Trump Friday

[mbcdefg]

Trump is speaking at the Values Voters Summit. 



www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557459193/trump-set-to-address-values-voter-summit-for-first-time-as-president

Barf:

"After eight years enduring the Obama administration's hostility toward everything from religious liberty to the unborn, values voters were eager to see President Trump accelerate the undoing of Obama's policies," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins wrote on the conservative website Breitbart recently. FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of Perkins' group, founded the annual event in 2006.

He's kissing Evangelicals' asses, going in with the "Merry Christmas" crap again, insisting that hurricane recovery is going well, and says he met with the president of the US Virgin Islands (which is him).

Thread of comments:

 

[bowies]

It's probably pedantic but it's not just evangelicals - other conservative religious branches are all over this shit. The only reason I'm even bringing it up is because we really discount the numbers involved if we think it's just evangelicals. Baptists, Catholics, etc. are all in on this messaging. It makes me furious how much time they devote to being so unChristlike when the biggest part of their identities are tied up in religion.

[sushi]

"Values"

Fucking over the poor
Bragging
Lying
Cheating (on taxes and wives)
Divorce
Stoking hatred
Waste
Sloth

Shall I continue?

[mbcdefg]

Oct 13, 2017 11:27:03 GMT -5 bowies said:

It's probably pedantic but it's not just evangelicals - other conservative religious branches are all over this shit. The only reason I'm even bringing it up is because we really discount the numbers involved if we think it's just evangelicals. Baptists, Catholics, etc. are all in on this messaging. It makes me furious how much time they devote to being so unChristlike when the biggest part of their identities are tied up in religion.

I could've sworn I read a direct quote from him from today where he specifically mentioned Evangelicals, but of course now I can't find it.

[WanderingWinoZ]

axios

One of the key Russian Facebook pages was colored with hot-button words and phrases like "illegal alien," ''Sharia law" and "welfare state," AP's Ryan Nakashima and Larry Fenn find:

"'Being Patriotic' was among 470 pages and accounts that Facebook shut down ... in response to a congressional probe into Russian meddling in last year's election."
"While Facebook says it deleted the posts this week, the AP was able to perform a content analysis based on the 500 most popular posts on the page, which was one of six Russia-influenced Facebook pages examined by Jonathan Albright, research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University."
apnews.com/2a606ee3608d4a59bbad3d09b682b954/Russia-backed-Facebook-page-colored-with-hot-button-phrases?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top-stories

[WanderingWinoZ]

Oct 13, 2017 11:30:06 GMT -5 sushi said:

"Values"

Fucking over the poor
Bragging
Lying
Cheating (on taxes and wives)
Divorce
Stoking hatred
Waste
Sloth

Shall I continue?

I also feel the need to create a laundry list of CRAZY SHIT TRUMP IS DOING OR DONE IN THE LAST FEW DAYS

-ignored green beret deaths
-bungled PR disaster response & contributed to humanitarian disaster
-effectively took healthcare away from millions / killed Obamacare (maybe mortally wounded)
-doing little about the CA wildfires 
-about to pull out of the Iran deal & force Congress to do something about it
-threatened numerous people including Senators, the Press, North Korea, his own COS and SOS
-continued to fan the racial flames through the NFL protests
-decided they don't need to follow Presidential records retention acts

ETA: had a shit fit about the Weinstein allegations & sexual abuse when he himself is likely guilty of bad or even worse behavior
equated the stock market going up with the national debt going down

Let's see...what else???

[meshaliuknits]

Oct 13, 2017 11:30:06 GMT -5 sushi said:

"Values"

Fucking over the poor
Bragging
Lying
Cheating (on taxes and wives)
Divorce
Stoking hatred
Waste
Sloth

Shall I continue?

I dunno why, but the inclusion of sloth made me laugh.

[pitta12]

[bowies]

Oct 13, 2017 11:33:35 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Oct 13, 2017 11:27:03 GMT -5 bowies said:

It's probably pedantic but it's not just evangelicals - other conservative religious branches are all over this shit. The only reason I'm even bringing it up is because we really discount the numbers involved if we think it's just evangelicals. Baptists, Catholics, etc. are all in on this messaging. It makes me furious how much time they devote to being so unChristlike when the biggest part of their identities are tied up in religion.

I could've sworn I read a direct quote from him from today where he specifically mentioned Evangelicals, but of course now I can't find it.

Oh I don't doubt that since they are, by far, the greatest number and (I think) the conference is geared to them, but I know there are people from other affiliations that are dialed into this.

[mbcdefg]

Oct 13, 2017 11:53:49 GMT -5 bowies said:

Oct 13, 2017 11:33:35 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

I could've sworn I read a direct quote from him from today where he specifically mentioned Evangelicals, but of course now I can't find it.

Oh I don't doubt that since they are, by far, the greatest number and (I think) the conference is geared to them, but I know there are people from other affiliations that are dialed into this.

There was a WaPo piece a while back about Catholics for Trump that really got to me.

Not that it's surprising that there are Catholics who are all-in for him, but it was still very disheartening to see it laid out like this.

www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/03/17/heres-what-i-saw-when-i-attended-a-conservative-catholic-gathering-in-dcs-trump-tower/?utm_term=.f40e6ca3fd8c 

[iamlaila]

I love him. Maybe the women's convention could have invited him instead of Bernie.

[pitta12]

[wambam]

I wish a rancid case of norovirus on this gathering.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

The Pentagon kept a Bloomberg reporter on the email list planning out the DoD and FEMA communications around the response to Hurricane Maria, even after the reporter alerted them to their mistake.  Link to Bloomberg article

[lahoagie]

Oct 13, 2017 11:38:07 GMT -5 WanderingWinoZ said:

Oct 13, 2017 11:30:06 GMT -5 sushi said:

"Values"

Fucking over the poor
Bragging
Lying
Cheating (on taxes and wives)
Divorce
Stoking hatred
Waste
Sloth

Shall I continue?

I also feel the need to create a laundry list of CRAZY SHIT TRUMP IS DOING OR DONE IN THE LAST FEW DAYS

-ignored green beret deaths
-bungled PR disaster response & contributed to humanitarian disaster
-effectively took healthcare away from millions / killed Obamacare (maybe mortally wounded)
-doing little about the CA wildfires 
-about to pull out of the Iran deal & force Congress to do something about it
-threatened numerous people including Senators, the Press, North Korea, his own COS and SOS
-continued to fan the racial flames through the NFL protests
-decided they don't need to follow Presidential records retention acts

ETA: had a shit fit about the Weinstein allegations & sexual abuse when he himself is likely guilty of bad or even worse behavior
equated the stock market going up with the national debt going down

Let's see...what else???

He was disrespectful during Retreat while on TV.

[Mrs.flang]

Oct 13, 2017 11:10:02 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

says he met with the president of the US Virgin Islands (which is him).

 

I just..... I can't. 

[ginger]

Oct 13, 2017 12:06:17 GMT -5 5kcandlesinthewind said:

The Pentagon kept a Bloomberg reporter on the email list planning out the DoD and FEMA communications around the response to Hurricane Maria, even after the reporter alerted them to their mistake.  Link to Bloomberg article

This was intentional right?

I want to believe.

[WOT?*]

Oct 13, 2017 11:27:03 GMT -5 bowies said:

It's probably pedantic but it's not just evangelicals - other conservative religious branches are all over this shit. The only reason I'm even bringing it up is because we really discount the numbers involved if we think it's just evangelicals. Baptists, Catholics, etc. are all in on this messaging. It makes me furious how much time they devote to being so unChristlike when the biggest part of their identities are tied up in religion.

Amen.

My brother and his family are Baptist. My mother-in-law is Catholic.
My mother simply blindly votes against her best interests and has no excuse.

I would like to state, however, that it's #notallBaptists and #notallCatholics. There are conservative and liberal trains of thought in both religions. We have both that support our local Planned Parenthood right alongside me. We've got some fairly liberal Catholics right here on our board if I'm not mistaken. I do, however, consider the more conservative branches of either as evangelical or bordering on because boy do they proselytize and wow their beliefs are *extremely* conservative - on the swinging far right. Maybe that's because of my experience with my brother and his family (home schooling, dating beliefs, etc.) and my mother-in-law (who converted and is getting more and more conservative each hour.) I don't consider all evangelicals to be Westboro (Baptist...see, evangelicals!) or sects that speak in tongues or wrestle with snakes. That's just me though.

[WOT?*]

And here we go...the Iran Deal.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-strikes-blow-against-iran-nuclear-deal-in-major-shift-in-us-policy/ar-AAtoQ2s?ocid=spartandhp

U.S. President Donald Trump struck a blow against the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement on Friday in defiance of other world powers, choosing not to certify that Tehran is complying with the deal in a major reversal of U.S. policy.
Trump made the announcement in a speech that detailed a more confrontational approach to Iran over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and its support for extremist groups in the Middle East.
"Today I am announcing our strategy along with several major steps we're taking to confront the Iranian regime's hostile actions and to ensure that Iran never -- and I mean never -- acquires a nuclear weapon," Trump said.


The slightly (much!!!) more detailed UK version: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/13/donald-trump-expected-promise-tough-action-iran-landmark-speech/

[Jalapeñomel]

Oct 13, 2017 11:27:03 GMT -5 bowies said:

It's probably pedantic but it's not just evangelicals - other conservative religious branches are all over this shit. The only reason I'm even bringing it up is because we really discount the numbers involved if we think it's just evangelicals. Baptists, Catholics, etc. are all in on this messaging. It makes me furious how much time they devote to being so unChristlike when the biggest part of their identities are tied up in religion.

I will never understand this.  It's as if they pretend that Christ would've done the same, except he didn't, wouldn't, and is totally against doing all of those things. 

[bex]

He's such a fucking turd. I know I've already said that once today but I feel the need to say it again.

[sparrowsong]

Oct 13, 2017 12:31:17 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

And here we go...the Iran Deal.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-strikes-blow-against-iran-nuclear-deal-in-major-shift-in-us-policy/ar-AAtoQ2s?ocid=spartandhp

U.S. President Donald Trump struck a blow against the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement on Friday in defiance of other world powers, choosing not to certify that Tehran is complying with the deal in a major reversal of U.S. policy.
Trump made the announcement in a speech that detailed a more confrontational approach to Iran over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and its support for extremist groups in the Middle East.
"Today I am announcing our strategy along with several major steps we're taking to confront the Iranian regime's hostile actions and to ensure that Iran never -- and I mean never -- acquires a nuclear weapon," Trump said.


The slightly (much!!!) more detailed UK version: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/13/donald-trump-expected-promise-tough-action-iran-landmark-speech/

Wasn't he getting mostly (unanimous ?) advice to stay with Iran agreement from his babysitters? He just likes to do wtf ever he wants and feel important as he declares it a terrible deal. It's so frustrating to have this bloody idiot making any decisions more important than dessert serving size.

[Deleted]

Oct 13, 2017 12:25:06 GMT -5 Mrs.flang said:

Oct 13, 2017 11:10:02 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

says he met with the president of the US Virgin Islands (which is him).

 

I just..... I can't. 

He doesn’t understand he’s president of the YOU ESS VIRGIN ISLANDS? I quit. I just quit everything. IQ of 203. LOLZ for days.

[mbcdefg]

Oct 13, 2017 12:58:08 GMT -5 downtonali said:

Oct 13, 2017 12:25:06 GMT -5 Mrs.flang said:

I just..... I can't. 

He doesn’t understand he’s president of the YOU ESS VIRGIN ISLANDS? I quit. I just quit everything. IQ of 203. LOLZ for days.

I'm genuinely surprised that he didn't make a lame "I'm not a virgin" comment.

[WOT?*]

Oct 13, 2017 12:58:08 GMT -5 downtonali said:

Oct 13, 2017 12:25:06 GMT -5 Mrs.flang said:

I just..... I can't. 

He doesn’t understand he’s president of the YOU ESS VIRGIN ISLANDS? I quit. I just quit everything. IQ of 203. LOLZ for days.

Trolling Twitter yesterday I saw him being referred to as IQ45. I laughed. Almost as much as I did when I found MAGATS reference for Trump supporters. At least this presidency is giving us SNL and Twitter references right alongside our dread of WWIII and "Is this Real or The Onion?" reporting.

[mbcdefg]

Oct 13, 2017 13:14:43 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

Oct 13, 2017 12:58:08 GMT -5 downtonali said:

He doesn’t understand he’s president of the YOU ESS VIRGIN ISLANDS? I quit. I just quit everything. IQ of 203. LOLZ for days.

Trolling Twitter yesterday I saw him being referred to as IQ45. I laughed. Almost as much as I did when I found MAGATS reference for Trump supporters. At least this presidency is giving us SNL and Twitter references right alongside our dread of WWIII and "Is this Real or The Onion?" reporting.

Is this an acronym, or just a "maggots" play-on-words?

[runforrest]

I just keep waiting for the Breaking News bulletin about Mueller finally finishing his investigation, and then his subsequent press conference in which he recommends/charges Trump and his buffoons with all.of.the.things.

The longer it takes, the more I feel like it is never going to happen, or that they won't find anything.

I hate this man and this administration.

[bowies]

Oct 13, 2017 13:48:49 GMT -5 runforrest said:

I just keep waiting for the Breaking News bulletin about Mueller finally finishing his investigation, and then his subsequent press conference in which he recommends/charges Trump and his buffoons with all.of.the.things.

The longer it takes, the more I feel like it is never going to happen, or that they won't find anything.

I hate this man and this administration.

Experts put the length of the investigation in the 18-24 month range.

[Deleted]

Oct 13, 2017 13:14:43 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

Oct 13, 2017 12:58:08 GMT -5 downtonali said:

He doesn’t understand he’s president of the YOU ESS VIRGIN ISLANDS? I quit. I just quit everything. IQ of 203. LOLZ for days.

Trolling Twitter yesterday I saw him being referred to as IQ45. I laughed. Almost as much as I did when I found MAGATS reference for Trump supporters. At least this presidency is giving us SNL and Twitter references right alongside our dread of WWIII and "Is this Real or The Onion?" reporting.

I’m totally stealing IQ45. Suits him well!

[WOT?*]

thehill.com/homenews/media/355295-pentagon-accidentally-included-reporter-in-puerto-rico-spin-talks

Whoops.


(ETA: I saw somebody posted the Bloomberg article. In clicking on links in this article, I also found this: thehill.com/policy/healthcare/354170-trump-told-hhs-to-deny-request-to-fix-iowa-obamacare-market-report )

I can't hate him any more than I already do, can I?