Trump's address to congress

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by barbara

And if you were as smart as you claim to be, you wouldn't be fooled by Trump.

He wouldn't, would he?


Carl

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by barbara

And if you were as smart as you claim to be, you wouldn't be fooled by Trump.

I'm modest.

I'm smarter than I claim to be.

And I'm a lot smarter than you.

[CarlV]

Carl

[Oerets]

Shameless self promoter who used a fallen hero's wife for applause.

Acts some will say is rational for 112 minutes out of 40 days on the job and all is forgiven or forgotten?




Barney

[Pio1980]

Still the bullshitter in chief.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...ress-congress/

[sheltiedave]

No TJ, people only need to look at what he is doing. The military brass already know how fucked uphe is.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by sheltiedave

No TJ, people only need to look at what he is doing. The military brass already know how fucked uphe is.

Who cares about the "brass"?

I can tell you for sure that the Green Berets of 5th Special Forces Group have his back.

[sheltiedave]

But Mattis and the other dude do not.

[CarlV]

What does he want the military to have that 54 billion for anyway?


Carl

[bobabode]

"Presidential, was it?
Even I didn't believe they could lower the bar far enough that an otherwise sensible fellow like Van Jones would take the indecent exploitation of a war widow's fresh sorrow and turn it into Lincoln's Second Inaugural. Even I didn't believe they could sink the bar far enough into Middle Earth that otherwise critical observers would look at a pile of deceptive leaves and see a coherent tree. Every day in every way, this administration and this president* taxes the far limits of even my cynicism. For example, it is not true that nobody profits from "lawless chaos." How do you think Vladimir Putin created the gangster's paradise that helped Rex Tillerson and Wilbur Ross get even more wealthy?

"When one calls that speech "presidential," whose presidency are you summoning? Pierce? Buchanan? Rufus T. Firefly? Jesus, people, at least try to sound like you graduated middle school.

Hard to believe, but the second day punditry, after otherwise sensible folks had a night to sleep on it, is even worse than the instant analysis on Tuesday night. What Trump did with Carryn Owens was bad enough on the merits, coming as it did after he spent 48 hours fobbing off the blame of the botched raid into Yemen on everybody who walked past the White House in the past three months. But to hear it now described as a powerful, emotional evocation of the unifying power of the presidency, instead of one more rank attempt at deflecting the moral responsibility for the death of the person being mourned, is to abandon critical thinking and give your responsibility to the truth over to unthinking slobber." Charlie Pierce

Continued here http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...authoritarian/