TRUMP - Just because.....................Naw, I just can't say it!
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Trump managed to convince enough voters in just the right places that his “business success,” born mostly of hype and relentless public relations over many years, qualified him for the Oval Office. Since the Protestant work ethic and the philosophy of virtuous capitalism still permeate American culture, it’s not uncommon for people to equate financial success with superior intelligence and character. Many individuals among the public undoubtedly assumed that Trump’s persona at the rallies was somewhat of a salesman’s act, that he was playing the role of demagogue to rile up the crowd. They assumed that behind closed doors he was a smart and able businessman, making tough decisions on the fly, handling many issues at once.
Those voters did not see what millions of others felt instinctively and that explains the shocked reaction and immediate resistance to his election: Trump’s incessant bragging, his lack of empathy or remorse, his pathological lying have been signs of an unstable personality. It was obvious to many of us that something was not right.
One couldn’t help but think that the weight of the job might inspire Trump’s staff and the people close to him to instill some discipline into the system and keep the new president focused once he took the wheel. That hasn’t happened.
www.salon.com/2017/01/25/dont-look-now-its-president-pence-donald-trum
p-can-be-deposed-even-without-impeachment/
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Did Trump steal from a novel his slogan "Make America Great Again"? In Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents, an evil Texas senator turned fascist dictator uses a folksy campaign slogan: “HELP US MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
https://qz.com/899559/all-the-dystopian-fiction-you-need-to-read-to-re
sist-donald-trump-and-predict-what-hell-do-next/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations. As a result, three officials said, the attacking SEAL team found itself dropping onto a reinforced al Qaeda base defended by landmines, snipers, and a larger than expected contingent of heavily armed Islamist extremists.
Originally posted by G:
Trump voter on why they like Trump: "He tells it like it is!"
One of the three U.S. officials said on-the-ground surveillance of the compound was “minimal, at best. The decision was made ... to leave it to the incoming administration, partly in the hope that more and better intelligence could be collected,” that official said.
Reading between the lines, Trump figured that Obama was a wuss and spent too much time over-thinking this stuff as Commander-in-Chief. Trump wanted action immediately, so he ordered a mission, any mission, so long as it happened fast. It went badly.
Read the story about Trump's first, but certainly not last, military fiasco at:
"U.S. military probing more possible civilian deaths in Yemen raid"
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN15G5RX
www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/01/31/how-trumps-first-
counter-terror-operation-in-yemen-turned-into-chaos/
“We expect an easier approval cycle for operations under this administration,” another defense official said...“We really struggled with getting the Obama White House comfortable with getting boots on the ground in Yemen,” the former official said. “Since the new administration has come in, the approvals at the Pentagon appear to have gone up.”
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Breath SECOND. You'll burn out trying to get to it all.
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Another pair of stories about Trump not being prepared. He rather improvise. It does not go well:
1) www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/so-about-deal-accept-some-refug
ees-australia
First the US announces it will honor the deal. Then the US president has changed his mind and tweets that, instead, he's going to study it.
Aside from the sheer ineptitude on public display here, this shows that, once again, Trump refuses to be briefed before calls with foreign leaders. Even a cursory memo from an area expert in the State Department would have mentioned that the refugee deal was likely to come up in his call with Prime Minister Turnbull on Saturday. But Trump was taken completely by surprise. He had no idea.
2) www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/donald-trump-hangs-australia-th
reatens-invade-mexico
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Quote:A satirical magazine ran Donald Trump’s remarks on Black History Month, verbatim, as a humor column.
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Breath SECOND. You'll burn out trying to get to it all.
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https://qz.com/901159
To commemorate the start of Black History Month in the United States, a time when the country recognizes the historically overlooked achievements of black Americans, US president Donald Trump hosted a “listening session” at the White House yesterday with invited representatives of the black community.
Bizarrely, Trump used this time to speak at length about a variety of topics, including his own victory in the recent US presidential contest and his perceived victimization by the media. He also delivered some very oddly phrased remarks about black Americans: “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice,” Trump said of the former slave and abolitionist leader, who rose to become a prominent statesman before his death in 1895.
But the rambling speech, which has left many scratching their heads, was a gift to humorists. They don’t even need to do anything to it to make it funny. A writer for Late Night with Seth Myers read excerpts of the speech (video) on the TV show. McSweeney’s, the satirical literary magazine founded by author Dave Eggers, just slapped on a headline and ran the full, unedited text of the speech as a humor column. It headlined the piece, “My Very Good Black History Month Tribute To Some of the Most Tremendous Black People.”
Watch the speech below, or read the full text as provided by the White House press office:
https://qz.com/901159/donald-trumps-black-history-month-remarks-are-so
-ridiculous-the-full-transcript-speaks-for-itself/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Donald Trump Lied To Us About His Health
In December 2015, Donald Trump released a letter from his physician stating that he takes "81 mg of aspirin daily and a low dose of a statin." Yesterday we learned that's untrue. Here's the New York Times:
President Trump takes medication for three ailments, including a prostate-related drug to promote hair growth, Mr. Trump’s longtime physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, said in a series of recent interviews. The other drugs are antibiotics to control rosacea, a common skin problem, and a statin for elevated blood cholesterol and lipids.
www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/trump-prostate-drug-hair-harold
-bornstein.html
The hair-growth drug Trump takes, Propecia, has been associated in some men with "depression, anxiety and mental fogginess." Trump should stop taking this drug for his hair or else resign his office. I predict he will do neither even though Trump is foggier than ever before.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/baldness-drug-propecia-long-lasting-possi
bly-permanent-sexual/story?id=16758123
Dr. Bornstein said that he was sure that Mr. Trump was up to date on an H.I.V. test, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all adults get at least once. He said if he became the White House doctor he doubted that he would include in Mr. Trump’s annual checkup any psychometric tests as a base line for potential dementia. Mr. Trump’s father, Fred, suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in his eighties and a number of experts have urged that older political leaders undergo such tests.
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South Park' creators explain why it's too hard to make fun of Trump: 'Satire has become reality'
"It's really hard to make fun of and in the last season of 'South Park,' which just ended a month and a half ago, we were really trying to make fun of what was going on, but we couldn't keep up. And what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to kind of back off and let them do their comedy and we'll do ours."
www.businessinsider.com/south-park-creators-make-fun-of-trump-2017-2
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It won’t help mainstream media shake the perception of a liberal bias, that’s for sure. The latest crop of covers from major news magazines have taken a noticeably dim view of US president Donald Trump’s first days in office. In the coming weeks, expect newsstands to be stocked with some grim and melancholy covers.
Here’s a selection:
https://qz.com/902802
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Yanno, IMHO this entire thread should be shit-canned.
SECOND, dearie ... what did you think of JFK? Did you know that he was on steroids, which have real, consequential side effects? Did you know that he was a horn-dog who chased after women relentlessly? Did you know that on HIS watch, NO immigration was allowed?
This thread focuses on such breathtakingly important newflashes such as the size of Trump's hands, cartoons pf Trump, the minor medications that he's taking, handwriting analysis (!), and SECOND's every breathless obsessive channeling of every anti-Trump snippet that she can throw against the wall - true, fake, sarcastic, ironic, important or not - to see what sticks. It has become SECOND's pet project, which she grinds on ... and on ... and on ...
Amidst all of this ghafla there are probably a few important points buried somewhere. But it's like universal surveillance - if you keep making the haystack bigger, finding those needles becomes less and less possible.
For the record: I'm against approximately 80% of Trump's agenda. And yet, SECOND has not focused on any of the points that I would contest, but has chosen to focus on bullshit. (Maybe because she's from Texas.)
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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