Trump 37: Tweeting instead of Leading

[47of74]

49 minutes ago, Drala said:

Sean Hannity is someone I see as being long overdue for a major comeuppance.  The guy has put way too much negative shit into the universe for things not to come back around and kick him in the ass.

I would pay cash money to see that son of a bitch perp walked.  In a bright orange jumpsuit too. 

If fornicate face wasn't copping a squat in the Oval Office right now do you all think he'd be residing in a memory unit somewhere, with people being given strict instructions to not open the door for him no matter how much he insists on being let out?

I remember the first time going up to the assisted living place where my grandparents were and my mom pointing out the memory care wing and saying to not open the door to that wing should I see anyone standing there.  I could see the orange fornicate standing at the door demanding to be let out to inflict his evil upon the world.

[Cartmann99]

3 hours ago, fraurosena said:

The orange man-baby needs his pacifier. 

Oh honey, everybody who understands polling data knows Rasmussen skews Republican. A Republican bragging about positive Rasmussen results is like somebody bragging about how their mom says they were the prettiest baby ever born. 

Also, your constant whining just makes you look petty and small.

2 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Fuck Head is considering not having Pence as his running mate in 2020

 

Lyin' Ted is busy composing a "Why I Should be Your VP" letter.

[onekidanddone]

24 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

Oh honey, everybody who understands polling data knows Rasmussen skews Republican. A Republican bragging about positive Rasmussen results is like somebody bragging about how their mom says they were the prettiest baby ever born. 

Also, your constant whining just makes you look petty and small.

Lyin' Ted is busy composing a "Why I Should be Your VP" letter.

Actually he is right for once when he talks about "Presidential Harassment" because he has been harassing us with his tweets for years upon years. 

[fraurosena]

1 hour ago, onekidanddone said:

Or there won't be an election in 2020 and he won't have a VP.  Just his sons and daughter in fake military uniforms.

That would mean that there has been a coup and a dictatorship has been established. And that would mean the military would have turned against the people and thrown in with the presidunce. Somehow I don't see that happening anytime soon.

[GreyhoundFan]

Short answer: NOPE. "President Trump uses undocumented immigrant labor. Is anyone surprised?"

Spoiler

If I told you that President Trump employs undocumented immigrants, you might say, “That’s impossible. A staunch and principled opponent of illegal immigrants like him would never allow such a thing!” Or, if you actually knew anything about Trump, you might say, “Of course he does.”

Well guess what:

During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with a Secret Service logo.

Because of the “outstanding” support she has provided during Mr. Trump’s visits, Ms. Morales in July was given a certificate from the White House Communications Agency inscribed with her name.

Quite an achievement for an undocumented immigrant housekeeper.

Ms. Morales’s journey from cultivating corn in rural Guatemala to fluffing pillows at an exclusive golf resort took her from the southwest border, where she said she crossed illegally in 1999, to the horse country of New Jersey, where she was hired at the Trump property in 2013 with documents she said were phony.

She said she was not the only worker at the club who was in the country illegally.

Obviously Trump doesn’t personally hire every housekeeper in his clubs (although one of these undocumented immigrants was ironing his underwear; that’s how close to him they were). The Trump organization says it will fire any of its workers it learns is in the country illegally. But the truth is that Trump has a long history of using foreign and undocumented labor, without much regard for the American workers he says are displaced by immigrant labor and sometimes without evident concern for the law. Let’s run through some of his history:

• Trump regularly hires foreign workers for jobs as housekeepers and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. While the law requires an employer to first make an effort to find employees in the United States before filing a request to hire foreign workers, Mar-a-Lago accomplishes this by complying with the letter of the law but in a manner seemingly designed make sure it gets no American applicants: by placing two small ads deep inside the Palm Beach Post to which an applicant may reply only via mail or fax — not online, not by phone and not in person.
• According to an investigation by Mother Jones, Trump’s modeling agency, Trump Model Management, brought foreign models to the United States to work, despite the fact that they were in the country on tourist visas, a violation of the law. “Two of the former Trump models said Trump’s agency encouraged them to deceive customs officials about why they were visiting the United States and told them to lie on customs forms about where they intended to live.” They were crammed into small apartments for which the agency charged them exorbitant rent and had other expenses deducted from their fees, leaving them with little income and the constant knowledge that they could be sent out of the country at any moment. “It is like modern-day slavery,” said one model.
• Trump Tower was built in part by undocumented Polish workers who sued Trump to get wages they said they were owed. "We worked in horrid, terrible conditions,'' said one. ''We were frightened illegal immigrants and did not know enough about our rights.''

It’s hard to know how much Trump knew at the time he was employing all of these undocumented immigrants; he tends to plead ignorance. But we certainly see a pattern of a man who wants things done cheaply and isn’t too concerned about the rules.

So will Trump's supporters, the ones who chant "Build the wall!" at his rallies and thrill to every attack he makes on immigrants, be unsettled by any of this?

Of course not. With the infinite capacity for rationalization they’ve already demonstrated, they’ll say it all just proves what a shrewd businessman Trump is. And besides, their anger isn’t directed at the employers who utilize (or exploit) undocumented labor, it’s at the immigrants themselves. That’s who Trump has urged them to hate, and there is not a thing they could learn about him that would change that.

Okay, I can't imagine having anyone iron my underwear.

[mamallama]

BTW, the illegal Polish workers were reported in newspapers so I'm sure Trump knew.  Even if he can't read I'm sure someone would have mentioned it.

 

[Audrey2]

So if Trump ditches Pence, here are some of my names:

Ted Cruz

Sean Hannity- the FOX faithful would love this one

Mitch McConnell

Lindsey Graham

Nunes from California

[onekidanddone]

25 minutes ago, Audrey2 said:

So if Trump ditches Pence, here are some of my names:

Ted Cruz

Sean Hannity- the FOX faithful would love this one

Mitch McConnell

Lindsey Graham

Nunes from California

• Don Jr.
• Treason Barbie
• Steve Miller
• A sack of dirt
• VPs are for losers! Unlike the other 44 presidents he is such a stable genius and like really smart he doesn't need one.

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Short answer: NOPE. "President Trump uses undocumented immigrant labor. Is anyone surprised?"

  Reveal hidden contents

If I told you that President Trump employs undocumented immigrants, you might say, “That’s impossible. A staunch and principled opponent of illegal immigrants like him would never allow such a thing!” Or, if you actually knew anything about Trump, you might say, “Of course he does.”

Well guess what:

During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with a Secret Service logo.

Because of the “outstanding” support she has provided during Mr. Trump’s visits, Ms. Morales in July was given a certificate from the White House Communications Agency inscribed with her name.

Quite an achievement for an undocumented immigrant housekeeper.

Ms. Morales’s journey from cultivating corn in rural Guatemala to fluffing pillows at an exclusive golf resort took her from the southwest border, where she said she crossed illegally in 1999, to the horse country of New Jersey, where she was hired at the Trump property in 2013 with documents she said were phony.

She said she was not the only worker at the club who was in the country illegally.

Obviously Trump doesn’t personally hire every housekeeper in his clubs (although one of these undocumented immigrants was ironing his underwear; that’s how close to him they were). The Trump organization says it will fire any of its workers it learns is in the country illegally. But the truth is that Trump has a long history of using foreign and undocumented labor, without much regard for the American workers he says are displaced by immigrant labor and sometimes without evident concern for the law. Let’s run through some of his history:

• Trump regularly hires foreign workers for jobs as housekeepers and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. While the law requires an employer to first make an effort to find employees in the United States before filing a request to hire foreign workers, Mar-a-Lago accomplishes this by complying with the letter of the law but in a manner seemingly designed make sure it gets no American applicants: by placing two small ads deep inside the Palm Beach Post to which an applicant may reply only via mail or fax — not online, not by phone and not in person.
• According to an investigation by Mother Jones, Trump’s modeling agency, Trump Model Management, brought foreign models to the United States to work, despite the fact that they were in the country on tourist visas, a violation of the law. “Two of the former Trump models said Trump’s agency encouraged them to deceive customs officials about why they were visiting the United States and told them to lie on customs forms about where they intended to live.” They were crammed into small apartments for which the agency charged them exorbitant rent and had other expenses deducted from their fees, leaving them with little income and the constant knowledge that they could be sent out of the country at any moment. “It is like modern-day slavery,” said one model.
• Trump Tower was built in part by undocumented Polish workers who sued Trump to get wages they said they were owed. "We worked in horrid, terrible conditions,'' said one. ''We were frightened illegal immigrants and did not know enough about our rights.''

It’s hard to know how much Trump knew at the time he was employing all of these undocumented immigrants; he tends to plead ignorance. But we certainly see a pattern of a man who wants things done cheaply and isn’t too concerned about the rules.

So will Trump's supporters, the ones who chant "Build the wall!" at his rallies and thrill to every attack he makes on immigrants, be unsettled by any of this?

Of course not. With the infinite capacity for rationalization they’ve already demonstrated, they’ll say it all just proves what a shrewd businessman Trump is. And besides, their anger isn’t directed at the employers who utilize (or exploit) undocumented labor, it’s at the immigrants themselves. That’s who Trump has urged them to hate, and there is not a thing they could learn about him that would change that.

Okay, I can't imagine having anyone iron my underwear.

I had a great aunt who ironed everything. Towels, bed sheets, underwear.

[fraurosena]

You guys, what are you doing? No need to speculate on a possible Veep! There will be no election in which the presidunce will be running.

Remember, it’ll be Mueller time in 2019.

[fraurosena]

Daily dose of fear-mongering.

Boarder Security? 

[prayawaythefundie]

But will Trump still have the support of the evangelical crowd without Pence?

[fraurosena]

It's Friday, and today more information from the Mueller probe will be made public. In anticipation of that ...

... the presidunce can't sleep.

[AmazonGrace]

56 minutes ago, prayawaythefundie said:

But will Trump still have the support of the evangelical crowd without Pence?

Yeah I think he will... by now everyone has had to excuse and explain away so many crappy sins (you know, David was a pretty shitty person but he was anointed by God to lead the people of Israel...) that to go back from the position that God wanted Trump to win and criticize him in any way would mean that God was wrong and their heads would explode.

[fraurosena]

Bloody idiot.

 

[fraurosena]

The complete and utter fear is just dripping off his tweets today.

[AmazonGrace]

"Bye the way"

Nailed it.  

What does he mean, "Republicans only Report"? 

Anyway I have a theory that Mueller will not have much to say about the corruption at the DNC because that's not what he's been investigating.

[fraurosena]

2 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

"Bye the way"

Nailed it.  

What does he mean, "Republicans only Report"? 

I think he believes the report will only be provided to the Republicans... or something... or... who knows?

[prayawaythefundie]

6 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

I think he believes the report will only be provided to the Republicans... or something... or... who knows?

I think, he means a report about Republicans’ (alleged) misconduct only. Kinda like kid1 screaming „but look what kid2 was doing“ when being scolded.

[Botkinetti]

I don’t think even he knows what he means. He is grasping at straws. Panic causes people to react irrationally and trump is acting weirder every day.

[AmazonGrace]

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..And so much more!

Funny how the president of the United States manages to sound like a TV shop salesman even in his obstruction state of mind. 

If you order now you get Mueller corruption! But that's not all! if you call in the next fifteen minutes, you also get the Clinton foundation and the Deep State!  

And so much more, for this low price!

[GreyhoundFan]

I hope his sitters got some rest last night because they are in for an epic meltdown all day. He's going to need his diapers changed more frequently than usual.

[Howl]

15 minutes ago, Botkinetti said:

Panic causes people narcissists to react irrationally and trump is acting weirder every day.

Fixed it for ya! This caught my eye because a few of the people I follow on twitter have a narcissistic parent or were married to a narcissist  and have discussed how you can set your watch to their predictable  responses to feeling disrespected or trapped and they clearly see this with Trump.   One person remarked that narcissists are most dangerous when they are cornered and the Manafort (and Cohen?) sentencing memo being dropped on a Friday evening is apparently especially anxiety provoking. 

CNN reported this morning that John Kelly really is, finally, God's Honest Truth, supposedly, most likely, NO, I REALLY mean it this time, pinky swear, everybody says so, leaving soon.  Apparently, Trump and Kelly aren't speaking to each other (!) and aren't planning on couples counseling!  Pence figures into this because his perky young Chief of Staff, Ayers, may very well be Kelly's replacement.  If I were John Kelly's wife, I'd be apprehensive to suddenly have Kelly at home 24-7. 

ETA:  I have to remind myself that this was tweeted by our president.  Yes, OUR FUCKING PRESIDENT!  It's beyond crazy.  I'm sometimes agnostic on impeachment, but Holy Hell, we've become habituated to insanity. 

[formergothardite]

18 minutes ago, Botkinetti said:

I don’t think even he knows what he means. He is grasping at straws. Panic causes people to react irrationally and trump is acting weirder every day.

Yes. He isn't even making slight sense. He has the same words and phrases he repeats over and over in desperate hope he can say something, anything to stop this.Planning isn't his thing so there is no long term plan here from him. He just wants to get past today and hope he can distract from whatever awful news he is about to hear. 

Also, I think he was pretty annoyed that he had to spend one day this week not hate tweeting things all day. 

[AmazonGrace]

Does he even golf anymore? 

[thoughtful]

6 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Boarder Security? 

Well, one must be careful of renting a room, for fear of harboring Jack the Ripper:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017075/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037024/