President Elect Trump

InHiding80

Go Beavers said:

Did I just read the soon to be president use "not" on that tweet? I never thought our president would sound like Chandler from Friends. Maybe that was when our country was great?

Wayne's World made it popular though.

Which reminds me. If Trump were an ice cream flavor he'd be pralines and dick.

vaggar99

well said Alabama
alreporter.com/the-toughest-man-in-america/

my2hands

It's fucking embarrassing that this douche tweets like a 15 year old

What 70 year old is on twitter, seriously?

g under p

PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

IH80, are you actually angered that President Trump is your next ruler or are you just trolling by calling his supporters names and such. Do you really hate his supporters and the man that much? Your above post makes zeros sense when describing his supporters. What does it mean? You really do sound angry, relax he is one man.

Anyway folks here is the latest tweet. I believe it to be true.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/813865160163098628

My concern about that response is that the current president wasn't actually running for president. He was campaigning for someone else and "they" lost those swing states. Also as president elect why does this man feel the need to comment on a useless hypothetical statement by Obama on running for a third term. It's as if PE Trump were baited into commenting on the statement and PE Trump fell for it hook line and sinker.....He seems to get easily distracted which potentially could become a huge problem in the next 8 years.

Peace

PJfanwillneverleave1

^^^
Gp,
His tweet was implying that the dems lost even in swing states that a potus was campaigning in - that speaks volumes.
President Trump wasn't baited into anything at all. The press are the only ones who seem distracted by covering his every move or word.

Jason P

PJFan, you are now the official interpreter of a 70 year old man that tweets like a 10 year old child.

HughFreakingDillon

Go Beavers said:

Did I just read the soon to be president use "not" on that tweet? I never thought our president would sound like Chandler from Friends. Maybe that was when our country was great?

I couldn't believe it when I read that.

Bentleyspop

Jason P said:

PJFan, you are now the official interpreter of a 70 year old man that tweets like a 10 year old child.

g under p

PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

^^^
Gp,
His tweet was implying that the dems lost even in swing states that a potus was campaigning in - that speaks volumes.
President Trump wasn't baited into anything at all. The press are the only ones who seem distracted by covering his every move or word.

Well, then he should shut the f**kity, f**k up.

Peace

tbergs

PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

^^^
Gp,
His tweet was implying that the dems lost even in swing states that a potus was campaigning in - that speaks volumes.
President Trump wasn't baited into anything at all. The press are the only ones who seem distracted by covering his every move or word.

I guess I don't know of many cases where the outgoing president or past presidents don't campaign for their party's possible successor as POTUS and in numerous cases they've lost. The correlation just isn't there.

HughFreakingDillon

PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

^^^
Gp,
His tweet was implying that the dems lost even in swing states that a potus was campaigning in - that speaks volumes.
President Trump wasn't baited into anything at all. The press are the only ones who seem distracted by covering his every move or word.

it speaks nothing. Obama wasn't running. Hillary was.

Until quite recently, you couldn't stop complaining about how no one was paying attention to his tweets, now you are chastising them for being "distracted" by them? isn't it the media's responsibility to report on the PE and his upcoming policies or, in Trump's case, his childish ramblings?

PJfanwillneverleave1

^^^
It does speak volumes. Having a lame duck president is not a good strategy in swing states, should've used someone that could've done something at the local level were she to win. Coulda, shoulda, woulda
As for the msm I don't care about them much anymore, especially American news and especially that shitshow of coverage by them on election night.
I was talking about people on here to pay attention to his tweets because for the most part people on here are a little ahead of the press and therefore give real opinions that are not influenced by the press- unfiltered if you will. Now the press is starting to catch on to his tweets but still don't know how to take him.

HughFreakingDillon

PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

^^^
It does speak volumes. Having a lame duck president is not a good strategy in swing states, should've used someone that could've done something at the local level were she to win. Coulda, shoulda, woulda
As for the msm I don't care about them much anymore, especially American news and especially that shitshow of coverage by them on election night.
I was talking about people on here to pay attention to his tweets because for the most part people on here are a little ahead of the press and therefore give real opinions that are not influenced by the press- unfiltered if you will. Now the press is starting to catch on to his tweets but still don't know how to take him.

and who at the local level would have helped her more than Obama?

oh, they know how to take him. we all do.

eddiec

PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

^^^
It does speak volumes. Having a lame duck president is not a good strategy in swing states, should've used someone that could've done something at the local level were she to win. Coulda, shoulda, woulda
As for the msm I don't care about them much anymore, especially American news and especially that shitshow of coverage by them on election night.
I was talking about people on here to pay attention to his tweets because for the most part people on here are a little ahead of the press and therefore give real opinions that are not influenced by the press- unfiltered if you will. Now the press is starting to catch on to his tweets but still don't know how to take him.

Nobody does. It's like ramblings of a madman.

jeffbr

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Go Beavers

A quote from my granddad who still has a rotary phone : "The whole age of the computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what’s going on,”. Oops, no, that was trump.

josevolution

lol ok Trumpsters tell us how he will spin the latest on this Russian issue ?

Bentleyspop

The Huffington Post: Buffalo School Board Passes Resolution Telling Carl Paladino To Resign Within 24 Hours. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwn9yw-DI

benjs

Bentleyspop said:

The Huffington Post: Buffalo School Board Passes Resolution Telling Carl Paladino To Resign Within 24 Hours. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwn9yw-DI

My favourite is the guy with the "Please keep Emperor Palpatine away from my kids" sign. Ever since Trump started forming his campaign, I can't help but think of him as America's Emperor Trumpetine.

JC29856

How many times did trump say that soc sec and medicare wont he cut? I hope whats in this piece doesnt turn out to be.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/30/the-coming-assault-on-social-security/

The Republican strategy is to destroy this universal support by convincing the young that their FICA taxes are going into a black hole and that those funds won’t be available for them when it’s their turn to retire.

The idea is to pretend that Social Security is like an investment in stocks and bonds, and that the return is not very good in comparison to investing money in privately managed accounts (that’s what the Wall Street financial community wants: to get their hands on all those FICA funds totalling nearly a trillion dollars a year!).

But Social Security is not like a 401(k) fund. It is a government program funded by taxes and with benefits set by Congress. It is a wholly political construct, and it will be whatever the public demands it to be. Sadly, because most of the corporate media have bought into the Republican-led scam that Social Security is just an investment program with a poor return, many Americans are losing confidence in its future. And so for years, during which, as even now, small tweaks in the funding of the program could have made the program fully solvent right through the period when a large population of Baby Boomers will be increasing benefit outlays, and into the foreseeable future, and that in fact would allow it to be expanded (European public retirement programs pay benefits that are about twice as large as those paid by the US Social Security system!), nothing has been done.

IM IN!!
Social Security could be fully funded for another 75 years or more by simply eliminating the cap on income subject to the FICA tax (currently only the first $118,500 of income is taxes, rising to 127,200 next year), so that all income is taxed, and benefits could even be expanded by adding a small transaction tax of a fraction of a percent on all short-term stock trading (a measure that would not impact long term investors or retirement funds).