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The sonofabitch is screaming on tv right now....no collusion/no obstruction (Original Post) spanone May 2019 OP
Berating press for their unfavorable reporting. greatauntoftriplets May 2019 #1
How many people jailed? How many indictments? fuck you don spanone May 2019 #2
I just called him a "fuckhead". greatauntoftriplets May 2019 #5
Yet he needs the media as much as they hate him.... ProudMNDemocrat May 2019 #18
Exactly. And he doesn't care if it's bad news. Laura PourMeADrink May 2019 #69
I'm innocent, I tell you I'm innocent. Polly Hennessey May 2019 #3
From your description of "sonofabitch" trixie2 May 2019 #4
The Bully pulpit of the world's biggest bully spanone May 2019 #6
Impeach the motherfucker. dalton99a May 2019 #7
This is so long in the tooth. Were it a D, he'd have been removed last year. Chin music May 2019 #32
Just heard on CNN where Borger talked to Laura PourMeADrink May 2019 #70
Hmm. Chin music May 2019 #72
A toddler MFM008 May 2019 #8
How many days do we have to see him act this way? Chin music May 2019 #34
Put this fucker in JAIL spanone May 2019 #9
He sounds tired EarlG May 2019 #10
Ignorant thug spanone May 2019 #16
Sounds? Chin music May 2019 #36
The guy's really been packing on the pounds lately sop May 2019 #63
Does he sound nervous? gratuitous May 2019 #11
He's an insane tyrant. OliverQ May 2019 #12
The entire 'Infrastructure' meeting was a setup...per CNN spanone May 2019 #13
yeah I got this tweet from AP reporter Jonathan Lemire Grasswire2 May 2019 #15
+1. Stupid scam dalton99a May 2019 #20
This was ready to go when the Democrats got there. He ambushed Pelosi and dems spanone May 2019 #22
Setting up their counter-impeachment maxsolomon May 2019 #23
Phony bastard thegoose May 2019 #33
there are those mysterious 18 angry democrats...anyone seen them???? spanone May 2019 #41
Hey! Can I be one of them? yuiyoshida May 2019 #65
Me Too! spanone May 2019 #67
good! now we have two angry democrats! yuiyoshida May 2019 #68
Im in.... bsiebs May 2019 #76
I made a new post ... yuiyoshida May 2019 #78
Except for the NO & NO, kind of see the point Laura PourMeADrink May 2019 #73
Dems are coming up with a rebuttal now. OliverQ May 2019 #14
Get the net and the tranquilizer darts. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #17
This man is demented. 1000% spanone May 2019 #19
He has a mental disorder, maxsolomon May 2019 #30
"Presidential hrrassment"...FU trump. Chin music May 2019 #37
Somebody may be cunning and deliberate, but that somebody isn't Trump. Maru Kitteh May 2019 #49
Yes, that's the strategy. maxsolomon May 2019 #52
You've nailed him! pandr32 May 2019 #61
WTF was that all about? procon May 2019 #21
he used the media AND abused them...dressed them down spanone May 2019 #24
And they always fall for it n/t dajoki May 2019 #51
Have you ever seen anyone who sounds and acts more guilty? smirkymonkey May 2019 #25
Absolutely guilty as hell!!! And over and over again he demonstrates how guilty he is! n/t RKP5637 May 2019 #29
Why is msnbc playing it? Irishxs May 2019 #26
Because its the President of the United States speaking to the public maxsolomon May 2019 #35
He's such a F'en POS!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 May 2019 #27
SPEAKER PELOSI is ADDRESSING THE MEDIA NOW spanone May 2019 #28
You can smell the fear oozing from every pore. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #31
Ahhh, the master of the game Nancy Pelosi is making rump go nuts!! Obviously he's NOT... SWBTATTReg May 2019 #38
The guy hates us. When will he allow the next attack? Chin music May 2019 #39
Just the usual whining... Wounded Bear May 2019 #40
Marking in case I need it later underpants May 2019 #56
Was a fairly quick google search away... Wounded Bear May 2019 #58
WOW! SammyWinstonJack May 2019 #60
Must see TV: Cheetolini stroking out live. Hassler May 2019 #42
Oh, would that it were so. maxsolomon May 2019 #53
That's "Criminal Son of a Bitch" jayschool2013 May 2019 #43
👍🏼 😎 spanone May 2019 #45
Republicans WEAKEN the Constitution. dchill May 2019 #44
At this rate, within the next few weeks, I look forward Buns_of_Fire May 2019 #46
That's the reason I don't watch TV. nt yaesu May 2019 #47
That's the least of his worries. Politicub May 2019 #48
I am of the opinion the Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves jmowreader May 2019 #50
I feel like the Constitution needs some revisions at this point. maxsolomon May 2019 #55
And the very first thing we need to change... jmowreader May 2019 #66
Yeh, here's a list ScratchCat May 2019 #77
Keep yanking his chain and antagonizing him in every way possibel! We may be closer to seeing brewens May 2019 #54
He is begging for impeachment sokpupet May 2019 #57
I'm sick of the words collusion and obstruction softydog88 May 2019 #59
Keep it up, dotard. They'll be dragging you offstage to a padded room. Texin May 2019 #62
Right now, Pence could step in and take over.. yuiyoshida May 2019 #64
Is that the TIDE TURNING cilla4progress May 2019 #71
If he really wanted to prove his innocence, he'd shut the fuck up. Initech May 2019 #74
Nancy has his ticket malaise May 2019 #75

Chin music

(23,002 posts)
32. This is so long in the tooth. Were it a D, he'd have been removed last year.
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:04 PM
May 2019

Too cautious, and too much plodding along. His behavior is bombastic. Just my humble opinion. I want to hear from Cicillini and others.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
70. Just heard on CNN where Borger talked to
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:52 PM
May 2019

moderate Dems. What is the red line? (for impeachment)? She was told that is when the courts order him to do something and he doesn't. That is the constitutional crisis moment. Not sure how that applies because it is his telling others not to comply, right?

Chin music

(23,002 posts)
34. How many days do we have to see him act this way?
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:06 PM
May 2019

It as a cumulative effect, on how foreign countries see us. ALL of us. So we see him act like a baby again. I guess that's supposed to be our cold comfort. Ugh.

Chin music

(23,002 posts)
36. Sounds?
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:07 PM
May 2019

Ever see him walk out of the WH, shoulders slumped, shuffling along. Like he just REALLY did some harrowing work that entitles him now to, take the rest of the day off, and go golfing.

sop

(10,156 posts)
63. The guy's really been packing on the pounds lately
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:29 PM
May 2019

Trump was always obese, but now he looks to be on the far side of 300 pounds, and rapidly gaining. The stress is definitely taking a toll, and binge eating seems to be his only escape. At this rate, he'll be tipping the scales at 400 pretty soon. Maybe he'll stroke out and save Democrats the trouble of impeachment.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
11. Does he sound nervous?
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:51 AM
May 2019

I'll bet he sounds nervous. But, you know, the totally innocent and exonerated kind of nervous.

spanone

(135,823 posts)
22. This was ready to go when the Democrats got there. He ambushed Pelosi and dems
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:56 AM
May 2019

said he walked in and said nothing will get done and walked out.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
73. Except for the NO & NO, kind of see the point
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:58 PM
May 2019

about time and energy spent. The issue is conclusion...there wasn't one included. Yet what happened was explained there. It just needs to be wrapped up on in a bow. Gotta get Mueller in asap.

maxsolomon

(33,310 posts)
30. He has a mental disorder,
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:03 PM
May 2019

but he is sane. Don't excuse him. He's cunning and deliberate in his bloviating and lies.

They're setting up their counter-narrative of persecution. It's his 2020 strategy.

Maru Kitteh

(28,339 posts)
49. Somebody may be cunning and deliberate, but that somebody isn't Trump.
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:01 PM
May 2019

He is purely a creature of impulse and poor (nearly non-existent) self-control.

Setting up a narrative of persecution? Shit. It's been nothing BUT persecution from the very beginning. Why would that be changing now? Of course it isn't.

He sucks at life - so he waddles up to the game board, sticks half the money in his pocket, throws the game pieces all over the room, eats the instruction sheet and then has a screaming temper-tantrum that the other kids won't let him win because "THEY ALL HATE ME."

maxsolomon

(33,310 posts)
52. Yes, that's the strategy.
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:11 PM
May 2019

He's a gaslighting bully and a con man, but he makes his marks feel like they're invested in his success.

There is cunning in that - his deliberately primitive use of language, the mnemonic nicknames his enemies, treating everything as a ratings war.

procon

(15,805 posts)
21. WTF was that all about?
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:56 AM
May 2019

He just used the media to whine about Dems. Trump is a very weak man who is scared to death that all his past crimes are going to be revealed.

spanone

(135,823 posts)
24. he used the media AND abused them...dressed them down
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:59 AM
May 2019

this is what happens when Russia elects a criminal to be potus

maxsolomon

(33,310 posts)
35. Because its the President of the United States speaking to the public
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:06 PM
May 2019

For the 1st time in months, and he's about to be impeached.

It is newsworthy.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
31. You can smell the fear oozing from every pore.
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:04 PM
May 2019

If there had been a large wild carnivore in the area he'd have been eaten by now.

SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)
38. Ahhh, the master of the game Nancy Pelosi is making rump go nuts!! Obviously he's NOT...
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:22 PM
May 2019

watching TV and the like, since this is what he claims constantly to all of us. What does he do anyway, while in office, besides playing golf and going to his FL resort, and tweeting?

Keep at it, Nancy!

Chin music

(23,002 posts)
39. The guy hates us. When will he allow the next attack?
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:23 PM
May 2019

Rolling black-outs? What's it going to be? Internet chicanery? What's it going to be? Yes, let's all just sit and wait. Bc...drip drip drip is good enough. The tubs full. It's been dripping for two years. Pull the drain plug and flush this fucker.
the idea that "We are giving him something to run on" w impeachment is ridiculous. That's akin to saying that whatever he says, will sway the voters we know as the 2/3rds, to somehow change their minds and vote for him? Come on. Come ON.
If the elction is our only remedy...I'd like to see hearings every week on how the election is being hardened. If the election is all we have as Democrats, then what are we doing to make sure that trump doesnt happen again? SO much crap.
He hates us, and he will allow putin and others to attack us, while looking the other way.

maxsolomon

(33,310 posts)
53. Oh, would that it were so.
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:14 PM
May 2019

I've been telling my wife for a year: that's my ideal outcome for this. Not a heart attack - too easy.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,174 posts)
46. At this rate, within the next few weeks, I look forward
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:49 PM
May 2019

to his Secret Service detail finding him passed out on the WH lawn, wearing only his He-Man Underoos, with an empty bottle of Black Jack by his side. I hope they take pictures.

jmowreader

(50,553 posts)
50. I am of the opinion the Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:07 PM
May 2019

Those fine individuals built the impeachment process into the Constitution because we were going to be a kinder, more enlightened country. Way back then, the normal way to get rid of a tyrannical leader was to behead the bastard. In our new and improved nation, the fine men we placed in our Congress would simply vote to send our bad presidents home.

If they could have seen far enough into the future to envision not only Trump but an entire House of Congress that enables him, they very well might have left that part out. Impeachment is not going to rid us of this man, we can’t guillotine him and we may not be able to vote him out.

The only thing we can do now is get a court to decide Trump can’t run the country by executive order, work to get the bastard defeated in 2020, investigate the hell out of him, and write a bunch of really good bills that we can take to the voters and say, “if you give us a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President, we will enact all these laws in January 2021.”

maxsolomon

(33,310 posts)
55. I feel like the Constitution needs some revisions at this point.
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:16 PM
May 2019

The flaws are being exposed for all to see.

jmowreader

(50,553 posts)
66. And the very first thing we need to change...
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:40 PM
May 2019

...is the process for getting rid of a legislator. You have to commit big-boy-prison grade crimes like Duke Cunningham did to even hint at expulsion.

I figure a panel of 98 citizens, two from each state except the one the legislator in question is from, would work. None of them can be elected officials and one from each state has to be “schooled in the law.” Sixty votes and you’re history.

I also want congressional salaries raised to $1 million a year, with the provision that we get a completely new Congress before the pay raise. The people we want to be our leaders can’t live on $165,000 per year. That’s Home Depot store manager money. Because the top notch people can’t work for so little, we get all these rich guys out for themselves, zealots with agendas and guys auditioning for lobbyist jobs. Pay them a million a year and watch the good people start to run.

Next, I want Congressional terms to be 4 years and senate terms to be 8, and the election to happen in a presidential year.

I want elections funded through tax rebates to tv/radio stations and newspapers, a small amount of tax dollars for transportation and mailings, and no private contributions allowed.

I do not want term limits for legislators. The only way a state like Vermont or Wyoming gets any credibility in Congress is to send legislators back so many times they grow mold.

ScratchCat

(1,981 posts)
77. Yeh, here's a list
Wed May 22, 2019, 02:29 PM
May 2019

For President:

- Minimum experience qualification, must have held some elected position at a city/county level for multiple terms. This helps demonstrate that the candidate is serious about public service.

- Full financial disclosure of ten years of tax returns.

- Complete divesting from any business with international clients.

For Congress:

Permanently change the approval of all SCOTUS justices and Constitutional officers to a 60/40 or 2/3 majority.

Regain all powers related to treaties, "war powers" and the like that were originally reserved for Congress

End the unchecked pardon power; give some legislative or judicial body "review power".



That's a start...

brewens

(13,574 posts)
54. Keep yanking his chain and antagonizing him in every way possibel! We may be closer to seeing
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:15 PM
May 2019

him totally melt down that we know.

softydog88

(126 posts)
59. I'm sick of the words collusion and obstruction
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:20 PM
May 2019

so let's just call it what it is. Treason! Impeach him now!

Texin

(2,594 posts)
62. Keep it up, dotard. They'll be dragging you offstage to a padded room.
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:26 PM
May 2019

More and more people are calling him "unstable". These unintelligible tirades are going to get him removed by the 25th amendment clause.

I just wish he'd blow a vessel in his brain and stroke out.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
64. Right now, Pence could step in and take over..
Wed May 22, 2019, 01:30 PM
May 2019

But who is going to make Trump Step down? Nancy Pelosi says she will PRAY for this President and this county. That's nice, but Prayers don't work...okay? Something needs to be done and Trump now says No Investigations than no infra structure.. wtf? So he is trying to bargain his way out of investigations??

That's not happening... let the investigations continue as he is covering stuff up! They will probably find a many things he is guilty of...he is a con man, and he will go to prison eventually.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
74. If he really wanted to prove his innocence, he'd shut the fuck up.
Wed May 22, 2019, 02:18 PM
May 2019

But no... the more he talks about it, the guiltier he looks.

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