Donald Trump Vent Thread

by 'Wolfie on Wed Nov 30, 2016 2:41 pm

TRUMPY'S a wanker !!!

(Repeat chorus three times..).

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by Lurker on Fri Dec 02, 2016 3:05 am

by 'Wolfie on Fri Dec 02, 2016 3:10 am

FOUR YEARS (or "God forbid !", eight..) of this lunacy under the Dumpster...
Just imagine what the USA could be like in another four years..

Maybe akin to Rome circa 400 AD, the British Empire at the beginning of the 20th Century, or the former USSR during the 1980s ? Basketball

by Lurker on Fri Dec 02, 2016 3:11 am

by Ben Reilly on Fri Dec 02, 2016 3:34 am

I believed Trump when he said he wanted to ban Muslims from the country, and to destroy families by sending millions of undocumented immigrants back to Mexico and violence-racked countries in Latin America. I believed him when said his prescription for the “hell” that he thinks are inner cities is more cops and more gentrification. And I believed him when he said that being rich means he can force himself on women.

I believed him because he has shown us who he is by discriminating against black tenants in his apartment complexes and by shaming women like former Miss Universe Alicia Machado without a second thought.

So I’m disgusted, but hardly surprised that, as president-elect, Trump has appointed Michael Flynn, who believes that the religion of Islam itself is the root of the problem in the Middle East, as national security adviser. Or that he named Breitbart’s Steve Bannon, who has made a career out of riling up alt-right white supremacists, as his chief strategist.

Or, for attorney general, that he picked Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has made it his mission to nab undocumented immigrants. Or that Trump found a climate change denier to lead the transition team to find a new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency. (Why Sacramento first lady Michelle Rhee would want to work with that bunch is beyond me.)

Or that net neutrality is likely to go bye-bye under a Trump administration, which means I soon could be shelling out more for Netflix. How could you?! I need my “Orange Is the New Black” chill nights!

But I digress.

I’m sorry if you’re surprised by all of this. I truly am. I’m just not sure what you want me to do about it. What do you want from any black or brown person, any gay or transgender person, any woman or any immigrant who saw through the thinly veiled con that was our president-elect’s campaign strategy?

What do you want us to say when you, unsolicited, decide to confess your electoral sins? That we forgive you? That it’s OK? That we understand that you’re not really racist or sexist or homophobic, but merely wanted to pay less for health care, bring some jobs back to the Midwest and make immigrants follow the rules?

OK, I get it. Really, I do. But the truth is, I no longer care.

What we have in effect now is the Pottery Barn Rule, made famous by former Secretary of State Colin Powell in his talks with then-President George W. Bush about the consequences of invading Iraq. “You break it, you own it.”

You had your reasons for voting for Trump and for cherry-picking what you wanted to believe about him, based on his sketchy personal history and the divisive drivel of his campaign speeches. But by making that choice, you also have unleashed a fusillade of hate, as he goes about appointing semi-competent ideologues to egg on the racists in our midst and do all the things you thought Trump would never do.

("Donald Trump supporters! You feeling guilty yet?") http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smith/article115795488.html

by Lurker on Fri Dec 02, 2016 2:12 pm

by Lurker on Fri Dec 02, 2016 5:18 pm

by Lurker on Fri Dec 02, 2016 8:25 pm

by Lurker on Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:59 pm

by nicko on Sat Dec 03, 2016 2:22 pm

HE's not President yet, all this is just "might" or "could," stop with the guessing. Wait and see ,if it does go tits up I will be one of the first to say "you were right" .

by Original Quill on Sat Dec 03, 2016 4:30 pm

nicko wrote:HE's not President yet, all this is just "might" or "could," stop with the guessing. Wait and see ,if it does go tits up I will be one of the first to say "you were right" .

How much more do you need to see? The audition has been going on for 18-months. What questions do you still have?

by Lurker on Sat Dec 03, 2016 7:01 pm

by Ben Reilly on Sat Dec 03, 2016 7:02 pm

by nicko on Sat Dec 03, 2016 7:04 pm

But Quill, he hasn't done anything yet, has he?

by Ben Reilly on Sat Dec 03, 2016 7:12 pm

nicko wrote:But Quill, he hasn't done anything yet, has he?

He has already:

* Set a precedent for companies extorting the government with the threat of moving jobs overseas: http://fortune.com/2016/12/03/sarah-palin-donald-trump-carrier-deal/

* Damaged U.S.-China diplomatic relations: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/02/politics/donald-trump-taiwan/

* Damaged U.S.-Mexico diplomatic relations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/06/donald-trump-appears-to-contradict-mexican-president-on-not-paying-for-wall-he-didnt-say-that/?utm_term=.23939f0cfa1f&tid=a_inl

* And shown himself to be a liar, breaking a slew of the major campaign promises that won him the election: https://www.romper.com/p/the-campaign-promises-trump-has-already-broken-show-he-might-be-all-talk-24024

So what do you think? Has he done anything wrong yet?

by Original Quill on Sat Dec 03, 2016 7:30 pm

Ben wrote:And shown himself to be a liar, breaking a slew of the major campaign promises that won him the election: https://www.romper.com/p/the-campaign-promises-trump-has-already-broken-show-he-might-be-all-talk-24024

Interesting that the only thing he has shown himself to be an "outsider" on is his ability (or lack thereof) to cover up his lies.

by Lurker on Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:11 pm

by Guest on Sat Dec 03, 2016 11:11 pm

by nicko on Sun Dec 04, 2016 7:13 am

The Chinese TOLD him not to talk to a certain country, So they can tell the President what to do then?

by Lurker on Sun Dec 04, 2016 2:26 pm

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-picks-el-chapo-to-run-d-e-a

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Just days after picking Betsy DeVos to run the Department of Education, President-elect Donald Trump has tapped another wealthy outsider by naming Joaquín Guzmán, known as “El Chapo,” to head the Drug Enforcement Administration.

In an official statement, Trump said that El Chapo’s “tremendous success in the private sector” showed that he has what it takes to “shake things up” at the D.E.A.

Trump’s appointment of the former drug lord surprised many in Washington, in no small part because acrimony between the two allegedly prompted El Chapo, in 2015, to put a hundred-million-dollar bounty on Trump’s head.

But, appearing on CNN, the Trump surrogate Kellyanne Conway said that the selection of El Chapo should surprise no one. “Mr. Trump always said that he would surround himself with the best people,” she said.

When asked why Trump had readily offered a job to El Chapo while still mulling the fate of another former adversary, Mitt Romney, Conway said, “El Chapo might not have voted for Mr. Trump, but that’s because he’s Mexican and in jail, and Mitt Romney is neither.”

The appointment of the former drug kingpin is far from a done deal, however, as associates of El Chapo report that he is “concerned” that being a member of the Trump Administration would be bad for his brand.

by Lurker on Sun Dec 04, 2016 5:55 pm

by Lurker on Sun Dec 04, 2016 6:04 pm

"With every fiber of my being, I am disgusted by you. And you know what the real secret is? You're disgusted by you, too.

That's why you surround yourself with gold, and beautiful women that you objectify. You know you're a loser, so you try to make yourself feel better, feel successful, authoritative, with things, and money. You are an impostor. You are a fraud."

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2016/12/04/woman-goes-off-on-donald-on-twitter-speaks-for-millions/

by Lurker on Sun Dec 04, 2016 6:07 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/donald-trump-george-monbiot-misinformation

"Yes, Donald Trump’s politics are incoherent. But those who surround him know just what they want, and his lack of clarity enhances their power. To understand what is coming, we need to understand who they are. I know all too well, because I have spent the past 15 years fighting them.
Trump’s climate denial is just one of the forces that point towards war

Over this time, I have watched as tobacco, coal, oil, chemicals and biotech companies have poured billions of dollars into an international misinformation machine composed of thinktanks, bloggers and fake citizens’ groups. Its purpose is to portray the interests of billionaires as the interests of the common people, to wage war against trade unions and beat down attempts to regulate business and tax the very rich. Now the people who helped run this machine are shaping the government."

by Lurker on Sun Dec 04, 2016 7:20 pm

by Lurker on Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:33 am

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by Lurker on Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:16 pm

by Lurker on Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:19 pm

by Lurker on Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:42 pm

by Original Quill on Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:47 pm

Institutionalized iconoclasm. People just sometimes have a shit fit, and we get Trump.

by Lurker on Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:52 pm

by Lurker on Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:57 pm

by Lurker on Mon Dec 05, 2016 6:12 pm

by nicko on Mon Dec 05, 2016 6:19 pm

You Yanks can be quite vicious can't you?

Does no one here have a good word for him?

[silly question really]

by Ben Reilly on Mon Dec 05, 2016 6:22 pm

by Ben Reilly on Mon Dec 05, 2016 6:35 pm

nicko wrote:You Yanks can be quite vicious can't you?

Does no one here have a good word for him?

[silly question really]

He made history by winning the U.S. presidential election by negative 2.5 million votes. Happy? http://time.com/4587158/clinton-leads-trump-2-5-million-votes/