What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[DGuller]

Has anyone described his penis yet?

[Syt]

Who the fuck keeps a school calendar from 36 years ago? Unless you're a psychopath/serial killer keeping a diary?

[Tamas]

Who the fuck keeps a school calendar from 36 years ago? Unless you're a psychopath/serial killer keeping a diary?

Well if that's when they peaked...

[garbon]

Not yet, but eventually kids today will easily be able to do so as their gmail accounts/social media (or equivalent) will have documented all of their lives. I'm much better at being able to determine what I was doing since 2005 when I got gmail.

[garbon]

https://www.axios.com/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-political-polarization-metoo-b66ab0a9-8da0-4bea-9751-e095f8d1a01a.html

Forget your personal political views for one minute. It's hard to argue politics — White House politics, congressional politics, now Supreme Court politics — hasn't gone crazy.

You have virtually the entire Democratic Party believing the Republican nominee for the Supreme Court was a predator.

You have virtually the entire Republican Party believing two women are making up that they were victims of attempted rape or sexual humiliation — or confused about who actually did it.

You have the White House putting Brett Kavanaugh on Fox News to proclaim his innocence, in what's apparently the first TV interview of a Supreme Court nominee.

You have him needlessly explaining in that interview that he was a virgin in high school, and for "many years thereafter," when none of the allegations involve intercourse.

You have the same lawyer who outed the president's cover-up of a sexual relationship with a porn star, Michael Avenatti, now threatening to prove Kavanaugh was involved in "gang rape."

What's next: A public hearing to air all of this, for a panel of partisans on Thursday.

[Tamas]

IDK. In the 90s everyone was obsessed over Lewinski's BJ.

It's just the way America rolls.

[mongers]

Forget your personal political views for one minute. It's hard to argue politics — White House politics, congressional politics, now Supreme Court politics — hasn't gone crazy.
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What's next: A public hearing to air all of this, for a panel of partisans on Thursday.

Indeed, a grotesque spectacle.

[Malthus]

IDK. In the 90s everyone was obsessed over Lewinski's BJ.

It's just the way America rolls.

It's gotten much, much worse, though admittedly none of this is unprecedented.

The clowns are in charge of the entire circus now.

[Tamas]

The clowns are in charge of the entire circus now.

Good point.

[Legbiter]

IDK. In the 90s everyone was obsessed over Lewinski's BJ.

It's just the way America rolls.

It's gotten much, much worse, though admittedly none of this is unprecedented.

The clowns are in charge of the entire circus now.

Watching American politics on Twitter is like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lQcKiFy_DM 

But this will blow over to be ancient history 2 weeks from now. Kavanaugh pretty much has to ride this out now or be seen as a confirmed sexual predator. He dosen't have the option of a dignified exit, it's ride or die. And the only way he dosen't get confirmed now is if enough Republican senators decide to dump him.

[Valmy]

Forget your personal political views for one minute. It's hard to argue politics — White House politics, congressional politics, now Supreme Court politics — hasn't gone crazy.

Yet not in a surprising way. It seems like the logical conclusion of TV and social media on politics. It is all pandering to the lowest common denominator.

[Valmy]

But this will blow over to be ancient history 2 weeks from now. Kavanaugh pretty much has to ride this out now or be seen as a confirmed sexual predator. He dosen't have the option of a dignified exit, it's ride or die. And the only way he dosen't get confirmed now is if enough Republican senators decide to dump him.

It will just be on to the next thing.

It is ridiculous he was not confirmed already. I mean how could that not have been a rather boring slam dunk? The idea that 'we will just wait until this insane drama filled nomination where the congress is completely controlled by the party of the President blows over' is...well indicative of the whole clown show.

[frunk]

Who thought it would be a good idea for Trump to address the UN?  Jeez.

[crazy canuck]

Listened to part of Trump's speech at the UN on my drive into work.  Some observations:

1) He proposes that the "Doctrine of Patriotism" spread throughout the world.   It is not entirely clear what he means by that but I assume he means nationalism.  He also invoked the Munroe Doctrine.  Not sure what point he was trying to make but I suppose that is something that resonates with the nationalist base he caters to.

2) He congratulated the UN on the work it does to help impoverished countries (someone slipped that into the speech because it was so out of step with the rest of it) and then immediately went on to say the US is the "biggest giver" but nobody gives to the US.  Again not sure what he means but the rest of the next part of the speech went on to detail a world in which the US will only assist those who respect the US (not sure who falls into that category - and especially after this speech) and allies (not sure who the US considers an ally anymore).

3) He seems to think that a trade deficit works the same way as a budget deficit, and perhaps worse, he stated that a trade deficit was the equivalent of foreign countries plundering the wealth of the US. 

4) How do Republicans who were successful in creating a world trading system that greatly benefits the US look at themselves in the mirror after supporting this man?

[Maladict]

Trump begins his UN speech by saying his administration has accomplished more than "almost any administration in the history of our country." There is some laughter in the hall. "So true," he says. The laughter gets louder. "Didn't expect that reaction," Trump says