Trump's Card

[Hot Pepsi]

I have two "TV earworms" from all of this.

So you're a racist now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkL91LzCMc

Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y05eFDQnSfE

[ursus arctos]

This is fine . . .

The president’s top advisers described themselves as stunned, despondent and numb. Several said they were unable to see how Mr. Trump’s presidency recovered, and others expressed doubts about his capacity to do the job.

In contrast, the president told close aides that he felt liberated by his news conference. Aides said he seemed to bask afterward in his remarks, and viewed them as the latest retort to the political establishment that he sees as trying to tame his impulses.

[Hot Pepsi]

I question whether Trump is really bigoted in his own mind. I'm just can't imagine him spending any time or mental real estate contemplating the various supposed "threats" to white American "culture" - Muslims, Mexicans, Feminists, etc. I just can't imagine him giving a shit about other white people that much. All he cares about is himself, so the only two categories of people in the world are people that support him and people who don't. To him BLM, Jeff Bezos, Mexico, Hillary Clinton are all the same.

[Amor de Cosmos]

You could be right but really, at this point, who cares? Is there relationship between narcissism and full blown megalomania? Because — if the NYT is to be believed — he must be getting close.

"The president’s top advisers described themselves as stunned, despondent and numb. Several said they were unable to see how Mr. Trump’s presidency would recover, and others expressed doubts about his capacity to do the job.

In contrast, the president told close aides that he felt liberated by his news conference. Aides said he seemed to bask afterward in his remarks, and viewed them as the latest retort to the political establishment that he sees as trying to tame his impulses."

[ad hoc]

So what's Bannon's game?

Steve Bannon brands far right 'losers' and contradicts Trump in surprise interview

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...y_to_clipboard

[tee rex]

A week is a long time in old media ...



Gist: Trump doesn't listen to political hacks but does respect ramrod generals who don't take any crap, so this could work. Ah, well.

[anton pulisov]

These stunned aides, did they not watch the election campaign?

[Ginger Yellow]

God save us from the Historians.

The historians can wait. He'd better save us from Trump first.

[anton pulisov]

So what's Bannon's game?

Steve Bannon brands far right 'losers' and contradicts Trump in surprise interview

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...y_to_clipboard

Don't understand why these people are hating on China. Look, China's population is over four times that of the USA. It's clear that some day they are going to overtake the USA as the economic and military powerhouse of the world. So prepare for it and work with it instead of resisting it. Or, if you want the USA to catch up, then encourage mass immigration to the United States - oh, but Bannon doesn't want to do that either.

Regarding the Democrats being focussed on identity politics only, he does have a bit of a point. A number of people would literally rather elect a Nazi promising change than some empty Democrat promoting the status quo.

Apple's Tim Cook announced today that Apple will be donating 1 million dollars each to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. To which many people would respond, rightly, that Apple should just pay their fucking tax.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Whatever the merits of TPP and TTIP, they were a plan to cope with the rise of China.

Cancelling those is Trumpian joined up thinking.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's now tweeting about "beautiful" statues being taken down and "ripping apart the culture and history of this great country".

[Snake Plissken]

I've seen his taste in decoration. His comments about beautiful art are worthless.

[ursus arctos]

[WOM]

Tough room to hang a TV in.

[Gangster Octopus]

A circle, surely...

[Satchmo Distel]

Dubya is still fucked historically because Iraq cannot be rewritten. He may get a free pass on domestic policy despite some deeply dodgy stuff and a massive recession, because Trump has far worse in the pipe if he lasts longer enough to deliver and it gets through before they lose seats in 2018. Pence would also be worse than Dubya.

[Ginger Yellow]

Dubya is still fucked historically because Iraq cannot be rewritten.

Why on earth not? The civil war was rewritten, for large parts of the country at least. Vietnam has been at least partially rewritten.

[anton pulisov]

A true salt of the earth conservative.

edit: How the hell is Melania's dress suspended in mid-air like that?

[Satchmo Distel]

Photoshop is all over it.

[sw2borshch]

My mate was saying his little lad's current hobby is asking, 'Alexa, why is Donald Trump so fat?'.

[linus]

Why on earth not? The civil war was rewritten, for large parts of the country at least. Vietnam has been at least partially rewritten.

Vietnam was left alone for decades after the war, while Iraq is still being manipulated. Vietnam was reunited, Iraq broken up into rival ethno-religious states. And as bad Agent Orange was, it's nowhere near as permanently devastating as depleted uranium. One in six Fallujah babies is born with a congenital deformity.

[Ginger Yellow]

I'm not sure what that's got to do with how Americans are going to remember it. If Americans can "forget" the reality of slavery in their own country, they can certainly forget the consequences of war on foreigners in countries halfway around the world.

[ursus arctos]

This is at the root of the reactionaries' complete commitment to controlling State and Local Boards of Education and Textbook Commissions.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Can you recommend a book for me on this?

[ursus arctos]

Let me think about that

In the meantime, here's an article.