Donald Trump

[berniethebusman]

Some NRA nut will probably shoot up the place now just like the Comet restaurant in DC after the Pizzagate bullshit.

Probably not.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

... and vice versa.

Yep, probably.

 

[cookster]

If Trump were measured by the same yardstick as any other politician he'd have paid the price for any one of a dozen scandals he's managed to skate over.

Anything from openly mocking the disabled, a tape of him admitting sexual assault, Mexican immigrants are rapists and bad hombres, taking the piss out of dead soldiers' families - and that's just before the election let alone having your personal lawyer commit felonies to pay off a porn star a week before the election, having your presidential campaign manager go to jail for treasonous crimes, the KKK has plenty of good people too, having your "charity" investigated for being effectively a money laundering scheme and paying your personal debts, funneling state funds into your personal hotel resort, having the son in law get caught lying dozens of times on his security clearance applications...


Trump supporters complaining about double standards? Give me a fucking break.

Excellent post!

 

[SWP's back]

Excellent piece in today's FT for anyone with a subscription:

Donald Trump and the 1930s playbook: liberal democracy comes unstuck

https://www.ft.com/content/75319cee-761d-11e8-b326-75a27d27ea5f

It centres around the similarities between Trump's time and the 1930's vis a vis trade wars, the victimisation of minority, control of the press etc and their historical similarities.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Excellent piece in today's FT for anyone with a subscription:

Donald Trump and the 1930s playbook: liberal democracy comes unstuck

https://www.ft.com/content/75319cee-761d-11e8-b326-75a27d27ea5f

It centres around the similarities between Trump's time and the 1930's vis a vis trade wars, the victimisation of minority, control of the press etc and their historical similarities.

Lessons from history. Unfortunately he has his base supporters eating out of his hand, and most of them are either too stupid or too ignorant to learn from history.

 

[Blue Hefner]

If Trump were measured by the same yardstick as any other politician he'd have paid the price for any one of a dozen scandals he's managed to skate over.

Anything from openly mocking the disabled, a tape of him admitting sexual assault, Mexican immigrants are rapists and bad hombres, taking the piss out of dead soldiers' families - and that's just before the election let alone having your personal lawyer commit felonies to pay off a porn star a week before the election, having your presidential campaign manager go to jail for treasonous crimes, the KKK has plenty of good people too, having your "charity" investigated for being effectively a money laundering scheme and paying your personal debts, funneling state funds into your personal hotel resort, having the son in law get caught lying dozens of times on his security clearance applications...


Trump supporters complaining about double standards? Give me a fucking break.

But apart from that......

 

[Blue Hefner]

Today’s gem. Where to start with this one:

 

[SWP's back]

Today’s gem. Where to start with this one:

How anyone can defend this fuck only knows.

 

[Blue Hefner]

How anyone can defend this fuck only knows.

I’ve had it on Twitter with people that do. One excellent defence was ‘if they on just came over the border and applied for asylum legally....’ - I’m sure they be made to very welcome

When I pointed out that maybe he should have a little more understanding as only by luck was he born in the US and not a Guatemala slum he advised that ‘he doesn’t believe in luck of the draw, it was down to god’ - this tells you all you need to know

 

[inchy14]

Today’s gem. Where to start with this one:

He’s probably right, I doubt most 40+ year olds cross the border with their Mum and dad’s....