Busy weekend, eh, Donald? Let's hit that Twitter stream!
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► Unless the Republican Senators are total quitters, Repeal & Replace is not dead! Demand another vote before voting on any other bill! [1]
So this was continuing a theme from earlier in the weekend, which was basically saying the Senate GOP looked lazy, crazy, were being laughed at, and overall were objects of scorn because they weren't doing what you demanded.
Still winning friends and influencing people, right, Donald?
Or maybe this is more subtle than just simple bullying. Are you drawing lines between you and the congressional GOP prior to the 2018 mid-terms, or laying the groundwork for 2020? I had previously poked fun at your efforts to divorce yourself from the failure to pass the ACA Repeal, but it occurs to me that this kind of rhetoric would be just the thing you would need to make that happen among your more rabid followers. "It wasn't my fault, it was those quitters in the Senate."
► Don't give up Republican Senators, the World is watching: Repeal & Replace…and go to 51 votes (nuke option), get Cross State Lines & more. [3]
Aside from the soap opera involved, I highly doubt "the World is watching" over a debate to undo what every other industrialized Western nation has done (some sort of national health care / insurance system).
► If ObamaCare is hurting people, & it is, why shouldn't it hurt the insurance companies & why should Congress not be paying what public pays? [4]
So I guess this does clarify the "BAILOUT" tweets from last week [6]. You're not only threatening to discontinue the Cost-Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments to insurance companies (which would jack up insurance premiums and deductibles and co-payments for everyone), but also the "employer" subsidies to Congressfolk and their staffs.
The former is just being reckless with people's lives (yeah, Donald, I know), the latter is just being vindictive and further damaging to your relationship with Congress.
Is this really your "Art of the Deal" thing, Donald?
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► I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet……they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem! [2]
I'm sure the Chinese are just shaking in their boots over your "disappointment." And what, precisely, are you going to do about it, Donald.
Why, just think, it was only in April that you were touting what a cool guy Xi is (after he briefed you on China/Korea history) and how he was going to solve the whole Korean thing. And back in June you were assuring us that China was tring hard. Did Xi play you, or were you just expecting that if you said nice things about China on Twitter that they would simply roll over and wag their tails? [7]
By the way, in what way do you think China could "easily" solve this problem? I mean, do you think China actually wants a nuclear-armed North Korea? Do you think if they was much they could do (short of causing North Korea to collapse and sending waves of refugees toward the Chinese border) they wouldn't be doing it?
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► Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure, S.C.: No WH chaos! [5]
Um, Donald, I hate to tell you this, but your Administration has done next to nothing (aside from making promises) to boost the stock market, economy, employment, or wages, esp. given the trends that were already years in the making when you assumed office.
Illegal border crossings do seem to be down. That was your Dept. of Homeland Security (whose Secretary you just moved out of the job).
The one major achievement you can point at that has anything to do with the White House is the appointment and confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. And the guy who coordinated that accomplishment with Congress? The same guy who you just fired last week as your chief of staff: Reince Priebus.
Yeah, I don't think you've quite proved your assertion that there's no chaos in the White House, Donald
Oh, by the way, Donald, one number you didn't tout in the above list, even though it's from one of your favorite organizations. The conservative-tilting Rasmussen Poll shows your worst favorability ever — down to 39% approving, 61% disapproving, with an Approval Index of negative 23 [8] … I'm not sure why you failed to mention it when you were so quick to tout Rasmussen as a "real" poll back when it showed you at 48% approving back in May. [9]
Numbers are hard, Donald.
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Your Social Media minions also tweeted on your behalf about …
… the Stock Market continuing to go up (just as it has since 2011 or so).
… Fox & Friends saying the sheriff of Suffolk Co. thinks your gang eradication efforts are swell.
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[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/891397134662193152
[2] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/891440474132795392, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/891442016294494209
[3] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/891623821702295552
[4] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/891996053611917312
[5] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/891998881009061888
[6] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/891334415347060736
[7] https://qz.com/1022408/trumps-hopes-and-disappointment-over-chinas-influence-with-north-korea-summed-up-in-15-tweets/, https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/30/16064978/trump-china-north-korea-tweets-july
[8] http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_jul31
[9] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/867834190078906370
I don't really care. People will focus on politics when they think it's beneficial, only as a pre-text to personal agendas. So long as I can live my life freely here, I don't care who sits in the Oval Office. Although I think the people chose the lesser of two evils. If you were a fair man, you'd post Hillary's negatives as well. Not trying to drink the Kool-Aid because an idiot with a vendetta told you to, if you know what I mean.
+J O H N N Y 77 Given that Clinton holds no public office at this point (and likely never will again), I don't see much point in posting about her negatives. If that changes, I'll certainly do so.
In the meantime, I'm not posting anything out of a vendetta or because I'm following someone's lead. I'm posting stuff because the man is a maroon (as Bugs Bunny used to put it), and serves as an existential threat to any number of American values and freedoms.
All liberals can do is criticize Trump's mannerisms. It's pathetic and hypocritical since they wank JFK as one of the best presidents ever yet he was a scummy person.
+Dave Hill Your opinion. I'll respect it. But don't call someone a maroon if it's not their purpose to do so. Even Elmer Fudd can have a smart idea once in a while.
Trump shouldn't give reasons for his actions! So this gives u reason to criticizie this man in office!!! Trump is a child in a mans body!!! He is hypocrite! He say on things and does the other! How many defeats has been handed to him by courts of the land!!! All his cabinet is turmoil! Just today fired another! Turmoil ever since he stepped in the white house! Oh yea there's the Russians! enough of the bullshit this man brought out criticism on himself and the people that voted for him deaf and blind! So reap what sow u voted for himso deal with his shit!!!!
+Axel xXx If it were just mannerisms, that would be one thing — though in a position as the leader of the United States, mannerisms are not trivial. There's plenty to be critical of in his actions, too.
+Dave Hill
Muuuuuuh Russia