Everything you didn't want to know about Trump and were not afraid to ask

[Seabass]

So the Manchurian Idiot is now going to spend our tax money on fixing the problem that he created. :quadruplefacepalm:

Trump: “Tariffs are the greatest.” Also farmers need $12 billion in aid because of tariffs.

President Donald Trump declared tariffs “the greatest” over Twitter Tuesday morning, even as his administration prepares to shore up the agricultural industry, which is weathering financial turmoil induced by his trade policies.

full article:
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/24/17607484/ ... rgency-aid

[Seabass]

[Seabass]

This halfwit is running the nation's education system. Sacre bleu...

[Scot Dutchy]

That is why you have so many Trump supporters.

[Brian Peacock]

White House still maintaining the president didn't have sex with the women he paid cash to to keep quiet about the sex they never had.

[Scot Dutchy]

I just wonder if Trump ever had sex apart from groping sex. He did and does not look capable. I think he is a stupid old dirty little man.

[Jason]

I wonder if his penis is orange.

[Tero]

Only Putin and Melania know.

[Tero]

Fox news reality is Trump and Trump voter reality

When President Nixon faced impeachment, one thing that made it possible was that the media agreed on a certain set of facts. This is no longer the case.

Fox News and its alternate reality is by far the main source of political news for many Trump voters. (The same survey found that Clinton voters did not congregate around a single media source in the way Trump voters did.) And Trump voters who live in the Fox News reality have been shielded from the plethora of reasons Trump is embroiled in scandal. If special counsel Robert Mueller indicts Trump, it will seem unreasonable; if Trump doesn’t win reelection in 2020 by a landslide, it will seem like it’s because the FBI and mainstream media colluded to smear him.

Why does this alternate reality resonate so much with its viewers? And why are those viewers so impervious to any story that clashes with the Fox News reality?
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How “fake news” fortifies Fox News’s alternate reality
The biggest enemy of Fox News’s alternate reality is, of course, actual reality. And while mainstream media has its own problems, professional journalists for the most part try to give an accurate rendering of that reality.

That’s why Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon said, “The media here is the opposition party.” It’s why Fox News’s top pundit Sean Hannity has critiqued “mainstream media” more than 350 times in the past year, according to an analysis of transcript data. Sinclair recently forced its local anchors to read a promo that said, “We are concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country.”

Trump has filled in the subtext.

When journalist Lesley Stahl, in a private conversation with the president, asked Trump why he attacks the media so much, Trump reportedly said, “I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.”

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/25/17611854/ ... y-survival

[Jason]

Insurmountable schism in the Volksgeist?

[Tero]

Trump says ”believe me” and they believe him

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/25/poli ... index.html

[Seabass]

Yep. This country is well and truly fucked. I don't know how democracy can function when half the population is totally divorced from reality.

[L'Emmerdeur]

It is still amazing to me that the US actually put this egomaniac dirtbag in the White House. A pair of former US attorneys describe the implications of the payoff tape:

'Michael Cohen’s Tape Sounds Like He Could Bring Down Trump'

The release of a secretly recorded conversation between Michael Cohen and Donald Trump about a proposed secret payment to one of Trump’s supposed mistresses goes a long way towards a potential criminal charge for both men.

The tape captures Cohen and Trump discussing setting up a shell corporation to pay “David” (presumably David Pecker, who owns the National Enquirer’s parent company, AMI) for the rights to Karen McDougal’s story that was acquired by AMI in a “capture and kill” move: AMI purchased exclusive rights to the damaging story of Trump’s affair and didn’t run it.

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Keep in mind that prosecutors would never rely on this tape standing alone to prove guilt. It would be one brick in a foundation made up of many different parts. That’s how prosecutors build criminal cases—layer upon layer of overlapping, corroborating evidence. Here, the recording would be used in conjunction with financial records, emails, and witness testimony, including, perhaps, from Cohen himself.

If Cohen cooperates, which he has signaled he wants to do, he can guide the prosecutors though every nuance of this tape and countless other pieces of evidence. After working for Trump for over a decade, Cohen could be the prosecutor’s dream cooperator: one who had special insider access to the leader of a powerful, closed, corrupt organization. We used to prosecute mafia cases. We both know that in the mob—and, perhaps in this White House—the right cooperator can bring down the entire hierarchy. We both have made cases based largely on the testimony of cooperating witnesses with insider access that took down leaders of the Gambino and Genovese crime families in New York.

That scenario is still quite a ways off in this case, but the new tape is one indication that Cohen just might be in position to make it happen.

[Seabass]

"The superglue that adheres Trump's supporters to him is one of the scientific wonders of our age."

[pErvinalia]

I wonder if his penis is orange.

I'm not sure he has a penis. I think it's a sort of proboscis of some sort...