The Official "Making America Great Again" Thread
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No clitzChizzang wrote:JohnStOnge wrote:
I don't think you're serious in saying that. Also, I don't think you think Trump considers the economy over all other issues. I think Trump considers Trump over all other issues.
This is a guy who did that thing about John McCain not being a hero because he was captured when HE got a deferment by claiming he had bone spurs in his heel. That in a context wherein he claims that he could have played professional baseball if he wanted to coming out of high school. Google "Trump history of cheating contractors" and see what you get on the "cheating people" front. Ask Jeff Sessions about being stabbed in the back. Go to Youtube and look at him saying he hand picked the instructors then note that he later admitted in a deposition that he didn't. Or contemplate him saying the NFL wrote him a letter expressing concern about the debate schedule then having the NFL saying it didn't do that. Or think about a more significant lie that happened when Ted C r u z said he supported Lybian intervention and he said he didn't. You can Youtube that one too and see him advocating using our military directly to intervene.
Or just go to Politifact's Trump file without succumbing to the nonsense about it being biased because it doesn't tell Trump supporters what they want to hear.
Or for Pete's sake just watch his immature behavior at any point for about 10 minutes.
The idea that ANYBODY would hold Donald Trump out as an example of a "real man" is just flat awful. No decent Father trying to raise his son to be a "real man" would try to raise his son to be like Donald Trump.![]()
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BDKJMU wrote:There's a # of things I don't like about Trump & the way some things have been handled. There's other things I do like about him, like:Skjellyfetti wrote:I think he was asking about on this forum.
I think it's BDK and Alpha and that's it. Maybe Cluck as well, but he is MIA. Maybe some other that are too embarrassed to admit it.
-gives the middle finger to the establishment: political (mostly donk, but conk too), global elitists (in US and abroad), media..
-drives the left & media absolutely batshit crazy.
-illegal immigration & refugee crackdown (even sans the border wall (which is more symbolism that practicality) & the bumbling rollout of the 1/2 doz nation temporary visa ban)..I know the morale of CBP & ICE has done a near 180 since the election..
-judges (not just Gorsuch but also circuit nominees which don't get near the mainstream attention)
-exec orders overturning a lot of Obama regs..
But aside from that I agree with this list. As someone who just likes to watch things burn, the Trump Presidency has been a great joy to watch.
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As far as the Session thing goes, not sure why seeing a career politician get slammed by an outsider in Trump such a surprise. Sessions got his reward for backing him, is sucking at doing his job, and Trump is realizing what a big mistake it was putting Sessions as AG. How the other senators react to his firing...meh...those senators are all part of the establishment, which is who the voters want Trump to smash. Those same senators are already failing to follow up with their own campaign rhetoric (see Obamacare repeal failure(s)) which, from a Trump supporters view, could only embolden their support of the crazy loon.
I guess my point is Trump was voted in to smash the broken system filled with political elites. Why the unwashed masses give a shit about congressional decorum as it pertains to how the ousting of an AG is handled is immaterial.
Oh, but if he ousts Sessions then the senators will oppose his agenda you say...uh yeah, the political elites/establishment were opposing Trump from day 1 so nothing new there. I'm just hoping Trump goes scorched earth and starts campaigning against establishment conks in the midterms. We all know it's coming, and it would be thoroughly entertaining.

I guess my point is Trump was voted in to smash the broken system filled with political elites. Why the unwashed masses give a shit about congressional decorum as it pertains to how the ousting of an AG is handled is immaterial.
Oh, but if he ousts Sessions then the senators will oppose his agenda you say...uh yeah, the political elites/establishment were opposing Trump from day 1 so nothing new there. I'm just hoping Trump goes scorched earth and starts campaigning against establishment conks in the midterms. We all know it's coming, and it would be thoroughly entertaining.
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Lol... Burn baby, burn! (Let's try a Parliament and single payer next time).SDHornet wrote:BDKJMU wrote:
There's a # of things I don't like about Trump & the way some things have been handled. There's other things I do like about him, like:
-gives the middle finger to the establishment: political (mostly donk, but conk too), global elitists (in US and abroad), media..
-drives the left & media absolutely batshit crazy.
-illegal immigration & refugee crackdown (even sans the border wall (which is more symbolism that practicality) & the bumbling rollout of the 1/2 doz nation temporary visa ban)..I know the morale of CBP & ICE has done a near 180 since the election..
-judges (not just Gorsuch but also circuit nominees which don't get near the mainstream attention)
-exec orders overturning a lot of Obama regs..![]()
So they guy decrying the fact that it wasn't going to get built is finally coming around to realizing that in fact...it wasn't ever going to get built.
That's very big of you BDKKK.
But aside from that I agree with this list. As someone who just likes to watch things burn, the Trump Presidency has been a great joy to watch.![]()
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OuchIvytalk wrote:Rex already has a Cat Stevens record album named after him:CID1990 wrote:
I don't know about that
What I do know is that the man needs more support inside the building but all he is getting is drama and unprofessional whining on social media
I think the pearl clutchers at Foggy Bottom need to consider how they'll like saying "Secretary Palin" or "Secretary Nugent"
BTW there's a lot of speculation over Tillerson taking a "break" next week, but I've been hearing for quite a while that he goes to Sturgis every year. That's probably what he's doing. He rode in Rolling Thunder a few weeks ago
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CID1990 wrote:I don't know about thatIbanez wrote:
Agreed. Cid, I've started hearing rumblings by a few DoS buddies of mine that Tillerson is thinking of jumping ship. What do you think?
What I do know is that the man needs more support inside the building but all he is getting is drama and unprofessional whining on social media
I think the pearl clutchers at Foggy Bottom need to consider how they'll like saying "Secretary Palin" or "Secretary Nugent"
BTW there's a lot of speculation over Tillerson taking a "break" next week, but I've been hearing for quite a while that he goes to Sturgis every year. That's probably what he's doing. He rode in Rolling Thunder a few weeks ago
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That has to hurt coming on the heels of no less of an authority than Sonny Barger saying that the Japanese V twins were better bikes....
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http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizz ... eve-bannon
Haha, amazing. I'll vote for Trump in 2020 just so I have this daily entertainment
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This!Silenoz wrote:http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizz ... eve-bannon
Haha, amazing. I'll vote for Trump in 2020 just so I have this daily entertainment
Quite a news day for the Trumpster Fire...
The Mooch goes rogue
Zinke threatens Alaska senators over the healthcare vote
The military pushes back on the LGBT issue
The freaking Boy Scouts leader apologizes for Trump
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Anyone that rides bikes knows Harleys are gigantic POS. Harley is the biggest fraud pitched to the American people in the history of sales.houndawg wrote:CID1990 wrote:
I don't know about that
What I do know is that the man needs more support inside the building but all he is getting is drama and unprofessional whining on social media
I think the pearl clutchers at Foggy Bottom need to consider how they'll like saying "Secretary Palin" or "Secretary Nugent"
BTW there's a lot of speculation over Tillerson taking a "break" next week, but I've been hearing for quite a while that he goes to Sturgis every year. That's probably what he's doing. He rode in Rolling Thunder a few weeks ago
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Tillerson riding a Harley. There goes their rep......
That has to hurt coming on the heels of no less of an authority than Sonny Barger saying that the Japanese V twins were better bikes....

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You will get a lot of pussy.ALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:Anyone that rides bikes knows Harleys are gigantic POS. Harley is the biggest fraud pitched to the American people in the history of sales.houndawg wrote:
Tillerson riding a Harley. There goes their rep......
That has to hurt coming on the heels of no less of an authority than Sonny Barger saying that the Japanese V twins were better bikes....
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Who wants most of it? Bunch of entitled cunts that think Ibanez is a man
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Oh pleaseALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:Anyone that rides bikes knows Harleys are gigantic POS. Harley is the biggest fraud pitched to the American people in the history of sales.houndawg wrote:
Tillerson riding a Harley. There goes their rep......
That has to hurt coming on the heels of no less of an authority than Sonny Barger saying that the Japanese V twins were better bikes....
It is the flaws that make Harley's great - it is for the same reasons that the Ural also has a cult following
They rattle and shake, and they break down. And the beauty of them is that all you need is a small set of tools to get them running again
On a touring BMW, you can't even change the oil yourself, because by the time you take off the fairings, you then need proprietary wrenches to get the plugs pulled
I'm on my third Harley and I can do every bit of maintenance it needs by myself, with a shop manual. And I like working on bikes so there's that
And I never could have screwed your sister riding a Honda
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https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/trump- ... 1501193193The president’s primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It’s not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily by ignoring traditional norms and forms of American masculinity.
He’s not strong and self-controlled, not cool and tough, not low-key and determined; he’s whiny, weepy and self-pitying. He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic. He’s a drama queen. It was once said, sarcastically, of George H.W. Bush that he reminded everyone of her first husband. Trump must remind people of their first wife. Actually his wife, Melania, is tougher than he is with her stoicism and grace, her self-discipline and desire to show the world respect by presenting herself with dignity.
Half the president’s tweets show utter weakness. They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn. “It’s very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their president.” The brutes. Actually they’ve been laboring to be loyal to him since Inauguration Day. “The Republicans never discuss how good their health care bill is.” True, but neither does Mr. Trump, who seems unsure of its content. In just the past two weeks, of the press, he complained: “Every story/opinion, even if should be positive, is bad!” Journalists produce “highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting.” They are “DISTORTING DEMOCRACY.” They “fabricate the facts.”
It’s all whimpering accusation and finger-pointing: Nobody’s nice to me. Why don’t they appreciate me?
His public brutalizing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t strong, cool and deadly; it’s limp, lame and blubbery. “Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes,” he tweeted this week. Talk about projection.
He told the Journal’s Michael C. Bender he is disappointed in Mr. Sessions and doesn’t feel any particular loyalty toward him. “He was a senator, he looks at 40,000 people and he probably says, ‘What do I have to lose?’ And he endorsed me. So it’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement.” Actually, Mr. Sessions supported him early and put his personal credibility on the line. In Politico, John J. Pitney Jr. of Claremont McKenna College writes: “Loyalty is about strength. It is about sticking with a person, a cause, an idea or a country even when it is costly, difficult or unpopular.” A strong man does that. A weak one would unleash his resentments and derive sadistic pleasure from their unleashing.
The way American men used to like seeing themselves, the template they most admired, was the strong silent type celebrated in classic mid-20th century films—Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Henry Fonda. In time the style shifted, and we wound up with the nervous and chattery. More than a decade ago the producer and writer David Chase had his Tony Soprano mourn the disappearance of the old style: “What they didn’t know is once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings they wouldn’t be able to shut him up!” The new style was more like that of Woody Allen. His characters couldn’t stop talking about their emotions, their resentments and needs. They were self-justifying as they acted out their cowardice and anger.
But he was a comic. It was funny. He wasn’t putting it out as a new template for maleness. Donald Trump now is like an unfunny Woody Allen.
Who needs a template for how to be a man? A lot of boys and young men, who’ve grown up in a culture confused about what men are and do. Who teaches them the real dignity and meaning of being a man? Mostly good fathers and teachers. Luckily Mr. Trump this week addressed the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, where he represented to them masculinity and the moral life.
“Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts, right?” But he overcame his natural reticence. We should change how we refer to Washington, he said: “We ought to change it from the word ‘swamp’ to perhaps ‘cesspool’ or perhaps to the word ‘sewer.’ ” Washington is not nice to him and is full of bad people. “As the Scout Law says, ‘A Scout is trustworthy, loyal—we could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that.” He then told them the apparently tragic story of a man who was once successful. “And in the end he failed, and he failed badly.”
Why should he inspire them, show personal height, weight and dignity, support our frail institutions? He has needs and wants—he is angry!—which supersede pesky, long-term objectives. Why put the amorphous hopes of the audience ahead of his own, more urgent needs?
His inability—not his refusal, but his inability—to embrace the public and rhetorical role of the presidency consistently and constructively is weak.
“It’s so easy to act presidential but that’s not gonna get it done,” Mr. Trump said the other night at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio. That is the opposite of the truth. The truth, six months in, is that he is not presidential and is not getting it done. His mad, blubbery petulance isn’t working for him but against him. If he were presidential he’d be getting it done—building momentum, gaining support. He’d be over 50%, not under 40%. He’d have health care, and more.
We close with the observation that it’s all nonstop drama and queen-for-a-day inside this hothouse of a White House. Staffers speak in their common yet somehow colorful language of their wants, their complaints. The new communications chief, Anthony Scaramucci, who in his debut came across as affable and in control of himself, went on CNN Thursday to show he’ll fit right in. He’s surrounded by “nefarious, backstabbing” leakers. “The fish stinks from the head down. But I can tell you two fish that don’t stink, and that’s me and the president.” He’s strong and well connected: “I’ve got buddies of mine in the FBI”; “ Sean Hannity is one of my closest friends.” He is constantly with the president, at dinner, on the phone, in the sauna snapping towels. I made that up. “The president and I would like to tell everybody we have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are.” Chief of Staff Reince Priebus better watch it. There are people in the White House who “think it is their job to save America from this president, okay?” So they leak. But we know who they are.
He seemed to think this diarrheic diatribe was professional, the kind of thing the big boys do with their media bros. But he came across as just another drama queen for this warring, riven, incontinent White House. As Scaramucci spoke, the historian Joshua Zeitz observed wonderingly, on Twitter: “It’s Team of Rivals but for morons.”
It is. And it stinks from the top.
Meanwhile the whole world is watching, a world that contains predators. How could they not be seeing this weakness, confusion and chaos and thinking it’s a good time to cause some trouble?

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Peggy Noonan has been all over the place on Trump. Now, she's negative again. So Drumpf will probably whine about it.
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I'll split the difference on these two opinions... ^CID1990 wrote:Oh pleaseALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:
Anyone that rides bikes knows Harleys are gigantic POS. Harley is the biggest fraud pitched to the American people in the history of sales.
It is the flaws that make Harley's great - it is for the same reasons that the Ural also has a cult following
They rattle and shake, and they break down. And the beauty of them is that all you need is a small set of tools to get them running again
On a touring BMW, you can't even change the oil yourself, because by the time you take off the fairings, you then need proprietary wrenches to get the plugs pulled
I'm on my third Harley and I can do every bit of maintenance it needs by myself, with a shop manual. And I like working on bikes so there's that
And I never could have screwed your sister riding a Honda
If you get the right Harley you indeed can pretty much disassemble and reassemble it
with a standard sears craftsman set for about $100... or you can by the Harley full toolkit for $250
add a few widget tools for the odd situation and you're done...
This ^ is unprecedented in the Bike world
However...
Buy a Yamaha or Kawasaki roadster and you'll never need ANY tools
and it's a substantially better vehicle that happens to be about 65% less fun
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I won't dispute any of that-Chizzang wrote:I'll split the difference on these two opinions... ^CID1990 wrote:
Oh please
It is the flaws that make Harley's great - it is for the same reasons that the Ural also has a cult following
They rattle and shake, and they break down. And the beauty of them is that all you need is a small set of tools to get them running again
On a touring BMW, you can't even change the oil yourself, because by the time you take off the fairings, you then need proprietary wrenches to get the plugs pulled
I'm on my third Harley and I can do every bit of maintenance it needs by myself, with a shop manual. And I like working on bikes so there's that
And I never could have screwed your sister riding a Honda
If you get the right Harley you indeed can pretty much disassemble and reassemble it
with a standard sears craftsman set for about $100... or you can by the Harley full toolkit for $250
add a few widget tools for the odd situation and you're done...
This ^ is unprecedented in the Bike world
However...
Buy a Yamaha or Kawasaki roadster and you'll never need ANY tools
and it's a substantially better vehicle that happens to be about 65% less fun
If I wanted a rideable sewing machine that never breaks and never wakes the neighbors I'd buy the Japanese bike
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Finally you made a worthwhile post. Accurate and not like a pretentious elitest.Chizzang wrote:I'll split the difference on these two opinions... ^CID1990 wrote:
Oh please
It is the flaws that make Harley's great - it is for the same reasons that the Ural also has a cult following
They rattle and shake, and they break down. And the beauty of them is that all you need is a small set of tools to get them running again
On a touring BMW, you can't even change the oil yourself, because by the time you take off the fairings, you then need proprietary wrenches to get the plugs pulled
I'm on my third Harley and I can do every bit of maintenance it needs by myself, with a shop manual. And I like working on bikes so there's that
And I never could have screwed your sister riding a Honda
If you get the right Harley you indeed can pretty much disassemble and reassemble it
with a standard sears craftsman set for about $100... or you can by the Harley full toolkit for $250
add a few widget tools for the odd situation and you're done...
This ^ is unprecedented in the Bike world
However...
Buy a Yamaha or Kawasaki roadster and you'll never need ANY tools
and it's a substantially better vehicle that happens to be about 65% less fun
Glad I was alive for it.
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Back to the topic. Can we all agree now that Trump being elected has diminished America if "America" is defined as the United States? I mean, at some point even the most ardent Trump zombies will have to admit that.
If your intention in supporting Trump during any portion of the election was to "make America great again" you really screwed up.
First, America was already great. Second, you supported someone who is diminishing America and that was very predictable.
If your intention in supporting Trump during any portion of the election was to "make America great again" you really screwed up.
First, America was already great. Second, you supported someone who is diminishing America and that was very predictable.
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JFC why not post the link and maybe a paragraph or 2, not the entire article..Not reading all that drivel. Someone give me the cliff notes version.Skjellyfetti wrote:https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/trump- ... 1501193193The president’s primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It’s not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily by ignoring traditional norms and forms of American masculinity.
He’s not strong and self-controlled, not cool and tough, not low-key and determined; he’s whiny, weepy and self-pitying. He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic. He’s a drama queen. It was once said, sarcastically, of George H.W. Bush that he reminded everyone of her first husband. Trump must remind people of their first wife. Actually his wife, Melania, is tougher than he is with her stoicism and grace, her self-discipline and desire to show the world respect by presenting herself with dignity.
Half the president’s tweets show utter weakness. They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn. “It’s very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their president.” The brutes. Actually they’ve been laboring to be loyal to him since Inauguration Day. “The Republicans never discuss how good their health care bill is.” True, but neither does Mr. Trump, who seems unsure of its content. In just the past two weeks, of the press, he complained: “Every story/opinion, even if should be positive, is bad!” Journalists produce “highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting.” They are “DISTORTING DEMOCRACY.” They “fabricate the facts.”
It’s all whimpering accusation and finger-pointing: Nobody’s nice to me. Why don’t they appreciate me?
His public brutalizing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t strong, cool and deadly; it’s limp, lame and blubbery. “Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes,” he tweeted this week. Talk about projection.
He told the Journal’s Michael C. Bender he is disappointed in Mr. Sessions and doesn’t feel any particular loyalty toward him. “He was a senator, he looks at 40,000 people and he probably says, ‘What do I have to lose?’ And he endorsed me. So it’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement.” Actually, Mr. Sessions supported him early and put his personal credibility on the line. In Politico, John J. Pitney Jr. of Claremont McKenna College writes: “Loyalty is about strength. It is about sticking with a person, a cause, an idea or a country even when it is costly, difficult or unpopular.” A strong man does that. A weak one would unleash his resentments and derive sadistic pleasure from their unleashing.
The way American men used to like seeing themselves, the template they most admired, was the strong silent type celebrated in classic mid-20th century films—Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Henry Fonda. In time the style shifted, and we wound up with the nervous and chattery. More than a decade ago the producer and writer David Chase had his Tony Soprano mourn the disappearance of the old style: “What they didn’t know is once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings they wouldn’t be able to shut him up!” The new style was more like that of Woody Allen. His characters couldn’t stop talking about their emotions, their resentments and needs. They were self-justifying as they acted out their cowardice and anger.
But he was a comic. It was funny. He wasn’t putting it out as a new template for maleness. Donald Trump now is like an unfunny Woody Allen.
Who needs a template for how to be a man? A lot of boys and young men, who’ve grown up in a culture confused about what men are and do. Who teaches them the real dignity and meaning of being a man? Mostly good fathers and teachers. Luckily Mr. Trump this week addressed the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, where he represented to them masculinity and the moral life.
“Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts, right?” But he overcame his natural reticence. We should change how we refer to Washington, he said: “We ought to change it from the word ‘swamp’ to perhaps ‘cesspool’ or perhaps to the word ‘sewer.’ ” Washington is not nice to him and is full of bad people. “As the Scout Law says, ‘A Scout is trustworthy, loyal—we could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that.” He then told them the apparently tragic story of a man who was once successful. “And in the end he failed, and he failed badly.”
Why should he inspire them, show personal height, weight and dignity, support our frail institutions? He has needs and wants—he is angry!—which supersede pesky, long-term objectives. Why put the amorphous hopes of the audience ahead of his own, more urgent needs?
His inability—not his refusal, but his inability—to embrace the public and rhetorical role of the presidency consistently and constructively is weak.
“It’s so easy to act presidential but that’s not gonna get it done,” Mr. Trump said the other night at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio. That is the opposite of the truth. The truth, six months in, is that he is not presidential and is not getting it done. His mad, blubbery petulance isn’t working for him but against him. If he were presidential he’d be getting it done—building momentum, gaining support. He’d be over 50%, not under 40%. He’d have health care, and more.
We close with the observation that it’s all nonstop drama and queen-for-a-day inside this hothouse of a White House. Staffers speak in their common yet somehow colorful language of their wants, their complaints. The new communications chief, Anthony Scaramucci, who in his debut came across as affable and in control of himself, went on CNN Thursday to show he’ll fit right in. He’s surrounded by “nefarious, backstabbing” leakers. “The fish stinks from the head down. But I can tell you two fish that don’t stink, and that’s me and the president.” He’s strong and well connected: “I’ve got buddies of mine in the FBI”; “ Sean Hannity is one of my closest friends.” He is constantly with the president, at dinner, on the phone, in the sauna snapping towels. I made that up. “The president and I would like to tell everybody we have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are.” Chief of Staff Reince Priebus better watch it. There are people in the White House who “think it is their job to save America from this president, okay?” So they leak. But we know who they are.
He seemed to think this diarrheic diatribe was professional, the kind of thing the big boys do with their media bros. But he came across as just another drama queen for this warring, riven, incontinent White House. As Scaramucci spoke, the historian Joshua Zeitz observed wonderingly, on Twitter: “It’s Team of Rivals but for morons.”
It is. And it stinks from the top.
Meanwhile the whole world is watching, a world that contains predators. How could they not be seeing this weakness, confusion and chaos and thinking it’s a good time to cause some trouble?
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Cliff notes:BDKJMU wrote:JFC why not post the link and maybe a paragraph or 2, not the entire article..Not reading all that drivel. Someone give me the cliff notes version.Skjellyfetti wrote:
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/trump- ... 1501193193
This woman (mature conservative hottie)...

is calling Trump an emasculated, whiny bitch, drama queen.
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Poor BDK can't handle reading the entire article?kalm wrote:Cliff notes:BDKJMU wrote: JFC why not post the link and maybe a paragraph or 2, not the entire article..Not reading all that drivel. Someone give me the cliff notes version.
This woman (mature conservative hottie)...
is calling Trump an emasculated, whiny bitch, drama queen.
What an emasculated, whiny bitch, drama queen!
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