Donald Trump

[west didsblue]

And to add to the USA's largest ever trade deficit figure of $891bn for 2018, the federal budget deficit is up 77% on last year thanks to the tax cut and increased spending.

 

[bluethrunthru]

You mean this news?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47472282

 

[west didsblue]

You mean this news?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47472282

I was posting about this news as the trade deficit was already mentioned two pages ago.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...deficit-widens-77-percent-as-revenue-declines
Neither story is a particularly good illustration of Trump’s self professed best economy ever.
Who’d have guessed.

 

[buckshot]

Morons waving Russian flags w/ Dumb Donald's name on them at CPAC

 

[bluethrunthru]

shameful

 

[CityInWashingtonState]

And how would you describe Fox News?
At least it's offset by NBC and CNN I suppose.

Fox is puzzling - many of their broadcasts aren't billed as "news" - rather - it's opinion.

At the same time, Fox airs Shepard Smith Reporting - a real news broadcast from (not that it matters, but as an unexpected outcome from Fox) - an openly gay man.

 

[CityInWashingtonState]

So it's like a Ministry of Propaganda? Like Joseph Goebbels

I'm not going to label Trump/Sanders as Nazi.

But yeah - SHS is essentially charged with spreading pro-Trump propaganda to the news media.

Just as any other press secretary is expected to do under any previous administration.

What's troubling under Trump, though - is that outright lies are routinely employed to advance the administration's position. This is unprecedented.

 

[CityInWashingtonState]

Not meant to be an insult -- meant to be an accurate reflection of your perspective. Which it is, 100%. Exhibit A is your post.

"Almost certainly he wants to remain in power" -- you've answered my question then. Hence why he won't do ANY of what you fear. He'll leverage it, he'll leverage the threat. He'll never do it. And yeah, I do think he's rational. He's acting exactly as any rational despot would. Which is the threat means more than the action externally.

"You assume that a foreign entity won't pursue aggression due to nuclear deterance [sic]" -- exactly. And it doesn't have to be nuclear.

As far as your doomsday scenario, the fat fucker can't feed his own people, but, yeah, he's going to launch all out war in Asia. Sure. Oh, and he'll nuke 'em to boot -- because when you want new territory, the best idea is is to destroy the infrastructure you need and make the place fucking uninhabitable for 50 years. Yeah, that makes a ton of sense. Why didn't I think of that?

>> Not meant to be an insult -- meant to be an accurate reflection of your perspective.
For someone not intending insult, you're remarkably inept.

"Look, I don't mean to label you as hysterical - not at all. But frankly, an accurate assessment of your position is that you're hysterical."

I think that the above sums up your extremely insulting, "non-insulting" position quite well.

Carrying on... with the late McLaughlin in mind...

Issue One! North Korean Nukes! I ask you FogBlue, are we on the brink of catastrophe?
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You miss my point entirely.

Which is this.

A highly unstable government, inimical to the USA, led by a ruthless dictator has nuclear weapons and ICBMs.

Read again.

*HIGHLY UNSTABLE GOVERNMENT* *RUTHLESS DICTATOR* *INIMICAL TO THE USA* *NUKES* *ICBMs*

Cause for concern? - hell yeah!

I'm frankly mystified that you seem A-OK with the status quo.
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As for feeding his own people, etc...

Where on earth did you get the idea that KJU gives a fuck for his own people?
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KJU probably - who knows though - the guy is fucking insane - again, probably, won't unilaterally attack the USA or some other country with nukes due to a desire to remain alive. Granted.

But he's under enormous economic pressure. Do you think for a second that he would't sell nukes to terrorists - especially terrorists that hate the USA? That's a two-for-one. A desperately needed source of income - and probable damage to the hated USA.

And the government is unstable.

What happens if a civil war breaks out? And KJU is in an obviously losing position? Just what do you predict might happen then?
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Nukes + ICBMs in NK is a huge problem - the fact that Obama (primarily) and Bush (some blame) allowed this to transpire is unforgivable - with a lot of luck NK won't kill millions of people within the next 50 years or so.
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Apparently the military assessment is that were the USA to attack NK in an attempt to wipe out their nuclear capability - we'd very possibly not get all their nukes.

So an all out attack is very risky.

Meanwhile, KJU is busy cranking out more nukes and improving ICBM technology. Which makes a future KJU even more dangerous.

It's a huge mess - I've no clue as to how we get out of this.
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On a scale of 0 to 10, 0 meaning no-possibility and 10, ontological certitude, I ask you, Fog Blue, what chance exists that NK kills millions within the next 50 years?

Wrong!

The correct answer is 3.

Next issue!

 

[Blue Hefner]

I have ran out of things to say:

 

[CityInWashingtonState]

I have ran out of things to say:

I rest nights easily now that Donald Apple is in charge of... er, I mean Apple Trump... no, er, Tim Trump..., .... well you know what I mean. The president guy. He's in charge. Totally in charge. And that's good. Amazingly good. Amazingly good. Amazingly good.