President* Trump

[Vrede too]

After the election, I felt pretty sure a lot of people lied in polls about voting for trump; it's the only thing I can come up with to explain why virtually all the polls were wrong in 16. I expect the same, or more of it, next year. I mean, I would not admit having voted for this moron.

But they weren't wrong. They predicted Hillary by 2-4% and she did win the national vote by just over 2%. It was all of the analysts, including 45SHOLE's own team, that were wrong.

[O Really]

Even where the polls were "wrong" they weren't really wrong. All within the stated margin of error, and a very narrow margin, particularly in places like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Just the slightest modicum of effort in those states and Hillary would have won them. If we want to call somebody "wrong," I'd pick Hillary and her election team.

[Vrede too]

Even where the polls were "wrong" they weren't really wrong. All within the stated margin of error, and a very narrow margin, particularly in places like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Just the slightest modicum of effort in those states and Hillary would have won them. If we want to call somebody "wrong," I'd pick Hillary and her election team.

Agreed . . . and massive voter suppression, Wikileaks, Comey and the Russians. 77K EC vote margin across 3 key states, everything made the difference.

[billy.pilgrim]

I said then, and still believe, that she should have advertised on fox. Give their idiot viewers something to look up, something the opposite of the crap they are hearing from fox.

There were 2.4 million people who never heard anyone say anything good about any Dem.

They are going to stay stupid unless someone takes time to offer education.

[O Really]

They are going to stay stupid unless even if someone takes time to offer education.

There. Fixed it

[Vrede too]

They are going to stay stupid unless even if someone takes time to offer education.

There. Fixed it

Great minds . . . Before you posted I thought of: You should have stopped at, "They are going to stay stupid."

Greenland tells Trump it is open for business but not for sale

Greenland on Friday dismissed the notion that it might be up for sale after reports that U.S. President Donald Trump had privately discussed with his advisers the idea of buying the world's biggest island.

"We are open for business, but we're not for sale," Greenland's foreign minister Ane Lone Bagger told Reuters.

Trump is due to visit Copenhagen in September and the Arctic will be on the agenda during meetings with the prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.

Talk of a Greenland purchase was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters that the notion had been laughed off by some advisers as a joke but was taken more seriously by others in the White House.

:confusion-scratchheadblue: That's our CiC - Crazy in Chief.

The Danes are not known for picking fights or being harsh, but:

Danish politicians on Friday poured scorn on the idea.

"It has to be an April Fool's joke. Totally out of season," former prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Twitter.

"If he is truly contemplating this, then this is final proof, that he has gone mad," foreign affairs spokesman for the Danish People's Party, Soren Espersen, told broadcaster DR.

"The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous," he said.

Even expert Americans:

... "Oh dear lord. As someone who loves Greenland, has been there nine times to every corner and loves the people, this is a complete and total catastrophe," former U.S. ambassador to Denmark, Rufus Gifford, said in on Twitter.

Back to the Danes:

... Martin Lidegaard, senior lawmaker of the Danish Social Liberal Party and a former foreign minister, called the idea "a grotesque proposal" which had no basis in reality.

"We are talking about real people and you can't just sell Greenland like an old colonial power," he told Reuters....

Comments:

Denmark is a social democracy and one of the happiest nations in the world. Why would Greenland want to be part of America?

So much for the GOP and their denying climate change.

I guess we will borrow the money from China to buy Greenland?

Does anyone think Dotard can find Greenland (or Denmark) on a map?

Trump: "We are going to buy Greenland...and Greenland is going to pay for it!"

Doesn't acknowledge climate change but wants to buy one of the areas most impacted by it. Well alright.

[O Really]

Maybe Trump could trade Washington, Oregon, and California to Denmark in exchange for Greenland.

I would be happy to be part of the third-happiest country in the world...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

[Vrede too]

Trump insulted a man at his Manchester rally for having a 'weight problem.' He was actually a Trump supporter

:!:

Comments:

I guess Trump hasn't looked in the mirror lately because if he had he would see that he is not exactly a lean mean fighting machine of a man.

"didn't see me rip the signs away from the people," Dawson said to Fox, before adding, "he thought I was part of it but I wasn't. I was the ASSAULT AND BATTERY part of it."

TRUMP has a serious weight problem himself. Did they install skinny mirrors in the White House for him?

A tRumper say what, "Thank You sir may I have another"

I'll never understand the mind of a tRump supporter. There is no bottom, nothing is too low nor indecent.

My favorite:

Well this entire sequence of events totally encapsulates the dynamic between tRump and his supporters and is emblematic of the level of intellectual, emotional and social functioning on both sides!

“'He was because he didn’t see me rip the signs away from those three people sitting near us,' Dawson told Jenkins.“

So assault is the SOP for Trumpkins who they disagree with, as if we didn't know...

Do you all remember the time Obama mocked one of his supporters for being seriously over weight? Yeah, neither do I.

IT IS NO SURPRISE conservatives still support Trump... He perfectly reflects their moral, ethical, and spiritual values...

[neoplacebo]

Anybody remember the "soy bomb" guy from about 20 years ago who crashed Dylan's Emmy performance? He was probably warning us about trump.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/v ... tion=click

[neoplacebo]

trump youth on the rise.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-h ... 20250.html

[Vrede too]

trump youth on the rise.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-h ... 20250.html

3 mass shooting plots stopped around the country in separate incidents, police say

...

Ohio

Police arrested James P. Reardon, 20, after receiving a tip about an online video where the man identified himself as the shooter at a Jewish community center – an incident that hadn't happened yet, according to the FBI.

Reardon was arrested Friday on charges of telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing, FBI Cleveland Division said.

The video post on Instagram tagged the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown from Reardon’s account, police say.

Reardon was arrested Friday on charges of telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing, FBI Cleveland Division said.A search warrant was executed at Reardon's parents' home the same day local police received the tip about the video. Reardon was arrested without incident and police said rounds of ammunition, semi-automatic weapons and anti-Semitic information were found.

[Vrede too]

Maybe Trump could trade Washington, Oregon, and California to Denmark in exchange for Greenland.

I would be happy to be part of the third-happiest country in the world...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

Found:

Let’s just trade Greenland for Florida

[GoCubsGo]

I cast my vote for Texas.

[GoCubsGo]

When I first saw this I thought this was from the Onion....nope it's real.

Sorry Denmark, sorry world, even sorrier pretend potus.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time....
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....The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!

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Found:

Let’s just trade Greenland for Florida

I cast my vote for Texas.

Idk, Texas is heading blue, and who know what will happen with perpetually purple Florida. Maybe we should play it safe and stick with AL or MS.

When I first saw this I thought this was from the Onion....nope it's real.

Sorry Denmark, sorry world, even sorrier pretend potus.

His already tiny **ahem** hands shrank half an inch because the female PM mocked him. She's "nasty" (waaaa).

That may not even be the worst of the week.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-news-l ... 00996.html

My questions for Trumpettes, aren’t you at all disturbed by:

His demand that American Jews be more loyal to Israel than to America, and his antisemitic expectation that they are?
His lie that victims of mass shootings “love” him?
His whiny blaming of the “LameStream Media”, the Federal Reserve and its chairman Jerome Powell (a POSPOTUS appointee) for his own disastrous economic choices?
His antisemitic and megalomaniacal claim that Israeli Jews “love him like he is the second coming of God”? They don’t believe there’s been a first “coming”.
His tantrum over Denmark?
His wussy flip-flop on universal background checks for gun purchase?
His ongoing abuse of migrant children?
His idiotic delusion that Greenland was ever for sale, especially to him?
The bigoted wannabe dictator’s delusion that he can abrogate the Constitution re birthright citizenship by fiat?

Will you ever grow a spine and admit that enough is enough?

[O Really]

My questions for Trumpettes, aren’t you at all disturbed by:
...
(usual Trump crap)
...

Will you ever grow a spine and admit that enough is enough?

No, they aren't disturbed, and they won't find enough. They know he's a slime ball and they don't care.
Trumpettes have a long list of people they've hated for years, and as long as Trump taunts and torments those groups, his brutish ignorant behaviour is a feature, not a bug.

That's why I wish the media would cool it on the reporting of "Trump did (stupid thing)...Trump did (offensive thing)...Trump said...Trump did...
It changes nothing. The only solution is to vote his ass and the asses of any other Repug out of office at the first opportunity. That should be the Dems first, second, and third priority. There shouldn't even be any Dem reality shows named "Debate." Let them all get up and talk about what they want to do or how they'd govern, but don't even let the slightest crack of discord appear.

[GoCubsGo]

The word salad and idiotic ramblings seemed above normal today (WTF is his stalkingly strange Obama obsession?). Wonder if he got some bad internal poll numbers or something.

[Vrede too]

O Really,

True for diehard Trumpettes, but I gotta hope that "Trump did (stupid thing)...Trump did (offensive thing)...Trump said...Trump did..." picks away at his marginal support. 2020 could be the same as 2016 in every way but if just 39,000 votes flip in 3 key states the Dem wins the WH. Maybe he's just lost some Jews, some Scandinavians and even a few evangelicals with this week's stupidity.

[GoCubsGo]

O Really,

True for diehard Trumpettes, but I gotta hope that "Trump did (stupid thing)...Trump did (offensive thing)...Trump said...Trump did..." picks away at his marginal support. 2020 could be the same as 2016 in every way but if just 39,000 votes flip in 3 key states the Dem wins the WH. Maybe he's just lost some Jews, some Scandinavians and even a few evangelicals with this week's stupidity.

Still a very long time till November 2020, people's collective memory does not seem particularly long in regards to the Orange one. I'm hoping the same type of idiocy is prevalent during presidential debate season up until the election.

[Vrede too]

Still a very long time till November 2020, people's collective memory does not seem particularly long in regards to the Orange one. I'm hoping the same type of idiocy is prevalent during presidential debate season up until the election.

True. I'm thinking more of cumulative generalized dissatisfaction than memories of particular incidents. With other pols single screw ups can be huge, but with 45SHOLE there are just so damned many of them.

Aha, here we go:

Is Obama the real reason Trump cancelled his Denmark trip?

President Donald Trump has now canceled his planned trip to Denmark, claiming he’s doing so because Denmark’s prime minister has shot down his “proposal” to buy Greenland. But is that the real reason he has nixed the trip?

Some observers have offered another possible explanation: Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, plans to visit Denmark at the end of September, and Trump feared the contrasting optics.

“Trump was scared of the likely contrast,” opined David Frum. “Trump knows Obama is bigger than he is, around the world as well as in the United States. That knowledge tortures Trump.”

Several things are immediately striking about this episode. First, it’s a measure of how low we’ve all sunk that, in trying to explain why the president of the United States is making a consequential decision involving an official state visit, we’re forced to choose between two competing rationales that have nothing whatsoever to do with international diplomatic considerations or our national interest.

Notably, the official reason for the cancellation is nearly as saturated in narcissism and megalomania as the “less” flattering Obama-oriented explanation is: Trump is either angry that Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is not taking his suggestion seriously, or he’s embarrassed by it – or both....

The idea that Trump would be driven – at least in part – by fear of a contrast with Obama’s reception is deeply twisted, of course, and I don’t claim to know whether this is the case. But this brings us to the second striking thing about this affair: That this might be partly what’s motivating Trump’s cancellation simply cannot be dismissed.

Everything we’ve seen from Trump makes it inescapable: An unflattering contrast with an Obama visit unquestionably would be something Trump wants to avoid.

After all, Trump regularly bases major policy decisions on a zeal to undo whatever Obama did – as if blotting out the Obama presidency is a measure of his own success – even as Trump and his propagandists regularly go to extraordinary lengths to create the cult-like illusion that he’s loved everywhere.

This includes claiming that polls showing his deep unpopularity are media fabrications and regularly inflating and obsessing over crowd sizes. Trump’s hypersensitivity to how he’s received extends abroad, too: After his trip to London, Trump claimed that large protests there simply never happened....

In the end, whether Trump’s rationale for the nixed trip is fear of Obama, or rage at his Greenland fiasco, or a desire to sow international disruption, at the core of Trump’s decision-making, moral emptiness and megalomania and total lack of concern for the national interest are all that’s left.

Metaphorical, possibly literal, penis envy.