Donald Trump 2020

[WhatTheBuck 28,940]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Elephant tranquilizers.  Right?

Special KKK. 

[Hornius Emeritus 12,808]

15 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

This is fantastic. The language is spot on, period perfect.

[Born to Run 6,601]

Who?

Mike Jones!

[GhostOfTomJoad 9,522]

27 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Bet she is a blonde.

 

Brunette with frosted tips, actually. And fake tits. Was pretty cute years ago when she bought 'em, but now she's expanding to the point that she'll need another cupgrade to make things proportional.

No doubt she's a Trumper, but part of this may be an ass kissing act. Our global director has made several overtly pro-Trump statements in the past so odds are good she's putting on a show to get some brownie points. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34,108]

 

 

Edited January 8, 2020 by Longhorn_Fan68

[4th&Five 42,026]

 

[Jack Straw 2,955]

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

It was a perfect press conference, imo.

signed, 

every single Republican in the US

[Guest Lobo]

Was the call to Ukrainian (ATC) also a perfect call?

 

too soon?

[Jive Turkey 13,018]

1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

They drug him up before every prepared speech. The slurring and shit is getting worse but that's just because his brain is continually deteriorating. 

I can’t even imagine what kind of shape he was in last night. That’s when they wanted to do this speech. It must have been really bad if this is the “good” Trump. 

[4th&Five 42,026]

Trumpkins on twitter are already selling it as "of course he sounds tired! he's been up for 3 days straight saving the world."

[mchookem 16,783]

2 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Presser is showing in our break areas at work. Closed captioning only on the monitors so I couldn't hear him mangle the English language.

As I walked past I saw a colleague I'm meeting with this afternoon. She had tears in her eyes while watching the TV. I asked her if everything was ok. She said "I just get so emotional when our president speaks. He is sacrificing so much for us."

I know there are 63 million idiots out there, but I'm still stunned when I find one in the wild.

this story puts tears in my eyes

[SameSame 1,752]

Bro he is straight up high

[Longhorn_Fan68 34,108]

what a maroon:

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34,108]

this should become his presidential portrait:

 

[SameSame 1,752]

17 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

what a maroon:

 

He wants so bad to be included in the good ol' boys back-slapping war stories club, that he will do absolutely anything.

I guarantee you he truly thinks that makes him cooler to the cool kids.

[bolverk 30,366]

12 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

what a maroon:

 

I can only guess this tweet is referring to the comment about the ongoing construction of hypersonic missiles. Can't see what else might be top secret in Trump's blather.

Here's the full transcript per WaPo:

As long as I’m president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Good morning. I’m pleased to inform you, the American people, should be extremely grateful and happy. No Americans were harmed in last night’s attack by the Iranian regime. We suffered no casualties. All of our soldiers are safe, and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases.

Our great American forces are prepared for anything. Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world. No American or Iraqi lives were lost because of the precautions taken, the dispersal of forces and an early warning system that worked very well. I salute the incredible skill and courage of America's men and women in uniform.

For far too long, all the way back to 1979, to be exact, nations have tolerated Iran’s destructive and destabilizing behavior in the Middle East and beyond. Those days are over. Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism, and their pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world. We will never let that happen.

Last week, we took decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist from threatening American lives. At my direction, the United States military eliminated the world’s top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani. As the head of the Quds Force, Soleimani was personally responsible for some of the absolutely worst atrocities. He trained terrorist armies, including Hezbollah, launching terrorist strikes against civilian targets. He fueled bloody civil wars all across the region. He viciously wounded and murdered thousands of U.S. troops, including the planting of roadside bombs that maim and dismember their victims. Soleimani directed the recent attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq that badly wounded four service members and killed one American. And he orchestrated the violent assault on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. In recent days, he was planning new attacks on American targets. But we stopped him. Soleimani’s hands were drenched in both American and Iranian blood. He should have been terminated long ago. By removing Soleimani, we have sent a powerful message to terrorists: If you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our people.

As we continue to evaluate options in response to Iranian aggression, the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian regime. These powerful sanctions will remain until Iran changes its behavior. In recent months alone, Iran has seized ships in international waters, fired an unprovoked strike on Saudi Arabia and shot down two U.S. drones. Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013, and they were given $150 billion dollars, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash. Instead of saying thank you to the United States, they chanted “Death to America.” In fact, they chanted “Death to America” the day the agreement was signed. Then Iran went on a terror spree funded by the money from the deal, and created hell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq. The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration. The regime also greatly tightened the reins on their own country. Even recently killing 1,500 people at the many protests that are taking place all throughout Iran.

The very defective JCPOA expires shortly anyway and gives Iran a clear and quick path to nuclear breakout. Iran must abandon its nuclear ambitions and end its support for terrorism. The time has come for the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia and China to recognize this reality. They must now break away from the remnants of the Iran deal, or JCPOA. And we must all work together toward making a deal with Iran that makes the world a safer and more peaceful place. We must also make a deal that allows Iran to thrive and prosper and take advantage of its enormous untapped potential. Iran can be a great country. Peace and stability cannot prevail in the Middle East as long as Iran continues to foment violence, unrest, hatred and war. The civilized world must send a clear and unified message to the Iranian regime: Your campaign of terror, murder, mayhem will not be tolerated any longer. It will not be allowed to go forward.

Today, I am going to ask NATO to become much more involved in the Middle East process. Over the last three years under my leadership, our economy is stronger than ever before, and America’s achieved energy independence. These historic accomplishments shades our strategic priorities — these are accomplishments that nobody thought were possible — and options in the Middle East became available. We are now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. We are independent, and we do not need Middle East oil. The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration, at a cost of $2.5 trillion dollars. U.S. armed forces are stronger than ever before. Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast. Under construction are many hypersonic missiles. The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it. We do not want to use it. American strength, both military and economic, is the best deterrent.

Three months ago, after destroying 100 percent of ISIS and its territorial caliphate, we killed the savage leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, who was responsible for so much death, including the mass beheadings of Christians, Muslims and all who stood in his way. He was a monster. Al-Baghdadi was trying again to rebuild the ISIS caliphate and failed. Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters have been killed or captured during my administration. ISIS is a natural enemy of Iran. The destruction of ISIS is good for Iran. And we should work together on this and other shared priorities.

Finally, to the people and leaders of Iran: We want you to have a future and a great future, one that you deserve, one of prosperity at home in harmony with the nations of the world. The United States is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it. I want to thank you, and God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/08/transcript-trumps-iran-speech/

[Guest Lobo]

So do we have hypersonic missiles or no?  I have a screenplay to write with Michael Bay either way. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34,108]

 

[DDD Dad 14,662]

41 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

what a maroon:

 

So THAT's how Putin got his hypersonic missiles.

[Francisco 2.0 32,609]

33 minutes ago, Lobo said:

So do we have hypersonic missiles or no?  I have a screenplay to write with Michael Bay either way. 

Beats me, but been there, done that with the US military-industrial complex.  Turns out, it was a bad idea at the time:

 

https://jalopnik.com/the-flying-crowbar-the-insane-doomsday-weapon-america-1435286216

 

https://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html

 

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Now, I’m not saying the scientists who came up with Project Pluto were mad scientists, but there was a pretty high degree of mad science going on in this thing. In some ways, it was the perfect embodiment of Cold War era thinking taken to its utmost extreme. Project Pluto, also known as “the Flying Crowbar,” would have been an incredibly potent weapon. Potent, and also cruel, terrifying, and ultimately uncontrollable.

 

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At its core, Project Pluto was just a cruise missile. Well, not “just” a cruise missile. It was a cruise missile designed around a nuclear ramjet engine, and the acronym for it should give another big clue about the pants-filling nature of it: SLAM, for Supersonic Low Altitude Missile. That means that this giant, nuclear-powered beast would be screaming around at oh, treetop level or so.

The nuclear ramjet engine at the heart of Project Pluto is key to what made this weapon so horrific. A ramjet is a very simple engine design, with essentially no moving parts. Once the missile was launched with conventional rocket boosters, the air velocity going into the ramjet’s intake would be fast enough to let the engine function, and an essentially unshielded nuclear reactor would heat the air as it entered, where it would expand and be expelled out of the engine’s nozzle, providing both lots of thrust and plenty of radioactive material.

 

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Thanks to the nuclear reactor, the missile could stay aloft almost indefinitely. That means after flying across the Earth to its targets in the Soviet Union, where it would dump its payload of 16+ hydrogen bombs, the missile itself was still good to keep flying. Which allowed for all kinds of extra terror-fun:

 

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...a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto’s designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto’s nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. (One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs.)

 

 

Edited January 8, 2020 by Francisco 2.0

[Jive Turkey 13,018]

Some people have a lot of time on their hands. 
 

 

[Burt 4,142]

4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

he also claimed that school children will be studying this speech for years to come !

Actually, it would be interesting to see a 4th grader diagram his sentences. 

[tx 3 putt 78,738]

maybe he has a cold ?

[Guest Lobo]

4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

maybe he has a cold ?

With no throat clearing, must be all those cedar trees in D.C. and Mar-a-Lago?\

  I could see him claiming that though, "I'm so strong, I don't get normal colds.  No phlegm in the throat, just nose.  They're not connected in my body, no collusion between my sinus cavity and throat.  None!  No collusion!  No connection!  Perfect drainage!  Drain the swamp, Drain the Sinus (sniff!)!!!"  

Edited January 8, 2020 by Lobo

[Chuckie Finster 23,095]

So, uh, today's briefing didn't go as the WH planned.

 

[Gil Bang 26,249]

 

[Guest Lobo]

2 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

 

was it the context or the fact that the guy in charge of all this hardware possibly can't read so good because of these glasses, goddammit?  

Edited January 8, 2020 by Lobo

[Gil Bang 26,249]

 

[Burt 4,142]

Wont matter.  They'll get back in line eventually.

[Gil Bang 26,249]

 

[Gil Bang 26,249]

 

[bolverk 30,366]

Fun fact. Trump is the least popular president since Gerald Ford on January 1 of the year leading up to their first re-election.

 

PRESIDENT    ELECTION YEAR    ON JAN. 1
Lyndon B. Johnson*    1964    76.0%
Dwight D. Eisenhower    1956    75.5
George W. Bush    2004    56.7
Jimmy Carter    1980    55.9 (LOST)
Ronald Reagan    1984    54.1
Harry S. Truman*    1948    54.0 
Bill Clinton    1996    52.5    54.6
Richard Nixon    1972    50.7
George H.W. Bush    1992    48.9 (LOST)
Barack Obama    2012    45.7 
Donald Trump    2020    42.6
Gerald Ford*    1976    39.3 (LOST)

Put another way, no one this low has ever recovered enough to get re-elected.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-the-most-unpopular-president-since-ford-to-run-for-reelection/

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,860]

12 minutes ago, Burt said:

Wont matter.  They'll get back in line eventually.

Yeah.  "I'll continue to suck his dick, but swallowing is just a bridge too far!"

[Biff Tannen 46,200]

2 minutes ago, bolverk said:

PRESIDENT    ELECTION YEAR    ON JAN. 1
Lyndon B. Johnson*    1964    76.0%

[Guest Lobo]

20 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Fun fact. Trump is the least popular president since Gerald Ford on January 1 of the year leading up to their first re-election.

 

PRESIDENT    ELECTION YEAR    ON JAN. 1
Lyndon B. Johnson*    1964    76.0%
Dwight D. Eisenhower    1956    75.5
George W. Bush    2004    56.7
Jimmy Carter    1980    55.9 (LOST)
Ronald Reagan    1984    54.1
Harry S. Truman*    1948    54.0 
Bill Clinton    1996    52.5    54.6
Richard Nixon    1972    50.7
George H.W. Bush    1992    48.9 (LOST)
Barack Obama    2012    45.7 
Donald Trump    2020    42.6
Gerald Ford*    1976    39.3 (LOST)

Put another way, no one this low has ever recovered enough to get re-elected.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-the-most-unpopular-president-since-ford-to-run-for-reelection/

Ford bounced back well after that poll, he was already trending back up in the wake of the hangover of the Nixon pardon.  The '75 recession was in the rearview mirror.  He goes on to lose to Carter by just 2.0% in the popular vote and just a few dozen EC votes.  One of the closest elections in the last century actually.  Because of Chevy Chase and a shithead post-office Nixon, history forgets that Ford was fairly close to staying in office.  Trump will not have that tailwind.  Plus, Trump will die later this summer of natural causes.  

[WhatTheBuck 28,940]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

maybe he has a cold ?

Maybe he and Ivana did a bunch of coke back in the 80's. 

[Brisketexan 107,008]

Ford bounced back well after that poll, he was already trending back up in the wake of the hangover of the Nixon pardon.  The '75 recession was in the rearview mirror.  He goes on to lose to Carter by just 2.0% in the popular vote and just a few dozen EC votes.  One of the closest elections in the last century actually.  Because of Chevy Chase and a shithead post-office Nixon, history forgets that Ford was fairly close to staying in office.  Trump will not have that tailwind.  Plus, Trump will die later this summer of natural causes.  

Is “entire body clogged with overcooked hamberders” really a “natural cause?”

[Pasken 1,312]

They'll release these after the election just like trump released his tax returns after 2016.

[RPM 26,674]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

Ford bounced back well after that poll, he was already trending back up in the wake of the hangover of the Nixon pardon.  The '75 recession was in the rearview mirror.  He goes on to lose to Carter by just 2.0% in the popular vote and just a few dozen EC votes.  One of the closest elections in the last century actually.  Because of Chevy Chase and a shithead post-office Nixon, history forgets that Ford was fairly close to staying in office.  Trump will not have that tailwind.  Plus, Trump will die later this summer of natural causes.  

He never got over the Nixon pardon. It was a rigged deal and the country knew it.

[jimmyjazz 47,295]

3 minutes ago, RPM said:

He never got over the Nixon pardon. It was a rigged deal and the country knew it.

Falling down the steps of Air Force One didn't help, either.

[Guest Lobo]

7 minutes ago, RPM said:

He never got over the Nixon pardon. It was a rigged deal and the country knew it.

Yes, I acknowledged that.  My point was he was polling horribly but finished close to Carter.  Nixon and Ford were shitshows but there is no denying it was ONE of, not THE, closer elections of the 20th century.  

[Francisco 2.0 32,609]

30 minutes ago, Pasken said:

They'll release these after the election just like trump released his tax returns after 2016.

Assuming there's a D president in 2021 (or 25) you can bet your ass that nuggets of info such as secret service spending during the Trump years will be leaked out, among other things. 

[Grade of D as in David 13,256]

6 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Brunette with frosted tips, actually. And fake tits. Was pretty cute years ago when she bought 'em, but now she's expanding to the point that she'll need another cupgrade to make things proportional.

No doubt she's a Trumper, but part of this may be an ass kissing act. Our global director has made several overtly pro-Trump statements in the past so odds are good she's putting on a show to get some brownie points. 

Wouldn't just throwing the global director some leg be less degrading than publicly supporting Trump?

[jimmyjazz 47,295]

1 hour ago, Grade of D as in David said:

Wouldn't just throwing the global director some leg be less degrading than publicly supporting Trump?

Might have to pee on him.  Some gals have limits.

[JimmyJames 12,271]

3 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

 

Duh, no shit. 
 

Trump killed an Iranian general because he thought it would help him personally and would help enlarge his tiny micro penis. Why the media even debates that fact is fucking ridiculous. 

[atomheartbevo 90,670]

His twitter output the past few days is insanely low.  Just a tweet and retweeting the past 24 hours or so.   

[Degenerate Gardner 4,160]

SIAP but the 1st paragraph could easily come from a Surly poster..

It remains incredible to watch the people on the teevee respond to a speech from the President of the United States, breathing heavily and frequently slurring his words, as if another basically normal thing just happened. We spend our days now trying to decipher whether a former game-show host with a perpetual goggle-tan and zero impulse-control has a strategy to solve one of the most persistent and complicated geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Historians will marvel at this phenomenon, assuming we make it that far.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/amp30444012/trump-iran-speech-slurred-words-economic-sanctions/

[Biff Tannen 46,200]

19 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

SIAP but the 1st paragraph could easily come from a Surly poster..

It remains incredible to watch the people on the teevee respond to a speech from the President of the United States, breathing heavily and frequently slurring his words, as if another basically normal thing just happened. We spend our days now trying to decipher whether a former game-show host with a perpetual goggle-tan and zero impulse-control has a strategy to solve one of the most persistent and complicated geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Historians will marvel at this phenomenon, assuming we make it that far.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/amp30444012/trump-iran-speech-slurred-words-economic-sanctions/

And it's accurate.

[Biff Tannen 46,200]

22 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

Duh, no shit. 
 

Trump killed an Iranian general because he thought it would help him personally and would help enlarge his tiny micro penis. Why the media even debates that fact is fucking ridiculous. 

They don't debate it, that's the fucking problem.  The media still talks about this shit like it's kind of normal.  If they were doing their job they would be calling this shit out for what it is and daring his dipshit administration to defend it, instead of letting them openly lie to all of us.

[JimmyJames 12,271]

Just now, Biff Tannen said:

They don't debate it, that's the fucking problem.  The media still talks about this shit like it's kind of normal.  If they were doing their job they would be calling this shit out for what it is and daring his dipshit administration to defend it, instead of letting them openly lie to all of us.

Oh I agree with you. The media should have been calling trumps lies the day he started lying. Starting with his ridiculous inauguration crowd size lie. Instead  they said he was saying something inaccurate or some other such bullshit. 
 

Chomsky was totally right. Our media lies to us to maintain the power structure and manipulate us to do the bidding of the elites.  The right wingers have simply taken full advantage of this fact.