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By Josh Marshall
September 4, 2018 12:45 pm
You can see Kate Rigas run-down of some of the most jarring revelations of the new Woodward book on Trump here. She has other morsels here in Livewire.
I wanted to make a more general point. These anecdotes, quotes and revelations are gobsmacking, jarring, bizarre. But it takes nothing away from the feat of reporting or the labor to bring these details into the light of day to say that really none of this is surprising. Theres not one thing Ive read so far that couldnt be inferred from President Trumps twitter feed or his public statements in press conferences, impromptu availabilities and the campaign rallies he still holds while serving as President.
In some cases, he has literally said these things in public. He certainly shows the abusive, aggressive behavior so pervasively that it amounts to his brand. He is an habitual, compulsive, comical liar. He lacks any moral compass. He is thoroughly, indeed militantly ignorant.
I say all these things merely to make the point that it is astonishing that the country has allowed this clownish hustler to remain President for almost two years. Even if President Trump were somewhat normal in policy terms, whether on immigration, civil rights, trade, alliances, etc and even if he hadnt conspired with a foreign government to get elected he still wouldnt be remotely equipped to be President. And yet here we are. Some will act surprised.
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SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Nothing the bloated orange anus says surprises me.
The fucker is evil.
The fucker is insane.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)in the House and Senate are good with that.
MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)is the true crime of all of this - our elected representatives are allowing this to happen.
The Founding Fathers would be outraged!
Get Out The Vote - it is MOST IMPORTANT!!!!!!
olegramps
(8,200 posts)The basic question is will the nation awaken to fact that the Republican Party has been pursueing a fascist agenda for the last fifty years and become aware of the impending threat. Or with this experiment in self government be consigned to the garbage can of history. Perhaps this government will be regarded as an unrealistic experiment in which the citizens' apathy and neglect allowed it to be come nothing more than an interesting aberration. It will be seen in retrospect that the concept of a government of the people, by the people and for the people was nothing more than a romantic delusion of some idealists who didn't appreciate the true nature of mankind. For it is a concept that requires constant involvement and awareness that most can be easily distracted from or assured that their rights will be unchallenged and protected by some unknown force and it will die of natural cause of neglect.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)We are now just beating the dead camel while lost in a vast desert
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)The wheels of Justice turn slowly when Infinite GOP Money is jamming spanners in the works.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)kavanaught hearings before 'cons could script phony answers, in the hearings.
Gothmog
(145,567 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)something coming.
Trump has no Class,he is just another friggin Hood.
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)Nothing...absolutely nothing. There's our fully functioning Congress for ya!
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)but, the mainstream media keeps acting like it is surprised. So, every little bit helps. Hopefully one of these times, it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Though, at this point, the camel has a thousand metric tons of straw on its back:
"it is astonishing that the country has allowed this clownish hustler to remain President for almost two years."
Why is that astonishing? Our constitution really is a suicide pact, despite what
a well-known Republican president once said.
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)was the tidbit on aides snatching papers from the Trumpster's desk to prevent him from signing them.
Has that sort of thing ever been reported before???
So they snatch the documents and he doesn't notice? Which is just more evidence of his unfitness. Or his inability to read much of anything.
Amazing!
erronis
(15,335 posts)Let him scrawl his hen pecks across any old document and then consign the mess to the burn pile. Baby boy is happy, aides are happy, country is happy. Hell of a price to pay for the shafting that the repuglicons/russians foisted on US.
I like the disappearing ink idea, erronis.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Ah, no, no surprise.
erronis
(15,335 posts)Without those he'd just be a very old fart masquerading in ill fitting suits.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/02/03/side-effects-of-the-drug-trump-reportedly-takes-for-hair-loss/?utm_term=.38f1b3ac2035
The constellation of potential symptoms, sometimes referred to as post-finasteride syndrome, may include sexual, physical and psychological changes. Of these, the sexual side effects are perhaps the most extensively reported. In fact, in 2012, the Food and Drug Administration announced a label change for Propecia and Proscar, requiring the manufacturer to warn that the medication may be associated with libido disorders, ejaculation disorders, and orgasm disorders that continued after discontinuation of the drug.
The older the subject the more likely the side effects will occur.
What makes this incredibly funny is that Trump was outed by his doctor who shouldn't have revealed any of his prescriptions. He has reason to sue the doctor.
The doctor's casual revelation of Trumps heavy use of Propecia and his comment that he couldn't understand why anyone would object to people knowing about being prescribed a hair medicine would seem to indicate that his doctor was unaware of the massive reaction to Propecia and the huge class action law suit that is working its way through litigation.
The side effects are frequently permanent.
jalan48
(13,886 posts)for many Americans I would guess.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Obviously has defective eyesight as well as an inoperable sense of irony/decency/shame
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)underpants
(182,883 posts)but then Woodward left Naval Intelligence to join the Post which was not a big newspaper back then. Never forget that.