Trumped

[Glen]

President Asshole continues to be an asshole.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/29/u-s-police-chiefs-blast-trump-for-endorsing-police-brutality/?utm_term=.2feb4b46a451

[Vegas Halo Fan]

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

2 hours ago, mtangelsfan said:

This whole military criticism is stupid.  There are so many great reasons to despise this president.

 

the last president who truly served in the military was H.W. Bush.

There are going to be fewer and fewer of them, since we went to an all-volunteer armed forces in the 1970s. I don't believe that it is necessary to have military experience to be Commander in Chief, but one who lacks it should listen to those who do.

Trump is so sure that he has it all figured out that he kicked the Joint Chiefs of Staff out of National Security Council meetings.

[RallyMo]

2 hours ago, mtangelsfan said:

My big beef is that people take his bait.

Yep.

But here's the problem with this asshole: he's the President.

What he says is supposed to matter.

[Jason]

2 hours ago, mtangelsfan said:

My big beef is that people take his bait.

Seems to be that the media eats all this nonsense up. He's burned them so many times you'd think they'd start focusing on real issues

[mtangelsfan]

41 minutes ago, RallyMo said:

Yep.

But here's the problem with this asshole: he's the President.

What he says is supposed to matter.

You are right, it should.  I guess I am just more cynical. To me words haven't mattered for a long time in politics.

[Glen]

22 minutes ago, Jason said:

Seems to be that the media eats all this nonsense up. He's burned them so many times you'd think they'd start focusing on real issues

Thing is, he's not some random asshole like the Kardashians. He's the POTUS. 

[Spirit]

9 hours ago, Jason said:

Seems to be that the media eats all this nonsense up. He's burned them so many times you'd think they'd start focusing on real issues

 

He's making them a ton of money.  They don't care if they're being burned or not burned.  It's more eyes and ears on their broadcasts and articles. 

They created this guy.  It's in their interest to keep him going.

 

 

 

[Adam]

3 minutes ago, Geoff said:

 

He's making them a ton of money.  They don't care if they're being burned or not burned.  It's more eyes and ears on their broadcasts and articles. 

They created this guy.  It's in their interest to keep him going.

 

 

 

It be what it be and it be bout dem clicks mang

[Spirit]

1 hour ago, Adam said:

It be what it be and it be bout dem clicks mang

A true statement.  Especially since dems are the ones doing most of the clicking. 

 

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

 

[gotbeer]

On 7/29/2017 at 1:35 PM, Vegas Halo Fan said:

 

 

She's also served more time in the military than Obama or Clinton.  Or does that not count?

Edited July 31, 2017 by gotbeer

[arch stanton]

45 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

She's also served more time in the military than Obama or Clinton.  Or does that not count?

I'd throw Clinton in since they're about the same age and they both took deferments while their country was drafting and sending people to war. Obama didn't serve but he grew up in the era of the all volunteer force when there wasn't a whole lot of conflict happening

[Lou]

On 7/29/2017 at 6:58 PM, Glen said:

President Asshole continues to be an asshole.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/29/u-s-police-chiefs-blast-trump-for-endorsing-police-brutality/?utm_term=.2feb4b46a451

"Some police leaders worried that three sentences uttered by the president during a Long Island, N.Y., speech could upend nearly three decades of fence-mending since the 1991 Los Angeles Police Department beating of Rodney King ushered in an era of distrust of police"

lol  yeah, that's going just great

Edited July 31, 2017 by Lou

[Glen]

14 hours ago, gotbeer said:

She's also served more time in the military than Obama or Clinton.  Or does that not count?

But Obama and Hillary Bill.

[Thomas]

17 minutes ago, Glen said:

But Obama and Hillary Bill.

You think this was a time it wasn't applicable. I get it when one applies a legitimate criticism on Trump. (And really, how hard should it be to find one?)  But for this meme?  It's ridiculously weak.

[UndertheHalo]

lol.  The shit show continues. 

[TobiasFunke]

16 hours ago, gotbeer said:

She's also served more time in the military than Obama or Clinton.  Or does that not count?

It does when memes like that were used when Obama was Prez

[mtangelsfan]

15 minutes ago, TobiasFunke said:

It does when memes like that were used when Obama was Prez

What does it count for?

Aren't they all stupid and meaningless?  Is anything ever proven by a meme?  Agreeing side laughs, other side rolls there eyes.

Ad nauseum.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

[Vegas Halo Fan]

"But we conservatives mocked Barack Obama’s failure to deliver on his pledge to change the tone in Washington even as we worked to assist with that failure. It was we conservatives who, upon Obama’s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president—the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success and the fortunes of the citizenry would presumably be sorted out in the meantime. It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama’s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us. It was we conservatives who rightly and robustly asserted our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government when a Democrat was in the White House but who, despite solemn vows to do the same in the event of a Trump presidency, have maintained an unnerving silence as instability has ensued. To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties. And tremendous powers of denial."
. . .
"...If this was our Faustian bargain, then it was not worth it. If ultimately our principles were so malleable as to no longer be principles, then what was the point of political victories in the first place?"

- Excerpt from Conscience of a Conservative, by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

[Kevin]

Shamelessly stolen from facebook but...

 

If you bought milk the day Mooch was hired, it's still good. 

[Adam]

[Blarg]

Maybe you forgot what thread this is. Give you a hint, it's not the friends thread.

[Rico]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-dictated-sons-misleading-statement-meeting-russian-lawyer/story?id=48958619

President Donald Trump personally dictated the first statement his son gave in response to a report from the New York Times earlier this month about the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort with a Russian lawyer with the promise of damaging information on Hillary Clinton, two senior level sources confirm to ABC News.

The Washington Post first reported on Monday night the news that the president had dictated the messaging.