Acquitted but still impeached ... Trump thread 99

[TheClaws]

I’ll tell you a funny story. I’m a member of a very right-wing US politics online discussion group for kicks. The moderator of the group controls - and gets involved in - every discussion. (I should say the membership of this group is over 50K and the number of posts a day is generally 30 or so.) She’s also a typical Trumpian in that she reels off the standard “lamestream mass media” etc lines” and she mutes anyone who disagrees with her.

Anyway, I took her on eventually. She said that the Democratic candidates wanted to get rid of the Constitution. To this, I replied Trump flouts the Constitution on a regular basis. “What? Provide examples!” she replies. “Emoluments clause,” I replied. “That’s just one.”

GUYS. SHE HAD NOT HEARD OF THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE.

She then just spat something about she doesn’t read mass media lies and that’s why she didn’t know and muted me.

AIBU?

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3776378-Happy-Impeachment-Next-step-is-removal-Trump-thread-98

If I were Fauci I would be saying to my DH... OK... when I use my right hand to touch my forehad, THAT is when he is talking the most bullshit ever and I can't listen to his idiotic statements any more.

This is the war that could get Trump easily reelected because it's a crisis and people would support him in getting through it.
Instead... it's not looking great.
Come November the death toll and the consequences will be obvious to all.

Fauci and Birks are heroes, doing what's right to save lives. They may well be biting their tongues to keep a place on the platform and we should not condemn them for that.

DH and I are taking bets on how long before Fauci gets 'disappeared' off the podium after that viral video.

Lweji I am a bit worried about him capitalizing and taking all the credit for 'curing' this epidemic to boost his reelection chances. I just have to keep telling myself that the only people buying his shit are the 'shoot someone on 5th Avenue' people.

Trump will lie as usual, claim that any reduction in cases and deaths is because of his actions (what actions? ah, fergetid) and say this over and over and over again.

The ones who have drunk the koolade will, as usual, take every word he says as true.

They (and he) will then blame Hillary, Obama, Democrats in general and of course the Fake News for the actual illness and deaths. Oh, and the Chinese, with a side order of Mexicans and Muslims and anyone else the Kooladed individual happens to have it in for: blacks, women, the French, Jews, hippy types, college kids, anyone who has ever tried to convince them of anything they didn't want to hear, you name it.

donny seems to be looking extra girthy/wide lately?
watching 'Emergency Press Conference' Trump is swaying and shuffling like a bored child

In no other country is this endless narrative playing about how clinicians should start wearing construction workers' masks because they are sort of good enough.

In one of the clips shown where someone was talking about the cirus, he was taking micro-naps. Of course, his base say it's because he has been working so hard.

eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/03/21/donald-trump-irresponsible-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-column/2887129001/

Maddow.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rachel-maddow-donald-trump-coronavirus-off-air_n_5e75d802c5b6eab77948c05d?ri18n=true

Yep, Trumpy looks like a fat bloater, definitely put on weight. When's his medical happening?
I thought it was fixed for a month or so ago?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/21/mike-bloomberg-transfers-18m-to-democratic-national-committee

Do you think Fauci was moved so people can't see his face..

I am just waiting for him to completely lose in in the briefing and say it how it is.

Yes,

slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/intelligence-agencies-warned-trump-likely-pandemic.html

True to type Trump the narcissist ignores and gaslights out of existence anything that does not suit his narrow personal interests.
He does not have the cognitive horsepower to compute outcomes over the long term, the best 'strategy' that he can come up with is 'I do not want there to be a pandemic so I will ignore it until it goes away'
it will not have occurred to him that all the blood from these deaths will now be on his hands

it will not have occurred to him that all the blood from these deaths will now be on his hands

He has so much (figurative) blood on his hands already from shady dealings that have financially ruined or made homeless so many people that this literal blood from CV deaths won't even bother him. After all, it's not 'the best people' who are dying, it's just 'you people' (so far).

We've stopped watching the daily 'news' briefings because it's just so much bullshit that you can't sort the wheat from the chaff. CNN and MSNBC reporters are doing a good job at 'digesting' it and reporting just the important points.

Rachel Maddow has it right. The news needs to just stop broadcasting him. I'd love nothing more than to have them tape the briefings, fact check them, then edit the lies and bombast out.

So far we're doing OK on this 'not legally enforced lockdown', but I don't know how long DS2 and DH will last. DH has never been able to sit still for a moment and has always been the type to run hither and yon on 'errands'. He's already chafing at the bit. DS2 is taking solace in gaming online with friends, but he's also feeling the fact that gyms are closed as he works out regularly. He has PTSD and I worry that this will ramp it up.

But as it stands DS2's totally NON ESSENTIAL employer has not yet informed them that work will shut down so I assume he'll be off to work.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coronavirus-trump-white-house-briefing-rachel-maddow-margaret-sullivan-jennifer-senior-a9416741.html

And here we have it.... Trump ignoring the warning signs...

news.yahoo.com/amphtml/government-officials-reportedly-just-couldnt-124140944.html

You know it's not REAL until it affects him personally, Roussette. Or rather, affects his 'bottom line'. But now that HIS hotels, bars, golf clubs, etc are having to shut down, well, it's 'all hands to the pump'!!!

It's getting closer...

NEW: Sen. Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19, according to his Twitter account: “He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events."
twitter.com/nbcpolitics/status/1241782587108007937?s=21

Oh and he had no problem getting a test although no symptoms... funny that.

Across I heard his response to a journo who asked about hotels.. we all know what his priority is!

What was his response, Roussette? Also, what time is it in England when Trump does his "briefing"?

I'm a lurker, keep up the good work.

He said it's hurting him and it's hurting his hotels. Funny that, I thought he was POTUS and divested his businesses.
Also toying with an aid package for hotels of a few billion....

I catch the highlights of his briefings on Twitter if I can bear to watch them!

He's been busy! More from the incomparable Randy Rainbow

BE A HERO! #StayTheEffInside #IWillSocialDistance #SocialDistancing #SocialDisneying 🎶💪🌈🇺🇸🍸📺😷
twitter.com/randyrainbow/status/1241761385383694338?s=21

Some advice that may actually be useful for those of us at home with no symptoms.

Dr. Fauci Reports That Alcohol May Help People Survive Coronavirus Briefings

www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/dr-fauci-reports-that-alcohol-may-help-people-survive-coronavirus-briefings