Before everybody has plunged into another round of fantasy about Trump weeping in the corner about a hilarious gif they shared on Twitter, let me mention that he just announced that he’s cutting environmental regulations dramatically.
Now let’s go back to discussing how he’s too crazy and pathetic to do much harm.
P.S. And yet they are still going on about the crowd sizes. I wonder if anybody is even going to notice the point about the environmental regulations.
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Agree with you.
Just for fun: I haven’t understood what SB referred to in:
\ Speaking of hands. Anything that drives him crazy is all right by me.
Then googled:
\ Trump’s hands are seen as so small, in fact, that Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter regularly refers to the reality TV host as “the short-fingered vulgarian.” This so frustrates Trump that he, in turn, regularly sends Carter photos of his hands to prove their proportional size.
I think sending photos is a game for Trump and a nice way to stay in the spotlight while attracting non-negative attention to himself. That it makes his opponents look like immature bigots is an added bonus. 🙂 One should criticise his policies, not his hands. Also, when you go for hands, you play on Trump’s natural turf, and the professional media personality will beat any amateurs.
Also, the sentence – “Obama plays basketball, so we know he’s got at least decently usable hands” – made me think of racial stereotypes of black people being better at sports and large hands being handy for it, which was surely not the intent.
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That’s exactly what I’m saying. You can’t beat him on this turf because he’s made millions in the entertainment industry. He’s got experience and success on his side. He needs to be engaged on the turf where he’s got no experience: politics. And he knows he will bomb if that happens so he’s preventing it with these clever antics about hands and crap.
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I naturally tend to be insecure and worry about what others think of me, but had I won something much less than US presidency, I wouldn’t have cared a bit what my (political) opponents have to say. Or about something as insignificant as the size of my hands. Or height, or whatever.
I cannot believe Trump cares. Also, you mentioned Putin’s height, but I cannot believe he truly cares either. He probably thinks he has to appear higher to create the desired impression in some cases and tries to appear higher on TV, but it’s different from truly caring and having complexes.
Trump’s hands are large enough to hold America, and what else matters?
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“Trump’s hands are large enough to hold America, and what else matters?”
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Red herrings ….
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Looks like Trump and his administration are going to be “going about their business” no matter what anybody has to say about them, or what else goes on around them.
They have their agenda cut out and it’s all “down to business” with them.
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They are laughing all the way to the bank while we move our figurines and feel like winners. 😦
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Everyone is talking about the women’s march but who is talking about the budget template that Trump is using, the Heritage Foundation’s “Blueprint for 2017.” One of the items is the elimination of Violence against Women Act grants.
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You mentioned ACA and environmental regulations, but wouldn’t withdrawing from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact do more damage and do it faster?
As for Israel, some in the Right see Trump’s election as the green light to “implement Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.”
Netanyahu seems to be the more thinking person: “After eight years of withstanding incredible pressure, now is not the time for a quick draw. I suggest that for the best interests of Israel and the settlements everyone put aside any other consideration and allow me to lead.”
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Netanyahu has no need to rush now that Trump is in power for at least the next four years. But Netanyahu knows that the two-state solution is permanently dead, and annexation is coming sooner or later.
It will be interesting to see if Trump moves quickly to move the U.S. embassy to Jersalem. (There’s talk of Trump backsliding and simply moving U.S. embassy personnel — but not the offical embassy — in the near future.)
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Man, democracy is fucking dying in this country.
“South Dakota voters pass anti-corruption law, GOP lawmakers declare state of emergency to get rid of it.”
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I don’t use the word lightly, but the GOP is the party of pure evil. Jesus christ.
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And then they’ll go on to win all the votes anyway.
So yeah.
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You know, I used to think they were just having fun with their racist Obama chain mails over the last 8 years. But seems like they’ve really internalized the idea that any non-GOP government is inherently illegitimate.
Tom Cotton said today that it’s so wrong for Democrats to hold up cabinet appointments. It’s just been 4 days. He’s the same guy who literally held up a non-consequential Obama appointee until she died of cancer just because it would cause him personal pain. He doesn’t dispute it too.
These ghouls have no shame.
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And when they do get elected, they don’t govern. They just pout, obstruct and steal. That’s what I would like people to start noticing: Republican governments don’t govern. Because they don’t believe in government. So what kind of dumbass fool votes for them?
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Rex Tillerson — arguably Trump’s most contentious cabinet nominee — just got approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to go to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.
It’s almost certain at this point that ALL of Trump’s nominees will be confirmed with no more than impotent, transient Storm und Drang by the Democrats.
All the hysterical haters-of-Republicans may be correct that the end of the world (“life as they knew it”) is at hand, but the outcome isn’t in doubt.
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Any comment about the state of emergency in Idaho?
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I don’t see how the situation in Idaho is relevant to this discusion. Apparently the governor has made the necessary declarations to allow direct state-level aid to the hardest-hit county. If federal assistance is needed, the governor should request, and promptly receive, whatever assistance from the federal government is needed.
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There’s nothing hysterical in not being happy over the confirmation of Tillerson who’s Putin’s little bitch almost as much as Trump.
You simply have no choice but to pretend that you don’t see how the party you’ve supported your whole life sold out to the Kremlin. But you know what’s happening. We all know it.
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I think his major priority is tax cuts. Everything else can go to hell.
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You think you can read everybody’s mind, Stringer Boy. At least, everybody’s mind on this website whose opinion differs from yours.
That’s one of your more endearing traits, actually. 🙂
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Ok, tax cuts and more war. Happy now?
Any response to the south dakota situation?
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Hey, I responded to your question about Idaho. Are you going to try to bait me about every “situation” in the country?
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Dreidel, that’s such a clumsy avoidance tactic. But you made me smile, so that’s good.
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Nice dodge.
Not baiting at all. You’re posting anonymously on the internet, and, like Clarissa said, you still can’t admit that your party is taking this country in a dangerous direction.
During the republican primaries when you were sure that Trump would lose (hell, we all were sure), you seemed to be more honest about the spectre of a trump presidency. But now that he’s president you either post flippant comments of the ‘it’s going to be a wild ride, folks!’ or ‘don’t overreact, the world’s not ending’.
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Oh, Stringer Bell is your real name? Your mother had quite an imagination.
Well, it isn’t. The election’s over, and the sun is still coming up every morning over the eastern horizon, and still shining on a free, democratic America that will outlive both of us.
All my long life, I’ve heard political partisans scream “DOOMSDAY” after their side lost an election. Do you really have so little faith in your adopted country that you think the longest-surviving-continuously-democratic country on this planet can’t survive a buffoon like Trump, with all the various government constraints placed on all Presidents?
Do you REALLY believe that??
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Well, Clarissa, even you wrote that you were almost glad that Trump won the election, because the reaction by “progressives” showed what utterly ineffectual, infantile clowns they’ve turned out to be.
The key word in your statement being “almost,” of course.
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South Dakota, I mean.
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“still shining on a free, democratic America ”
Care to comment on South Dakota? Or North Carolina?
“with all the various government constraints ”
The story of the 2016 elections is literally about the failure of institutions (media, political parties, law enforcement). With establishment republicans bending over backwards to carry out Trump’s agenda, and the democrats not having enough seats (and not enough spine) to pose a challenge, exactly what constraints are there?
You’re right: the sun will still rise in the east, and we probably won’t die in a nuclear war. But that’s about the only guarantees you’ve given so far, haha.
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Is this an example of a constraint?
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Constraints, schmanstraints, tell it to somebody who hasn’t lived without a state budget for 2 years.
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