Donald Trump discussion Thread IX (threadbanned users listed in OP)

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

They tore the copper wiring out of the walls too, no doubt.

Spitting image actually did a skit of him nicking stuff before he left. He makes it very hard to be satirical.

The smiles of the office staff pressing the "delete" button on the "access all areas" swipe cards of Trump & Co in Govt offices all over the land.

That jim Acosta picture may have a very simple explanation but given what we know about this administration it’s hard not to go to the unpleasant one. I know the stuff in the White House permanently like furniture and the like is catalogued so that’s harder to go missing. I hope trump takes the TV with him. I posted about the ceremony about the lights and how nice it was. I was watching MSNBC’s coverage of it and Brian Williams made a great suggestion. He said that maybe the lights become permanent as a memorial to the people who’ve died. Also, for half an hour the entire MSNBC presenters were visibly crying. I don’t know whether the fact the people who died from Covid-19 were finally acknowledged but it seemed like a release.

aloyisious wrote: »

Presumably/hopefully those heading to Washington with CV's will truly be the best this time around compared to those leaving Govt service this time.

Well most of them have previous experience/or government experience in the relevant departments they are hoping to be heads of. I mean I know that’s what you’d expect.

So he's finally gone from the WH.
Walking across the lawn to the helicopter to his own 8am going away party, when Pence & McConnell have gone to church with Biden really is strikingly pathetic.

EDIT: The dismissive tone of Adam Boulton on Sky is hilarious and apt.

Lol, the figures will skyrocket downwards, referring to the Covid-19 pandemic death and illness reality.

Jairo Proud Partridge wrote: »

Thats his anthem. Strange one for someone who considers himself a macho man.

They are play Sinatra "I did it my way" as AF1 taxies down the runway:eek::eek::eek:


What a f**king egomaniac and an arsehole

Sinatra singing is apt, a kindred thug.

serfboard wrote: »

And the frightening thing is that 74 million Americans didn't think so.

I've some older relatives who've been living in the US "heartlands" for most of their working lives. They have US citizenship, and are coming up to retirement age. They would have been raised as Catholic in Ireland and then went strongly evangelical during their time in US.

They would have started off as Carson supporters in the 2016 Republican Primaries, before swinging strongly behind Team Trump.

I'm not religous at all, but I can understand how someone who was might have backed Carson. I will never understand how Trump has convinced anyone of his religous credentials. I know some on this thread have argued that evangelicals were just marking off Supreme Court appointments and regressions in civil liberties and ignoring the behaviours of "their guy", but it seems to go deeper than that.

My relatives, based on their social media output, have certainly conviced themselves that Trump was a quasi saint and they are terrified of what a Democrat administration will bring. Whether this is QA related or not, I don't know. I've always quite liked my relatives, although we rarely meet and have very, very different beliefs and interests but I don't understand their politics and it's probably not a conversation that would end well.

With previous historical demagogues, you could always argue that there was an air of mystery. You could assume hidden depths. That Stalin really cared and it was the NKVD were keeping the people at arms length. That Mussolini really was a multi-talented Renaissance man

With Trump, it is patently obvious there is nothing. No talent, No depths. No empathy. Just pettiness, ignorance and belligerance. Good riddance.

But, as you say, the problem is that 74 million thought he was the answer.

So one of the few things I agreed with was the ban on lobbying for administration employees.

This has no been undone
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1351774598052896768?s=20

It was largely toothless but the idea was right but now he undoes it, I guess he couldn't stand leaving something nearly decent behind.

druss wrote: »

I've some older relatives who've been living in the US "heartlands" for most of their working lives. They have US citizenship, and are coming up to retirement age. They would have been raised as Catholic in Ireland and then went strongly evangelical during their time in US.

They would have started off as Carson supporters in the 2016 Republican Primaries, before swinging strongly behind Team Trump.

I'm not religous at all, but I can understand how someone who was might have backed Carson. I will never understand how Trump has convinced anyone of his religous credentials. I know some on this thread have argued that evangelicals were just marking off Supreme Court appointments and regressions in civil liberties and ignoring the behaviours of "their guy", but it seems to go deeper than that.

My relatives, based on their social media output, have certainly convinced themselves that Trump was a quasi saint and they are terrified of what a Democrat administration will bring. Whether this is QA related or not, I don't know. I've always quite liked my relatives, although we rarely meet and have very, very different beliefs and interests but I don't understand their politics and it's probably not a conversation that would end well.

With Trump, it is patently obvious there is nothing. No talent, No depths. No empathy. Just pettiness, ignorance and belligerance. Good riddance.

But, as you say, the problem is that 74 million thought he was the answer.

The "anyone but her" factor which Trump & his media-mind F***ers used to persuade the senior GOP-ers to follow where it came to their personal agendas, that they gutted each other and supported him instead followed by the GOP state & local caucuses and the national GOP caucus to put him forward as their candidate and the E/C vote to ensure HE WON. The 74,000,000 convincing themselves that they had to have gotten it right in line with his "I won, look at the crowds." statements, a natural reaction of humans to refuse they and the party got it wrong to a massive number.

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

the rest simply don't care enough to not vote along party lines.

While I don't disagree with that, that's almost more frightening. "The party is always right". Good God.

Detritus70 wrote: »

Garth Brooks just hugged a lot of people without a mask :eek:

Saw that, and handshakes. Gob****e.