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Impeach him
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=32439

Until now, I’ve thought calls for the impeachment of Trump were premature, if not downright silly. Not any longer: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-20170501-story.html

President Donald Trump opened the door Monday to a future meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, offering unusual praise for the globally ostracized leader at a time of surging nuclear tensions. . . .

“If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Trump told Bloomberg News.

Honored?

Just get rid of him, he’s a disgrace to the United States of America.

PS. Here’s another reason to impeach him: https://www.yahoo.com/news/spicer-white-house-looking-libel-laws-211432255--politics.html

The White House is “looking into” ways to potentially change the nation’s libel laws to make it easier to go after reporters whose stories they deem inaccurate.

That’s according to President Trump’s chief spokesman Sean Spicer who told reporters during a Monday briefing that: “that is something that is being looked into, substantively and then both logistically how it would happen.”

Just embarrassing.
 
Big difference between not knowing the number of states to not knowing anything about the civil war.

I would say both are bad but one thin is a gaffe or a slip of the tongue, another is ignorance .... [emoji849]
This kinda thing is another non starter. He got some history wrong. BFD. While I did point out Obamas mistakes/gaffes it was for reference. Never once bitched about it when he was president. There was soooo many other things he did wrong. No one knows everything and speaks correctly 100% of the time.
Sticking to actual issues is a better debate. Bitching about EVERYTHING just makes you look, well, like a little bitch ;-)
 


President Donald Trump questioned why the Civil War— which erupted 150 years ago over slavery — needed to happen. He said he would be "honored" to meet with Kim Jong-Un, the violent North Korean dictator who is developing nuclear missiles and oppresses his people, under the "right circumstances."

The president floated, and backed away from, a tax on gasoline. Trump said he was "looking at" breaking up the big banks, sending the stock market sliding. He seemed to praise Philippines strongman President Rodrigo Duterte for his high approval ratings. He promised changes to the Republican health care bill, though he has seemed unsure what was in the legislation, even as his advisers whipped votes for it.

And Monday still had nine hours to go.

"It seems to be among the most bizarre recent 24 hours in American presidential history," said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian. "It was all just surreal disarray and a confused mental state from the president."
 


I don't think any serious person doubts President Donald Trump's authoritarian tendencies. He fantasizes about suppressing press freedoms, among other civil liberties. He sees kinship with dictators-in-waiting in the Philippines, Turkey and Egypt. He believed evidently that the president is like an absolute monarch, having said he thought being chief executive of the U.S. government would be easier than being a beauty pageant impresario and reality TV star.

But having authoritarian inclinations is one thing. Being a competent and determined authoritarian who carefully calculates his moves, and who sees reality with clear eyes without deceiving himself with his own rhetoric, is another. After 100 days, we can see this presidency is almost entirely in name only. What you see is all there is to see. Donald Trump's is a hollow presidency.
 


Seven Theories of the Case: What Do We Really Know about L’Affaire Russe and What Could it All Mean?

Today, Lawfare is launching a detailed, annotated set of links laying out the known facts about L’Affaire Russe. We will keep this resource page updated as new facts, stories, documents, and statements emerge. Here, however, we want to consider a higher-altitude, more speculative question: What does it all mean? What possible explanations might make sense of the bewildering facts that have been reported? Are we dealing with Fake News or a Manchurian President—or something in between?

In this post, we start with an overview of the facts known today, and we then put forth seven different theories of the Russia Connection case that might account for those facts. We present these in ascending order of potential menace, from the most innocent to the most alarming. In doing so, we attempt to narrow the field of discussion—or at least provide a disciplined framework for assessing the possibilities—and give readers guidance as to what to watch for as investigations on both the legislative and executive sides move forward.
 
Reign of Idiots
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/reign_of_idiots_20170430

The idiots take over in the final days of crumbling civilizations. Idiot generals wage endless, unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation.

Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for the rich and cutting social service programs for the poor, and project economic growth on the basis of myth.

Idiot industrialists poison the water, the soil and the air, slash jobs and depress wages.

Idiot bankers gamble on self-created financial bubbles and impose crippling debt peonage on the citizens.

Idiot journalists and public intellectuals pretend despotism is democracy.

Idiot intelligence operatives orchestrate the overthrow of foreign governments to create lawless enclaves that give rise to enraged fanatics.

Idiot professors, “experts” and “specialists” busy themselves with unintelligible jargon and arcane theory that buttresses the policies of the rulers.

Idiot entertainers and producers create lurid spectacles of sex, gore and fantasy.

There is a familiar checklist for extinction. We are ticking off every item on it.

...

Donald Trump is the face of our collective idiocy.

He is what lies behind the mask of our professed civility and rationality—a sputtering, narcissistic, bloodthirsty megalomaniac. He wields armies and fleets against the wretched of the earth, blithely ignores the catastrophic human misery caused by global warming, pillages on behalf of global oligarchs and at night sits slack-jawed in front of a television set before opening his “beautiful” Twitter account.

He is our version of the Roman emperor Nero, who allocated vast state expenditures to attain magical powers, the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, who funded repeated expeditions to a mythical island of immortals to bring back the potion that would give him eternal life, and a decayed Russian royalty that sat around reading tarot cards and attending séances as their nation was decimated by war and revolution brewed in the streets.
 


President Trump has suggested that the judiciary https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/08/president-trump-is-not-so-subtly-threatening-the-american-court-system/ (doesn't have the authority to question him). He was a very early proponent of nuking the filibuster for Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. And he recently raised eyebrows by congratulating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the expansion of https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-trump-congratulates-erdogan-after-disputed-win/2017/04/17/875a3b8c-23d1-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html?utm_term=.b3dcb10efe3f (his presidential powers) — echoing his previous admiration for strongman leaders.

Now Trump is talking about consolidating his own power.

In an interview with Fox News that aired Friday night, Trump dismissed the “archaic” rules of the House and Senate — using that word four times — and suggested they needed to be streamlined for the good of the country.
 
This kinda thing is another non starter. He got some history wrong. BFD. While I did point out Obamas mistakes/gaffes it was for reference. Never once bitched about it when he was president. There was soooo many other things he did wrong. No one knows everything and speaks correctly 100% of the time.
Sticking to actual issues is a better debate. Bitching about EVERYTHING just makes you look, well, like a little bitch ;-)

It's not about bitching about everything it's just that Trump can be wrong about things and completely fabricate stories like it's a matter of fact. If nobody fact checked him the masses would believe anything he said.
 

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