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His "deal" with Xi is unwritten, nobody knows what was agreed in detail, and reports about it from China and USA diverge hilariously.
a classic Trash "l'etat c'est moi" gaffe
The president looked awful, but this foreign trip was essentially free of embarrassing gaffes and needless provocation. Not sure whether to call that progress or the soft bigotry of low expectations.
His "deal" with Xi is unwritten, nobody knows what was agreed in detail, and reports about it from China and USA diverge hilariously.
a classic Trash "l'etat c'est moi" gaffe
Yes, brilliant of Trump to have this guy in his cabinet for almost two years and consider appointing him as his AG when all this was obviously going to come back some day.
Dems are now forcing themselves to ask questions about Acosta!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ed/2156355002/
lol TSA
‘Get me out of here!’: Hot mic catches confused Trump as he wanders off stage at G-20
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/get...ff-stage-g-20/
From Fox Business!
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's thin grasp of trade, science policy
TRADE
TRUMP: "Billions of Dollars are pouring into the coffers of the U.S.A. because of the Tariffs being charged to China, and there is a long way to go. If companies don't want to pay Tariffs, build in the U.S.A. Otherwise, lets just make our Country richer than ever before." — tweet Thursday.
THE FACTS: That's not how it works. Yes, money from tariffs is going into the federal treasury, but it's coming from U.S. businesses, not from overseas. Tariffs are paid by the importer, not the exporter or government in another country.
TRUMP, on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement: "The USMCA is the largest, most significant, modern and balanced trade agreement in history. All of our countries will benefit greatly. It is probably the largest trade deal ever made, also. " — signing ceremony Friday.
THE FACTS: It's not the largest trade deal ever made. It covers the same three countries as its predecessor,
NAFTA. In contrast, the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations concluded in 1994 created the World Trade Organization and was signed by 123 countries. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston found the following year that the WTO's initial membership accounted for more than 90 percent of global economic output.
TRUMP, on the pact with Canada and Mexico: "This is a model agreement that changes the trade landscape forever." He also referred to the pact as a "landmark agreement." — ceremony Friday.
THE FACTS: Actually, the pact preserves the structure and substance of NAFTA, which was unquestionably a landmark, whether for better or worse.
MANUFACTURING
TRUMP: "Remember the previous administration said, oh, manufacturing jobs, that will never happen. I kept saying, what's he talking about? Manufacturing, we got to make things, right? They said manufacturing jobs would never come back. You'd need a magic wand. Well, we found the magic wand. And they're great jobs. They're high-paying jobs. They're brilliant jobs. They're important jobs." — Biloxi, Mississippi, rally Monday.
THE FACTS: No magic wand has swept across manufacturing.
Yes, manufacturing jobs have been added under Trump, but the sector is nowhere close to its old glory.
TRUMP: "Our steel industry a year ago was dead, and now it's one of the most vibrant anywhere in the world, because we stopped the steel dumping and we put a big tax on. When they steel dump, they can dump all they want, but they pay 25 percent on everything they dump, and our steel now is doing great. Our industry has come back." — Mississippi rally.
TRUMP: "Big Steel is opening and renovating plants all over the country." — tweet Thursday.
THE FACTS: He's exaggerating the recovery of the steel industry.
As of October, there were 381,700 jobs in the manufacturing of primary metals such as steel. That figure seesaws based off commodity prices and global economic performance. But it's clearly trended downward since 2000 when the sector had 621,800 jobs.
It's difficult to know just how many jobs will be added by newly planned mills. But construction spending on factories has yet to take off significantly after having been in decline between 2016 and much of 2018.
etc, etc, etc
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...science-policy
Happy Monday
Trump is setting up his dementia defenseWhat's up wit ya boy:
Shortly afterward, he told a staffer "get me out of here!"
That worked for Reagan during his Iran-Contra scandal.
Thats because most of the G20 world leaders are as big clowns or bigger clowns than him tbqh
Macron, Bone Sawman, Merkel, May, trudeau, macri, bolsonaro
Thats why Ttump didnt look too out of place
Todays world leaders
Trump is setting up his dementia defense
There was that time he left the president of Argentina hanging before the group photo.
Trump is zombiefied out there after the cohen plea deal. He's just scared.
Dont blame him either. he should be.
A Yale psychiatrist explains how loyalty Trump is predicated on emotional patterns the majority of us grow out of by age five
"Strongman-type personalities are very appealing in times of socioeconomic or political crisis, as the population is less able to think rationally."
The sense of grandiose omnipotence that 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.
Strongman-type personalities are very appealing in times of socioeconomic or political crisis,
as the population is less able to think rationally
but is rather overcome with fear, or desire to draw strength from fantastical ideas.
The problem is, the person who promises the impossible and states, “I alone can fix it,” and
gives himself an A+ on his performance,
is not a strong person who can deliver
but the opposite.
More and more of this personality type are taking on leadership positions,
including of corporations,
whereas 20 years ago one would mostly find them in jails and prisons.
This also means there are a growing number of people who emulate them in the general culture,
who become deprived from the structures that they create, and
who become emotionally traumatized as a result of any of these consequences.
People who are wounded this way continue to seek omnipotent parental figures as adults,
and the vicious circle continues.
Mr. Trump’s behavioral pattern is not that of leaders at all
but rather of obsequious followers,
as we have seen Mr. Trump become in the presence of even more successful strongmen, such as Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, or Rodrigo Duterte.
We find in him a pattern of following exactly what his base is looking for—
he has no intrinsic philosophy or ideology but is responding to an emotional need for adulation and approval,
He also has to scapegoat groups in order to distract
from his billionaire cabinet,
tax breaks for the rich, and
trade wars that hurt his base the most, and
so his demonizing of other helpless groups will only increase with time.
https://www.alternet.org/yale-psychiatrist-explains-how-loyalty-trump-predicated-emotional-patterns-majority-us-grow-out-age
Criminals are always "tough" guys -
until
they see the long arm of the law reaching their throat and begin squeezing.
This piece of criminal is way overdue to finally be accountable. He should have stayed far away from politics.
Trump is setting up his dementia defense
What's up wit ya boy:
Shortly afterward, he told a staffer "get me out of here!"
^
Actually, that calculation is not that stupid...
think about it:
How many Trump supporters do you think have ever watched an NBA game?
(not counting spurstalk posters of course- those idiots are the only white supremacist nba watchers on the planet - you nazis know who you are!)
Harvard/Harris Poll: Trump's Approval Up to 46 Percent
That is true
The Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey is an online sample drawn from the Harris Panel and weighted to reflect known demographics. As a representative online sample, it does not report a probability confidence interval.
You don't know what any of that means.The Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey is an online sample drawn from the Harris Panel and weighted to reflect known demographics. As a representative online sample, it does not report a probability confidence interval.
Last edited by Chris; 12-04-2018 at 03:01 AM.
Explain it to himYou don't know what any of that means.
Happy Mueller week, you racist got #MAGA
G-20 Leaders Vote Unanimously Not to Give Trump Asylum
BUENOS AIRES—In an unusual display of unity by an often fractious organization, the leaders of the G-20 nations voted unanimously on Saturday to deny Donald J. Trump’s urgent request for asylum.
Prior to the vote, Trump had been heard asking colleagues ranging from Angela Merkel to Xi Jinping for safe harbor in their countries,
sweetening his request with offers of free luxury penthouses in Trump buildings around the globe.
In the most stunning insult to Trump, his closest allies,
Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman, responded to his asylum request by laughing uproariously in his face and high-fiving each other.
After the resolution to deny Trump asylum passed by a 19–0 vote, international observers said that they
had never seen the G-20 act with such enthusiastic solidarity.
“Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron were practically peeing themselves,” one observer said.
After receiving the resounding rebuke from the G-20, Trump grumpily withdrew to his hotel room, where
he reportedly placed several calls to Kim Jong Un that went straight to voice mail.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/g-20-leaders-vote-unanimously-not-to-give-trump-asylum
Lol I bet the average age of those people that responded is +/-70
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