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Dow drops 831, Worst hurricane to hit FL gulf coast in history and the A-hole in chief (Original Post) Cattledog Oct 2018 OP
Well , it made landfall ... Whiskeytide Oct 2018 #1
Mexico beach could have been prevented if he had built his wall dembotoz Oct 2018 #11
I heard him say on my radio that the winds were 200 miles an hour...everything he says is a lie spanone Oct 2018 #2
He can't help himself malaise Oct 2018 #3
Down 831--five days of declines. Sooooo tired of winning Bengus81 Oct 2018 #4
Wow. He's holding a campaign rally today? Got a link? SunSeeker Oct 2018 #5
:) Big surprise, he craves the cheers and won't cancel Hortensis Oct 2018 #6
Trump has to get there and tell those NAZI supporters............ Bengus81 Oct 2018 #7
On the plus side, the worse Trump and his Trumpzis get, Hortensis Oct 2018 #9
OMG SunSeeker Oct 2018 #14
Nope. He adores noisy adulation and has grabbed Hortensis Oct 2018 #17
"Blown to hell or Kansas". Pretty much the same thing. nt Blue_true Oct 2018 #16
:) Inclined to agree. Repub rebellion against Hortensis Oct 2018 #18
Umm...well,we're going to electe a Dem Governor Laura Kelly and.... Bengus81 Oct 2018 #20
I respect you. Blue_true Oct 2018 #21
He only knows how to be a TV star, not a president. BigmanPigman Oct 2018 #8
EH. Otherwise, he'd just be at the WH watching Hannutty and eating burgers. Totally Tunsie Oct 2018 #10
Too early to say Jspur Oct 2018 #12
No, we're not "rooting for a horrible disaster" gratuitous Oct 2018 #13
...with rent-a-rubes TheCowsCameHome Oct 2018 #15
The time for enabling this vomitus, reeking human stain is OVER.... Guilded Lilly Oct 2018 #19

spanone

(135,841 posts)
2. I heard him say on my radio that the winds were 200 miles an hour...everything he says is a lie
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:24 PM
Oct 2018

he'll probably blame it all on the democrats.

malaise

(269,021 posts)
3. He can't help himself
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:28 PM
Oct 2018

Everything has to be an exaggeration. It's why he and his criminal family robbed the state and federal government - being rich wasn't enough. He had to be the richest.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
4. Down 831--five days of declines. Sooooo tired of winning
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:29 PM
Oct 2018

Kiss your retirement goodbye for years with this asshat running the show. This is another Bush.IDIOT scenario playing out. Thank you OBAMA for policies that slowly raised the DOW over almost all your eight years.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. :) Big surprise, he craves the cheers and won't cancel
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:37 PM
Oct 2018

in spite of strong recommendations to. They think it'd be bad "optics." For a man with no bottom to hit.

From Esquire: The Florida Panhandle is being blown to hell or Kansas. Entire houses are bouncing down the middle of the street. Forty percent of the oil production in the Gulf of Mexico is shut down. It is the most powerful storm to hit the mainland United States in 50 years. But the president has a rally scheduled in Erie, Pennsylvania, and he doesn't want to let his adoring public down. From The Hill:

Trump left the White House just before 4 p.m., tweeting about his decision to attend the rally. "Departing the @WhiteHouse for Erie, Pennsylvania. I cannot disappoint the thousands of people that are there - and the thousands that are going. I look forward to seeing everyone this evening," he wrote..."Well, I hear they have thousands of people lined up and so we are in a little bit of a quagmire," he told reporters at the White House. "I don't want to disappoint people. So, we'll probably go because what are you going to do? Tell thousands of people who've been waiting there all night that we're not coming? That's not fair either," he said.
Is there a tweet? There always is a tweet.

"Yesterday Obama campaigned with JayZ & Springsteen while Hurricane Sandy victims across NY & NJ are still decimated by Sandy. Wrong!" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

I know some people in Erie—Hi, Liz! Hi, Eric!—and nobody I know in Erie is stupid or heartless, and everybody I know in Erie would understand if the president* told them that, what with the unprecedented hurricane in Florida, he had to stay and do some presidentin', and that he would come there and bask in their undying love some other time, when Florida wasn't set to become a coral reef. They would understand. I know they would. Shameless. Completely shameless

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
7. Trump has to get there and tell those NAZI supporters............
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:41 PM
Oct 2018

How well he'll take care of Florida and how the market declining for FIVE days with the third worst day in history today is ok. And...they'll cheer and wave their "Women for Trump" signs.


Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. On the plus side, the worse Trump and his Trumpzis get,
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:49 PM
Oct 2018

the more they repel those who refuse to identify Republican any more. They almost all voted for him in 2016 and can use all the help the Trumpzis can give them to avoid backsliding into the abyss in 2018.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
17. Nope. He adores noisy adulation and has grabbed
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:40 PM
Oct 2018

every opportunity to make the glory days of his campaign crowds live on as his presidency.

At the same time, we know he enjoys cruelty as an exercise of power, longs to be feared, and is very vindictive when he thinks he's been crossed. (Not everyone always as adoring as he requires?)

I agree no bottom. To the point that I'd now be surprised if there wasn't a great deal of malice in not just breaking his promises to his cheering crowds but actively trying to destroy what they want from him. Such as intending to make Obamacare's coverage of preexisting conditions unconstitutional, which would/will hurt them dreadfully.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. :) Inclined to agree. Repub rebellion against
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:47 PM
Oct 2018

that kind of politicians the Kochs install, in this case Kobach, may be opening up a chance for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, though. No matter the era, I'd be willing to bet the main answer to "what's wrong with Kansas" isn't all those huge weather and other disasters but always its conservatives.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
20. Umm...well,we're going to electe a Dem Governor Laura Kelly and....
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 09:53 AM
Oct 2018

look to flip two House seats. Trump is now sending Pence to Kansas in desperation for Kris KKKobach--does that sound like something Republicans would normally do??

There are worse places than Kansas......

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
21. I respect you.
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 11:27 AM
Oct 2018

Most people back away when the place they live in and love is made fun of, you came out swinging. I accept your statement that Kansas has a lot of great areas, it is just that Manhattan is one that I am most familiar with and I don't know much about the rest of the state.

BigmanPigman

(51,604 posts)
8. He only knows how to be a TV star, not a president.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:48 PM
Oct 2018

He is at his best when he is lying to his cult. Of course he falls back on his strength. Being a functioning president is not what he wants to do and has no interest in it at all.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
10. EH. Otherwise, he'd just be at the WH watching Hannutty and eating burgers.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:52 PM
Oct 2018

It's not like he'd actually be doing anything...

Jspur

(578 posts)
12. Too early to say
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:05 PM
Oct 2018

it's the worst hurricane to hit FL Gulf. Let's hope it isn't considering they are millions of people who can potential suffer if this hurricane turns out to be that bad. Honestly I feel some people in DU hate Trump so much that they are rooting for a horrible disaster simply in hopes that it will end up destroying him politically without thinking of the millions of innocent lives that could be effected. To me that's a bunch of bs. Just speaking as a North Carolinian who had to deal with a bunch of idiots hyping up Florence simply because they wanted Trump to suffer without thinking about how people like me had the risk of losing everything.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
13. No, we're not "rooting for a horrible disaster"
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:13 PM
Oct 2018

A horrible disaster is happening, and Donald Trump is more concerned with a campaign rally than being the president. Whether any individual person in the hurricane's path loses everything or gets through relatively unscathed, it's not up to the forecasters or anyone else to do the president's job for him. All we can do is remind citizens that during a disaster, the identity of the person sitting in the Oval Office matters a lot more than any hype.

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
19. The time for enabling this vomitus, reeking human stain is OVER....
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 07:41 PM
Oct 2018

And anyone ANYWHERE supporting this vile megalomaniac slug should be shamed back under the slimy rocks they crawled out from underneath.

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