What's new
By:

The Biden Administration and All Things Politics

www.theguardian.com

Aukus pact will turn Australia into ‘51st state’ of the US, says Paul Keating

Former prime minister argues Australia has made itself a target by aligning with American ‘aggression’ towards China
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Paul Keating is a leader I respect, he was the first Australian Prime Minister to articulate the bleeding obvious, that our future as a country was in Asia. However in his long retirement he has become an apologist for China. Its sad to see your hero's fall.
 
Intro to this was classic “the world will end”, but didn’t post in time, lol…live at this posting though…Edit: this is insane!! Cool stat: in history, nobody has had crowd size like Trump. In history. So, call it in the past 6000 years or so…..

Spent a few minutes comparing crowd size, when he spoke on 1/6, called it largest crowd he ever spoke to. But media didn’t show that. Compared to Martin Luther King “I have a dream” speech in 1963 march on Washington. They said Trump crowd was 25,000, King’s crowd was a million. But you can look at photos of each, and Trump says his was bigger, looking from the same vantage point, in 1963, and 2021, and “they say King had a million”, but “I don’t care, because I like Martin Luther King”. So that’s a new grievance to me, but he was a good sport about it…


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb_DnSjRlj8
 
Last edited:
I liked this comment from Joe Rogan from years ago:
In a 2017 podcast, he criticized the relentless pursuit of wealth, saying, “When you’re pursuing wealth, you’re pursuing wealth at all costs, and that is the ultimate goal ... the score that you put on the board. I mean, that’s the Gordon Gekko philosophy – greed is good.”

He went on to mention then-President Donald Trump, arguing that Trump personified this philosophy, saying, “I mean our president is essentially the greed is good guy. I mean that is who he is that’s what he’s done. He’s pursued wealth at all cost.” he finished his point by stating, “It’s a dangerous ideology for a country to aspire to.”
(And we are seeing today so many Americans in our country willing to overlook all the corruption, scandal, and immorality that is donald trump to vote him into the highest office of our country because they think he will give them a few more bucks)

And another one from 2015: This ************ (mother trucker) is trolling us. He'll never be president, but it's a true joy to have ridiculous people like him around for our amusement. He better stay the **** out of Mexico, though.

I still maintain that the only reason trump won in 2016 is because no one thought he even had a chance at winning and so many people who didn't like hillary or trump, but would have reluctantly voted for hillary, just stayed home or voted 3rd party. Which handed trump the presidency.
 
Last edited:

Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump tried to pressure the Federal Reserve into cutting rates — a breach of protocol that threatened to undermine the independence of the central bank and its ability to keep jobs booming and inflation low. If reelected, Trump said Thursday he’d go further: He’d try to exert direct power over monetary policy.

“I made a lot of money. I was very successful. And I think I have a better instinct than, in many cases, people that would be on the Federal Reserve — or the chairman.”

The former president said that Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump appointed to the position in 2017, has got the timing of rate moves wrong throughout his tenure.

“He’s tending to be a little bit late on things. He gets a little bit too early and a little bit too late,” Trump said. “I believe it’s really a gut feeling.”

Trump has recently advocated against a rate cut before the election, saying such a decision from the Fed would be a gift to the Democratic party. Rate cuts tend to reduce borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, freeing up cash to to spend and boosting the economy. In the Fed’s yearslong battle with surging inflation, it hiked rates to slow the economy and bring prices under control. It has largely accomplished that goal.

Trump publicly praised Powell for cutting rates to zero in March 2020, when the Fed made two extraordinary emergency rate cuts to keep the economy from collapse in the early days of the pandemic.

Presidents frequently gripe about Fed policy, but Trump’s public pressure campaign is in a league of its own. The Fed is designed to be an independent governing body, free from political influence, so that it cannot be bullied into making emotional decisions that could upset the delicate balance of job creation and low inflation. Sometimes, a central bank is forced to make unpopular decisions — and when politics play a role, as they have recently in Turkey, for example — inflation can surge out of control or economies can tank.

Trump knows more about everything than anyone. Also, not an elitist even though he made a lot of money and therefore thinks he should control monetary policy.
 
fishonjazz said:
I liked this comment from Joe Rogan from years ago:
In a 2017 podcast, he criticized the relentless pursuit of wealth, saying, “When you’re pursuing wealth, you’re pursuing wealth at all costs, and that is the ultimate goal ... the score that you put on the board. I mean, that’s the Gordon Gekko philosophy – greed is good.”

He went on to mention then-President Donald Trump, arguing that Trump personified this philosophy, saying, “I mean our president is essentially the greed is good guy. I mean that is who he is that’s what he’s done. He’s pursued wealth at all cost.” he finished his point by stating, “It’s a dangerous ideology for a country to aspire to.”
(And we are seeing today so many Americans in our country willing to overlook all the corruption, scandal, and immorality that is donald trump to vote him into the highest office of our country because they think he will give them a few more bucks)

And another one from 2015: This ************ (mother trucker) is trolling us. He'll never be president, but it's a true joy to have ridiculous people like him around for our amusement. He better stay the **** out of Mexico, though.

I still maintain that the only reason trump won in 2016 is because no one thought he even had a chance at winning and so many people who didn't like hillary or trump, but would have reluctantly voted for hillary, just stayed home or voted 3rd party. Which handed trump the presidency.
Click to expand...
Yeah I would bet that easily a third to a half of the people who voted for Trump in 2016 were never-Hillary voters who figured there was no way a guy that seemed as clueless as Trump did at the time could be as dangerous as he turned out to be. A substantial chunk of those were the swing voters who voted him out in 2020. Hopefully their change of heart holds true in 24 as well.
 
The press should be one of our watchdogs. Yet, in Trump’s case, they seldom point out the obvious: he is a deeply disturbed individual with a degree of insecurity that is staggering, yet the press gives us sanitized headlines that fail to mention the Republican candidate is out of his mind….That speech and “presser” Friday was his first major response to the Harris-Walz ticket, and he chose to display his weakness and insecurity. Where are the headlines for that simple, abundantly clear, fact? The man is very, very sick. And it’s so obvious.

www.theatlantic.com

The Truth About Trump’s Press Conference

His obvious emotional instability is frightening, not funny.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

Reporters might listen to Trump and then understandably be reluctant to start typing stories that must feel like spec scripts for The West Wing pieced together by a creative-writing circle:

The former president, lying about abortion laws, said women murder their own babies in the delivery room. He megalomaniacally claimed that he gets bigger crowds than anyone in history, and compared himself to Martin Luther King Jr. He descended into fantasy by telling a story about surviving a helicopter emergency that never happened with a man who wasn’t there.
Click to expand...
Instead, The New York Times ran this headline: “Trump Tries to Wrestle Back Attention at Mar-a-Lago News Conference.” The Washington Post said: “Trump Holds Meandering News Conference, Where He Agrees to Debate Harris.” The British paper The Independent got closer with: “Trump Holds Seemingly Pointless Press Conference Filled With False Claims,” but CNNwent with “Trump Attacks Harris and Walz During First News Conference Since Democratic Ticket Was Announced.”

All of these headlines are technically true, but they miss the point: The Republican nominee, the man who could return to office and regain the sole authority to use American nuclear weapons, is a serial liar and can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

Donald Trump is not well. He is not stable. There’s something deeply wrong with him.

Any of those would have been important—and accurate—headlines.
 
Last edited:
Trump, doubling down on the story he created from his imagination. This is a very, very, very sick man…story easily disproven, but he cannot be wrong. Such a strange, deeply disturbed man….

www.mediaite.com

Haberman: ‘Angry’ Trump Phoned NYT After Emergency Landing To Threaten Lawsuit, Claiming Proof Of Willie Brown Helicopter Story

According to Maggie Haberman, Trump was agitated after his plane touched down in Billings, Montana, after a reported mechanical issue.
www.mediaite.com www.mediaite.com

Maggie Haberman with The New York Times reported Friday night that former President Donald Trump phoned her after his airplane was forced into an emergency landing in Montana to rail against the paper’s coverage of his Thursday presser.

Trump was reportedly fuming about a refuted claim he once boarded a helicopter with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and threatened to sue the Times over its coverage of the story.

The former president stated on Thursday, “I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing… This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie was, he was a little concerned. So I know him, I know him pretty well. I mean, I haven’t seen him in years.”

Brown denied the story multiple times Friday. According to Haberman, Trump was agitated after his plane touched down in Billings, Montana, after a reported mechanical issue. She reported:

Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday afternoon vehemently maintained that he had once been in a dangerous helicopter landing with Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, and insisted he had records to prove it, despite Mr. Brown’s denial. In an angry phone call to a New York Times reporter as he landed several hours away from his planned rally in Bozeman, Mont., because of a mechanical issue on his plane, Mr. Trump excoriated The Times for its coverage of his meandering news conference on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and home, during which he told of an emergency landing during a helicopter trip that he said both he and Mr. Brown had made together.
Click to expand...
Habreman added:

“We have the flight records of the helicopter,” Mr. Trump insisted Friday, saying the helicopter had landed “in a field,” and indicating that he intended to release the flight records, before shouting that he was “probably going to sue” over the Times article. When asked to produce the flight records, Mr. Trump responded mockingly, repeating the request in a sing-song voice. As of early Friday evening, he had not provided them.
Click to expand...
Brown said on Friday, “I’ve never been in a helicopter with [Trump] in my life.”
 
Last edited:
Red said:
The press should be one of our watchdogs. Yet, in Trump’s case, they seldom point out the obvious: he is a deeply disturbed individual with a degree of insecurity that is staggering, yet the press gives us sanitized headlines that fail to mention the Republican candidate is out of his mind….That speech and “presser” Friday was his first major response to the Harris-Walz ticket, and he chose to display his weakness and insecurity. Where are the headlines for that simple, abundantly clear, fact? The man is very, very sick. And it’s so obvious.

www.theatlantic.com

The Truth About Trump’s Press Conference

His obvious emotional instability is frightening, not funny.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

Reporters might listen to Trump and then understandably be reluctant to start typing stories that must feel like spec scripts for The West Wing pieced together by a creative-writing circle:


Instead, The New York Times ran this headline: “Trump Tries to Wrestle Back Attention at Mar-a-Lago News Conference.” The Washington Post said: “Trump Holds Meandering News Conference, Where He Agrees to Debate Harris.” The British paper The Independent got closer with: “Trump Holds Seemingly Pointless Press Conference Filled With False Claims,” but CNNwent with “Trump Attacks Harris and Walz During First News Conference Since Democratic Ticket Was Announced.”

All of these headlines are technically true, but they miss the point: The Republican nominee, the man who could return to office and regain the sole authority to use American nuclear weapons, is a serial liar and can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

Donald Trump is not well. He is not stable. There’s something deeply wrong with him.

Any of those would have been important—and accurate—headlines.
Click to expand...
Yep.
The media, as well as the justice system, goes too easy on trump.

Sent from my CPH2451 using Tapatalk
 
Red said:
Trump, doubling down on the story he created from his imagination. This is a very, very, very sick man…story easily disproven, but he cannot be wrong. Such a strange, deeply disturbed man….

www.mediaite.com

Haberman: ‘Angry’ Trump Phoned NYT After Emergency Landing To Threaten Lawsuit, Claiming Proof Of Willie Brown Helicopter Story

According to Maggie Haberman, Trump was agitated after his plane touched down in Billings, Montana, after a reported mechanical issue.
www.mediaite.com www.mediaite.com

Maggie Haberman with The New York Times reported Friday night that former President Donald Trump phoned her after his airplane was forced into an emergency landing in Montana to rail against the paper’s coverage of his Thursday presser.

Trump was reportedly fuming about a refuted claim he once boarded a helicopter with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and threatened to sue the Times over its coverage of the story.

The former president stated on Thursday, “I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing… This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie was, he was a little concerned. So I know him, I know him pretty well. I mean, I haven’t seen him in years.”

Brown denied the story multiple times Friday. According to Haberman, Trump was agitated after his plane touched down in Billings, Montana, after a reported mechanical issue. She reported:


Habreman added:


Brown said on Friday, “I’ve never been in a helicopter with [Trump] in my life.”
Click to expand...
My favorite part.

When asked to produce the flight records, Mr. Trump responded mockingly, repeating the request in a sing-song voice.

Also funny that he is threatening to sue the new York times. He makes up a story and then when he is called out about it he instantly switches to victim mode.

That's trump for you, act like a childish victim.



Sent from my CPH2451 using Tapatalk
 
The guy is losing his mind. He probably needs to be institutionalized honestly. He cannot tell fantasy from reality. It's terrifying this man could become president. What happens when this fantasy leads him to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack? How the **** did we get here? Absolutely the lowest point for our country since the civil war and segregation ended.
 
fishonjazz said:
My favorite part.

When asked to produce the flight records, Mr. Trump responded mockingly, repeating the request in a sing-song voice
Click to expand...
lol, I tried imagining that a couple of times. Similar to this classic response from childhood…


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ABVyH-Ti6I&pp=ygU1RXhhbXBsZSBvZiBDbGFzc2ljIGNoaWxkaXNoIG5haCBuYWggbmFoIGhhaCBoYWggdGF1bnQ%3D


LogGrad98 said:
The guy is losing his mind. He probably needs to be institutionalized honestly. He cannot tell fantasy from reality. It's terrifying this man could become president. What happens when this fantasy leads him to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack? How the **** did we get here? Absolutely the lowest point for our country since the civil war and segregation ended.
Click to expand...
It occurred to me some of the electorate will vote for him with the fear of liberals, progressives, woke, outweighing fear of putting such a man in that position. Thinking “he’s got problems for sure, but I’ll take my chances, this is existential”. An attitude present on both sides obviously.

Off topic, but I think part of the reason I saw recent coverage of this woman’s research is because Trump might be that “one man”. People were talking about her book and thinking of Trump and the button. I can’t say I really live in fear of such a scenario, but found her ability to describe the first 72 minutes following one finger on a button, in a calm and soothing voice, very good. So, throwing it in here as pure fear mongering (Just kidding! Really very educational)

www.newscientist.com

Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

Our New Scientist Book Club has been reading Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A scenario , a sobering non-fiction thriller that lays out what would happen next if a nuclear missile hit the Pentagon. This week, our culture editor, Alison Flood, caught up with the New York Times best-selling author...
www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com

The above has a 30 minute excerpt from this long interview:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmaLnhaFiY
 
Last edited:
Red said:
lol, I tried imagining that a couple of times. Similar to this classic response from childhood…


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ABVyH-Ti6I&pp=ygU1RXhhbXBsZSBvZiBDbGFzc2ljIGNoaWxkaXNoIG5haCBuYWggbmFoIGhhaCBoYWggdGF1bnQ%3D



It occurred to me some of the electorate will vote for him with the fear of liberals, progressives, woke, outweighing fear of putting such a man in that position. Thinking “he’s got problems for sure, but I’ll take my chances, this is existential”. An attitude present on both sides obviously.

Off topic, but I think part of the reason I saw recent coverage of this woman’s research is because Trump might be that “one man”. People were talking about her book and thinking of Trump and the button. I can’t say I really live in fear of such a scenario, but found her ability to describe the first 72 minutes following one finger on a button, in a calm and soothing voice, very good. So, throwing it in here as pure fear mongering (Just kidding! Really very educational)

www.newscientist.com

Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

Our New Scientist Book Club has been reading Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A scenario , a sobering non-fiction thriller that lays out what would happen next if a nuclear missile hit the Pentagon. This week, our culture editor, Alison Flood, caught up with the New York Times best-selling author...
www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com

The above has a 30 minute excerpt from this long interview:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmaLnhaFiY
Click to expand...

If I could break it down, I think that of the 43% currently favoring Trump (of course it fluctuates, I could just use 50%, but 43% is at least more accurate at the moment), I think it breaks down like this, where I am showing the percentage of that 43%, so 50% of that would be 21.5%, just to be clear:

So of the 43%....

  • 30% are hardcore maga cultists. These are the ones who go to every rally, buy all his ****, give the stupid answers to Jordan Klepper and others for their funny videos, that really do not represent the whole very well.
  • 50% are voting R. Straight up, on both sides of the aisle, about 1/3 to 1/2 of the electorate vote for the R or the D. They have no other recourse. They might buy some of his ****, go to a rally or 2, and are the ones who give more measured responses to the clickbait seeking youtube dudes.
  • 10-15% are the true swing voters, who decide that a republican is better for them than a democrat. Kind of voting for the R or D, but subtle difference in that they can be swayed.
  • 5%-10% are never-whatever demo you want to put Kamala in voters. They might be swayed by the addition of Walz, but these are the true bigots who do not necessarily agree with everything Trump says or does, recognizes he is mostly full of ****, but they will be DAMNED if they are going to allow a gay-loving black woman in the white house. Unfortunately I sincerely think this proportion as I have it here may be too small. And I know more than a few of these, I am finding out. Which in some cases really shocks me.
For the record I think the democrat side has its own break down, not as fragmented as the repub side due to the chaotic presence of Trump, but still just as predictable, with a larger proportion of them voting for the D. I see it as like 10% SJWs who believe no democrat can ever do anything wrong, 60-70% voting for the D, and as many as 20% or more being the swing voters who are broken into I voted for Trump before and my conscience won't let me this time, and never-Trumpers kind of evenly.
 
LogGrad98 said:
If I could break it down, I think that of the 43% currently favoring Trump (of course it fluctuates, I could just use 50%, but 43% is at least more accurate at the moment), I think it breaks down like this, where I am showing the percentage of that 43%, so 50% of that would be 21.5%, just to be clear:

So of the 43%....

  • 30% are hardcore maga cultists. These are the ones who go to every rally, buy all his ****, give the stupid answers to Jordan Klepper and others for their funny videos, that really do not represent the whole very well.
  • 50% are voting R. Straight up, on both sides of the aisle, about 1/3 to 1/2 of the electorate vote for the R or the D. They have no other recourse. They might buy some of his ****, go to a rally or 2, and are the ones who give more measured responses to the clickbait seeking youtube dudes.
  • 10-15% are the true swing voters, who decide that a republican is better for them than a democrat. Kind of voting for the R or D, but subtle difference in that they can be swayed.
  • 5%-10% are never-whatever demo you want to put Kamala in voters. They might be swayed by the addition of Walz, but these are the true bigots who do not necessarily agree with everything Trump says or does, recognizes he is mostly full of ****, but they will be DAMNED if they are going to allow a gay-loving black woman in the white house. Unfortunately I sincerely think this proportion as I have it here may be too small. And I know more than a few of these, I am finding out. Which in some cases really shocks me.
For the record I think the democrat side has its own break down, not as fragmented as the repub side due to the chaotic presence of Trump, but still just as predictable, with a larger proportion of them voting for the D. I see it as like 10% SJWs who believe no democrat can ever do anything wrong, 60-70% voting for the D, and as many as 20% or more being the swing voters who are broken into I voted for Trump before and my conscience won't let me this time, and never-Trumpers kind of evenly.
Click to expand...
Good post. Mostly agree.
As much as I hate trump I don't even really hate on those who are reluctantly voting for him because he is the Republican candidate who won the primary and they just won't ever vote for the Democrat. I think these people are making a big mistake but at least they realize that trump sucks. (They just don't realize just how epically he sucks) They just think he sucks less than Kamala or Biden, etc. Hell, that is how the majority of Americans on both sides vote in most elections imo.

The ones who I do hate on are the ones going to the trump rallies and buying his merch and flying his flags and thinking he is the best president of all time or whatever.
Those people have something really wrong with them. They are the ones who would just shrug their shoulders if trump just started killing Americans he doesn't like. They are the ones he was calling his sheep when he said he can do whatever he wants and not lose his supporters. (Shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any supporters)

Sent from my CPH2451 using Tapatalk
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top