POTUS Donald Trump

[Mike Sixel]

 

I don't know about you guys, but I don't need a friggin picture ID to buy groceries....

 

You're buying the wrong groceries.....

[jimmer]

 

I don't know about you guys, but I don't need a friggin picture ID to buy groceries....

Yeah, everyone SHOULD know that's not at all what he meant.  

[D. Hocking]

I heard some clips from his campaign rally tonight (spoiler - he mainly talks about himself and how great he is and is still cannot let go of the election).   I am no expert but I don't think he gets through those on just his natural adrenaline - one of the clips he was pretty slurry.  

 

He basically does the same bits for every show -- except he gets a little more manic and more disparaging to the people he felt wronged him each time  (and further from any semblance of the truth).  I am sure once he gets back to the plane he will be focused on how he can help people with the fires out west and the floods in the southeast, and not be watching Fox News to see how great he did.

 

His poll numbers went up again this week, I know the economy is holding up, but it just boggles my mind how that is enough for people to ignore everything else he is doing.  

[jimmer]

How often does the economy doing well help the average Joe worker bee, though? I know, for me, nothing has really changed.  Rich is certainly helped though.

 

I don't know how many people read about this, but apparently when Trump and his goonies passed the budget to help the rich, employers started taking out too few of taxes.  So all these people praising Trump cause they got 20-50 dollars more in a paycheck are in for a big surprise next tax season (and, of course, after the midterms), cause the bill will be due.

[TheLeviathan]

The individual, average tax-payer is also carrying a ridiculous percentage of the overall incoming dollars.

 

The Republicans are pushing this to the brink.

[Badsmerf]

Writing is in the wall for a slowdown in the economy. I'm reading more and more about what these signals are and how they are predictors. I also am interested to see how the numbers change after they are corrected. I have a feeling Trump would direct they be inflated to show growth and prosperity and then corrected in later months to lower levels. Haven't seen any evidence of that, but don't think it is out of his character.

[D. Hocking]

I was talking to a friend a couple of weeks ago, and she said while her paycheck is a little higher, it is more than offset by increased food and gas prices.  My company certainly did not bump our annual raises and it was after the tax law was passed.

 

I am not a great economics mind, but it seems like a number of mistakes that led to the housing crash ten years  repeated and they removed many of the safeguards set in place after the bank bailouts.   It is not like these events are in the distant past, most of these people were in power when it actually happened.

 

 

[TheLeviathan]

The biggest obstacle to growth is consumer spending power.  The vast majority of consumers continue to see a shrinking amount of spending power while corporate welfare runs amok.

[D. Hocking]

He finally is commenting on the CA fires.  Notice his compassion for the dead residents and firefighters and his empathy for all of the homes completely destroyed.  I am guessing his next tweet will bring up climate change and how it has been affecting these things.

 

He must not listen to anyone at all any longer, because there used to be more attempts for him to occasionally have a tweet that showed some signs he was a human being (although they always seemed a bit generic and written by someone else). 

 

 

 

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire   spreading!

 

 

[jimmer]

Well of course he's not showing compassion for Californians.  It's a liberal state that votes democrat.  He couldn't care less about any of the people there. He's out to destroy people who talk bad about him, and a state that votes democrat that is burning is just the kind of thing he loves. Rest assured, the Republicans in California will applaud his attitude though.

 

He actually doesn't care about anyone but himself, but he'll pretend to care for Republican states. I can't believe he's the President. 

[gunnarthor]

So the President made a pretty ill-advised tweet this weekend.

 

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026084333315153924

 

 

[PseudoSABR]

 

So the President made a pretty ill-advised tweet this weekend.

 

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026084333315153924

Looks like he's committing to the collusion isn't illegal theory.  Good luck with that one.

[ashbury]

Looks like he's committing to the collusion isn't illegal theory.  Good luck with that one.

https://politics.theonion.com/giuliani-insists-breaking-the-law-not-a-crime-1827979622

 

^{_{/ I'd like to think the Onion is still a satire site, but I can't be sure.}}

[Mike Sixel]

speechless.

[TheLeviathan]

I guess we should be thankful every ill-formed thought he has is making it's way to Twitter.  

[D. Hocking]

I don't think Trump will be quiet or restrained on twitter the rest of this week.

 

@AriMelber

 

In court now:

Prosecutor on Mueller’s team asks Rick Gates if he committed crimes with Paul Manafort.

“Yes,” Gates says.

First time a senior Trump campaign official has confessed to a crime on the stand.

1:44 PM - 6 Aug 2018

 

 

[gunnarthor]

 

I guess we should be thankful every ill-formed thought he has is making it's way to Twitter.  

Trump lawyers gif always cracked me up

 

https://media.giphy.com/media/zz00w5nNFMnPq/giphy.gif

[jimmer]

Looks like the judge in the Manafort case is in Trump's pocket.

[PseudoSABR]

 

Looks like the judge in the Manafort case is in Trump's pocket.

I don't think that's the case.  I think the judge is being very careful in screening potentially non-relevant evidence, which if admitted could be grounds for reversal on appeal. 

[jimmer]

I don't think that's the case. I think the judge is being very careful in screening potentially non-relevant evidence, which if admitted could be grounds for reversal on appeal.

maybe you should read some of the comments he made about this whole trial, and Trump investigation overall, during the months leading up to this trial. He has an agenda. And he is just like Trump, getting his little feelings hurt because of facial reactions the lawyers have about what he says.

[PseudoSABR]

 

maybe you should read some of the comments he made about this whole trial, and Trump investigation overall, during the months leading up to this trial. He has an agenda. And he is just like Trump, getting his little feelings hurt because of facial reactions the lawyers have about what he says.

I've seen some of it.  And it's troubling, but it hasn't manifested in blatant bias at the trial level, as far as I can see.  I believe that he's a set-in-his-ways-conservative-judge, but I don't think he's in the tank for Trump or will defy the rule of law.

[jimmer]

 

I've seen some of it.  And it's troubling, but it hasn't manifested in blatant bias at the trial level, as far as I can see.  I believe that he's a set-in-his-ways-conservative-judge, but I don't think he's in the tank for Trump or will defy the rule of law.

Troubling. Hmmm.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-speech-at-nra-rally-judge-mueller-ts-ellis-2018-5

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-ts-ellis-mueller-manafort-flip-trump-russia-2018-5

 

 

Um, yeah, troubling indeed...

[PseudoSABR]

 

Troubling. Hmmm.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-speech-at-nra-rally-judge-mueller-ts-ellis-2018-5

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-ts-ellis-mueller-manafort-flip-trump-russia-2018-5

 

 

Um, yeah, troubling indeed...

Yes, I've seen these reports.  Yet no one is alleging any bias at trial, and there are a ton of eyes watching.   When I see a credible argument where the judge abuses his discretion in making a ruling, I'll be concerned.   But that yet hasn't been the case. 

[ashbury]

 

Troubling. Hmmm.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-speech-at-nra-rally-judge-mueller-ts-ellis-2018-5

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-ts-ellis-mueller-manafort-flip-trump-russia-2018-5

 

 

Um, yeah, troubling indeed...

"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort's bank fraud ...

 

Hopefully this conservative judge is equally concerned about reading street punks their Miranda rights, and observing rules about what kind of evidence can be gathered by police at a simple traffic stop, as he seems to be about turning a blind eye toward actual bank fraud that is uncovered incidentally in an investigation he didn't happen to care for.

[jimmer]

 

"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort's bank fraud ...

 

Hopefully this conservative judge is equally concerned about reading street punks their Miranda rights, and observing rules about what kind of evidence can be gathered by police at a simple traffic stop, as he seems to be about turning a blind eye toward actual bank fraud that is uncovered incidentally in an investigation he didn't happen to care for.

Well, yeah, this judge (who is clearly pro-Trump) has questioned whether Mueller should even be investigating the Trump campaign. 

 

He comes out and says that the investigators don't even care about the crimes Manafort has committed and that the crimes are irrelevant to what Mueller was charged with doing EVEN THOUGH 'In appointing Mueller in May 2017 as the special counsel, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave him broad authority not only to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated" with the Trump campaign, but also to examine "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation."

 

I mean, the judge's bias was clear BEFORE the trial EVER started (at one point, he called the Mueller team Liars). His overtly confrontational actions with the prosecution during the trial makes it even more obvious.

[PseudoSABR]

Gene Rossi, former US Attorney, was just on Rachel Maddow and vouched that Judge Ellis is always like this (being hard on attorneys, often the prosecution, but not always) and called him a perfectionist and brilliant jurist. You can watch for yourself, around the 40 min mark; the whole segment is worth watching though (which starts 5-10 mins earlier), as he gives insight to the Manafort case generally. 

[D. Hocking]

Of his NFL tweets, this new one might bug me more than most.  He is dismissively telling these players that they do not know what they are outraged about, even though it has been explained and many of them have most likely personally experienced these issues. I hope Omarosa really does have tapes of him saying the slur that see the light of day (although I am not holding my breath), because too much of the media is still too gingerly walking around his racism when discussing him.

 

The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their “outrage” at something that most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love......

 

 

On another note, do you think he gave Melania's parents a lecture on chain migration before their swearing in ceremony?

[Squirrel]

"So yes, many of the white nationalists associated with the rally in Charlottesville have since suffered disgrace, ridicule, or legal consequences. But their ideological quest to secure white political and cultural hegemony over the United States continues to be championed by the president himself. There’s a reason they’re still wearing their MAGA hats."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-battle-that-erupted-in-charlottesville-is-far-from-over/567167/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=2018-08-10T09%3A00%3A20&utm_medium=social

 

I didn't know what quote to choose to preface the article ... there were many.

[Badsmerf]

I was blocked from Facebook today from an acquaintance. He posted about players in the NFL taking knees, and that the league is full of thugs. I asked if they're thugs because they're black? And said his bigotry and racism are making him look like a joke. He owns and promotes a business on this Facebook account.

 

My wife should be on Trump's defense team, because she said I don't know why context he is referring to, and I'm putting thing together that might not be intended. Coming from a woman that is mixed, and has experienced the very blatant discrimination these players are protesting for. Granted, mixed signals happen often on social media.... I'm pretty sure this isn't one of them. A comment after mine said he was a veteran, and still didn't know what they are protesting for.... Which to me, is why they should keep it up.

 

I'm not sure this is a fight the NFL wants to have. That is evidence by the retracted rules against taking a knee. I really want Cowboys players to do it, to see what the backlash would be. Jerry Jones might end up with a completely white team that couldn't compete in the Ivy League.

[Squirrel]

Is it required for them to be on field during the anthem? If they don’t want players to take a knee, allow them to not be onfield. I personally think sporting events have become too much of a display of forced patriotism and too ... militarized ... for lack of a better way to put it.