Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 19

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Drink up! You may not get much more opportunity to do so.

From: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51225604
The Trump administration is set to scrap protections for America's streams and wetlands... Under the new regulations, landowners and property developers will be able to pour pesticides, fertilizers and other pollutants directly into millions of miles of the nation's waterways for the first time in decades.

Trump is touting how this benefits farmers, but from the above article:

...the administration's own data shows that real estate developers and those in other non-farming industries are poised reap the greatest rewards

Keep in mind that the Trump administration earlier on eased rules that would help stop coal ash from being dumped into waterways.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...-easier-for-coal-plants-to-pollute-waterways/
 
Segnosaur said:
Drink up! You may not get much more opportunity to do so.

From: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51225604
The Trump administration is set to scrap protections for America's streams and wetlands... Under the new regulations, landowners and property developers will be able to pour pesticides, fertilizers and other pollutants directly into millions of miles of the nation's waterways for the first time in decades.

Trump is touting how this benefits farmers, but from the above article:

...the administration's own data shows that real estate developers and those in other non-farming industries are poised reap the greatest rewards

Keep in mind that the Trump administration earlier on eased rules that would help stop coal ash from being dumped into waterways.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...-easier-for-coal-plants-to-pollute-waterways/
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Why doesn't he just eliminate the EPA and get it over with? I guess it's on his second term to-do list.
 
plague311 said:
Trump's inaugural committee is being sued for overpaying one of Trump's hotels
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I saw that too, I wonder if anything will come from it. We've seen the AG's sue Trump before over stuff like this and it generally just gets forgotten about.
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Yeah, I can't see this getting that much attention. (And lets face it, while Trump may have benefited, he was probably insulated enough to say "It wasn't my decision".

But, its yet another legal hassle that Trump has to worry about, and that's always a good thing.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweeted

Sen. Marsha Blackburn
@MarshaBlackburn
We all know Adam Schiff loves hearing himself talk. So, let’s give him something to talk about:

1) Why did Schiff collude with the "whistleblower?”

2) What instructions did he provide the "whistleblower?"

3) Why did Schiff hire the “whistleblower’s” co-worker?

The Obama Administration strategically withheld foreign aid:

Ukraine - $1B THREATENED TO WITHHOLD

Pakistan - $800M WITHHELD

Colombia - $450M CONDITIONED

Philippines - $433M NOT RENEWED

Egypt - $260M WITHHELD

Honduras - $30M WITHHELD

Mexico - $26M WITHHELD
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Darat said:
They really do show their contempt for the public.
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Marsha, Marsha, Marsha....

How do you know that the 'whistleblower's' co-worker was hired when you don't know the whistleblower's identity?

Did the Obama Administration withhold any of that aid in order to benefit Obama personally? No? Move on Marsha.
 
Belz... said:
"No, you!"

The man both thinks and talks like an fourth grader.
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Whenever I see a comparison like this, usually I think it does a disservice to whatever age group is mentioned. I have to go all the way back to toddlers - and early toddlerhood, almost preverbal, back to "WHAAAH!" - because the kids I have experience with are 5 and older, and they seem to cope with life with more poise and equanimity than Trump does. I haven't known that many toddlers, though, so maybe I'm not being fair.
 
Trump Tweets

The Democrats don’t want a Witness Trade because Shifty Schiff, the Biden’s, the fake Whistleblower(& his lawyer), the second Whistleblower (who vanished after I released the Transcripts), the so-called “informer”, & many other Democrat disasters, would be a BIG problem for them!

The United States looks forward to welcoming Prime Minister @Netanyahu & Blue & White Chairman @Gantzbe to the @WhiteHouse next week. Reports about details and timing of our closely-held peace plan are purely speculative.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

The Democrats don’t want a Witness Trade because Shifty Schiff, the Biden’s, the fake Whistleblower(& his lawyer), the second Whistleblower (who vanished after I released the Transcripts), the so-called “informer”, & many other Democrat disasters, would be a BIG problem for them!
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I wonder who wrote this for him? I still the Dem's should absolutely let the Biden's come before the Senate. I don't think it would work out the way Trump thinks it would.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

The Democrats don’t want a Witness Trade because Shifty Schiff, the Biden’s, the fake Whistleblower(& his lawyer), the second Whistleblower (who vanished after I released the Transcripts), the so-called “informer”, & many other Democrat disasters, would be a BIG problem for them!

The United States looks forward to welcoming Prime Minister @Netanyahu & Blue & White Chairman @Gantzbe to the @WhiteHouse next week. Reports about details and timing of our closely-held peace plan are purely speculative.
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Bidens. Fixed that for you, Genius-in-Chief.
 
Armitage72 said:
The apostrophe has a secret meaning only apparent to those in the know.
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The maximum length of a tweet is 280 characters. Maybe Trump wants to use up as may of those characters as possible (by inserting apostrophes in wrong places), to keep the leftover characters from being used by other people.
 
Segnosaur said:
The maximum length of a tweet is 280 characters. Maybe Trump wants to use up as may of those characters as possible (by inserting apostrophes in wrong places), to keep the leftover characters from being used by other people.
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They are his characters. No one else should use them without paying.
 
The full quote about inventors is quite impressive.

KERNEN: Tesla's now worth more than GM and Ford. Do you have comments on Elon Musk?

TRUMP: Well -- you have to give him credit. I spoke to him very recently, and he's also doing the rockets. He likes rockets. And -- he does good at rockets too, by the way. I never saw where the engines come down with no wings, no anything, and they're landing. I said I've never seen that before. And I was worried about him, because he's one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our genius. You know, we have to protect Thomas Edison and we have to protect all of these people that -- came up with originally the light bulb and -- the wheel and all of these things. And he's one of our very smart people and we want to-- we want to cherish those people.
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"He does good at rockets". Truly words for the ages.
 
Segnosaur said:
The maximum length of a tweet is 280 characters. Maybe Trump wants to use up as may of those characters as possible (by inserting apostrophes in wrong places), to keep the leftover characters from being used by other people.
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I thought he did that with "dot dot dot dot","dot dot dot dot dot" [/Colbert]
 
Segnosaur said:
The maximum length of a tweet is 280 characters. Maybe Trump wants to use up as may of those characters as possible (by inserting apostrophes in wrong places), to keep the leftover characters from being used by other people.
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Twitter went to 280 characters in 2017 from a max of 144. Coincidence?
 
Armitage72 said:
The full quote about inventors is quite impressive.

"He does good at rockets". Truly words for the ages.
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Yes, it certainly belongs on a list of inspirational quotes from the presidents.

George Washington: "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."

John Adams: “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”

James Buchanan: “The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."

William Howard Taft: “We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”

Trump: "He does good at rockets".

I mean, just look at how his quote fits in with the rest of of those statements!
 
Segnosaur said:
Yes, it certainly belongs on a list of inspirational quotes from the presidents.

George Washington: "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."

John Adams: “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”

James Buchanan: “The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."

William Howard Taft: “We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”

Trump: "He does good at rockets".

I mean, just look at how his quote fits in with the rest of of those statements!
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The other day I was thinking of Keenedy’s 1962 speech. His cadence, his passion.
“ We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

I wonder which of President Trump’s many speeches will be popular among high school students performing declamation 20 years from now.

Student: “I will be reciting President Trump’s “It’s a witch-hunt” speech from December 2019.
Moderator: “Please be more specific. Which “It’s a witch-hunt” speech from December 2019.
 
Also, President Kennedy’s speech to rally support for the West Berliners.
“Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was civis romanus sum ["I am a Roman citizen"]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ’Ich bin ein Berliner!’... All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ’Ich bin ein Berliner!’​

The idea that President Trump could say something even remotely similar is unfathomable. I assert it is difficult to believe that President Trump could understand the sentiment well enough to explain it to a school child.
 
Ladewig said:
Also, President Kennedy’s speech to rally support for the West Berliners.
“Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was civis romanus sum ["I am a Roman citizen"]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ’Ich bin ein Berliner!’... All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ’Ich bin ein Berliner!’​

The idea that President Trump could say something even remotely similar is unfathomable. I assert it is difficult to believe that President Trump could understand the sentiment well enough to explain it to a school child.
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Trump probably thinks the Berlin Wall was built by the West to keep the East Germans out of West Berlin. And they made the East Germans pay for it. It was such a big, beautiful wall!:rolleyes:
 
Stacyhs said:
Trump probably thinks the Berlin Wall was built by the West to keep the East Germans out of West Berlin. And they made the East Germans pay for it. It was such a big, beautiful wall!:rolleyes:
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The gun towers were particularly impressive. He would love those.
 
Ladewig said:
The other day I was thinking of Keenedy’s 1962 speech. His cadence, his passion.
“ We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
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Hey, Trump can speak with passion too!

I mean, just think of his campaign speech:

“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people"

He sounded very passionate when he was engaging in racism.
 
BrooklynBaby said:
Trump is building his wall. The Democrats' open borders solution to the opioid crisis isn't working.
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Is Mexico "paying for it"?

And you're a moron if you believe his wall will slow illegal immigration or be anything more than a 5 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion and climbing boondoggle
 
BrooklynBaby said:
Trump is building his wall. The Democrats' open borders solution to the opioid crisis isn't working.
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You mean the wall with big huge gaps in it that smugglers can use to pass stuff through?

You mean the wall that smugglers have been cutting through with a saw they can get at any hardware store?

You mean the wall that can be climbed in seconds without anything more extravagant than a rope ladder?

You mean the wall that required Trump to divert millions of dollars from military projects?

You mean the wall that Mexico was going to pay for, and that Trump initially said would only cost $4 billion?

Given all the things that Trump and his supporters has claimed about the wall that have turned out to be completely wrong, why exactly should we believe you when you claim it will somehow address the opiod crisis?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/2/20945336/trump-border-wall-smugglers-saw-us-mexico

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...all-video-trump-us-mexico-climb-a9236656.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...y-projects-build-more-border-wall/2208166001/
 
acbytesla said:
Is Mexico "paying for it"?

And you're a moron if you believe his wall will slow illegal immigration or be anything more than a 5 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion and climbing boondoggle
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I will be ignoring you for insinuating I didn't like Obama because he is black, based on nothing.
 
acbytesla said:
Is Mexico "paying for it"?

And you're a moron if you believe his wall will slow illegal immigration or be anything more than a 5 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion and climbing boondoggle
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BrooklynBaby said:
I will be ignoring you for insinuating I didn't like Obama because he is black, based on nothing.
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Huh?

Where do you get that from that post?
 
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BrooklynBaby said:
I will be ignoring you for insinuating I didn't like Obama because he is black, based on nothing.
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You are supporting a president who stated that "Neo-Nazis are fine people", who got fined for not renting to black people, and was criticized for insinuating that a judge can't be trusted because of his race. You are supporting a president who continues to employ Steve Miller, despite his links to racist groups, and who tweets pictures/memes with racist origins.

Trump is a racist and you are supporting him. That doesn't "sound like nothing". That certainly sounds like something. If this were any other republican president or candidate (such as Romney, or Bush, or McCain) it would not be an issue. People may not have liked their policies, but they never engaged in the type of blatant dog-whistle racism that Trump has.

In this day and age, racism should make a candidate a non-starter in political office, regardless of whatever policies they have. But you seem to accept Trump, racism and all. Anyone who IS a Trump supporter should automatically be suspect... either they ARE racist, or they are A-OK with racism (which, at some point, becomes functionally equivalent).
 
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Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Trump's inaugural committee is being sued for overpaying one of Trump's hotels
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The whole inauguration was sleazy as hell, and infuriating to read about. I'm glad that someone is paying attention. In addition to Rick Gates, Melania's BFF could be implicated, if I recall correctly.

There were emails among the inauguration team openly discussing how they would be in big trouble if people saw the crazy rates that the hotel was charging for event space.
 
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