Re: Sell The Whitehouse to Trump
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 2:53 pm
It's looking more and more like Brennan is patient zero for this attempted coup against our system of governance.
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Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.
“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.
He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”
His aides reassured him that he still would have won had he been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Mr. Trump. Mr. Obama, the first black man elected president, did not seem convinced. “Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said.
Set to be published next week by Random House, Mr. Rhodes’s memoir, “The World as It Is,” offers a peek into Mr. Obama’s tightly sealed inner sanctum from the perspective of one of the few people who saw him up close through all eight years of his presidency. Few moments shook Mr. Obama more than the decision by voters to replace him with a candidate who had questioned his very birth.
Mr. Obama and his team were confident that Mrs. Clinton would win and, like much of the country, were shocked when she did not. “I couldn’t shake the feeling that I should have seen it coming,” Mr. Rhodes writes. “Because when you distilled it, stripped out the racism and misogyny, we’d run against Hillary eight years ago with the same message Trump had used: She’s part of a corrupt establishment that can’t be trusted to bring change.”
Even if that is true...young people tend to get more conservative with age and also tend to vote far less per capita than their older brethren. If you want to be the "cool", "hip" , candidate that the young folks like fine; don't be surprised if it is the rapidly growing higher voting demographic of the older folks (the grownups) who are the ones who decide who actually wins the election.His aides reassured him that he still would have won had he been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Mr. Trump.
HBO host Bill Maher said Friday that he is "hoping for" an economic collapse because that is the only way the president's opponents can "get rid of Trump."
Maher first asked guest Shermichael Singleton to asses the current economy under President Trump.
"It is going well," Singleton answered. "For now." "Thank you, that’s my question,” Maher added. “I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point, and by the way, I’m hoping for it."
"I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it’s either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.”
The economy appears to be improving under President Trump despite his ongoing trade war with both China and U.S. allies.
Earler in June, the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, a 50-year low.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6017&p=130084&hilit ... th#p130084williatw wrote:Trump is reportedly talking about Supreme Court justices' health issues, privately predicting he'll be able to appoint 4
Justice Anthony Kennedy — who is 81 years old — is rumored to be thinking about retirement.
Trump said in the interview today covered by Fox News that he discussed with him (Kennedy) names of possible successors but pointedly said he would pick the name from his previously indicated "list" of judges.Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring from the Supreme Court, a move that gives President Trump the chance to replace the court’s pivotal justice and dramatically shift the institution to the right, setting up a bitter partisan showdown on Kennedy’s successor.
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“It has been the greatest honor and privilege to serve our nation in the federal judiciary for 43 years, 30 of those years on the Supreme Court,” Kennedy, who is stepping down July 31, said in a statement.
williatw wrote:
Trump said in the interview today covered by Fox News that he discussed with him (Kennedy) names of possible successors but pointedly said he would pick the name from his previously indicated "list" of judges.
Diogenes wrote:Still not tired of "Winning!"
As of June 18, 2018, the United States Senate has confirmed 42 Article III judges nominated by President Trump, including 1 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 21 judges for the United States Courts of Appeals, 20 judges for the United States District Courts, and 0 judges for the United States Court of International Trade.[2] There are currently 91 nominations to Article III courts awaiting Senate action, including 13 for the Courts of Appeals, 76 for the District Courts, and 2 for the Court of International Trade.[3]
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-fla ... edy-2018-6Democrats' best hope of blocking President Donald Trump's upcoming Supreme Court nomination just fizzled out.
•Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona said he wouldn't block Trump's nominee from getting out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
•Flake had blocked lower-court nominees in hopes of getting a Senate vote on curtailing Trump's tariff powers.
Which Tom?Diogenes wrote:I think I'll just put this out there.
Unsealed Indictment released for Hillary Clinton campaign chairman Joel Davis. PDF
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You seeing this Tom?
Why should I give a flying f....? She ain't in office. But I suppose you'll tell us next that she was watching, eating a pizza.Diogenes wrote:Ligon.
That's you lying, at least to yourself. Yes he's a lying megalomaniac, and more so than most Presidents. But not nearly so much as the candidate he defeated, and there's no basis at all for this --> "the one who admires murderous dictators and thinks he'd like to have the same powers".Tom Ligon wrote:Why should I give a flying f....? She ain't in office. But I suppose you'll tell us next that she was watching, eating a pizza.Diogenes wrote:Ligon.
You keep thinking I'm a Hillary supporter. I simply detest the lying meglomaniac you think is God. You know, the one who admires murderous dictators and thinks he'd like to have the same powers.
Ease off on the Koolaid! Your mind it toast. Try reading facts.TDPerk wrote: That's you lying, at least to yourself. Yes he's a lying megalomaniac, and more so than most Presidents. But not nearly so much as the candidate he defeated, and there's no basis at all for this --> "the one who admires murderous dictators and thinks he'd like to have the same powers".
Tom Ligon wrote:On Putin: “If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him. I’ve already said, he is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, ‘Oh, isn’t that a terrible thing’—the man has very strong control over a country. Now, it’s a very different system, and I don’t happen to like the system. But certainly, in that system, he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader.”
as opposed to Obama:In the annals of President Donald Trump’s odd dealings with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, give Trump credit for making a straightforward decision to defy Putin by supplying arms to Ukraine.
The State Department says the U.S. will provide Ukraine with “enhanced defensive capabilities” to protect itself against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. What this means, according to news reports, is that the U.S. is finally prepared to help Ukraine’s military punch back in a murky conflict cooked up by Putin. American weapons going to Ukraine will include Javelin anti-tank missiles and sniper rifles.
Javelin missiles are tank killers. The separatists possess Russian armored vehicles. Are Russian soldiers fighting alongside the separatists? The Russian government insists it is not directly involved, but it’s interesting to hear the concerned tone of Moscow’s reaction to America providing arms. “The American weapons can lead to more victims in the neighboring country, and we couldn’t stay indifferent to that,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
Will that Russian reaction translate into a more lethal conflict? Yes. But war in Ukraine is a reality, and a West that flinches from the prolonged Russian incursion will only please Putin.
The bottom line is that Putin’s meddling in the affairs of other states won’t stop unless he is challenged. Trump has done that. Ukraine’s ability to fight back against the separatists has been hampered by a lack of firepower. Now it will get some. Now Ukraine can punch back.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... story.htmlPresident Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia but did little else after Putin took the Crimean Peninsula in what was the first big European land grab since World War II. Obama decided that providing lethal weapons to Ukraine would accomplish little but antagonize Putin. Yet refusing to arm Ukraine had the opposite effect: It emboldened Putin. Obama’s hesitance is one reason why Russia-backed rebels control eastern Ukraine today.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-e ... ope-2018-2WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last July, U.S. President Donald Trump stood beside his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, in Warsaw and promised to help wean the nation off Russian energy imports. He offered U.S. fuel as an alternative, "so that you can never be held hostage to a single supplier."
Trump was tapping into longstanding European concerns about Russia's ability to shut off natural gas supplies - which it has done in past pricing disputes. U.S. lawmakers say Russia's influence over energy has proven effective in silencing critics of its human rights abuses, annexation of Crimea, and incursion into eastern Ukraine, an assertion the Kremlin has denied.
Six months after Trump's trip, Poland has contracted for imports of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG), crude oil, and coal, and announced it will not renew a gas supply deal with Russia's state-owned Gazprom when it expires in 2022 - halting an exclusive and troubled relationship dating to 1944.
The episode exemplifies a key goal of Trump's "energy dominance" agenda - using rising energy exports to bolster Washington's geopolitical influence.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-fr ... irans-oil/The Trump administration is pushing its “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran into overdrive, with Tuesday’s announcement that the State Department is aiming to cut off all Iranian oil exports by November. As this move underscores, Washington has abandoned the fig leaf of diplomacy proffered by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month on the heels of President Trump’s decision to jettison U.S. adherence to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Instead, the White House is embarking on an economic offensive intended to collapse the Iranian government, which is already contending with a steady tempo of internal unrest driven by economic and political frustrations.