Trumpite Americans, when will you finally acknowledge your leader is a joke?

Looks like North Korea is going resume testing nukes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/world/asia/north-korea-kim-speech.html

Was hensalt based after trump?

i.e. someone he actually listens to said "are you out of your fucking mind?!!?"

Ya' think?

Christianity Today Editor Laments ‘Ethical Naïveté’ of Trump Backers

Greta would be happy about his transportation choices.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Such a beautiful horse and beautiful location for an evil man.

Is that Teutonic Knight do-hickey supposed to be some kind of White Supremacist active safety? It looks like t's totally blocking the trigger guard.

Crusader imagery on firearms has been a hallmark of right-wing terrorism since Brevik.

I'm sure Don Jr knows this and the audience he's pitching it to.

As a confirmed terrorist, though, we shouldn't weep if a drone happens to open fire on him at the next airport, right?

oh dear...

Trump the Intimidator Fails Again
Because he’s just a bully with delusions of grandeur.

International crises often lead, at least initially, to surging support for a country’s leadership. And that’s clearly happening now. Just weeks ago the nation’s leader faced public discontent so intense that his grip on power seemed at risk. Now the assassination of Qassim Suleimani has transformed the situation, generating a wave of patriotism that has greatly bolstered the people in charge.

Unfortunately, this patriotic rallying around the flag is happening not in America, where many are (with good reason) deeply suspicious of Donald Trump’s motives, but in Iran.

In other words, Trump’s latest attempt to bully another country has backfired — just like all his previous attempts.

From his first days in office, Trump has acted on the apparent belief that he could easily intimidate foreign governments — that they would quickly fold and allow themselves to be humiliated. That is, he imagined that he faced a world of Lindsey Grahams, willing to abandon all dignity at the first hint of a challenge.

Remember, for example, when Trump promised “fire and fury” unless North Korea halted its nuclear weapons program? He claimed triumph after a 2018 summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader. But Kim made no real concessions, and North Korea recently announced that it might resume tests of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

Or consider the trade war with China, which was supposed to bring the Chinese to their knees. A deal has supposedly been reached, although details remain scarce; what’s clear is that it falls far short of U.S. aims, and that Chinese officials are jubilant about their success in facing Trump down.

Why does Trump’s international strategy, which might be described as winning through intimidation, keep failing? And why does he keep pursuing it anyway?

Even more important, however, was the fact that America was something more than a big country throwing its weight around. We always stood for something larger.

That doesn’t mean that we were always a force for good; America did many terrible things during its reign as global hegemon. But we clearly stood for global rule of law, for a system that imposed common rules on everyone, ourselves included. The United States may have been the dominant partner in alliances like NATO and bodies like the World Trade Organization, but we always tried to behave as no more than first among equals.


Oh, and because we were committed to enforcing rules, we were also relatively trustworthy; an alliance with America was meaningful, because we weren’t the kind of country that would betray an ally for the sake of short-term political convenience.

Trump, however, has turned his back on everything that used to make America great. Under his leadership, we’ve become nothing more than a big, self-interested bully — a bully with delusions of grandeur, who isn’t nearly as tough as he thinks. We abruptly abandon allies like the Kurds; we honor war criminals; we slap punitive tariffs on friendly nations like Canada for no good reason. And, of course, after more than 15,000 lies, nothing our leader and his minions say can be trusted.

Trump officials seem taken aback by the uniformly negative consequences of the Suleimani killing: The Iranian regime is empowered, Iraq has turned hostile and nobody has stepped up in our support. But that’s what happens when you betray all your friends and squander all your credibility.


"A weak person's notion of a strong man" has never been so appropriate.

Maybe that's why Melania slipped Trudeau the tongue?

Ha, ha, CNN settled the lawsuit against the "little shit" Nick Sandman.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news...covington-catholic-student-nicholas-sandmann/

Spending $46 billion to "own" the libs.

we don't know what the settlement is. The settlement might have been they won't counter for legal fees if he drops it and everyone will just shut up. The reality is that if they can prove the lawsuit has no merit he would be responsible for legal costs. I am going to agree that probably is not the way it goes. He probably got something to just drop it which is probably considered less loss than keeping his ten minutes of fame going.

hey @TheLonelySquire here is a video for you

At least he didn't call half of them "deplorables".

Another way in which Trump gets graded on a ridiculous curve is the monthly jobs report. 145,000 new jobs is “good enough” “solid number” and a “strong labor market.” Whereas 145,000 new jobs under Obama was “sluggish” “lackluster” and “not where we need to be.”

Hillary: "...and half of them are in this...basket of deplorables."
Media: "What an awful thing to say! This was a massive mistake!"
Cult45:"Hell yeah we are!"
Trump: "Democrats are vicious horrible people!"
Media: "Hey, Trump gonna Trump"

similarly

Democrats:"strategically maybe killing Soleimani was unwise..."
Republicans: "Dems love terrorism and hate America!!!!"
Trump:"Kim and I fell in love!"
Republicans: "Best president ever! MAGA!"

Just so y'all know, current Administration foreign policy is derived from a religious desire to get Armageddon started already so, ya know, sleep well at night

and what is the actual percentage of people in the current administration who have a religious desire to get Armageddon started? Ya know, a quantifiable number and whatnot? Sorry but I don't have 45 minutes to invest in the video.

Your lack of reading comprehension skills is incredible given the fact that you seem to be at least semi-functional.

hmmm....I said I'm not watching the video - and the title of the video is Praying for Apocalypse - and underneath that it says the evangelicals desire the end of the world. Thus if this is actually an issue then is it overblown or legitimate? So how again does that demonstrate a lack of reading skills? Wait....did you just comprehend what I just asked? Maybe you have the lack of said reading skills.

"Current Administration policy is to do X"

"What percentage of the administration are believers in X?"

One thing has nothing to do with the other. The fact that the former lead you to the latter leads me to believe you lack any reading comprehension skills. Do you need me to explain what "latter" and "former" mean?

again I DID NOT WATCH THE VIDEO. Yes I quite understand that the video claims that current foreign policy is derived from religious ideas of Armageddon - that's the title of the video - but is foreign policy practiced and administered in 2020 following these tenets? I'm just asking for facts proving that this is even something to be concerned about or just speculation, conspiracy theory and opinion.

That's not what you were asking.

You asked this;

this just came past my FB:


Peni Delina Bedard
August 31, 2019
An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don't...

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine."

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay."

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem."

That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue."

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you chirped, "He sure knows me."

That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, "That's cool!"

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.

That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?"

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense."

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!"

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!"

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!"

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be."

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!"

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!"

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense."

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!"

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.”

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.

What you don't get, Trump supporters in 2019, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also...hear me...charitable.

Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.