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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNY Mag Intelligencer gets it: That was a threat.
[link:http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/the-state-of-the-union-is-crooked.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=nym&fbclid=IwAR2ut4huKQpzilp7MyZ0EAgZdlWpV7Z4f6TmQzeERNKnuY9GfEWdzsftzdE|
If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation, he said, It just doesnt work that way!
It is worth lingering over the utterly categorical nature of that statement. Trump did not decry partisan investigations, or excessive or duplicative investigations. He insisted Congress should not investigate his administration at all.
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The threat reflects not only Trumps assumption that he is entitled to the legal impunity the Republican Congress had afforded him. It also reflects his bizarre view of negotiations. Trump seems to have held onto his experience in business, in which he is typically dealing with counterparties who have (or think they have) something to gain from a deal. Democrats have no such incentive. The more they cooperate, the better Trump looks, and thus the easier time he has winning reelection.
Trump seems not to grasp this. He has intermittently dangled bipartisan cooperation before Democrats in the apparent belief it can bring them to heel.
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NY Mag Intelligencer gets it: That was a threat. (Original Post)
Grasswire2
Feb 2019
OP
It was sickening how Republicans did a standing ovation to that unconstitutional declaration.
SunSeeker
Feb 2019
#2
his "It doesn't work that way" said in very snide and threatening manner and it triggered me...
Grasswire2
Feb 2019
#11
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)1. so why did peace v. war come into this?
I read it as... if you continue to investigate me and my family... I will start a war with someone.
If you drop the investigations, maybe I will sign some of the legislation that you want (an empty promise so long as the repukes control the Senate).
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)3. pretty much nt
spanone
(135,633 posts)10. He's threatening war if they continue to investigate him. Period.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)2. It was sickening how Republicans did a standing ovation to that unconstitutional declaration.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)5. republicans have turned their backs on truth, integrity, and US democracy
They are a sold-out bunch of hacks, lacking in honor and loyalty to America. Sad.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)7. Right. Sold-out to billionaires. They're apparatchiks
The only patriots left are on the Dem side.
BamaRefugee
(3,476 posts)4. "Or we go to the mattresses!" Chris Christie can do the pasta.
malaise
(267,808 posts)6. It was a threat
It was also obstruction of justice. What was scary is that ReTHUGs cheered.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)8. Strange comment...
Is he threatening war?
90-percent
(6,828 posts)9. If Frank Zappa was still with us................
"If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation,
Orange Julius said, It just doesnt work that way!
Frank would update the lyrics to circa 1988 song Rhymin' Man to fit our Kremlin Kommando.
In the same way FZ updated "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" to "Louisiana Hooker with Herpes" during the 1988 tour.
-90% Jimmy
PS - Der Trumpenfeuhrer has the whole Nazi Big Lie down pat, along with a lot of other Nazi propaganda methods. However I don't think rhyming was a part of Goebbels mass mind control technology?
Orange Julius said, It just doesnt work that way!
Frank would update the lyrics to circa 1988 song Rhymin' Man to fit our Kremlin Kommando.
In the same way FZ updated "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" to "Louisiana Hooker with Herpes" during the 1988 tour.
-90% Jimmy
PS - Der Trumpenfeuhrer has the whole Nazi Big Lie down pat, along with a lot of other Nazi propaganda methods. However I don't think rhyming was a part of Goebbels mass mind control technology?
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)11. his "It doesn't work that way" said in very snide and threatening manner and it triggered me...
..straight back to my emotionally abusive, narcissistic spouse.
90-percent
(6,828 posts)12. agreed
body language is straight Mussolini.
Why the hell the speech got 75% general approval from republics is incomprehensible. These people walk amongst us....BIGLY!
-90% Jimmy