Trump 34: Leading the Alternate Reality

[fraurosena]

If you put words in ALL CAPS people will notice them better.

Except when you look at all the words he's capitalized in that tweet, it says 'NOT WORLD PEACE'. Freudian slip, I suppose.

 

[AmazonGrace]

Like one of his beauty pageants. "And Miss Russia, if you could have one wish from a genie, what would it be?"

"I only want what's best for the world, which would be world peace."

[fraurosena]

Oops. 

South Carolina manufacturer says it's closing plant over Trump tariffs

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Element Electronics, a consumer electronics company in South Carolina, says it will be closing its plant in Winnsboro due to tariffs imposed by President Trump.

The State reported Tuesday that the company was one of the largest remaining employers in Fairfield County after the local Walmart, which used to be the largest grocery store in the county, closed its doors two years ago.

The news also comes after plans were canceled to build two nuclear reactors in the area, terminating 5,000 construction jobs.

“When you think you’ve reached rock bottom, to get kicked in the gut like this, you didn’t think anything more could happen,” state Sen. Mike Fanning (D) said of Element's announcement to the local paper. “Within 365 days, you just get rocked to your core.”

Element said “the layoff and closure is a result of the new tariffs that were recently and unexpectedly imposed on many goods imported from China, including the key television components used in our assembly operations in Winnsboro,” in a letter to the state’s Department of Employment and Workforce obtained by the local paper. 

The company said in the letter that it hopes the closure will be temporary and added that it could reopen the plant in “three to six months, but we cannot predict this with any certainty at this time.” 

The company said it plans to start laying off workers in October, a move that will reportedly cost the county 126 jobs.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Okay, FJers, time to fess up, anyone here in this picture?

 

[fraurosena]

Trump Inaccurately Claims California Is Wasting Water as Fires Burn

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In his first remarks on the vast California wildfires that have killed at least seven people and forced thousands to flee, President Trump blamed the blazes on the state’s environmental policies and inaccurately claimed that water that could be used to fight the fires was “foolishly being diverted into the Pacific Ocean.”

State officials and firefighting experts dismissed the president’s comments, which he posted on Twitter. “We have plenty of water to fight these wildfires, but let’s be clear: It’s our changing climate that is leading to more severe and destructive fires,” said Daniel Berlant, assistant deputy director of Cal Fire, the state’s fire agency.

He and others said that Mr. Trump appeared to be referring to a perennial and unrelated water dispute in California between farmers and environmentalists. Farmers have long argued for more water to be allocated to irrigating crops, while environmentalists counter that the state’s rivers would suffer and fish stocks would die.

The president first addressed the fires late Sunday, writing on Twitter, “California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized.” He also referred to a debate in forest management about the effectiveness of removing trees and vegetation as a fire control method.

On Monday, Mr. Trump expanded on his comments in another tweet, for a second time referring to water being diverted into the ocean.

The remarks came hours after the White House declared the wildfires a “major disaster” and ordered that federal funding be made available to help recovery efforts.

Is there a water shortage?

California does not lack water to fight the Carr Fire and others burning across the state, officials said.

Mr. Berlant of Cal Fire declined to speculate on the meaning of Mr. Trump’s statement that water was not being “properly utilized.”

Asked about that line and the president’s claim that water was being diverted into the Pacific, a spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, Evan Westrup, said in an email, “Your guess is as good as mine.”

The White House did not respond to requests for clarification on Mr. Trump’s statement.

William Stewart, a forestry specialist at the University of California, Berkeley, said he believed Mr. Trump was referring to the battle over allocating water to irrigation versus providing river habitat for fish.

That debate has no bearing on the availability of water for firefighting. Helicopters lower buckets into lakes and ponds to collect water that is then used to douse wildfires, and there is no shortage of water to do so, Cal Fire officials said.

California water regulators are preparing to negotiate how much water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta should flow to California’s farms and how much should flow down the river and to the ocean to ensure fish have enough fresh water to spawn and hatch. The issue has long pitted environmentalists against the state’s farming communities.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump took on the farmers’ grievances in language similar to his tweets this week.

“You have a water problem that is so insane, it is so ridiculous, where they’re taking the water and shoving it out to sea,” he said during a May 2016 campaign rally in Fresno. “They have farms up here, and they don’t get water.”

Recently, California Republicans encouraged the Trump administration to weigh in on the issue, inviting Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to the Central Valley to discuss water rights in the state’s agricultural heartland.

“It’s a pretty big story, but it’s got nothing to do with the fires,” Mr. Stewart said.

Does removing trees control fires?

Mr. Trump raised another issue when he wrote that officials “must also tree clear to stop fire spreading.” Scientists and forest experts said the president was referring to a valid and continuing debate.

The timber industry has argued that “thinning” forests — removing certain trees to improve the health of the remaining ones and diminish the plants and underbrush that fuel fires — reduces the risk of wildfires. Republicans in Congress have sought to loosen environmental restrictions to allow more thinning. Democrats and environmentalists argue the practice will open the door to expanded commercial logging and threaten wildlife.

California already has policies in place to address wildfire risk.

LeRoy Westerling, a management professor at the University of California, Merced, who studies wildfires, said that Mr. Trump’s statement about fire-control efforts hit on an important issue, but that he wrongly placed the blame on California. Professor Westerling noted that while federal funding for lowering wildfire risk has been tied up in budget negotiations, California has allocated $256 million this year.

That money is coming from a source the Trump administration finds troublesome: revenues from California’s program to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gases. Under its market-based approach for curbing carbon emissions, California sets a ceiling for the total amount of carbon that can be emitted. Companies are then required to obtain permits to release carbon into the atmosphere.

The Trump administration opposes federal efforts to address climate change.

California is “spending millions and millions of dollars on this while the federal government is sitting on its hands,” Professor Westerling said. “And all that money is being raised because we’re putting a price on carbon.”

What about climate change?

Scientists noted that Mr. Trump’s statement didn’t address the role climate change has played in creating a hotter and drier fire season. The president in the past has dismissed climate change as a hoax and his top cabinet officials have questioned the established science that rising global temperatures are caused by human activity.

Michael F. Wehner, a senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said it was not possible to quantify precisely the likelihood that climate change is having an impact on forest fires, as can now be done with other extreme-weather events such as heat waves.

And, he said, it’s not easy to weigh how much of the problem can be laid at the feet of forest-management practices. However, climate change is making summers longer and drier, which expands the wildfire season.

“To dismiss the role of climate change on these fires is simply incorrect,” he said.

California fire officials on Monday said the Carr Fire in Shasta County had ravaged more than 160,000 acres while the Mendocino Complex fires grew overnight and had charred more than 273,000 acres across Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties.

The White House’s disaster declaration ordered federal funding be made available to help recovery efforts. “Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property loses and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster,” a White House statement said.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

[AmazonGrace]

 

[Destiny]

11 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Okay, FJers, time to fess up, anyone here in this picture?

I'm the one in purple (in spirit!)

[Cartmann99]

Love me! Pay attention to me! Tell me I'm the smartest, prettiest, and most special POTUS ever!!!!

 

[GreyhoundFan]

He only loves the people who are white. and wealthy.

 

From Alexandra Petri: "Make America Asbestos Again"

Spoiler

One of them wants to come to your country legally, work a job, contribute and eventually become a citizen. The other… is asbestos.

Guess which one President Trump has, historically, been vocally in favor of, and which one Trump’s administration is about to emit guidelines to discourage as much as it can? No, you do not need to guess. It is the Trump administration, and obviously its attitude is “LEGAL IMMIGRANTS are the real danger here. Give us more asbestos, please.”

That’s right. Not only have we not gotten around to banning asbestos, as nearly 60 other countries have, but also a Significant New Use Rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency in June (open for comment until Aug. 10!) would allow the case-by-case approval of certain uses of asbestos! Hooray! We have too many people coming here to try to build better lives! We have too little asbestos! You’re welcome!

Given the option of accepting that some things from the past should remain in the past, or saying, hey, you know what, we should give another hearing to this PROVEN CARCINOGENIC, it is no surprise what EPA has chosen. In fact, an optimistic Russian asbestos company has already printed Trump’s picture on the side of its products, because in the past he has said things like The Mob Was the Only Thing Responsible for Getting Rid of This Wonderful Substance and Had Only the World Trade Center Contained Asbestos, the Outcome of 9/11 Would Have Been Much Different.

Asbestos. I ask you.

All of the things we had hoped to leave in the ’80s are here right now with a big TRUMP seal attached. Usually, when people want to bring back the past, it is because they are remembering it wrong. They are thinking of a TV-perfect past when everyone wore dresses with Peter Pan collars and ate abundant casserole, where people learned Latin in school, television personalities were all thesauruses wrapped in seersucker, and you could use the word “pulchritude” in conversation without attracting stares. They have the erroneous idea that the past was politer, or more intellectual, or more civilized. They have been seduced by this image of the past as a classier, gentler time full of finger bowls and picket fences and children in overalls saying “gee whiz!”

But not the Trump team! They do not want the gauzy Norman Rockwell past. They do not want the appearance of intellectualism or the veneer of politeness. Let those go. They want, specifically, the overt racism and the asbestos. Those are what they have singled out as the signature characteristics of the Time when America was Great. Which… points for honesty, I guess?

This return to days gone by starts with asbestos and racism, and continues to include sexism, smog, Nazis and the constant nagging terror of nuclear war! And, soon, if we are lucky, extra lung cancer, mesothelioma, cancer of the larynx and ovary, and of course asbestosis!

Yes, bring back asbestos. Be (as)Best(os). America has gone downhill: We have too little carcinogenic insulation. Honestly, we are living too long. Or maybe it just feels too long.

At this rate, I can only guess what else they want to bring back. The Alien and Sedition Acts? Duels? Lead paint? Child chimney sweeps? The forced separation of families. (No, as usual, the cartoonishly evil thing that you should be able to save as a completely outrageous example has already happened.)

If you ever had the tendency to romanticize the past, the Trump era is a great wake-up call. Come hell or high water, they will bring back all of the ugliness of the past and none of its appeal. Bring back the industrial hazards and the carte blanche to wade into America’s wetlands and strangle rare birds. Bring back the cabinets jam-packed with elderly white men. Bring back… Russia? And put up this wall!

When Trump said “Make America Great Again” we could not have guessed how dim, grimy and bleak his vision of the past was. He is like a malignant time traveler who has come rushing here to give us all the radioactive garbage from bygone years: sexism, tariffs and asbestos! Also, a lack of certainty as to where our healthcare would be coming from and a strained relationship with Germany. Still, even those who always suspected that his real message was “Make America White Again” might be surprised to learn that he meant literally, by covering it in cancerous dust. But it is our fault for being surprised.

Maybe Rudy wants to become one of those mesothelioma torts attorneys and Dumpy is helping him drum up future business.

[47of74]

Sweet Rufus. His self-aggrandizement is staggering. 
Trump replays his own rallies on White House dining room TV to show 'evidence of his brilliance', report says

Donald Trump revels in watching moments from his rallies on a television screen situated in the White House dining room, a new report claims.
The president’s affinity for television is well-documented, with multiple screens at his bedside reportedly playing major networks simultaneously throughout the night. But new reporting says Mr Trump's TV watching doesn't stop in the bedroom: he and his associates watch his nationwide rallies in a dining room attached to the Oval Office. 
"Wait for it," Mr Trump reportedly says as he watches special moments from his recent rallies that are preloaded onto a TiVo device. "See what I did there?"
In one occasion, the president compared himself to PT Barnum, an American politician and businessman known as the "the greatest showman", according to Axios. 
"People think it’s easy," Mr Trump said, according to one source who spoke anonymously. "I've been doing this a long time now and people are used to it, every rally, it's like, people have said PT Barnum. People have said that before. And they think that's easy, because hey, PT Barnum, he does the circus."
"They don’t realise, it’s a lot of work," Mr Trump reportedly added. "It's not easy."
Mr Trump has also enjoyed watching a moment from the 2016 presidential debate against Hillary Clinton in which he suggested he'd put the former Democratic candidate in jail if he were elected, the report goes on to add. 
It is not uncommon for politicians to replay their televised speeches and other moments from their rallies in an effort to improve strategic communications and political messaging.
However, rather than using the TV screening moments for research and assessment, the president reportedly "luxuriates in the moments he believes are evidence of his brilliance."
The White House did not respond to enquiries, though Mr Trump has repeatedly blasted the media for its coverage of his presidency on Twitter in recent days, while sharing footage from his Ohio rally over the weekend. 
Mr Trump described the media as "dangerous and sick" just after sharing a video from his speech, writing: "The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE."
"I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division & distrust."

 


Does he beat off to videos of his rallies?

Don’t picture or answer that. You’ll have nightmares.

[fraurosena]

19 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

 


Does he beat off to videos of his rallies?

Don’t picture or answer that. You’ll have nightmares.

Too late... 

[Cartmann99]

18 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

 
Does he beat off to videos of his rallies?

Don’t picture or answer that. You’ll have nightmares.

Palate cleanser!!!

 

[fraurosena]

32 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

He only loves the people who are white. and wealthy.

 

From Alexandra Petri: "Make America Asbestos Again"

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One of them wants to come to your country legally, work a job, contribute and eventually become a citizen. The other… is asbestos.

Guess which one President Trump has, historically, been vocally in favor of, and which one Trump’s administration is about to emit guidelines to discourage as much as it can? No, you do not need to guess. It is the Trump administration, and obviously its attitude is “LEGAL IMMIGRANTS are the real danger here. Give us more asbestos, please.”

That’s right. Not only have we not gotten around to banning asbestos, as nearly 60 other countries have, but also a Significant New Use Rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency in June (open for comment until Aug. 10!) would allow the case-by-case approval of certain uses of asbestos! Hooray! We have too many people coming here to try to build better lives! We have too little asbestos! You’re welcome!

Given the option of accepting that some things from the past should remain in the past, or saying, hey, you know what, we should give another hearing to this PROVEN CARCINOGENIC, it is no surprise what EPA has chosen. In fact, an optimistic Russian asbestos company has already printed Trump’s picture on the side of its products, because in the past he has said things like The Mob Was the Only Thing Responsible for Getting Rid of This Wonderful Substance and Had Only the World Trade Center Contained Asbestos, the Outcome of 9/11 Would Have Been Much Different.

Asbestos. I ask you.

All of the things we had hoped to leave in the ’80s are here right now with a big TRUMP seal attached. Usually, when people want to bring back the past, it is because they are remembering it wrong. They are thinking of a TV-perfect past when everyone wore dresses with Peter Pan collars and ate abundant casserole, where people learned Latin in school, television personalities were all thesauruses wrapped in seersucker, and you could use the word “pulchritude” in conversation without attracting stares. They have the erroneous idea that the past was politer, or more intellectual, or more civilized. They have been seduced by this image of the past as a classier, gentler time full of finger bowls and picket fences and children in overalls saying “gee whiz!”

But not the Trump team! They do not want the gauzy Norman Rockwell past. They do not want the appearance of intellectualism or the veneer of politeness. Let those go. They want, specifically, the overt racism and the asbestos. Those are what they have singled out as the signature characteristics of the Time when America was Great. Which… points for honesty, I guess?

This return to days gone by starts with asbestos and racism, and continues to include sexism, smog, Nazis and the constant nagging terror of nuclear war! And, soon, if we are lucky, extra lung cancer, mesothelioma, cancer of the larynx and ovary, and of course asbestosis!

Yes, bring back asbestos. Be (as)Best(os). America has gone downhill: We have too little carcinogenic insulation. Honestly, we are living too long. Or maybe it just feels too long.

At this rate, I can only guess what else they want to bring back. The Alien and Sedition Acts? Duels? Lead paint? Child chimney sweeps? The forced separation of families. (No, as usual, the cartoonishly evil thing that you should be able to save as a completely outrageous example has already happened.)

If you ever had the tendency to romanticize the past, the Trump era is a great wake-up call. Come hell or high water, they will bring back all of the ugliness of the past and none of its appeal. Bring back the industrial hazards and the carte blanche to wade into America’s wetlands and strangle rare birds. Bring back the cabinets jam-packed with elderly white men. Bring back… Russia? And put up this wall!

When Trump said “Make America Great Again” we could not have guessed how dim, grimy and bleak his vision of the past was. He is like a malignant time traveler who has come rushing here to give us all the radioactive garbage from bygone years: sexism, tariffs and asbestos! Also, a lack of certainty as to where our healthcare would be coming from and a strained relationship with Germany. Still, even those who always suspected that his real message was “Make America White Again” might be surprised to learn that he meant literally, by covering it in cancerous dust. But it is our fault for being surprised.

Maybe Rudy wants to become one of those mesothelioma torts attorneys and Dumpy is helping him drum up future business.

I don't get it. Seriously. Why is that stuff even being made any more, when the whole world knows it's carcinogenic properties? And who in his right mind would ever want to use it? 

[AnywhereButHere]

2 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

Love me! Pay attention to me! Tell me I'm the smartest, prettiest, and most special POTUS ever!!!!

 

Red wave? Like, uh, Communism,or a menstrual period from hell?

And he'll only support you within reason - like you kiss his ass and throw him parades.

But only if he finds the time, mind you.

Spoiler

 

 

[CTRLZero]

2 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

Love me! Pay attention to me! Tell me I'm the smartest, prettiest, and most special POTUS ever!!!!

My husband sent me a text, and it autocorrected "photo" to "potus."  I blame Trump...

[47of74]

3 minutes ago, CTRLZero said:

My husband sent me a text, and it autocorrected "photo" to "potus."  I blame Trump...

I think you can guess what my iPhone guesses any time I type in the letters for.  I'm surprised it isn't autocorrecting to it yet.

[Cartmann99]

3 hours ago, AnywhereButHere said:

Red wave? Like, uh, Communism,or a menstrual period from hell?

I keep thinking about those news stories I've read about the red tide problem in Florida. You'd think that someone would work to come up with an better image for Republicans winning than blood, dead fish, or Commies. 

[onekidanddone]

On 8/7/2018 at 2:52 PM, fraurosena said:

If you put words in ALL CAPS people will notice them better.

Except when you look at all the words he's capitalized in that tweet, it says 'NOT WORLD PEACE'. Freudian slip, I suppose.

 

Like when my niece was having a tantrum and my sister tried to reason with her. The kid stood there and proclaimed I AM NOT SCREAMING. 

My take on the tweet above. He really doesn’t want to campaign for the candidates. His ‘with in reason’ and ‘I’m not too busy’ will be his excuse to avoid looking like a fool if there isn’t the red tide he boasts about. 

And just to point out to him that he supported people in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Alabama. And it wasn’t quite the victory parade he wanted 

[GreyhoundFan]

[GreyhoundFan]

[Cartmann99]

The beatings will continue until morale improves:

He also quotes Faux saying he's totally innocent, and loses his shit all over again over black NFL players refusing to obey his command to stop kneeling.

[onekidanddone]

2 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

The beatings will continue until morale improves:

He also quotes Faux saying he's totally innocent, and loses his shit all over again over black NFL players refusing to obey his command to stop kneeling.

I had a feeling he was going to start in on the NFL again. Deflect from Manafort and Muller while spweing forth openly racist ranting. 

I’m looking to see how he responds to the Nazi rally on Sunday 

[AnywhereButHere]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/after-being-destroyed-trumps-walk-of-fame-star-multiplies/ar-BBLJ3d3?ocid=ientp

 Maybe this will calm him down and soothe his soul. Someone out there loves him. Someone disturbed and disturbing - but someone nonetheless.

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The anonymous artist says he's not done with his mission to preserve Trump's star. "Rip up the president's Walk of Fame star or try to have it removed — like you're the mayor of West Hollywood or something — and 30 more will pop up," the artist tells The Hollywood Reporter.

The artist and his cohorts, who call themselves "The Faction" and are allies of prolific conservative artist Sabo, spent $1,000 on the stars, which they printed on sheets of floor vinyl with adhesive backing, and their mission was partially financed by "a young and anonymous entrepreneur."

The crew laminated the vinyl stars and placed them on blank squares on the Walk of Fame, though kept them covered until all were secured into place so that onlookers would not know exactly what was happening.

"I didn't want to get hit over the head from behind. We thought Trump Derangement Syndrome was a joke, but I'm pretty sure it's real," the artist said. "If no one peels these off, they could last there for 10 years."

 

[GreyhoundFan]