August 24, 2019

I'm getting pretty bored with material like this.



Look at that! It screams: I've got nothing new to say but it feels so important to say it all over again.

Anyway, I didn't read it. The Presidency of Donald Trump Never Gets Any Less Absurd. What I feel is the The Disbelief in the Presidency of Donald Trump Never Gets Any Less Absurd.

I wasn't a Trump fan at the point when he got elected. But he got elected, and I adapted. He became the President. He is the President. Yes, it is absurd, but life is absurd. You can't spend your life pacing about frantically and insisting on telling every passerby that life is absurd. But columns must be written.

I'll bet there's something in there about "I am the chosen one." But doesn't Andrew Sullivan think he is the chosen one — the one chosen to write columns about the unrelenting absurdity of Donald Trump?

Oh, now, I must do a page search to see if I win my bet with myself. And, yes, I do:
In just a few minutes this week, standing next to a noisy helicopter, in what now passes as the only form of press conference that still exists in this White House, he said a series of things that were absurd. He touted a new medicine to cope with veterans’ suicides; he answered a question about loopholes in gun background checks by talking about loopholes in immigration law; he said without irony that in America, “we have great mental illness”; he said that American Jews who vote Democrat are “disloyal to Israel,” as if dual loyalty were an expectation and not an anti-Semitic slur; he said — while looking heavenward — that he is “the chosen one” to tackle trade with China; he said “I have many people from Denmark who live in the United States”; he claimed his predecessor changed the rules on family separation in immigration when his own administration did it; he said (for the umpteenth time) that his term of office might last another 14 years; he threatened to release ISIS fighters in Germany and France to punish those allies; and he said he is “very seriously” considering an executive order to change the Constitution.

If you can begin even to engage this bizarre, dangerous, deranged, and ignorant stream of consciousness, and try to discern some kind of logic or pattern, your brain will break....
So we're all broken?

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Drago said...

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Man-Arrested-Charged-With-Hate-Crimes-for-Alleged-Racially-Motivated-Attacks-NYPD-558115701.html

Great job there FrankIngaM. We are all waiting for your apology.

Drago said...

bTW, what was the reason for letting the child Trudeau sit at the big kids dinner table at the G7 summit?

Francisco D said...

Desensitize each other regarding the bat shit craziness of the president.

We all know that the Left is into projection, big time. Inga (who is bat shit crazy) is the exemplar.

Thanks, babe. We really need you here.

bagoh20 said...

If Trump was covered by the media fairly, he would be a lot more boring, but it's hard not to garner attention with a bunch of hysterical people pointing at you and claiming you and everything you do is incredibly dangerous, wrong, and immoral. Most of what passes as Trump being controversial is him simply responding to outrageous attacks on him. Try and find any real controversy about Trump that was not started by an over-the-top attack on him by someone else. The proof is that even when Trump does something exactly the same as some other President (maybe a boring one), the pot boils over, so who the hell turned up the heat? Most of the suddenly terrible controversial polices and opinions of Trump are echoed all over the internet in past statements by the very same people now thoroughly offended by their own positions when Trump has them.

Michael K said...

Trump will have a lasting effect only if he manages to destroy a bunch of your institutions.

The China campaign will determine the future. The Swamp is so corrupt, and mostly sold out to China, that the results will be visible by 2029. If Nikki Haley succeeds Trump, it might be interesting to see a Sikh vs China.

Crazy World said...

Excellent Wildswan 7:15

Crazy World said...

Also excellent as always Bagoh2o 10:13
Rock on Mr. President

Fen said...

Mike: So you're not bored with the President talking like a delusional YouTube commenter on meth. But you are bored with people who are sick of it. Gothcya.

Well, we do get a kick watching you guys go all hyperbolic about Trump's hyperbole, making up lies that he makes up lies.

It's like you have no mirror. You know Florida Man at Walmart? You look that that, except it's not your clothes, it's your character.

Fen said...

bTW, what was the reason for letting the child Trudeau sit at the big kids dinner table at the G7 summit?

They were holding one of his eyebrows hostage and wanted to humiliate him globally.

(his eyebrows are glued on and tend to fall down)

Fen said...

FrankIngaM: "Desensitize each other regarding the bat shit craziness of the president."

Haha. Okay Inga, you're the sane one, it's everone *else* who is crazy. LOL.

Next...

Fen said...

Ronald: But at some point, we have to acknowledge the abject failure, incompetence, and intentional divisiveness that's unfolding before our eyes.

If this president were to travel the country lobbing hand grenades into maternity wards, there would be many that would stand firmly behind him while blaming democrats. I will not to be part of that faction.


Just. Wow.

I advise you not attempt to remove the mote in your eye without consulting a doctor first, because I've never seen Hypocrisy so huge. You could go blind.

In your first sentence you lament the divisiveness (caused by your kind) of the Trump era. And in the very next breath condemn his supporters of not only enabling the mass murder of children, but bearing false witness against people who didn't do it.

LOL Get Fucked.

Also, you have a bad case of projection to go along with that Mote. How many aborted babies are you really responsible for? Fess up.

Fen said...

Just look at me. 10 years ago I was a nice young man. Althouse can vouch. I was naive and believed online political discussion would be Mr Smith Goes To Washington.

But today, people like you have radicalized me into the unapologetic asshole who would enjoy killing every last one of you Leftist motherfuckers. So far I am maintaining discipline, because my side shouldn't be the ones to fire the first shots that turn this cultural cold war hot.

You guys are idiots. You create your own Frankenstein Monsters and then whine when he tosses the village. This is what you were asking for, this is what you deserve.

Fen said...

I don't hope that you die in a fire, I want you to survive it.

Ray - SoCal said...

Interesting idea that China is key for Trump's legacy.

Much of Trump's legacy will depend if he can get a 2nd term, and a GOP House, and keep a GOP Senate

Major Areas Trump is doing:

1. Judicial Confirmations - huge long term impact.
2. Deregulation - Trump is the first US President to actually do this. His 2 for 1 new regulations is brilliant.
3. Diminishment of the MSM.
4. Creating a true opposition party, instead of the Uniparty. One that pushes back.
5. Having a US first policy on trade.
6. Enforcing a border and illegal immigration. This has had a huge impact on the US. Trump is doing so many things here, that are rarely heard about. Flores, Deal with Guatamala, deal with Mexico, etc.

Open Issues I hope something happens:
1. Silicon Valley Biase...
2. Deep State Coup - Be nice if people are indicted... There should not be two systems of justice.
3. New Nafta - On hold due to Pelosi and Trudeau...
4. Academics Biase (I see nothing happening here, unfortunately).
5. If Trump takes a bit more of the minority Vote away from the Dems, that will have a huge impact on US politics.

>Blogger Michael K said...
>
> Trump will have a lasting effect only if he manages to destroy a bunch of your >institutions.
>
> The China campaign will determine the future. The Swamp is so corrupt, and mostly >sold out to China, that the results will be visible by 2029. If Nikki Haley succeeds >Trump, it might be interesting to see a Sikh vs China.

Kevin said...

Mike: So you're not bored with the President talking like a delusional YouTube commenter on meth. But you are bored with people who are sick of it. Gothcya.

Please interrupt our day to tell us more about how Sean Spicer shouldn’t be allowed on Dancing With the Stars.

stevew said...

A few thoughts come:

- Trump seeks to change the trade relationship with China as he sees it as severely disfavoring America and Americans

- China's initial response is to slow roll, seeking to outlast him, Trump is term limited and at first appears to be, at best, a one-termer

- US government supporters (especially politicians) of our relationship with China initially remain silent, focused on taking Trump out early or limiting him to one term

- Support for Trump grows as the Resistance's efforts unwind and fail, also as the field of Democrat 2020 challengers grows and shows itself to be very weak

- Trump is wise to China's delay tactic and so increases the intensity of the confrontation

- China does the only thing it can, escalates by attacking swing-state Trump supporters and their business interests with increased tariffs

- US Government supporters of China speak up publicly in an attempt to undermine Trump's plan

The thing that is unverified is an understanding of the motivation of the US China supporters: are they protecting their financial interests or trying to defeat Trump 2020. Likely both I suspect.

Michael K said...

are they protecting their financial interests or trying to defeat Trump 2020.

They are pretty much the same. China has Hillary's emails. Biden's down payment. Feinstein's Chinese spy/ driver x 30 years. Her husband's investments in China. Amash's "Family Business."

A lot of it began with Bill and The Loral Company.

Former President Bill Clinton approved the sale of sensitive U.S. missile technology to China following donations from a key missile manufacturer to his campaign, in a move prescient of the Clinton Foundation’s “pay-to-play” activities.

Bernard Schwartz donated about $1.5 million to the Democratic Party and Clinton’s 1996 campaign for reelection between 1994 and 1998. Schwartz, who was at the time chairman of Loral Space & Communication Ltd., seems to have used his influence to persuade the Clinton administration to switch the licensing authority for missile exports from the Department of State to the Department of Commerce, as the latter was more vulnerable to political influence.

Rusty said...

Once written, twice... said...

"Ann, you are such a phony. Ann, you are going to wake up on August 24, 2019 and expect everyone to go along with your newest personal fiction that you have always been a neutral observer of Trump? No one is going to believe that. You have spent almost four years blogging uncritically of Trump."
You seem uncomprehending of the concept of, "Cruel Neutrality." Most of the stuff she posts on Trump is placed here for her to see what WE have to say about it. Don't accuse our hostess of what you are guilty of.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

buwaya wrote:

You have one man, a great man, but no other. After him the deluge.

8/24/19, 5:54 PM

If you had said in 2009 that Donald Trump was a great man who would run for president, win, and save the Republic, you would have been thought certifiable, even by those who are Trump supporters today. Nobody saw this coming.

So who is to say what unlikely figure might dominate the political scene (for good or ill) in 2024?

Jim at said...

That's basically correct of those who knew full well what Trump was/is yet now genuflect to him in awe.

People like you still don't fucking get it, do you.

Rusty said...

Jim.
They believe what they are told to believe.

Anonymous said...

Unsubscribe Ann.

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