Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

  On 1/29/2018 at 7:16 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

 

 

lol can anyone believe that trump is president? It's still unreal.

What's unreal is we are on page 444 of this thread with 3 years left at least. (if we're lucky)

The final page count of this thread should easily be enough to fill a book. Compile it & sell it.

Fire and Furries (and Synths) - A WATMM Donald Drumpf Story

  On 1/29/2018 at 7:16 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

they both suck major dong, but Dubya Jr > drumpf

 

 

 

 

lol can anyone believe that trump is president? It's still unreal.

Yeah, definitely, but it's more abut psychological stability and baseline competence than about policy.  On policy they're not all that different, and where they ARE different it's more a matter of degree than intent.

love that track! 

president is such a little tyrant babby man child douchebag.. the sooner he's off this earth the better. 

  On 1/29/2018 at 7:36 PM, RSP said:

 

  On 1/29/2018 at 7:16 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

they both suck major dong, but Dubya Jr > drumpf

 

 

 

 

lol can anyone believe that trump is president? It's still unreal.

 

Yeah, definitely, but it's more abut psychological stability and baseline competence than about policy. On policy they're not all that different, and where they ARE different it's more a matter of degree than intent.

Isnt Trump preferable to dubya? In as much as the depth of his ineptitude is so great that less evil republican shit will get done.

i don't think so

George W. Bush was a puppet for the cabinet that was basically set up by his father. His administration is still responsible for two wars and the patriot act (one of the worst things to happen to American civil liberties). It was also responsible for using the NSA to illegally spy on American citizens. So in general, he should be strung up for crimes against humanity.

  On 1/29/2018 at 7:36 PM, RSP said:

 

  On 1/29/2018 at 7:16 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

they both suck major dong, but Dubya Jr > drumpf

 

 

 

 

lol can anyone believe that trump is president? It's still unreal.

 

 

Yeah, definitely, but it's more abut psychological stability and baseline competence than about policy.  On policy they're not all that different, and where they ARE different it's more a matter of degree than intent.

 

This. If you told W you think he did something wrong he'd sincerely look at you and say he did what he thought was right as president for the county. If you tell Trump you think he did something wrong, assuming he let you finish a sentence without barking back, he'd say "no I'm not, you're wrong." 

Even if you propose they are virtually the same in ideology there's a huge difference in their professionalism. W didn't watch the news and rarely spent time paying attention to any form of pop culture. His only free time (except vacation, which he often spent clearing ranch land brush) was spent jogging. His insane cabinet members (Cheney, Rumsfeld) were balanced out by people like Rice and Powell. We're really in chartered territory compared to the worse (and believe me, they were dark times) of Bush or Reagan.

Pretty insightful interview with W to compare with Trump as a person

Dubya and his admin were shit regardless of their methods. just cos Herr Trump has outshitted them by miles doesn't mean we can rose-tint them in retrospect.

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The president was silent for a moment and then turned on McCabe, suggesting he ask his wife how it feels to be a loser

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McCabe replied: “OK, sir."

lol

Damn, Comey unleashed !

  On 1/30/2018 at 1:55 AM, usagi said:

Dubya and his admin were shit regardless of their methods. just cos Herr Trump has outshitted them by miles doesn't mean we can rose-tint them in retrospect.

 

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Oh I think everyone knows dubya was shit, he was just LESS shitty. It's all relative innit?

GW Bush lowered the bar down as far as it would go. And now Trump is limbo dancing under it.

  On 1/30/2018 at 2:29 AM, Deer said:

Damn, Comey unleashed !

 

https://twitter.com/Comey/status/958145125120663553

The whole Snowden thing and the lead up to this administration has made a lot of people unfairly demonize our intelligence agencies(this was intentional), but I actually respect them more than ever. Now that I actually have to think about them.

and now the fucking nunes idiot and the commitee republicans voted to release that shit memo they wrote so it's only a matter of time until trump fires rosentstein because he's mentioned in the memo and then fires mueller... 

https://apnews.com/c61d28e41f884727ba4b32e4b54591d4

meanwhile 

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-admin-russia-sanctions_us_5a6fba5de4b05836a255df52

and meanwhile... 

https://thinkprogress.org/scott-pruitt-epa-webiste-0b4f50ef76c4/

and more.. 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/01/29/the-bigger-scandal-than-trump-trying-fire-mueller-republicans-doing-nothing-about/bMvZZZEKhOgJGFkfjGAc3N/story.html

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It’s unclear why Republicans think they have a smoking gun; the memo also allegedly indicates Trump’s deputy attorney general continued surveillance of the former Trump aide. Nunes hasn’t read the intelligence on which his memo is based, according to the Justice Department, and has refused to share the memo with Justice, FBI, or the Republican Senate Intelligence chairman. The Pink Panther-level mishandling would be comical if it weren’t real.

Nunes and his allies have apparently decided that protecting Trump, whatever the cost, is the quickest way to promote a shared agenda of loosened regulations, tightened immigration, tax cuts for corporations, and more.

“They have created now an animal they can’t contain,” Schiff said ruefully. “I don’t know where this is going to end.”

 

constitutional crisis in coming.... 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/30/trump-administration-says-no-need-new-russia-sanctions-despite/

so much smoke, lets see the fire

A few words of relief about the events about the FBI

Edit: its the thread stupid

  On 1/30/2018 at 7:42 AM, goDel said:

A few words of relief about the events about the FBI

 

Edit: its the thread stupid

well, i'm sure that's exactly how fox news will spin it :)

but it's nice to hear that side of it. 

  On 1/29/2018 at 7:23 PM, olo said:

 

  On 1/29/2018 at 7:16 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

lol can anyone believe that trump is president? It's still unreal.

 

What's unreal is we are on page 444 of this thread with 3 years left at least. (if we're lucky)

The final page count of this thread should easily be enough to fill a book. Compile it & sell it.

And some useful info about how FISA works could be useful, now that it looks like Rosenstein will be the next target

https://twitter.com/asharangappa_/status/958001004997378048

The House Intelligence Committee GOPers voted to release the memo, but did not allow the committee Dems to release their response to it. From reports of people that has seen it, says it's a big nothingburger and will further embarrass Nunes and generally the GOP who are so clearly trying to run interference on the Mueller probe.

It's a big shit sandwich alright. 

And I can't wait for all the "Trump became president today" hot takes after his SOTU address, because the US media is useless and worthless. 

independent corroboration on kompromat

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/30/trump-russia-collusion-fbi-cody-shearer-memo

So my understanding is this memo could be an outright fabrication? If so, just further confirms that lies and deceit are the normal underlying tactic for today's GOP.