bearister said:

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He has the same level of self awareness as our resident righteous righty trolls. Projection is the primary unifying characteristic of today's Republicans.

AunBear89 said:

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bearister said:

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He has the same level of self awareness as our resident righteous righty trolls. Projection is the primary unifying characteristic of today's Republicans.

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Who knows, have you ever seen Eric Trump and BearFarces appearing together?

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The "trigger the libs" purpose seems to be cropping up more and more in the OT threads here. You can see it in the argumentative styles of many of our resident conservatives (or those who sometimes style themselves as "independents" who support neither party): just point out some kind of liberal hypocrisy, and that's it. Doesn't matter if it's actually true, doesn't matter if it was just one random person and not a mainstream Democratic party position, doesn't matter if pointing out the hypocrisy doesn't actually address or help solve the core problem at hand (homelessness, climate change, COVID-19, etc.). Just painting the liberals as hypocrites is the end of the discussion.

It would be nice to have conservative ideas that could actually solve real problems facing the nation, but that seems a bridge too far these days.

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Further evidence that I am correct about the above.

Holy ***** Trump just praised Erdogan.

Excerpt from a 40-min interview with the NYT below. By the standard of someone who doesn't know what he's doing and isn't smart or ethical enough to learn how to do it right, this is actually a brilliant response.

" The day after President Trump fired FBI boss James Comey, the president phoned John Kelly, who was then secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, and offered him Comey's job, the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Michael Schmidt reports in his forthcoming book, "Donald Trump v. The United States."

Driving the news: "But the president added something else if he became FBI director, Trump told him, Kelly needed to be loyal to him, and only him."

"Kelly immediately realized the problem with Trump's request for loyalty, and he pushed back on the president's demand," Schmidt writes.
"Kelly said that he would be loyal to the Constitution and the rule of law, but he refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump."
Why it matters: This previously unreported conversation sheds additional light on the president's mindset when he fired Comey. Special counsel Robert Mueller never learned of this information because the president's lawyers limited the scope of his team's two-hour interview with Kelly.

"In addition to illustrating how Trump viewed the role and independence of senior officials who work for him, the president's demand for loyalty tracked with Comey's experience with Trump," Schmidt writes.
Behind the scenes: Schmidt reports that "throughout Kelly's time working directly with Trump, Kelly was repeatedly struck by how Trump failed to understand how those who worked for him like Kelly and other top former generals had interest in being loyal not to him, but to the institutions of American democracy."
Kelly has told others that Trump wanted to behave like an authoritarian and repeatedly had to be restrained and told what he could and could not legally do."
"Aside from questions of the law, Kelly has told others that one of the most difficult tasks he faced with Trump was trying to stop him from pulling out of NATO a move that Trump has repeatedly threatened but never made good on, which would have been a seismic breach of American alliances and an extraordinary gift to Putin."
Quote of the book: "Kelly has said that having to say no to Trump was like 'French kissing a chainsaw.'"

The White House, Kelly and McGahn did not respond to requests for comment. Axios

We all applaud Adriana Mnuchin.

Softcore porn actress....and now beneficiary of the looting of America.

Some toilet paper stuck to his shoe would have acted as a sail to help tRump's big, fat lard ass glide up into the plane.

B.A. Bearacus said:

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New, effectively stated clips of our next president.

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Courageous of him to go to Pittsburgh where all the violence is

"People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows."

tRump tops out at 5'10 or 5'11. The flamenco dancer shoes get him up to Obama's height of 6'1. In tRump World that equals 6'3.

We're Cal guys, most of us. We have the utmost respect for Nobel Laureates. Nobel Laureates who endorse Donald T: 0.

B.A. Bearacus said:

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We're Cal guys, most of us. We have the utmost respect for Nobel Laureates. Nobel Laureates who endorse Donald T: 0.

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I wonder how they feel about his pro-fracking stances

"He describes the president, meanwhile, as "a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man."*

Cohen's new book calls Trump a 'cheat' who sought help from Russia - Houston Chronicle


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cohen-trump-book/2020/09/05/235aa10a-ef96-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html

*...but other than that a great guy and the life of every party.

" President Trump's campaign faces money concerns an unusual predicament for a sitting president, and one that worries veteran Republican operatives, with Trump behind in top swing states as the race climaxes.

Why it matters: The campaign's view is that Trump will get his message out, and he depends less on paid media than normal politicians. But the number of states Trump has to worry about has grown, and Joe Biden's massive August fundraising haul has given his campaign a lift as early voting begins." Axios

I wonder if tRump's donors are tiring of their donations ending up in his private coffers?*

How Donald Trump Moved Millions From His Campaign Donors To His Private Business


https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/07/21/how-donald-trump-moved-millions-from-his-campaign-donors-to-his-private-business/




*...and we only know about the fund transfers that are itemized in public filings. One gets dizzy and a case of the vapors thinking about off grid rabbit holes.

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Even when you add in the Secret Service and other government spend going to Trump properties it's not that much. It's egregious and probably low tens of millions but that's just a minor grift. Compared to all of the people making big money insider trading off the Trump administration's loose lips, tens of millions is just walking around money. Given how incompetent Trump and his cronies are, I'm sure that the people taking advantage of him, like Putin, have had a far more lucrative few years than anyone in the Trump crime family.

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Why do you think they support him? Trump has always been more about marketing than making real money, which is why he has so many bankruptcies.

This story confirms my long held suspicion that tRump and associates blackmail people to get their public support. There has been one too many politicians that have pulled a 180 with regard to their statements about tRump.

Trump's ex-lawyer Cohen links Falwell's endorsement in 2016 to suppression of racy photos - Reuters


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-falwell-endorsement/ex-fixer-for-trump-links-falwells-endorsement-in-2016-to-suppression-of-racy-photos-idUSKBN25Z2S0