The Reign of Trump

[Tero]

Sanders supporters will be badly hit when student loans are eliminated:

Any “Never Hillary” millennials who voted for Jill Stein or stayed home because Clinton didn’t adequately adopt Bernie Sanders’ debt-free college plan should be especially alarmed by this news. So should seniors, who’ll have no choice but to endure a grand reopening of the doughnut hole, forcing them to go without medication or pay out-of-pocket for a month or two each year. Again, this is the part of the bill that the GOP will be able to easily repeal. And they wIll.

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/12/obamaca ... sible-way/

[Brian Peacock]

:tehe:

[tattuchu]

Carl Bernstein, one half of the legendary duo that broke the Watergate scandal, declared president-elect Donald Trump a bigger liar than Richard Nixon in a blistering attack during an interview on CNN.

“Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment. No president, including Richard Nixon, has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way that this president-elect does,” Bernstein said on CNN’s Reliable Sources. “It has something to do with the growing sense of authoritarianism that he and his presidency are projecting and the danger of it is obvious and he’s trying to make the conduct of the press an issue not his own conduct.”

Carl Bernstein, of all people, saying Trump is a bigger liar than Nixon....that’s something else... pic.twitter.com/yF44LQrkI6

— Yashar (@yashar) December 11, 2016
Trump, often prone to stretching the truth, has made a series of factually incorrect assertions this weekend that have further increased worry about the aim of his presidency. In just one interview with Fox News on Sunday, Trump discounted CIA reports that Russia interfered with the U.S. election, said “nobody really knows” the facts around climate change and said he didn’t need daily intelligence briefings because he’s “smart.”

Bernstein alleges the past months have shown that Trump has a “pathological disdain for the truth,” pointing to his recent attack on the president of the union that represents steelworkers at the Carrier Corporation.

“I would just take his bullying approach to the union leader instead of going into the facts of what the Carrier deal was and what the unions in that institution has done,” Bernstein told CNN. “Everything that he controverts, he doesn’t go to a fact-based argument he goes to an emotional argument.”

“What we have seen throughout the campaign is pathological disdain for the truth, a kind of lie and ease with lying that we have not seen before.”

sauce:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/car ... 9c3dfd4c02

[Tero]

Quote of the Day: Trump Is Blowing Off Intel Briefings Because "I'm, Like, a Smart Person"
Dick Cheney was insulted: "If President Obama were participating in his intelligence briefings on a regular basis then perhaps he would understand why people are so offended at his efforts to take sole credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden."

Now Trump is saying he's never going to take the briefing because "I'm, like, a smart person." I await the conservative response with bated breath.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2 ... art-person

[Brian Peacock]

Sam Harris on Trump: "He has a relationship with his own ignorance that is dangerous."

[pErvinalia]

Funny how 42 has gone all silent now that Trump is shaping up as the bullshit artist that the rest of us knew he was all along.

[Feck]

Hillary isn't going to jail, The wall is probably fence, hardly any Mexicans are going to be deported, Obama-care is going to continue, muslims are still allowed into the US, Torture isn't going to be routine , his golf course in Ireland isn't going to get a seawall , his course in the NE of Scotland IS going to get a view of wind turbines .....
Nothing he said is EVER going to happen . He has reneged on Everything he ever said ....... How long has He been president elect ? I doubt he will last 4 years
and for the really fucking dumb members who love Trump *so called because he smells like shit * Global warming is NOT a Chinese conspiracy AND He did say that !!

[Brian Peacock]

And he's filled the swamp to a higher level, got cuddly with those self-proclaimed "Masters of the Universe" Goldman Sach, and is still tweeting his spleen while sitting on the bog at 3am.

Sam Harris on Trump: "I can't overlook the fact that the man shows every sign, really, every sign, of being motivated by pure selfishness and narcissism. The guy seems to be bullshitting to a degree that borders on confabulation."

Confabulation is a memory disorder that may occur in patients who have sustained damage to both the basal forebrain and the frontal lobes, as after an aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery. Confabulation is defined as the spontaneous production of false memories: either memories for events which never occurred, or memories of actual events which are displaced in space or time. These memories may be elaborate and detailed. Some may be obviously bizarre, as a memory of a ride in an alien spaceship; others are quite mundane, as a memory of having eggs for breakfast, so that only a close family member can confirm that the memory is in fact false.

It is important to stress that confabulators are not lying: they are not deliberately trying to mislead. In fact, the patients are generally quite unaware that their memories are inaccurate, and they may argue strenuously that they have been telling the truth....

http://www.memorylossonline.com/glossar ... ation.html

[Brian Peacock]

A Communist party-controlled newspaper has launched a searing attack on Donald Trump after the president-elect threatened a realignment of his country’s policies towards China, warning the US president-elect: “Pride goes before a fall.”

The Global Times, a notoriously rambunctious state-run tabloid, was writing after Trump reignited a simmering row with Beijing by suggesting he might recognise Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway province, unless Beijing agreed a new “deal” with his administration.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ore-a-fall

[Tero]

It's all poker:
http://time.com/4201303/donald-trump-poker/

[Brian Peacock]

Donald Trump's poker face...

[Forty Two]

Bill Gates getting along with Trump, and optimistic about Trump's opportunity to encourage innovation, like JFK -- http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/13/after-ta ... o-jfk.html


Small business optimism skyrockets at prospect of Trump presidency - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... mp-victory

Trump committed to American energy growth -- http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trum ... ergy-boom/

[Animavore]

Love seeing all the Trump supporters getting dumped on as Trump fills the swamp full of alligators and goes back on everything he said.
Even funnier is seeing that they are too stupid to realise it even when Trump tells them to their face he lied.
They're all getting absolutely everything they deserve and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.

Damn, getting the last laugh actually feels good. I can't stay mad.

[Forty Two]

Love seeing all the Trump supporters getting dumped on as Trump fills the swamp full of alligators and goes back on everything he said.
Even funnier is seeing that they are too stupid to realise it even when Trump tells them to their face he lied.
They're all getting absolutely everything they deserve and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.

Damn, getting the last laugh actually feels good. I can't stay mad.

The guy hasn't even become President yet, and he's gone back on everything he said? LOL.

Yeah ,that damn Trump. Failing to achieve his goals 30 days before he's elected....

[Animavore]