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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Trump is using Fox News as his briefings, rather than, y'know, Marine General Gunny Barrett in proper White House briefings, or instead of listening to his National Security Adviser (does he currently have a NSA at the moment, anyone know?) he sees Keifer Sutherland, say, interviewed on Fox & Friends and takes his council over the experts.
Which would be nice by the way, Sutherland is an avowed Liberal and takes on the Jack Bauer roles, racists, bullies, as a statement against those characters. Tom Kirkman is closer to who he really is. Point is Fox is Trump's presidential advisor instead of whoever he fired or is looking to hire, and this is somehow still a shock.
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Instead of reacting to it then, I'll ask is this normal of the American President? To use the Fox News echo chamber as being more knowledgeable than the head of the National Security Agency, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, political liaison to Saudi Arabia and Space Marshal of the Earth Boarder Protection Federation?
It is normal? So if Obama or Hillary did this we should not be surprised? Perhaps the saddest thing is this is considered normal for Trump. Is he next going to have live broadcasts of him playing Calm Down Stalin as a means of getting attention?
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I gotta go with that. I gotta go that if Trump got bored on Twitter and he saw a Trump mod for something like Command & Conquer: Generals or Rainbow Six he would go for it simply to try and do something that will get him noticed. Nothing short of that would be a surprise.
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Without a doubt it had to be the start of Trump's meltdown as the funniest thing I heard in this past week, by far, where he threatened his voters would revolt. That was certainly up there with the funniest, the most cheeriest.'
In local news there's the idea of a permanent Launceston Special Operations Group SWAT Team due to a siege virtually two streets from where I live. You see, the police made claims that witnesses of which I was one and video show that's not the case, including how the police never fired a shot. Okay, I can accept a long rifle, .203. I can maybe accept a police automatic, maybe a Glock, I was close enough to hear and tell the difference. But several handguns or maybe a M4 assault rifle? That's stretching it. So a politician says, Not Hyperbole, how, "The SWAT teams have all these wonderful toys, they have these automatic handguns and shotguns and machine guns and sniper rifles and tanks and helicopters and they didn't get to use any of it." I hear that and I Face Palm, that is wrong on so many levels. Funny but worth a Head Desk.
Other funny politics or uplifting politics? Well I gotta go with the likes of Farron Cousins on The Ring of Fire or Stephen Colbert on The Late Show using Trump as a human punching bag. Going by either the ones that were really funny or the ones even the Trump voters who say with a straight face they will die for him, for even them to have to say his detractors have a point. I gotta go with:
- Trump taking to crowd sourcing for the wall. Um isn't he a billionaire? Could he not dip into his successful steak houses and universities and restaurants and casinos?
- Trump's position on gun control at times and signing to ban bump stocks. Now I gotta give credit when it's due. He did think there were too many mass murders in schools and he at least did attempt to do something about it.
- The ads on worshiping Trump and starting the influence as a baby, and the Trump baby. Had to get a tickle out of that, laugh at how other people reacted. Then there were the videos of gun worship and I had a headache for the next week after seeing that.
- Saturday Night Live colluding with Democrats. Perhaps next time they can lie, they can make something up.
- Y'know what lets look at what was funny, what was awesome, the previous year. Okay, Laura Benanti, the Melania impersonator. Whenever she's on I just laugh.
- Stephen Colbert actively trying to win the Fake News Awards. How can anyone say what Trump did and the reaction to it with a straight face?
- The anger at Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. Damn, how this was mocked. Just damn.
- Stormy Watch. If you don't know this gag it's anything to do with Storm warnings, the ongoing saga of Stormy Daniels, and finding out quite a lot more than we really wanted to know.
- It was certainly awesome for the students at Parkland that had got more action on gun control than there had been in years. When you get through to Trump you know you've made it. That eighth grader, next Secretary of Defense. That fifteen year old, she'll be the Vice President and Media Warlord of the White House one day.
- Trump saying fake news are helping smugglers like we won't believe. He's right, it's unbelievable.
Could probably do a lot more but they're the highlights.
Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than YoursFor some reason, this thread took a turn for the last two pages into the ludicrous. And Hilarious.
Which was amusing enough as a note to end the year with. Happy New Year, people.
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It's more or less an open secret that Trump's empire actually functions at a perpetual state of loss. His fortune consists of assets that are paid for by cash he gets from licensing his name on everything and outright criminal fraud like laundering money for foreign dictators or criminals (and this was before Russia). In short, Trump's fortune is because he uses other people's money and exists in large part because he's perceived as a billionaire.
He's constantly needing money to prop his properties up and very very cash poor.
Some have even speculated his debt is so excessive he's not a billionaire at all.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Dec 31st 2018 at 11:52:02 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.The Democrats taking the House was the definite high point of the American political year, but a personal high would be Arizona flipping Democrat in the Senate. It was such an experience seeing the numbers go from a comfortable loss to a narrow loss to even to a narrow victory to a comfortable victory, all due to mail-in voters like myself.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jan 1st 2019 at 1:31:33 PM

Maybe they allow him the Fox echo chamber so he doesn't have his phone in there too. I mean we should guess his most trusted adviser is trumppresident4life on Twitter, and yet somehow the truth is stranger than fiction.
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