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Schumur just said Trump was willing to do the shutdown for years. I've heard/read that the real reason Trump is for the shutdown is it distracts from Mueller and Russia. This makes more sense as this goes on...but the media is holding back it seems. Neighbor mentioned it gets REAL when checks are due to be cut on the 11th. I think that's when Trump realizes his pants are both full of crap and on fire. People not being paid is an issue.

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Does the shutdown also kneecap and funding of the investigation?...I wonder.

I heard no. Makes sense, DOJ is essential...unfortunately for Trump.

Trump is considering the declaration of a national emergency to circumvent congress. Meanwhile, a federal judge just extended Mueller's investigation by six months. In other news, Orville Redenbacher's popcorn shares are skyrocketing.

Didn't know Concord was a bearded Canadian.

@josh_wingrove:

Next Q is from what Trudeau called an "enthusiastic bearded fellow in gray"

It's another Trump Q: Would it be so bad to "just push him off a cliff? We're good. Like, really. I'll buy you a beer."

"I wasn't expecting a threat of violence against our closest ally," Trudeau says

Who will be the most prominent Democratic politician (current or former) that will speak at his funeral?

Also, clips of me, George F. Will, and Max Boot after Trump passes:

I think it would be fun if democrats hired Hillary and the SNL crew to headline a Laugh-In event.

Tell jokes about Trump, and have a go round on "Where were you when you heard the news that Trump had died?"



You know, Trump probably wanted to be such a famous and important President that he'd get his own Holiday, like Washington/Lincoln, and MLK... well, I'd be willing to give him one for the day he died. But rather than a day of mourning (we have enough of those, no?) this will be a day of Celebration. Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead! Long live the United States!

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Didn't know Concord was a bearded Canadian.

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An unbearded Al Gore is more like it.
Younger, better looking, not as heavy, but not as a good a public speaker.

Al Gore for President!
He'd do a good job now.
He's free of his prior obligations to conform and can just go for the end goal. Mother Earth.

With all due respect, I was kinda hoping that Trump would get so excited during the Super Bowl that he dropped dead of a heart attack, just like Fran Tarkenton's dad.

But it didn't happen, did it?

Every day, I wake up, and my thoughts are "is today the day my dream comes true?"
I die waiting.
I read the news, and he kills me every day.

Does anyone know if Trump likes Jack In The Box?





In 1993, 732 people were affected by one of the most notorious and tragic cases of food poisoning in US history. Jack in the Box, a fast-food hamburger chain, sold hamburgers with under-cooked beef patties that infected many customers with E. coli bacteria. The outbreak involved 73 restaurants across the US in the states of Idaho, Washington, Nevada and California.

Sadly, the under-cooked burger patties were responsible for the deaths of 4 children and the serious injury of 178 other victims, including permanent kidney and brain damage.

Does anyone know if Trump would be using an elevator or stairs inside the White House?



According to the most recent data on stairway accidents in the United States, an estimated 12,000 people die from falling down steps each year. Following motor vehicle accidents, falls are the second leading cause of accidental injuries in the home and workplace, and stairs present numerous opportunities for people to hurt themselves.

Does anyone know how often the secret service has to thwart death threats against the president?



May 29, 2019

SEATTLE - A Kent man pleaded guilty Wednesday to making online death threats against members of President Trump's family, media figures and members of the Jewish community, court records show.

Chase Bliss Colasurdo, 27 (and pictured above), of Kent entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Seattle, and Chief Judge Ricardo S. Martinez scheduled a sentencing date of Aug. 23.

According to the case file, a member of the public contacted the FBI in March and reported concerns about Instagram and other social media posts where Colasurdo threatened to execute members of President Trump's family.

In addition, Colasurdo sent messages to five different media organizations that he was going to execute a Trump family member, and he posted a photo on Instagram showing a hand with a firearm pointed at the photo of a Trump family member, the court file says.

When initially contacted by law enforcement in March, Colasurdo claimed his social media accounts had been hacked and he was not responsible for the posts.

Does anyone know if Trump will be convicted of sex crimes, tax evasion, election fraud, lying under oath, witness tampering, mismanagement of charitable funds, being a duchebag and rot in solitary confinement like Papillon?

If Trump's body was to show up half decomposed in a shallow grave with the face beaten in, that would be breaking news.

On September 12, 2001, the wsj had many accounts of what had happened the day before. I read with great interest to learn of what might have happened to 3 of my stock trading friends at Cantor Fitzgerald.

One of the more real and memorable articles was written by a journalist who reported what happens to human bodies after falling 100 stories onto concrete. He explained that as humans are mostly water, the remains were perhaps like a tomato dressed in clothes and driven over by a truck. The author said he would never forget that imagery, would never forgive the perpetrators of this horrible murderous act.

I have looked at various images, taken in the brief time period before the towers fell. They are indeed disgusting.

Similarly, I will never forgive Trump for... everything he's done and said.

Wow, the New Yorker said Trump is trying to copy what Obama did in an effort to get reelected. But this is pretty wild.

Holy hell...I just about fell out of my chair reading his list. I just don't see Trump reading Murakami...or frankly reading at all.

I saw the unredacted book list where his actual Top 3 are:

1. The Art of the Deal
2. Mein Kampf
3. Kama Sutra

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I saw the unredacted book list where his actual Top 3 are:

1. The Art of the Deal
2. Mein Kampf
3. Kama Sutra

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In reality it would just be a link to buy his own books.

https://www.amazon.com/Donald-J.-Trump/e/B001H6O8M2%3F

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Wow, the New Yorker said Trump is trying to copy what Obama did in an effort to get reelected. But this is pretty wild.

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Did somebody tell him he may actually be asked what he liked about each book and saying, "there were words written on paper", is not going to cut it.

There is no way that Trump can read and comprehend any book. There is just no way. But assuming that he could, The Shallows by Nicholas Carr stuck out to me. It is subtitled: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.

https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750/ref=asc_df_0393339750/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312736202848&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2984478531585762866&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031914&hvtargid=pla-437078293675&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=62017409437&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312736202848&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2984478531585762866&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031914&hvtargid=pla-437078293675

I hope there is a chapter on Twitter.

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Did the president seriously devote time and public space to opine of this????

okaydo said:

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Wow, the New Yorker said Trump is trying to copy what Obama did in an effort to get reelected. But this is pretty wild.

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April Ryan or Jim Acosta should ask Trump a question about Toni Morrison or any of the other authors. He'd be like,

"What? Oh, yes, Tony was a fine soldier who defended these great United States bravely!"

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There is no way that Trump can read and comprehend any book. There is just no way. But assuming that he could, The Shallows by Nicholas Carr stuck out to me. It is subtitled: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.

I hope there is a chapter on Twitter.

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It's trump's personal sequel to Goebbels' propaganda works - how to manipulate your fellow countrymen for personal gain.

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Did the president seriously devote time and public space to opine of this????

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Well, technically he wasn't president in 2013, but it did distract him from his Obama birtherism nonsense for a few minutes.

We all process so much news these days that we miss details. I did the same thing and wrote a diatribe that I then deleted when I reread it and saw the 2013. My rant was still accurate but I was vulnerable to an effective counter argument.

Oh well.
It was good preparation for being Pres.
Some folks get a training for politics by being a congressman, a senator, a governor. He was out there ***king porn stars, playboy bunnies, playing on twitter, and commenting on other people's lives as if some sort of ruling arbiter.
What a life. I can't wait until it's over. Boy, will I throw a bash in celebration!!! "Drinks are on the house!!"

Ah, emotional relief is coming!
(Posted from article at theweek.com, which contains various embedded links to backup claims, statements of fact.)


OPINION
Everyone will eventually turn on Trump. Even Steve Doocy.

By Windsor Mann

August 14, 2019
It's too soon to say when Donald Trump's presidency will end, but it's not too soon to say how it will end. It will end in disgrace. And when it does, Trump's defenders will turn on him.

Some already have. On Sunday, Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former communications director, said that Republicans should "replace the top of the ticket in 2020."

Former White House aide and Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault never had a bad word to say about Trump when she worked for him. Trump said he hired her "because she said GREAT things about me." But after she left the White House, she said Trump was "mentally impaired" and accused him of saying the N-word.

Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, said he was "mesmerized" by Trump when he worked for him. It wasn't until after Cohen quit working for Trump and was sentenced to prison as a result, in part, of lying for Trump that he ceased to be mesmerized and instead became disgusted. In congressional testimony, he called Trump a "racist," a "cheat," and a "conman."

Trump's sycophants are as loyal as he is which is to say, not at all. In The Art of the Deal, Trump counted Roy Cohn as a friend, calling him "a truly loyal guy." After Cohn contracted AIDS, Trump "dropped him like a hot potato," according to Susan Bell, Cohn's longtime secretary. That's the kind of friend Trump is the kind you don't want.

The people who are loyal to Trump are loyal not because they like him as a person but because they have something to gain from him. In an interview with The New York Times, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) admitted that he embraced Trump "to try to be relevant." So far, his plan has worked superbly Graham has a recurring slot on Hannity. Once Trump is gone, however, Graham will no longer need the man he once dismissed as "the world's biggest jackass." He will find someone else to latch onto, and he will forget about Trump just as he forgot about John McCain.

Trump's cult of personality is a cult of power-worshippers. "It is the place and power we bow to, not the man," William Hazlitt wrote in his 1823 essay "On the Spirit of Monarchy." When Trump is deprived of his place and power, people will stop bowing to him.

Trump's post-presidency will be sadder and more pathetic than his presidency. His presidential library will be neither presidential nor a library. His memoir, if someone writes one for him, will be dreadful ghostwritten, poorly written, replete with falsehoods and errors, and bereft of insights and useful information. His presidential papers will contain such statements as "Horseface"; "trade wars are good, and easy to win"; "a very stable genius"; and "your favorite President, me!" No mainstream public figure will want to be associated with his legacy.

In February, 157 scholars ranked Trump as the third-worst president in U.S. history. And it's not just the eggheads who disapprove of him. According to Gallup, 54 percent of Americans disapprove of his presidency. Trump has averaged the lowest approval rating of any president in history. Unlike his predecessors, Trump doesn't need a war or a recession to be unpopular he just needs himself. And unlike his predecessors, Trump won't improve his public standing as a private citizen.

After resigning in disgrace, Richard Nixon partially rehabilitated himself. He wrote a 1,120-page memoir and a succession of books about foreign policy. He counseled presidents and appeared on serious news programs to opine on world events. Time columnist Hugh Sidey, who had chided Nixon during Watergate, called him a "strategic genius." President Clinton gave Nixon a fawning eulogy.

Jimmy Carter is widely regarded as having been a better ex-president than a president. His approval rating rose from 31 percent in 1980 to 64 percent in 2009, thanks largely to his humanitarian work. According to The Washington Post, he "helped renovate 4,300 homes in 14 countries for Habitat for Humanity." Trump, on the other hand, reportedly appropriated money meant for a children's cancer charity.

In the early republic, ex-presidents returned to private life. That changed with John Quincy Adams, who broke with tradition and entered the U.S. House of Representatives. Over time, ex-presidents began to monetize their experience. In 1885, Ulysses S. Grant sold his memoirs for $450,000. Nixon received a $2.5 million advance for his. Clinton made millions of dollars giving speeches.

Trump will try to profit, too, of course. He already runs an online store on his personal website, where you can purchase a MAGA bathing suit for $55 and a "WITCH HUNT" coffee mug for $30. But the market for Trump regalia will shrink when he's out of office. Of his poorly educated supporters, how many will spend $30 on a memoir they won't read? Who will pay to hear Trump blabber about nothing when he already does that for free? Won't people tire of him?

2020 Democrats' shallow media criticism
They already are. On his wife's birthday last year, Trump called Fox & Friends and rambled for so long that the hosts didn't know how to get rid of him. After waiting patiently for 30 minutes, Brian Kilmeade politely informed the unhinged man on the other line that he probably had "a billion things" to do that day, his being president and all.

After Trump leaves office and has fewer things to do, people will have fewer reasons to listen to him. Ex-President Trump will call Fox & Friends every morning, but they will ignore him. Instead of ranting on air, he will leave voicemails for Steve Doocy's assistant's intern.