Trump is an asshole

this belongs in the breaking news thread :)

Our President fat-shaming a protestor V____V

For the record- he's obese.  Considerably.  It's amazing what a skilled tailor can accomplish.

An asshole who apparently lives rent free in your head.

Water is wet.

thom tries to get in your head to devour your logical rationale and replace it with his totally illogical bass ackwardness,

tnm tries that shit too - it's a common lowbrow republikan tactic

Thom thinks Trump is a better president than Obama was.

thom supports white nationalism. thom defends everything this president stands for, yet still won’t admit he voted for him. 

bitch. 

Don’t insult all the Assholes of the world. 

He claims to not drink.   (retweeted by John Harwood of CBNC, seems legit)

https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/1162421706419507202

Yeah don't disparage the everyday run of the mill asshole, chump's in a class of asshole all to himself. Like quantum colon drip or mega-hole, he's something that resembles that nasty desert monster asshole with teeth in the Empire Strikes Back --

Bump

>>>>He claims to not drink.

He doesn’t drink. Apparently he doesn’t need alcohol to get handsy with brides at his clubhouse though! That’s great stuff I hope Vinnie there didn’t get too angry. 

Trump IS a speed freak though. He’s just not into booze. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HbW3u5GQs&feature=youtu.be

<<Not Ready to Make Nice

Trump voters and the limits of compassion and empathy>>

https://medium.com/our-human-family/not-ready-to-make-nice-d1657b7e78e6

<<Much has been said about the need for liberals and progressives — or at least Democrats — to understand Trump voters. We are told we should learn to listen to their fears and insecurities. We are supposed to respect their deep sense of anxiety, born of job losses, dying small towns, and cultural transformation occurring at a pace with which they find it difficult to keep up.

Missing from these calls for civility and compassion are any comparable entreaties for the same from the other side. No demands that Trump voters seek to understand, or even respect the essential humanity of black people in large cities, asylum seekers fleeing violence, or immigrants from the global south seeking a better life for their children. For these, calls of “send them back” or “build the wall” will suffice, or perhaps endorsements of stop-and-frisk so as to catch the presumably dangerous criminals responsible for what the president calls “American carnage.”

We are to empathize with white folks in small towns suffering the ravages of the opioid crisis, in ways they were never expected to — and certainly did not — when the crack epidemic was wreaking havoc on urban communities of color. The very same white people who called for stiff prison sentences and three-strikes laws in the latter case now plead for rehab and treatment options for their cousins, their children, themselves. Meanwhile, they stare wide-eyed at the lack of such programs, oblivious to the irony: namely, it was their calls for a ruthless prosecution of the war on drugs that has left them, as with people of color, bereft of such options now.

These one-way calls for compassion infect 2020 election analysis. Democratic candidates are expected to pander to small-town whites and sit with them in diners across the fruited plain to mine the depths of their despair. Why? Because these are, or so we are told, the swing voters without whom they cannot cobble together an electoral college victory. Republicans, apparently, need not appeal to the so-called middle, or moderates, or swing voters. They need not find out what black folks are talking about in the barbershop, what Latinx folks discuss at the bodega, or what members of the Unitarian Church are thinking. No, outreach is only for liberals.

Enough of this.

As the administration launches ICE raids on hard-working parents in Mississippi, ripping them from their kids on the first day of school, all talk of compromise with these people is perverse. To speak of understanding those who sanction such evil is a sickness.

I need not sit around and discuss politics with people such as this as they wolf down their biscuits and gravy or sop up their toast in a cholesterol pond of runny eggs, while adjusting their dirty trucker caps and holding forth about the Mooz-lims or the Mex’cuns who have come to take their jobs. Especially when those they’d be griping about would already have been working for three hours while Billy Joe Jim Bob sat there telling me about how he can’t work anyway because of his disability. For which he receives a check, along with his Medicare. But he wants me to remember that he’s tired of people living off the government.

What. The. Fuck. Ever.

I understand these folks all too well. There is nothing more to learn.

They are scared, simple-minded people who believed, against all historical evidence to the contrary, that the world would stand still for them. They are people who assumed their coal mines would never close, that the economy would never globalize, that jobs would always be there for them, that their norms and beliefs would always be paramount in the culture, and that they would forever and always remain the very floor model of an American. In short, they fell for a lie that only they, as white people, could ever have managed to believe. And while that must be tough, I find it hard to cry tears for them now.

After all, what they have only recently discovered — that the system is a scam, that companies move jobs overseas for their own profits and don’t give a shit about you, or your diners, and that you can take nothing for granted — is stuff people of color already knew. It’s stuff those people of color had been insisting upon from the beginning, but which white Americans could ignore, because after all, what do black people know?

I’m sure the folks on the middle-to-upper decks of the Titanic also wondered what all the screaming from steerage was about. Meanwhile the ones below thought to themselves: “Oh just wait, you’ll see.” Because steerage knew the folks on the promenade well, and knew how few lifeboats there really were, even while the middling classes thought there would always be room for them.

When manufacturing jobs began fleeing the urban core in the 1970s, leaving blacks who had moved north for good jobs unemployed, these white folks who now moan about job losses in their towns showed no compassion. They told black folks to up and move; to go where the jobs were. If blacks were out of work and unable to find new jobs, it was their own fault. It was their pathological culture, their dysfunctional family structures. It was surely not a systemic problem.

But now, as their own worlds crumble around them, they sing a very different tune. Now, these same people demand that politicians promise to bring the jobs back to them. No insistence that they up and move, as they instructed people of color to do. If job creation has occurred mostly in large metropolitan areas as of late (and it has), one might think it would be incumbent upon these Andy of Mayberry types to get up off their asses and go where the jobs are. But no. They like their little small towns and by God, intend to stay there, and we should accommodate them.

But then, when they don’t line up to take those jobs at the meatpacking plant, or picking strawberries, or roofing new home builds — and the people who do get rounded up like cattle and separated from their families — they dare complain about how things are changing?

Bless…

It is not necessary to pander to people like this in order to win elections. They are not the key to victory for Democrats. Donald Trump is not president because bunches of these people once voted for Obama but suddenly switched to the guy who told them Obama wasn’t even an American. These are not people who voted for Obama and then turned around and voted for the guy who promised to take away the very health care Obama got for them.

Donald Trump is president because the Democratic base did not turn out in sufficient numbers in 2016. Obama voters didn’t switch to Trump so much as they stayed home. In Wisconsin, for instance, Trump got fewer votes than Romney; but depressed Democratic turnout and a significant vote share for third parties catapulted Trump to victory in the state.

One does not need to kiss the ass of people who chant for the building of walls, for the deportation of congresswomen, or cruelty for cruelty’s sake.

One need not appeal to the worst this nation has to offer.

One need not negotiate with terrorists.

One need only trust that there are more of us than there are of them, and then act like it.

And then, once we win, we can drag the rest kicking and screaming to universal health care, affordable college, and a cleaner environment.

At which point, all we will need to say to them is: “You’re welcome.”>>

A couple of days ago in Santa Monica 

what's the difference between trump and a flying pig?

the F

bump

Just build that wall, I need the boost for 2020.

I'll pardon any environmental laws you break + any illegal land grab action you take

Fuck this mutherfucker !

New from Randy Rainbow: https://www.newsandguts.com/video/randy-rainbow-on-cheeto-christ-stupid-...?

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'Batten down the hatches Alabama, Dory's headed straight for you'

Fake weather reports. 

Not many POTUS’s have done that. 

At least he found time to get some golf in,,at taxpayer expense 

But Obama,,,,,ahhhh Fuck it! Hypocrite republican playbook

Repub primary contenders now up 3, maybe 4.

and in a new low in stupidity even for him, he starts a twitter war with Chrissy Teigen, which is the twitter equivalent of a land war in Asia.

#PresidentPussyAssBitch

well now we know where the karens of the world get their insufferably cringy bumper stickers

I'm gonna be developing a line of t-shirts with the phrase "filthy mouthed woman."

Please let me know how many you're in for!?

Best,

L

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/as-evacuations-continue-hundreds-of-bahamians-were-told-to-get-off-a-ferry-headed-to-the-us/ar-AAH1to3

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/donald-trump-not-well/597640/

Trump Is Not Well

Accepting the reality about the president’s disordered personality is important—even essential.

6:00 AM ET

Peter Wehner

....

Accepting the reality about Trump’s disordered personality is important and even essential. For one thing, it will help us to better react to Trump’s freak show.

Even now, almost a thousand days into his presidency, the latest Trump outrage elicits shock and disbelief in people. The reaction is, “Can you believe he said that and did this?”

To which my response is, “Why are you surprised?” It’s a shock only if the assumption is that we’re dealing with a psychologically normal human being. We’re not. Trump is profoundly compromised, acting just as you would imagine a person with a disordered personality would. Many Americans haven’t yet come to terms with the fact that we elected as president a man who is deeply damaged, an emotional misfit. But it would be helpful if they did.

Among other things, it would keep us feeling less startled and disoriented, less in a state of constant agitation, less susceptible to provocations. Donald Trump thrives on creating chaos, on gaslighting us, on creating antipathy among Americans, on keeping people on edge and off balance. He wants to dominate our every waking hour. We ought not grant him that power over us.

It might also take some of the edge off the hatred many people feel for Trump. Seeing him for what he is—a terribly damaged soul, a broken man, a person with a disordered mind—should not lessen our revulsion at how Trump mistreats others, at his cruelty and dehumanizing actions. Nor should it weaken our resolve to stand up to it. It does complicate the picture just a bit, though, eliciting some pity and sorrow for Trump.

But above all, accepting the truth about Trump’s mental state will cause us to take more seriously than we have our democratic duty, which is to prevent a psychologically and morally unfit person from becoming president.

The office is too powerful, and the consequences are too dangerous, to allow a person to become president who views morality only through the prism of whether an action advances his own narrow interests, his own distorted desires, his own twisted impulses. When an individual comes to believe his interests and those of the nation he leads are one and the same, it opens the door to all sorts of moral and constitutional devilry.

Whether or not his disorders are diagnosable, the president’s psychological flaws are all too apparent. They were alarming when he took the oath of office; they are worse now. Every day Donald Trump is president is a day of disgrace. And a day of danger.

Trump is an actor that is playing a scripted role at this time in our country's history.

To what ends, that is the question i ponder..

Just Un Fuckin' Real ---

President Donald Trump contradicted Customs and Border Protection just minutes after the agency said refugees from the Bahamas wouldn't need a visa to come to the U.S.

"We have to be very careful. Everybody needs totally proper documentation because, look, the Bahamas had some tremendous problems with people going to the Bahamas that weren't supposed to be there," Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before embarking on a trip to North Carolina, where he planned to tour areas hard hit by Dorian.

"I don't want to allow people that weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members, and some very, very bad drug dealers. So, we're going to be very strong on that."

Documentation ?  The place was fucking devastated. After Dorian most people were lucky to have just the clothes on their backs, you ASSHOLE !!

Can't allow the survivors of Dorian in the Bahamas to come to the US because they're "very bad people and very bad gang members"  and there are areas of the Island that are not damaged by Dorian where they can go live.

Both lies, but who's counting? 

Can't allow the survivors of Dorian in the Bahamas to come to the US because they're "very bad people and very bad gang members"

either way, the statement is stupid, but i think its pretty clear he was not calling average residents of the bahamas or survivors of the hurricane bad people and gang members, rather he was making a claim that somehow these very bad people and gang members illegally immigrated into the bahamas, to, i guess, use the hurricane as cover to illegally immigrate the the usa. 

i honestly dont know which is stupider.

Bolton - I Resigned

clump by tweet - Of course I fired him

They forgot the two beams of light coming out of their heads going all the way to heaven. 

Someone drew a crude phallic/Washington Monument on Mel’s coat too and it’s pointing to her butt. The photographer should have caught that. 

Kim sent Trump a letter containing a single-line coded message:

370HSSV-0773H

Trump was baffled, he e-mailed it to his aides, who had no clue neither did the FBI.

So it went to the CIA.

CIA cabled back with this reply "Tell The President he's holding the message upside down."

Now you're orange, too.

https://www.kron4.com/news/trump-i-always-look-orange-because-of-energy-...

and your little dog, too!

...

And your fucking LAPD are his rats

Caught Infiltrating Anti-Trump Group, LAPD Vows Change | Studio City, CA Patch
https://patch.com/california/studiocity/caught-infiltrating-anti-trump-g...

When the Taliban couldn't meet with him around 9/11 at Camp David, they went to Russia for meetings instead...  

meanwhile, fundamentalist Christian leaders visited w/ the Saudis

Better Watch Out Iran - I'm Cocked And Bloated

>>>>>To Tiffany, the other one, Trump has graciously allowed her to publicly keep using her last name. 

So my son is attending law school in DC (GW Law) and has friends attending Georgetown Law where Tiffany is going and some of them sit next to her in class.  They say that she never gets called upon by the professors and doesn't have to wear a name tag like the rest of the students.

Future shingle:

Trump Kardashian

Like...Attorneys?

Big day for the asshole, violating the Clean Air Act while giving the finger to California and Obama's stricter greenhouse gas emissions.  

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-09-17/trump-revokes-calif...

-- TRUMP PULLED A WAD OF CASH out of his pocket, when answering about a Reuters photo published Wednesday, which showed 20-dollar bills coming out of his pants: “I don’t carry a wallet because I haven’t had to use a credit card in a long time. I do like leaving tips to the hotel. I like to carry a little something. I like to give tips to the hotel. I’m telling you, maybe a president’s not supposed to do it, but I like to leave a tip for the hotel, etc., etc. Oh, that’s funny. So the jacket was blowing up?”

<< violating the Clean Air Act while giving the finger to California >>

Like he cares one shit. That mutherfucker's already got a deal with China to buy arctic Canadian air -- in a can

Fake Whistleblower News  ---  All Gone 

You're asking those questions as if you expect an intelligent answer, from someone with an actual conscience, or possibly a heart or soul. But everybody knows a stump supporter retains none of those attributes. 

Nothing is what you get when Democrats say Trump did something illegal and they're going to get justice.

Democrats have an excuse for not doing anything to Trump while he is in office. 

Slack, the Republicans in the Senate will not convict.

Given that, do you believe that impeachment serves a purpose?

If so, what do you feel it will accomplish?

I stopped asking you all questions. 

^I asked you a question, Slack.

I've always answered questions you asked.

So, Slack, if we know that the Senate will not convict, what purpose does impeachment serve?

I don't know what purpose any of these people serve. 

I don't know what government is supposed to do about anything. 

I don't know why we have these stupid threads. Trump is POTUS until he loses the next election. 

>I don't know what purpose any of these people serve. 

I don't know what government is supposed to do about anything<

Never had a Civics class?

>I don't know why we have these stupid threads. Trump is POTUS until he loses the next election<

The threads exist because people are outraged and disgusted and perhaps even a little concerned.

No need to participate in them if you find them annoying. 

Personally, I think the Democrats have no choice but to impeach, the constitution demands it.

The republicans were unable to prosecute Hillary, now the democrats are unable to prosecute thump...   the more things change, the more they stay the same

(with lots of happy skippy corporations getting all the love, while the rest of us get the sneaky finger without the glove)

>>>>>Never had a Civics class?

I took a civics class. I can't remember what I'm supposed to remember about it. 

I left the Democrat party. 

^That's ok, the Democrats do not require your participation to impeach Trump 

>>> I left the Democratic party. <<<

Now what?

I joined another dbmb.

***

The president of the united states is not ok.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I feel like if you have clear, moral, ethical and legal grounds to proceed with an impeachment, that you have a moral obligation to do so, regardless of the political fallout. For too long now (always?) politicians have been acting only out of a sense of what's politically convenient and this attitude is exactly what created the context for modern politics and for the Trump presidency. People need to start acting on what they know to be right in an ethical and legal sense. This game of playing political expediency has tilted the playing field constantly more in favor of hard-right parties the world over. 

I always thought the goal of a politician should be to do good and help their society. Not just to ensure their political future...If making moral decisions means losing seats, so be it. People need to start waking up to the reality that they are being fucked on a daily basis by politically convenient decisions. If burning down the building is what it has to come to to reach a point of common humanity and decency, then hey, that's karma, baby...

A wonderful few days abroad for our treasoner in chief. 

It's either hilarious or sad that we've become so used to his so obviously deranged behavior. More ass licking of the worst abusive autoctats of the day while shitting on our democratic nato allies. Just fucking incredible. 

And that's not counting his autistic 5th grade rant on Schiff while over there. Beyond ludicrous behavior. So fucking shameful - todays congressional republicans, to ever allow this

I object on behalf of all on the autism spectrum.

Trump is evil, insane, and stupid, but I don't think he is autistic.

He left the NATO meetings early and in a huff after a video emerged showing Boris Johnson, Macron and JT making fun of him. Our President has the temperament of a toddler. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/04/trump-abruptly-cancels-nato-press-confer...

Hey Now donny,

he aint right