article because Rupert Murdoch saw it was a waste of time. Link to Nichols chatting with the Chapo Trap House crew about the guide last summer.

During the "Whitewater years" the National Review used to run tiny mail-order ads of the "Billery" watch which ran backward but told correct time, two-year calendars with rip-away grids so you could slowly disintegrate Bill Clinton's face, etc. This mirrored the sort of ads you saw in National Lampoon magazine in the early 1970s of posters mocking Nixon ("He kept our boys out of Northern Ireland"; Quaker Oats can parody with Nixon's face and "Quaker Oafs"), the same sort of grid calendars with Nixon's face on them, and so on. The longer Nixon was in office, the more Nazi-themed posters "Yes Art" put up for sale, including reprints of the 1933 Hitler-head-only campaign poster.
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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by Strelnikov » Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:50 am

Worlds in Collision

On the possibility of President Stumblebum creating a chance to end the Korean War, the press in Asia and the American press are completely divided - the American editorials were utterly horrified at the Singapore summit, while the Asian ones were optimistic, and the South Korean papers ranged from optimistic to unhappy that denuclearization of the DPRK wasn't happening as quickly as possible. Why the American panic? This might mean the end of a status quo that has lasted longer than the careers of the journalists covering Asia, the op-ed hacks will no longer have North Korea as a boogey man to terrify readers, and the defense stocks fell at the news that the summit had allegedly gone Kim's way. No mention that this was the first time that a US President had met the Supreme Leader of North Korea and that the man truly behind all of it, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, will probably be considered a world historic figure in South Korea for decades to come. I expect Trump to botch something else and fall apart, but at least for now he finally got semi-functioning.

World's Tallest Cop...screws up

Alternet, which has been publishing story after story on how Trump's brains have turned to goo* finally had to swing on James Comey by reporting that Comey had done during his investigation of "Private Servergate" what the investigation was alleging Hillary Clinton had done - i.e., break email protocol by using his private account instead of the FBI one. This won't sink the Mueller investigation, but the #Resistance loses yet another hero - Peter Daou has vanished both as Verrit and a dumber podcast, you don't hear from Keith Olbermann since his book of The Closer scripts was published last Halloween, and on it goes.

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* And they probably have - he is the worst fit for the job since Alexander Haig ran the White House for an afternoon when Reagan was getting a skin cancer removed.
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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by Strelnikov » Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:04 am

I'm still amazed Trump hasn't quit.

His overblown 100-million-dollar military parade was cancelled.

His White House counsel Don McGahn is cooperating with the Mueller investigation.

Omarosa Manigault Newman decided to follow Michael Wolff's lead after being fired from the administration, released her book Unhinged. Now she goes to papers like The Independent and claims Trump would deport Melania back to Slovenia if she divorced Trump while he was President. Keeps on releasing tapes of things recorded in the White House. Trump wants Sessions to arrest her, Sessions probably giggles to himself in his office.

Trump, when it ends, will become like the Bush II administration - nobody will want to talk about it. He has done more damage to the concept of "President of the United States of America" than Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama's "kill him, don't capture him" move with Osama bin Laden plus his obsession with drone killcounts. We have been reduced to the Grant administration again: corrupt, incompetent but lacking the happiness that America wasn't involved in Europe's wars.
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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by AndrewForson » Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:31 am

Strelnikov wrote:We have been reduced to the Grant administration again: corrupt, incompetent but lacking the happiness that America wasn't involved in Europe's wars.

Which of Europe's wars is America currently involved in?

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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by Dysklyver » Mon Aug 20, 2018 8:31 pm

AndrewForson wrote:
Strelnikov wrote:We have been reduced to the Grant administration again: corrupt, incompetent but lacking the happiness that America wasn't involved in Europe's wars.

Which of Europe's wars is America currently involved in?


The one in Ukraine?

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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by AndrewForson » Mon Aug 20, 2018 8:41 pm

Dysklyver wrote:
AndrewForson wrote:
Strelnikov wrote:We have been reduced to the Grant administration again: corrupt, incompetent but lacking the happiness that America wasn't involved in Europe's wars.

Which of Europe's wars is America currently involved in?


The one in Ukraine.

If you mean the war of 2014-15, I thought that was one that NATO decided to leave well alone. The Russians annexed the bits they wanted, NATO sat on its hands, the end. Did someone start another one while I wasn't looking?

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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by Strelnikov » Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:43 pm

AndrewForson wrote:
Strelnikov wrote:We have been reduced to the Grant administration again: corrupt, incompetent but lacking the happiness that America wasn't involved in Europe's wars.

Which of Europe's wars is America currently involved in?


The one in Ukraine.

If you mean the war of 2014-15, I thought that was one that NATO decided to leave well alone. The Russians annexed the bits they wanted, NATO sat on its hands, the end. Did someone start another one while I wasn't looking?


The war between Ukraine and the eastern breakaway 'oblasti ("Novorossiya") is still going on with either side losing a couple of men a fortnight to snipers and mortar rounds. America is backing Ukraine.
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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by AndrewForson » Thu Aug 23, 2018 8:18 pm

And the US is involved how exactly?

(BTW, I don't want to diminish the seriousness of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but a couple of deaths a week is the murder rate in Washington DC. Perhaps a European country should get involved.)

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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by Dysklyver » Thu Aug 23, 2018 8:35 pm

AndrewForson wrote:And the US is involved how exactly?

(BTW, I don't want to diminish the seriousness of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but a couple of deaths a week is the murder rate in Washington DC. Perhaps a European country should get involved.)


They give Ukraine a shit-ton of weapons and money in exchange for them taking pot shots at the Russians.

There's also a bunch of US advisors and a few training officers out there supporting things.

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Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

Post by ericbarbour » Thu Aug 23, 2018 8:39 pm

AndrewForson wrote:And the US is involved how exactly?

From 2014, probably some bullshit but hey, it ran in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... v-conflict
And today? Ooh, it's "seeekret". Your guess is as good as anyone's.

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