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and legalising hooch in all states should see a hit to productivity too
Where is/can Donald Trump take US (sic)?
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So Donald Trump has held a 77 min Press Conference. What did the President of the most powerful country on earth have to say ?
It was in English. There were words and sentences. Not much grammar, largely fact free, plenty of completely obvious "alternative facts" which only prove how stupid/delusional/dangerous the current POTUS is. This is totally crackers.
Trump is the boss we all know so well, and never want to see again. The one winging it at every turn, in every sentence. The one who just read something, or talked to somebody, and is now an Olympic-sized expert.
“I have been briefed,” he declared, as he explained what passes for his poodle-like policy towards Vladimir Putin.
“And I can tell you one thing about a briefing that we’re allowed to say, because anybody that ever read the most basic book can say it: Nuclear holocaust would be like no other. They’re a very powerful nuclear country and so are we. If we have a good relationship with Russia, believe me, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing.”
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Coming from the mouth of Ricky Gervais or Steve Carell, this might be rather funny. But as we know from the guests at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump travels with military aides who carry real nuclear codes.
It’s great that he’s reading the most basic books about that nuclear holocaust. Who knew it could be so awful to obliterate the planet?
He’s also been reading about uranium, which is cool. It’s best if he explains this one in his own words: “You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, like lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things.”
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...mp-press-conference-media-criticism-not-funny
Probably the most stinging comments came from Fox News anchor Shepard Smith
Fox News' Shep Smith Blasts Trump For Lashing Out At Reporters
"You owe this to the American people" to answer questions, he said.
17/02/2017 9:41 AM AEDT | Updated 2 hours ago
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After President Donald Trump spent much of his Thursday press conference lecturing and demeaning reporters, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith defended the role of the media, reminding Trump that “you owe this to the American people” to answer reporters’ questions.
“It’s crazy what we’re watching every day. It’s absolutely crazy,” Smith said, summing up the Thursday face-off. “He keeps repeating ridiculous, throwaway lines that are not true at all and sort of avoiding this issue of Russia as if we’re some kind of fools for asking the question. Really?!”
Smith implored the president to actually answer questions from reporters rather than openly undermine the media.
“Your opposition was hacked and the Russians were responsible for it, and your people were on the phone with Russia on the same day it’s happening, and we’re fools for asking the questions? No, sir, we’re not fools for asking the questions, and we demand to know the answer to this question. You owe this to the American people,” Smith said.
He acknowledged that Trump’s supporters, who joined in the candidate’s taunting of the media during campaign rallies, “will support you either way.”
But “we have a right to know. You call us fake news and put us down like children for asking these questions on behalf of the American people,” Smith said. “The people deserve that answer, at very least,” he added.
Trump opened Thursday’s press conference by delivering a long diatribe against the “out of control” press. He repeatedly dismissed mounting reports that members of his campaign team communicated with Russia as “fake news.”
“The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people, a tremendous disservice,” Trump said. “We have to talk about it. We have to find out what’s going on because the press, honestly, is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.”
Trump later cut off NBC News reporter Peter Alexander, when Alexander tried to fact-check the president on his wildly false claim that he won the Electoral College by the largest margin of victory since that of President Ronald Reagan.
“I was given that information,” Trump said. “I don’t know. I was just given it. We had a very, very big margin.”
Alexander asked whether Americans should trust the president “when you accuse the information they receive of being fake, when you provide information that’s not accurate.” Trump would not say.
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It was in English. There were words and sentences. Not much grammar, largely fact free, plenty of completely obvious "alternative facts" which only prove how stupid/delusional/dangerous the current POTUS is. This is totally crackers.
Trump is the boss we all know so well, and never want to see again. The one winging it at every turn, in every sentence. The one who just read something, or talked to somebody, and is now an Olympic-sized expert.
“I have been briefed,” he declared, as he explained what passes for his poodle-like policy towards Vladimir Putin.
“And I can tell you one thing about a briefing that we’re allowed to say, because anybody that ever read the most basic book can say it: Nuclear holocaust would be like no other. They’re a very powerful nuclear country and so are we. If we have a good relationship with Russia, believe me, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing.”
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Coming from the mouth of Ricky Gervais or Steve Carell, this might be rather funny. But as we know from the guests at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump travels with military aides who carry real nuclear codes.
It’s great that he’s reading the most basic books about that nuclear holocaust. Who knew it could be so awful to obliterate the planet?
He’s also been reading about uranium, which is cool. It’s best if he explains this one in his own words: “You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, like lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things.”
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...mp-press-conference-media-criticism-not-funny
Probably the most stinging comments came from Fox News anchor Shepard Smith
Fox News' Shep Smith Blasts Trump For Lashing Out At Reporters
"You owe this to the American people" to answer questions, he said.
17/02/2017 9:41 AM AEDT | Updated 2 hours ago
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- Marina Fang Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
After President Donald Trump spent much of his Thursday press conference lecturing and demeaning reporters, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith defended the role of the media, reminding Trump that “you owe this to the American people” to answer reporters’ questions.
“It’s crazy what we’re watching every day. It’s absolutely crazy,” Smith said, summing up the Thursday face-off. “He keeps repeating ridiculous, throwaway lines that are not true at all and sort of avoiding this issue of Russia as if we’re some kind of fools for asking the question. Really?!”
Smith implored the president to actually answer questions from reporters rather than openly undermine the media.
“Your opposition was hacked and the Russians were responsible for it, and your people were on the phone with Russia on the same day it’s happening, and we’re fools for asking the questions? No, sir, we’re not fools for asking the questions, and we demand to know the answer to this question. You owe this to the American people,” Smith said.
He acknowledged that Trump’s supporters, who joined in the candidate’s taunting of the media during campaign rallies, “will support you either way.”
But “we have a right to know. You call us fake news and put us down like children for asking these questions on behalf of the American people,” Smith said. “The people deserve that answer, at very least,” he added.
Trump opened Thursday’s press conference by delivering a long diatribe against the “out of control” press. He repeatedly dismissed mounting reports that members of his campaign team communicated with Russia as “fake news.”
“The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people, a tremendous disservice,” Trump said. “We have to talk about it. We have to find out what’s going on because the press, honestly, is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.”
Trump later cut off NBC News reporter Peter Alexander, when Alexander tried to fact-check the president on his wildly false claim that he won the Electoral College by the largest margin of victory since that of President Ronald Reagan.
“I was given that information,” Trump said. “I don’t know. I was just given it. We had a very, very big margin.”
Alexander asked whether Americans should trust the president “when you accuse the information they receive of being fake, when you provide information that’s not accurate.” Trump would not say.
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Notwithstanding Trump's foibles, I am stoked he is calling the MSM out bas.
Can't wait for you butthurt lefties to settle down, so we can see what we really have in Trump, after the crushing disappointment of the last clown
Can't wait for you butthurt lefties to settle down, so we can see what we really have in Trump, after the crushing disappointment of the last clown
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And what are you missing at the moment Wayne? What part of this vainglorious, xxxwitted, delusional blowhard is hiding itself from us or you ?
The Emporer is butt naked and very ugly..
'Extermitate all rational thought'
These are the words of Bill Lee in William Borroughs work 'Naked Lunch', what follows is this;
Bill Lee: Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down you dig farting out the words. It was unlike anything I had ever heard. This asshole talk had sort of a gut frequency. It hit you right down there like you gotta go. You know when the old colon gives you the elbow and it feels sorta cold inside, and you know all you have to do is turn loose? Well this talking hit you right down there, a bubbly, thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell. This man worked for a carnival you dig, and to start with it was like a novelty ventriliquist act. Real funny, too, at first. He had a number he called The Better Ole that was a scream, I tell you. I forget most of it but it was clever. Like, "Oh I say, are you still down there, old thing?" "Nah I had to go relieve myself." After a while the asshole started talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared and his asshole would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time. Then it developed sort of teeth-like little raspy in-curving hooks and start eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it, but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street, shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags nobody loved it and it wanted to be kissed same as any other mouth. Finally it talked all the time day and night, you could hear him for blocks screaming at it to shut up, and beating it with his fist, and sticking candles up it, but nothing did any good and the asshole said to him, "It is you who will shut up in the end. Not me. Because we dont need you around here any more. I can talk and eat AND ****." After that he began waking up in the morning with a transparent jelly like a tadpoles tail all over his mouth. This jelly was what the scientists call un-D.T., Undifferentiated Tissue, which can grow into any kind of flesh on the human body. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands like burning gasoline jelly and grow there, grow anywhere on him a glob of it fell. So finally his mouth sealed over, and the whole head would have have amputated spontaneous - except for the EYES you dig. Thats one thing the asshole COULDN'T do was see. It needed the eyes. But nerve connections were blocked and infiltrated and atrophied so the brain couldnt give orders any more. It was trapped in the skull, sealed off. For a while you could see the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes, then finally the brain must have died, because the eyes WENT OUT, and there was no more feeling in them than a crabs eyes on the end of a stalk.
Trump has eaten his way though the US of Americas pants....
I highly recommend the Film as well.
These are the words of Bill Lee in William Borroughs work 'Naked Lunch', what follows is this;
Bill Lee: Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down you dig farting out the words. It was unlike anything I had ever heard. This asshole talk had sort of a gut frequency. It hit you right down there like you gotta go. You know when the old colon gives you the elbow and it feels sorta cold inside, and you know all you have to do is turn loose? Well this talking hit you right down there, a bubbly, thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell. This man worked for a carnival you dig, and to start with it was like a novelty ventriliquist act. Real funny, too, at first. He had a number he called The Better Ole that was a scream, I tell you. I forget most of it but it was clever. Like, "Oh I say, are you still down there, old thing?" "Nah I had to go relieve myself." After a while the asshole started talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared and his asshole would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time. Then it developed sort of teeth-like little raspy in-curving hooks and start eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it, but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street, shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags nobody loved it and it wanted to be kissed same as any other mouth. Finally it talked all the time day and night, you could hear him for blocks screaming at it to shut up, and beating it with his fist, and sticking candles up it, but nothing did any good and the asshole said to him, "It is you who will shut up in the end. Not me. Because we dont need you around here any more. I can talk and eat AND ****." After that he began waking up in the morning with a transparent jelly like a tadpoles tail all over his mouth. This jelly was what the scientists call un-D.T., Undifferentiated Tissue, which can grow into any kind of flesh on the human body. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands like burning gasoline jelly and grow there, grow anywhere on him a glob of it fell. So finally his mouth sealed over, and the whole head would have have amputated spontaneous - except for the EYES you dig. Thats one thing the asshole COULDN'T do was see. It needed the eyes. But nerve connections were blocked and infiltrated and atrophied so the brain couldnt give orders any more. It was trapped in the skull, sealed off. For a while you could see the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes, then finally the brain must have died, because the eyes WENT OUT, and there was no more feeling in them than a crabs eyes on the end of a stalk.
Trump has eaten his way though the US of Americas pants....
I highly recommend the Film as well.
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Trump Full Press Conference (2/16/17) | ABC (US) News - The best 1 hour and 17 minutes of reality TV ever...he really is crazy, he has a similar appeal to George W and Reagan except much much crazier.
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I'm on record as saying this is the US' Berlusconi moment. But I think he can repair some of the damage from the Obama experiment failure.
The stock market doesn't seem too worried about him and I remain hopeful this acts as catalyst for true change from the leftist poison
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"I remain hopeful this acts as catalyst for true change from the leftist poison" Wayne L
There are plenty of astute and determined meglomaniacs who promised true change. Stalin, Hitler, Genghis Khan, Mao, Pol Pot, Idi Amin. What price do we want to pay ? And exactly what are we trying to destroy ?
There are plenty of astute and determined meglomaniacs who promised true change. Stalin, Hitler, Genghis Khan, Mao, Pol Pot, Idi Amin. What price do we want to pay ? And exactly what are we trying to destroy ?
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Bearing in mind that attitudes and behaviours were quite different in the past:
President Andrew Jackson used to actively pistol duel to get rid of his opponents, hit people with his cane and disregard his constitutional hand cuffs. People tried to kill him.
Teddy Roosevelt kept a bear and lion as pets in the White House, John Adams kept and alligator as a pet. He was a martial arts expert, a boxer and carried gun on his hip wherever he went.
JFK went looking for trouble in both WW2 and obsessive philandering,
History will tell us what Clinton actually got upto with women and how smoke damaged GW Bush was.
President Andrew Jackson used to actively pistol duel to get rid of his opponents, hit people with his cane and disregard his constitutional hand cuffs. People tried to kill him.
Teddy Roosevelt kept a bear and lion as pets in the White House, John Adams kept and alligator as a pet. He was a martial arts expert, a boxer and carried gun on his hip wherever he went.
JFK went looking for trouble in both WW2 and obsessive philandering,
History will tell us what Clinton actually got upto with women and how smoke damaged GW Bush was.
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Genghis Khan ? Idi Amin ? Clearly socialist arn't they ? Still trolling your alternative reality Wayne . How about General Pinochet, The Greek Colonels, Mussolini ?
There are many different versions of astute and determined megalomaniacs. Donald Trump is probably William Hearst on speed. But he happens to be the President of the most powerful country on earth and controls a military capacity that can start a war that will destroy all life on earth in minutes.
And he won't listen to anything except the voices in his head.
Bas, he listened to the people of the USA and that is what got him over the line....Pauline Hanson is doing the same and just look how her popularity has risen.
The leaders we have in Turnbull, Shorten and di-Natalie are just ignoring the Australian people as to what they really want......It is all about who can score more political points between our leaders.
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Khan was before both our time, But, both my father and father in law were acquainted with Amin in the British army.
Though not a pure ideological Marxist, he was most assuredly of that persuasion, as is evidenced by the support of him from the USSR, East Germany and membership of OAU.
But we can always add Islamism to rhe list, That should cover all except Kahn
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I might add, you butthurt, anti-democratic, perpetually offended, laughably hypocritical, hyperventilating leftists have not learnt that the more you crap on like you do, the more you push the center to the right.
Have you not noticed middle of the road, reasonable folks, have Brexited, Paulined And Trumped straight in your faces?
And as you continue your collective petulant tantruming, the above is collecting momentum exponentially.
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Sweden has been attacked by ISIS !! Real News from the Real Truth Teller !!! But wait...!! The cavalry are coming on their White Chargers !!!!!
Sweden, who would believe this?': Trump cites terror attack
At Florida rally president refers to attack in Sweden
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Trump linked migration in Europe to terror attacks in Brussels, Nice, Paris – and Sweden. Photograph: UPI/Barcroft Images
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Donald Trump appeared to invent a terrorist attack in Sweden during a campaign-style rally in Florida on Saturday, inviting questions that he may have confused the nation with a city in Pakistan.
With thousands of Trump supporters gathered in an aircraft hanger in Melbourne, Florida, Trump used his speech to talk about migration in Europe and linked it to terror attacks in Brussels, Nice and Paris. He then added Sweden to the list, incorrectly stating that an attack had happened there on Friday.
Trump told supporters: “We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden.”
“Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible. You look at what’s happening in Brussels. You look at what’s happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice. Take a look at Paris.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/19/sweden-trump-cites-non-existent-terror-attack
Sweden, who would believe this?': Trump cites terror attack
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Trump linked migration in Europe to terror attacks in Brussels, Nice, Paris – and Sweden. Photograph: UPI/Barcroft Images
Sunday 19 February 2017 23.31 AEDT Last modified on Sunday 19 February 2017 23.48 AEDT
Donald Trump appeared to invent a terrorist attack in Sweden during a campaign-style rally in Florida on Saturday, inviting questions that he may have confused the nation with a city in Pakistan.
With thousands of Trump supporters gathered in an aircraft hanger in Melbourne, Florida, Trump used his speech to talk about migration in Europe and linked it to terror attacks in Brussels, Nice and Paris. He then added Sweden to the list, incorrectly stating that an attack had happened there on Friday.
Trump told supporters: “We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden.”
“Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible. You look at what’s happening in Brussels. You look at what’s happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice. Take a look at Paris.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/19/sweden-trump-cites-non-existent-terror-attack
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Oh, all the years Amin was around the Poms has no influence?
Know how Obama screwed "the left", i.e. the people - both left and right... Wait til you see Trump screwing "the right". He's already doing it, just somehow people still refuse to see it. Watch for the results I guess.
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John McCain on Trump: suppressing free press is 'how dictators get started'
Despite ‘hating the press’, Republican senator says media is necessary after president calls media ‘the enemy of the American people’
Senator John McCain: ‘I hate the press. But the fact is we need you.’ Photograph: Matthias Schrader/AP
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Senator John McCain has warned that suppression of a free press is “how dictators get started”, criticizing Donald Trump’s continued declarations that newspapers and news networks are “the enemy of the American people”.
“I hate the press,” McCain told NBC’s Meet the Press in an interview, taped at a security conference with European leaders in Munich.. “But the fact is we need you. We need a free press. We must have it.”
“I’m very serious now, if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press,” he continued. “Without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.”
The Republican party’s presidential nominee in 2008, McCain has repeatedly criticized Trump’s ideas as a candidate and now as president. The interview, broadcast Sunday, was taped not long after the president tweeted on Friday night that he considered the media “the enemy of the American people”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ssing-free-press-is-how-dictators-get-started
Despite ‘hating the press’, Republican senator says media is necessary after president calls media ‘the enemy of the American people’
Senator John McCain: ‘I hate the press. But the fact is we need you.’ Photograph: Matthias Schrader/AP
Monday 20 February 2017 01.31 AEDT Last modified on Monday 20 February 2017 04.38 AEDT
Senator John McCain has warned that suppression of a free press is “how dictators get started”, criticizing Donald Trump’s continued declarations that newspapers and news networks are “the enemy of the American people”.
“I hate the press,” McCain told NBC’s Meet the Press in an interview, taped at a security conference with European leaders in Munich.. “But the fact is we need you. We need a free press. We must have it.”
“I’m very serious now, if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press,” he continued. “Without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.”
The Republican party’s presidential nominee in 2008, McCain has repeatedly criticized Trump’s ideas as a candidate and now as president. The interview, broadcast Sunday, was taped not long after the president tweeted on Friday night that he considered the media “the enemy of the American people”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ssing-free-press-is-how-dictators-get-started
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What positive outcomes have been achieved by these Brexiting, Paulining, Trumpards? The only evidence you have presented thus far is the DOW Jones at a new record high. Although I fail to see what this has to do with Trump. The DOW has hit record highs during most terms of presidency, as it did many times under Obama.
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