Notices tagged with trump
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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2019 00:51:55 UTC 
Matthew Davidson
Fair dues: #Nixon could compartmentalise in order to get things done. #Trump can't set aside his vengeful rage for a second. https://boingboing.net/2019/10/17/hot-mic-camera-footage-of-nixo.html -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2019 03:32:15 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Ha. John Bolton is out. Couldn't happen to a nicer raving nutcase. Can't understand why #Trump occasionally appoints people with an agenda (albeit an unspeakably vile one) when all he really wants is utterly unprincipled craven subservience. Lasted longer than Bannon though. If civilisation survives, this presidency is going to make such a brilliant HBO box set. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/10/politics/trump-john-bolton-out/index.html #US -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2019 11:15:19 UTC
Matthew Davidson
'“#Chernobyl” can be considered the best political film of our times because it illuminates a core problem of the #Trump era: the nonstop jackhammer of falsehoods that are drowning out what’s true. The risk is that Americans who are inundated with moral rubbish from the White House and Fox News may lose the will to care about the difference between right and wrong, echoing what happened in the Soviet Union. When everything becomes gray and sluggish, there is no battle worth fighting.' https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29225 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 06:50:09 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Now #Trump could have pulled this off. https://boingboing.net/2019/07/16/drug-smuggler-busted-with-half.html "Best ludicrous hair ever. A lot of people are saying that. I could be hiding all sorts of things. Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. And guess what? Nobody's ever gonna find out, 'cause I'm building a wall." -
bob (smithums)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 20:24:33 UTC 
bob
@Jackie I am no fun of libs but this is an incredibly pointless (if not out-right self-defeating) argument to make.
First is the potential strategic flaw: I think that driving a wedge between Dems was definitely the plan - but whether it will pay off is another question. Might just reorient focus from the #AOC-#Pelosi spat to folks leveling accusations of racism at #Trump.
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bob (smithums)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2019 22:47:07 UTC
bob
Apparently Tucker Carlson accompanied #Trump to the #DMZ for the Kim Jong Un meeting. #Bolton, who has been blamed for the #Hanoi summit failure, was sidelined. Carlson has been advising Trump to avoid confrontation w/#Iran while Bolton is eager to tussle
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-30/tucker-carlson-trumps-side-korea-where-was-bolton
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bob (smithums)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2019 22:37:05 UTC
bob
Apparently Tucker Carlson accompanied #Trump to the #DMZ to meet with Kim Jong Un - #Bolton was sidelined. Carlson had been advising Trump in the prior weeks to avoid military confrontation w/ #Iran while Bolton was pushing for the opposite. Interesting turn of events:
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bob (smithums)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2019 22:48:10 UTC
bob
(This is especially true in an election in which many #Dems are more eager to beat #Trump than support any particular platform or candidate for their character.)
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bob (smithums)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 01:38:10 UTC
bob
#Bernie & #DSA style leftists have been conspicuously quiet about trade policy since #Trump's win. Shows how politically dangerous it is to be even remotely associated w/him. Pre-2016 election, the left was vocal in its opposition to Free trade & support of policies like tariffs.
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bob (smithums)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2019 18:43:00 UTC
bob
#Trump's actually done more to further normalize leftist political discourse than actual leftists. If a politician had described these facilities as "concentration camps" prior to the Trump admin, the #MSM would have derided them as hysterically naive extremists & radicals.
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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2019 01:32:42 UTC
Matthew Davidson
'Conway said the president was fixated on John Bolton’s prominent mustache — and that it was a reason not to pick him as secretary of state. […] “He didn’t like the mustache,” Conway said. “He just went on and on about the mustache.”' Well, #Trump eventually got over it, unfortunately for global peace and justice. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/26246 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Feb-2019 07:52:05 UTC
Matthew Davidson
The Independent has an article on "how to watch the #US State of the Union Address". I would have thought "from between one's fingers, in a state of horrified fascination" was the unavoidably obvious vantage point. #Trump -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 03-Feb-2019 04:36:15 UTC
Matthew Davidson
The next two years (if it lasts that long) in the #US are going to be interesting. Jeff Sessions got what he wanted: a string of far-right judicial appointments whose effects will be felt for a generation or more. Paul Ryan got what he wanted: huge tax cuts for the rich (and there's no way he's not going to be running for President when he decides the timing is right). John Bolton is getting what he wanted: the severing of damn near every significant post-cold-war treaty, coups across Latin America, and a war with Iran. #Trump has nothing more useful to give. Time to cut the moron loose. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Nov-2018 05:06:46 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"Lock her up! Lock her up!" Satire has been exhumed, hit over the head with a shovel, poisoned, shot in the chest at point blank range, given a stern talking to, and reburied under a tonne of radioactive concrete. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/20320 #Trump -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 11-Nov-2018 04:31:02 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different." #q #Trump https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/trumps-greatest-moment-of-self-awareness.html -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 03-Nov-2018 07:27:34 UTC
Matthew Davidson
John #Bolton is too crazy for the crazies. Read the stuff he's had published in "respected" foreign policy journals over decades; it's bonkers. The problem is that, assuming a scandal-ridden lame duck executive for the next 2 years (vote, #US citizens!), a newly respectable crazy like Paul #Ryan, refreshed after 2 years of faux-retirement from public life, may in 2020 be up against Hillary "this time, for sure!" #Clinton instead of a candidate who _isn't_ the least popular politician in the country, and it's all over. #Trump and his mini-Nietzsche seriously believe fascism-lite will deliver some form - however selective - of greatness and glory, but they're incompetent. Competent crazies like Ryan don't care about greatness; they just want to import banana republic policy (the "Washington Consensus") back home and make out like bandits while the 99% starve. https://www.vox.com/world/2018/11/1/18052338/bolton-cuba-venezuela-nicaragua-speech-troika-tyranny -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 07:26:16 UTC
Matthew Davidson
A tour de force by #Colbert on #Kavanagh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LQ7w39lyfE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ng298HXcM It feels like civilisation is coming, and #Trump was barbarism's last hurrah. #GlassHalfFull -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 27-Sep-2018 11:08:20 UTC
Matthew Davidson
I will never, ever, feel out of my depth again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDPd5wOaBOU #Trump -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 14-Sep-2018 08:08:07 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Damnit. Zephyr Teachout lost NY Attorney General to a Clinton Democrat. This is important because a sitting president can only pardon people who have federal - not state - convictions, and the dwindling pool of tight-lipped co-conspirators live and work a stone's throw from #Trump Tower. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Aug-2018 06:49:46 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Weird Al gets his Hollywood Walk of Fame star as #Trump loses his. Justice for both at last! http://weirdal.com/news/walk-of-fame/
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