Trump torpedoes meeting with Democrats, blasts Pelosi's 'cover-up' accusation

[Redline]

I can see he is going to resort to flicking boogers in the future

[longtom]

Funny how Conway, chief-enabler for the p...y grabber, is chastizing Pelosi for not being pro-women. [emoji16]

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[thaibeachlovers]

22 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

 

I dunno, maybe they're not off playing golf, and watching TV all day?

 

https://www.c-span.org/congress/bills/?congress=116&chamber=house&bill-type=H.R.&bill-status=passed&bill-number=

 

Just the past few weeks, too many to list really.

H.R. 2578National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2019
Sponsored by:
Maxine Waters, D-CA
May 14, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 2480Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
Sponsored by:
Kim Schrier, D-WA
May 20, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 2372Veterans' Care Quality Transparency Act
Sponsored by:
Lauren Underwood, D-IL
May 21, 2019: Passed

 

House H.R. 2359Whole Veteran Act
Sponsored by:
Conor Lamb, D-PA
May 21, 2019: Passed House H.R. 2340Fostering Intergovernmental Health Transparency in Veteran Suicides Act
Sponsored by:
Max Rose, D-NY
May 21, 2019: Passed

 

House H.R. 2333Support for Suicide Prevention Coordinators Act
Sponsored by:
Anthony Brindisi, D-NY
May 21, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 2326Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer William Bill Mulder (Ret.) Transition Improvement Act of 2019
Sponsored by:
Mike Levin, D-CA
May 21, 2019: Passed

 

House H.R. 2157Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019
Sponsored by:
Nita Lowey, D-NY
May 10, 2019: Passed House H.R. 2116Global Fragility Act
Sponsored by:
Eliot Engel, D-NY
May 20, 2019: Passed

 

House H.R. 2066DHS Intelligence Rotational Assignment Program Act of 2019
Sponsored by:
Mike Gallagher, R-WI
May 14, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 2045Veterans' Education, Transition, and Opportunity Prioritization Plan Act of 2019
Sponsored by:
Brad R. Wenstrup, R-OH
May 21, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 2030Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act
Sponsored by:
Raul Grijalva, D-AZ
Apr 16, 2019: Became Law

 

H.R. 2002Taiwan Assurance Act of 2019
Sponsored by:
Michael McCaul, R-TX
May 7, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 1947 To amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt transfers of funds from Federal agencies to the Department of Veterans Affairs for nonprofit corporations established under subchapter IV of chapter 73 of such title from certain provisions of the Economy Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsored by:
Phil Roe M.D., R-TN
May 21, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 1952Intercountry Adoption Information Act of 2019
Sponsored by:
Doug Collins, R-GA
May 20, 2019: Passed House H.R. 1957Taxpayer First Act of 2019
Sponsored by:
John Lewis, D-GA
Apr 9, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 1912DHS Acquisition Documentation Integrity Act of 2019
Sponsored by:
Xochitl Torres Small, D-NM
May 14, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 9Climate Action Now Act
Sponsored by:
Kathy Anne Castor, D-FL
May 2, 2019: Passed House

 

H.R. 1876Senior Security Act of 2019
Sponsored by:
Josh Gottheimer, D-NJ
Apr 30, 2019: Passed House

It was a sarcastic comment. No need to spend how much time to post all those.

Even I understand that between making attacks on Trump congress does pass some legislation.

[thaibeachlovers]

19 hours ago, bristolboy said:

How exactly was this "obstructionism" stopping him from doing his job? How exactly does it keep him from addressing the question of infrastructure? Is Trump the can't-walk-and-chew-gum-at-the-same-time-President?

Did you not read what I wrote? He's playing his own game now. It's all tactics.

[thaibeachlovers]

18 hours ago, bristolboy said:

Actually, it will be a much smaller boon, if a boon at all, than it would have been otherwise.

 

China cancels U.S. pork import order as U.S.-China trade war drags on

The same week U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping increases on tariffs against Chinese goods, Chinese buyers dropped orders for 3,247 metric tonnes of U.S. pork - the biggest cancellation in more than a year, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data released on Thursday.

 

The cancellation came during the week ended May 9, a blow to the $6.5 billion export market for American pork, vital to the burgeoning U.S. meat industry.

Prior to the trade war, China and Hong Kong combined were the second largest export market for U.S. pork.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-pork/china-cancels-u-s-pork-import-order-as-u-s-china-trade-war-drags-on-idUSKCN1SM2D9

 

Presumably, some other pork producing nations will pick up much, if not all, of the slack. Or the Chinese may elect to do with much less consumption of pork.

Alternatively, other nations will send all their pork to China ( higher prices? ) and America will send it's pork to the nations that can't get pork from their usual supplier.

 

Can't see the Chinese doing with less pork.

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, bristolboy said:

You forget that in 2016 it wasn't clear what sort of President Trump would be and what sort of programs he would pursue. Now he's made it very clear. And despite the strong showing of the economy, he has managed to be very unpopular. I think that next election the electoral majority will show it has had enough.

Perhaps unpopular with the people he was always unpopular with. His base seem pretty happy.

As you say, the election will tell the truth.

[wayned]

13 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

It was a sarcastic comment. No need to spend how much time to post all those.

Even I understand that between making attacks on Trump congress does pass some legislation.

The democratic led congress passed 235 bills since the first of the year.  However, the republican led senate only approved 17 of them.  Put the blame where the blame belongs!

[bristolboy]

14 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Did you not read what I wrote? He's playing his own game now. It's all tactics.

You think it's a game that's going to make him look good? Attempting to use extortion for his own personal interests and to the detriment of infrastructure work? Actually, he's doing the Democrats a huge favor since this would have been one area which he could have claimed as an accomplishment that would benefit all Americans.

[bristolboy]

I saw a headline about the Trump blow-up.

AMERICA SECOND ME FIRST

[Scott]

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[mtls2005]

19 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

No need to spend how much time to post all those.

 

No worries literally took seconds to copy and paste.

 

Probably less time than you spent on your post?

 

Very easy for citizens, who want to be informed, to find this information on the interwebs.

[metisdead]

An inflammatory post has been removed.  

 

Some satirical troll posts and replies have been removedf.

[wayned]

Just to show you how out of touch with reality Trump is when he was in Japan on the joint naval base he wished everybody in America a "happy Memorial Day".  It's not a happy day other than you might have gotten the day off.  To me it's a solemn day to honor those that gave their lives in support of their country not a happy one!

[jerojero]

Trump's degree is in Economics! Basic workings of tariffs are often learned in high school. He is again lying to the American people.... Because he simply cannot be that stupid or ignorant. God save America from this scum of a leader.

Either Trump is incapable of adding 2 + 2 and getting 4 or he is just plain lying again and trying to fool the public about where the tariff cost is born. Any person with any business experience whatsoever would know that tariffs are an import charge levied at the border upon arrival. I assume that every member here knows this, Trump must know it, thus, he is just a liar (or plain stupid).
 
As others have pointed out, tariffs increase the cost of imported goods. The Government of the importer collects the tariff, goods cost the importer more (landed cost), the higher price is passed along to the end-user. Yes, it substantially increases the government coffers (and takes from its citizens).
 
Gawd, how did that lying, stupid buffoon ever get elected?
 
 

[neeray]

On ‎5‎/‎24‎/‎2019 at 12:55 AM, lannarebirth said:

I reject the notion that Americans, for the most, part didn't already know that Trump was a fraud

They might have recognized that he was a fake, a fraud, huckster, liar, illiterate full of crap business failure but did not recognize to the full extent that rolled out later.

Sad but true.

[wayned]

18 minutes ago, jerojero said:

Trump's degree is in Economics! Basic workings of tariffs are often learned in high school. He is again lying to the American people.... Because he simply cannot be that stupid or ignorant. God save America from this scum of a leader.

It has nothing to do with stupidity or ignorance,  he is a psychopath that can only say what he thinks will benefit him at that time.  Nothing he says has anything to do with the truth only that he thinks that it will make him look good at that moment.

[thaibeachlovers]

35 minutes ago, jerojero said:

Gawd, how did that lying, stupid buffoon ever get elected?

Actually neeray said it, not jerojero.

The answer is simple- the Dems put up Hillary as their candidate, someone so unappealing that Trump won because not enough people voted for her outside the Democrat heartlands. Had Bernie been the candidate as he should have been if not for Dem dirty tricks, he'd probably be president now.

There was a choice between two bad candidates and people voted for the least awful of the two.

[thaibeachlovers]

19 minutes ago, wayned said:

It has nothing to do with stupidity or ignorance,  he is a psychopath that can only say what he thinks will benefit him at that time.  Nothing he says has anything to do with the truth only that he thinks that it will make him look good at that moment.

Do you have a psychiatric qualification to be able to diagnose a mental illness? If not, it's just your opinion.

 

[thaibeachlovers]

44 minutes ago, jerojero said:

Trump's degree is in Economics! Basic workings of tariffs are often learned in high school. He is again lying to the American people.... Because he simply cannot be that stupid or ignorant. God save America from this scum of a leader.

LOL. I don't think God is listening, as it's looking pretty good for a Trump win next year.

[stevenl]

7 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Do you have a psychiatric qualification to be able to diagnose a mental illness? If not, it's just your opinion.

 

Do a search, quite a few psychiatrists and psychologists have come out and stated he is a psychopath.

[xylophone]

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. I don't think God is listening, as it's looking pretty good for a Trump win next year.

No, plenty of time for this clown's "misdemeanours" to be uncovered (tax fraud, bank fraud) amongst other things, and they will be found, mainly because he believes he is smart (yeah....right!) enough to get away with it, but in reality he is just another lying, dumb huckster.

[thaibeachlovers]

7 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Do a search, quite a few psychiatrists and psychologists have come out and stated he is a psychopath.

Real psychiatrists know that one can't diagnose a mental disorder without doing an examination of the person in question. 

Without an actual examination, IMO it's just opinions.

[thaibeachlovers]

7 minutes ago, xylophone said:

No, plenty of time for this clown's "misdemeanours" to be uncovered (tax fraud, bank fraud) amongst other things, and they will be found, mainly because he believes he is smart (yeah....right!) enough to get away with it, but in reality he is just another lying, dumb huckster.

Get back to me after next years election ????

[stevenl]

27 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Real psychiatrists know that one can't diagnose a mental disorder without doing an examination of the person in question. 

Without an actual examination, IMO it's just opinions.

As you stated earlier, " it's just your opinion. ".

[heybruce]

49 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Actually neeray said it, not jerojero.

The answer is simple- the Dems put up Hillary as their candidate, someone so unappealing that Trump won because not enough people voted for her outside the Democrat heartlands. Had Bernie been the candidate as he should have been if not for Dem dirty tricks, he'd probably be president now.

There was a choice between two bad candidates and people voted for the least awful of the two.

Trump's base didn't vote for him because they saw him as the lesser of two evils, they voted for him because they believe the lies and BS he spews out.  They still do, just watch the media coverage of his rallies.

[thaibeachlovers]

16 minutes ago, heybruce said:

Trump's base didn't vote for him because they saw him as the lesser of two evils, they voted for him because they believe the lies and BS he spews out.  They still do, just watch the media coverage of his rallies.

The number of people at Trump rallies probably wouldn't win the vote for dog catcher in the great scheme of things.

He won the votes of millions that didn't want her to win, IMO.

BTW, the people that attended Trump rallies probably went because of the excitement that was evident at them. They would probably have supported a slug if it promised to attack the establishment the way Trump vowed. They had had enough of the corruption in Washington, and HRC was a shining example of Washington corruption- "lock her up" they cried.

[wayned]

There's  checklist that some psychiatrists use to evaluate  their patients over periodic sessions and interviews.  Take the test as if you were Trump and see what the results are.  It's called the Hare Psychopathy Test. In August 2016, Dr. Kevin Dutton of Oxford University ranked US president-elect Donald Trump as "above Adolf Hitler" on a standard scale used to measure potential psychopathy in adults, according to the science news site Phys.org.  Here's a link to the test: https://www.businessinsider.com/hare-psychopath-checklist-test-sociopath-2016-11. 

 

You be the judge, but be honest.  if your evaluation of him doesn't indicate that he is a psychopath then maybe you should test yourself!

[thaibeachlovers]

25 minutes ago, wayned said:

There's  checklist that some psychiatrists use to evaluate  their patients over periodic sessions and interviews.  Take the test as if you were Trump and see what the results are.  It's called the Hare Psychopathy Test. In August 2016, Dr. Kevin Dutton of Oxford University ranked US president-elect Donald Trump as "above Adolf Hitler" on a standard scale used to measure potential psychopathy in adults, according to the science news site Phys.org.  Here's a link to the test: https://www.businessinsider.com/hare-psychopath-checklist-test-sociopath-2016-11. 

 

You be the judge, but be honest.  if your evaluation of him doesn't indicate that he is a psychopath then maybe you should test yourself!

I see. In the brave new world we live in, one can diagnose other people based on a check list. I wonder where Chuck or Nancy rate on that list?

Goodness me, I know several people that could be sociopaths, if one had a handy test to check them against. Lucky for them such evaluations are meaningless.

 

I hope you realise that if Trump is just playing a character, the Hare test is useless. That's why testing has to be done in person. 

 

IMO the whole "Trump is mental" is just a political ploy by the resistance, and I believe it is as big a sham as the Mueller investigation re Russian collusion by Trump.

[ravip]

On 5/23/2019 at 4:44 AM, Tug said:

Well another fine example of Donald’s unfitness to lead another example of obstruction (of governance)the dude plainly doesent belong in that position we need to have a way to get rid of a failed president more easily without the drama

You really should watch the youtube clip "George Carlin on some cultural issues"

[thaibeachlovers]

On ‎5‎/‎23‎/‎2019 at 11:14 AM, Tug said:

we need to have a way to get rid of a failed president more easily without the drama

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You do already. It's called an election. Feeling lucky?