[PAX] My Idiot President
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Trump and the Parasitic Presidency
We have now passed the 50-day mark of the Donald Trump administration and one thing is clear:
There is no new Trump.
There is only the same old Trump:
Dangerous and unpredictable, gauche and greedy, temperamentally unsuited and emotionally unsound.
If you were trying to create in a lab a person with character traits more unbecoming in a president, it would be hard to outdo the one we have.
He continues to have explosive Twitter episodes — presumably in response to some news he finds unflattering or some conspiracy floated by fringe outlets — that make him look not only foolish, but unhinged.
Indeed, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll published last week found:
“By 2-1, those surveyed disapprove of Trump’s temperament, a much more negative rating than he gets for his policy positions. Six in 10, including 40 percent of Republicans, complain that he tweets too much.”
In these fits of rage, he generates a lie or repeats one, which shifts the burden of proof to the legitimate media to swat it down and defend the truth.
This exercise is already getting old.
Trump’s assaults on the truth are not benign.
Presidential credibility is American credibility.
There is no way to burn through one without burning through the other.
And when he’s not making explosive charges, he’s taking destructive actions.
He has signed a slew of executive actions to demonstrate his power and signal his administrative direction.
As Business Insider pointed out, as of March 6, “The 45th president has signed 34 executive actions so far, with far-reaching effects on Americans’ lives.” These included “16 executive orders in 45 days.”
In addition, federal agencies and the Republican-controlled Congress have “delayed, suspended or reversed” more than 90 regulations in the short time since President Trump took office, according to a tally by The New York Times.
The Times’s report continued:
“The emerging effort — dozens more rules could be eliminated in the coming weeks — is one of the most significant shifts in regulatory policy in recent decades. It is the leading edge of what Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, described late last month as ‘the deconstruction of the administrative state.’”
Now, Trump and congressional Republicans have locked arms in an effort to ram through a disastrous Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan — attempting to cast doubt on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in the process — that promises to be a boon to insurers and the rich and a bane to the poor and the elderly.
Trumpcare would likely not only be more expensive and cover fewer people, but some people currently in need of care to extend their lives would no longer get it.
Put quite simply:
This plan is not only bad, it could be deadly.
Add to these destructive policies the fact that this president and his family are burning through taxpayer funds like it’s Monopoly money.
As The Hill reported on Saturday, “President Trump paid a visit to one of his golf courses again Saturday, marking apparently his ninth visit to a golf course in the seven weeks since he took office.”
The site pointed out, “Trump has made several weekend trips to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., as well, calling the property the ‘Winter White House.’ ”
In February, numerous media outlets pointed out that Trump was spending on travel in a month nearly as much as what the Obamas spent in a year.
This doesn’t even include the travel and security costs of Trump’s children or the cost of Trump’s wife and son remaining in Trump Tower in New York, at least for now, which is estimated to cost taxpayers hundreds of thousand of dollars a day.
This was particularly jarring because Trump had been a chief critic of the amount of money the Obamas spent on vacations.
Indeed, Trump tweeted in 2012: “President @BarackObama’s vacation is costing taxpayers millions of dollars — Unbelievable!”
No, what is unbelievable is the staggering nature of the hypocrisy of Trump and his current spending and the near silence of Obama’s conservative critics.
Trump appears to view the Treasury as a personal piggy bank and the presidency as a part-time job.
I think any who have been holding out hope that Trump will eventually change into someone more polished, professional and amenable than the man we have come to know must simply abandon that hope.
This is a 70-year-old man who has lived his entire life as the vile, dishonest, incurious creature who got elected.
That election validated his impulses rather than served as a curb on them.
Trump will continue to debase and devalue the presidency with his lies.
Trump will continue to follow Bannon’s philosophy of internal deconstruction of our government, its principles and its institutions.
And Trump will continue to leech as much personal financial advantage as he can from the flesh of the American public.
That’s who Trump is.
America elected a parasite.
For goodness sake, why can't the UN assign him a nanny or something.
Lyin-Ryan 'can't beat him, join him'
Whaaaat?!? One Quarter and already discrepancies. Who will foster the system of checks& balance now?Geeish... :<¡
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbsn...highlights-outtakes-from-paul-ryan-interview/
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbsn...s-paul-ryan-on-partnership-with-donald-trump/
Whaaaat?!? One Quarter and already discrepancies. Who will foster the system of checks& balance now?Geeish... :<¡
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbsn...highlights-outtakes-from-paul-ryan-interview/
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbsn...s-paul-ryan-on-partnership-with-donald-trump/
Trump has ordered the Government, and specifically the Pentagon to no longer consider Global Warming a National Security Threat
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pres...r-promoting-energy-independence-and-economi-1
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pres...r-promoting-energy-independence-and-economi-1
I like the latest news about accusations that Trump incited violence against protesters at one of his pre-election rallies. It's not good publicity for him. I think it's a really good example of his idiocy because it shows that he is incompetent to manage situations even to his own advantage.
TROLLING
Earlier:
Imagine you’re a teenager and you’re trying to hone your coding skills, so you create a site where kittens are allowed to scratch Donald Trump.
Then you receive a cease-and-desist letter from Trump’s attorneys telling you to shut down your site.
Well, that’s exactly what happened to Lucy, a 17-year-old from San Francisco.
Lucy created the site TrumpScratch, which is everything like the screenshot above.
It allows you to use a cat to attack Trump.
Seems like harmless fun, right?
Well, not according to Trump.
Lucy received the cease-and-desist letter from Trump’s attorneys, but she says that she can’t believe a coding experiment has the president all in his feelings.
“I was going to just let this go, but I think it’s, pardon my French, fucking outrageous that the president of the United States has his team scouring the internet for sites like mine to send out cease-and-desists and legal-action claims if we don’t shut down,” Lucy told Observer.
“Meanwhile, he tweets about The Apprentice ratings and sends out power-drunk tweets about phone tapping.
HOW ABOUT BEING THE PRESIDENT?”
After receiving the letter, Lucy decided to change the site’s name to KittenFeed, and I personally have spent about 10 minutes this morning punching Trump’s face.
Apparently, changing the name hasn’t been enough, and Trump’s goons are still coming after her.
“It’s so sad that his administration is focused more on being liked, burying real news and taking down sites like mine as they supposedly make him look bad,” Lucy said.
I implore everyone to take a few minutes out of their day to kitten-punch Trump in the face.
Earlier:
Imagine you’re a teenager and you’re trying to hone your coding skills, so you create a site where kittens are allowed to scratch Donald Trump.
Then you receive a cease-and-desist letter from Trump’s attorneys telling you to shut down your site.
Well, that’s exactly what happened to Lucy, a 17-year-old from San Francisco.
Lucy created the site TrumpScratch, which is everything like the screenshot above.
It allows you to use a cat to attack Trump.
Seems like harmless fun, right?
Well, not according to Trump.
Lucy received the cease-and-desist letter from Trump’s attorneys, but she says that she can’t believe a coding experiment has the president all in his feelings.
“I was going to just let this go, but I think it’s, pardon my French, fucking outrageous that the president of the United States has his team scouring the internet for sites like mine to send out cease-and-desists and legal-action claims if we don’t shut down,” Lucy told Observer.
“Meanwhile, he tweets about The Apprentice ratings and sends out power-drunk tweets about phone tapping.
HOW ABOUT BEING THE PRESIDENT?”
After receiving the letter, Lucy decided to change the site’s name to KittenFeed, and I personally have spent about 10 minutes this morning punching Trump’s face.
Apparently, changing the name hasn’t been enough, and Trump’s goons are still coming after her.
“It’s so sad that his administration is focused more on being liked, burying real news and taking down sites like mine as they supposedly make him look bad,” Lucy said.
I implore everyone to take a few minutes out of their day to kitten-punch Trump in the face.
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It’s still quite fun to scratch the shit out of his face!
I’ll premise the post as trolling, thanks!