All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[JimC]

To the international community, he is a total fucking joke...

[pErvinalia]

To 42 he's a moderate liberal.

[Rum]

Trump reminds me of the archetypal American tourist in Europe in the last century with plaid Bermuda shorts, a big fuck off camera and a fat wife with butterfly sunglasses, loudly and brashly overwhelming every country they sell coke to and turning them into a cartoon version of themselves. Knowing the price of everything (unless they are being ripped off by tourist touts) but the value of nothing

How dare president Cunt offer to buy a country. He must be from a different planet.

[pErvinalia]

It's the art of the deal. Everything is for sale!

[Animavore]

Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinions

Ignoring Trump’s racism betrays our country’s victims

President Trump on the South Lawn of the White House on May 20. (Sarah Silbiger/For The Washington Post)

By Michael Gerson 

Columnist

August 1, 2019 at 5:08 PM EDT

I had fully intended to ignore President Trump’s latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it. I had every intention of walking past Trump’s latest outrages and writing about the self-destructive squabbling of the Democratic presidential field, which has chosen to shame former vice president Joe Biden for the sin of being an electable, moderate liberal.

But I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency. Cone recounts the case of a white mob in Valdosta, Ga., in 1918 that lynched an innocent man named Haynes Turner. Turner’s enraged wife, Mary, promised justice for the killers. The sheriff responded by arresting her and then turning her over to the mob, which included women and children. According to one source, Mary was “stripped, hung upside down by the ankles, soaked with gasoline, and roasted to death. In the midst of this torment, a white man opened her swollen belly with a hunting knife and her infant fell to the ground and was stomped to death.”

God help us. It is hard to write the words. This evil — the evil of white supremacy, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved generations of Christians to be vicious hypocrites. It is the thing that turned normal people into moral monsters, capable of burning a grieving widow to death and killing her child.

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Racism is the fire that left our country horribly disfigured. It is the beast we try to keep locked in the basement. When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame. It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial. It is, in the eyes of history, the betrayal — the re-betrayal — of Haynes and Mary Turner and their child. And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving racist tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washi ... utType=amp

[Animavore]

Donald Trump has promoted a claim that Jewish people in Israel love him like he is the "king" of the country and "the second coming of God".

"President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world...and the Jewish people in Israel love him like he’s the King of Israel," Mr Trump tweeted. quoting Wayne Allyn Root, a conservative radio host known for promoting conspiracy theories. 


"They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense!"

"But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for all Jews, Blacks, Gays, everyone. And importantly, he’s good for everyone in America who wants a job."

Mr Trump added his own comment at the end: "Wow!" 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 1566388189

[Rum]

[Tero]

Yeah I replied to him on that we don't laugh at jokes from assholes.

[Tero]

Says he is the chosen one
https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewfeinbe ... 08834?s=21

[Tero]

[Sean Hayden]

Does this guy ever have any actual work to do?

[Tero]

Sure, he signs all the oil, coal and fracking expansions they shove in front of him. Not to mention harrassment orders on foreigners.

[Tero]

CNN

Now consider the Greenland purchase in the context of Trump's broader presidency. It meets all the criteria that have come to define his "modern-day presidential" approach to the job.

*Come up with a totally off-the-wall idea, with a whiff of America-gets-its-way-no-matter-what in there

*Idea leaks -- or the White House leaks it as a trial balloon -- to the media, with the caveat that his aides aren't sure if he is serious about it

*Downplay idea, insisting the media got it wrong -- even while leaving the door open to doing the deal if the other side is open to it

*Take ball and go home when off-the-wall idea is rejected, jeopardizing relationship with longtime strategic ally

[Seabass]

So nasty!

Trump slams Danish prime minister's comments on Greenland as "nasty"

[Tero]

Nasty women will kick his ass in 2020 election.