Dude? Are you pushing to have the antichrist destroy this world? Just because it's in the scriptures doesn't mean we can't resist. It'll happen, but we don't have to like it.
Sent from my SM-G935T using TOL mobile app
The long nightmare has just begun: Inauguration of a fraud.
- Thread starter annabenedetti
- Start date
Sent from my SM-G935T using TOL mobile app
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
it was a strategic choice and it's playing out just the way i hoped - the republicans in the legislature are rejecting him
exminister
Well-known member
I am reading this as something that hasn't happened yet. "Great work, Trump!!" - Counting your chickens before they are hatched?
He's such a frigging moron. Trumps gonna speed up the destruction of this planet big time!
Sent from my SM-G935T using TOL mobile app
exminister
Well-known member
So far his endless bravado about being the greatest deal maker ever isn't bearing out.
Two of his strengths in being a deal maker is not playing well with others (throwing them off) and blaming others when things don't work out (forcing shame). That is fine when you are the top boss in a big business, but not when you are the public servant, a representative of all Americans they are weaknesses.
The buck stops there. "ACT LIKE A MAN".
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
Why President Trump has been very good for liberals
For the first time ever, half of Americans say they believe in climate change and that they are very concerned about it, according to Gallup.
Thanks, President Trump.
Climate change is merely the latest issue on which the American people have moved appreciably and significantly to the left in the Trump era. While it's difficult to ascribe any one of these shifts to Trump specifically, the pattern is becoming clearer. And there's growing evidence that Trump is unifying half (or more) of the country against things he has vocally supported — in ways they simply weren't unified before:
Thanks, President Trump.
Climate change is merely the latest issue on which the American people have moved appreciably and significantly to the left in the Trump era. While it's difficult to ascribe any one of these shifts to Trump specifically, the pattern is becoming clearer. And there's growing evidence that Trump is unifying half (or more) of the country against things he has vocally supported — in ways they simply weren't unified before:
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
The Offender of the Free World
When Donald Trump met Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany earlier this month, he put on one of his most truculent and ignorant performances. He wanted money — piles of it — for Germany’s defense, raged about the financial killing China was making from last year’s Paris climate accord and kept “frequently and brutally changing the subject when not interested, which was the case with the European Union.”
This was the summation provided to me by a senior European diplomat briefed on the meeting. Trump’s preparedness was roughly that of a fourth grader. He began the conversation by telling Merkel that Germany owes the United States hundreds of billions of dollars for defending it through NATO, and concluded by saying, “You are terrific” but still owe all that dough. Little else concerned him.
Trump knew nothing of the proposed European-American deal known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, little about Russian aggression in Ukraine or the Minsk agreements, and was so scatterbrained that German officials concluded that the president’s daughter Ivanka, who had no formal reason to be there, was the more prepared and helpful. (Invited by Merkel, Ivanka will attend a summit on women’s empowerment in Berlin next month.)
Merkel is not one to fuss. But Trump’s behavior appalled her entourage and reinforced a conclusion already reached about this presidency in several European capitals: It is possible to do business with Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, but these officials are flying blind because above them at the White House rages a whirlwind of incompetence and ignorance.
Trump’s United States of America has become an unserious country, the offender of the free world.
This was the summation provided to me by a senior European diplomat briefed on the meeting. Trump’s preparedness was roughly that of a fourth grader. He began the conversation by telling Merkel that Germany owes the United States hundreds of billions of dollars for defending it through NATO, and concluded by saying, “You are terrific” but still owe all that dough. Little else concerned him.
Trump knew nothing of the proposed European-American deal known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, little about Russian aggression in Ukraine or the Minsk agreements, and was so scatterbrained that German officials concluded that the president’s daughter Ivanka, who had no formal reason to be there, was the more prepared and helpful. (Invited by Merkel, Ivanka will attend a summit on women’s empowerment in Berlin next month.)
Merkel is not one to fuss. But Trump’s behavior appalled her entourage and reinforced a conclusion already reached about this presidency in several European capitals: It is possible to do business with Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, but these officials are flying blind because above them at the White House rages a whirlwind of incompetence and ignorance.
Trump’s United States of America has become an unserious country, the offender of the free world.
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
What is Nunes doing?
Dem Rep. Says All Intel Committee Meetings This Week Were Cancelled
Lawmaker's 'peculiar midnight run' endangers Trump-Russia inquiry
House intelligence chair Devin Nunes reportedly disappeared from Uber ride, fueling further questions over his role in committee’s investigation
Who cleared Devin Nunes into the White House?
Dem Rep. Says All Intel Committee Meetings This Week Were Cancelled
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, confirmed Tuesday morning that the committee's chair, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has cancelled all of the committee's meetings this week.
During an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough said that a spokesperson for a member of the committee told MSNBC that Nunes had cancelled all of the meetings for this week.
"I can confirm that for you," Himes said in response. He said that a Monday night meeting, a public hearing set for Tuesday, and a Thursday meeting were all cancelled.
"Not only has this investigation sort of had a shadow cast on it, but the committee’s been put into suspended animation," Himes said.
During an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough said that a spokesperson for a member of the committee told MSNBC that Nunes had cancelled all of the meetings for this week.
"I can confirm that for you," Himes said in response. He said that a Monday night meeting, a public hearing set for Tuesday, and a Thursday meeting were all cancelled.
"Not only has this investigation sort of had a shadow cast on it, but the committee’s been put into suspended animation," Himes said.
Lawmaker's 'peculiar midnight run' endangers Trump-Russia inquiry
House intelligence chair Devin Nunes reportedly disappeared from Uber ride, fueling further questions over his role in committee’s investigation
Who cleared Devin Nunes into the White House?
Someday we'll all look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.
Sent from my iPhone using TOL
However horrible of a president Obama was, his intentions were good. And as much as a power hungry business man Trump is (that I don't like), he still has some good ideas. It's just that he goes about them like a 4th grader.
Sent from my SM-G935T using TOL mobile app
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
of course, we'll do this in our interplanetary spaceships taking us to the new earth, right?
exminister
Well-known member
yeah, screw that clean air and clean water. Live for today. We will be the *choke* talk of future generations.
exminister
Well-known member
Repealing Obama's coal mining regulation-the Stream Protection Rule
http://www.snopes.com/2017/02/06/dump-coal-waste-into-streams/Snopes said:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/demise-stream-rule-won-t-revitalize-coal-industryScienceMag said:
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
One of the most consistent things
What do they know, and when did they know it?
about the Trump/Russia story is the way that what we might call "the evidence" is so frequently outstripped by the explanations for it and reactions to it in driving a fair-minded person's suspicion that something just ain't right. This isn't to say "the evidence" doesn't hold its own weight; it does just fine. But the inability to give even remotely straight answers, the need for deflections and subterfuges that are demonstrably preposterous (Manafort was a marginal figure in the campaign) keeps coming up again and again.
The other persistent feature is what we're seeing now unfold with Devin Nunes, until recently a fairly unremarkable and uncontroversial member of the Republican House caucus. As I wrote after Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself from the Trump/Russia investigation at the beginning of this month, "People who don't even appear to be that close to the action keep getting pulled under for what seem like needless deceptions." When we see this kind of pattern, "the answer is usually that the stuff at the center of the scandal is so big that it requires concealment, even about things distant from the main action, things that it would seem much better and less damaging simply to admit."
The other persistent feature is what we're seeing now unfold with Devin Nunes, until recently a fairly unremarkable and uncontroversial member of the Republican House caucus. As I wrote after Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself from the Trump/Russia investigation at the beginning of this month, "People who don't even appear to be that close to the action keep getting pulled under for what seem like needless deceptions." When we see this kind of pattern, "the answer is usually that the stuff at the center of the scandal is so big that it requires concealment, even about things distant from the main action, things that it would seem much better and less damaging simply to admit."
What do they know, and when did they know it?