Trump, America's Unpresident

Europeans will now be scrambling to fill that gap. Many may regret they didn't do it earlier. Senior US officials have been warning them for years of the consequences of spending too little on defense (and of spending that money wrongly).

Curt

climber
Gold Canyon, AZ

Oct 17, 2016 - 09:45pm PT
I love Trump. His loss will be epic and he's going to drag Republicans in the US Senate down with him. Excellent.

(as an example, wouldn't Jesus live in a multi-million dollar house?)

It seemed like that was all going to change Wednesday, when the woman, who has gone by the pseudonyms “Katie Johnson” and “Jane Doe,” was set to appear at a press conference at the law offices of Lisa Bloom, a high-profile civil rights attorney and TV commentator. But the woman didn’t come to the press conference. Bloom told a room full of waiting reporters that Johnson was afraid to show her face after receiving multiple death threats, and that they would have to reschedule.

The woman claiming she was raped by trump as a child dropped her lawsuit days ago

With Bloom’s planned press conference on Wednesday, things might have changed.

But Johnson’s appearance was canceled at the last minute because Bloom said her client had received threats and was afraid of appearing in public.

On Friday evening, Bloom announced that her client had instructed her to dismiss the lawsuit.

I'd rather see a Bernie Sanders than a potential Clinton return in 4-years

Guys, this is the necessary step to President Warren in 2020.

A two-for-one. First female and first Native American. Outstanding.

I wonder how much $ she got for that.

The leaked draft of a presidential memorandum Donald Trump is expected to sign within days suspends a 2010 rule that discouraged American companies from funding conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo through their purchase of “conflict minerals.”

The memo, distributed inside the administration on Friday afternoon and obtained by The Intercept, directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to temporarily waive the requirements of the Conflict Mineral Rule, a provision of the Dodd Frank Act, for two years — which the rule explicitly allows the president to do for national security purposes. The memorandum also directs the State Department and Treasury Department to find an alternative plan to “address such problems in the DRC and adjoining countries.”

Born Giulio Cesare Evola to a noble Sicilian family on May 19, 1898, Baron Julius Evola took on many roles through his long and productive life. He served in World War I as an artillery officer, then became one of Italy's leading Dadaists. Shortly after dalliance in avant-garde and futurist movements, he became an occultist and embarked upon the career path of his mature work. After the first world war, he experimented briefly with hallucinogenic drugs and tantra, but later renounced both these forms of stimulation. During the early 1920s he published with the UR-group, an occult fascist society in Italy. Although he was often critical of the regime, Evola did not suffer greatly under Mussolini's fascists. During World War II, Evola volunteered with the German war effort as a translator of Masonic documents. He was injured during a Russian bombardment and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After the war, he continued to write and publish, getting arrested in 1951 for "promotion of fascism." He died on June 11, 1974.

It was this caste-based perspective that was developed in the 1930s and during the war in Evola's extensive writings on racism; for Evola, the core of racial superiority lay in the spiritual qualities of the higher castes, which expressed themselves in the physical as well as in cultural features but were not determined by them. The law of the regression of castes places racism at the core of Evola's philosophy, since he sees an increasing predominance of lower races as directly expressed through modern mass democracies.

Finding Italian Fascism too compromising, Evola began to seek recognition in the Third Reich, where he lectured from 1934 onward. He held hope in the Nazi SS, though took issue with Nazi populism and biological materialism. SS authorities rejected Evola's ideas as supranational, aristocratic, and thus reactionary.

So how is that Hillary for Prison thing working out for you Trumpistas?

Voters think he's over reaching to make a country safe...that they already consider to be safe. 66% of Americans consider the United States to be a safe country, to only 23% who consider it unsafe. Perhaps as an outgrowth of that sentiment only 45% of voters support Trump's Executive Order on immigration, to 49% who are opposed to it. Among those who do support it you have to wonder how well thought out their position is-

by a 51/23 margin Trump voters say that the Bowling Green Massacre shows why Trump's immigration policy is needed.

Dumb! Them folks are et-up with dumb.

Ted Cruz: ‘The Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan’

"It is a dangerous world out there — it's scary, like Vietnam," Trump said about contracting sexually transmitted diseases during a 1997 interview with Howard Stern. "Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier."

Why people believe Trump's lies, fake news, and conspiracy theories!

"The less control people have over their lives, the more likely they are to try and regain control through mental gymnastics," said Galinsky. "Feelings of control are so important to people that a lack of control is inherently threatening. While some misperceptions can be bad or lead one astray, they're extremely common and most likely satisfy a deep and enduring psychological need."

Trump or fiction

Of course, the more false the pattern, the more vulnerable you have to be to believe it. And of course, the more gymnastics your brain has to do to accept it.

Enter Donald Trump, a man known for spreading falsehoods. He captured the imaginations of many people who felt vulnerable about the past, present and future. Business Insider's Harrison Jacobs aptly pointed out that he won in parts of the country ravaged by the opiate epidemic — the 'Oxy electorate.'

Talk about vulnerable. These are also places of higher unemployment, where manufacturing jobs have been on the decline for decades. These are places where a rational structure is needed to explain why things got so bad and why they don't seem to be getting better.

But again this is not "rationality" here as we think about it in an economic sense — as a cost-benefit analysis. If it were, individuals would seek the truth no matter what their state of distress, because it is only when a problem is truly understood that it can be solved.
Indeed, Whitson herself has said that "s strategy is better based on reality, not tempting illusions."

Here's a relevant example. Trump has dumped on China over and over since he entered the national stage. He's said that we're losing jobs to Chinese manufacturing and that the Trans Pacific Partnership was "was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone."

In the world of facts, however, we know that thousands and thousands of manufacturing jobs have been lost to automation, not off-shoring to China. We also know that China is not involved with the TPP in any way. In fact, the country has been upset about TPP since talks for the agreement started.

The human desire to feel in control supersedes all of those facts, and in turn, pushes us to believe what may be irrational, but is simple, understandable, and gives us a sense of control.

Think about it: Say you believe all the lies Trump has told about trade, China and the global economy. It's a comforting notion, ultimately, because it means he also has the solutions. Voting for him, then, is a way to take control of that untruth.

Oh look. Another "we hate Donald Trump" thread. Is it Saturday already?

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‏@realDonaldTrump

While our wonderful president was out playing golf all day, the TSA is falling apart, just like our government! Airports a total disaster!

Anybody know what Donald's handicap is? ;)

Anybody know what Donald's handicap is?

He seems like a good guy compared to his competition. At least we have a beautiful and classy first lady. It's been since Jackie Kennedy since we can say that.

"Make no mistake about it, our people have played a HUGE role in electing Trump!" he wrote.

trailridge127

Trad climber
Loveland, CO

Feb 11, 2017 - 05:42pm PT

He seems like a good guy compared to his competition. At least we have a beautiful and classy first lady. It's been since Jackie Kennedy since we can say that.

yeah, I agree that Michelle Obama was neither beautiful or classy
right on, brother trailridge

Then there is the obvious question of the president’s mental and psychological health. I know we’re not supposed to bring this up — but it is staring us brutally in the face. I keep asking myself this simple question: If you came across someone in your everyday life who repeatedly said fantastically and demonstrably untrue things, what would you think of him? If you showed up at a neighbor’s, say, and your host showed you his newly painted living room, which was a deep blue, and then insisted repeatedly — manically — that it was a lovely shade of scarlet, what would your reaction be? If he then dragged out a member of his family and insisted she repeat this obvious untruth in front of you, how would you respond? If the next time you dropped by, he was still raving about his gorgeous new red walls, what would you think? Here’s what I’d think: This man is off his rocker. He’s deranged; he’s bizarrely living in an alternative universe; he’s delusional. If he kept this up, at some point you’d excuse yourself and edge slowly out of the room and the house and never return. You’d warn your other neighbors. You’d keep your distance. If you saw him, you’d be polite but keep your distance.

Folks, it's time to get active.

"Liberals and minorities and LBGT have gotten everything they have asked for in the last 20 years. What they have forgotten is that their agenda has a cost. Businesses have lost in California, debt has risen to ridiculous levels. California public schools are academically failing. As a teacher Ive seen the seeds the radical left has planted in our classrooms. We no longer have any relevance in the classroom as so many young people, raised in the welfare state have "risen up" to claim their entitlements. Most of them have no ambition but to make babies and climb on the welfare merry go round. Carbon tax, smog check, bullet train, none of these does anything to help the environment. Al Gore makes 100s of millions off taxpayers for doing nothing. Taxpayers pay for murderers to get sex changes. Conservatives have been forced to accept liberal ideas about marriage and immigration. We have lost our economy and our national security. We conservatives have made many concessions on behalf of liberal ideology. I have personally had my business destroyed and had my dignity in the classroom shattered by the racist assults of angry BLM kids who hate all whites. I am one of the most multicultural and sensitive teachers in the State. I can say hello to my students in ten different languages. I taught semesters of AP chemistry, economics, art, us history, ninth grade english, and sixth grade multiple subject. But because Im a white substitute, I was assulted in the first five minutes of class by five AAs. They were not arrested or even punished because the NAACP and ACLU threatened the Sac co office of education with a lawsuit over AA suspension rates. So we dont suspend them anymore and they know that. Now white teachers are expected to subordinate to black student gang banger 0.0 gpa thugs who identify as activists. Yet we conservatives swallowed all the poisin pills the liberals rammed down our throughts with as much dignity and compassion as we could muster. We have made sacrifices for their cause most of our lives. Now for the first time in my life, liberals are asked to make a sacrifice and look at how they behave. BLM and Antifa have turned our streets into a crystalnacht. They call us nazis, but they are the ones painting racist slogans, looting stores, setting fires, creating racist propaganda and calling for neuremberg style laws that benefit themselves (against straights and white people.) All my life the government has taken things away from me in the name of their liberal agenda. Now for the first time in my life, the government is taking something from them. Asking them to compromise in the name of national security and rights of us citizens. And the liberals are hysterical! Apparently they have no compassion for people who are different from them. They believe that everone should defer to them. Simply put, they want to dominate and control everything. Their leaders like pelosi and feinstein only care about money and power. And they will destroy America to have their way. Notice the Clintons bought a $200,000,000 compound in Dubai. With money from their crooked foundation. These illuminati are raping us and USING BLM and antifa to destroy America in their personal bid to gain power. Its time the liberals respect that the silent majority of our nation are sick of being called racists. Sick of paying for welfare queens and their gangbanger progeny. We are tired of being told what to think and even where people can take a piss. I am personally very uncomfortable with the idea of forteen year old girls who "identity " as male in the mens locker room at grant highschool. And I dont want transgender boys in the girls bathroom either. Any parent or teacher who understands adolescents knows what kind of experiments will happen. These kids are limited to use of bathrooms that reflect their biological nature FOR THEIR PROTECTION! But I am a deplorable for asseting that? These liberals are happy about trashing me and our nation. And wait and see: they will take absolutely no responsibility for the consequences. They will be in Dubai. Grow up and stop being naive. The world is alot more danderous, savage, desperate and predatory than you liberals understand. I know you mean well, but WAKE UP! Or get ready to become a soldier. "

You can print out the donation receipt to prove you have paid for your indulgence

Notice the Clintons bought a $200,000,000 compound in Dubai

Sick of paying for welfare queens and their gangbanger progeny.

am personally very uncomfortable with the idea of forteen year old girls who "identity " as male in the mens locker room at grant highschool. And I dont want transgender boys in the girls bathroom either. Any parent or teacher who understands adolescents knows what kind of experiments will happen.

Notice the Clintons bought a $200,000,000 compound in Dubai

To learn more about this, go to http://www.snopes.com/wikileaks-clintons-purchase-200-million-maldives-estate/

Maybe chainsaw is Klimmer

Yet we conservatives swallowed all the poisin pills the liberals rammed down our throughts with as much dignity and compassion as we could muster. We have made sacrifices for their cause most of our lives.

down our throughts

These illuminati are raping us

In light of this, and out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president’s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets.

To get a real picture of the problem, adjust those figures for population density of the various races and you will see something very different.

My Oath is to The State of California and The United States of America and I will defend her from all enemies, foriegn and domestic. You have choosen to join the enemies of democracy and the enemies of our State and our Union. Whom do you serve? Isis? Black Lives Matter? Nancy Pelosi? Diane Feinstein? Yeah Im angry. I have lived long enough to know how good the world was before you. Without you. And I have lived long enough to know that you will defeat yourself with every fire you start. Keep on burning Universities that all may know you. "You shall know them by the fruits they bear." You are a tree of thorns that bears no fruit.

Daily results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults; Margin of error is ±3 percentage points.

Daily results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults; Margin of error is ±3 percentage points.

Down to 40% approval, 55% disapproval

You wrote an article for Slate in November, comparing the rise of Donald Trump with the rise of Adolf Hitler. Why did you feel the need to publish such a piece?

It’s very important that we use history to our advantage now, rather than finding in history taboos and ways to silence one another. The history of the 1930s is terribly important to Americans (and Europeans) right now, just as it is slipping from our memories. I was not trying to provoke one more fruitless series of conversations about comparability. I was trying to help Americans who were generally either shocked (people who voted against Trump) or surprised (people who voted for him, who generally thought he would lose) find their bearings in a new situation. The temptation in a new situation is to imagine that nothing has changed. That is a choice that has political consequences: self-delusion leads to half-conscious anticipatory obedience and then to regime change. Anyway, I didn’t actually compare Trump to Hitler, I didn’t use these two names. What I did was to write a very short history of the rise of Adolf Hitler to power without using his name, which might allow Americans to recognize certain similarities to the moment they themselves were living through. I know that these comparisons are a national taboo in Germany, but at the moment its rather important that Germans be generous with their history and help others to learn how republics collapse. Most Americans are exceptionalists, we think we live outside of history. Americans tend to think: “We have freedom because we love freedom, we love freedom because we are free.” It is a bit circular and doesn’t acknowledge the historical structures that can favor or weaken democratic republics. We don’t realize how similar our predicaments are to those of other people.

You love Trump, we get it.

Echo echo echo.

There's going to be a lot to make fun of with the Clown In Chief. Get used to it.

And everyone that doesn't agree with them are whiners

Hilarious how Trumpers are always saying they like someone else, or voted for someone else.

He's your boy, own it.

conspired with Russia to get the presidency(which IS being proven as fact and guess what - Trump has been zip-lipped on calling THAT fake news....).

No, we want PROOF. NO interpretations!

Actually, he's OUR boy, because YOU contributed as much as anybody to this outcome. Determined to polish the turd and sell it, regardless of the cost, what a shock to YOU that America wasn't buying!

YOU were warned and warned on these very threads that ANY other candidate would be a better Democratic choice, you were undeterred. Clinton COULD NOT LOSE!

So, you libs also need to own it. But that's the very thing you can't do. Instead, you incessantly bag on anybody who could not go with you into Clinton-la-la-land, when had you put up ANY other warm body, Trump would not have been elected.

What you don't get is that this election was about electing ANYBODY but Clinton! Once you committed to Clinton, just about any other mammal could have beat her.

This is about a guy who continues to move forward spending untold billions with his plan to build a wall between us at Mexico, for little benefit other than appeasing his racist base."...

End the entitlements for illegal immigrants

Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, and most other public benefits. Most of these programs require proof of legal immigration status and under the 1996 welfare law, even legal immigrants cannot receive these benefits until they have been in the United States for more than five years.

End the entitlements for illegal immigrants

MIC machine that consumes more resources every hour than every illegal could hope to in a lifetime.

The end result of this, though, is that our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see, as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial, and will not be questioned.

That dude is a fascist.

After all, the United States has used our soldiers to kill innocent people, and the same Indians that helped the pilgrims were either shot, or put on reservations. I suppose then, that our country would have been better off if our soldiers never killed anyone, and we watched as our nation was obliterated by the evil in the world, as we sung songs of peace and love.

Or, better yet, we could have lived with the Indians, learning how to finger paint and make tepees, excusing their scalping of frontiersmen as part of their culture. Forget about being the nation that stopped Hitler, brought communism to its knees, and feeds more hungry people around the world than any other country -- forget all of that, and let us just agree that we're a horrible nation. Or, we can raise our flags, lift our guns, and proclaim that we are Americans, that we enjoy personal freedoms Islamic nations could only dream about, we are the land of the free, the home of the brave.

Sadly, my school has forgotten all of this. That is why we do nothing for American holidays but everything for Mexican holidays.

Reilly, notice how the libs instantly ignore the "little" fact-correction?

Your "echo" chamber is the vast majority of voters. But go ahead, overreach, ignore facts and sh#t.

Being an illegal mom of a US citizen child does not qualify anyone for a green card, never mind getting one trivially.

Of the public benefits listed in the original post, none are available to illegal immigrants.

What has Trump proposed? NOTHING!

And how would you like dozens of references to immigration attorney's sites stating things like, "The US government is extremely liberal in granting green cards and even citizenship to immediate family members of US citizens or those possessing green cards. We can help you obtain your green card, usually within a couple of months."?

There are dozens and dozens of attorneys specializing in accomplishing the VERY thing I specified. Once you have an anchor baby in country, the rest follows TRIVIALLY and has been for decades.

False.

The parents of a U.S. citizen who is at least age 21 are considered "immediate relatives," and therefore eligible for a green card, allowing them to live and work in the U.S. -- at least in theory. A stumbling block for some parents of U.S. citizens is that they are already living in the United States unlawfully, and have already done so for six months or more, which makes them inadmissible.

Other issues to consider are that the child will be required to prove that his or her household income is sufficient to support their family and their parents at 125% or more above the U.S. poverty level, and that they must truly intend to live in the U.S. -- a green card is not a travel document, and if they stay outside the U.S. too long, the immigration authorities may come to notice that that is where they truly "live," and deny reentry.

Okay, facts....

Clinton won the popular vote by right at 2% of voters, hardly "the vast majority."

Lots of people voted "against Trump" in the same way that lots of voters voted "against Clinton," neither of which could be said to have SUPPORTED the candidate for whom they felt forced to vote.

Finally, the radical left libs (who seem to congregate on this site) are a tiny subset of Clinton voters.

Thus, for all of the reasons above, the echo chamber is NOT "the vast majority of voters" by ANY stretch.

You know, "facts and sh#t."

Only Breitbart reports it, but, of course, Breitbart is "fake news." LOL

Could it be that the websites you are referring to are scammer sites that take the money from hopeful people who have little understanding of the English language and laws of the country?

55-40 disapproval to approval. Have fun spinning that

It's as genuine as "Pravda." But you so smart, you know that.