Dump Shithole

[Judge Smails]

the thing to keep in mind about all this is that the investigations going on are only in the infancy. This is going to take a long time. Little items will leak out from time to time to keep people's interest. The Fed's don't fuck around. They take their time building a case and once they have overwhelming evidence they pounce (see Vick, Michael).

I think a key date in this will be the Nov. 2018 mid-term elections. Because if, and this is just speculation, Pence is involved in any way, then based upon succession, Paul Ryan becomes President. If this is still ongoing during the 2018 mid-terms and the Dems win back a majority in the House, then Nancy Pelosi would become President.

There is no way in hell the GOP would let this happen. Thus, if they know Trump and Pence are going down, they will force their resignations before the 2018 mid-terms making Paul Ryan President and allowing him to appoint a VP (Romney?)

[eddie lee roth]

I don't think there's anything wrong like that.

He's a idiot and he's an asshole.

He's not a real complex guy to figure out.

[Rageman]

Surrounding yourself with nothing but "Yes" men will make you think that everything that you do is correct.

Great line in the TNT movie Nuremberg.

Bryan Cox as Hermann Goering talking to to the American psychologist
"Look around here, what do you see? Nothing but yes men. All of the men that said 'No' are six feet underground."

[Turner Coates]

[vlad]

The distance between Donald Trump and his G7 partners was spelled out dramatically today when Theresa May and the leaders of Italy, France, Germany, Japan and Canada strolled the streets of Taormina, Sicily — while he followed in a golf cart.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/g7-l ... -hhprv8r7b

[exitflagger]

The distance between Donald Trump and his G7 partners was spelled out dramatically today when Theresa May and the leaders of Italy, France, Germany, Japan and Canada strolled the streets of Taormina, Sicily — while he followed in a golf cart.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/g7-l ... -hhprv8r7b

You should post the text. That site is a subscription so you only get the first few sentences.

[eddie lee roth]

This is taken from Business Insider.


President Trump rounded out his first foreign trip since taking office by joining other G7 leaders as they walked the streets of Taormina, Sicily.

There was just one difference: as the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan walked on foot, Trump followed in a golf cart, The Times of London reported on Saturday.

"They walked the 700 yards from the traditional G7 group photo, taken at a Greek amphitheatre, to a piazza in the hilltop town, but Mr Trump stayed behind until he could take a seat in the electric vehicle," The Times reported.

It also noted that Trump arrived last for the photo as the 6 other leaders stood waiting for him.

The 6 other member nations are planning to push Trump to change his policies on free trade and combatting climate change.

"We will make an important declaration today here in Taormina on climate change, on great migrant flows, on free trade in the world on which so many jobs depend," said Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni.

[vlad]

The distance between Donald Trump and his G7 partners was spelled out dramatically today when Theresa May and the leaders of Italy, France, Germany, Japan and Canada strolled the streets of Taormina, Sicily — while he followed in a golf cart.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/g7-l ... -hhprv8r7b

You should post the text. That site is a subscription so you only get the first few sentences.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... gh-siciliy

This one isn't subscription. (I don't copy full articles, it can lead to copyright problems for the website they are posted on, like Sludge for example). Sorry about that, but seriously, the Shitgibbon took a golf cart while everyone else walked. That was my point. And there wasn't much more of the article than that.

Here's another version: edited: ELR already posted it above.

[TenBenny]

Now Trump is claiming that money is already "pouring in" to NATO because he admonished the alliance leaders. This guy is clueless about things he's supposed to know, and I'll bet what he's talking about isn't even happening.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/2 ... ney-238882

[Rageman]

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/ ... ILL+052617

With its former chairman Steve Bannon as White House chief strategist and plans for an ambitious international expansion, Breitbart was supposed to be on its way to becoming a media behemoth in the Trump era, one with unparalleled access and a passionate audience. “While several publishers have enjoyed an uptick in traffic due to election coverage, we are proud to have built a massive and deeply-rooted community that will remain long after the election cycle fades,” Larry Solov, Breitbart’s C.E.O., predicted back in November.

Early on, Solov’s prediction seemed to be coming true. “Breitbart News is the #45th most trafficked website in the United States, according to rankings from Amazon’s analytics company, Alexa.com,” they wrote on January 9, 2017. “With over two billion pageviews generated in 2016 and 45 million unique monthly visitors, Breitbart News has now surpassed Fox News (#47), Huffington Post (#50), Washington Post (#53), and Buzzfeed (#64) in traffic.” A month later, the site had even greater cause to celebrate. “Breitbart News is now the 29th most trafficked site in the United States, surpassing PornHub and ESPN,” they crowed. In the article, its staffers bragged that their bonkers traffic reflected the site’s cementing a permanent place in American politics. “The numbers speak for themselves,” said Solov. (Many outlets, including The Hive, experienced traffic peaks around Trump’s inauguration.)

Just a few months later, the numbers have a different story to tell. As of May 26, 2017, according to Alexa.com—the same web-ranking analytics company that Breitbart drew its numbers from in January—Fox News is the 64th most-trafficked site in the country. Huffington Post is at 60. Buzzfeed is at 50. The Washington Post, on the strength of a series of eye-popping scoops, is at 41.

Breitbart is in 281st place.

[milk-milk-lemonade]

Anyone miss Rev's perspective?

[dmbrocker]

Anyone miss Rev's perspective?

Nope. Any other stupid questions?

[SebastianLeeDanzig]

I can't handle talking to my German relatives. They have to call me now, I haven't called any of them since November. They keep wanting to talk about Drumpf.

It distracts from dealing with all the shit that's wrong with their own country. It's not a coincidence the media here is 90% Trump shit, couple months before a major election. It's always easy to point fingers at the idiot in the White House while Merkel's shit party continues to dismantle our social state.

[eddie lee roth]

Now Trump is claiming that money is already "pouring in" to NATO because he admonished the alliance leaders. This guy is clueless about things he's supposed to know, and I'll bet what he's talking about isn't even happening.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/2 ... ney-238882

We're living in a post-truth era now.

Everything the President says you need to go back and fact check to see if that's really how something is.

And he's a terrible liar he will argue about something that is so easy to look back on and realize he's full of shit.

And he refuses to apologize about anything he's like a spoiled brat.

Baldwin had one skit this year on SNL and was trying to say he was sorry but when he spoke he said "app-li-gize" it cracked me up Cause it was so on the money.

[Chip Z'Hoy]

Anyone miss Rev's perspective?

There never was a perspective.

[Luminiferous]

This is taken from Business Insider.


President Trump rounded out his first foreign trip since taking office by joining other G7 leaders as they walked the streets of Taormina, Sicily.

There was just one difference: as the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan walked on foot, Trump followed in a golf cart, The Times of London reported on Saturday.

"They walked the 700 yards from the traditional G7 group photo, taken at a Greek amphitheatre, to a piazza in the hilltop town, but Mr Trump stayed behind until he could take a seat in the electric vehicle," The Times reported.

It also noted that Trump arrived last for the photo as the 6 other leaders stood waiting for him.

What a fucking joke.... The president of Tunisia Beji Caid Essebsi is 90 years old and made the walk..
Merkel was wearing fucking high heels during the walk...


I wonder what the Drumpftards would have said if Obama had taken a golf cart instead of walking?

[Chip Z'Hoy]

He doesn't have the stamina. He's a weak man.

[vlad]

He doesn't have the stamina. He's a weak man.

Low energy...sad!

[Rageman]

Nobody knows the system less than him. He, alone, can't fix it.

[Rageman]

I can't handle talking to my German relatives. They have to call me now, I haven't called any of them since November. They keep wanting to talk about Drumpf.

It distracts from dealing with all the shit that's wrong with their own country. It's not a coincidence the media here is 90% Trump shit, couple months before a major election. It's always easy to point fingers at the idiot in the White House while Merkel's shit party continues to dismantle our social state.

They're not Merkel fans for the most part. We rarely talked politics before Trump was elected. Most of what we talked about before November was Die Bundesliga, Die Mannschaft and MLS. We still discuss soccer, especially now with Schweinsteiger playing well in Chicago, but it's a lot less than before. My Mom is the oldest of six and the youngest is a few years older than me and she's terrified of Trump. She's the only one that never talks politics or fussball, she just talks about life and how the whole family is doing without being a gossip hound. I love spending time with her because of that and now the idea of Trump makes her sick. That really bums me out because she never gets caught up in anybody else's drama and she's thinks that he's going to start a war that we won't win. Great lady(mein KaufenTante . . . my shitty translation of my Shopping Aunt). She always looked after me like she was the caring older sister that she could never be and she loves taking me shopping for fucking anything. Something for me, for her son, for a rare splurge gift for herself, for a present for someone else, for food because it always seems to be the only time that she gets allotted to spend with me whenever I'm there. (Large family, small town)

Just watched the DFB Pokalfinale replay on ESPN3 to watch the last match of USA National Team player Christian Pulisic's awesome first season, and he played good in a sub role but the undisputed star of the match was Katarina Witt carrying the trophy during the procession. She had the milks bouncing nice. In honor of Trump, the official was totally eye banging her.



She can hold my cup anytime.

[grishnak boss]

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi ... kU.twitter


Why do Trump’s voters continue to support him even when his and the Republican Party’s policies will hurt them economically and in other ways as well?

Because it’s an emotional compulsion. It’s an emotional reaction. It’s not anything rational. Trying to reason with them will not help. It’s really the conditions that have to change. Malignant reality is taking hold. It’s a kind of pathology cohesion that normalizes corruption, violence and harm, and there will come a the point where we’re no longer disturbed by it. At that point, all kinds of human rights violations, wars and loss of life become possible. Mental health professionals have to become witnessing professionals who continually point out this dynamic and call it out for what it is, so that it does not become normalized.

The Trump administration, and I might argue to a large extent the Republican Party, has been leading up to a need to impose a distorted reality and a kind of imperviousness to facts onto others. Facts and evidence almost do not matter. What matters is the emotional commitment to either an ideology or what they believe will make America great again, restore their position, or give them the kind of pride or self-esteem that they feel they have lost.

[TenBenny]

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi ... kU.twitter


Why do Trump’s voters continue to support him even when his and the Republican Party’s policies will hurt them economically and in other ways as well?

Because it’s an emotional compulsion. It’s an emotional reaction. It’s not anything rational. Trying to reason with them will not help. It’s really the conditions that have to change. Malignant reality is taking hold. It’s a kind of pathology cohesion that normalizes corruption, violence and harm, and there will come a the point where we’re no longer disturbed by it. At that point, all kinds of human rights violations, wars and loss of life become possible. Mental health professionals have to become witnessing professionals who continually point out this dynamic and call it out for what it is, so that it does not become normalized.

The Trump administration, and I might argue to a large extent the Republican Party, has been leading up to a need to impose a distorted reality and a kind of imperviousness to facts onto others. Facts and evidence almost do not matter. What matters is the emotional commitment to either an ideology or what they believe will make America great again, restore their position, or give them the kind of pride or self-esteem that they feel they have lost.

Trump was a big student of Hitler's speeches. Hitler believed that if you say something often enough and loud enough, people will come to believe it. Trump figured that if he just kept saying "fake news," it would take hold as truth for many of his more susceptible voters.

For me, the issue is not even just whether or not the news is accurate, but the fact that a leader is continually saying the news is fake, when even W never made that claim, nor did his voters. The fact that this so quickly took hold and became a thing is alarming. Many people didn't even bat an eye or question Trump's use of this logic.

Sometimes I think the DNC should really consider consulting cult deprogrammers.

[SebastianLeeDanzig]

Just returned from Europe. Trip was a great success for America. Hard work but big results!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/fo ... story.html

Yeah, big results, all positive too:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday declared a new chapter in U.S.-European relations after contentious meetings with President Trump last week, saying that Europe “really must take our fate into our own hands.” It was the toughest review yet of Trump’s trip to Europe, which inflamed tensions rather than healed them after the U.S. president sparred with the leaders of Washington’s closest and oldest allies on trade, defense and climate change. [...] Merkel’s comments were similar to some she made shortly before Trump’s inauguration in January. But they carry extra heft now that Trump is in office — and after Trump had a days-long opportunity to reset relations. Instead, by most European accounts, he strained them even more. [...]

Many European leaders emerged from their meetings with Trump filled with fresh worry. Trump was far more solicitous toward the autocratic king of Saudi Arabia earlier in the week, telling him and other leaders of Muslim-majority countries — many of them not democratically elected — that he was not “here to lecture.” Days later in Brussels he offered a scathing assessment of Washington’s closest allies, saying they were being “unfair” to American taxpayers.

The practical consequences of the rift remain uncertain. [...] Even as Merkel positions herself ahead of the election, the message could be the signal of a shift away from the United States, perhaps even one that could outlast Trump’s time in office, and that would weaken U.S. global power over the long term. European leaders are developing plans to deepen military cooperation independently of the United States. They are also reaching out to economic partners in Asia that Trump has spurned. All of those shifts will have consequences that extend years, analysts say.

Cliff Kupchan, chairman of the Eurasia Group of analysts, said Trump’s performance in Europe left wounds that could come back to haunt the United States. “Trump is creating the biggest transatlantic rift since the Iraq War, perhaps even since WWII,” he said in an email. “This leaves the U.S. exposed. If the Iran nuclear accord flounders, for example, Europe may well not end up on Trump’s side of a dangerous crisis.”

Conservative Trump critic William Kristol, who edits the Weekly Standard magazine, wrote on Twitter: “Merkel's comments today are a reminder that Trump’s failures are, while he’s president, also America’s failure, and damage America.”

[Rageman]

http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-donald- ... ddle-east/

[That-guy]

Anybody see the video of the White House with flashing red lights? Weird.

[Rageman]

[Danzig in the Dark]

[TenBenny]

Kushner is getting pressure to take a leave of absence amid reports that he's unhappy with the problems in the White House.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/2 ... ole-238890

A New York Times article even expressed the idea that he and Ivanka had planned to make decisions about whether to stay in Washington or leave on an ongoing six-month basis, which sounds like bull. Would he have been given, much less taken, the herculean job tasks he has now if he was seriously willing to contemplate leaving in a relatively short time? Washington politics is not something you do for a year like traveling around Europe before going to college. This sounds like the statement of someone who is rattled by the very real heat on him. But it's understandable that he would be nervous. Trump's been shielded from legal accountability, whereas Kushner watched his father get sent to prison. Kushner may have a mildly deeper understanding of consequences, even if he willingly ended up in this mess. As I posited before, Trump may have damned them all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/us/p ... in-it.html

[DEATH ROW JOE]

Donald Trump Rode in a Golf Cart, While His Fellow G7 Leaders Walked
https://www.yahoo.com/style/m/cdb6c846- ... -golf.html

[vlad]

Anybody see the video of the White House with flashing red lights? Weird.

A rave? Someone reading Drudge? I read some wag that said the staff has finally found out that the red dot will keep the Idiot-in-Chief occupied. It is odd.