Trump

claig, I've said this before:
Shit tastes great. Gazillions of flies all over the world love shit. So, it must be true.

Millions of people voting for Trump makes him president elect (although more people voted for his opponent thank him, but that's another story), but still does NOT make him a Good Thing.

Claig - So where will Trump's hatred of the media end? Serious question, given his proclivity for just stamping on anyone who is 'mean' to him?

You are of course right, Kaija, I simply have lost the will with this one.

He is a very rich and now even more powerful unpredictable child. Like a toddler with money and nuclear weapons.
What could possibly go wrong?!

Well, but at least the OxBridgeSpinEstablishment is quaking in its boots. Because the multi-billionaire with several bankruptcies under his belt (yet still unfeasibly rich while living those he once paid minimum wage to in his wake) is of course NOT part of the establishment. Natch.
Just like Farage isn't.

I'm not expecting it, Pacific, but when fascist propaganda is smearing itself all over these boards you have to call it out.

"He just screams insecurity. Insecure men can be very dangerous. I assume that explains the affinity with Farage."

Very much. In the presence of television executives and anchors, Trump whined about everything from NBC News reporter Katy Tur’s coverage of him to a photograph the news network has used that shows him with a double chin. Why didn’t they use “nicer” pictures?

Kaija, there's really no point in expecting any kind of reasoned or logical debate here.

Not sure he's capable of amusement. His own profit certainly.

Actually he IS kind of chillingly humourless. Maybe he does it for Claig's amusement?

It's odd though isn't it. I know he is the President, I know he is wealthy beyond words, but is it just me or does he come across as the most insecure man in the world. It's in his walk, it's in his reactions, it's in the way he talks to women. He just screams insecurity. Insecure men can be very dangerous. I assume that explains the affinity with Farage.

Trump has not denounced these people since the election.

Some reactions to Bannon's appointment:

“Perhaps The Donald is for real,” Rocky Suhayda, chairman of the American Nazi Party, told CNN in an segment that included interviews with several white nationalists.
Trump’s hiring of Bannon has drawn bitter criticism from Democrats, but white nationalists believe it’s evidence the president-elect intends to live up to his campaign promises to deport illegal immigrants and build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
David Duke, a former KKK leader who lost his Senate bid last week in Louisiana, called Bannon’s hiring an “excellent” decision.

Do you agree with this then?

[[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/ “America was until this past generation a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity,” Spencer said. “It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us.”

The audience offered cheers, applause, and enthusiastic Nazi salutes]]

Yes, Bannon is a white supremacist.

Not sure he's capable of amusement. His own profit certainly.

Trump is the best thing to hit the world, he s shaking it up, bigging up our own Nige, and mocking all the bigwigs and their media servants who try to spin the people.

All he is doing is trolling the spinners and tittering to himself at how clever he is. Then he'll don his bully-boy jackboots and indulge his prejudices and personal vendettas for his own amusement,

So I suppose the question is, Claig, are you actually a white supremacist yourself, or just happy to go along with it in the interests of "shaking up the establishment".

I think your audience here really deserves an answer on this one.

Not a white supremacist? Well who knows what he really believes.

But he has appointed a chief strategist who certainly is. He has failed to denounce the KKK and American Nazis who have been extremely vocal in their support of him, and crowds of white supremacists - AltRight I'm sure you would call them - have been giving Nazi salutes while chanting "Heil Trump". That's enough for me.

"I don't know why you are doing Blair's work for him. It's predictable."

That is beyond pathetic

"Trump has so little use for the traditional press that he used Twitter to tell New York Times staffers he was bailing on them"

And then changed his mind.

But what is he actually using his Twitter account for? To silence his critics and to tell off a Broadway musical. Nothing about the far right demonstrations that have occurred in his name. Nothing about the criticism that his family's security is costing NYC $1 million PER DAY. One brief tweet that he paid off his law suit, oh, sorry, "settled".

It wasn't just ABC hosts in tears. It was, and still is, millions of Americans who are genuinely fearful of what the Trump Presidency holds and represents. I know you think this is one big joke, Claig, but it's really, REALLY not.