What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Habbaku

Things Trump completely makes up typically are.
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So some of the danker parts of the internet has gone back to Trump's 2016 "taco bowl" picture.  If you look closely, one drawer has at least 3 packages of Sudafed - but a version of Sudafed that is sold in the UK and Ireland.  They're taking that as evidence that Trump is high on pseudoephedrine all the time.

No reputable news outlet has picked up the story.
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I wish the explanation were that simple.
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The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Habbaku on October 31, 2019, 03:14:56 PM
Things Trump completely makes up typically are.

"Oh no please, please don't kill me!!!"

{Detonates suicide vest}

Hmm...
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alfred russel

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on October 31, 2019, 03:30:53 PM


"Oh no please, please don't kill me!!!"

{Detonates suicide vest}

Hmm...

In fairness, if the detonation was provoked by guys approaching to kill him, it does seem like he was quite concerned with avoiding being killed.  :P
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Quote from: Barrister on October 31, 2019, 03:27:40 PM
So some of the danker parts of the internet has gone back to Trump's 2016 "taco bowl" picture.  If you look closely, one drawer has at least 3 packages of Sudafed - but a version of Sudafed that is sold in the UK and Ireland.  They're taking that as evidence that Trump is high on pseudoephedrine all the time.

No reputable news outlet has picked up the story.

I mean that makes no sense given, of course, that Sudafed comes in the over the counter version (without pseudophedrine) and the version from the pharmacist (with pseudophedrine)...which is the exact same setup in US. I've that exact green box one in my bathroom and it has no pseudophedrine as my boyfriend didn't know the difference.

edit: https://www.inquisitr.com/5675792/donald-trump-hides-boxes-sudafed-desk-photo-apprentice/

Actually this article is even stranger as it suggests that he is taking the version without pseudophedrine but also inaccurately suggests that you can't get the version with pseudophedrine in UK. :huh:
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mongers

Quote from: Syt on November 02, 2019, 08:24:28 AM
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Thanks Syt, that sure as hell is creepy, though not for what they're thinking/doing, some evangelical christian stuff, but for what it's probably doing to further inflate his ego.
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Quote from: mongers on November 02, 2019, 08:59:02 AM
Quote from: Syt on November 02, 2019, 08:24:28 AM
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:ph34r:

Thanks Syt, that sure as hell is creepy, though not for what they're thinking/doing, some evangelical christian stuff, but for what it's probably doing to further inflate his ego.
What in the f%&$# is that. Most disturbing.
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mongers

Quote from: 11B4V on November 02, 2019, 11:46:11 AM
Quote from: mongers on November 02, 2019, 08:59:02 AM
Quote from: Syt on November 02, 2019, 08:24:28 AM
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:ph34r:

Thanks Syt, that sure as hell is creepy, though not for what they're thinking/doing, some evangelical christian stuff, but for what it's probably doing to further inflate his ego.
What in the f%&$# is that. Most disturbing.

Your President.

He just have the wannabee mini-me, who's really just a character out of Tom Brown's Schooldays.  :P
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Syt

https://news.yahoo.com/children-were-told-to-build-the-wall-at-white-house-halloween-party-153024720.html

QuoteChildren were told to 'build the wall' at White House Halloween party

WASHINGTON — A Halloween party on Oct. 25 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building featured candy, paper airplanes and — concerning for some attendees — a station where children were encouraged to help "Build the Wall" with their own personalized bricks.

Photos of the children's mural with the paper wall were provided to Yahoo News.

The party, which took place inside the office building used by White House staff, included the families of executive-branch employees and VIP guests inside and outside government. Even though many of the attendees were members of President Trump's administration, not everyone thought the Halloween game was a treat.

"Horrified. We were horrified," said a person who was there and requested anonymity to avoid professional retaliation.

The Eisenhower Executive Office Building stands across from the White House and houses a large portion of the West Wing support staff and is home to the vice president's ceremonial office. The "Build the Wall" mural was on the first floor, outside the speechwriter's office and next to the office of digital strategy and featured red paper bricks, each bearing the name of a child.



Large letters on the display spelled out "Build the Wall." Kids dressed as superheroes and ninjas were given brick-colored paper cards and told to write their name with a marker and tape them to the wall. Alongside the paper wall were signs including one that read "America First," a slogan often used by President Trump that had been criticized because it was previously employed by the Ku Klux Klan.

Earlier in the week offices inside the EEOB had been instructed to put together kid-friendly displays for trick-or-treaters. The displays were supposed to be interactive and inspiring, and all were supposed to address the party's theme: "When I grow up I want to be..."

Photos posted on social media show Vice President Mike Pence was present for the Halloween party at the EEOB. However, a spokesperson for the vice president said he did not go beyond his office, which is on the second floor.



"Our ceremonial office had a plane display," the spokesperson said. "We had kids build their own paper airplanes and fly them. That's what the VP came to. He came to our ceremonial office."

Asked if the vice president thought the "Build the Wall" display was appropriate for a children's event, the spokesperson said, "I have no idea. I'm not aware of it."

According to the spokesperson, each office in the building put up decorations. Next to the "Build the Wall" bricks, construction-worker gear hung on hooks under a sign that read "Trump's Crew."

Photos on Instagram show other offices were adorned with more apolitical decorations including a mock candy shop, cobwebs, inflatable guitars and carnival games.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Erecting a wall on the southern border was the signature policy proposal in Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and since taking office, he has repeatedly claimed progress on the wall. While some existing fencing has been replaced with newer construction, as of August the overall length of barriers along the frontier had not increased since the Obama administration.

Trump's proposed border wall has drawn criticism for its cost and because opponents argue his rhetoric toward Latino immigrants is racist, an accusation Trump has denied. Former officials told Yahoo News they thought the "Build the Wall" display at the EEOB Halloween party was disturbing.

"To the extent the wall is just a xenophobic symbol, this is obviously a gross thing to have children do," Ben Rohrbaugh, who worked on National Security Council on border security in the Obama administration, told Yahoo News. "To the extent it's a representation of an actual wall on the southwest border, the kids have made nearly as much progress as the president has since 2017."



Those who worked in and around the EEOB said the border wall display is far different from what was done in prior years. "We never did anything like this in the Obama administration," said Nate Snyder, who previously served in the Department of Homeland Security as a counterterrorism official. "We hung up skeletons and ghosts."

However, a person who works with the Trump administration said people were making too much out of a children's display. "Everyone loses their minds over everything, and nothing can be funny anymore," the person said.

A Republican congressional staffer was more blunt: "Who gives a s*** about EEOB having Halloween decorations."

Immigration activists also expressed concern about the use of Trump's border wall as a children's party display.

Erika Andiola, the chief advocacy officer for the immigration rights organization RAICES, said the wall, which has become a symbol for Trump's immigration agenda, including the child separation policy, was inappropriate for a kids' party.

"I don't think they understand the amount of pain that people are going through at the border for them to make a joke out of it," Andiola said of the Trump administration. "We still are dealing with children in cages even if people are not calling it that, so it's not a joke."

Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, an immigrant advocacy organization, also described the wall as "an offensive metaphor" to feature at a children's party. "It screams to white grievance voters that 'real Americans' should fear, exclude and dehumanize brown people," Sharry said. "Only in Trump's White House would a holiday event centered on kids, costumes and candy become a propaganda opportunity for his racism and xenophobia."

Snyder, the former Obama counterterrorism official, said that by politicizing the walls of the EEOB, Trump's staff showed a "lack of respect for where they are and what they represent."

"This building is historical beacon of freedom that once housed the military, and now you have a fake construction-paper wall with 'America First' signs on it," Snyder lamented.

"For me as a person who worked in and outside of the White House and walked these halls countless numbers of times," he said, "it seems like a desecration of the building."

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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