Phil1111

Putin talks like a regular person for one thing. Unlike trump. trump has a style as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/donald-trump-conflicts-of-interests/508382/ He is trying to get his net worth up from $400 million to Putins worth of http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-02-17/vladimir-putin-could-be-worlds-richest-man-with-200-billion-net-worth-report-says

There was an official, might have been Pense? Who gave a speech in front of a crowd of about 6-700 people. At the end of the speech there was an applause of about 50 people. Absolutely embarrassing for whoever it was. The speech involved US assurances to the NATO members there and it involved assurances that the US stood behind NATO.

Completely fair. If he surrounded himself with a CIA director, a economist, someone with dual Presidency WH experience. He could do a reasonable job.

For trump I like to add pandering to the spin equation. Its why you have to concentrate so much when trump speaks. The meandering and sidestepping of answers challenge thinking as to if its spin, fact ,bluster or pandering. Its equally refreshing to hear Senators on the various committees talk. They only get on committees because they tend to set politics aside. As such, they tend to give straight answers to straight questions.

SO what? She married you, so that indicates a lot. Yikes!! On a separate note. There are those who are just are just stepping out of the conflict. Too bad because emigrants are typically the brightest and wealthiest of a country. When war is excluded as a reason for mobility. http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170216-the-people-moving-to-countries-that-fit-their-politics

From your link: But the familiarity of Mar-a-Lago -- where Trump has long spent winter weekends -- is critical for him, longtime aides said. “I would say it’s keeping him grounded,” said Sam Nunberg, a longtime Trump aide who worked on the campaign. “As a citizen and supporter, I’m very happy to hear he’s going to Mar-a-Lago.” Now that raht thar is funny! I don't care who yeh are! Two good laughs in that equation, good one normiss. trump is off for the weekend to stay "grounded". Another $3-4 million for that mental break from a week where everything is going GREAT.

Can absolutely be true.

Thats a little smug coming from the land of precision and Swiss watches. When the WH is a "fine tuned machine". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlLdDzUyvkA

Yes, yes, and yes. If true Harward has more brains that the rest of the trump sec. council put together. When you take these considerations into account. It makes you question the intelligence of Pense and Priebus. How many times will they be hung out to dry. Made fools of. Before "pressing family matters" cause them to give up the madhouse..er..WH.

Nothing less than bannon pandering to the base. Institute the order, have ICE hand over a couple "examples" for deportation. Then shut it down. All plays good to the trump base. Then cooler heads thought it might be a bad idea and was abandoned. The cooler head remains unidentified. Perhaps the "leaker".

Man, the next four years are gonna be fun on here. According to the doctor: ""He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn't make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder," Frances wrote." But he fails to recognize that a super narcissist, like trump. Can never feel personal distress because his ego overcompensates for his super narcissist behaviors. Sorry almost three dozen doctors trump one. If you'll pardon the pun. A conscious would also be necessary to feel " significant distress or impairment". To the damage he causes to himself, those around him, the country and the world. Clearly his endless tweets about his lack of popularity vr other Presidents, failure to win outright victory at the polls, failures in office with regards to implementation of promises. Recent polling: http://www.people-press.org/2017/02/16/in-first-month-views-of-trump-are-already-strongly-felt-deeply-polarized/ Prove the diagnosis of the 33 professionals.

I'm starting to feel sorry for poor Harrison now.

Your three posts show a very very dangerous trend. Between FBI overtime chasing down all these nutjobs. trump flying off golfing every weekend. The $500k a day for trump Tower N.Y. for security. That should take care of all the savings of deregulation and throwing the EPA in the trash bin. Well at least the US will be White Again! oh... and male!

Or maybe that is the WH strategy: http://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-handling-of-controversial-plans-2017-2 How about a conflict when bannon figures out a Pense supporter programmed the copier to auto-fax his print jobs to the NY times? When miller figures out that his PC emails everything to the Washington Post.

IMO the concept of using either a 747 or trumps 757 is such a stupefying environmental waste. When a Gulfstream or a Cessna jet would suffice. I wonder if trump believes this train of thought that the national security agencies are controlled or been systematically infiltrated by "Islamist's"? I can't be bothered to explore this concept of thinking/thought. Does anybody have quotes from trump to such effect? Or from the mouths of bannon and/or miller?

According to this the US is not that democratic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index Not the best country: http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/overall-full-list Not the best Health care: http://thepatientfactor.com/canadian-health-care-information/world-health-organizations-ranking-of-the-worlds-health-systems/ Soon to be NON-WHITE: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/31/10-demographic-trends-that-are-shaping-the-u-s-and-the-world/

If readers are in a hurry they can skip to the bold type-faced paragraph at the bottom. It certainly seems as if BO, HRC, MR. Soros, etc. are still the boogeyman for the Breitbart trump crowd. This PAC: "Capt. Joseph R. John, USN (Ret), the Chairman of Combat Veterans for Congress PAC, writes that members of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist front groups have become “a very dangerous ‘Fifth Column’ in the United States, appointed by Obama to very high and sensitive positions in the US Government agencies.” http://usherald.com/video-radical-islamist-american-government-panic-trump-announced-cleaning-hous/ On their PAC website the Chairman of Combat Veterans for Congress PAC, writes "Muslim Brotherhood “Massive” Government Infiltration While Stigmatizing Government Employees With "Islamophobia" "For nearly 8 years Obama has been filling the Washington bureaucracy including DHS, the CIA, DOD, the National Security Council, the White House, the State Department, every US Intelligence Agency, and the US Armed Forces with thousands of members of the CAIR, MPAC, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups. ... Another example of the Muslim Brotherhood controlling security decisions at the highest levels of the Obama administration, was how Obama, Hillary, and Susan Rice... They have a history of obstructing Federal Law Enforcement Agencies from indoctrinating new graduates of the Federal Law Enforcement and the FBI Academies about the dangers that ties members of the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and MPAC have to “Radical Islamic Terrorism.” They also try to impede investigations, by calling attention to Obama administration new policies, intimidating witnesses, using “Muslim Victimization” as a defense, and by using other attempts to halt investigations into activities of accused Jihadists. ' http://www.combatveteransforcongress.org/story/muslim-brotherhood-%E2%80%9Cmassive%E2%80%9D-government-infiltration-while-stigmatizing-government-employee-is I can summarize the absolute drivel of the two websites and the statements of this PAC by saying they represent that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, have all been infiltrated by the "Muslim Brotherhood". Which is the group banned by Egypt subsequent to the overthrow of their election in Egypt by the subsequent military government(s). But that they have morphed into a global "fifth column" which has seized control of these agencies of the US government aforementioned.

Sorry for the delay but the rivers and streams where I live are all on fire. What can I do for you? thanks for that. When I read this thread I immediately thought that you could explain it and make sense of it best.

In your world view are there "snowflakes" on both sides of the political spectrum, or just the left? There is Breitbart News and others on Facebook who discuss the same stories from the same sources. Its very frustrating for trump and his followers. So comforting sources of information is like pablum for the mind. No introspection required.

Usually one tries to rank itself from #1, rather than from the bottom of any list. Since the US is primarily a nation of immigrants subsequent to the founding native Indians settling after the ice age. What are the definitions of culture to which you refer? Please identify those positive cultural attributes.

Calling brenthutch .

IMO this reflects poorly on the whole SEAL community. Now, now there are those that will argue he has superb insight. Likely does. That he showed wisdom and judgement. Perhaps. But what about the whole SEAL toughness? Eating Sh*t sandwiches and soldiering on? Getting live grenades and then getting hung out to dry when the grenade goes off. While smiling all the time to the "Commander in Chief". Bad precedent for run of the mill patsies like Pence and Priebus. Who for now try to keep a straight face while facing lies and chaos. Dread putting their ties on every day and having to go to work. Dreading message after message about the new talking points from bannon and miller. Wondering how much longer they should go on before they can claim a family emergency and resign. "Is Donald Trump’s Inner Circle Already Collapsing? The knives are out for Mike Flynn and Reince Priebus." http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/is-donald-trumps-inner-circle-already-collapsing

BBC had a good interview with "Middle America" trump supporters. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38999993

Evidently the Breitbart News boys have turned the knives on each other and others. "Those tensions exploded into the open this week when Matthew Boyle, Breitbart's Washington political editor, ran a story based on unnamed sources “close to the president” blaming Priebus for everything from national security adviser Michael Flynn’s resignation to the slow pace of Trump’s Cabinet confirmations in the Senate. Many assumed the story ran with the blessing of Bannon and represented the latest salvo in his ongoing struggle with Priebus. “It's obvious what's happening. Bannon’s trying to run him out,” one GOP lawmaker told The Hill on Wednesday. “I think Bannon's knives are out for Priebus, but Trump set this up on purpose so they would compete,” the lawmaker said. However, Bannon says he did not know the story would run and was angry that his old publication had attacked his colleague at a critical juncture for the administration." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/319791-priebus-bannon-trash-reports-of-division

It probably will. Since we have examples in the past of what can happen when you DON'T speak up and work to stop injustice and tyranny, there's more of an impetus to do so now. Between the press reporting on his actions and the majority of American voters who oppose him, there's enough awareness and ability to take action to prevent those past abuses. Your own constitution and laws actually do not allow/show many solutions to amend/prevent anything around DT's power. On one side, the more time passes by the more he'll find ways to corroborate his throne - while his opponents in same time are waiting for him to fail, to make severe mistakes ... Sadly, the waiting position is unrewarding. And there is still the Republican prevalence in senate - which one of them will be courageous enough, convinced enough to oppose the Orange Fearless Leader? The higher the ladder the deeper you fall? Money? Correct me if I'm wrong. Perhaps I fell for dishonest media ... But, as I'm reading different papers in different languages, watch various alien TV channels - I doubt that. (As our own news channels and print media mainly are impartial, I deeply hope something like FOX never will pop up here!) Thus, I believe my eyes and ears. 1. Courts. They have already checked his authority. 2. Senate. They are starting to find a voice and are responsible for his recent Labor dept. nominee withdrawing from consideration. 3. Media. There was a new development today. A major news network program: "Morning Joe' host says show will no longer book Conway... “I know for a fact she tries to book herself on this show; I won’t do it,” Brzezinski said of Conway on Wednesday morning. "I don’t believe in fake news or information that is not true. That is — every time I’ve ever seen her on television something is askew, off or incorrect,” she added.... So why does the president allow her to keep going out and spreading false information?" Brzezinski said Conway is “not credible anymore.” “Kellyanne Conway does not need to text our show, as long as I’m on it,” Brzezinski said. “It’s not happening here.” http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/319604-brzezinski-says-conway-will-no-longer-be-booked-on-morning-joe The President does have the power to start wars and dispatch troops on his own authority. With the exception that congress can cut off the money for such actions after a bit. Thats a current concern, because one of his Executive Orders was to order the Joint Chiefs of Staff to come up with a plan to defeat IS. They came back with a plan for ground troops. IMO thats a big mistake because none of the regional states. Those being Syria and Iraq. Have the inclination to protect those Sunni populations from either Assad or from the Shia Baghdad government abuses.