TRUMP ACCOMPLISHMENTS

[The Troll]

  White House ends fetal tissue research by federal scientists.

  Idiot Donald Trump and the Far Right Christian Republicans are sending American Medical Science back to the dark ages.  Just like the Muslim Religion has kept the Muslims in the dark ages.  What in hell is wrong with these morons.

[Exterminator]

Nate White, UK writer, responded brilliantly when asked, "Why do the British people despise Donald Trump?"

"A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.

I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

 Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss.

He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish, 'My God... what... have... I... created?"

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

-- Nate White

[Henry Hawk]

You lost all of it on the first line..."Why do the British people despise Donald Trump?"...just More Fake News...

BREXIT AND THE RISE OF THE BRITISH TRUMPS

Brits support Trump visit: poll

The Queen Digs Him!

[Henry Hawk]

The DOW closed under 25,000 today and, if it goes above that threshold again, won't stay there.  The spread between 2 month and 10 year treasuries is inverted.  Trump is threatening Mexico with tariffs.  We squandered any leverage we had to weather an economic downturn with an unnecessary tax cut.

Buckle up, buttercup.  I told you to enjoy the party because the hangover is going to be a bitch.

Am I the only one cynical enough to wonder if people are making money shorting stocks while intentionally sabotaging the economy.  It's a lot more plausible than this deep state bullshit these whack job mouth breathers are constantly mumbling about.

Not only did it go above 25,000, it just broke 26,000.....

[Exterminator]

Not only did it go above 25,000, it just broke 26,000.....

It's not over until the fat lady sings.  Nice job numbers though!

And Trump is a douche that everyone but the populists despise no matter what you gullible sycophants and your right wing sites claim to the contrary.

[Henry Hawk]

It's not over until the fat lady sings.  Nice job numbers though!

And Trump is a douche that everyone but the populists despise no matter what you gullible sycophants and your right wing sites claim to the contrary.

If what you are saying is true, the he should lose BIG in 2020....I say, it will be a Trump Landslide!  I'm calling it now.  Hate him all you want.  Plenty of hard working Americans feel differently than a few of you do.

[Mr442]

If what you are saying is true, the he should lose BIG in 2020....I say, it will be a Trump Landslide!  I'm calling it now.  Hate him all you want.  Plenty of hard working Americans feel differently than a few of you do.

I'm with you.  I said he would win in 2016, and I was right.  2020 he will take the popular vote as well as the electoral college.

Now interestingly, when he does take the popular vote, these states that have decided to give their EC votes to the popular vote winner, will be giving them to the one person they didn't want to see win the last time😂😂😂😂😂

[Exterminator]

https://youtu.be/qACQ7PqrXqE

[Exterminator]

Plenty of hard working Americans feel differently than a few of you do.

A Yale psychiatrist accurately describes you "hard working Americans" as having the emotional development of five year olds: "The sense of grandiose omnipotence he displays seems especially appealing to his emotionally-needy followers.  No matter what the world says, he fights back against criticism, continues to lie in the face of truth and above all is still president.  What matters is that he is winning, not whether he is honest or law abiding.  This may seem puzzling to the rest of us, but when you are overcome with feelings of powerlessness, this type of cartoonish, exaggerated force is often more important than true ability.  This is the more primitive morality, as we call it, of 'might makes right,' which in normal development you grow out of by age five."

And it isn't just a few of us...it's the majority of Americans...real Americans, not parasites.

[Y]

Drumpf is a narcissistic sociopath and a pathological liar.

Anyone who still supports him is as corrupt, crazy, and un-American as he is.

Drumpf's own admissions lately prove he should be removed from office and imprisoned.

His supporters should be institutionalized.

[Y]

"Hard working Americans" is nothing more than a 'dog whistle' to other white racists.

[Exterminator]

Not only did it go above 25,000, it just broke 26,000.....

You were right, Hank, it's above 27,000!  I still say it isn't sustainable...time will tell.

[Henry Hawk]

Thomas Sowell makes an interesting comment....

"Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens"....

you would THINK, this should/would be a platform of the democrat party...but it clearly is not.  It is based upon common sense from the conservative ideology.

[The Troll]

 Donald Trump is as close to what the Bible describes as the AntiChrist.    He is evil and corrupt as any person can be.  Yet the Born Again Christians love and worship him.  WTF?   

[Exterminator]

Ilhan Omar has been a US Citizen 6 years longer than Melania Trump. Omar is from Somalia and is Muslim. Her family fled the Civil War and she spent 4 years in a Kenyan refugee camp as a child, until her family secured asylum in the US in 1995. She naturalized in 2000 at age 17. She broke every glass ceiling imaginable to become a U.S. Representative.

Melania is from the [former] Socialist Republic of Slovenia and is Catholic. She began modeling at 5 and became successful starting at age 16. She began working as a model in the US in 1996, initially illegally. She married Donald Trump in 2005 and got her citizenship in 2006.

I have no issue with either of these women being a naturalized U.S. Citizen. But only one of them is being told to "go back to their country." If you don't see why that is the case, then you, my friend, are a racist.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 2nd generation on her mom's side, and 3rd generation on her dad's side. That is - her mother was born in Puerto Rico, and her father was born in the Bronx, but his parents were from Puerto Rico (AOC's grandparents). She is a combination 2nd and 3rd generation American.

Donald Trump is... wait for it... 2nd generation on his mom's side, and 3rd generation on his dad's side. That is - his mom was born in Scotland, and his father was born in the Bronx, but his parents were German immigrants (Donald's grandparents). He is a combination 2nd and 3rd generation American.

Only one of these people is being told to "go back to their country." By the other one, in fact. If you don't see why that is the case, then you, my friend, are a racist.

(Also, Puerto Rico is part of the U.S., not a country. All Puerto Rican citizens born after 1898 were granted US citizenship in 1917, meaning even AOC's grandparents were citizens, meaning even my calculations about 2nd and 3rd generation are not accurate - they were all US citizens.)
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Ayanna Pressley is an African American, meaning she is the descendant of enslaved people brought to the US against their will. Both of her parents are from Ohio, a state that sits just north of the Ohio River which was the line between free and slave states, and to which enslaved African Americans frequently escaped prior to their emancipation in 1865.

She is being told to "go back to her country." She has no other country to go back to. If you think this is an OK thing to say to an African American, then you, my friend, are a racist.
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Rashida Tlaib is the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to Congress, and one of only 2 Muslim women. She is a 2nd generation American, born in Detroit. Her mother is from the West Bank, and her father is from Jerusalem. Her father came to Detroit to work for the Ford Motor Company. She was educated in Michigan public schools from K-12, and received a Bachelor's and Law degree from Michigan Public Universities. She was also the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan state legislature.

She is being told to "go back to her country." She is a 2nd generation American citizen, born, raised, and educated in this country. If you think this is an OK thing to say to an American citizen born in this country, then you, my friend, are a racist.
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Also, you are not my friend.