What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Eddie Teach]

Are those better or worse than Yugos?

[Savonarola]

  It's Morning in America, alright.  Saturday Morning.

The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

...Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They....

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

...want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

The military and first responders, despite no electric, roads, phones etc., have done an amazing job. Puerto Rico was totally destroyed.

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

Fake News CNN and NBC are going out of their way to disparage our great First Responders as a way to "get Trump." Not fair to FR or effort!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

I will be going to Puerto Rico on Tuesday with Melania. Will hopefully be able to stop at the U.S. Virgin Islands (people working hard).

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

At last Puerto Rico is the headline on CNN.com (and on FoxNews.com as well.)  Most of this week it was about midway down on the CNN site and not covered at all on the FoxNews front page.  Once again it's all about the Donald.

[viper37]

Are those better or worse than Yugos?

they were both modified Fiat, now I don't know.

[CountDeMoney]

Once again it's all about the Donald.

It is because he wills it.

[CountDeMoney]

LOL, Suck it North Korea AND US State Department!

Amazon Washington Post
Trump says Tillerson is 'wasting his time' trying to pursue negotiations with North Korea
By David Nakamura October 1 at 11:14 AM

BRANCHBURG, N.J. — President Trump signaled Sunday that he does not believe that attempts at direct communications with North Korea are worth the effort despite escalating tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.

A day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested that the United States maintains "lines of communications" with Kim Jong Un's regime, Trump wrote on Twitter that Tillerson is "wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man" — his nickname for Kim.

    ...Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2017

The president has taken an increasingly hard-line stance toward Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests, threatening  in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly two weeks ago to "totally destroy" North Korea if necessary.

Tillerson, on a visit to Beijing, told reporters Saturday that the State Department is "probing" through direct channels with the North whether Kim would be open to talks and under what conditions.

"We ask, 'Would you like to talk?' We have lines of communications to Pyongyang. We're not in a dark situation, a blackout. We have a couple, three, channels open to Pyongyang; we can talk to them; we do talk to them," Tillerson  said.

"Stay tuned," he added.

Trump, who is spending the weekend at his Bedminster golf resort in New Jersey, has said repeatedly that he is open to military options. North Korean officials have suggested that Trump's threats amount to a declaration of war.

[garbon]

Oh the heady days when we were like 'Ack, Tillerson will be in the pocket of big oil!'

[viper37]

Donald Trump's dog

It's totally unprofessional for a newspaper of this caliber.  But I laughed.

[Valmy]

I am slightly annoyed that Trump is going to just start giving big grants of federal money to nukes and coal to help them not get beaten by natural gas so badly. I don't think it will make much of a difference but man what a waste of money and supposedly this is to protect 'base load' without really explaining why gas is insufficient for base load.

[saskganesh]

Oh the heady days when we were like 'Ack, Tillerson will be in the pocket of big oil!'

Gaslighting works! Anyhow, I'm pretty sure nuclear war can't be among Big Oil's best interests.

[dps]

Oh the heady days when we were like 'Ack, Tillerson will be in the pocket of big oil!'

Gaslighting works! Anyhow, I'm pretty sure nuclear war can't be among Big Oil's best interests.

Well, it probably would further demonize nuclear power, but OTOH, the eviro-nuts have already pretty thoroughly done that.

[garbon]

Oh the heady days when we were like 'Ack, Tillerson will be in the pocket of big oil!'

Gaslighting works! Anyhow, I'm pretty sure nuclear war can't be among Big Oil's best interests.

How's gaslighting apply here?

[Iormlund]

I am slightly annoyed that Trump is going to just start giving big grants of federal money to nukes and coal to help them not get beaten by natural gas so badly. I don't think it will make much of a difference but man what a waste of money and supposedly this is to protect 'base load' without really explaining why gas is insufficient for base load.

Unless things have changed recently, gas is great as a backup or as a quick way to balance demand and supply, but is faily expensive for baseload. Though a pretty good case could be made that it is cheaper than coal, when you factor in externalities (healthcare, sick days, etc).

[Valmy]

The case that it is cheaper than coal is that, presently, it is cheaper than coal. Especially with the combined cycle plants...well mainly with the combined cycle plants but those are becoming more common.

[HVC]

Oxfam stepping in to help Puerto Rico.

[CountDeMoney]

Oxfam stepping in to help Puerto Rico.

Look! It's free T-Shirt Night at the Garden!   

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