What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

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Oexmelin

#23880
November 25, 2019, 03:56:32 PM
It's no longer about rules. It's about will to power.
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Admiral Yi

#23881
November 25, 2019, 04:09:56 PM
I can see how in the Trumpiverse backing the badass SEAL who's only crime was a harmless selfie with a dirty Mooslim, over the pencil necked Secretary of the Navy, plays pretty well.

What I'm more surprised by is how his comment that only pussies get PTSD hasn't created the tiniest bit of stir.

Barrister

#23882
November 25, 2019, 04:27:32 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 25, 2019, 04:09:56 PM
I can see how in the Trumpiverse backing the badass SEAL who's only crime was a harmless selfie with a dirty Mooslim, over the pencil necked Secretary of the Navy, plays pretty well.

Yes.  Sadly this is very "on-brand" for Trump, isn't it.
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Sheilbh

#23883
November 25, 2019, 04:34:07 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 25, 2019, 04:09:56 PM
What I'm more surprised by is how his comment that only pussies get PTSD hasn't created the tiniest bit of stir.
It's on brand. He prefers soldiers who don't get captured after all.
Let's bomb Russia!

Barrister

#23884
November 25, 2019, 04:40:39 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 25, 2019, 04:09:56 PM
What I'm more surprised by is how his comment that only pussies get PTSD hasn't created the tiniest bit of stir.

Remember: Trump isn't actually pro-military or pro-soldiers.  He has no problem picking fights with families of deceased soldiers, mocking McCain, questioning Lt Col Vindman's loyalties.  He hardly ever visits soldiers, or attend to funerals.
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Admiral Yi

#23885
November 25, 2019, 04:47:26 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on November 25, 2019, 04:34:07 PM
It's on brand. He prefers soldiers who don't get captured after all.

Disagree.  IMO there are Trumpisms that generate applause and there are Trumpisms that generate awkward change in the subject.

No sharia law in Alabama!  Woooo!

Vets with PTSD are pussies! Hey, that economy sure is great!

Sheilbh

#23886
November 25, 2019, 05:08:51 PM
I mean he's said this sort of thing during the election. At a Q&A with Republican veterans and they still gave him a standing ovation: "when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it."

I feel like he's made these kind of comments a few times over the last four years as well.
Let's bomb Russia!

jimmy olsen

#23887
November 26, 2019, 05:31:33 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on November 25, 2019, 11:14:08 AM
No way Trump doesn't stroke out during his 2nd term with all the pseudophedrine he's doing.

He hasn't gone golfing since his surprise visit to the hospital. I'm guessing it was a minor heart attack.
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Hamilcar

#23888
November 26, 2019, 05:52:37 AM
The post-truth nonsense emanating from the current right (US and European) is the final, ironic victory of Foucault, Lacan & co.

Syt

#23889
November 26, 2019, 09:37:07 AM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1199181946166874112?s=20

Quote"I'm curious why wasn't it done a long time ago? And also, I guess the answer to that is because now I'm president, we get things done."

President Trump signs the Woman's Suffrage Centennial Coin Act.
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The Minsky Moment

#23890
November 26, 2019, 10:06:12 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 25, 2019, 04:09:56 PM
I can see how in the Trumpiverse backing the badass SEAL who's only crime was a harmless selfie with a dirty Mooslim, over the pencil necked Secretary of the Navy, plays pretty well.

What I'm more surprised by is how his comment that only pussies get PTSD hasn't created the tiniest bit of stir.

The further we get away from the era when ordinary citizens had first hand experience of war, the more distorted the popular views of it are going to become and the more perceptions of the military and the military experience become wrapped up in fantasy. The gun fetishism that seems to have seized the modern Right doesn't help.
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Habbaku

#23891
November 26, 2019, 10:15:34 AM
 :hmm: Sounds like we need another war.
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Valmy

#23892
November 26, 2019, 10:34:40 AM
Quote from: Syt on November 26, 2019, 09:37:07 AM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1199181946166874112?s=20

Quote"I'm curious why wasn't it done a long time ago? And also, I guess the answer to that is because now I'm president, we get things done."

President Trump signs the Woman's Suffrage Centennial Coin Act.

The only coin act that Congress should be passing is to stop minting 1 and 5 cent coins. That is what needs to get done, not more commemorative collectibles.
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The Brain

#23893
November 26, 2019, 12:08:43 PM
Why do you keep those coins around? We haven't had the value equivalent of a 1 cent coin in decades.
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Barrister

#23894
November 26, 2019, 12:27:29 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 26, 2019, 12:08:43 PM
Why do you keep those coins around? We haven't had the value equivalent of a 1 cent coin in decades.

Canada got rid of the penny 6 years ago.  Can't say I miss it.

I kind of wish we could get rid of the nickle too, but that would also doom the more-useful quarter.

We do have a little-used 50 cent piece - perhaps get rid of the nickle and quarter, and bring the 50-cent coin into wide circulation?

Or just get rid of both the nickle and dime, and round all prices to the nearest quarter.  Hmm, that sounds good.
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