Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

How about you plant some trees and stop telling people thousands of miles away how to live. The millennial collectivist attitude is nauseating, as is your righteous certainty that you know how everyone else should live to conform to your wishes. Authoritarianism will come from the left in this country.

Two Sides wrote:

So, was Clinton's approval ratings based on the failed impeachment or were they based on the economy and fiscal surplus?

Or did the public see through the Republican rationale for impeachment as a political stunt vs a concern of real crimes?

Trump's situation is different.

I don't understand the fear that an impeachment will help him.

If he testifies he will perjure himself. If he doesn't testify, he looks like a crook.

But I think they missed the window. It should have happened before summer started.

Again with the Clinton impeachment, it's a sample size of one.

It's not comparative.

I do think that how this is being handled now means that impeachment is off the table for all future presidents.

Might as well amend the Constitution and say elected president cannot be removed from office for any reason (because Clinton ...).

Neither you nor I know how impeachment proceedings would affect the election. Here's what we do know. In the only modern history example of an impeachment, Clinton's popularity went up. We don't know why it went up but we know impeachment didn't at all reduce his popularity. It's a sample size of one but that is better than a sample size of none.

We also know the house will impeach and the Senate will not convict. Republicans will strongly defend trump and say it was a cheap partisan attack. Trump will claim executive privilege and will block every attempt at getting information. After the Senate votes not to convict, he will claim his innocence was proven.

The 2020 election will be consumed with preoccupation of whether there is proof of his guilt or not. That is setting the bar low. I would rather the 2020 election be preoccupied with how bad a president he is. Our focus should be on getting him out of office.

If more compelling information is revealed, I could change my mind.

Conundrum wrote:

Neither you nor I know how impeachment proceedings would affect the election. Here's what we do know. In the only modern history example of an impeachment, Clinton's popularity went up.

Clinton was not running for reelection when he was impeached by the Republican House in early 1999. He ended his second term in 2001. Al Gore would have been president if conviction after the impeachment was successful. That would have given Gore an advantage up on Bush the Shrub in the 2000 election.

Trump is running in 2020, or so it seems. I don't see why the Dems would help boost Trump's popularity by his screaming about the Deep State as political motivation for his people to vote for him. If Trump was impeached, and convicted, then Pence would have an advantage over the Democrat who runs against him in 2020.

Fat hurts wrote:

By the way, if Tiny insists on having next year's G-7 summit at Mara Lago, nobody will show up. They will just have a G-6 somewhere without him.

Is there a minimum “G”, brah? Like “G-3” or “G-2”?

Is there a minimum “G”,brah? wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

By the way, if Tiny insists on having next year's G-7 summit at Mara Lago, nobody will show up. They will just have a G-6 somewhere without him.

Is there a minimum “G”, brah? Like “G-3” or “G-2”?

Trump is a G-0. He is the minimum.

CNN is hosting a 7-hour “climate change” town hall with the 2020 Democrat candidates. That's right, 7 HOURS of socialist lunatics seeing who can spend more of your money to tank our epic economy.

Trump is laughing his ass off.

KAG2020

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

CNN is hosting a 7-hour “climate change” town hall with the 2020 Democrat candidates. That's right, 7 HOURS of socialist lunatics seeing who can spend more of your money to tank our epic economy.

Trump is laughing his ass off.

In response, Trump has made an order to exempt Alaska’s 16.7-million-acre Tongass National Forest from a commercial logging ban imposed decades ago. That forest contains more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest. Why doesn't he just send his MAGAots out to set then trees on fire?

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

CNN is hosting a 7-hour “climate change” town hall with the 2020 Democrat candidates. That's right, 7 HOURS of socialist lunatics seeing who can spend more of your money to tank our epic economy.

The 7 hours is a waste because Trump is doing the tanking for them.

twitler's a pussi

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/president-donald-trump-whines-about-republican-challenger-and-blocks-him-on-twitter/

WhyRegisterHere? wrote:

Is nobody troubled by the condescension that developed countries show to countries like Brazil? I don't suppose the early Americans would have taken kindly had another country frowned upon conversion of massive amounts of land for farming, later for industrialization. Is Brazil to remain largely forested now and forego the development that 'advanced' countries take for granted?

The answer is something that gets us to far fewer humans on this earth, not a centralized nanny order. Bolsanaro is a turd but is also right to tell other nations to eff off when it comes to Brazilian land use by Brazilians.

Agreed

Mean While wrote:

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

CNN is hosting a 7-hour “climate change” town hall with the 2020 Democrat candidates. That's right, 7 HOURS of socialist lunatics seeing who can spend more of your money to tank our epic economy.

Trump is laughing his ass off.

In response, Trump has made an order to exempt Alaska’s 16.7-million-acre Tongass National Forest from a commercial logging ban imposed decades ago. That forest contains more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest. Why doesn't he just send his MAGAots out to set then trees on fire?

Rainforest rainschmorest

Of course Trump needed co-signers to get loans. His co-signers wanted to make sure Trump would continue washing money for them.

Give me a pen comrade wrote:

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/deutsche-bank-has-trumps-taxes-and-loan-application-cosigned-by-russian-oligarch-report/

P wrote:

WhyRegisterHere? wrote:

Is nobody troubled by the condescension that developed countries show to countries like Brazil? I don't suppose the early Americans would have taken kindly had another country frowned upon conversion of massive amounts of land for farming, later for industrialization. Is Brazil to remain largely forested now and forego the development that 'advanced' countries take for granted?

The answer is something that gets us to far fewer humans on this earth, not a centralized nanny order. Bolsanaro is a turd but is also right to tell other nations to eff off when it comes to Brazilian land use by Brazilians.

Agreed

There are not enough Brazilians to populate the open land they already have.

Why would the US need to raze millions of acres of trees in Alaska for resources when resources already exist in already open and treeless land in the lower 48? You know in the red states, and the soon to be abandoned farms after they go bankrupt from Trump's tariff games.

burn baby burn wrote:

P wrote:

Agreed

There are not enough Brazilians to populate the open land they already have.

Why would the US need to raze millions of acres of trees in Alaska for resources when resources already exist in already open and treeless land in the lower 48? You know in the red states, and the soon to be abandoned farms after they go bankrupt from Trump's tariff games.

Try using English.

"IS THE WORLD'S OXYGEN SUPPLY AT RISK (from Brazilian deforestation)?

No. While it's commonly said that the Amazon produces 20% of the world's oxygen, climate scientists say that figure is wrong and the oxygen supply is not directly at risk in any case. That's because forests, including the Amazon, absorb roughly the same amount of oxygen they produce. Plants do produce oxygen through photosynthesis, but they also absorb it to grow, as do animals and microbes."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-explains-amazon-role-global-152941423.html

P wrote:

Try using English.

Trump does use English. Yet you hang on and absorb every word he spews. How do you manage?