Donald Trump 2019

[TornACL 7,724]

43 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

I'm sure Trump thinks he is a great extemporaneous speaker, possibly the greatest of all time. But this one, like the toilet flushing thing, and like so many others, is just him taking a simple point or concept and then just rambling about nonsense to fill time. 

When he tries to explain something, it's like someone trying to paint a watercolor with nothing but the brush and a bowl of water. 

[HornOnTheBayou 8,950]

49 minutes ago, TornACL said:

I'm sure Trump thinks he is a great extemporaneous speaker, possibly the greatest of all time. But this one, like the toilet flushing thing, and like so many others, is just him taking a simple point or concept and then just rambling about nonsense to fill time. 

When he tries to explain something, it's like someone trying to paint a watercolor with nothing but the brush and a bowl of water. 

It is just like the essays I have to read from my high school students. "'A Tale of Two Cities' takes place in two different cities. Most books only happen in one city, but this one is different because it takes place in two. You would think it would be a really long book, because it takes place in two different cities, but actually it's as long as a normal book. I guess it's the best of times because the book isn't twice as long as a normal book. But it's the worst of times, because it's kind of hard to understand."

Edited December 8, 2019 by HornOnTheBayou

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1 hour ago, TornACL said:

I'm sure Trump thinks he is a great extemporaneous speaker, possibly the greatest of all time. But this one, like the toilet flushing thing, and like so many others, is just him taking a simple point or concept and then just rambling about nonsense to fill time. 

When he tries to explain something, it's like someone trying to paint a watercolor with nothing but the brush and a bowl of water. 

 

the man is a complete idiot 

[SameSame 1,705]

5 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Melania is a fucking weirdo:

https://www.sacurrent.com/ArtSlut/archives/2019/12/03/melania-trumps-annual-uncanny-christmas-decor-includes-the-alamo-this-year

Honestly, she's just dumb.  She's not a bright person, at all.

That and a whore.

[Bama Chick 28,596]

Melania’s Christmas decorations always look like something out of Jordan Peele’s Sunken Place.

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31 minutes ago, SameSame said:

Honestly, she's just dumb.  She's not a bright person, at all.

That and a whore.

Melania Trump obtained US citizenship on a visa reserved for immigrants with "extraordinary ability" and "sustained national and international acclaim", according to a report in the Washington Post.

Nicknamed the "Einstein Visa", the EB-1 is in theory reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives.

Mrs Trump began applying for the visa in 2000, when she was Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model working in New York and dating Donald Trump. She was approved in 2001, one of just five people from Slovenia to win the coveted visa that year, according to the Post.

[Biff Tannen 45,750]

We live in Idiocracy. This is it. We are experiencing it.

[4th&Five 41,599]

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Ortiz was arrested on DUI charges in Los Angeles on January 6, 2014.^[88][89][90] He was sentenced to three years probation, an undisclosed fine, and an obligation to enroll in an alcohol educationprogram.^[91]

Edited December 8, 2019 by 4th&Five

[tx 3 putt 77,533]

a model trumpkin 

[Burt 4,092]

Wow!  Its gonna take years to get all the crazy out of that place!

 

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21,255]

Jesus fucking Christ 

[Bateshorn 9,942]

All they are missing are the rattlesnakes.

[SameSame 1,705]

Goddamn dude,  is there anyone remaining on the right that is simply reasonable.  Just reasonable, that's all we're asking.

[Mo Horn 8,855]

 

[Nope 3,121]

5 hours ago, Burt said:

Wow!  Its gonna take years to get all the crazy out of that place!

 

 

To quote Dubya, “that was some weird shit.”

[Chad Fuck 17,809]

It is just like the essays I have to read from my high school students. "'A Tale of Two Cities' takes place in two different cities. Most books only happen in one city, but this one is different because it takes place in two. You would think it would be a really long book, because it takes place in two different cities, but actually it's as long as a normal book. I guess it's the best of times because the book isn't twice as long as a normal book. But it's the worst of times, because it's kind of hard to understand."

Be cool to that kid. He’s got upper management written all over him. He may be president one day.

[DigDug 1,672]

44 minutes ago, SameSame said:

Goddamn dude,  is there anyone remaining on the right that is simply reasonable.  Just reasonable, that's all we're asking.

Narrator:  There wasn't 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

The President has only one event listed today. He and the First Lady will be attending a Children's Reception in the Blue Room. It is unknown if they will be celebrating with the children for the holidays, eating the children (it's a lunchtime), or caging the children. I don't care, do you?

 

Also, King Trump is apparently pushing his reign for twelve years as well as insulting the audience when he spoke at the Israeli American dinner last evening. He did this before at a conference in Atlanta employing his strategy of 'I'm a racist misogynist and you're going to vote for me anyway because you have to..'

 

 

[AbeFroman 2,207]

12 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

The President has only one event listed today. He and the First Lady will be attending a Children's Reception in the Blue Room. It is unknown if they will be celebrating with the children for the holidays, eating the children (it's a lunchtime), or caging the children. I don't care, do you?

 

Also, King Trump is apparently pushing his reign for twelve years as well as insulting the audience when he spoke at the Israeli American dinner last evening. He did this before at a conference in Atlanta employing his strategy of 'I'm a racist misogynist and you're going to vote for me anyway because you have to..'

 

 

It's been said many times before, but a good ass kicking goes a long way. 

And I don't mean that metaphorically, I mean a physical beat down or at least a good smacking around.

Those are the times you really do some honest evaluation of your choices.

Trump has never been checked in his life.

Now having said that, most people don't need their ass kicked to figure out they're a pathological lying asshole, but for this one that's exactly what we need.

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

7 minutes ago, AbeFroman said:

It's been said many times before, but a good ass kicking goes a long way. 

And I don't mean that metaphorically, I mean a physical beat down or at least a good smacking around.

Those are the times you really do some honest evaluation of your choices.

Trump has never been checked in his life.

Now having said that, most people don't need their ass kicked to figure out they're a pathological lying asshole, but for this one that's exactly what we need.

IIRC, his father was a front man for the mob so possibly Donald was able to avoid getting clocked by using the threat of payback by one of their capos. I could easily see him as acting subservient around the true tough guys, and bullying everyone else because he know he had muscle to back him up. It is difficult to imagine him as ever being a likeable person. Ever. Seems Fred Jr, the oldest sibling who died young (of alcoholism) may have been the smart one since he left the real estate business and became a pilot. Smart to get away from that dysfunction but alas it seemed to have followed him.

[Biff Tannen 45,750]

5 hours ago, Burt said:

Wow!  Its gonna take years to get all the crazy out of that place!

 

 

[Underdog 28,784]

15 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

She is also a whore. 

 

14 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

And a cunt. 

Go on...

[Pasken 1,309]

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

Also, at the Republican (Florida) dinner at Turnberry prior to his Israeli-American speech, he raised $3.5 million. The press were not allowed and *secrecy was high, so I don't have any transcripts of his speech there, but according to this article, he was in 'rare form':

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He also pulled an unusual move, bringing on stage Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who Trump pardoned last month for cases involving war crimes. Lorance was serving a 19-year sentence for ordering his soldiers shoot at unarmed men in Afghanistan, and Golsteyn was to stand trial for the 2010 extrajudicial killing of a suspected bomb maker.

The president spoke for over an hour, doing impressions of Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and joking about the slim physique of Ohio congressman — and former wrestler — Jim Jordan, who was in attendance. He also introduced his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and North Florida Congressman Mike Waltz.

 

Notice that his new favorite 'son', Jim Jordan, was present. Sorry, Lindsey, all that puckering up is for nought as you've been replaced by someone who knows how to look the other way...

as well as the war criminals who tell everyone else to look the other way so as not to witness their perfidy.

 

 

*The 1,000 attendees were required to check their cell phones into individual-locked cases before they entered the unmarked ballroom at the south end of the resort. Reporters were not allowed to attend.

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/12/08/trump-in-rare-form-at-closed-door-speech-to-florida-republicans/

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

Go on, Sir, testify.

Sir, you really should testify.

 

[Francisco 2.0 32,431]

Grifting.  Who in this administration doesn't do it?

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/07/medicare-chief-asked-taxpayers-to-cover-stolen-jewelry-077761

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A top Trump health appointee sought to have taxpayers reimburse her for the costs of jewelry, clothing and other possessions, including a $5,900 Ivanka Trump-brand pendant, that were stolen while in her luggage during a work-related trip, according to documents obtained by POLITICO.

 

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Seema Verma, who runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, filed a $47,000 claim for lost property on Aug. 20, 2018, after her bags were stolen while she was giving a speech in San Francisco the prior month. The property was not insured, Verma wrote in her filing to the Health and Human Services department.

 

 

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The federal health department ultimately reimbursed Verma $2,852.40 for her claim, a CMS spokesperson said. 

Verma’s claim included $43,065 for about two dozen pieces of jewelry, based off an appraisal she'd received from a jeweler about three weeks after the theft. Among Verma's stolen jewelry was an Ivanka Trump-brand pendant, made of gold, prasiolite and diamonds, that Verma’s jeweler valued at $5,900. 

 

 

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Verma’s claim also included about $2,000 to cover the cost of her stolen clothes and another $2,000 to cover the cost of other stolen goods, including a $325 claim for moisturizer and a $349 claim for noise-cancelling headphones. 

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes CMS, said the department has a longstanding policy of paying for certain goods when they are lost during a work trip, so long as they “are not inherently for other uses,” which is why Verma was partially reimbursed.

Spoiler

"When paying for such goods, the department pays a discounted rate based on age for the items that were lost," the spokesperson said. "It’s perfectly appropriate that the administrator filed a personal property loss claim for goods stolen while on work travel and this is not an unusual practice for federal employees." 

But the department is expressly prohibited from reimbursing staff for lost items like jewelry, the spokesperson said. 

The news of the large request for stolen luxury items comes at a time of unusual scrutiny for Verma, who formerly served as a consultant to then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence in Indiana and has led CMS since March 2017. The $1 trillion health agency administers Medicare, the nation’s health insurance program for seniors; Medicaid, the program for low-income Americans; and Obamacare, among other programs. 

Verma has been engaged in an acrimonious feud with HHS Secretary Alex Azar that has spilled over into policy matters and prompted separate closed-door meetings for each official with Vice President Pence. Her spending of taxpayer money has also been under scrutiny by the HHS inspector general, after POLITICO reported in March about her extensive use of outside public relations consultants, some of whom worked to burnish Verma’s personal brand. 

The $2.25 million public relations contract was put on hold pending the probe, and Verma has been under investigation from congressional Democrats. 

Verma’s luggage was stolen out of her rented Chevrolet Tahoe SUV on July 25, 2018, while she was giving a speech at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, according to statements she gave to the local police and HHS. Verma initially estimated the cost of her lost property as $20,000, according to the police report, before later revising the cost upward when filing her claim to the health department. 

POLITICO last month filed a Freedom of Information Act request about Verma’s claims for personal damages and separately obtained the documents and confirmed their authenticity with multiple sources. 

A CMS spokesperson said that Verma was one of three staffers whose luggage was stolen, and HHS lawyers instructed them to file detailed claims for all missing items, including Verma’s jewelry. "At her own expense the administrator travels to Washington, DC, from Indiana each week to work at CMS, which was why she was traveling with her personal collection of jewelry," the spokesperson said. Verma‘s family lives in Indiana. 

Staff were unaware of a federal health employee previously filing a claim as large as $47,000. 

Verma was in San Francisco as part of a scheduled three-day trip to Northern California that included a speaking engagement in Napa Valley and a visit to Palo Alto-based Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The trip was approved by ethics counsel, a CMS spokesperson said. 

Verma’s San Francisco speech marked a notable point in her tenure: It was the first time the nation’s Medicare chief had publicly attacked “Medicare for All” proposals, arguing that Democrats’ ideas for single-payer health care would destroy the federal health program for older Americans and lead to “Medicare for None.” 

Verma won plaudits for the speech inside the White House, POLITICO reported, and she touted it online as part of a months-long campaign against Democrats’ proposals. A watchdog group later filed a complaint that Verma’s continued attacks on Medicare for All allegedly violated the prohibition on federal officials engaging in political activity. 

According to Verma’s lost property claim, the stolen items included 11 pairs of earrings, five necklaces and three pendants. Verma appeared to have worn the Ivanka Trump pendant on multiple public occasions, according to a POLITICO review of her appearances, including meetings with the president and at a November 2017 speech when she announced her plan to let states impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and crack down on other program spending. The government spends approximately $5,700 per Medicaid patient. 

“Medicaid is too vital a program to let fraud and inappropriate spending threaten it,” Verma said that day.

 

[Red Five 40,898]

1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

The President has only one event listed today. He and the First Lady will be attending a Children's Reception in the Blue Room. It is unknown if they will be celebrating with the children for the holidays, eating the children (it's a lunchtime), or caging the children. I don't care, do you?

 

Also, King Trump is apparently pushing his reign for twelve years as well as insulting the audience when he spoke at the Israeli American dinner last evening. He did this before at a conference in Atlanta employing his strategy of 'I'm a racist misogynist and you're going to vote for me anyway because you have to..'

 

 

"Trump muses about serving more than two terms and becoming a dictator". 

Remember when Rush and crew used to say that Obama wouldn't leave office? Man, they must be furious about this!

[Brisketexan 105,433]

Goddamn dude,  is there anyone remaining on the right that is simply reasonable.  Just reasonable, that's all we're asking.

Asked....

Narrator:  There wasn't 

....and answered.

There’s nothing redeemable about the current incarnation of the right. Nothing. Not one fucking thing. I’ll devote the rest of my life to punishing anyone with the assholery/bad judgment to run for any office with an ® next to their name.

[SimonBolivar 10,960]

Haha the president really told a bunch of Jews they aren't going to vote for a wealth tax and nobody really cares.

[Eskimohorn 5,644]

It is just like the essays I have to read from my high school students. "'A Tale of Two Cities' takes place in two different cities. Most books only happen in one city, but this one is different because it takes place in two. You would think it would be a really long book, because it takes place in two different cities, but actually it's as long as a normal book. I guess it's the best of times because the book isn't twice as long as a normal book. But it's the worst of times, because it's kind of hard to understand."

and it’s the computer and uh...San Dimas High School Football Rules!!!

[Mo Horn 8,855]

So now he's pushing the narrative that North Korea is thinking about interfering with the U.S. elections. Ted pushing the Ukraine narrative, which has zero backing of the intelligence community. Deflect, deflect, deflect. 

[WhatTheBuck 28,806]

Gaslight
Obstruct
Project

[Guest Lobo]

3 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

 

I'm trying to remember the last time a nationalist Head of State that told a roomful of Jews they had no choice but to vote for him.  I can't remember the details, but it didn't work out well for those Jews in the room.  

[Bama Chick 28,596]

That SNL skit was hilarious.

The Trump Administration has been a second golden age for that show.

And a $6,000 Ivanka Trump necklace?

Horseshit! Her stuff is sold in TJ Maxx and Marshall’s and shit. Grifters everywhere man.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20,506]

Uh oh ... Trump threatening Kim Jong Un with the loss of their special relationship!
 

 

[RomaVicta 30,031]

3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Grifting.  Who in this administration doesn't do it?

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/07/medicare-chief-asked-taxpayers-to-cover-stolen-jewelry-077761

 

 

 

 

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"When paying for such goods, the department pays a discounted rate based on age for the items that were lost," the spokesperson said. "It’s perfectly appropriate that the administrator filed a personal property loss claim for goods stolen while on work travel and this is not an unusual practice for federal employees." 

But the department is expressly prohibited from reimbursing staff for lost items like jewelry, the spokesperson said. 

The news of the large request for stolen luxury items comes at a time of unusual scrutiny for Verma, who formerly served as a consultant to then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence in Indiana and has led CMS since March 2017. The $1 trillion health agency administers Medicare, the nation’s health insurance program for seniors; Medicaid, the program for low-income Americans; and Obamacare, among other programs. 

Verma has been engaged in an acrimonious feud with HHS Secretary Alex Azar that has spilled over into policy matters and prompted separate closed-door meetings for each official with Vice President Pence. Her spending of taxpayer money has also been under scrutiny by the HHS inspector general, after POLITICO reported in March about her extensive use of outside public relations consultants, some of whom worked to burnish Verma’s personal brand. 

The $2.25 million public relations contract was put on hold pending the probe, and Verma has been under investigation from congressional Democrats. 

Verma’s luggage was stolen out of her rented Chevrolet Tahoe SUV on July 25, 2018, while she was giving a speech at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, according to statements she gave to the local police and HHS. Verma initially estimated the cost of her lost property as $20,000, according to the police report, before later revising the cost upward when filing her claim to the health department. 

POLITICO last month filed a Freedom of Information Act request about Verma’s claims for personal damages and separately obtained the documents and confirmed their authenticity with multiple sources. 

A CMS spokesperson said that Verma was one of three staffers whose luggage was stolen, and HHS lawyers instructed them to file detailed claims for all missing items, including Verma’s jewelry. "At her own expense the administrator travels to Washington, DC, from Indiana each week to work at CMS, which was why she was traveling with her personal collection of jewelry," the spokesperson said. Verma‘s family lives in Indiana. 

Staff were unaware of a federal health employee previously filing a claim as large as $47,000. 

Verma was in San Francisco as part of a scheduled three-day trip to Northern California that included a speaking engagement in Napa Valley and a visit to Palo Alto-based Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The trip was approved by ethics counsel, a CMS spokesperson said. 

Verma’s San Francisco speech marked a notable point in her tenure: It was the first time the nation’s Medicare chief had publicly attacked “Medicare for All” proposals, arguing that Democrats’ ideas for single-payer health care would destroy the federal health program for older Americans and lead to “Medicare for None.” 

Verma won plaudits for the speech inside the White House, POLITICO reported, and she touted it online as part of a months-long campaign against Democrats’ proposals. A watchdog group later filed a complaint that Verma’s continued attacks on Medicare for All allegedly violated the prohibition on federal officials engaging in political activity. 

According to Verma’s lost property claim, the stolen items included 11 pairs of earrings, five necklaces and three pendants. Verma appeared to have worn the Ivanka Trump pendant on multiple public occasions, according to a POLITICO review of her appearances, including meetings with the president and at a November 2017 speech when she announced her plan to let states impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and crack down on other program spending. The government spends approximately $5,700 per Medicaid patient. 

“Medicaid is too vital a program to let fraud and inappropriate spending threaten it,” Verma said that day.

 

 

12 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

That SNL skit was hilarious.

The Trump Administration has been a second golden age for that show.

And a $6,000 Ivanka Trump necklace?

Horseshit! Her stuff is sold in TJ Maxx and Marshall’s and shit. Grifters everywhere man.

 Hmmmmmm. I wonder how many flushes it would take to get rid of all that jewelry. Five? Ten? Fifteen?

It all comes together.

[tx 3 putt 77,533]

SNL needs to keep hitting trump on not being one of the cool kids. That’ll eat him up 

[DigDug 1,672]

30 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Uh oh ... Trump threatening Kim Jong Un with the loss of their special relationship!
 

 

Trump says they fell in love and have a special relationship.

Seriously, did they go jerk each other off last time they met or exchange brussel sprouts recipes. 

This is obviously his attempt at low level psychology and he thinks he's being oh so clever.

What everyone in the world knows except him is that Kim J doesn't give two shits about Trump's nonsense.

 

[4th&Five 41,599]

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

I think those QAnon people should know that Trump is speaking to them. Aren't they the ones that find hidden messages in his communications? I think I found one for them in that tweet above.

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Don’t get why @FoxNews puts losers on like @RepSwalwell (who got ZERO as presidential candidate before quitting), Pramila Jayapal, David Cicilline and others who are Radical Left Haters? The Dems wouldn’t let @FoxNews get near their bad ratings debates, yet Fox panders. Pathetic!

Time to turn off the TV!

 

[4th&Five 41,599]

 

[Nivek 16,992]

 

How would he know? He doesn’t watch TV.

[DigDug 1,672]

24 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

He's lying 

[Prepuce of Doom 21,106]

On 12/6/2019 at 4:38 PM, hornhorn said:

The didn't have the exact same experience but African Americans also weren't separated from all of their belongings overnight and asked to vacate their shops, homes and the country as a matter of newly found law targeting just them. And by overnight I mean literally overnight. And while that occurred the South Africans and Kenyans were allowed to rob, rape and pillage them unmitigated by the police or the state. 

Is that you, mini baller? 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

I've spent time with fabric and 'smocking' is serious business and more than a little tricky. I'm pretty sure Nancy Pelosi doesn't need a 'smocking' gun [sic] to sew up a case against the President.

 

[Doc Sam Beckett 5,797]

22 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

She is also a whore. 

 

21 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

And a cunt. 

 

Be Best! 

[Mo Horn 8,855]

So the president celebrating the struggles of another country, especially one of our two closest neighbors, is normal. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

2 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

So the president celebrating the struggles of another country, especially one of our two closest neighbors, is normal. 

Not normal. but his supporters will celebrate, too. "Losers!" Never occurs to them that in order to stand up to China and Russia, our country will need all the allies we can muster. Unless of course we wish to be a fascist totalitarian regime like China and Russia. Or maybe it has occurred to them and they are the percentage that are okay with that.

 

[Jive Turkey 12,648]

9 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Go on, Sir, testify.

Sir, you really should testify.

 

"When you can’t win the game, change the rules!"

That's quite literally been the GOP strategy for winning elections for a generation.

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

10 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

"When you can’t win the game, change the rules!"

That's quite literally been the GOP strategy for winning elections for a generation.

Each accusation is a confession....