The Political Thread

[The Legendary Shark]

I've a much more simpler explanation than that.

He's a narcissistic tw*t.

Or a huge big distraction. While everyone's watching the Trump Show, here are some of the things going on behind the curtain:

HR 861 Terminate the Environmental
Protection Agency
HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education
HR 899 Terminate the Department of
Education
HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife
HR 370 Repeal Affordable Care Act
HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood
HR 785 National Right to Work (this one ends
unions)
HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill
HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion ("Parenatal
Nondiscrimination Act")
HR 808 Sanctions against Iran

But, you know, maybe all the above are just benign parts of a larger plan to Make America Great Again that just look bad taken out of context. And maybe not.

[Frank]

People around Trump have an agenda, but he's a game show host who quit because his ratings tanked by more than half. 

He's selling the same Anne Robinson schtick he's shipped for a decade and a half - saying mean things about other minor celebrities (The Terminator) and has-beens (Obama).

The presidency is Trump's less popular spin-off show, where he trades unsuccessfully on the character audiences used to like. It's his Joey.

[Hawkmumbler]

I've a much more simpler explanation than that.

He's a narcissistic tw*t.

Or a huge big distraction. While everyone's watching the Trump Show, here are some of the things going on behind the curtain:

HR 861 Terminate the Environmental
Protection Agency
HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education
HR 899 Terminate the Department of
Education
HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife
HR 370 Repeal Affordable Care Act
HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood
HR 785 National Right to Work (this one ends
unions)
HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill
HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion ("Parenatal
Nondiscrimination Act")
HR 808 Sanctions against Iran

But, you know, maybe all the above are just benign parts of a larger plan to Make America Great Again that just look bad taken out of context. And maybe not.

It's possible to do all these things and still be a narcissistic wanker.

[blackmocco]

I've a much more simpler explanation than that.

He's a narcissistic tw*t.

Or a huge big distraction. While everyone's watching the Trump Show, here are some of the things going on behind the curtain:

HR 861 Terminate the Environmental
Protection Agency
HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education
HR 899 Terminate the Department of
Education
HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife
HR 370 Repeal Affordable Care Act
HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood
HR 785 National Right to Work (this one ends
unions)
HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill
HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion ("Parenatal
Nondiscrimination Act")
HR 808 Sanctions against Iran

But, you know, maybe all the above are just benign parts of a larger plan to Make America Great Again that just look bad taken out of context. And maybe not.

I doubt he could finish reading that list without getting distracted. I also doubt he even knows or cares what any of this stuff even means. It's an agenda, he's the mouthpiece but not the power player. Sign here, here and here, Mr. President. You go watch Fox News. We got this from here.

But as already pointed out, that doesn't stop him from being a waste of a human soul.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Although I do believe that there are diversion tactics going on here, it also seems that Fuckface is getting even more paranoid and delusional, on top of an already sociopathic personality. And this is the man who could order the destruction of civilisation in six minutes. Sleep tight, children.

[sheridan]

What is the fucking wrong with Trump? His ranting tweets last two days was crazy!

Not following him, but what in particular has he been tweeting (that's worse than what he's been spouting previously)?

[Steve Green]

At a guess, the Obama wiretap accusation without any proof, or wobbling around like a knackered shopping trolley onto the topic of Schwarzenegger and the Apprentice.

[Theblazeuk]

Whenever you watch a TV show or movie or read a comic book where the Leader Of the Free World is in danger, has a motivational inspiring speech, challenges the nasty villains or has a direct line to the heroes (thus showing their heroic nature).... replace it with The Donald.

Hell Nixon's Head in a Jar is more presidential.

[TordelBack]

Hell Nixon's Head in a Jar is more presidential.

Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks! is more presidential.

[CalHab]

Whenever you watch a TV show or movie or read a comic book where the Leader Of the Free World is in danger, has a motivational inspiring speech, challenges the nasty villains or has a direct line to the heroes (thus showing their heroic nature).... replace it with The Donald.

Hell Nixon's Head in a Jar is more presidential.

As an aside, I find the way Hollywood consistently portrays presidents as heroic and noble quite nauseating.  I also wonder whether that kind of attitude has had any bearing on the US electorate regularly picking actors, celebrity generals from their last war and now a reality tv star as their head of state.

[TordelBack]

There's a lot of truth in that, but the protagonists in heroic fiction do tend to be heroic, and you could also argue that roles like Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact and Dennis Haysbert in 24 made the very idea of a black president conceivable. Reality following art isn't always a bad thing.

[Theblazeuk]

Pound is slipping its way back down again, eradicating the SURGE in a couple of days.

[IndigoPrime]

A shade under $1.22 right now. One-year low is $1.20. Average level for the past 25 years has been between the low 1.40s and high 1.60s, with the odd like higher (topping out at over $2 in 2007).

The only solace right now is the we still haven't reached the record low of $1.05, plunged to in 1985. That said, economists are predicting below parity within a few years, the Sterling eventually clambering back to a new natural level of below $1.10. Still, lots of opportunities for British people there – if they get their earnings in US dollars.

[Frank]

... Hollywood consistently portrays presidents as heroic and noble ...

Not since Nixon:






One each, from the eighties, nineties, noughties, and teens. Ivan Reitman's Dave is about a nice guy staging an illegal coup against an asshole POTUS, Harrison Ford realised The Thing had infiltrated the Oval Office, and this prick was going to let his press secretary take a heat ray to the face.

[Smith]

Not always.Take for example Air Force One.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One_(film)