As Republicans and top military brass recoil in shock after Trump’s decision to abandon the Kurds (which benefits Putin while betraying a faithful ally), Trump tweeted this:
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!),” he wrote.
The stable genius’s self love is unlimited. His wisdom is most definitely limited.
Do you think Republicans might begin to think about how to liberate their party from the iron grip of this shallow and ignorant con man?
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The Narcissist-in-Chief thanks you for the attention. He couldn’t survive without it.
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It’s hard to ignore Trump’s rants. He is the president. He is the great and mighty Oz.
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Trump is a raving lunatic. I’m repeating part of a letter from my ‘esteemed’ Senator Mike Braun [R-IN]. Indiana definitely votes into office the best of the best. [sarcasm] I sent a reply back to Senator Braun stating that he STILL is on the wrong side of history by backing Trump. I’d like to know exactly what Trump is doing to work “on issues that the American people care about”. I specifically said in my letter that the only achievement was the tax cut for the wealthy and went into details about the deficit and who benefitted…and those who didn’t. POOR Trump, he is being harassed. BS
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Senator Braun: Now having read both the whistleblower report and the transcript of the conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, I believe that Speaker Pelosi’s call for an impeachment inquiry can only be characterized as a politicized attack on the Trump Administration. The documents reveal a conversation in which President Trump talked to President Zelensky about alleged corruption that occurred in Ukraine beginning under the Obama Administration and continuing through the 2016 election, topical and highly relevant to the United States’ recent relationship with Ukraine.
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The time is overdue for Pence to take on the 25th…before this idiot can press the nuclear button. He has lost all touch with reality in his fealty to Putin.
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Exactly. It’s breathtaking. The election of Trump looks to me like the most astonishing espionage coup since Turing cracked the Enigma code. To what extent is he simply a useful idiot (I can imagine Putin and his buddies having a big laugh over “giving them Trump as their leader,” but the big question is, what has been the cost to the US of having this deeply compromised fool as our President.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842
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It is altogether possible that he has done irreparable damage to our national security.
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“I am the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz”
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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LOL. Exactly.
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Oh my gosh you got there before me. “I, in my great and unmatched wisdom…” sounds like a clip from the Great Hall scene ca. 1938.
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The comparison to the Wizard of Oz is all o er Twitter.
Everyone imagines that charlatan Behind the curtain.
The difference is that he was a bad wizard and a good man.
Trump is a bad wizard and a bad man.
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“A bad wizard and a bad man.” Oh, my Lord, that is funny!
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The Congressional Insider Trading Club won’t do anything to stop XLV until he does something to damage their stock portfolios.
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True that
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Farmers are really hurting in the Trump economy. I hope the democrats realize they have some potential with those hurting in the heartland.
We need more republicans willing to put country over party.
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The words “Trump” and “wisdom” do not go together. In fact, Trump’s wisdom, if measured, would be a minus one-billion. No, I am wrong. It would be a minus one-trillion.
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He is really beginning to sound totally unhinged.
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He’s been sounding unhinged for quite a while. He brags about hitting his second grade music teacher. Of course, neither his music teacher nor any of Trump’s classmates remember the incident. Only Trump would think that giving a teacher a black eye is something to crow about. [I have yet to meet a second grader who knows more about music than a certified music teacher. Some music geniuses exist but definitely Trump is NOT in that category.]
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In his 1987 book The Art of the Deal, Trump wrote:
“In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye — I punched my music teacher because I didn’t think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled.”
The book, which he co-wrote with Tony Schwartz, also goes some way to explaining the young Trump’s actions.
“I’m not proud of that, but it’s clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a very forceful way,” Trump wrote.
“The difference now is that I use my brain instead of my fists.”
The music teacher’s verdict
Trump was later removed from Kew-Forest School in Forest Hill NY by his father and sent to a military school to “correct poor behaviour.”
However none of Trump’s schoolmates – who nicknamed him ‘The Trumpet’ – remembers the incident.
And his music teacher, Charles Walker, who died last year, denied ever being punched.
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More GREAT quotes from our brilliant leader:
The people that like me the best are the middle class and poor people. The rich people hate me, it’s true!…Because I think they’re jealous, because I think they want to be famous.
I’m not saying they are stupid… I like China… I love China…Their leaders are much smarter than our leaders. [I see some truth in that statement…think about Trump, McConnell and the whole GOP.]
According to Bill O’Reilly, 80% of all the shootings in New York City are blacks-if you add in Hispanics, that figure goes to 98%,1% white.
I’m proud of my net worth, I’ve done an amazing job…The total is $8,737,540,000 US. I’m not doing that to brag, because you know what, I don’t have to brag.
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There have been more absurd and horrific statements than we could count, but this latest is surely proof that it is time to invoke the 25th Amendment.
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No, his ranting for two hours in a meeting with aides in March about shooting asylum seekers was the time to invoke the 25th Amendment. Totally, completely, utterly, criminally insane
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But yes, of course, Anne, you are absolutely right. Clearly, the man is off the deep end. He belongs in a lunatic asylum, not in the Oval Office.
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Did he really say “my great and unmatched wisdom”? Sheesh.
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I know. It’s impossible to parody the guy more than he parodies himself.
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Diane The more he does–and is still accepted by so many of his base–the more the whole thing looks like a flaming cult. CBK
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I don’t think they’re a cult. I hear ordinary Trump-supporters daily on CSPAN’s call-in show. My sense is that they are like many folks who feel undereducated, ‘less than,’ looked down on: chip-on-the-shoulder self-defined underdogs. They hang on rigidly to generalizations, bluster, double down when disagreed w/, stick to like society where they feel safe from insult, are cowed by peer pressure.
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Bethree, you just described my two Trumper family members. They are the ones who are unsuccessful, feel “less than,” and need government help more than others. They love Trump, who wants to destroy the programs on which they depend. There is no reasoning with them.
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bethree5 I think you are right about some of the followers; however, and though it’s not a named cult, it has all the earmarks for many of his followers (I have some in my family.)
But I’ve stopped feeling “oh, poor them, they just don’t understand,” or they work too hard; to remembering that THEY live in a democracy too and THEY glean the advantages of it like the rest of us. And so THEY are also responsible for maintaining it. And they will be the first to scream when its effects become concrete for them. Their ignorance is no excuse, and it won’t save any of us. CBK
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The New York Times reported that in March Trump held what was supposed to be a 30-minute immigration meeting with his chief aides. According to the report, it turned into two hours of Trump ranting and raving because they didn’t accept his position that the border patrol shoot these legal asylum seekers. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE IN OUR LEADERSHIP ABOUT THAT? It’s completely, utterly despicable and INSANE. Any other person who demanded such a thing would be arrested and remanded for psychiatric evaluation and then tried for inciting the worst sort of terrorist act. Have we come to such a point where THIS gets a PASS? He’s a lunatic. He needs to be removed from office. Then, he needs to be tried for his many crimes and sent to prison.
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Explain this to me. What am I missing here? What is THIS not THE issue? Is this not criminal? Is this not completely heinous? Is this not an outrage against the office and our country?
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cx: Why is THIS not THE issue?
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I think removed from office before the frontal lobotomy would do the world a favor.
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Dream on They are all swamp dwellers.
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Stuart, Donald Trump is the Apex Predator in that swamp eating all the other lesser critters, and even the swamp’s leaches and mosquitoes can’t pierce Donald’s thin hide to get to the acid that runs through his arteries and veins while he runs around eating everything and everyone in sight.
Then along comes one honest mouse, just one like AOC, and Donald Swamp Monster will piss and shit his pants while finding a hole to hide in while he tweets hate about that honest mouse hoping that the Swamp Monster’s Neo-Nazis will get rid of the mouse he fears.
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I heard a good comparison between a liar and a bullshitter. The liar knows he’s lying, the bullshitter simply doesn’t care. 45 does not care. The tweet is utter nonsense as 45 has no capability to follow thru on his boast in anything like a timely manner. This is him pretending to admonish Erdogan to “play nice”. It is a smokescreen within which 45’s cult can see whatever they choose to see, whatever they are told to see. This is his appeal to the head in the sand isolationism his cult yearns for, throw the Kurds under the bus cause they ain’t us. Bring the troops home, let go of the tigers tail because it knows it better not bite us because I tRUMP am Emperor. Bush/Cheney made the massive error of abandoning Afghanistan to pursue their pipe dream in Iraq, and now 45 is abdicating all constructive involvement around Syria. Let them fix it he says. Putin is laughing all the way to the bank, he sure got a huge ROI for helping 45 win, 45 is the gift that keeps on giving to oligarchs,tyrants and despots of every description everywhere on the earth.
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Yup
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At this point who is supporting this abomination? Evangelical Christians who rebuke an inevitable Kurdish genocide? Midwest dairy farmers going bye-bye? If he gets re-elected instead of a jail cell this country is toast. His treasonous conduct this term will look like child’s play. Republican haters and bigots have let the U.S. become a client state of Russia and now dwell in an alternative fact-free universe.
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If he gets re-elected instead of a jail cell this country is toast.
I agree. A complete disaster. Our Caligula, our Commodus. The madman before the fall.
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Hie is unmatched in his awfulness, not merely as president, but as a human being.
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How do you know he is human, Susan?
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Hillary testified for hours and the Republicans still think something is hidden. The Orange Buffoon won’t testify under oath. He is so stupid that even his lawyers know he’d incriminate himself. Hillary was investigated and Bill Clinton was impeached. But the Buffoon calls it an illegitimate effort to overturn the 2016 election. How low can he get? Wait until tomorrow to find out…and the day after…and the day after…and the day after. Each day is a new low.
Do presidents normally have so many lawyers? Who is paying for them? I do hope this isn’t more waste of taxpayer money.
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White House Declares War on Impeachment Inquiry, Alleging Effort to Undo Trump’s Election
President Trump’s lawyer denounced the House investigation as a partisan and illegitimate exercise, and declared that the executive branch would not participate.
WASHINGTON — The White House declared war on the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, announcing that it would not cooperate with what it called an illegitimate and partisan effort “to overturn the results of the 2016 election” of Donald J. Trump.
In a letter to House Democratic leaders, the White House said the inquiry violated precedent and President Trump’s due process rights in such an egregious way that neither he nor the executive branch would willingly provide testimony or documents, a daring move that sets the stage for a constitutional clash.
“Your unprecedented actions have left the president with no choice,” said the eight-page letter signed by Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel. “In order to fulfill his duties to the American people, the Constitution, the Executive Branch, and all future occupants of the Office of the presidency, President Trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances.”..
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Here’s the blah, blah, blah from the WH. According to the WH there is no legitimate basis for the impeachment inquiry. The Orange Buffoon is getting worried. What concerns me is what will he do next. A out of control narcissist can do anything since he is always the poor victim.
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1600 Daily
The White House • October 8, 2019
Read the White House’s official response to Speaker Pelosi and Democrat leaders
This evening, the White House sent an eight-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrat leaders, responding to the unprecedented, unconstitutional “impeachment inquiry” launched against President Donald J. Trump.
The letter, written by White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, lays out how Democrat leaders designed a politically motivated inquiry that violates the constitutionally mandated due process protections:
The facts are clear. The House Democrats’ “impeachment inquiry,” undertaken without a single vote of authorization by the full House—an astonishing breach of precedent—is constitutionally invalid and violates both basic due process rights and the separation of powers. By the admission of its own advocates in Congress, it plainly seeks to reverse the election of 2016 and to influence the election of 2020. Not only is there no legitimate basis for the inquiry, but the committees’ actions in pursuing it themselves raise serious questions that demand full transparency with the American people.
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