The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. - Page 3807 - Politics and Economics

I checked ADL and saw nothing on their site about this.

Closest I saw was urbandictionary's definition of glazed over eyes you get after smoking weed.

Drooping eyelids was a characteristic used to describe Jewish men and was depicted in old caricatures and cartoons (the following wiki mentions it under physical features https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Jews). It was also drawn into a lot of nazi propaganda and used as a way to “identify” Jews. It is used on neo-nazi sites in the current day as well. It isn’t that commonly known and although Trump has a copy of Mein Kampf I doubt he would notice nuanced details of nazi propaganda like that.

04-23-2018 , 02:09 AM

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A Trump briefing is completely different from those of his predecessors. He doesn't want briefing books or long speeches about policy. Besides the news of the day, he almost always asks the following questions before most foreign leader meetings:

What is the trade deficit with the foreign country? How big is their army and defense spending, and to what extent is America picking up their tab? And, in some cases, how much foreign aid is the U.S. sending to the country? Put simply: what are we doing for them and how much are they contributing in return?

He is such a simpleton.

Oh yeah and it’s important the staff find out if the foreign leader ever said anything mean about trump. God damn ****ing ****er piece of ****ing ****.

04-23-2018 , 06:27 AM

#95153

superleeds

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

Ronan Farrow was accepted to Yale Law School at 16? WTF. (According to pre-interview bio from Fareed Zarkaria.) Not bad for a guy with a singer for a dad.

"Farrow attended Bard College at Simon's Rock, later transferring to Bard College for a bachelor of arts in philosophy[6] and graduating at age 15."

Damn, guy now has a Pulitzer and enogh accomplishments to be a grizzled veteran and looks young enogh to get carded.

Not a fan of eugenics, but a law making Ronan Farrow sperm freely available wouldn't be a terrible idea.

His dad could be a bit of a dick tho.

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04-23-2018 , 07:56 AM

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This week's The Circus on Showtime (available for subscription on Amazon Prime Video) was Emmy quality TV. Among other things they were in the car with Stormy's lawyer before and after hearings.

04-23-2018 , 09:36 AM

#95155

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Need more Republicans....because a majority isn't enough.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...05962624118785

04-23-2018 , 09:38 AM

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I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong.
By Rick Perlstine

Interesting longform article discussing, mainly, the failure to appreciate white grievance politics as a core part of the history of the American Right

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/m...-me-wrong.html

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Looking back from that perspective, we can now see a history that is indeed unsettling — but also unsettlingly familiar. Consider, for example, an essay published in 1926 by Hiram Evans, the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, in the exceedingly mainstream North American Review. His subject was the decline of “Americanism.” Evans claimed to speak for an abused white majority, “the so-called Nordic race,” which, “with all its faults, has given the world almost the whole of modern civilization.” Evans, a former dentist, proposed that his was “a movement of plain people,” and acknowledged that this “lays us open to the charge of being hicks and ‘rubes’ and ‘drivers of secondhand Fords.’ ” But over the course of the last generation, he wrote, these good people “have found themselves increasingly uncomfortable, and finally deeply distressed,” watching a “moral breakdown” that was destroying a once-great nation. First, there was “confusion in thought and opinion, a groping and hesitancy about national affairs and private life alike, in sharp contrast to the clear, straightforward purposes of our earlier years.” Next, they found “the control of much of our industry and commerce taken over by strangers, who stacked the cards of success and prosperity against us,” and ultimately these strangers “came to dominate our government.” The only thing that would make America great again, as it were, was “a return of power into the hands of everyday, not highly cultured, not overly intellectualized, but entirely unspoiled and not de-Americanized average citizens of old stock.”

04-23-2018 , 09:45 AM

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Need more Republicans....because a majority isn't enough.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...05962624118785

Hundreds of good people being obstructed!

Hard to believe dozens of good people were already ousted from the administration for being bad people.

04-23-2018 , 09:47 AM

#95158

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WALL

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...13372298416128

04-23-2018 , 09:49 AM

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Amazing last sentence.

04-23-2018 , 09:52 AM

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...382091776?s=19

Seems to me that the biggest border problem we're having is how his constant repetition borders on insanity.

04-23-2018 , 09:59 AM

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Who is this Jacob Wohl guy that verbally fellates Trump via tweet at every opportunity. ****ing moron.

04-23-2018 , 10:13 AM

#95162

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His dad could be a bit of a dick tho.

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Nah he's def Woody Allen's kid, they just all hate him and don't want to associate with him (for good reason).

Farrow seems like the kind of person that should be in politics some day--very intelligent and just wants to do the right thing. Probably going to pick up his book just to see his reporting on Tillerson/Trump.

04-23-2018 , 10:15 AM

#95163

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Originally Posted by bware

Who is this Jacob Wohl guy that verbally fellates Trump via tweet at every opportunity. ****ing moron.

a russian bot

04-23-2018 , 10:24 AM

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They are maxing out the time on approval process for all, never happened before

Let's contrast that with his tweet about how Obama left hundreds of judge positions including on the Supreme Court unfilled. That Obama was one lazy guy.

04-23-2018 , 10:33 AM

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Sean Hannity received HUD help on multimillion dollar property deals - CNN

Fox News host Sean Hannity allegedly received help from the US Department for Housing and Urban Development to carry out multimillion dollar real estate deals, according to a report by The Guardian.

The Guardian reported Sunday that Hannity is linked to a web of shell companies that spent at least $90 million buying more than 870 homes across seven states over the past 10 years. The newspaper said it reviewed thousands of pages of public records to piece together Hannity's alleged property portfolio.

The Fox News host bought two apartment complexes in Georgia in 2014 for $22.7 million, according to The Guardian. It reported that HUD helped him get mortgages worth $17.9 million to fund the purchases by insuring the loans under a National Housing Act program.

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In an email to The Guardian, Hannity real estate attorney Christopher Reeves said the transactions were highly confidential and said, "most people prefer to keep their legal and personal financial issues private. Mr Hannity is no different."

Seriously? Trump attorney Ty Cobb, Hannity attorney Christopher Reeve(s), and shared fake attorney Mike Cohen with only 3 clients. So not only do they launder through a ring of shell companies, but they lawyer through a ring of shell people too?

04-23-2018 , 10:35 AM

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This is a good article about the systematic lack of exploration of the American Right.

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A puzzle remains. If Donald Trump was elected as a Marine Le Pen-style — or Hiram Evans-style — herrenvolk republican, what are we to make of the fact that he placed so many bankers and billionaires in his cabinet, and has relentlessly pursued so many 1-percent-friendly policies? More to the point, what are we to the make of the fact that his supporters don’t seem to mind?

Here, however, Trump is far from unique. The history of bait-and-switch between conservative electioneering and conservative governance is another rich seam that calls out for fresh scholarly excavation: not of how conservative voters see their leaders, but of the neglected history of how conservative leaders see their voters.

In their 1987 book, “Right Turn,” the political scientists Joel Rogers and Thomas Ferguson presented public-opinion data demonstrating that Reagan’s crusade against activist government, which was widely understood to be the source of his popularity, was not, in fact, particularly popular. For example, when Reagan was re-elected in 1984, only 35 percent of voters favored significant cuts in social programs to reduce the deficit. Much excellent scholarship, well worth revisiting in the age of Trump, suggests an explanation for Reagan’s subsequent success at cutting back social programs in the face of hostile public opinion: It was business leaders, not the general public, who moved to the right, and they became increasingly aggressive and skilled in manipulating the political process behind the scenes.

But another answer hides in plain sight. The often-cynical negotiation between populist electioneering and plutocratic governance on the right has long been not so much a matter of policy as it has been a matter of show business.

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04-23-2018 , 10:39 AM

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Who is this Jacob Wohl guy that verbally fellates Trump via tweet at every opportunity. ****ing moron.

A fraudulent hedge fund manager

04-23-2018 , 10:42 AM

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That HUD **** is infuriating. The process for getting HUD-backed loans is a massive pain in the ass, must be nice to have a platform to constantly praise the worst head of it the country has ever seen if need be.

04-23-2018 , 10:59 AM

#95169

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Originally Posted by Our House

Hannity real estate attorney Christopher Reeves said the transactions were highly confidential and said, "most people prefer to keep their legal and personal financial issues private. Mr Hannity is no different."

I think what he meant to say here was that it is important to keep it a secret that Hannity receives government welfare due to the fact that he spends every night telling people how terrible it is that the government wastes money on welfare.