Can you imagine living with him? She made her bed and all so I don't really feel sorry for her, but I can't believe it's worth what she's going through.
It has to be pure bliss. I mean, obviously nobody knows how to run a successful marriage like The Don does...
She's not living with him, remember? We're paying a million dollars a month so she can stay in her gaudy, gilded palace in New York.
they just enrolled Baron at a school close to the White House for this autumn, if Trump gets impeached and goes back to New York Melania will have to stay in D.C. for another year to complete Baron's school year, hmmm, maybe that was her plan
Can you imagine living with him? She made her bed and all so I don't really feel sorry for her, but I can't believe it's worth what she's going through.
She's not living with him, remember? We're paying a million dollars a month so she can stay in her gaudy, gilded palace in New York.
Can you imagine living with him? She made her bed and all so I don't really feel sorry for her, but I can't believe it's worth what she's going through.
The spectacle of Trump and of cronies such as alt-Neo-Nazi Steve Bannon hobnobbing with the Saudi monarchy, of the president curtsying to King Salman and receiving a huge gold medal from him (for what, bashing Islam relentlessly?) was made all the more seedy by its juxtaposition to the elections in Iran. These were won by center-right Hassan Rouhani, giving him a second term as president, even though he was opposed by Iran’s hard liners.
Neither Saudi Arabia nor Iran is what you might call a democracy. But Iran has a more flexible political system.
President Hassan Rouhani, who won a second term on Saturday, castigated his main political opponents on the right as having been “jailers” of the people for the past few decades. Rouhani’s signal achievement was the nuclear deal with the UN Security Council and an attempt to open to Europe. He attracted the support of youth, women and liberals in Iran.
The Saudi monarchy hasn’t been denouncing its jailers. And while it has all along had friendly relations with the West, those are at the level of oil sales, not values.
Saudi Arabia is arguably the world’s last absolute monarchy. Even constitutional monarchies have been abolished in much of the world. Absolute monarchy is the top endangered species of comparative politics. It is also fragile and clunky. It has no feedback loop. The king and his circle do what they want. Does the Saudi public really want the Yemen war? We don’t know. Polling of that sort would not be allowed. Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, the son of the current king, is only 31 and the reckless and arguably genocidal Yemen war appears to have been his idea. Public debate not welcome.
Trump just sold the deputy crown prince another $110 bn worth of high-tech, state of the art weapons. Yemen is having a cholera outbreak and is on the verge of mass starvation. (...)
That used to happen more often when the Fairness Doctrine was in effect. But those days will not come back again. People have always liked sensational and tawdry news because it makes the events around them more personal and interesting. And as CNN, Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh will tell you, there's real money in offering takes on the news that confirm and shape viewers' opinions.
Thus the perversion in our once Democratic Republic. Broadcasting non facts used to be referred to as Propaganda. It is very effective. Its Brain-Chemical Warfare.
He's impossible to ignore because we can't let Trump's "crazy" become the new "normal". The press is doing a good job of that. If anyone thinks that the press is being too harsh or nit-picky it's only because Trump has supplied more than enough fuel to keep that fire burning.
Let's not forget that Trump has been bashing the press since the very beginning... given Trump's personal penchant for holding grudges... did he actually think that burning those bridges early on was going to benefit him or give him a pass later? There was no goodwill "banked" that he could draw from.
I'm willing to bet that Trump is a horrible chess player. Of course if you ask him he would undoubtedly tell you otherwise...
I agree with you. Trump's campaign and presidency are a warped perversion of normal politics. News organizations aren't alone in worrying that his erratic actions, arrogance, ignorance and short temper are going to do permanent damage to our country and government. Trump's crises are real and serious; they are not like Bill Clinton's Whitewater "scandal" that never amounted to anything.
OTOH, the press is probably grateful for Trump's craziness. Trump is very good for the news organizations: people are paying attention again. WaPo.com set a record for online reads when it reported that Trump had revealed highly classified info to the Russians. Some newsgroups are going to sensationalize their coverage of Trump but really don't need to: Donnie's very good at setting his own house on fire and spraying gasoline at it.
Steely_D wrote:
Can you imagine if the news only reported what occurred, without speculating, embellishing, or giving undue attention to every sniffle?
He wouldn't have wanted the job in the first place, of course. What if we ignored him and let the government implode without a lot of foofaraw?
That used to happen more often when the Fairness Doctrine was in effect. But those days will not come back again. People have always liked sensational and tawdry news because it makes the events around them more personal and interesting. And as CNN, Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh will tell you, there's real money in offering takes on the news that confirm and shape viewers' opinions.
