[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #377 Chaos of niet?

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Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 22:40 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Vond dit wel interessant om te lezen: People Seem To Be Creating Fake Accounts Of White Women To Push Anti-Feminist And Racist Agendas. Op zich wel bekend fenomeen natuurlijk.

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How is this any different than all the fake FB accounts used on this site and others to promote leftist agenda issues?

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Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 22:48 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Als je wil lachen, moet je de comments van Breitbart eens doorlezen. Alt-right is pissed.

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Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 22:45 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Typerend bij de comments is dat de eerste (op het moment dat ik keek), zegt:

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#whataboutism

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As the worst week in a cursed presidency wound down, I spotted more and more forecasts that Donald Trump would resign, including from Tony Schwartz, who wrote “The Art of the Deal” for Trump and presumably understands his tortured psyche.

They struck me not as wishful or fantastical.

They struck me as late.

Trump resigned the presidency already — if we regard the job as one of moral stewardship, if we assume that an iota of civic concern must joust with self-regard, if we expect a president’s interest in legislation to rise above vacuous theatrics, if we consider a certain baseline of diplomatic etiquette to be part of the equation.

By those measures, it’s arguable that Trump’s presidency never really began. By those measures, it’s indisputable that his presidency ended in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday afternoon, when he chose — yes, chose — to litigate rather than lead, to attend to his wounded pride instead of his wounded nation and to debate the supposed fine points of white supremacy.

He abdicated his responsibilities so thoroughly and recklessly that it amounted to a letter of resignation. Then he whored for his Virginia winery on the way out the door.

Trump knew full well what he should have done, because he’d done it — grudgingly and badly — only a day earlier. But it left him feeling countermanded, corrected, submissive and weak, and those emotions just won’t do for an ego as needy and skin as thin as his. So he put id before country and lashed out, in a manner so patently wrong and transcendently ruinous that TV news shows had to go begging for Republican lawmakers to defend or even try to explain what he’d said.

Those lawmakers wanted no part of him. The same went for the corporate chieftains he considers his peers. And for the generals he genuinely reveres. The heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines all went out of their way to issue statements condemning the hatred that Trump wouldn’t take on. A soft coup against a cuckoo: It confirmed how impotent Trump had become.

On Tuesday he “relinquished what presidents from Roosevelt to Reagan have regarded as a cardinal duty of their job: set a moral course to unify the nation,” wrote The Times’s Mark Landler, in what was correctly labeled a news analysis and not an opinion column. Landler’s assessment, echoed by countless others, was as unassailable as it was haunting, and it was prompted in part by Trump’s perverse response to a question that it’s hard to imagine another president being asked: Did he place the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., on the same “moral plane” as those who showed up to push back at them?

“I’m not putting anybody on a moral plane,” Trump answered.

Indeed he wasn’t. And if you can’t put anybody on a moral plane, you can’t put yourself on Air Force One.

On Friday Trump finally dismissed his polarizing chief strategist, Steve Bannon. That’s excellent. And irrelevant. A president’s team doesn’t matter when he himself is this lost.

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A president is supposed to safeguard the most sacred American institutions, repairing them if need be. Trump doesn’t respect them. He has sought to discredit and disempower the judiciary, the free press, the F.B.I., the Congressional Budget Office. He even managed to inject politics into, and pollute, the Boy Scouts. This is the course of a tyrant.

I haven’t mentioned Russia. How astonishing that it can be left out and there’s still a surfeit to rue.

Trump hasn’t been exercising the duties of his office. He’s been excising them, one by one. The moral forfeiture of the past week was the capper.

And as I watched the Bushes and the generals and Trump’s former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination step into the public square to enunciate their own principles about murderous bigots and domestic terrorists, I realized that they weren’t going through any typical this-is-what-makes-us-Americans motions. They weren’t preening.

They were, in the words of The Washington Post’s James Hohmann, “filling the void.” If Trump wasn’t going to do his job, others had to.

I kept coming across variations on the verdict that he had “failed to lead,” and that phraseology is off. “Fail” and “failure” imply that there was an effort, albeit unsuccessful.

Trump made none. He consciously decided that he didn’t care about comforting or inspiring those Americans — a majority of them — who weren’t quick and generous enough with their clapping. He was more interested in justifying himself.

So he picked division over unity, war over peace. And make no mistake: He didn’t merely shortchange the presidency. He left it vacant.

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Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 22:56 schreef speknek het volgende:
NYT: The Week When President Trump Resigned

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https://mobile.nytimes.co(...)ump-resignation.html

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Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 23:23 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Nog een adviseur die stopt: Billionaire Carl Icahn has quit advising Trump

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Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 23:41 schreef Szura het volgende:
Geen Afghanistan-beslissing na Camp David vandaag, president bestudeert voorgelegde opties. (Hopelijk zit die Blackwater-optie daar niet bij )

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Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 23:46 schreef speknek het volgende:
Het waren vier fantastische weken

https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/898639722037235713

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Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 23:46 schreef speknek het volgende:
Het waren vier fantastische weken

https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/898639722037235713

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Op zaterdag 19 augustus 2017 00:17 schreef Szura het volgende:
Bannon terug bij z'n haatsite trouwens, zojuist gemeld

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Op zaterdag 19 augustus 2017 00:15 schreef Szura het volgende:
Trump belde met de Spaanse president

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Amateurs

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Op zaterdag 19 augustus 2017 00:28 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Wie released that, State of de Comm shop?

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Op zaterdag 19 augustus 2017 00:30 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Communicatie-afdeling Witte Huis

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Op zaterdag 19 augustus 2017 00:17 schreef Szura het volgende:
Bannon terug bij z'n haatsite trouwens, zojuist gemeld

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