before the explosions.

Why else would he hold up everything he signs for the camera? He's expecting to get applause...

"Good job, Donnie."

Seriously, this bozo is the Leader of the Free World?? What have we come to?? Idiocracy.

he sure the fuck is making a case for us to make damn sure to elect a black person next. Obama was the ultimate President, then we swing to tRump the worst person to ever hold the office.

Sure making our first black President look like a saint, is he not?

Though I know that's not a possibility. And it didn't hurt that President Obama was a constitutional scholar and likely one of the most intelligent to ever hold the office - not to mention that he had the ideal temperament. Has Trump ever even read the Constitution?? There's been speculation whether he can even read...

Always looking for approval.

And I think that's why sane Republicans have been mostly holding their tongues; they're hoping to get as much hateful shit passed fast, before he's kicked out of office. Or has a stroke, whichever comes first.

I stole that here on DU from a couple of weeks ago.

your posts never fail to amuse and enlighten.

I'm a huge fan since the days of the Torjan Horse

It must have been something he ate.

How much's a Grecian urn?

About $10 an hour

I like it. I also can't wait to see the Grecian Formula racecars run every year.

You really odyssey 'em

I searched for that one.

With the ban first pull attention from pushing for Gorsuch filibuster.

1 - An Administration with agencies that will obey your every command.

2 - A delegitimized media

3 - Unwavering support from your base.

Number 3 explains why this guy has been throwing red meat out to his base with such frequency. Any time he encounters trouble, expect a whole new serving of red meat.

Read the Howard Stern thing I posted earlier today. He wants to be loved and applauded.

Which will happen, until Trump voters find themselves without heathcare (ACA, Medicaid, Medicare) and Social Security.

Then, not so much.

He sees himself as the ultimate, unchecked authority.

It's as simple as that.

nm

!!!

that is scary

we see around the world and here at home. Everyone needs to read it and become familiar with these moves.

We need to get ourselves to the point where we are "shock proof". And soon.

IOW, any lull will give a chance for reflection on what a clusterfuck his time in office has been so far.

Everything is a distraction from everything else. Even if you choose one or two issues to focus on, it's impossible to stay focused and avoid fatigue and despair.

It's an effective tactic we need to deal with constantly.

They know how fucking dimwitted the people of this country are.

Just keep hammering away, their idiot base will relentlessly defend them, with us peons at each other's throats constantly, they can keep raiding the cookie jar.

They are working to a very tight timeline. That shows in everything they do. I think they don't expect to have more than another week available, so they have to get the next phase ready to roll by then.

I don't expect impeachment any more. I expect summary execution if they lose, and a total dictatorship if they win.

This is not national politics. This is a geopolitical game being played at the highest levels, and the stakes are the power structures of the world. Russia wants to completely realign the global balance of power, with them at the top, and the USA swept off the board. The whole Trump shitstorm is the visible part of WWIII. If we lose,the nation will go dark. This is for all the marbles.

I'm virtually certain that there is a next phase of the war already planned, that will kick off very shortly. It will pobably make this phase since the inauguration look like a Sunday School picnic.

This ends ...

The flood of executive orders without Congressional push back, even in areas usually controlled by legislation, is telling Trump how much he can get away with by acting unilaterally.

Thirty days after being published in the Federal Register, executive orders take effect

Thirty days after being published they take effect..what up???


While they do bypass the U.S. Congress and the standard legislative law making process, no part of an executive order may direct the agencies to conduct illegal or unconstitutional activities.

He keeping the opposition off guard...so he thinks. But we have news for him...we can multitask.

On reflection, you are.

chaos. The more he puts out there, the bigger the reaction. He doesn't want the left hand knowing what the right hand is doing. It's all shit all the time.

they expect to quash investigations, replace prosecutors, intimidate judges, or at the very least win on appeal to biased higher courts.

all while spinning the propaganda their way.

He does NOT expect to be exposed and caught. He expects to serve out eight years, and honestly believes every single on of the terrible things he's done so far and will do in the future are wonderful.

He's far too much of a narcissist to think what you suggest.

Keep in mind that Richard Nixon, who was quite paranoid, did not believe he'd be leaving office until a day or two before he resigned. And he was not a narcissist and not at all delusional, at least not in the way that Trump is.

but I was so wrong on the election that I know longer know what's going down

But he's going to be totally blindsided when it happens. No matter how it goes down, he'll be oblivious to the very last.

He is completely incapable of thinking he's anything but perfect.

Over the past few months I've read various posts or articles about narcissism, and clearly Trump is a classic narcissist, and there is NO reasoning with them, ever.

In my opinion, he'd rather knock off 100 half-assed garbage items than stop and spend the time to do one meaningful thing. I don't even think he understands the concept. Look at his business? By all accounts many of his hotels are shoddy and poorly built. The food is terrible. Does he stop to fix the problems? No, his solution is to build more hotels. It's the way he's wired.

And seriously, I don't think he wants it to go on much longer---way too much work and pointed criticism for him to put up with it. We need to do all we can to see that his time in office is as brief as possible.

i can only hope he's exposed and caught!!!!