So....let me get this straight....If the FBI says that Brett Kavanaugh is clean as a whistle....then he would probably get confirmed....but if the FBI says something like....'there could very well be merit in the accuser's accusations'....then a couple of Senators would probably vote no....so....this Supreme Court nominee's fate could be determined by the FBI....and if Brett Kavanaugh is voted down then the Republicans may take the brunt of the blame in November....so the majority party in one or both chambers of the Congress may in a sense be determined by the FBI....and if the Democrats take control then President Trump will probably have impeachment proceedings brought against him....so....the fate of President Trump may also be in the hands of the FBI?
President Trump today signed another big spending bill....a bill he called "ridiculous" a week ago....but he's "unhappy"....so that's OK....and he said that Brett Kavanaugh's accuser's story sounds very credible....as did Judge Kavanaugh's story (?)....and The Hill reported today that it sounded like President Trump and Donald Jr. both were OK with Kevin McCarthy becoming the next Speaker of the House....should the Republicans retain control of the House.
How many people has Kim Jong-un murdered over the years? He has executed family members and top leaders in his own dictatorship. He has tortured and devised sick ways to execute people. He has political prisons....apart from regular prisons...where prisoners have been starved to death.....and only God knows how many North Korean people perished through famines that could have been averted.....(hundreds of thousands....millions?) yet President Trump yesterday said...."I was really being tough, and so was he. And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love, okay? No, really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and they're great letters. We fell in love." I can think of a lot of words to describe that statement but none of them even comes close to doing it justice.
You Had Better Know What You Are Doing
I watched President Trump's wild press conference Wednesday evening and I'm sure that conservatives continue to be mesmerized....even hypnotized by it. Donald Trump has this public medium of the press conference mastered as he does with his speeches and tweeting. Now in private that's another story but one would have to read books about him that are not on the syllabus to hear about that....and we stick strictly to the syllabus. On the more difficult press conference questions the President has the tendency to begin his answer before the reporter finishes the question. This diminishes the impact of the question and belittles the questioner. The President....with the question now a little bit ambivalent in the minds of the audience.....can then segue to a more amenable to him interpretation of the question....and while he's at it use up the clock by throwing in some inflated figures and dramatized anecdotes that no one will be able to check on....and then point to the next reporter. It's very effective!
This was most evident on the final question of this most recent press conference. The reporter wanted to ask about how President Trump's position on the Brett Kavanaugh situation might effect young men around the country. The President cut the question short.....did not address what the reporter tried to ask.....and used the time to double-down on some previously made comments that were better optics....and then walked off the stage as the reporter was calling out after him....."You didn't answer my question about the young men."
President Trump volunteered this on Wednesday...."I wasn't happy with Roy Moore. Let's get that straight." Conservative Christians had better believe that Donald Trump wasn't happy with Roy Moore because Judge Moore was way...way too close to reliant on the Bible. He can handle praying judges but not Bible quoting judges.
Far too many of President Trump's evangelical advisors are Charismatics and most of the others are too near to being Christian nationalists. Both groups believe that God sent President Trump as our champion and are more than willing to close their eyes to the real Donald Trump. All they have to do is say that God uses imperfect men.
The president often employs the tactic of covering himself....in the event of. He'll make bold predictions....North Korea would be an example.....and then add...."but....it may not work out.....we'll see." He has thus covered his you know what just in case.
He likes to relay something that someone else said.....often just saying...."many others have said"....thereby putting the onus on them....."Hey, I was just repeating what someone else said!" Another ploy he uses is that he will make a bold statement and follow it with...."Something will come out on this shortly." Information may or may not eventually come....it doesn't matter because the points were already scored. Reporters have a hard time even asking current questions let alone being able to call him to account on false or misleading statements from past press conferences.
The most egregious statement that President Trump made in his recent press conference was..."You were going to have a war. If I wasn't elected you'd be in a war." Folks....really....are we now totally lost in this cult? This is an outrageously misleading statement. He blamed others for the threat of the mass-murdering communist tyrant....then took credit for saving tens of millions of people....when in fact what happened is that he actually confronted this threat to America and then turned on a dime. The next thing that we knew we were watching a reality show.....and Kim Jong-un was given....as the President said in the press conference....maybe as many as five more years! It's a bigger mess than it was!
Here's is something troubling that you may want to at least consider. President Trump can bully one nation and get away with it....he may be able to bully two or three or even four nations and get away with it.....but he is bullying people....even strong allies....all over the world....and they are going to remember this....all for more profits when he tells us all the time that we are already the richest that we've ever been! The President is a former casino owner.....a failed casino former owner.....he should know the concept of odds. One of these days the ball is not going to land on his color.....but Donald Trump is used to this type of strategy....take on eight major projects.....maybe a couple of them fail....file bankruptcy on them and haul in the profits of the projects that did not fail. You cannot do this with naval armadas and bombing missions and tariffs and sanctions. You had better know what you are doing!
President Trump today signed another big spending bill....a bill he called "ridiculous" a week ago....but he's "unhappy"....so that's OK....and he said that Brett Kavanaugh's accuser's story sounds very credible....as did Judge Kavanaugh's story (?)....and The Hill reported today that it sounded like President Trump and Donald Jr. both were OK with Kevin McCarthy becoming the next Speaker of the House....should the Republicans retain control of the House.
How many people has Kim Jong-un murdered over the years? He has executed family members and top leaders in his own dictatorship. He has tortured and devised sick ways to execute people. He has political prisons....apart from regular prisons...where prisoners have been starved to death.....and only God knows how many North Korean people perished through famines that could have been averted.....(hundreds of thousands....millions?) yet President Trump yesterday said...."I was really being tough, and so was he. And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love, okay? No, really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and they're great letters. We fell in love." I can think of a lot of words to describe that statement but none of them even comes close to doing it justice.
You Had Better Know What You Are Doing
I watched President Trump's wild press conference Wednesday evening and I'm sure that conservatives continue to be mesmerized....even hypnotized by it. Donald Trump has this public medium of the press conference mastered as he does with his speeches and tweeting. Now in private that's another story but one would have to read books about him that are not on the syllabus to hear about that....and we stick strictly to the syllabus. On the more difficult press conference questions the President has the tendency to begin his answer before the reporter finishes the question. This diminishes the impact of the question and belittles the questioner. The President....with the question now a little bit ambivalent in the minds of the audience.....can then segue to a more amenable to him interpretation of the question....and while he's at it use up the clock by throwing in some inflated figures and dramatized anecdotes that no one will be able to check on....and then point to the next reporter. It's very effective!
This was most evident on the final question of this most recent press conference. The reporter wanted to ask about how President Trump's position on the Brett Kavanaugh situation might effect young men around the country. The President cut the question short.....did not address what the reporter tried to ask.....and used the time to double-down on some previously made comments that were better optics....and then walked off the stage as the reporter was calling out after him....."You didn't answer my question about the young men."
President Trump volunteered this on Wednesday...."I wasn't happy with Roy Moore. Let's get that straight." Conservative Christians had better believe that Donald Trump wasn't happy with Roy Moore because Judge Moore was way...way too close to reliant on the Bible. He can handle praying judges but not Bible quoting judges.
Far too many of President Trump's evangelical advisors are Charismatics and most of the others are too near to being Christian nationalists. Both groups believe that God sent President Trump as our champion and are more than willing to close their eyes to the real Donald Trump. All they have to do is say that God uses imperfect men.
The president often employs the tactic of covering himself....in the event of. He'll make bold predictions....North Korea would be an example.....and then add...."but....it may not work out.....we'll see." He has thus covered his you know what just in case.
He likes to relay something that someone else said.....often just saying...."many others have said"....thereby putting the onus on them....."Hey, I was just repeating what someone else said!" Another ploy he uses is that he will make a bold statement and follow it with...."Something will come out on this shortly." Information may or may not eventually come....it doesn't matter because the points were already scored. Reporters have a hard time even asking current questions let alone being able to call him to account on false or misleading statements from past press conferences.
The most egregious statement that President Trump made in his recent press conference was..."You were going to have a war. If I wasn't elected you'd be in a war." Folks....really....are we now totally lost in this cult? This is an outrageously misleading statement. He blamed others for the threat of the mass-murdering communist tyrant....then took credit for saving tens of millions of people....when in fact what happened is that he actually confronted this threat to America and then turned on a dime. The next thing that we knew we were watching a reality show.....and Kim Jong-un was given....as the President said in the press conference....maybe as many as five more years! It's a bigger mess than it was!
Here's is something troubling that you may want to at least consider. President Trump can bully one nation and get away with it....he may be able to bully two or three or even four nations and get away with it.....but he is bullying people....even strong allies....all over the world....and they are going to remember this....all for more profits when he tells us all the time that we are already the richest that we've ever been! The President is a former casino owner.....a failed casino former owner.....he should know the concept of odds. One of these days the ball is not going to land on his color.....but Donald Trump is used to this type of strategy....take on eight major projects.....maybe a couple of them fail....file bankruptcy on them and haul in the profits of the projects that did not fail. You cannot do this with naval armadas and bombing missions and tariffs and sanctions. You had better know what you are doing!
