Trump's bad decision(s) of the day

Kätzchen · 06-14-2018, 11:47 AM

The last current article I could find online about 45's ability to destroy the credibility of long time public and social institutions with bad decisions, was from last fall, September of 2017, an news article in The Atlantic, although in January of this year, the NYT published an Op-Ed about 45 too, but I think The Atlantic article is somewhat better (see archived link below).

https://www-theatlantic-com.cdn.ampp...cy%2F537921%2F

What spurred me to go in search of this type of phenomena (bad decisions, et al) was Anya's article about 45 silencing the EPA. Issuing edicts to limit what people can say or do, issuing edicts to agency's that limit their ability to provide useful information about anything x, y or z, to me, in my own opinion, is nothing more than a huge red flag about abuse of power, in the form of fascism.

45 is no different than any dictator of historical record in the past or present/current day (Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Gaddafi, Imin, Hussein, Un, etc).

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/dictators.php

Abigail Crabby · 06-14-2018, 01:23 PM

It's so good to see this thread on the Planet!! We must remove this orange dung beetle from office in 2020!!

Kätzchen · 08-03-2019, 11:30 AM

Published by CNN New York-Business, August 3rd 2019:

T^^^P Is Playing A Dangerous Game With Economy (LINK)

Statements snipped from the news article, as follows:

"... escalating trade war against China threatens to inflict a powerful shock to the American economy that not even the Federal Trade Reserve can fully absorb."

"It could be incredibly damaging to the global economy. The risk of a recession has gone up because of the ratcheting up of the trade war," said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco.

"The Fed keeps cutting rates, trade policy keeps getting more hawkish and the Fed runs out of ammunition to fight the next recession."

____***_____***_____****____****_____***____***___ __

I can barely read headline news about what the head-narcissist-in-DC is doing next to people's lives. I once read Nancy Pelosi's statement about how this whole ordeal (the T^^^P debacle/fiasco) is like a gigantic civics lesson on how narcissist's upend your life and the lives of others. For anyone who has never had to suffer the cyclonic effect by a narcissistic personality, then all you have to do is observe what T^^^P does on a daily basis: they implode the news feed with their latest mind-f^ckery, they f^ck with anything that will get them back into the news feed, etc.

I do wonder, though, how much longer this a-Hole will get away with upending peoples lives and the economy and how much longer it will take for people, in general, to see how horrible the GOP truly is. There are many members of the GOP who are master manipulators, masterful sycophants, and illustrate daily the level of depravity they operate from.

Just this past week on NPR, I heard on a radio news show that the T^^^P legacy will be how far he went in destroying the credibility of the Supreme Court and seating a gazillion right-leaning conservative judges to Federal Judge seats of power. This kind of thing is exactly what happens when inequity (tyrannical-dictatorships modes of power) is privileged over shared economies of power (democracy).

So scary, that this person (T/P) and his cronies do on a daily basis.

A. Spectre · 05-31-2020, 08:06 AM

Trump is delighting in the chaos he has wrought

Trump has wanted to see America BURN for years. That has always been his plan to Make America Great Again. In 2014 Trump wanted riots... and in 2020 he has got what he wants - yesterday he was basically calling on his cult to come and disrupt protests with the rallying call of 'Tonight, I understand, is MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE???' He wants the country to be torn apart. He wants the Floyd protesters to be very badly hurt indeed. Seemingly he is a unique mix of nazi, anarchist and sociopath. After all who wishes for an economy to crash and burn for their own white supremacist and pecuniary advantage?

This is MF in 2014:

You can look at the president-elect himself for a vision of what is to come. He has told you his plans all along, though most choose to downplay or deny them. You can even look back before his candidacy, when in 2014 he when on FOX news to defend Russia. Why a reality show host was defending Russia is its own story, but here is what he said about his desired outcome for the United States. "You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have [a chuckles], you know you'll have riots to go back where we used to be when we were great."

* Pay attention everyone, we're in for a wild ride. The establishment of white men and women who like them will not go away quietly.

C0LLETTE · 05-31-2020, 08:30 AM

Why is it that Trump's "National Security Advisor" was so confident that the "chaos" was caused by Antifa but didn't know ( or wouldn't answer ) if right wing or white nationalist, or foreign forces are involved.

And why didn't the CNN interviewer ask him this rather than allowing him to go on and on about Antifa.

If you're not going to confront him, at least cut him off as he keeps repeating triggers that he won't substantiate.
If you don't know who causes the chaos why allow propagandists to repeat and repeat. These are huge failings of even the media that claims to be "objective".

I don't know much about Antifa but I do know when I'm being bullshitted with one point of view for one manipulative goal.

Stone-Butch · 05-31-2020, 10:56 AM

Trumps first bad decision was running for president and changing things for others around the world.
I "accidently" heard him on our local news flash that some people are coming from far away just to get into the destruction and theft of property of innocents. He says that they are thugs looking for an excuse to do their harm. He stated that it has nothing to do with the unfortunate death of yet another black person taken by police and his memory is being disrespected by their actions where others are showing their grief and demanding justice. First time I ever heard that man make any sense. I did not get his speech exact for sure but the idea of what he was saying sure did make a lot of sense.

C0LLETTE · 05-31-2020, 01:29 PM

Is it possible that some ANTIFA people are "very fine people"?

Femmewench · 05-31-2020, 08:26 PM

[QUOTE=C0LLETTE;1269201]Why is it that Trump's "National Security Advisor" was so confident that the "chaos" was caused by Antifa but didn't know ( or wouldn't answer ) if right wing or white nationalist, or foreign forces are involved.

Antifa simply means Anti-Fascist. I think we're all anti-fascist. Some definitions state that this includes a "militant movement" or through "direct action."

It may be a movement, but it is in no way organized as all of the identified home-grown terrorist organizations identified by the FBI (in pre-Trump days) or the Southern Poverty Law Center (today.)

It's more smoke and mirrors to deflect the harm his inaction and rants have on the lives of Americans.

A. Spectre · 06-02-2020, 07:06 AM

So who advised Trump to do his Jimmy Swaggert Impression?

Holding a Bible up in front of a church could not have been his idea. I am guessing it was the Falwell Freak. That picture is going to make a great negative ad, by the way.

Maybe he came up with it, it reeks of unawareness.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."

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06-14-2018, 11:47 AM	#1
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06-02-2020, 07:06 AM	#9
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