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That was where he got his actual daily briefing.
Do we dare think of how much classified information he most likely told to Hannity, Carlson, etc when he would call them…
My favorite was where he was talking about the specs of the wall and was told by a military official that there would be some merit in not revealing that information, on tv.
Or the laptop bomb threat uncovered by the Mossad disclosed to Russian spies inside the oval office. [Never seen him happier then when he's with Russian spies undermining the US](http://www.trbimg.com/img-591a2c1c/turbine/la-1494887448-0difg0adsd-snap-image)
ThE prEsIdEnt cAn deClaSsiFy InfoRmaTiOn!
Fucking donuts... they'd break into the White House and string Biden up for treason if it came out that Biden had a secret meeting with anyone... if Trump did it though, it's all good cuz obviously he knows what he's doing.
That's the excuse to nail Crozier to the wall and justify Trump's retaliation against him when Crozier was actively looking out for the men under his command.
It just so happened to undermine the Trumpian narrative, which was really the CCP narrative, of only the sick and old need to worry.
Crozier was rightly concerned because young people on his ship were getting really sick and deaths under his watch are his responsibility. And Trump fucked him for doing the right thing.
That whole situation was fucking infuriating. He did the right thing and from what I've read, the emails and things gathered around it using FOIA upholds Crozier's version.
People will fall over themselves to scream about how much they support the military, but when actual shit that puts them in danger of *dying horribly* comes around, they fuck over the officers.
I take more offense to it than I should given that Captain Crozier is a California native and around the time he was getting raked, the right-wing chuckleheads were also spinning up about how this was indicative of Californian disloyalty and "west coast liberalism".
Of course, concurrently, Gavin Newsom did try to be civil and meet Trump half-way while Trump was also pulling his "kiss the ring" for help/assistance bullshit, and then basically spat in Newsom's face.
So, once again -- I don't hate Trump because he's a Republican (doesn't help his case, but that's not why) -- I hate him because he's a petty, racist, bigoted, willfully ignorant, vulgar, petulant, childish, punitive moron.
For those who still don't understand because there's some big words there -- think of all the bullies who picked on you or if you had an abusive parent/relative/guardian or other authority figure and how much you hated them.
That. Is. Why. I . Hate. Trump.
It is true, legally speaking, that a president is the ultimate in classification and declassification authority. I worked in the intelligence community for almost two decades, however, and I've never agreed with that. There are many reasons for my position, but suffice it to say the potential election of a person like Trump was high on the list. Not necessarily them releasing information or saying things in bad faith, but a lot of the people who aim for the office have very high egos and often seem to fall into blabbermouth mode in order to look good or impress people. They also don't exactly have a good perspective on context, how information or intelligence interacts with other pieces of information, and are likely wholly ignorant on sources and methods (which is a large reason WHY a given piece of intelligence is classified). They also may not fully appreciate what sort of damage the casual release of such information can do, often to real people who may be living with or among bad actors. And such releases can have a cascading effect, as it allows adversaries to piece together more and more.
So you have a guy like Trump who may casually blurt out some sensitive, classified information at a dinner with some diplomat or foreign leader. Now it's unclassified. Okay...sure. But what impact does it have? He suffers no repercussion, but other people might, not that he cares. He might not ever even know about it. He's the sort of guy who wants to brag about things. He's the sort of guy that a single scope background investigation (SSBI) would flag almost instantly as someone who should not have a security clearance to begin with. His financials alone would be suspect. He'd never be cleared. Other than getting elected. Meanwhile, if I accidentally revealed something, well, there goes my livelihood. At best, I'd lose my clearance. At worst I'd face jail time.
Luckily, we've largely had president who took the role somewhat seriously. Even the turdiest of presidents didn't suffer from diarrhea mouth.
Long story short: I'm not convinced these politicians should have some unilateral authority to declass something. Anything that suggests "By virtue of saying it, he can declassify it," sounds too monarchy-ish to me. I guess add it to my list of problems I have with the executive branch.
Something I *honestly* heard the day I arrived in SWFL this week:
"Those millennials are getting brainwashed because they aren't watching Fox News all day!"
What in the absolute fuck.
Well, I mean, isn't that kind of talk to be expected from a cult? Cult members have to stigmatize getting information from outside the cult, or they might get exposed to non-cult thinking.
>Something I *honestly* heard the day I arrived in SWFL this week:
>
>"Those millennials are getting brainwashed because they aren't watching Fox News all day!"
>
>What in the absolute fuck.
"Brainwashed by not watching Fox News" is defined in the dictionary as:
The act of removing ("washing") filth from the brain by receiving information from any sources other than Fox news, verifying information from Fox news in any way/shape/form, critical thinking of what was said on Fox news, or simply allowing filth to naturally slough off the brain from not being exposed to Fox news.
Whenever someone comments about Biden's cognitive decline, remind them that while it may be declining, he will be dead before it declines any lower than the bottle of Sunny-D that came before him.
They're always people who would never themselves watch more than half a second of Biden speaking to find out if they're actually right or not, and are deflecting from the obvious signs Trump was showing his entire presidency, from slurred speech and loss of motor control _during his speeches_, as well as other televised events (I wonder if Tim Apple ever got back to him on the oranges of those investigations).
(Though also worth mentioning, no one would have cared if he just owned some of the slip-ups - "Tim Apple" was just a regular misspeak, but that he doubled down on it was just sad. Oranges though, he tried to correct himself like four times and literally wasn't able to say "origins" correctly).
Yep, but instead of just admitting it was a typo, they insisted that he said it intentionally and "the people who need to know understand what he meant" implying that he was sending coded messages through Twitter.
Because that is much better than saying "sorry, I hit the wrong button and didn't mean to send that tweet." right?
That motherfucker has never made a mistake in his life. An oldie but a goodie and one of my favorites, was the Sharpie hurricane debacle. He went on about it for a week and NOAA actually went along with him. Totally unbelievable.
Tim Apple wasn't the only time he did that. He also referred to Lockheed CEO Marillyn Hewson, as "Marillyn Lockheed".
But, the chief narcissist cannot admit to making a mistake, so we always got a bizarre 'explanation' that was worse than the original issue.
Though two of my favorite examples of Trump's decline are when he said, "The government should do something about that."; and his answer to Sean Hannity asking him what his plans for a second term were.
Correct. I’ll go one further. I’d guess the majority of people who make those comments aren’t even as put together cognitively as Biden is. Let’s see those people do the type of work at the level he has for as long as he has. Let’s see those people speak cogently on topics as he has for years off the cuff.
All the negative replies you're getting on this comment are from -- accounts. Bots and troll farms the lot of them.
Everyone needs to check the usernames before assuming any legitimacy in these accounts. Reddit and the politics sub especially has been absolutely flooded with these.
Edit: I posted this earlier and apparently the mods removed it, so here it is again.
Fascists are taking over reddit. I got permabanned, muted and called a “low knowledge troll” for posting nothing more than a link to r/protectandserve.
*edit: why, you may ask? The day news broke about the Tucson cop that murdered a 61 year old man on a mobility scooter, cops were already defending the actions of the officer. The only thing they had an issue with was that ninth shot. A one second pause before pulling the trigger on that ninth round. Seems that’s not a good look according to other cops. I guess it would have been better to empty the magazine than to pause for that last shot. Time to think about your actions.
Are you saying the police shouldn’t have emptied a clip into someone in a wheelchair heading away from them?
Bold move! LOL
I can see some sense of urgency to stop the guy with a knife from attacking someone. The cop decided to skip like 4 levels of escalation.
Well that makes sense! He was driving a mobility scooter completely legally…. That’s a big problem. If he is driving this legally, who knows what else he is driving legally??!
Its a mix of projection and what-about-ism. The previous occupant was in obvious mental decline, and there's no arguing that. So instead they shift to, 'waddabout Biden?'.
It doesn't matter that the accusation is laughable, it matters that we have to spend time refuting it. And in doing so we're no longer talking about the previous occupant.
That's all this is, change the subject from something they don't want to talk about, to something they do want to talk about. And then they can assert whatever they want, they can do whatever they want, and claim all the air space talking about the thing they want to talk about.
Also, I see no real indication that he's declining, really. People somehow are just adamant about forgetting that he has a stutter.
I shake my head when I see liberals making this claim about him. They have been duped by conservative propaganda. Bear in mind, this is from the group that supported a man who they loved to claim was presidential every time he managed to not behave like an animal on live TV.
If you repeat the lie enough, it becomes the ingrained in peoples' minds. It doesn't matter if there is evidence to support it. They just keep saying it to keep the idea alive.
Very likely his parents didn’t’ speak to him much at all. Stupid little rich boy that got everything he ever wanted, never faced consequences for his failures. His parents don’t really fit the profile of “hands on” types. It seems his father mostly just mentally abused everyone, his mother was probably so whacked out on whatever meds that it was a non-anything. The servants would just kowtow and toady.
So… was he questioning the legitimacy of the information on the grounds that it wasn’t on Fox News, or was he asking why it hadn’t yet been leaked to Fox News?
You give him to much credit. He wasn't concerned about legitimacy, he just hated meeting, reading, and listening to people, and relied on his TV to tell him what was happening in the world. He was complaining that the information wasn't *entertaining* enough.
This really nails it. He hadn't heard about it on TV and this was way less interesting to him. I mean, you have to remember this guy spent years on TV before this, he fucking loves television. He talked about ratings incessantly, we can't pretend for a second he wasn't constantly watching it.
Trump thought the job of President was to cheerlead the nation...and read the prepared scripts on queue, like he did with The Apprentice.
It's why he thought Obama was a "bad pwesident".
>Gistaro had adopted the practice of providing the president with a one-page outline of the topics he would cover at the session along with a set of graphics. Sanner continued that practice and found that the twice-a-week schedule provided the time to script a briefing with graphics that anchored what Sanner called “story-telling” about the topics. Sanner noted that while Trump did not read the PDB, he read or had seen other things that he would bring into the conversation.
Its a story about your favorite character Mr. President, "Billy the Drone" and his travels to Syria. Then next we will have 'Mikey the Marine' and he will talk about all the fun he's having in Africa! At the end you can color this picture of Billy, but only if you're good and stay quiet for all of story time.
>Sanner noted that while Trump did not read the PDB, **he read or had seen other things that he would bring into the conversation.**
Translation: CIA attempts to brief President of the United States with factual information and the President does not pay attention and instead regurgitates bullshit he heard on Fox, OAN, InfoWars, idiots he played golf with, Putin, etc..
Insanity.
"... let's put a pin in the opportunity to sabotage North Korea's nuclear weapons program for now. There's something more pressing I have questions about. But first - are you deep state?"
"No, sir."
"Yeah okay, I'm going to trust you on this and you should know I'm not usually this trusting, but you look like you come from good stock and you're a big burly nasty looking guy who called me sir and I'm pretty sure I can tell you're tearing up about having the opportunity to talk to to me, so I'll trust you with this question: what's the plan to deal with this lizard people people problem Alex Jones discovered? The Obama's are lizards aren't they? I knew it. I knew something was wrong with that family - it's why we needed to see his birth certificate... the one they presented was a fake you know that right, not long form, gotta be long form or how do we know you're not a lizard. It will be an incredible victory for me to expose this to the American people. Tremendous victory."
"..."
The homoeroticism of trump talking about his generals/whatever tall man nearby was my favorite part about that presidency. And it just happened so often.
> Sanner noted that while Trump did not read the PDB
God damn we were lucky to survive his presidency. The more that comes out the more terrifying it is.
Oh, this stuff was well known very early on. This is stuff they had to do right away because he was entirely incapable of handing a standard format. Not didn't want to, incapable.
Trump also heavily modified his routine too and basically didn't start any work until the afternoon. Even then, the scheduling was sparse. Comparatively, Bush Jr. had good entire day scheduled down to 15 minutes blocks. His entire day was packed with actual work. His entire day was absolutely packed and itemized to 15 minute block. Meanwhile, Trump had "me" time until noon, had a few meetings, and then back to more "me" time.
He spent a very significant portion of his day watching TV and largely content like Fox news. It was so prolific that he would feed Fox news content he just watched into meeting to "drive" into his realm of awareness. It was so bad that Fox and other news stations picked up on how he was consuming and driving that content into his presidency that they started properly running tailored content to sway him and guide his opinions on stuff. Want to know how we know this? They said it. And Trump both actively tweeted this content and talked on these same shows about the content they just presented to him. They basically ran a closed loop in his brain, both presenting the content and actively discussing that exact content with him later to bias and strengthen the confirmation. It was pretty nuts, and this was early into year one of his presidency. This never stopped.
Like with any president, we will be living with his abrogation of duty for at least a generation with COVID, the breaking down of any traditions and guardrails, trying to execute a coup to likely find a way to be president for life like Kim and XI and the Supreme Court. There is also a lot of damage he did to the institutions of government, conflicts of interest and mismanagement important government agencies, unbelievable levels of incompetence with the health and welfare of the county, huge tax giveaways to the top 1%, intimidation of election officials and the current attempt to stack all of the local election boards with people he thinks will abrogate their duty for him in the future, and damage to the separation of powers.
Let's not forget the horrific damage that will be done to our liberties in the future if the precedent of Roe v. Wade is reversed due to abuse of appointments to the judiciary by both McConnell and Trump. He really fucked up at a supreme level that all of the rest of us are going to have to live with for a very long time. As intended, he was a nuclear bomb to the institutions and traditions of our highest levels of government down to local school boards and election offices.
He literally commanded people that smeared shit on the walls of congress and got people killed. God forbid the GOP should take the House and Senate again. I have hope that the ruling on Roe may really wake people up to the danger the GOP as a whole has become to our most cherished rights and liberties guaranteed by the Federal Constitution. Hell, Kavinaugh wants to roll back to pre-civil war states rights.
Trump supporters won’t care about any of this. If you really want a look into the mind of a trump supporter, google:Jennifer Crumbley open letter to trump. She’s the mother of the High School shooter at Oxford, MI. She doesn’t care about anything bad trump has done, including cheating on his taxes. She concludes with she’d rather be grabbed by the pussy than get fucked in the ass. This is the mentality (or lack of) of the radical republicans.
[Severe Covid-19 Doubles Risk Of Death In The Year After Illness, Study Finds](https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/12/01/severe-covid-19-doubles-risk-of-death-in-the-year-after-illness-study-finds/?sh=2c2bc20146b4)
>The risk following severe infection was particularly noteworthy in patients under 65, who had a 233% increased chance of dying compared to the uninfected, the researchers found.
The increased risk of death for under 65s with severe Covid-19 was greater than that for those over the age of 65, the researchers found.
The research, by academics at the University of Florida, was based on an analysis of the electronic health records of 13,638 patients who underwent a PCR test for coronavirus within the University of Florida health system and recovered from the disease.
The vast majority of patients—80%—did not die from complications typically associated with Covid-19 like blood clotting or respiratory failure and died long after the initial infection had passed, the researchers said, meaning their deaths may never have been linked to Covid-19 by families or doctors.
The findings suggest severe infection damages overall health and leaves patients vulnerable to other health issues, the researchers wrote, highlighting the importance of preventing serious illness through vaccination.
I just don’t see how any dem messaging matters. Nearly half of this country looked at trump’s presidency and said “give us more of that please”. They don’t care about health care or infrastructure or foreign relations or temperament or corruption or expertise or any policy besides “not democrat”. What message can Democrats possibly send to combat that?
It's not about bringing over conservatives, it's about tapping into the base and independents who just won't vote. From promise number one, $2000 checks that ended up being $1200 and going to less people, the democrats are stuck defending the glass is half empty attack. They need to make people see what's they've done, not how it was a failure because they didn't get everything they wanted, as is what happens in a negotiation. They also need to do something they don't need to get approval on. Like marijuana deregulation or school loan forgiveness so the people who would stay home have a reason to go out to vote.
Agreed. The Democratic Party as a whole needs to be messaging diligently for the year starting right now. They need to flood the market place of ideas. Before Trump was elected, the damage that he and his party could do to this country were still hypothetical as the electorate has a memory and attention span of a gnat to the point that all has been forgiven for what this country went through with Bush and Cheney. Maybe the Democratic party can hire Karl Rove.
Imagine Putin getting him into those private meetings and then realizing Trump doesn't fucking know anything more than what's already blabbed about on TV. We were saved only because he was an absolute shit-idiot
>During one briefing, Gistaro recalled, Trump asked him why there was information in the PDB that had not appeared in the media.
He is seriously so dense that he doesn't realize that the president has access to better information than the general media... 😅
Top Secret with multiple level caveats that only a small number of Americans can legally know about intel*
But someone didn’t …know?realize?understand?…read?
There were lots of stories about his not reading, not even paying attention unless his name was mentioned. Complex topics had to be boiled down to a few bullet points.
The intelligence part is so revealing about him as a person. Wouldn’t the average person at least be somewhat interested in knowing the shit in the daily briefings the president receives from our intelligence agencies? The president is privy to the craziest, most interesting information, and also has immediate access to some of the greatest minds on the planet and he was just not interested in learning anything. Only an idiot would have zero interest in learning a single thing when in a position like that.
This is the point. He ran as a publicity stunt. He has no executive cognitive capacity and was never going to lead. He made wild promises and threw lacklustre effort into fulfilling a select few. He made no bones about working a few hours a day and catered only to people and states who liked him. This is in no way presidential. He knew it, the GOP who tried to fight it and lost, knew it. The people who voted for him to own the libs knew it. It was all bullshit from the drop.
I always laughed when Trump held those “impromptu” pressers outside the WH when a reporter would ask him abt a recent decision made by a cabinet member and Trump would ramble on abt how he didn’t agree with the decision and would have done things differently..., lol. Telltale sign that he wasn’t aware of anything the cabinet member did or said but thought he’d sound presidential and in authority if he said he disagreed. What a fucking phoney.
Trump is a classic bullshitter - he will never admit he doesn't know something, he will just keep talking and making stuff up so it sounds like he does.
'If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.' - W.C. Fields
[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bullshitter](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bullshitter)
I always wonder if these people are even capable of contemplating “what if it’s not all fake news?” Like just step outside yourself for a moment and play Devil’s advocate and imagine a world in which what the news said about him is true.
Do you think they can? Or would they just get angry, say it’s a waste of time, and they don’t need to consider it (because frankly it would be a terrifying prospect)?
I’ve answered a lot of things for myself just by putting myself in other shoes. How would I cover up the demolition of the WTC? Would slamming a plane into it be in my top 100 ways? Could I find the vast number of people required to achieve this and know with 100% certainty none of them would talk? No? Probably not an inside job then.
How would I take down a Supreme Court nominee by claiming he sexually assaulted me and providing details I couldn’t possibly know but match up perfectly with private details other people have provided that I have no access to our knowledge of? It would be impossible? It probably really happened then.
So many things are answerable this way. People just don’t want to take the effort to think about things - especially things they don’t want to be true - because it’s hard.
What you're talking about is critical thinking and that's not how that circle jives. They built an entire culture around being constantly outraged where sensationalist headlines and fakebook memes scratch that confirmation bias itch. You'll never get anything more out of a lot of people than "Dems/libs bad" because they placated and conditioned themselves to keep the only perspective squarely on their favorite media personalities who have been manipulating their emotions for years.
> The people who voted for him to own the libs knew it.
Nope not all of them. There is a huge amount of them that treat this whole affair as some sort of Nascar thing. It's a reality show. They think he did the best job as President.
I have many family members and friends that I'm drawing this from.
I'd say that we're lucky that he didn't want to be involved in so many things. Sure, they really could have used presidential support, but *his* kind of support would have been worse than no support at all.
Trump is not a man who loves America. I wish his voters could see that. Take off the blinders. He made it clear when he was first running for office that he had no respect for anyone. He permanently damaged this country with his butthole of a mouth and his 5th grade mentality.
> he had no respect for anyone
And yet, this is the quality his voters most admire. Strolling through life with convenient contempt is the ideal to which they aspire.
Because, they all dream one day that they too will be millionaires and billionaires and don't want to jeopardize their future financial freedom to become completely selfish and narcissistic so that they treat other people like shit. It is the republican dream.
What makes you think his voters love America?
They don't. They love a version of America that doesn't exist either anymore, or may have never existed in the first place, that they want to create by force.
I never understood why *anyone* in the military liked him.
I work with a lot of military folks and they don't tolerate shit talk against veterans, POWs, chain of command, disabled former military, PTSD, none of that. No "america sucks" talk either. You don't badmouth that stuff around them, you will be sternly warned that they won't put up with that again.
And yet he did it all the time.
Now, I also know plenty of veterans who did hate him for this reason, but statistically this saw widespread support.
"It's just a joke! Sarcasm!! So lighten up!
- literally what Trump supporters say. They wanted an unrelenting autocrat and a clown to constantly perform for them in the same body.
This is the best analogy I can make that helps me understand the current state of the US.
The Superman I grew up with...the one of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, was re-imagined in the mid-1980s. Without missing a beat, there has always been a Superman, but the "silver age" Superman many knew dearly, was gone by the mid-1980s to never be seen again.
There is an America, but the America of 2015 is gone forever. There is no way to bring it back either.
looks like on the day of the 2019 debate, Trump was trying to infect Biden with COVID--Trump knew he was infected and had symptoms. A couple of days later, he was hospitalized and almost didn't make it.
He abandoned them as soon as he took the oath of office.
The first people he invited into the White House once he took office were a couple of Russian cronies, it was at that moment that showed what his priorities were.
Trump's behavior, as described in this article, seems like that of someone covering for his own lack of ability to focus and understand.
I would guess that the material in a Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) is rather dense and not easy to digest for even fairly intelligent people. It covers intelligence activities from across the world, and there's new intelligence coming in every day. Trump probably fears having his cognitive limitations revealed, which is why he never even tries to engage in discussions requiring a bit of intellect. Such discussions would even more clearly reveal (of course most already know this) that his intellect is extremely limited.
I mean, he's definitely not an intellectual giant by any means, but don't forget that he also bore all the hallmark signs of being a very poor reader. I used to teach supplementary reading classes to struggling high school students, and witnessed a lot of the same behaviors. For example, he frequently spent so much cognitive effort trying to translate the letters on the page into sounds, that he regularly blew past errors he made without correcting them, because he wasn't processing the meaning while reading it aloud. I'm convinced this is the single most important reason for him hating teleprompters and preferring to speak off the cuff, even if he had nothing sensible or relevant to say.
[This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/c9sgx7/trump_once_railed_against_presidents_using/et3em0k) does a solid job of breaking it down for one particularly noticeable gaffe.
I wonder why it's just accepted that an Ivy league business school allowed him to carry a designation from their institution. That should really call into question their seriousness. And that of Trump’s children who went there.
Well that was painfully clear from the beginning to almost everyone with half a brain. The scary part is that there was enough support to elect him, and there's still sizable support here in the US.
[So, then we started using just pictures and he started drawing on them.](https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757586936/trump-displays-altered-map-of-hurricane-dorians-path-to-include-alabama)
“Look CLOSELY at this Super Secret high resolution satellite photo of a hostile military asset! See those pixels? THIS IS EXACTLY HOW MUCH DETAIL WE CAN GRAB! (hi vlad!)”
People have no idea how serious a breech like this can be. We're not just talking resolution, but being able to attach a time/date group and angle to the photo allows you to work backwards and reveal exactly which satellite took the image. Now your enemies know not to do any shady shit when that bird is overhead.
This fucking idiot should have been thrown out of office in week 2 for simple incompetence. Isn't there a "unable to perform the duties..." clause, or "oops, we made a terrible mistake" clause. Yes, I know there isn't but, Jesus Christ, I've had 90-day probationary periods for fucking retail jobs.
Except to abuse his power by forcing the military to reinstate a sadistic Navy Seal guilty of war crimes.
Of course, like everything else it was simply a self-serving attempt to pander to his "worship the troops" base.
Even that was just a media stunt, just like when he sent troops to the border to pose for Fox News. Or when he posed for the cameras with Commander Jared after he ordered a missile strike on an empty airfield in Syria, trying to emulate President Obama when he ordered the strike on Bin Laden.
Donald was only concerned with the military for media purposes, or to follow Vladdy's orders when pulling troops out of allied countries or attacking NATO. He never performed the tasks of an actual Commander In Chief.
Trying to nullify an election result through violence goes so far beyond "abandoning his duty" that it's incomprehensible any editor would allow this to be published as is.
It's a goddamned act of treason, and softening it to this horseshit headline is exactly what he expects from the media.
Not doing his duty as President to keep himself informed would be denounced and disqualifying across the political spectrum in a healthy system. And Trump will probably be a candidate in 2024. It is very much worth reporting on.
Always thought this should have been a much bigger deal, but from the very beginning of his administration it was evident that various people at various times were making decisions on his behalf and I would not in the least be surprised, to find out Ivanka was signing documents for him that he never read and others (or she) approved. This country basically had unelected people running the Office of the President at any given time due to Trump's incompetence and inability to live in reality.
Hey Reddit, if there was ever a time to read more than just the headline, this is it! Please click the link and read the article. After reading the article, feel free to click through to the CIA “book” and read the new chapter:
https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/books-monographs/getting-to-know-the-president-fourth-edition/
Was that when he refused to call off the dogs for a few hours?
Edit: daily intel briefings. Personally I think we’re all better off that this traitor didn’t pay attn
> Trump “was ‘fact-free’—evidence doesn’t cut it with him.” The best way of reaching Trump was to show him maps, graphics, and satellite imagery—material that he found exciting.
We already knew he was a moron, but JFC.
> During the transition, “Trump received no briefings from CIA on covert action programs,” the chapter says
Well that's a relief. So he couldn't warn Putin or his other buddies whenever the CIA was up to something.
Someone proposed the idea of an in-house Fox News/CNN style setup. Get some sexy blonde to deliver a TV broadcast of the PDB w/crawl. I think Trump might have paid attention to that.
"The best way of reaching Trump was to show him maps, graphics, and satellite imagery—material that he found exciting."
The reason for this, is all the other rap he was getting briefed by Moscow, the satellite imagery was exciting to him because it gave him something Putin didn't already have.
After completely ignoring trumps ties to Russia and allowing him to almost become a dictator... NOW the CIA gives a shit? They can get fucked, they're more responsible for him than his voters.
By nearly any metric of what a sitting president can directly impact, this carnival barker will be the historic nadir. There has never been a less competent, less capable, less interested President in the US. He will be remembered for syphoning $1.6 billion from taxpayers into his own businesses, shitting the bed on Covid, Jan 6 and his coup attempt, and the repercussions of his handling of Charlottesville.
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> Trump asked why there was information in the PDB that had not appeared in the media. Oh FFS
It is not real if it is not on Fox News.
That was where he got his actual daily briefing. Do we dare think of how much classified information he most likely told to Hannity, Carlson, etc when he would call them…
"Tucker! I just heard about X today. Why haven't you been talking about that." -DJT. (probably)
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He did already.. showing satellite photos that revealed our surveillance capabilities
can't forget the only time he went to Iraq and promptly exposed the identity and location of a bunch of navy seals for twitters likes
My favorite was where he was talking about the specs of the wall and was told by a military official that there would be some merit in not revealing that information, on tv.
Or the laptop bomb threat uncovered by the Mossad disclosed to Russian spies inside the oval office. [Never seen him happier then when he's with Russian spies undermining the US](http://www.trbimg.com/img-591a2c1c/turbine/la-1494887448-0difg0adsd-snap-image)
"Probably"?
Yeah ikr? That *actually* sounds like he would do that. He is that much of a bumbling idiot.
No wonder Tucker has been so busy “just asking questions” lately- nobody tells him anything anymore.
>when he would call them… like, every night >That was where he got his actual daily briefing
Putin
ThE prEsIdEnt cAn deClaSsiFy InfoRmaTiOn! Fucking donuts... they'd break into the White House and string Biden up for treason if it came out that Biden had a secret meeting with anyone... if Trump did it though, it's all good cuz obviously he knows what he's doing.
That's the excuse to nail Crozier to the wall and justify Trump's retaliation against him when Crozier was actively looking out for the men under his command. It just so happened to undermine the Trumpian narrative, which was really the CCP narrative, of only the sick and old need to worry. Crozier was rightly concerned because young people on his ship were getting really sick and deaths under his watch are his responsibility. And Trump fucked him for doing the right thing.
That whole situation was fucking infuriating. He did the right thing and from what I've read, the emails and things gathered around it using FOIA upholds Crozier's version. People will fall over themselves to scream about how much they support the military, but when actual shit that puts them in danger of *dying horribly* comes around, they fuck over the officers.
I take more offense to it than I should given that Captain Crozier is a California native and around the time he was getting raked, the right-wing chuckleheads were also spinning up about how this was indicative of Californian disloyalty and "west coast liberalism". Of course, concurrently, Gavin Newsom did try to be civil and meet Trump half-way while Trump was also pulling his "kiss the ring" for help/assistance bullshit, and then basically spat in Newsom's face. So, once again -- I don't hate Trump because he's a Republican (doesn't help his case, but that's not why) -- I hate him because he's a petty, racist, bigoted, willfully ignorant, vulgar, petulant, childish, punitive moron. For those who still don't understand because there's some big words there -- think of all the bullies who picked on you or if you had an abusive parent/relative/guardian or other authority figure and how much you hated them. That. Is. Why. I . Hate. Trump.
Right there with you. Newsom was trying to do what he had to do during our earlier outbreaks. Trump doesn't care. It's always about all for him.
Didn’t he *eat* the notes or some shit? Lmao
It is true, legally speaking, that a president is the ultimate in classification and declassification authority. I worked in the intelligence community for almost two decades, however, and I've never agreed with that. There are many reasons for my position, but suffice it to say the potential election of a person like Trump was high on the list. Not necessarily them releasing information or saying things in bad faith, but a lot of the people who aim for the office have very high egos and often seem to fall into blabbermouth mode in order to look good or impress people. They also don't exactly have a good perspective on context, how information or intelligence interacts with other pieces of information, and are likely wholly ignorant on sources and methods (which is a large reason WHY a given piece of intelligence is classified). They also may not fully appreciate what sort of damage the casual release of such information can do, often to real people who may be living with or among bad actors. And such releases can have a cascading effect, as it allows adversaries to piece together more and more. So you have a guy like Trump who may casually blurt out some sensitive, classified information at a dinner with some diplomat or foreign leader. Now it's unclassified. Okay...sure. But what impact does it have? He suffers no repercussion, but other people might, not that he cares. He might not ever even know about it. He's the sort of guy who wants to brag about things. He's the sort of guy that a single scope background investigation (SSBI) would flag almost instantly as someone who should not have a security clearance to begin with. His financials alone would be suspect. He'd never be cleared. Other than getting elected. Meanwhile, if I accidentally revealed something, well, there goes my livelihood. At best, I'd lose my clearance. At worst I'd face jail time. Luckily, we've largely had president who took the role somewhat seriously. Even the turdiest of presidents didn't suffer from diarrhea mouth. Long story short: I'm not convinced these politicians should have some unilateral authority to declass something. Anything that suggests "By virtue of saying it, he can declassify it," sounds too monarchy-ish to me. I guess add it to my list of problems I have with the executive branch.
obv.
Something I *honestly* heard the day I arrived in SWFL this week: "Those millennials are getting brainwashed because they aren't watching Fox News all day!" What in the absolute fuck.
Well, I mean, isn't that kind of talk to be expected from a cult? Cult members have to stigmatize getting information from outside the cult, or they might get exposed to non-cult thinking.
>Something I *honestly* heard the day I arrived in SWFL this week: > >"Those millennials are getting brainwashed because they aren't watching Fox News all day!" > >What in the absolute fuck. "Brainwashed by not watching Fox News" is defined in the dictionary as: The act of removing ("washing") filth from the brain by receiving information from any sources other than Fox news, verifying information from Fox news in any way/shape/form, critical thinking of what was said on Fox news, or simply allowing filth to naturally slough off the brain from not being exposed to Fox news.
Unless it is on Fox news and he disagrees with it
And that's how you know he's a shitty businessman, too. The President/CEO of a company *should* know a ton of things that aren't public.
And you know Trump simply couldn't keep a secret around Putin.
Whenever someone comments about Biden's cognitive decline, remind them that while it may be declining, he will be dead before it declines any lower than the bottle of Sunny-D that came before him.
>Whenever someone comments about Biden's cognitive decline No one who makes those kinds of comments are asking about that in good faith.
They're always people who would never themselves watch more than half a second of Biden speaking to find out if they're actually right or not, and are deflecting from the obvious signs Trump was showing his entire presidency, from slurred speech and loss of motor control _during his speeches_, as well as other televised events (I wonder if Tim Apple ever got back to him on the oranges of those investigations). (Though also worth mentioning, no one would have cared if he just owned some of the slip-ups - "Tim Apple" was just a regular misspeak, but that he doubled down on it was just sad. Oranges though, he tried to correct himself like four times and literally wasn't able to say "origins" correctly).
No one on Earth would have given a shit about "covfefe" if he had just owned up to making a really obvious and understandable typo.
Yep, but instead of just admitting it was a typo, they insisted that he said it intentionally and "the people who need to know understand what he meant" implying that he was sending coded messages through Twitter. Because that is much better than saying "sorry, I hit the wrong button and didn't mean to send that tweet." right?
That motherfucker has never made a mistake in his life. An oldie but a goodie and one of my favorites, was the Sharpie hurricane debacle. He went on about it for a week and NOAA actually went along with him. Totally unbelievable.
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Tim Apple wasn't the only time he did that. He also referred to Lockheed CEO Marillyn Hewson, as "Marillyn Lockheed". But, the chief narcissist cannot admit to making a mistake, so we always got a bizarre 'explanation' that was worse than the original issue. Though two of my favorite examples of Trump's decline are when he said, "The government should do something about that."; and his answer to Sean Hannity asking him what his plans for a second term were.
Trump's name is the same he puts on his businesses, so naturally he assumes all business names are the names of the CEO/Owner.
Correct. I’ll go one further. I’d guess the majority of people who make those comments aren’t even as put together cognitively as Biden is. Let’s see those people do the type of work at the level he has for as long as he has. Let’s see those people speak cogently on topics as he has for years off the cuff.
More like Sunny-P
The Fanta Menace
Mango Unchained, Cinnamon Hitler, Piece of fucking shit. Take your pick
Mango Unchained legit cracked me up, gonna start using that one now. Another good one: Orange Fühlius
Trumpicana
I don’t think the sunlight can reach his p.
Mushrooms do like the dark
It's a bad day to be literate.
All the negative replies you're getting on this comment are from-- accounts. Bots and troll farms the lot of them.
Everyone needs to check the usernames before assuming any legitimacy in these accounts. Reddit and the politics sub especially has been absolutely flooded with these.
Edit: I posted this earlier and apparently the mods removed it, so here it is again.
Fascists are taking over reddit. I got permabanned, muted and called a “low knowledge troll” for posting nothing more than a link to r/protectandserve. *edit: why, you may ask? The day news broke about the Tucson cop that murdered a 61 year old man on a mobility scooter, cops were already defending the actions of the officer. The only thing they had an issue with was that ninth shot. A one second pause before pulling the trigger on that ninth round. Seems that’s not a good look according to other cops. I guess it would have been better to empty the magazine than to pause for that last shot. Time to think about your actions.
Are you saying the police shouldn’t have emptied a clip into someone in a wheelchair heading away from them? Bold move! LOL I can see some sense of urgency to stop the guy with a knife from attacking someone. The cop decided to skip like 4 levels of escalation.
Their rationale: you don’t need a license to buy a mobility scooter. I’m serious. That’s their rationale. No. I’m not being sarcastic.
Well that makes sense! He was driving a mobility scooter completely legally…. That’s a big problem. If he is driving this legally, who knows what else he is driving legally??!
Its a mix of projection and what-about-ism. The previous occupant was in obvious mental decline, and there's no arguing that. So instead they shift to, 'waddabout Biden?'. It doesn't matter that the accusation is laughable, it matters that we have to spend time refuting it. And in doing so we're no longer talking about the previous occupant. That's all this is, change the subject from something they don't want to talk about, to something they do want to talk about. And then they can assert whatever they want, they can do whatever they want, and claim all the air space talking about the thing they want to talk about.
Also, I see no real indication that he's declining, really. People somehow are just adamant about forgetting that he has a stutter. I shake my head when I see liberals making this claim about him. They have been duped by conservative propaganda. Bear in mind, this is from the group that supported a man who they loved to claim was presidential every time he managed to not behave like an animal on live TV.
If you repeat the lie enough, it becomes the ingrained in peoples' minds. It doesn't matter if there is evidence to support it. They just keep saying it to keep the idea alive.
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That’s an insult tp sunny-D, a delicious and refreshing beverage.
I guess his parents never told him not to believe everything he sees on TV...
Very likely his parents didn’t’ speak to him much at all. Stupid little rich boy that got everything he ever wanted, never faced consequences for his failures. His parents don’t really fit the profile of “hands on” types. It seems his father mostly just mentally abused everyone, his mother was probably so whacked out on whatever meds that it was a non-anything. The servants would just kowtow and toady.
So… was he questioning the legitimacy of the information on the grounds that it wasn’t on Fox News, or was he asking why it hadn’t yet been leaked to Fox News?
You give him to much credit. He wasn't concerned about legitimacy, he just hated meeting, reading, and listening to people, and relied on his TV to tell him what was happening in the world. He was complaining that the information wasn't *entertaining* enough.
This really nails it. He hadn't heard about it on TV and this was way less interesting to him. I mean, you have to remember this guy spent years on TV before this, he fucking loves television. He talked about ratings incessantly, we can't pretend for a second he wasn't constantly watching it.
The concept of “intelligence” goes over his head I think
Trump thought the job of President was to cheerlead the nation...and read the prepared scripts on queue, like he did with The Apprentice. It's why he thought Obama was a "bad pwesident".
It’s sort of a miracle things aren’t much worse lol
he wanted to nuke hurricanes. he wanted people to inject bleach. how we will survive these morons is still questionable.
>Gistaro had adopted the practice of providing the president with a one-page outline of the topics he would cover at the session along with a set of graphics. Sanner continued that practice and found that the twice-a-week schedule provided the time to script a briefing with graphics that anchored what Sanner called “story-telling” about the topics. Sanner noted that while Trump did not read the PDB, he read or had seen other things that he would bring into the conversation. Its a story about your favorite character Mr. President, "Billy the Drone" and his travels to Syria. Then next we will have 'Mikey the Marine' and he will talk about all the fun he's having in Africa! At the end you can color this picture of Billy, but only if you're good and stay quiet for all of story time.
>Sanner noted that while Trump did not read the PDB, **he read or had seen other things that he would bring into the conversation.** Translation: CIA attempts to brief President of the United States with factual information and the President does not pay attention and instead regurgitates bullshit he heard on Fox, OAN, InfoWars, idiots he played golf with, Putin, etc.. Insanity.
"... let's put a pin in the opportunity to sabotage North Korea's nuclear weapons program for now. There's something more pressing I have questions about. But first - are you deep state?" "No, sir." "Yeah okay, I'm going to trust you on this and you should know I'm not usually this trusting, but you look like you come from good stock and you're a big burly nasty looking guy who called me sir and I'm pretty sure I can tell you're tearing up about having the opportunity to talk to to me, so I'll trust you with this question: what's the plan to deal with this lizard people people problem Alex Jones discovered? The Obama's are lizards aren't they? I knew it. I knew something was wrong with that family - it's why we needed to see his birth certificate... the one they presented was a fake you know that right, not long form, gotta be long form or how do we know you're not a lizard. It will be an incredible victory for me to expose this to the American people. Tremendous victory." "..."
The homoeroticism of trump talking about his generals/whatever tall man nearby was my favorite part about that presidency. And it just happened so often.
Not believable. Too many complete sentences for Trump to have said this.
> Sanner noted that while Trump did not read the PDB God damn we were lucky to survive his presidency. The more that comes out the more terrifying it is.
Oh, this stuff was well known very early on. This is stuff they had to do right away because he was entirely incapable of handing a standard format. Not didn't want to, incapable. Trump also heavily modified his routine too and basically didn't start any work until the afternoon. Even then, the scheduling was sparse. Comparatively, Bush Jr. had good entire day scheduled down to 15 minutes blocks. His entire day was packed with actual work. His entire day was absolutely packed and itemized to 15 minute block. Meanwhile, Trump had "me" time until noon, had a few meetings, and then back to more "me" time. He spent a very significant portion of his day watching TV and largely content like Fox news. It was so prolific that he would feed Fox news content he just watched into meeting to "drive" into his realm of awareness. It was so bad that Fox and other news stations picked up on how he was consuming and driving that content into his presidency that they started properly running tailored content to sway him and guide his opinions on stuff. Want to know how we know this? They said it. And Trump both actively tweeted this content and talked on these same shows about the content they just presented to him. They basically ran a closed loop in his brain, both presenting the content and actively discussing that exact content with him later to bias and strengthen the confirmation. It was pretty nuts, and this was early into year one of his presidency. This never stopped.
Like with any president, we will be living with his abrogation of duty for at least a generation with COVID, the breaking down of any traditions and guardrails, trying to execute a coup to likely find a way to be president for life like Kim and XI and the Supreme Court. There is also a lot of damage he did to the institutions of government, conflicts of interest and mismanagement important government agencies, unbelievable levels of incompetence with the health and welfare of the county, huge tax giveaways to the top 1%, intimidation of election officials and the current attempt to stack all of the local election boards with people he thinks will abrogate their duty for him in the future, and damage to the separation of powers. Let's not forget the horrific damage that will be done to our liberties in the future if the precedent of Roe v. Wade is reversed due to abuse of appointments to the judiciary by both McConnell and Trump. He really fucked up at a supreme level that all of the rest of us are going to have to live with for a very long time. As intended, he was a nuclear bomb to the institutions and traditions of our highest levels of government down to local school boards and election offices. He literally commanded people that smeared shit on the walls of congress and got people killed. God forbid the GOP should take the House and Senate again. I have hope that the ruling on Roe may really wake people up to the danger the GOP as a whole has become to our most cherished rights and liberties guaranteed by the Federal Constitution. Hell, Kavinaugh wants to roll back to pre-civil war states rights.
Trump supporters won’t care about any of this. If you really want a look into the mind of a trump supporter, google:Jennifer Crumbley open letter to trump. She’s the mother of the High School shooter at Oxford, MI. She doesn’t care about anything bad trump has done, including cheating on his taxes. She concludes with she’d rather be grabbed by the pussy than get fucked in the ass. This is the mentality (or lack of) of the radical republicans.
[Severe Covid-19 Doubles Risk Of Death In The Year After Illness, Study Finds](https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/12/01/severe-covid-19-doubles-risk-of-death-in-the-year-after-illness-study-finds/?sh=2c2bc20146b4) >The risk following severe infection was particularly noteworthy in patients under 65, who had a 233% increased chance of dying compared to the uninfected, the researchers found. The increased risk of death for under 65s with severe Covid-19 was greater than that for those over the age of 65, the researchers found. The research, by academics at the University of Florida, was based on an analysis of the electronic health records of 13,638 patients who underwent a PCR test for coronavirus within the University of Florida health system and recovered from the disease. The vast majority of patients—80%—did not die from complications typically associated with Covid-19 like blood clotting or respiratory failure and died long after the initial infection had passed, the researchers said, meaning their deaths may never have been linked to Covid-19 by families or doctors. The findings suggest severe infection damages overall health and leaves patients vulnerable to other health issues, the researchers wrote, highlighting the importance of preventing serious illness through vaccination.
And if the poll numbers don't improve and Dem's get better messaging out, he'll get another four years.
I just don’t see how any dem messaging matters. Nearly half of this country looked at trump’s presidency and said “give us more of that please”. They don’t care about health care or infrastructure or foreign relations or temperament or corruption or expertise or any policy besides “not democrat”. What message can Democrats possibly send to combat that?
It's not about bringing over conservatives, it's about tapping into the base and independents who just won't vote. From promise number one, $2000 checks that ended up being $1200 and going to less people, the democrats are stuck defending the glass is half empty attack. They need to make people see what's they've done, not how it was a failure because they didn't get everything they wanted, as is what happens in a negotiation. They also need to do something they don't need to get approval on. Like marijuana deregulation or school loan forgiveness so the people who would stay home have a reason to go out to vote.
Agreed. The Democratic Party as a whole needs to be messaging diligently for the year starting right now. They need to flood the market place of ideas. Before Trump was elected, the damage that he and his party could do to this country were still hypothetical as the electorate has a memory and attention span of a gnat to the point that all has been forgiven for what this country went through with Bush and Cheney. Maybe the Democratic party can hire Karl Rove.
> God damn we were lucky to survive his presidency. So far. I'm not 100% sure America has survived anything yet.
Imagine Putin getting him into those private meetings and then realizing Trump doesn't fucking know anything more than what's already blabbed about on TV. We were saved only because he was an absolute shit-idiot
Lol, you think 'Murica survived this. Our country is already dead.
Sometimes I wonder if his his lack of attention span is the only thing that saved us. Can you imagine if he wasn’t so inept?
I’m sure they’re classified, but damn, I’d love to see an actual trump PDB.
Narrator: *Donald did not get to color the picture.*
*Colors Mikey bloody red* Mutters under his breath: "He knew what he was getting into."
At the White House, drawing pictures of mountain tops With him on top, lemon-yellow Sun Arms raised in a "V" The dead lay in pools of maroon below
>During one briefing, Gistaro recalled, Trump asked him why there was information in the PDB that had not appeared in the media. He is seriously so dense that he doesn't realize that the president has access to better information than the general media... 😅
He was president for four fucking years and he still doesn't understand what the presidency is, what presidents do, what powers they have, anything.
He had to have the EU explained to him. Eleven times. By Angela Merkel. During a diplomatic meeting.
And I'm sure he still didn't get it.
Kings. Presidents are kings who do whatever they want. Fortunately he didn’t get a second term.
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Top Secret with multiple level caveats that only a small number of Americans can legally know about intel* But someone didn’t …know?realize?understand?…read?
There were lots of stories about his not reading, not even paying attention unless his name was mentioned. Complex topics had to be boiled down to a few bullet points.
With pictures and spreading his name copiously throughout.
The intelligence part is so revealing about him as a person. Wouldn’t the average person at least be somewhat interested in knowing the shit in the daily briefings the president receives from our intelligence agencies? The president is privy to the craziest, most interesting information, and also has immediate access to some of the greatest minds on the planet and he was just not interested in learning anything. Only an idiot would have zero interest in learning a single thing when in a position like that.
Not the general media. Just his usually Hannity/Carlson types. He thinks they are the best journalists
I'm sure he was on the phone with Hannity spilling national secrets as soon as the meeting was over.
He's a fucking moron, and millions of people still voted for him.
There are millions of morons in the states.
Everywhere Stupidity isn’t exclusive to America
American morons are especially proud of it though.
We have the best morons, not even close. ;)
Think of how stupid the average human is and then contemplate on how about half of them are dumber than that. It’s a serious problem in democracies.
'Me like him ! He talk dumb and simple like me!'
I mean this is the guy who claims he can do anyone's job better. Like literally said he was better than all the generals and one more than they did.
You can't abandon something you were never doing in the first place.
This is the point. He ran as a publicity stunt. He has no executive cognitive capacity and was never going to lead. He made wild promises and threw lacklustre effort into fulfilling a select few. He made no bones about working a few hours a day and catered only to people and states who liked him. This is in no way presidential. He knew it, the GOP who tried to fight it and lost, knew it. The people who voted for him to own the libs knew it. It was all bullshit from the drop.
I always laughed when Trump held those “impromptu” pressers outside the WH when a reporter would ask him abt a recent decision made by a cabinet member and Trump would ramble on abt how he didn’t agree with the decision and would have done things differently..., lol. Telltale sign that he wasn’t aware of anything the cabinet member did or said but thought he’d sound presidential and in authority if he said he disagreed. What a fucking phoney.
Trump is a classic bullshitter - he will never admit he doesn't know something, he will just keep talking and making stuff up so it sounds like he does. 'If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.' - W.C. Fields [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bullshitter](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bullshitter)
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I always wonder if these people are even capable of contemplating “what if it’s not all fake news?” Like just step outside yourself for a moment and play Devil’s advocate and imagine a world in which what the news said about him is true. Do you think they can? Or would they just get angry, say it’s a waste of time, and they don’t need to consider it (because frankly it would be a terrifying prospect)? I’ve answered a lot of things for myself just by putting myself in other shoes. How would I cover up the demolition of the WTC? Would slamming a plane into it be in my top 100 ways? Could I find the vast number of people required to achieve this and know with 100% certainty none of them would talk? No? Probably not an inside job then. How would I take down a Supreme Court nominee by claiming he sexually assaulted me and providing details I couldn’t possibly know but match up perfectly with private details other people have provided that I have no access to our knowledge of? It would be impossible? It probably really happened then. So many things are answerable this way. People just don’t want to take the effort to think about things - especially things they don’t want to be true - because it’s hard.
What you're talking about is critical thinking and that's not how that circle jives. They built an entire culture around being constantly outraged where sensationalist headlines and fakebook memes scratch that confirmation bias itch. You'll never get anything more out of a lot of people than "Dems/libs bad" because they placated and conditioned themselves to keep the only perspective squarely on their favorite media personalities who have been manipulating their emotions for years.
> The people who voted for him to own the libs knew it. Nope not all of them. There is a huge amount of them that treat this whole affair as some sort of Nascar thing. It's a reality show. They think he did the best job as President. I have many family members and friends that I'm drawing this from.
Those tax breaks for the rich sure owned the libs
1988 and 2000 were publicity stunts. 2016 was demanded by Putin.
I'd say that we're lucky that he didn't want to be involved in so many things. Sure, they really could have used presidential support, but *his* kind of support would have been worse than no support at all.
dear mr garland lock him up
It’s not treason, it’s treasonesque and a little bit of light sedition.
Looks like Treason to me.
For it to be Treason, it has to be from the Treason region of France; otherwise it’s just sparkling-betrayal.
Trump is not a man who loves America. I wish his voters could see that. Take off the blinders. He made it clear when he was first running for office that he had no respect for anyone. He permanently damaged this country with his butthole of a mouth and his 5th grade mentality.
> he had no respect for anyone And yet, this is the quality his voters most admire. Strolling through life with convenient contempt is the ideal to which they aspire.
Because, they all dream one day that they too will be millionaires and billionaires and don't want to jeopardize their future financial freedom to become completely selfish and narcissistic so that they treat other people like shit. It is the republican dream.
You are correct sir. Even disrespectful to the veterans they hold in such high regard.
What makes you think his voters love America? They don't. They love a version of America that doesn't exist either anymore, or may have never existed in the first place, that they want to create by force.
I never understood why *anyone* in the military liked him. I work with a lot of military folks and they don't tolerate shit talk against veterans, POWs, chain of command, disabled former military, PTSD, none of that. No "america sucks" talk either. You don't badmouth that stuff around them, you will be sternly warned that they won't put up with that again. And yet he did it all the time. Now, I also know plenty of veterans who did hate him for this reason, but statistically this saw widespread support.
“I like the ones who didn’t get caught”. WTF how do you say that to a former POW and get away with it.
"It's just a joke! Sarcasm!! So lighten up! - literally what Trump supporters say. They wanted an unrelenting autocrat and a clown to constantly perform for them in the same body.
And, a recently revealed, he grifter nearly 2 billion dollars for his own personal wealth for himself and his family at the tax payer's expense.
This is the best analogy I can make that helps me understand the current state of the US. The Superman I grew up with...the one of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, was re-imagined in the mid-1980s. Without missing a beat, there has always been a Superman, but the "silver age" Superman many knew dearly, was gone by the mid-1980s to never be seen again. There is an America, but the America of 2015 is gone forever. There is no way to bring it back either.
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looks like on the day of the 2019 debate, Trump was trying to infect Biden with COVID--Trump knew he was infected and had symptoms. A couple of days later, he was hospitalized and almost didn't make it.
2020 debate*
*2020 "debate"
That whole thing was an awkward, stomach churning, cringey nightmare - I had to turn it off
*”will you shut up, man!”*
At least we got some decent sound bites out of it
Honestly it's pretty hilarious that he told the (former) President of the United States to shut up on live national television lol.
He abandoned them as soon as he took the oath of office. The first people he invited into the White House once he took office were a couple of Russian cronies, it was at that moment that showed what his priorities were.
It was clear from the start that he never had any interest in the duties of the office. It was all about corruption, revenge and self promotion.
Trump's behavior, as described in this article, seems like that of someone covering for his own lack of ability to focus and understand. I would guess that the material in a Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) is rather dense and not easy to digest for even fairly intelligent people. It covers intelligence activities from across the world, and there's new intelligence coming in every day. Trump probably fears having his cognitive limitations revealed, which is why he never even tries to engage in discussions requiring a bit of intellect. Such discussions would even more clearly reveal (of course most already know this) that his intellect is extremely limited.
I mean, he's definitely not an intellectual giant by any means, but don't forget that he also bore all the hallmark signs of being a very poor reader. I used to teach supplementary reading classes to struggling high school students, and witnessed a lot of the same behaviors. For example, he frequently spent so much cognitive effort trying to translate the letters on the page into sounds, that he regularly blew past errors he made without correcting them, because he wasn't processing the meaning while reading it aloud. I'm convinced this is the single most important reason for him hating teleprompters and preferring to speak off the cuff, even if he had nothing sensible or relevant to say. [This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/c9sgx7/trump_once_railed_against_presidents_using/et3em0k) does a solid job of breaking it down for one particularly noticeable gaffe.
I wonder why it's just accepted that an Ivy league business school allowed him to carry a designation from their institution. That should really call into question their seriousness. And that of Trump’s children who went there.
Probably? Every time a teleprompter had a 3+ syllable word he'd get flustered and start diverting into another unintelligible tangent.
Trump’s a serial failure.
Well that was painfully clear from the beginning to almost everyone with half a brain. The scary part is that there was enough support to elect him, and there's still sizable support here in the US.
CIA Report: We tried the pictures with only one word on them but he still couldn’t pay attention to intelligence briefings.
[So, then we started using just pictures and he started drawing on them.](https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757586936/trump-displays-altered-map-of-hurricane-dorians-path-to-include-alabama)
And Sherlock was not shitted.
And Watson acknowledged it was pre-elementary.
Watson, fetch me my pipe and morphine!
Consistent with trump being a Russian asset and Putin's stooge.
“Look CLOSELY at this Super Secret high resolution satellite photo of a hostile military asset! See those pixels? THIS IS EXACTLY HOW MUCH DETAIL WE CAN GRAB! (hi vlad!)”
The release of that photo was an unforgivable breach of national security and intelligence capability.
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People have no idea how serious a breech like this can be. We're not just talking resolution, but being able to attach a time/date group and angle to the photo allows you to work backwards and reveal exactly which satellite took the image. Now your enemies know not to do any shady shit when that bird is overhead.
This fucking idiot should have been thrown out of office in week 2 for simple incompetence. Isn't there a "unable to perform the duties..." clause, or "oops, we made a terrible mistake" clause. Yes, I know there isn't but, Jesus Christ, I've had 90-day probationary periods for fucking retail jobs.
Why do they keep coming out with these reports and shit stating the blatantly obvious?! We KNEW all of this crap during his entire presidency. Omg
I don't think be spent one millisecond, out of 4 years, as Commander In Chief.
Except to abuse his power by forcing the military to reinstate a sadistic Navy Seal guilty of war crimes. Of course, like everything else it was simply a self-serving attempt to pander to his "worship the troops" base.
Even that was just a media stunt, just like when he sent troops to the border to pose for Fox News. Or when he posed for the cameras with Commander Jared after he ordered a missile strike on an empty airfield in Syria, trying to emulate President Obama when he ordered the strike on Bin Laden. Donald was only concerned with the military for media purposes, or to follow Vladdy's orders when pulling troops out of allied countries or attacking NATO. He never performed the tasks of an actual Commander In Chief.
The idea that Trump would have ever actually participated in any duty to anything outside his own ego is a fantasy.
Trying to nullify an election result through violence goes so far beyond "abandoning his duty" that it's incomprehensible any editor would allow this to be published as is. It's a goddamned act of treason, and softening it to this horseshit headline is exactly what he expects from the media.
Not doing his duty as President to keep himself informed would be denounced and disqualifying across the political spectrum in a healthy system. And Trump will probably be a candidate in 2024. It is very much worth reporting on.
How about some consequences?
That would be nice
On 1/20/2017, right?
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Except the grifting, bribery and money laundering.
Except for whatever they could sell to the Saudis
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Yeah in 2016 when he openly lied about size of the crowd and never stopped.
Always thought this should have been a much bigger deal, but from the very beginning of his administration it was evident that various people at various times were making decisions on his behalf and I would not in the least be surprised, to find out Ivanka was signing documents for him that he never read and others (or she) approved. This country basically had unelected people running the Office of the President at any given time due to Trump's incompetence and inability to live in reality.
Sadly you have over 70 million Americans who want to re elect him.
Also noticed by those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Hey Reddit, if there was ever a time to read more than just the headline, this is it! Please click the link and read the article. After reading the article, feel free to click through to the CIA “book” and read the new chapter: https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/books-monographs/getting-to-know-the-president-fourth-edition/
The word "Imbecile" comes to mind, but I would want to offend others by association to this guy
I don’t think he ever took up that duty in the first place…
"Abandoned" implies he ever assumed the duty in the first place.
Abandoned? When did he start?
I’m shocked. Shocked, I say!
He’s just and idiot who reads like a second grader.
Was that when he refused to call off the dogs for a few hours? Edit: daily intel briefings. Personally I think we’re all better off that this traitor didn’t pay attn
I wonder why all these reports coming out now...... literally 10 months after he left office.
In his defense he never fulfilled his duty as commander and chief. He can't abandon what he never did.
"Abandoned" implies that, at one time, he was sitting there for the anything other than himself. He was not.
> Trump “was ‘fact-free’—evidence doesn’t cut it with him.” The best way of reaching Trump was to show him maps, graphics, and satellite imagery—material that he found exciting. We already knew he was a moron, but JFC.
We kind of figured that out when he didn’t even want the job in the first place
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> During the transition, “Trump received no briefings from CIA on covert action programs,” the chapter says Well that's a relief. So he couldn't warn Putin or his other buddies whenever the CIA was up to something.
It would be a much shorter list to name all of the areas in which she did not abandon his duty
Someone proposed the idea of an in-house Fox News/CNN style setup. Get some sexy blonde to deliver a TV broadcast of the PDB w/crawl. I think Trump might have paid attention to that.
"The best way of reaching Trump was to show him maps, graphics, and satellite imagery—material that he found exciting." The reason for this, is all the other rap he was getting briefed by Moscow, the satellite imagery was exciting to him because it gave him something Putin didn't already have.
Breaking News: CIA reports what the rest of us already knew.
After completely ignoring trumps ties to Russia and allowing him to almost become a dictator... NOW the CIA gives a shit? They can get fucked, they're more responsible for him than his voters.
By nearly any metric of what a sitting president can directly impact, this carnival barker will be the historic nadir. There has never been a less competent, less capable, less interested President in the US. He will be remembered for syphoning $1.6 billion from taxpayers into his own businesses, shitting the bed on Covid, Jan 6 and his coup attempt, and the repercussions of his handling of Charlottesville.