THE ERA OF TRUMP

[SuburbanFarmer]

Pick you battles better Grumps. If your biggest beefs with Trump is that he shares some faults with other politicians, then you aren't making a very good case against Trump specifically and are actually only really making an argument against all politicians in general. That simply isn't effective anti-Trump criticism, because if Trump's biggest issues are issues that other politicians share than he's better than the alternatives, because they tend to have bigger issues that aren't shared by any politician on top of the usual issues that are.

Not even close. I have many, many 'beefs' with Trump, and the only ones that he shares with other politicians (so far) are sucking off the MIC, picking fights across the globe, and invading my privacy.

He's got plenty of unique faults, including extremely low-brow rhetoric, completely inconsistent policy, a whole raft of conflicts-of-interest, promoting his family businesses profits, and destroying what little respect anyone still had for the government and society as a whole. Add to that, that he makes us look completely insane to the rest of the world. I could go on, but those are the broad strokes.

He's a walking temper-tantrum, and represents the absolute worst of what we can produce as a nation.

[TheReal_ND]

He's got plenty of unique faults, including extremely low-brow rhetoric

Pot meet kettle

[StCapps]

He's got plenty of unique faults

Then get better at focusing on actual faults that are unique to Trump and not things don't matter at all. Bashing his twitter use and his use of low brow rhetoric are not important beefs, people waking up to their government fucking them over isn't a negative.

Like I said pick your battles better, stop trying to throw every little quibble you have with him against the wall and actually present a real argument. You are trying to turn molehills into mountains, then saying "look at all the mountains! it's obvious he's a flailing idiot or there wouldn't be so many mountains!" and it's making you look ridiculous.

[SuburbanFarmer]

He's got plenty of unique faults

Then get better at focusing on actual faults that are unique to Trump and not things don't matter at all. Bashing his twitter use and his use of low brow rhetoric are not important beefs, people waking up to their government fucking them over isn't a negative.

Like I said pick your battles better, stop trying to throw every little quibble you have with him against the wall and actually present a real argument. You are trying to turn molehills into mountains, then saying "look at all the mountains! it's obvious he's a flailing idiot or there wouldn't be so many mountains!" and it's making you look ridiculous.

Mmmmmkay.

maybe you were busy this weekend, and didn't watch the news?

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... in-one-day

In an interview and a press conference, Trump either shifted or completely reversed positions on matters of foreign and economic policy, including how to handle China and the future of the Federal Reserve chairwoman.

Also, "not the world's policemen" has already turned into a nuclear faceoff with both Russia AND China. Healthcare fell on its face, but not trying anymore, but maybe next year, or heylookatthat... And how's that wall going? Tax Reform now slated for 'mmmmmsomewheres like 2018'

No, you're right. This is consistent Greatness. Muh bad.

[SuburbanFarmer]

He's got plenty of unique faults, including extremely low-brow rhetoric

Pot meet kettle

I'm not running the Free World, and I don't have a personal team of speechwriters. Besides, I've already outclassed anything he puts out, just shitposting on here in my spare time.

[StCapps]

Mmmmmkay.

maybe you were busy this weekend, and didn't watch the news?

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... in-one-day

In an interview and a press conference, Trump either shifted or completely reversed positions on matters of foreign and economic policy, including how to handle China and the future of the Federal Reserve chairwoman.

Also, "not the world's policemen" has already turned into a nuclear faceoff with both Russia AND China. Healthcare fell on its face, but not trying anymore, but maybe next year, or heylookatthat... And how's that wall going? Tax Reform now slated for 'mmmmmsomewheres like 2018'

No, you're right. This is consistent Greatness. Muh bad.

Nuclear faceoff? Are you high? Your grasp of foreign policy is obviously quite limited if you think that is what's going on.

All you got is health care falling on it's face and everyone else has already laid into him on that issue. The Trump supporters around here have better criticisms of Trump than you do because they don't waste as much of their time criticizing meaningless things and they focus on his unique faults when they criticize him a much higher percentage of the time. You need to abandon this throw the kitchen sink at Trump and see what works approach because everyone sees that for what it really is, grasping at straws.

[The Conservative]

Waiting for something to happen is not the same thing as watching an idiot flail around in every direction, and boost the shit out of his own businesses. Also, the Twitter thing has got to be the dumbest move ever in national politics.

We did that for 8 years with Obama...

Somehow, I get the feeling that that's going to be your answer, no matter what I say...

"His hair looks stupid"
"So did Obamas."

"He wants to fuck his daughter"
"So did Obama".

No, the point is that you are so ready to jump down Trump's throat in less than a year's time when in reality you and a lot of other people were willing to give Obama more than that to screw up or work...

What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

[StCapps]

Hasn't even been in office for 100 days and already people are writing him off. Obama got so much more slack before being written off and rightfully so, got to at least wait until the POTUS does something before you jump down his throat for it. The double standard is obvious.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Obama brought dignity and calm to the office. He made people feel positive and hopeful, not cynical and sneering. I should think that's obvious, even to the most diehard Republicant...

If you put a bloated slimeball into office, and choose to ignore his syphilitic rambling, hoping for Big Things to happen, the fuse should be a little shorter than it would be for someone that you could actually share a meal with.

[K@th]

I wonder how much "pay to play," will be a factor in this WH. I find it concerning, but I'm not expecting many here to care. Ivanka is way prettier than Hillary.

She's been waiting for a few months for these trademarks. Huge coincidence they get approved the day the Trump's have dinner with the president of China. AmIRight?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... fa7643988a

SHANGHAI — On April 6, Ivanka Trump’s company won provisional approval from the Chinese government for three new trademarks, giving it monopoly rights to sell Ivanka brand jewelry, bags and spa services in the world’s second-largest economy. That night, the first daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, sat next to the president of China and his wife for a steak and Dover sole dinner at Mar-a-Lago.