What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Syt]

Supposedly he was trolling the journalists to see how they spin it.

[Malthus]

Supposedly he was trolling the journalists to see how they spin it.

Press report: "President says dumb shit again"

President: "Aha! You fell for my cunning plan! I only said dumb shit to see if you would report that I said dumb shit!"

[frunk]

Press report: "President says dumb shit again"

President: "Aha! You fell for my cunning plan! I only said dumb shit to see if you would report that I said dumb shit!"

It's been the standard defense of Trump since day 1.  He's a master manipulator because he gets the media to report the incredibly stupid shit he says.

[Barrister]

Here's some surprising news: top Navy officials recommend Cpt Crozier (formerly of the USS Theodore Roosevelt) be re-instated.

Article mentions that Trump has softened on the captain after the social media attention the case gathered, so it might actually happen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/coronavirus-navy-roosevelt-brett-crozier.html?smid=tw-share

[Caliga]

I mean, do they ask why you are carrying it? Maybe if you say you are carrying to assassinate some officials, they won't let you in. 

The time I was there they didn't ask the guy why he was carrying it.

[Malthus]

I mean, do they ask why you are carrying it? Maybe if you say you are carrying to assassinate some officials, they won't let you in. 

The time I was there they didn't ask the guy why he was carrying it.

Fair enough - you would not want to encourage lying. Lying is wrong.

The whole process appears quite pointless.

Reminds me of years ago in Thailand, where the version of airport security they had at the time was to check your bags, give you a form saying your bags had been checked, then handed you the bags back to carry to your plane. I suppose you were on your honour not to shove bombs, guns or drugs into your bags after they were checked.   

[The Minsky Moment]

Supposedly he was trolling the journalists to see how they spin it.

How is that explanation better? "I was using this very serious and critical briefing on an urgent health matter affecting the lives of millions to make sarcastic comments and troll journalists"

Why do some people still accept this behavior in a president?

[fromtia]

Why do some people still accept this behavior in a president?

He's a strong man, sent by god, he pwns the libs and you'd have to be a lib to not see that the constant freaking out by the lib media is a big joke. There's part of me that's pretty sure this term and Trumps likely next one aren't even the apex of the current decades long trajectory of the Republican party. Sad!

[The Brain]

The US has served its purpose, and it's about time to retire it. Surely the states that are non-retarded can come up with something better than the retarded feds.

[Eddie Teach]

40% of the people in those states support Republicans and 40% in the other states don't. Your "solution" is what's retarded.

[The Brain]

40% of the people in those states support Republicans and 40% in the other states don't. Your "solution" is what's retarded.

Elections  have consequences. You elect a retarded leader and you gonna get retarded leadership. You vote for the lols and lols is what you gonna get.

In a democracy the people can't pass the buck. Sorry.

[Eddie Teach]

Yeah, those blue states elected representatives who applied to join the US, so now they're stuck. The eastern ones and California even elected representatives who chose to fight rather than let Southern states leave. Elections do have consequences. People in every state have to put up with Trump until the country as a whole chooses someone else.

[The Brain]

Yeah, those blue states elected representatives who applied to join the US, so now they're stuck. The eastern ones and California even elected representatives who chose to fight rather than let Southern states leave. Elections do have consequences. People in every state have to put up with Trump until the country as a whole chooses someone else.

*shrug* Or until they leave. A sinking big ship may be romantic but it's not terribly attractive.

[Eddie Teach]

Ok, so you support secession. What about rural areas? Are state borders sacrosanct, despite the national union being divisible?

[garbon]

Yeah, those blue states elected representatives who applied to join the US, so now they're stuck. The eastern ones and California even elected representatives who chose to fight rather than let Southern states leave. Elections do have consequences. People in every state have to put up with Trump until the country as a whole chooses someone else.

I don't think anyone currently living had a say in that.