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Trumpie gets a shadow on Revere Beach Parkway
By adamg on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 1:55pm
June Bug reports that the flag-wavin' red-blood 'Murican who's been showing his support for the president on Revere Beach Parkway of late (on the right) was joined today - at a bit of a distance - by a guy who doesn't share his feelings, and who took advantage of the warmish weather to get some sun.
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They both need new signs
Give one an "I'm with crazy" sign with an arrow, give the other an "I'm with stupid" sign with an arrow.
no, they both need a life
First guy and is nut, and second guy thought he would stick it to the trumpsters by proving he is a bigger nut. Double fail. Sad
Not good
The socialists are a week away from a red letter day and this is what makes news? This is what is deemed worthy of left-wing effort?
Not a good sign.
Not a good sign at all, comrades.
Shine on. Mheh.
This might be taking the idea of "Universal Hub" a bit far
Just so you know, as much as we both love this blog, there are a few stories that get posted to other news outlets from time to time. Maybe it's time to check out of those?
mmmmmnuh-uh
Mainstream news? Puhleeze.
I check Vegas odds. Much more accurate.
I verify Vegas's numbers by checking the local scene.
That guy about sums up the whole freaking entire democrat plan, current enthusiasm and soon to be failed endgame.
You get
... the I'm with Stupid sign.
Oh no
... we might have someone suggest policies like they have in Denmark and Sweden. Our nation is at grave risk of loosing our leading position in medical bankruptcies and untreated mental health cases committing mass murder.
Comrade, if you don't like America, move to Russia and start licking some oligarch boots. Me, I'll be here rooting for a restoration of our country's greatness in November.
Fascinating
You gleaned policies out of shirtless lame sign guy? You gleaned policies from any democratic candidates?
I told you. I do not watch mainstream news.
Last election, Trump brought a message of MAGA with American flags and did not need the mainstream news. He came through on his MAGA/flag policies. Yay.
What were the democratic policies again? Free shit? They ain't even got the courage to wave a sign saying that.
Trump will continue to drain the swamp. Yay.
Drain yes...
And put back other toxic people
Solution
Get involved.
The guy listens to reason and is the least beholden president I have known in my lifetime.
At the very least, you could state your case and maybe from a tiny nut, a mighty oak may rise. It is a better course of action than holding a sign that says "Trump sucks obvi". Most everyone enjoys a lively debate and most everyone likes to learn something.
Except My President
Donald J Trump. He does not know how to debate. His idea of a lively debate is to wander away from his podium and make menacing faces behind his opponents back.
His policies:
Build a wall! He hasn't done it.
Fix the economy! It wasn't broken when he took over.
Make America Great Again! Are you kidding me? What part of America wasn't great when he, with the unknown assistance of his Russian friends, took over the American Government and then began appointing the least qualified applicants for high cabinet positions and firing them if they actually tried to do their jobs?
America is a mess right now and it wasn't that way when he was elected.
The economy
Wasn’t the messiah mocking Trump saying “does he have a magic wand” and saying the days of 3% GDP were long gone? We had wonderful articles from The NY Times asking whether slow growth was actually better...check out GDP from the messiah’s last 7 quarters....
How was the economy not broken again?
I like the Russia comment thrown in for good measure.
of course
the trump administration itself admits that it won’t hit the 3% mark this year or next, but you know *shrug* who’s counting? better to just make shit up.
How many times over the last 7 Q’s did the messiah make even 2%
Answer... he didn’t. I guess he gave Trump the magic wand and now wants credit for that.
Pathetic. Maybe slow growth is better like NY Times tried to tell us when the messiah’s economy was consistently shit?
Good talk.
leaving aside
your odd fixation on those quarters and the fact that you're wrong about them anyway, can you explain to us what specific measures trump took that instantly turned obama's allegedly shit economy around?
you can't, because it's easier to for you to just make shit up. i get it man! truth famously has a liberal bias.
A little eduction
To the extent that any President has an effect on the nation economy those effects usually show up 4 years and late from the point a person is elected.
Why else was Obama re-elected? Because he was seen a millions times more competent than his opponents.
We KNOW NOTHING of any impact by Trump on the national economy. It's impossible to know until after he is gone.
Obama was re-elected...
Because he is well spoken and Romney was an awful candidate.
Weird opener
He will NEVER become president doing that. EVER.
Yet, here we are.
We hired him to preside, not to debate. Us voters can handle the debating.
President Trump has a nation to run. Elections to win. Things to make great again.
No, really. Imagine becoming the most powerful man on the planet when you debate by wandering away from your podium and making menacing faces behind your opponents back. I did not witness that sort of thing nor would I have ever suggested it as a winning tactic... but again.. here we are.
He did it
Understood that we don't elect a president to debate, but stop lying about what he did.
He's a waste of skin and oxygen, a grifter, a thief, a sluggard, a liar, a thin-skinned whiner and a bigot. He isn't running our nation anywhere except into a dumpster fire of his making. He is a trash fire and you are applauding him. You will never wash the stink off.
you lost all credibility with this
not that you had any to begin with. i get that trump does many things for you guys but i cannot for the life of me see how you can unironically say he "listens to reason" and "isn't beholden".
seriously? the guy proudly says that he doesn't listen to people -- he goes with his gut. and all he does is react to what he sees on television.
one would think a failed businessman who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth would be a turn off for an ostensibly working class new englander. i have no idea what he's done to you guys.
Yep
Isn't beholden.
Only president in my lifetime.
i’m glad to see
you admit you’re wrong.
Did it hurt?
Did it hurt when you got dropped on your head?
Drain the swamp?
The constitution is not a swamp.
Grifter
Trump is a grifter, he's got grifter children and his "administration" is made up of grifter klingons. If you support him, you're probably hoping to get in on the grift yourself.
Misuse of word
Please stop repeatedly misusing the word "grifter". It means someone who engages in petty swindling. Trump's thefts are mostly large-scale, with many millions, or even billions, of dollars at stake. That's not grifting, that's major theft and corruption. Give the guy his due.
That's hysterical
With people like Bernhardt, Pompeo, DeVos, Miller, Ross, Mulvaney, Tillerson, Sessions, Pruitt, Zinke, Perry, etc., you think he's draining the swamp. Seriously?
Just look at his latest appointment, Richard Grenell as acting Director of National Intelligence. Absolutely no experience with intelligence and no experience running an organization. This happens time and time again.
Seriously?
I often wonder where Trumpies get their slavish
devotion to the Dear Leader.
It's clearer to me now, reading Cape Coddah's observations: you simply have to be utterly delusional, impervious to hard data and reason.
There's not a single line in any of his posts that isn't directly counter-factual. I suppose when you live in that alternate universe of child-like imaginings, Trump can seem like a good idea.
Who is your 2020 candidate, oh wise one?
Don’t think you’ve ever mentioned this.
I’m no political brainiac, but I did
believe early on in 2016 that Trump could win. He needed a Russian push, maybe, but a few ten thousands of votes spread across a few key states proved to be enough. Pretty easy for him to repeat that math in November as things stand now, I think.
None of the Dem candidates thrill me. It’s a big-tent circular firing squad at the moment, nobody seemingly able to unite a big, diverse, fractious party. But as a whole, it seems like a much deeper collective bench of policy smarts, with a much-needed dose of respect for the Constitution, a free press, and the rule of law, norms we used to take for granted. Dem President X would have a strong Cabinet, actually competent bureaucrats instead of nihilists for a change.
Call me crazy, but I still expect relevant experience, education, expertise and more than self-interest from our leaders. Trump’s people all look venal and/or amoral and/or hopelessly miscast.
I’ll watch the string play out. Maybe something will happen to change my fear of Trump’s authoritarian impulses, the creeping death of American democracy he currently represents. I’m not exactly hopeful just now.
Pretty good answer
It’ll be interesting that’s for sure. Curious to see how it all plays out.
I see you haven't heard the latest All-Star they hired.
He just hired a college senior to run the PPO
Again.
The President of The United States of America just hired a 23 year old college senior to be a top official in the Presidential Personnel Office.
A TWENTY THREE YEAR OLD COLLEGE SENIOR WITHOUT A DIPLOMA IS NOW VETTING OUR HIGHEST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS!
...and yet he shut down and fired the entire global pandemic response program.
Any remaining fans of his are just dimly lit cult members, ignore them and move on.
I checked him out
They guy angered Germany for shaming their 1.2 percent GDP payment to NATO when it should be 2 percent. Also he got a bit vocal with the fact that Germany is cozying up to Iran when Iran throws gay homosexuals off rooftops.
“The American ambassador to Germany is not there to serve German interests. He’s there to serve American interests. And pointing out things that are counter to our interests, and theirs, is his job.” -- James Carafano, Heritage Foundation
I am fine with him being interim director.
Another thing: Trumpies really hate actual expertise
and experience. You know, the province of those coastal elites, with their "book-larnin'" and "actually knowing something about their jobs" bullshit.
Grenell might be Trump's least-qualified appointee yet, which as limbo-poll-low bars go is really saying something. That know-nothing has no business anywhere near our national security apparatus.
The Motto
Fake it until you break it.
Fife it up
Okay, calm down there Don Knotts.
The DNI position has only existed since 2005 and is an oversight position, not a command authority.
Oversight. Asking questions.
Grenell will EXCEL at the temporary job as he asks tough questions. He has proven that. Then he is going back to work as the ambassador to Germany.
Loving Trump. Loving his crew.
I'd already concluded that Cape Coddah was
a doddering old man, and recognized that he doesn't have a donkey's grasp of how security works -- yeah, who needs to know the most basic thing about the area you're overseeing if you're *just asking questions* -- but Don Knotts? Steady on your walker there, Gramps!
Also, way to prove my point about Trumpies and their treating knowledge, experience, and expertise like kryptonite.
Ignorance is Strength!
Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to 2010
Robert Gates, Bush's Defense Secretary, advised Obama to nominate James Clapper as DNI. Feinstein was quite vocal about not having an icky military person fill the position. Obama wanted a reporter he could trust. Obama was a newbie and Obama was correct.
Grenell is probably not going to be as awesome as Clapper, but Grenell is just as perfect a fit for the job and more importantly. for President Trump. A trusted advisor to report and provide oversight.
Hilarious or tragic, when a Trumpie offers
an example that proves the diametric opposite of his point? I'm going with hilarious.
Clapper, prior to Obama giving him the DNI role: Marines, Air Force sigint, combat support pilot, sigint wing commander, chief of Air Force intelligence, private sector management roles at intelligence tech vendors, college professor teaching intelligence, then W's undersecretary of defense for intelligence. That's 47 years in intelligence-related roles of increasing weight and responsibility in the military, private sector and government.
Grenell's experience: low-level GOP political staffer, press secretary for the NY state lottery, UN spokesperson, private-sector political PR consultant, ambassador to Germany for 2.5 years. Intelligence / security experience? Zero. He's been a glorified political PR man for most of his professional life.
I sure hope before you retired to watch ancient TV shows, you didn't work in HR.
Nominated
Nominated. Obama nominated him for the role at the advise of Gates.
Clapper was wicked awesome, agreed, and even though Grenell is only an acting director, I would not think Grenell could ever rise to Clapper greatness even if he was nominated and approved. Grenell, however, will do a great job.
I am going to put a pin in this and wait for further developments. Knowing President Trump, there is a good chance he threw a civilian-type in to get some sound bytes to work with. Feinstein was a senator while Obama was still in school smoking pot with his Hawaii buddies, yet Obama went with his gut and ignored her pleas to not nominate a military superman. These things go beyond what the mass media spews.
Agreed, Obama just nominated him as the guy he most wanted to
hold the job, and the Senate intelligence committee (including Feinstein) confirmed him unanimously. That's not quite the same as "picking him", I guess. Glad you made that important distinction.
Grennell's main qualification appears to be that he's the same kind of right-wing douchebag / bullying 12-year-old on Twitter as his boss. Maybe he's not Trump's worst-ever pick (so much competition there), but he is easily the least qualified person ever to be nominated for DNI since the role was created. It's not a trivial, oh-just-ask-some-hard-questions kind of job. He's running 17 intelligence agencies. If you knew anyone who worked in the security profession, they'd tell you what a stupid, insane risk he is in that role.
When this guy inevitably fucks up -- hopefully on something relatively minor, not a major incident that gets a lot of Americans killed -- Trump will stab him in the back, claim never to have known him, and ask, "How did that asshole get hired?" And Trumpies will just nod along and go, "Yeah, how did that happen?" Donkeys.
You dunce
Running?
You TOTALLY do not understand the position.
DNIs run ABSOLUTELY NOTHING other than their mouths. There is importance to the role but running anything? Sheesh.
The DNI runs about as much day to day as a Commander-in-Chief runs things day to day.
You sound like a man gets his ideas about what executives do
from watching Mayberry RFD. If you think their job is just about "running their mouths", you clearly have never held a management role yourself in your life. And you obviously have zero idea about what Cabinet-level appointees do.
Yes, it's bureaucrat's job, a management role. He's not doing the spying himself. But he is overseeing, directing and coordinating the efforts of 17 otherwise-independent spy agencies. From that perch, it's his job to prepare the President's daily security briefing (though Trump is too attention-challenged and averse to reading to absorb anything more than headline clippings.)
So, maybe some executive management experience would be useful there? Let's look. Grennell has *none* of that, either. He brings nothing to the job except that he'll be Trump's boot-licking toady. Too bad: it's a big job with grave import to our national security. Even a Trumpie donkey should be able to figure that out.
Again, if you knew a jot about security, or knew someone who knows about it, you'd have something to offer besides polishing Trump's grimy buttons here. Maybe you oughta stick to watching TV Land.
About as much
About as much as the Commander-in-Chief oversees, directs and coordinates the efforts of otherwise-independent military branches.
That is in fact part of the Commander-in-Chief's job. Is he
physically driving the troops around? No. Does he ultimately own responsibility for what the military does? Yes. Is the job all just about running one's mouth? Again, your warped notion of what executives do appears to have been gleaned from TV, presumably from raptly watching episodes of The Apprentice.
(Pssst, about reality TV: it's mostly not real! Also, you might want to view the claims of infomercials with some skepticism! Also, TV preachers are mostly snake-oil salesmen! Free advice for donkeys.)
(And to be fair, you probably think it's business as usual in the White House that our current President spends half his day watching Fox News and blatting out random thoughts with his thumbs. Hint: that's not usually how it's done, though it does explain a lot about Trump's many spectacular business failures.)
Lucky for American commerce, the only thing you're managing these days is a TV tray and a remote.
You do realize that Trump
You do realize that Trump picked Pencie-poo as his VP to court the religious zealots, yes? You do know his record on LGBTQ people and women, yes? Just admit you agree with a racist, misogynistic, homophobic, Nazi loving, sexual assaulting President. I'd have slightly more respect for you and his cult if you just came out and admitted it.
Of course you're ok with him not debating, showing his taxes, blackmailing, lying, treating military families like shit, pardoning his criminal pals, meddling in elections and Putin using him like the fool he is. Because he makes your old white self feel important and "big." You can't stand to think you may lose all the special privileges that you have enjoyed as a CIS white male. So that makes you an easy target and I will give him one thing - he knows how to play people like you and you all lap it up while he and his family pillage this country.
If Obama did one thing mentioned above your head would have exploded but you won't admit it. How you missed him stalking Hilary across the stage during the last debates only goes to show how blind you really are. #sad
Draining the Obama swamp
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-acting-inspector-general-us-depart...
Wow.
There must be some incredible boy scout overseeing Homeland security. A lesser man would squished this.
That is some pretty sweet swamp draining.
When you are ready for SS,
When you are ready for SS, Medicare or Medicaid I am assuming you will refuse them? Assuming you only park in metered spots b/c you should pay your fair share? Shovel your street (the actual street - not your sidewalk)? Paid for private schools if you had kids? Refused to go to the library? Don't use banks b/c of FDIC insurance? Don't produce any trash? Don't drive on public highways? The list goes on and on. My assumption is that you like socialism for yourself and those you deem worthy.
Democratic socialism benefits every person in this country. It's a sad state when people are conned into giving billions upon billions to corporations who don't pay taxes and people so filthy rich they couldn't spend their $ in a lifetime (who also have a lower tax percentage than you) rather than helping your fellow citizens.