The pendulum is swinging again. The silver lining with Trump is that he accelerated it by making it really obvious how much corruption, police violence, and other problems there are in the States that the backlash might just be happening earlier, and faster, than it would otherwise.

Donnie, Donnie, Donnie, yet another porkie:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/austr...b6184558685df8

Stupid Woodward, not even being psychic! What a "loser"!

I'll never forget the trail ride I took in the hills above Innsbruck when the trees started exploding. We had to ride very fast and duck occasionally when I burning tree branch hurtled our way. The tourist bureau really should have mentioned all the exploding trees when they suggested the idyllic bike ride to a picturesque alpine lake.

No, no, no, no, you fail to understand. You don't get exploding trees in Austria because, according to President Trump, they tidy away their fallen trees and sweep away leaves in a timely fashion.

That, and the fact that Austria isn't in the middle of a multi-year drought. ;)

Well that's a dilemma. Do I believe you or the Austrian agriculture minister. I guess I'll go with you due to your first hand experience. The minister is just repeating propaganda provided by staff. Looks like you have confirmed that Donnie-boy was right after all.

When are you going to finally realize that Both Sides Suck? The truth obviously lies in the exact middle between their Two Extremist Positions.

So saplings and other smaller trees sometimes go off like fireworks. Nothing to panic about, and certainly no reason to go voting for one of Those Extremists!

I have found that the number of exploding trees I encounter in a forest is directly correlated to the number of magic mushrooms I have eaten.

//Slight hijack//

One of my favorite books as a kid was the classic children's survival in the wilderness story My Side of the Mountain and one of the most memorable scenes has Sam, the young protagonist of the book, sitting inside the hollowed out Hemlock tree that serves as his home with he starts to hear trees "exploding" in the forest around him. A heavy winter ice storm has coated the trees in a thick layer of ice and some of the older or rotten trees are literally shattering and collapsing under the weight of the ice.

For the sake of public safety, I wish you'd stop. Damn hippie, broom-less anarchists.

Being as the US government controls over half of Oregon, and huge swaths or California and Washington (the portions on fire) Mr. President, what the **** is your job?

That is exactly what I was thinking. Thanks for Putin it out there first.

If Putin can have multiple terms there is no reason why Trump can't. After all, there is little practical difference between the two countries' systems of government.

Have you checked out what's going on with Brexit lately?



With the rise of the internet and social media people have been searching for convenient new instead of real fact. Newspapers traditional role in Journalism has declined as the Newspaper business itself has declined and Right wing media has been aggressively presenting propaganda for 3 decades. This is just as big a problem in the UK as it is in the US so it's not the lack of a parliamentary system that is the issue.


What we are seeing is that Democracy requires both a free and responsible press that follows some standards of journalistic integrity. When this falls apart so does democracy.

Having played in a big $ basketball tournament in San Jose del Pacifico, Oaxaca, I can second this. The tourney was 2 days, but I stayed for a week enjoying...nature. :D

Typical, trying to lay the blame at Trump’s feet rather than at who is really responsible, Biden!

Yeah! President Biden has sent the US to hell. We need new leadership! Trump, 2020.

#MAGA minions would be well advised to steer clear of this book. I encourage all #MAGA minions to talk amongst yourselves on twitter (and that loathsome FB) to find out who has read the totally obsolete Woodward book and then out them publicly!

Trump Tweets

Mini Mike Bloomberg, after making a total fool of himself as he got badly beaten up by Pocahontas and the Democrats in the Primaries, is at it again. He tried to buy an Election and went away with a major case of Depression. Now he’s throwing money at the Dems, looking for a job!

Pelosi wants to take 30 Billion Dollars away from our great Farmers. Can’t let that happen!

On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, The @FLOTUS and I honor the men & women of our Armed Forces who have selflessly served our Country & made tremendous sacrifices to defend our liberty. Our Nation remains committed to accounting for all missing Americans.

I give you a time machine. I tell you to go back 10 years with a stack of printed out Trump Presidential tweets.

I will give you a million dollars if you can convince one person, and hell I'll include Donald Trump himself, that these images really represent official public correspondences from the President in 2020.

The both sides suck is a nonsense argument. It always has been. It's an excuse for the world not being perfect and not getting everything you want.

Your sarcasm meter needs replacing!

"I like people who weren't captured."

“He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
-- Donald J. Trump on POWs.

This is what a certain segment of the population calls "virtue signalling".

Trump has said what he's said about American servicemen, probably because his narcissistic self can't handle them getting all that praise that he knows he can never have. So he's decided they are losers for getting captured or killed, or suckers for signing up for the military to fight in America's wars.

It's Trump's version of "I didn't want to be in that stupid tree house club anyway".

William Barr says just the opposite:

And like the Serbia-Kosovo "peace" deal, they'll likely back out once nobody's looking.

It's true that studies show that delusional people tend to be happier. Denial of reality is great for one's mood.

Other way around. Rich people tend to be conservative because one of the big reasons they are rich is because they loath sharing.

It will be easier to explain you are a time traveler than to explain that DJTrump sent those exact tweets from the White House. In fact if they read enough tweets you’ll be on the receiving end of a 3-day psych evaluation in a locked ward.

ETA
Heck, you don’t even need to say Trump’s name. They won’t believe it if you just said that POTUS sent all these messages.
- excluding the grammatically correct one.
- Oh, and the ones with 9th grade vocabulary.
- and the ones that show empathy.

Trump on TV just declared that millions of doses of Covid vaccine will be distributed by April. I don't believe it. Why? Because Trump said it. Redfield said not until next summer.

There is such a difference between how Trump comes across when he's reading and when he's just talking unscripted. When he's reading, he's monotone and robotic, appearing not to comprehend what he's reading...just repeating words. Very indicative of a reading comprehension disability.

Russ Vought Director, Office of Management and Budget tweeted
@RussVought45
Last week @realDonaldTrump asked people to report any sightings of #CriticalRaceTheory “training.” We have been working with agencies to identify un-American trainings. We have set up an email to report these sightings. These must be stopped!

FEDalerts@omb.eop.gov twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…

How long until they announce "reeducation camps"?

Too bad Joe McCarthy isn't available to head up the House on Un-American Activities Committee again.

Trump: I’m the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico

They never had so many paper towels before me!

Trump Tweeted

53% APPROVAL
THANK YOU! #MAGA

Rasmussen only which 538 gives a rating of C+. Marist College, which receives an A+ from 538 has him at a 40% approval rating. Overall, 538's Trump approval rating is 43%. Biden is at 50%.

Quick! Somebody get Bernhard Rust on the phone and let him know the Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung is back in business!

I wonder if he actually intends this or if it's just a distraction or one of those spontaneous ideas he has and then just forgets about.

I remember when events in the movie Idiocracy seemed absurd. That was 2006.

It's a bunch of crap as he has no power over curriculum. That is decided by school districts.

A day after FBI Director Wray told Congress Russia is interfering to hurt Biden's campaign, Trump said he "did not like" Wray's answers. Asked if he's thinking of replacing him, Trump said, "We're looking at a lot of different things."
He won’t stop firing people until Diamond & Silk become acting FBI directors

The White House and the pharmaceutical industry were nearing a major deal to lower drug prices. Then the administration demanded that $100 cash cards be sent to millions of seniors before the election — and the industry balked.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/u...ug-prices.html

Trump dismisses a question about the milestone of 200,000 Americans dying from coronavirus, claiming that up to 3.5 million would've died without him. (That number is derived from models assuming his government did absolutely nothing about the pandemic.)

"Throughout the world, I get called by prime minsters and presidents saying, 'Sir, the job you've done is amazing.'"

Obvious lie is obvious, but English is really not that ******* hard.

To the Liar-in-Chief: No, dummy, you're not "throughout the world." You're lying about being called by prime ministers and presidents "from around the world."

Nope.

Trump's claims about bringing down the cost of drugs, like so many of his claims, aren't backed up by facts.

Fact Check: Trump misleads on lowering drug prices

Trump Tweets

Joe Biden says this is a race between Scranton and Park Avenue. This is a race between Scranton and China. Joe Biden betrayed Scranton, and America, to China and foreign countries. I will always put America First!

Fixed that for him.

Same here. I find I don't read much beyond the headlines because it's the same mendacious bull flop day after day after day.