That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://www.octopusoverlords.com/forum/
He apparently really thinks he did.hepcat wrote:Wow, Trump dropped unemployment from 42 percent to 4.7 percent in less than 3 months!
On Friday, after the release of a favorable jobs report, Spicer was asked if Trump thought the report was accurate.
“I talked to the President prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly,” Spicer responded. “They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.”
Did he hide behind his desk, or former-President Bannon's desk?Grifman wrote:Trump cuts off interview, basically runs and hides behind his desk because he was challenged on his "alternative facts" about Obama wiretapping him:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/01/media/j ... index.html
Pretty sad to see the president hide behind his desk. So sad!
It was beautiful to see someone stand up to him and try to pierce his bubble, and tremendously disturbing that said bubble is so thick that it can't be pierced. You could see the absolute fury behind Trump's visage there as repeating the same thing over and over ("You know what it means") with no clarification kept getting the same questions asked ("Can you tell me what that means?"). I never doubted he was pathetic, but it always makes me sad to see the kind of person he is representing all of us on the world stage.Grifman wrote:Trump cuts off interview, basically runs and hides behind his desk because he was challenged on his "alternative facts" about Obama wiretapping him:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/01/media/j ... index.html
Pretty sad to see the president hide behind his desk. So sad!
Another gem that you never want to hear out of a president's mouth: "I don't stand by anything".Paingod wrote:It was beautiful to see someone stand up to him and try to pierce his bubble, and tremendously disturbing that said bubble is so thick that it can't be pierced. You could see the absolute fury behind Trump's visage there as repeating the same thing over and over ("You know what it means") with no clarification kept getting the same questions asked ("Can you tell me what that means?"). I never doubted he was pathetic, but it always makes me sad to see the kind of person he is representing all of us on the world stage.Grifman wrote:Trump cuts off interview, basically runs and hides behind his desk because he was challenged on his "alternative facts" about Obama wiretapping him:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/01/media/j ... index.html
Pretty sad to see the president hide behind his desk. So sad!
Trump will fall for briefcases full of cash, but he's not standing around with them.Chaz wrote:If you stand by nothing, Trump, then what'll you fall for?
Chaz wrote:If you stand by nothing, Trump, then what'll you fall for?
I don't know what he'll fall for, but he'll probably slip from one of those yellow puddles.Chaz wrote:If you stand by nothing, Trump, then what'll you fall for?
Trump tweeted, erroneously, that the Obama administration “allowed” MS-13 to form in America.
“The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS-13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!” the president tweeted.
MS-13 was started in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s by Salvadoran immigrants — many of them young ex-soldiers — fleeing their country's civil war. Salvadorans congregated in large numbers in the Pico-Union neighborhood and the area near MacArthur Park.
Beck said he arrested his first MS-13 gang member more than 35 years ago.
Not true. If all those tourists from carry states were armed, the driver would have been dead as soon as his car hit the curb. There's plenty of room here.hepcat wrote:
Their only shining light might be if he's an illegal immigrant....or just an immigrant.
Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
The list above uses the conservative standard of demonstrably false statements. By that standard, Trump told a public lie on at least 20 of his first 40 days as president. But based on a broader standard — one that includes his many misleading statements (like exaggerating military spending in the Middle East) — Trump achieved something remarkable: He said something untrue, in public, every day for the first 40 days of his presidency. The streak didn’t end until March 1.
Doesn't that turn out to be little more than a rant against John Kelly, who as Chief of Staff stands in the way of appointing Mike Cernovich as Minister of Propaganda, which is JUST AS BAD as a coup? Or something?
Holman wrote:Doesn't that turn out to be little more than a rant against John Kelly, who as Chief of Staff stands in the way of appointing Mike Cernovich as Minister of Propaganda, which is JUST AS BAD as a coup? Or something?
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/08/ ... ite-house/“Exactly, so I’d heard from people that Trump is on house arrest,” replied Mike Cernovich, “I thought ‘oh c’mon, the President of the United States, that’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard’, but I kept digging into it and I kept hearing the same thing over and over again and then, of course, John Bolton wrote his column for National Review and he’s begging people to retweet it, he said ‘this is the only way the President is gonna see it,’ and I’ll say Alex, I don’t really understand, how can Trump not see who he wants to see? This is something I don’t really fully comprehend within the White House. I have talked to a lot of people, it’s a very weird situation.”
Marlow agreed, “it is a very weird situation, and this is something that I’m afraid is systemic of something that’s happening inside, people that listen to the show know that I’m not a huge ‘Javanka’ fan,” referencing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, “and I’m just seeing the numbers here Mike and the people inside the White House, you’ve got Kushner, you’ve got Ivanka Trump, Gary Cohn, Dinah Powell, H.R. McMaster, who I know you were really the first person to call him out as a big threat to the MAGA agenda. And it’s just overwhelming and now with no Bannon and with no Gorka, just where is the President getting information that can tie him, connect him to his own base?”
“I heard [John] Kelly had taken his [Trump’s] phone, so he wouldn’t be getting messages on his phone which again I thought was a weird story when people were telling me that I said, ‘come on, get out of here you can’t take the President’s phone this is incomprehensible’ but again that Bolton thing confirmed it and I’m not a big John Bolton fan personally, I don’t have anything against him but I found it amazing that he was, again, begging for retweets saying ‘the only way the President is gonna see my article is maybe if it goes viral,’ because it has to get past General Kelly, that shows there is some kind of coup going on there.”
“Coup is a strong word,” said Marlow, “but it’s very hard to argue against it at this point.”
I know it may be giving Trump too much credit (and furthering the craze conspiracy theory), but it's possible to Tweet from PCs and other devices.Holman wrote: As for Kelly taking Trump's phone, does he swing by the WH at 6:00 a.m. every day to return it? Because that's when Trump starts tweeting.
"Ivanka, help me figure out this here fancy new phone device Kelly gave me! I wanna tweet my love of sour dough to my fans!"LawBeefaroni wrote: but it's possible to Tweet from PCs and other devices.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/john-kelly ... ring-trumpNewly minted White House chief of staff John Kelly has sought to put a dent in the influence of one of President Donald Trump’s most famous advisers: Omarosa Manigault.
The former Apprentice co-star—who currently serves as the communications director for the Office of Public Liaison—has seen her direct access to the president limited since Kelly took the top White House job in late July, sources tell The Daily Beast. In particular, Kelly has taken steps to prevent her and other senior staffers from getting unvetted news articles on the president’s Resolute desk—a key method for influencing the president’s thinking, and one that Manigualt used to rile up Trump about internal White House drama.
Multiple sources in and outside the Trump White House told The Daily Beast that, until recently, it was common practice for aides to slide into the Oval Office and distract and infuriate the president with pieces of negative news coverage. Manigault, they say, was one of the worst offenders.
“When Gen. Kelly is talking about clamping down on access to the Oval, she’s patient zero,” a source close to the Trump administration said.
That isn't what I said, but I do feel he needs a strong Chief of Staff that forces people to follow an agreed upon protocol with regards to communicating with the POTUS.hepcat wrote:I love that even you now have to admit that Trump is a goddamn idiot.
Well, you wouldn't have a North Korea if there wasn't a South Korea, duh!GreenGoo wrote: Also, he's mad at south korea for some reason that I didn't bother to learn the details to.
Eduardo Martins' story was too perfect even for the world of internet celebrity.
The 32-year-old from Brazil said he had been abused as a child and beat leukaemia as a young adult.
But he had turned his life around and now worked as a UN photographer whose experiences helped him connect with human suffering in some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones.
His work appeared in reputable international outlets such as Getty Images, The Wall Street Journal, Vice and BBC Brasil.
In between trips to Mosul in Iraq, the Syrian city of Raqqa under the control of so-called Islamic State (IS) and the Gaza Strip, Eduardo Martins enjoyed surfing.
He shared glimpsed of his life with his almost 125,000 Instagram followers.
Until it all came crumbling down when a BBC Brasil investigation found out that Eduardo Martins was a completely fictitious character.]Brazil 'surfing war photographer' Eduardo Martins exposed as fake.
WaPoMoliere wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:41 pm Federal Hiring Freeze Announcement
At a press conference today new White House press secretary Sean Spicer stated that the freeze was established because it "counters the dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years." Just one problem: There has not been a dramatic expansion in the federal workforce in recent years. According to the latest Office of Personnel Management, the number of federal civilian employees stands at around 2.7 million, just about where it was in 1966. In fact, civilian federal employment is down from its 1990 peak of just under 3.1 million. Relatively speaking this means that in 1966 there was 1 federal employee per 70 citizens and now there is 1 per 121 citizens.
The Trump administration is threatening to furlough — and possibly lay off — 150 employees at the federal personnel agency if Congress blocks its plan to eliminate the department.
The Office of Personnel Management is preparing to send the career employees home without pay starting on Oct. 1, according to an internal briefing document obtained by The Washington Post. The employees could formally be laid off after 30 days, administration officials confirmed.
The warning of staff cuts is the administration’s most dramatic move yet in an escalating jujitsu between Trump officials and Congress over the fate of the agency that manages the civilian federal workforce of 2.1 million.
Even as House Democrats and some Republicans signal that Congress is not going to break up the 5,565-employee department, the administration is moving forward in defiance. Trump appointees paint a dire picture of a corner of the government in financial free fall and failing to carry out its mission. They want a commitment from Congress by June 30 to agree to disband the agency — or they say they’ll be forced to trim staff.
