The Trump Presidency V: New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

Europe in the meaning Europe = EU not as in Europe the continent. Refugees and peace in Europe are also two entirely seperate issues that youve thrown together there.

 

No, you're not joking. That is indeed how the GOP uses the term. If you appeal to straight white Christians, you not doing identity politics. You are speaking to the neutral position. Everyone else is not neutral -- they are minorities of some extent, and thus speaking to them is pandering via identify politics.

Straiht white Christians who reject this approach are also minorities in this construct. They are called "elites" and are rejected from the commune.

 

Are guys paying attention to Charlottesville?? Or we to busy with sheer ********ery!

 

Racism thread, and a specific Charlottesville thread.

 

Yeah, kinda ironic that a bunch of white guys are marching for white identity on the day that the WSJ publishes a big criticism of Democrats for pandering to identity politics.

 

What's to pay attention to? There will be a bunch of noise, some "blood and sickening crunch," a life or three will be lost, the good name of one of the most pleasant towns in America will be besmirched, and no one will even mention the name of the General whose statue is allegedly at the center of it all, let alone know anything about him.

SOP in Trump's America is all...

 

David French‏Verified account @DavidAFrench 51m51 minutes ago

bubblefart is very, very specific when he wants to condemn someone - ask the Khans, Judge Curiel, Comey, his AG - his vagueness has a purpose.


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Glenn Thrush‏Verified account @GlennThrush 59m59 minutes ago

It is neither unfair nor inaccurate to point out that the president has been tougher on Mitch McConnell than Putin or Nazis in last 24 hours

 

Well in fairness, Putin and Nazis are stronger supporters than is Mitch.

 

McAuliffe is your gov, right? He is making a name for himself, he is giving a great speech.

Where is CCJ? Did he drive down for the protest with his fellow deplorables? I say that because he identified himself as such, when HRC said that.

 

He's buying some tiki torches for his local Alt Right protest tonite

 

Did not know this about Nixon:

The scene from the White House south lawn on August 9, 1974, is vivid in the nation’s memory. That morning, President Richard Nixon famously boarded Marine One for the final time, put on a wide grin and fired off a final double-V to the assembled crowd.

But one of the most interesting aspects of that day is what didn’t happen on the south lawn: Even though Nixon had more than two hours left in his tenure, the most critical tool of the modern presidency had already been taken away from him. He never noticed it, but the nuclear “football” didn’t travel with him as he boarded the helicopter, and later, Air Force One for his flight back to California.

In a democratic country without hereditary power, royal crowns or bejeweled thrones, the nuclear football is in some ways the only physical manifestation of our nation’s head of state.

Yet, on that August day, it had been quietly removed from Nixon’s hands—remaining behind at the White House with the incoming commander-in-chief, Gerald Ford.

Moreover, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger recalled years later that in the final days of the Nixon presidency he had issued an unprecedented set of orders: If the president gave any nuclear launch order, military commanders should check with either him or Secretary of State Henry Kissinger before executing them. Schlesinger feared that the president, who seemed depressed and was drinking heavily, might order Armageddon. Nixon himself had stoked official fears during a meeting with congressmen during which he reportedly said, “I can go in my office and pick up a telephone, and in 25 minutes, millions of people will be dead.” Senator Alan Cranston had phoned Schlesinger, warning about “the need for keeping a berserk president from plunging us into a holocaust.”

...Today, if a president were to decide to launch nuclear weapons, he first would turn to the military aide carrying the nuclear “football,” the black briefcase filled with the nation’s nuclear plans. (The playful nickname for the deadly satchel comes from the code word for the first set of nuclear war plans, DROPKICK.) The aide is never far away from the president, as Americans were reminded when a party guest at Mar-a-Lago snapped a selfie with the man carrying the most important briefcase in the world.

After choosing an option—one military aide referred to the visual guide in the "football" as the “Denny’s menu” of nuclear war—the president would then use a short code phrase (sealed in an envelope opened only in the event of nuclear war) to identify himself as the commander in chief. The Pentagon would confirm the code. And from there the launch orders would radiate out through the chain of command; the codes would be confirmed at each level, right down to the missile silos, bombers and submarines as they prepared to launch. The first nuclear missiles would hit their targets less than 30 minutes after the president had given the initial order.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/11/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-richard-nixon-215478

 

Trump's comment that we're considering military action in Venezuela - that doesn't pass the smell test if the generals are involved, but maybe if it's him, and Bannon, and Gorka considering it.

 

To those complaining about the removal of Confederate "art"...You lost, get over it.

 

I don't think anyone at all is thinking about it. He was asked, and he answered as if he was commenting on the President, whomever it is, as one that knows better than the President, whomever it is, what to do.

 

Did anybody hear Orrin Hatch be the voice of reason for old white guys regarding Charlottesville?

 

Only 8 months into the Trump Presidency we are on the brink of nuclear war and Nazis are in streets of an American city. Seems about right

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 12, 2017

I think it's worth noting that the guys flying the Nazi and Confederate flags are the same guys who will throw out the phrase 'You lost. Get over it.' to Hillary supporters.

edit: Cris beat me to it...

 

In case anyone missed it.

We should call evil by its name. My brother didn't give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home. -OGH

— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) August 12, 2017

 

Maybe well get a silver lining here. Maybe there will be a rash of red to blue panicked aisle jumping.

 

Hatch will vote with the GOP.