Trump Thread

[CrossLOPER]

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I don't know what the strategy is called, but it exists, and it involves ignoring these hilarious lapses in memory. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say that the recent push for marijuana legality was part of a plot to destroy the public's short term memory capacity so that propagandists don't have to try as hard.

[Montmorency]

I don't know what the strategy is called, but it exists, and it involves ignoring these hilarious lapses in memory. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say that the recent push for marijuana legality was part of a plot to destroy the public's short term memory capacity so that propagandists don't have to try as hard.

It's a cheat code called "Repeat a lie often enough..."

Even better if it's a recurring event, like the Dow Jones oscillating, a brown person killing someone, the weather being cold.

[Montmorency]

"Execute the baby" is my core sense of humor.

[CrossLOPER]

US President Donald Trump will declare a national emergency to fund his planned border wall with Mexico, the White House says.

He is to sign a border security bill to avert a government shutdown - but also act to bypass Congress and use military funds for the wall, a statement said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47247726

I look forward to how this short-sighted political strategy will work out once a Democratic president with leanings towards gun-control and climate change aversion will take power.

[Montmorency]

So just to recap off the top of my head:

A year ago, Democrats were offering Trump wall funding (more than he was asking for recently) in exchange for backing off DACA.

In December, Democrats were offering $1.6 billion for general border security. Trump accepted, but backtracked and triggered shutdown when Fox News et al. got het up.

One month of shutdown and 3 weeks intermission later, Trump gets $1.3 billion (see above post) for border security, while backing himself into making an openly despotic declaration of emergency that will almost certainly be shattered in court.


Trump is like, an impossibly bad negotiator. He might literally be worse than Total War AI. Like game AI, he has no sense of strategy or even mammalian reciprocity.

[Kagemusha]

I hope this is the start of the end for the Trump presidency.

[Montmorency]

Trump: " I could do the wall over a longer period of time - I didn't need to do this [declare an emergency] - but I'd rather do it much faster. And I don't have to do it for the election; I've already done a lot of wall for the election 2020. And the only reason we're up here talking about this is because of the election, because they want to try and win an election which it looks like they're not going to be able to do."

Also Trump: "And in the bill, by the way, they didn’t even fight us on most of the stuff—ports of entry—we have so much money, we don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know what to do with all the money they’re giving us."

Just locker-room talk.