How many times do you have to start over when you tie your shoes?
Be nice. Remembering how to breathe takes most of his brain power.
How many times do you have to start over when you tie your shoes?
President Donald Trump admitted he had not read an intelligence report when speaking to the press on Thursday. But that did not stop him criticizing how the press had reported on it.
"I didn't see the report from the intelligence," Trump said, before curiously adding, "When you read it, it is a lot different than what is covered in the news."
Wag the dog...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">JUST IN: Sec. of State Mike Pompeo announces the U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty: "Russia has jeopardized the United States' security interests, and we can no longer be restricted by the treaty while Russia shamelessly violates it." <a href="https://t.co/DiAD0MLaC4">https://t.co/DiAD0MLaC4</a> <a href="https://t.co/FITEXyHyR8">pic.twitter.com/FITEXyHyR8</a></p>— ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1091331782283161601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In other news, the French have decided to scrap the Treaty of Versailles to teach Hitler a lesson.
Whoops
BREAKING: appears the French have just surrendered to the Germans!
Russia wanted out of the treaty so they got Dump to violate it.
Amazing.
In other news, the French have decided to scrap the Treaty of Versailles to teach Hitler a lesson.
It’s hardly surprising that, in the days since his shutdown humiliation, Trump has retreated into the virtual seclusion of Twitter, holed up watching cable news and tweeting his alternative reality as America struggles with an actual deep freeze. For Trump, the fake world is much better than the real one. There is no extreme weather in his White House; in fact, climate change does not exist inside its walls. Trump’s policy has decreed it. He’s avoiding more than just the frigid air outside; in the cocoon of the Oval Office, there are only invited guests and staff who, while they may be secretly leaking unflattering accounts, at least have the good sense to be nice to Trump’s face. In recent days, the Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has compared Trump to a petulant toddler and openly wondered what Russia has on him. Why would Trump want to spend his time negotiating with her? Much better, from Trump’s point of view, to simply announce, as he did to reporters on Thursday, that “Nancy Pelosi will be begging for a wall,” and spend the day with his own press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who this week told an interviewer that God “wanted Donald Trump to become President.”
Russia has been violating it for years. This is something to me that merits a reaction on the part of the United States, and I think if a sane person was president and did what trump and his secretary of state are announcing would not be met with complete and universal condemnation by the left. Me, for one. It does add horsepower to the arms race, and having trump at the helm is of course 100% bad, but even Obama said the Russians were in violation and any president would need to do something. Just another reason to hate trump, since his dupes and rubes don't even understand the game that is being played, so even if he were to get something right, it goes over their heads.
Russia has been violating it for years. This is something to me that merits a reaction on the part of the United States, and I think if a sane person was president and did what trump and his secretary of state are announcing would not be met with complete and universal condemnation by the left. Me, for one. It does add horsepower to the arms race, and having trump at the helm is of course 100% bad, but even Obama said the Russians were in violation and any president would need to do something. Just another reason to hate trump, since his dupes and rubes don't even understand the game that is being played, so even if he were to get something right, it goes over their heads.
A reasonable president would have tried to use the system to get the Soviets to follow the treaty they signed. dumpy sees an opportunity where people will get more money for making useless arms, and ratchets up the world tension. And I'm sure he will try to use this as an example of why we need him...
Except that a large amount of the voting public sees that what he's doing is stupid and dangerous.
I've come to this conclusion: The Rich and/or The Stupid decide who will be president. Together they have enough power to hold their position.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At a White House roundtable, Kellyanne Conway brought up the big fentanyl seizure at a port of entry as evidence that a wall is needed. Her argument: "Yes, through a port of entry, but that’s what we know about. It's all the things, as you hear here, that we don’t know about." <a href="https://t.co/ire13eNHyx">pic.twitter.com/ire13eNHyx</a></p>— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) <a href="https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1091540795054833664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
A reasonable president would have tried to use the system to get the Soviets to follow the treaty they signed. dumpy sees an opportunity where people will get more money for making useless arms, and ratchets up the world tension. And I'm sure he will try to use this as an example of why we need him...
Except that a large amount of the voting public sees that what he's doing is stupid and dangerous.
Hmmmmmmm.