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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby iMURDAu » Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:07 pm

In one of his recent tweets regarding DACA, Trump said "I want to stop the massive inflow of drugs".

So do the states. But uh they're able to recognize where the drugs are coming from. And it isn't from immigrants. I have read that some doctors that have run pill mills are being investigated and prosecuted. If all the good dope was in Haiti or a random African country then why would anyone leave there just to bring it here? It doesn't make sense.

Especially considering most of our heroin comes from Afghanistan. Who occupies that country right now? How would Afghani people bring that stuff over here on a commercial flight when you can't even bring a full water bottle on a plane? Look internally Mr. Trump, and you'll find a way to stop the massive inflow of drugs.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Aquila89 » Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:51 pm

According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 a month before the election in exchange for her not talking about an alleged (consensual) sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

Cohen really needn't have bothered. Trump voters didn't care about his "grab them by the pussy" line, and they didn't care about the allegations of sexual assault against him. Why would they care if he cheated on with his wife with a porn star? Many of them would probably think it makes him cooler. As for the evangelicals; James Dobson claimed that Trump recently converted to Christianity (though Trump never said this, he always claimed to be a Christian). So it doesn't matter what he used to do; he found Jesus and was born again, all is forgiven.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby blehblah » Sat Jan 13, 2018 8:36 pm

Aquila89 wrote:According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 a month before the election in exchange for her not talking about an alleged (consensual) sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

Cohen really needn't have bothered. Trump voters didn't care about his "grab them by the pussy" line, and they didn't care about the allegations of sexual assault against him. Why would they care if he cheated on with his wife with a porn star? Many of them would probably think it makes him cooler. As for the evangelicals; James Dobson claimed that Trump recently converted to Christianity (though Trump never said this, he always claimed to be a Christian). So it doesn't matter what he used to do; he found Jesus and was born again, all is forgiven.


Here's an "according to the Wall Street Journal" article that isn't paywalled.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018 ... eport.html

Trump met Stephanie Clifford, whose goes by the name Stormy Daniels in films, at a golf event in 2006 — a year after Trump’s marriage to his wife, Melania. According to the Journal’s report, Clifford began talking with ABC News in the fall of 2016 for a story involving an alleged relationship with Trump, but reached a $130,000 deal a month before the election, which prevented her from going public.

Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen arranged for the payment through Clifford’s lawyer, Keith Davidson, the Journal reported.

[...]

Just days before the 2016 election, the Journal published a story stating that the National Enquirer — run by David Pecker, a fervid supporter of Trump — had paid $150,000 to silence former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal about a sexual relationship she allegedly had with Trump a decade ago.


*huh-huh huh* David Pecker *huh-huh huh-huh*

From IMdB, Daniels (her acting name) was in The 40 Year Old Virgin, so she obviously can reach beyond being only an adult film star, not that that's a bad thing. She played the role of "pornstar". Maybe that's more like a cameo... sort of like Donald in Home Alone 2.

That got me scrolling through Trump's IMdB page. He's done quite a few 'Donald Trump (as Donald Trump)' cameo gigs. However, in 1994, he did The Little Rascals in the role of "Waldo's Dad". The more you know...

I tend to not care that much about the sex lives of politicians and other celebrities unless it's downright creepy or outright illegal (I'm looking at you, Weiner, as one of many, many people who really wished to not ever have to utter such a phrase), but, fuck it, it's Trump.

This isn't at all surprising for a thrice-married, serial cheater who allegedly forced himself on a People reporter at Mar-a-Lago whilst a very preggers Melania was in the building, and made his famous brags to Billy Bush. A character as salacious as Trump tends to attract salacious news copy. In fact, a character as salacious as Trump used to revel, if not outright plant, salacious reports about himself. There is probably a part of him which wants the world to know he banged a porn star while married, and didn't really process that it would be a bad thing for the world to know until someone explained it to him. So, you play by the sword, and all that.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/porn-star ... hotel-room

The Daily Beast had also been in protracted talks with Daniels about arranging an interview after three sources—including fellow porn star Alana Evans—told The Daily Beast that Daniels and Trump were involved. She ultimately backed out on Nov. 3, just five days before the 2016 election.


What I get from that is twofold; it's not just the Journal who was looking into this, and it went from a great story to a non-event just before the election.

Cohen on Friday did not address the alleged payout to Daniels but provided the following statement to The Daily Beast: “These rumors have circulated time and again since 2011. President Trump once again vehemently denies any such occurrence as has Ms. Daniels.” The attorney also provided a letter dated Jan. 10, 2018, allegedly signed by Daniels, that denied any “sexual and/or romantic affair” with Trump or the receipt of any “hush money” from Trump.


The letter is nice. Trump also has one from his doctor claiming he would be the healthiest POTUS ever, to which Teddy Roosevelt's grave reacted with a mighty chuckle of derision. Letters really are quite lovely, especially since nobody really takes the time and effort to write them these days. Also, call your mother.

Daniels’ story would have come on the heels of the porn star Jessica Drake coming forward in late October 2016 to accuse Trump of kissing her without consent and offering her $10,000 in exchange for sex in 2006. Then, on Nov. 4, 2016, the Journal unearthed documents revealing that the Trump-friendly rag National Enquirer had shelled out $150,000 to Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal for a tell-all about her alleged 10-month affair with The Donald from 2006 to 2007. They never ran the piece.


Oh, okay... the Enquirer didn't pay McDougal hush money, they just payed her for exclusivity on a story they didn't run. Very subtle, Pecker.
*WINKy WINKy*


If Drake and McDougal are to be believed, their encounters with Trump took place in the months after Melania gave birth to the Trumps’ youngest son, Barron, in March 2006.


Gross. I mean, like, grosser than just the gross of regular serial cheating. To put my pop-psych hat on, major life events do tend to exacerbate troublesome behaviours in troubled people. Dropping the pop-psych had and being more realistic; Donald Trump is a pig, and has always been a pig of the epic proportions which money, fame, entitlement, and massive narcissism, tend to exacerbate.

“Stormy calls me four or five times, by the last two phone calls she’s with Donald [Trump] and I can hear him, and he’s talking through the phone to me saying, ‘Oh come on Alana, let’s have some fun! Let’s have some fun! Come to the party, we’re waiting for you.’ And I was like, ‘OMG it’s Donald Trump!’ Men like him scare me because they have so much power and this was way before his presidential nomination. So I bailed on them and turned my phone off.”

Evans said she talked to Daniels the next day, apologized for bailing, and asked her how the night went. “She tells me, ‘All I’m going to say is: I ended up with Donald in his hotel room. Picture him chasing me around his hotel room in his tighty-whities.’ I was like, ‘Oh I really didn’t need to hear that!’ Then she said he offered her keys to his condos in Florida, and I was like, ‘Wow guess you had a good night,’ and that was the last we ever spoke of it.”


Well, now - that is not a mental image I need.

Yup - not surprising. Fun to read, but given it's all consensual, I kinda figure 'whatevs'. The Enquirer pay-out angle does remind me that it must be nice to have very rich supporters who are happy to drop $150K to cover-up embarrassing things about one's past. It's like steroids in sport - sometimes the winner is the simply the cheating-ass, dirtbag, athlete with the best doctors.

On its own, I don't see this behaviour as something which, in my mind, is problematic when considering his ability to do his job (being POTUS, that is - who knows what he thinks his job is). However, it's difficult to not include it in the litany of events which are really starting to pile-on to the possibility that this boy isn't just making himself an even BIGGER asshole on a near-daily basis, but rather, dude has some seriously misfiring wiring in his noggin which could very-well endanger everyone on this planet.

JFK playing happy-time with his willy was one thing. Not exactly representative of an outstandingly moral human being, from certain perspectives, but given what we know about Trump, imagine if he were faced with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Not only can I not conceive of Trump being able to make his way through such a crisis, I see the possibility of him making enough ill-advised maneuvers to generate the next Cuban Missile-esque crisis. I hope like hell Pence and the cabinet have at least a tacit plan to yank the 25th amendment rug out from under Trump before he can feverishly stomp on his biggest red button.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Aquila89 » Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:42 pm

blehblah wrote:Here's an "according to the Wall Street Journal" article that isn't paywalled.


It wasn't when I linked it.

blehblah wrote:Gross. I mean, like, grosser than just the gross of regular serial cheating. To put my pop-psych hat on, major life events do tend to exacerbate troublesome behaviours in troubled people. Dropping the pop-psych had and being more realistic; Donald Trump is a pig, and has always been a pig of the epic proportions which money, fame, entitlement, and massive narcissism, tend to exacerbate.


A reddit user put together this: what Trump did in about a year in a half after his third marriage:


To build out the timeline a little more:

- Melania and Donald married in January 2005.

- In 2005, Trump told Howard Stern about how he would go back stage and examine the girls in his pageants.

- Sometime from June 2005 to the end of the year, Rachel Crooks says that Trump kissed her directly on the mouth while the spoke near an elevator in Trump Tower. (She worked at a different company in the building.)

- Roughly July 2005, Melania is pregnant with Barron.

- The Access Hollywood tape is from September 2005.

- In December 2005, PEOPLE writer Natasha Stoynoff goes to Mar-a-Lago to interview Trump. Stoynoff says that Trump sexually assaulted her before the interview.

- Barron was born in March 2006.

- According to a Miss USA contestant, during the April 2006 pageant, Trump walked in on the girls and inspected them one by one.

- The alleged encounter with Daniels was in July 2006.

And then there are the stories about Jessica Drake (2006), and Karen McDougal (2006-2007) that you have quoted.

That's just a year and a half.

blehblah wrote:Yup - not surprising. Fun to read, but given it's all consensual, I kinda figure 'whatevs'.


Yeah, I posted it mainly because I was surprised that Cohen would bother with hush money. When women came forward and said that Trump sexually assaulted them, he just said that they are liars and he'll sue them (and then he didn't). Cost him nothing. He could've done the same with Daniels.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby DamianaRaven » Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:27 pm

"Respect our national anthem," indeed!

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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby SandTea » Mon Jan 15, 2018 9:44 pm

I am not convinced that that was a "bad" lip reading.

Trump is disputing quotes from an interview he did with the Wallstreet Journal.

The White House disputed that President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Thursday that “I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea,” saying that Mr. Trump had instead said “I’d probably have a very good relationship” with the North Korean leader.


This is a silly thing to me. The change is so insignificant it just seems like another "if someone reports it; deny it" situation.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby iMURDAu » Tue Jan 16, 2018 3:33 am

Bullshit. He'd have the best relationship with Kim Jong Un. Better than the one he had with his father. Whose father? Both.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby cmsellers » Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:28 am

iMURDAu wrote:Bullshit. He'd have the best relationship with Kim Jong Un. Better than the one he had with his father. Whose father? Both.


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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby blehblah » Tue Jan 16, 2018 2:35 pm

SandTea wrote:I am not convinced that that was a "bad" lip reading.

Trump is disputing quotes from an interview he did with the Wallstreet Journal.

The White House disputed that President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Thursday that “I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea,” saying that Mr. Trump had instead said “I’d probably have a very good relationship” with the North Korean leader.


This is a silly thing to me. The change is so insignificant it just seems like another "if someone reports it; deny it" situation.


Sanders posted a meme as a response.

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/952 ... 02/photo/1

The text in the meme ends with "NOT!!". I know English is a constantly evolving language, and memes are some sort of rage these days, but wasn't there a standard of communication from the White House at some point? Maybe I'm misremembering, but I'm pretty sure the bar used to be a bit higher.

Sanders also helpfully included an audio clip.

It sounds like Trump said, "I'd", for whatever it's worth (which, to agree with SandTea, is just about nothing). I honestly don't care, because whether Trump was speaking about the present or the future doesn't matter; the assertion is utterly ridiculous, either way.

BUT, to get back to something I wondered about a while back; listen to how Trump labours over saying, "Kim Jong-Un". I'm convinced Trump calls Kim "Rocket Man" because he has great difficulty pronouncing his name.

Go back to Trump's speech at the UN. The leader of the free world would rather use a playground-level taunt as a name for Kim Jong-Un than learn how to pronounce the guy's name without sounding like he's having a laudanum flashback.

*Bleh magically becomes a White House correspondent interviewing Trump*

Bleh: Who is the leader of North Korea?
Trump: Rocket Man.
Bleh: What's his real name, again?
Trump: Kim.
Bleh: His full name.
Trump: Kim...
*squeezes his giant, stable, genius, brain*
Trump: J...Jaaaa... I want to say, Jong?
Bleh: Yes, and...
Trump: Uhhh, uhhh, they told me when I say uhhh, oh, I've got it, Uhhng!
Bleh: Very good. And who was his father?
Trump: Darth Vader?
Bleh: No.
Trump: Obama?
Bleh: Not even... seriously, dude?
Trump: Sloppy Steve Bannon!
Bleh: Lord, help us.
Trump: Mike Pence?
Bleh: ...
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Aquila89 » Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:13 pm

Trump announced his "fake news awards". They aren't actually awards; there are no categories, nominees and winners, just a list of 11 things he declared "fake news." It begins with one of his repeated lies:

The New York Times’ Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover.


No matter how many times he says it, he did not win by a landslide. Krugman did predict that "we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight", but he wrote that in an opinion piece, which doesn't count as news. Krugman retracted the prediction three days later.

The rest of the entries are various mistakes that news organizations generally quickly corrected. Some of them are just tweets. For instance: "Washington Post FALSELY reported the President’s massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty." The Post reported no such thing. A reporter from the Post posted a misleading picture on his personal Twitter account. He corrected his mistake and apologized within minutes.

And finally:

11. And last, but not least: “RUSSIA COLLUSION!” Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION!”


What a knockdown argument! He wrote it with capital letters, so it has to be true!
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby iMURDAu » Fri Jan 19, 2018 3:34 am

I'm appalled that The Onion wasn't mentioned.

Do you think next year that The Weekly World News will get a legacy award?

Since the war sandkicking with the media is the most important crisis in our nation and is felt deeply in the heart of each individual citizen. Every decision we make is influenced by it. Because it matters.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby DamianaRaven » Sat Jan 20, 2018 7:33 am

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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Lindvaettr » Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:36 pm

Not Dr. Seuss wrote:I do not like his cabinet of crooks

Not Dr. Seuss wrote:I'm watching as the poll numbers fall


The good Dr. would be ashamed by this poem breaking meter twice, and it rankles my ankles.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby SandTea » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:49 pm

The "Fire and Fury" author suggested t is having an affair right now in an interview on Real Time with Bill Maher.

The revelation came when Maher asked Wolff if there was anything in the book that he wishes people would ask him about. “There is, but I can’t tell you what it is,” Wolff said. “Well, fuck you, Mike,” Maher responded. Wolff then went on to say he was “absolutely sure” of the information but it was so “incendiary” and he didn’t have the “ultimate” proof. “I didn’t have the blue dress,” he added, in a clear reference to Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Maher got excited: “It’s somebody he’s fucking now?” Wolff said “yes” but didn’t elaborate. He did make it clear though there are hints in his book. “You just have to read between the lines,” he said. “Now that I’ve told you, when you hit that paragraph, you’re gonna say bingo.”


I haven't read the book but most people are thinking nikki haley or hope hicks. When I heard Wolf say "it was so incendiary" though, my mind immediately jumped to the point lots of people bring up, that donny wants to fuck his daughter.

Absolutely sure without the ultimate proof also makes me think, since he was apparantly able to just hang around, that Wolf might have heard sex noises and that is as disturbing a picture as donny chasing around Stormy in his underwear.
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Re: President Trump makes himself an even BIGGER asshole

Postby Doodle Dee. Snickers » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:21 pm

SandTea wrote:I haven't read the book but most people are thinking nikki haley or hope hicks.


My money's on Ivanka.

Seriously, though, I doubt it's true, and if it is, I've never cared if a president is cheating on his wife because it has little to do with their job(see for reference: JFK, FDR). I do hope that if it is true that it's not Haley, she's one of the few in his administration I have any residual respect for.
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