Trump 28: He's a "stable genius" with a "big & powerful button"

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1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

Is that MLK Jr? Why would he even be willing to stand there, listening to the presidunce paying lip-service to his father, when everyone knows he doesn't mean a word of what he's reading from that piece of paper? It would have been such a powerful statement if he had said, "You know what, presidunce, I'm not going to lend any credence to your little show. I refuse to be a part of it because you have shown the world your true colors, you racist pig."

MLK Jr was the well-known civil right activist. The speaker you mention is MLK Jr's nephew. (Why - who knows? Maybe in some way he is trying to bring good out of bad).

I read that Ben Carson was there. Nuff sed on him.

[GrumpyGran]

12 minutes ago, apple1 said:

I read that Ben Carson was there.

Yes, he read something after Dumpy spoke but HLN was having none of that and cut away so I didn't hear what he said.

[fraurosena]

Jennifer Rubin is on fire today. She is publicly stating what we've all been saying.

The enablers of the racist president are back at it

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The Post reports:

President Trump acknowledged Friday that he used “tough” language during a meeting on efforts toward a bipartisan immigration deal but appeared to deny using the term “shithole” to refer to some countries.

“The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made — a big setback for DACA!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) swiftly refuted that not-quite-a-denial denial. “It was a heartbreaking moment,” Durbin said. “The most disheartening thing to me is my belief that that was the first time words that hateful have been spoken in the Oval Office of the White House. I think back of presidents throughout history, and I cannot imagine a moment where a president sunk to that depth. That’s what breaks my heart.”

The most distressing part of these episodes is the so-called respectable Republicans who begin to cover for and rationalize Trump’s overt racism. Well, maybe he didn’t say it. But those countries are poor! But what he really meant was …

Let’s take these in order.

No, he did say it. The White House did not deny it. Multiple witnesses heard him. He reportedly tried to sample opinion on how his remarks were playing. If you want to justify continuing to defend a racist president whose attention span and mental acuity are far below minimally acceptable standards, do so. But don’t play the “maybe he didn’t, maybe he didn’t” game. When Hillary Clinton suggested half of Trump’s supporters were “deplorables,” she was hooted and hollered down.

Let me suggest there are two types of deplorables — the self-proclaimed white nationalists who share his views and the people who think racism is of so little consequence that it’s worth having a racist in the White House to get what they want (e.g. a tax cut). That equation — we’ll fuel racism, operate in a world of lies and non-facts, ban Muslims, etc., to get a list of policy items — is frankly deplorable as well. Would they say the same if Trump’s comments incited riots? If he set out to repeal anti-discrimination laws? Apparently there is no end to what he could do or say because, they say, “But Gorsuch!” For conservatives who have long held themselves out to be defenders of the Constitution and supporters of the American creed, this represents a gross betrayal of their principles — which look less every day like principles and more like sticks with which to beat the left.

As for the characterization of black and brown countries and praise of lily-white Norway, you’ll see the Tucker Carlsons and even veteran right-wing columnists and talking heads begin to take Trump’s side. The assumption that everyone in these countries is impoverished, that people from impoverished countries have no value to the United States and that white, European immigrants are more desirable than brown and black people is classic racism, the talk of white nationalists who think the country is endangered by becoming less white. The countries from which many Americans originated were at various times poor, dangerous and hostile to ethnic or religious minorities; yet those defending Trump now would look askance of the white racists in years gone past who did not want the Irish, Russians, Poles and other ethnic groups and used the same rationale. It is a revealing argument that once again demonstrates that the voices claiming to be anti-illegal immigration are anti-immigrant. Period.

Finally, the constant effort to reinterpret Trump, to make sense of nonsense and to obscure his ignorance and racism is as tiresome as it is insincere. The man who called Mexicans rapists, who declared he wanted to ban Muslims, who criticized a judge because he was a Mexican American (and therefore, in Trump’s twisted mind, could not do his job), who painted African Americans as all living in crime-infested squalor, who said there were good people among the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, who praised and pardoned Joe Arpaio after he violated the rights of suspected illegal immigrants and who does not have a single nonwhite high-ranking White House staff adviser (and the smallest percentage of female and nonwhite Cabinet officials since Ronald Reagan) is a racist. We have not had a president in the memory of any living American who so unabashedly displayed such racist views and assumptions. And yet many Republicans continue to defend him. The GOP cannot claim to be the party of Lincoln, and as such it has lost its moral legitimacy to govern and is indeed deplorable.

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[Rachel333]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/368744-sen-tim-scott-sen-graham-confirmed-trumps-reported-shithole

Tim Scott, a Republican Senator, said that Lindsey Graham confirmed that the "shithole countries" quote was accurate, so there are Republicans too who are contradicting the president by verifying the accounts of Trump's racist remarks.

[fraurosena]

Something is seriously wrong up on the Hill. There has got to be a really serious and extremely contagious illness going around that causes so much memory loss in all of those Repugliklans.

He said it yesterday, and now they claim they can't remember that he did.

GOP senators say they 'do not recall' Trump referring to 's---hole countries'

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Two GOP senators said Friday they "do not recall" President Trump's reference to "shithole countries" during an Oval Office meeting on immigration. 

Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) issued a joint statement saying they did not recall the president making the exact comments and called out Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for confirming the comments. 

"In regards to Senator Durbin’s accusation, we do not recall the President saying these comments specifically but what he did call out was the imbalance in our current immigration system, which does not protect American workers and our national interest," the senators wrote.  

Trump, in a Thursday meeting that also included Durbin, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — whom Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said confirmedthe remarks to him — and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), reportedly referred to immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and certain African nations as coming from “shithole countries."

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to The Washington Post.

Durbin on Friday called the president's comments "vile and racist," adding that he "cannot believe in this history of the White House, in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday." 

Durbin was the only Democrat at the closed immigration meeting in the White House on Thursday, where lawmakers suggested allowing immigrants from countries such as Haiti, El Salvador and other African countries to regain their protection from deportation in the U.S. 

“President Trump brought everyone to the table this week and listened to both sides," the Republicans wrote, referring to Trump's bipartisan meetings on immigration reform. "But regrettably, it seems that not everyone is committed to negotiating in good faith."

Trump said Friday on Twitter that he used "tough" language on immigration but "never said anything derogatory about Haitians."

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[Glasgowghirl]

I'm glad he is not coming to UK next month, he will still need to come at some point with trade talks needed. I doubt Harry and Meghan will invite him to the wedding, Meghan has attacked him on twitter before and he is the heir so they don't need to invite every state leader. Harry and Meghan are friends with the Obama's.

The cancelled my trip to London tweets are hilarious.

 

[GrumpyGran]

40 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

Something is seriously wrong up on the Hill. There has got to be a really serious and extremely contagious illness going around that causes so much memory loss in all of those Repugliklans.

He said it yesterday, and now they claim they can't remember that he did.

GOP senators say they 'do not recall' Trump referring to 's---hole countries'

 

So Cotton and that other guy are calling Graham and Scott liars? Oh, Tim, I suspect you're about to get thrown under the bus.

[onekidanddone]

1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

Trump said Friday on Twitter that he used "tough" language on immigration but "never said anything derogatory about Haitians."

He is telling his version of he "truth" here. He does not think "shit hole" or "they all have AIDS" is derogatory. To him it is a pure and simple fact. 

[AmazonGrace]

Okay the racism scandal distracted us from the mentally unfit scandal for five minutes and now for the next five minutes we are going to be distracted from the racism scandal by the porn star adultery scandal:

 

[onekidanddone]

Hold on a sec, I'll be right back.

Footsteps walking away......loud scream and the sound of head banging.

Footsteps walking back... 

Make it fucking STOP.

[GrumpyGran]

18 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Okay the racism scandal distracted us from the mentally unfit scandal for five minutes and now for the next five minutes we are going to be distracted from the racism scandal by the porn star adultery scandal:

 

So, we need an emoji for, well, I just don't know. I knew we weren't going to get out of the week without at least one more WTF moment. It's all crazy, all the time now. Dumpy may be healthy but the rest of us are dying here.

TBH, this does not surprise me one little bit. I can't read all of the article because I haven't paid for it. And this will be either seen as a "No surprise" item(me) or a "Lies!" moment(all the BTs).

I'm tired. He's worn me out.

[Howl]

Yeah, Friday!   They made the deadline and now all the cable news and regular news outlets and Sunday talking heads will hash this over endlessly.  Who's going to draw the short straw to appear on Don Lemon or Jake Tapper and defend Trump?  Heh. 

@onekidanddone,  the laughing emoji, well it's laughing on the verge of hysteria, like the painting the painting "The Scream". 

And I almost forgot.  Most of the "guest" workers at Mar-a-Lago are from either Haiti or Romania.

Report: Many of Mar-A-Lago’s Foreign Workers Come From Haiti

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President Trump is said to have referred Thursday to Haiti and other countries as “shithole countries.” But Mar-a-Lago, the President’s club and frequent retreat in Palm Beach, Florida, reportedly hires a large number of Haitian guest workers.

CNBC flagged Mar-a-Lago’s hiring practices Friday, citing a New Yorker report from March of last year.

The magazine’s Sheelah Kolhatkar reported that the 64 foreign workers expected to be brought in to help staff the club “tend to come from two countries, Haiti and Romania, according to someone who works at Mar-a-Lago as an employee of an outside contractor.”

 

[AnywhereButHere]

Any laughing I'm doing is like Sam Neill's character at the end of In the Mouth of Madness. It's real. But it's not. OH, BUT IT IS!! And then he goes insane (or realizes he's been insane the whole time...)

 

 

[onekidanddone]

If I had to sit in a room and listening to this fuck wad, I'd have my arms crossed. I'd also be rolling my eyes, snorting and playing at picking dirt out from my fingernails.  Oh whom am I kidding, not sure there is enough money in the world to be in the same building let alone room. Hell I don't want to be on the same planet, but I'm stuck here.

[GrumpyGran]

16 minutes ago, Howl said:

Most of the "guest" workers at Mar-a-Lago are from either Haiti or Romania.

Now I feel like I need to go save these people. I wonder how many of the Romanian women have a story or two to tell. But whooosh, at the end of the season they're back off to Romania, no one the wiser. I want to take up a collection to pay all of the ones that are here now to tell us the truth about what goes on there. I hope everyone from Haiti is getting a "briefing" about what their boss said yesterday about their country.

[fraurosena]

Well, the dog-whistling has had it's desired effect.

Neo-Nazis celebrate Trump ‘s---hole’ comment: He’s ‘on the same page as us’

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Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists are celebrating President Trump's reported comments referring to Haiti, El Salvador and several African nations as "shithole countries," according to statements collected by The New York Times on Friday

White supremacist Richard Spencer, an organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., last year, lambasted conservatives defending the president on Fox News for pretending the remark was not racial in nature.

“It’s obviously all about race, and to their credit, liberals point out the obvious,” he told The Times.

The Daily Stormer, the largest neo-Nazi website online, welcomed Trump's reported remark, saying it was evidence he was "more or less on the same page with us."

“This is encouraging and refreshing, as it indicates Trump is more or less on the same page as us with regards to race and immigration,” the site said.

The Washington Post first reported — and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) later confirmed — that during a Thursday meeting on immigration reform, Trump told lawmakers in the Oval Office that the U.S. should take in fewer immigrants from "shithole countries" and more from places like Norway.

The White House did not initially deny Trump made the remarks, but the president tweeted early Friday that the story was false.

"Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said 'take them out.' Made up by Dems," Trump tweeted.

On Friday, Trump ignored a question shouted from White House reporter April Ryan over whether he was a racist while leaving an event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. White House spokesman Raj Shah rejected claims that the president is racist in a statement to The Times.

"This president fights tirelessly for all Americans, regardless of race, religion, gender or background,” Shah said. “Any suggestion otherwise is simply insulting and belies all the results he’s delivered for minorities throughout this country.”

The president has faced criticism in the past for perceived racist comments, such as blaming "both sides" for the violence in Charlottesville that erupted after attendees of Spencer's rally clashed with counterprotesters.

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[fraurosena]

Ok, not only do we need those wonderful musical interludes @onekidanddone posts, but I think we can all do with some light-hearted, but heartfelt dissing of the presidunce.

[GrumpyGran]

10 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

all the results he’s delivered for minorities throughout this country.”

Whaaaaaa????? Glad Spencer's speaking out. With friends like these...

[JMarie]

1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

Okay the racism scandal distracted us from the mentally unfit scandal for five minutes and now for the next five minutes we are going to be distracted from the racism scandal by the porn star adultery scandal:

 

If it were me, it would take a lot more than 130K to keep quiet, especially knowing how much Trump is worth.

[GrumpyGran]

Well, Lindsey Graham released a statement that I'm sure will hit the national feeds tomorrow. He essentially said he told Dump how he felt about ?????, not actually confirming what Dump said but not denying it either. Very cagey, I guess I'll give him half a point for not throwing Tim Scott under the bus but I bet he regrets confirming the comments to him.

I think we now need to ask if Cotton and Perdue were asleep in the meeting.

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2 minutes ago, GrumpyGran said:

I think we now need to ask if Cotton and Perdue were asleep in the meeting.

Maybe they are in the same stages of dementia that seem to plague Trump. (rolling eyes)

[Gobsmacked]

5 hours ago, fraurosena said:

So Ryan has finally said something about the controversy. Oh, gosh darn it, how unfortunate. How unhelpful. And oh, did you know my ancestors came from Ireland...?

Nice attempt at deflection, without saying anything substantial, from which we can infer exactly where he stands on this.

Oh, and see how he's crossed his arms over his chest, just like the presidunce does all the time? It's a well-known tell of defensiveness.

I was coming to say this. Well spotted. It weird though. Arms crossed, legs splayed, and facing interviewer although his head is lowered. Ryan is totally lost and doesn't know what to do with himself. His body language is all over the place. He is embarrassed, knows Trump is bad but can't quite leave the dark side. I think he may, just may, grow a spine and see the light. 

[GrumpyGran]

9 minutes ago, Gobsmacked said:

I was coming to say this. Well spotted. It weird though. Arms crossed, legs splayed, and facing interviewer although his head is lowered. Ryan is totally lost and doesn't know what to do with himself. His body language is all over the place. He is embarrassed, knows Trump is bad but can't quite leave the dark side. I think he may, just may, grow a spine and see the light. 

I don't see him growing a spine and I think he is highly pissed at Trump. He knows he has to get re-elected in November and pumpkin head has put him in a bad position. But you would think as a politician running for re-election he would know better than to exhibit that kind of body language. He makes him look like the ass he is.

[fraurosena]

12 minutes ago, Gobsmacked said:

I think he may, just may, grow a spine and see the light. 

Maybe. But he's sold his soul to the devil, and even if his spine should spontaneously grow and his eyes turn to that little flicker of light in the distance, it will be too little, too late. He'll be crucified in the elections. Can't say I feel sorry for him.

[Destiny]

Well fucking said Jim. 

15 minutes ago, Gobsmacked said:

I was coming to say this. Well spotted. It weird though. Arms crossed, legs splayed, and facing interviewer although his head is lowered. Ryan is totally lost and doesn't know what to do with himself. His body language is all over the place. He is embarrassed, knows Trump is bad but can't quite leave the dark side. I think he may, just may, grow a spine and see the light. 

I wish I could believe this, but I just don't. The entire party leadership have sold their fucking souls to the devil and they aren't even trying to get them back. 

1 minute ago, fraurosena said:

Maybe. But he's sold his soul to the devil, and even if his spine should spontaneously grow and his eyes turn to that little flicker of light in the distance, it will be too little, too late. He'll be crucified in the elections. Can't say I feel sorry for him.

Hahaha great minds think alike!