agip wrote:
BTW, if anyone is looking to hear what Joe actually talks like, just flip to any part of this interview.
I know right wingers don't care but Joe is fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbnJ5pTsP6o
Thanks for the link. Yeah, Joe's fine. We already knew he had a speech impediment--if anything he sounds a little better to me than he did a couple decades back.
Name your price China. The Trump/Kushners will take your money.
80% of being president is who you hire and keep on staff. Trump is clueless plus disloyal.
Late Friday night.
All the attention on Juneteenth and tomorrow’s Trumps Rally in Tulsa.
This is typical of how he operates.
He’s got something big he’s trying to hide. A corrupt MF regardless of your political persuasion.
Statues to honor socialists like Lenin in Seattle remain unscathed. Why is there even a statue of Lenin anywhere in America?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea6O_RpU0AA6ZyM?format=jpg&name=small
Trump is absolutely oblivious to contradictions:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1274170611280068615?s=20
Obviously, Trump also has nothing to do with the NFL (football), but that didn't prevent him from pressuring team owners into cracking down on people kneeling during the anthem.
Key notes: The surprise move comes two years into a tenure that included the prosecution of Michael Cohen, Jefferey Epstein and two associates of Rudy Giuliani.
Think about it.
Here's the Financial Times, WaPo and WSJ on Bolton :
Mr Bolton wrote that Mr Trump “stunningly turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win”...
The Financial Times reported last year that Mr Trump had told Mr Xi in Osaka that he would tone down criticism of China’s handling of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong to help revive then-stalled trade negotiations. The White House did not refute the claims at the time.....
Mr Bolton said Mr Trump did not want to get involved in the debate about China and Hong Kong ahead of the G20 summit in Osaka, telling his adviser that “we have human rights problems too”.
He added that the president had refused to issue a traditional statement on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, saying, “That was 15 years ago . . . who cares about it?”
Trump, sabotaging his own trade policy and pooh-poohing authoritarian massacres that happened "15 years" ago to instigate interference by an outside power to aid his reelection. Is Trump committing treason against himself? Is anyone surprised? Don't get me wrong, this mercantilist nonsense needs to stop, but couldn't it be done in a way that isn't so blatantly cynical?
But wait, there's more!:
The Washington Post said Mr Bolton described Mr Trump as “erratic” and “stunningly uninformed” about foreign policy. He added that foreign leaders were often successful in manipulating the president...Mr Bolton said Russia’s President Vladimir Putin succeeded in boosting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro by comparing Juan Guaidó — whom Washington recognises as the legitimate leader of the country — to Hillary Clinton, Mr Trump’s opponent in the 2016 presidential election.....
Mr Bolton said Mr Pompeo quipped that he was “having a cardiac arrest” after listening to a phone call about North Korea ahead of Mr Trump’s June 2018 summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore.....
According to The Washington Post, Mr Trump expressed surprise in a meeting with Theresa May, then British prime minister, that the UK was a “nuclear power”......
Mr Bolton rued that Mr Trump “saw conspiracies under rocks” and was “stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House”. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he had a warning about how Mr Trump would treat China if re-elected in November.
We all know Trump seems easily manipulated by foreign leaders. I wonder about the West Wing bureaucracy? I suppose it may be pleasant, if you're a terrible villain who enjoys destroying people, to work for Trump, provided you kowtow enough and can keep his ear. You can effortlessly smite your enemies in the Deep State...just tell the prez "you know, so-and-so over at Treasury reminds me of Hillary Clinton. Perhaps we should transfer her to the Fairbanks office up north."
Regarding the second story, it's not even that Trump didn't know that the UK was a nuclear power. It's that he admitted his ignorance freely in a meeting with the UK Prime Minister. Generally you would think that the leader of a country would hide his ignorance and nod along when confronted with a "surprising" fact that no one else in the room seems flummoxed about.
Finally, Bolton and Pompeo are awful people. Why didn't Bolton quit earlier and let everyone know how terrible Trump was? Perhaps he was storing up anecdotes for a book where he could make lots of money. He definitely needs the money, being poor and all. Pompeo, of course, is still in - he obviously wants to be a future prez or at least governor/senator - can't go against the Trump-worshiping base publicly. Only the best!
More Bolton:
Trump was particularly dyspeptic about Taiwan, having listened to Wall Street financiers who had gotten rich off mainland China investments. One of Trump’s favorite comparisons was to point to the tip of one of his Sharpies and say, “This is Taiwan,” then point to the historic Resolute desk in the Oval Office and say, “This is China.” So much for American commitments and obligations to another democratic ally.......
In Buenos Aires on Dec. 1, at dinner, Xi began by telling Trump how wonderful he was, laying it on thick. Xi read steadily through note cards, doubtless all of it hashed out arduously in advance. Trump ad-libbed, with no one on the U.S. side knowing what he would say from one minute to the next......
One highlight came when Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him. Xi said the U.S. had too many elections, because he didn’t want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly.
Just a joke!!! I know someone who, back in 2015, claimed Obama would declare himself emperor after 2016. It's always projection with these types.
I like how Trump's staff couldn't even get the flattery flash cards done in time.
I do give Trump some credit for not invading Iran, which seems to be what Bolton wanted (or at least an attack on Iran). But why hire the warmonger in the first place?
There are 2 possibilities:
1: Bolton is a preposterous liar, in which case Trump gets the blame for hiring such an awful person (like agip says about 80% of the job being to pick the right people).
2: Bolton is telling the truth. Nothing more needs to be said.
These aren't mid-level bureaucrats dishing the goods - they're Trump's chosen top men (including Tillerson, Mattis, etc...). Why do so many of them hate him?
Trump is not fit to be President. I'm disappointed that so many people feel he's looking out for them. He's just looking out for himself.
Ciro wrote:
https://www.dailycelebuk.com/News/US-attorney-in-NY-disputes-resignationvows-probes-continue.html
This might be the dagger going into the election... there are going to be some very painful consequences for trump and the GOP. They try to quietly fire the guy who has been investigating trump and Rudy... no way he lets it happen without dragging everybody through barbed wire. The US Attorney is going to be called to testify and you can bet subpoenas are going to fly and there are going to be some brilliant ads that by themselves may end up flipping the Senate. At least 2 R senators are going to be walking off the plank for trump, being forced to vote in a trump loyalist in a rush to replace the US Attorney before too much damage can be done.
This is the biggest news since the announcement of the Mueller investigation.
Does this mean SDNY isn't going to get it done? Worried, Flagpole?
Rigged for Hillary wrote:
Statues to honor socialists like Lenin in Seattle remain unscathed. Why is there even a statue of Lenin anywhere in America?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea6O_RpU0AA6ZyM?format=jpg&name=small
Do you support keeping the confederate monuments?
Fat hurts wrote:
Rigged for Hillary wrote:
Statues to honor socialists like Lenin in Seattle remain unscathed. Why is there even a statue of Lenin anywhere in America?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea6O_RpU0AA6ZyM?format=jpg&name=smallDo you support keeping the confederate monuments?
Yes he is obviously butt hurt about the assault on the confederate relics and probably feels some connection to them. I have no idea what he is getting at by bringing Lenin into this, but no one is stopping this fool from trying to take it down. Sure enough he will find some friends who feel the same. Next he’ll say “all statues matter” lol
Swallow this tzees. We have a goddamn trump supporter investigating trump and his clan, including Epstein.. it tells you everything you need to know about how corrupt this admin has been.
06/19 Data
Another good day for America but worse day for the world.
The US 7 day rolling average of daily deaths hit yet another cyclical low. 655. That number has been falling by 10-30 people every day. It's now the lowest since March, in the early days of the pandemic.
The world's 7 day rolling average of daily deaths took a big spike up, rising more than any other recent day and is at new cyclical highs. Not all time highs tho...when europe and the US were in the teeth of it the number was around 1/3 higher.
Brazil continues to be a very bad place to be, with over 1,000 deaths every day. But it's not just Brazil...the world ex-brazil also hits new highs every day. Brazil passed Switzerland to go into 17th worst nation, per capita. Mexico passed Portugal to go into 23rd worst.
Looks like deaths are starting to rise in Texas...we've been hoping that wouldn't happen after a long rise in cases. Not so much elsewhere though in the South. But per capita Texas is quite safe, 41st worst state. Arizona and Georgia and CA and FL aren't showing rises in deaths despite surging caseloads.
The level of crookedness from trump and his people has gotten to a point where you can tell someone is close to exposing a crime by when they get fired. I can’t get over that this US Attorney was appointed by trump and supported him in 2016. Even he couldn’t disregard the criminality- that’s how fkn bad this whole thing is. Throw them all in a cell now and loose the key.
agip wrote:
06/19 Data
Another good day for America but worse day for the world.
The US 7 day rolling average of daily deaths hit yet another cyclical low. 655. That number has been falling by 10-30 people every day. It's now the lowest since March, in the early days of the pandemic.
The world's 7 day rolling average of daily deaths took a big spike up, rising more than any other recent day and is at new cyclical highs. Not all time highs tho...when europe and the US were in the teeth of it the number was around 1/3 higher.
Brazil continues to be a very bad place to be, with over 1,000 deaths every day. But it's not just Brazil...the world ex-brazil also hits new highs every day. Brazil passed Switzerland to go into 17th worst nation, per capita. Mexico passed Portugal to go into 23rd worst.
Looks like deaths are starting to rise in Texas...we've been hoping that wouldn't happen after a long rise in cases. Not so much elsewhere though in the South. But per capita Texas is quite safe, 41st worst state. Arizona and Georgia and CA and FL aren't showing rises in deaths despite surging caseloads.
Fk these red states. I see this as hopefully an involuntary sacrifice that will finally slap enough people in the face and flip some of these states. If deaths don’t make a difference then consider the US on a permanent backward path.