Where is/can Donald Trump take US (sic)?

[basilio]

Great story on Trumps grasp of US history. Self explanatory.

 

[wayneL]

Is your stipend direct from Soros, of via one of his many "NGOs"?

 

[moXJO]

How the Lincoln Project is undermining Trumps re election hopes.

Could this anti-Trump Republican group take down the president?
Savage attack ads from a well-funded group of dissident Republicans are aiming to sway a key sliver of opinion in swing states

Amid all the noise of an election involving Donald Trump – all the inflammatory tweets and shadowy Facebook posts – one set of ads has somehow managed to break through.

There’s the one of the US president shuffling down a ramp that declares that the president “is not well”. There’s the whispering one about Trump’s “loyalty problem” inside his White House, campaign and family.

There’s the epic Mourning in America that remakes Reagan’s election-defining 1984 ad, turning the sun-bathed suburbs into a dark national portrait of pandemic and recession. On Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, those three ads alone have racked up more than 35m views.

The Lincoln Project, run by a group of renegade Republican political consultants, has crystallized one of the core narratives of the 2020 campaign in ways that few other political commercials have in past cycles.

.... Alongside the top-tier surrogates and ads, there is a grassroots effort to organize women, veterans and evangelicals to reach out to persuade Republicans to abandon the president who dominates their party.

“There are certain voters we’re not going to move – the one-issue voters on the right to life – and that’s OK,” says Lenti.

“We’re looking at 3-5% of Republicans in certain states. They tend to be more educated than not. Over 40 years old, and the demographic split is about 50/50, maybe a little towards men. We’re also seeing traction with some evangelicals, and those are typically older and less educated.”

That sliver of disaffected Republicans is the target for ads like Mourning in America: people who are old enough to remember the original from three decades ago are also old enough to be at the highest risk of the coronavirus. “Under the leadership of Donald Trump,” the narrator says, “our country is weaker, and sicker, and poorer.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...project-donald-trump-republicans-campaign-ads

Only the guardian takes them seriously. They are political consultants currently griffting off billionaire democrat supporters. No Republican takes them seriously.

And honestly, he will lose because he can't energise his base through rallies in swing states. He had a chance before covid. But the virus has severely crippled his options.

 

[basilio]

Houston Police Chief to Trump: 'Keep Your Mouth Shut' |

 

[basilio]

Is your stipend direct from Soros, of via one of his many "NGOs"?

Isn't it amazing just how clever the Fake News people are at putting together stories that show what a dangerous, ignorant, bombastic, incompetent President Donald Trump is ?
Because clearly in Waynes World none of these clips can be true .. could they ?

And who needs to be paid by anyone to realise, recognise and revolt against one of the most criminal, ignorant, dangerous Presidents to ever sit in the White House ? Really ?

 

[basilio]

But the virus has severely crippled his options.

Not to mention killing off his base in droves.

 

[moXJO]

He wasn't everyone's favorite Uncle before he beat Hilary....
3.5 years of repeatedly demonstrating the qualities outlined in IFocus post have crystallized how most of us see him.

He was always a self promoter. Where have you been the last 40 years?
He has always had the "biggest/best" schtick going on. Hence the "trump towers" and other gimmicky crap. He hasn't changed. Everyone knew what they were getting. He got sprung talking about "grabbing them by the pu%%y" during his campaign.

And he still beat Hillary.

 

[wayneL]

Isn't it amazing just how clever the Fake News people are at putting together stories that show what a dangerous, ignorant, bombastic, incompetent President Donald Trump is ?
Because clearly in Waynes World none of these clips can be true .. could they ?

And who needs to be paid by anyone to realise, recognise and revolt against one of the most criminal, ignorant, dangerous Presidents to ever sit in the White House since Obama? Really ?

Again, corrected for you, bas

 

[basilio]

He was always a self promoter. Where have you been the last 40 years?
He has always had the "biggest/best" schtick going on. Hence the "trump towers" and other gimmicky crap. He hasn't changed. Everyone knew what they were getting. He got sprung talking about "grabbing them by the pu%%y" during his campaign.

And he still beat Hillary.

And has he turned out to be a great President ?

 

[wayneL]

And has he turned out to be a great President ?

Yes.

History will show this, once the obfuscation of the democrats goes on the wane.

 

[macca]

So in which US political system is it even thinkable for President to open a discussion about postponing the next election - and trying to suggest he has the power to do this ?

Of course the rationale behind his statement was another of Trumps Big Lies - trying to undermine the voting system.

Queensland did exactly that with the local Council elections, the State Govt passed a law that they could postpone/defer the Local Govt elections as they pleased, did you post how outrageous that was ?

Overnight Queensland Parliament passed legislation that allows the State Government unprecedented power to change the election date of the upcoming local government elections.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03...council-local-elections-may-postpone/12064268

 

[orr]

Keep'm coming Bas...
When you see nepotism rit so large as with Trump ...well ... "it's the children/step children I don't feel sorry for'...
& Focus, That one was all your's wasn't it, and you're just to humble to take credit .

When Republicans in the US can see the way to a better future, there just maybe some Hope...

 

[wayneL]

Keep'm coming Bas...
When you see nepotism rit so large as with Trump ...well ... "it's the children/step children I don't feel sorry for'...
& Focus, That one was all your's wasn't it, and you're just to humble to take credit .

When Republicans in the US can see the way to a better future, there just maybe some Hope...

Cue very loud sn-orr-ing.

Wake me up when this (misspelt) nonsense has passed by.

 

[basilio]

Yes.

History will show this, once the obfuscation of the democrats goes on the wane.

Ah Komrade.. Such loyalty ! Such confidence !

You are indeed a True Believer.

The Don will go down in history as the most special US President of all time.

That everyone can agree on.

 

[basilio]

The Presidents Clothes.

A Rich Tapestry of the Finest Shining Silks, Lustrous Velvets and Sparkling Jewels .
Only viewable to the Sainted Eyes of the True Believers.

The Muggles will have to consider the words of others to understand what has happened to US Politics.

It Was All a Lie review: Trump as symptom not cause of Republican decline
A consultant for Bush and Romney laments the fate of his party and sees heavy defeat as the best medicine to hope for

Stuart Stevens’ It Was All a Lie is a sustained attack, both jeremiad and confession, on the Republican party he served for 40 years. His is the hand at Belshazzar’s political feast: “All of these immutable truths turned out to be marketing slogans. None of it meant anything. I was the guy working for Bernie Madoff who actually thought we were really smart and just crushing the market.”

Stevens, a consultant, is refreshingly frank about his role and responsibility. “Blame me,” he writes, adding: “I had been lying to myself for decades.” He seeks a new leaf on a “crazy idea that a return to personal responsibility begins with personal responsibility”.

... stripped “of any pretense of governing philosophy, a political party will default to being controlled by those who shout the loudest and are unhindered by any semblance of normalcy”. The first casualty is the truth. “Large elements of the Republican party have made a collective decision that there is no objective truth” and that a cause or simple access to power is more important.

Rather than saying the sky is green, the new strategy is “to build a world in which the sky is in fact green. Then everyone who says it is blue is clearly a liar.” Sadly, it has worked. Stevens notes that once “there is no challenge to the craziest of ideas that have no basis in fact, it is easy for Trump to take one small bit of truth and spin it into an elaborate fantasy.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/02/it-was-all-a-lie-review-trump-republican-party

 

[wayneL]

Ah Komrade.. Such loyalty ! Such confidence !

You are indeed a True Believer.

The Don will go down in history as the most special US President of all time.

That everyone can agree on.

Point of order, bas.

Komrades and true believers are for you communists afflicted with hive mind.

People like me are more objective. When people like me examine historical record, they will of course see many mistakes just like every president. But they will evaluate his achievements against the drag of a ridiculous, deranged and juvenile opposition.

 

[bellenuit]

Over the weekend, Republican Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNBC.

In response to a very general question regarding the Trump Presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two solid minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump Presidency has done to our great country.

“Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.”

"When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.”

"It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale."

"And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk.

 

[basilio]

Over the weekend, Republican Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNBC.

In response to a very general question regarding the Trump Presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two solid minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump Presidency has done to our great country.

“Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.”

"When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.”

"It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale."

"And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk.

Bit blunt.. Clearly doesn't like the cut of the Presidents clothes.

 

[Knobby22]

It is amazing how he much damage he has done to US interests. The failures are multiple and varied. I can't believe China is now getting away with building a base in Iran. I can't believe there are people here who still think he is great.

Summarising:

Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable.

this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness

When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot.

He's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale."

Republican Steve Schmidt

 

[IFocus]

In the US you are 70 times more likely to catch Covid 19 and 22 times more likely to die than in Australia...........just think about that for a moment before praising or defending Trump, what a mess.