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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Ryan's defense of Trump being "new to this" is just the latest in a long line of Republicans expecting us to coddle the President of the United States. We're expected to go, "Oh, look at that! Trump's signing paperwork, just like a real politician! Isn't that sweet?"
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.So, whats Trumps approvals ratings now with the whole withdrawing from the Paris agreement situation, and the resulting aftermath?
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"Give him a chance", "He's new to this"....
FFS, he had several months to get ready for this shit before taking office! He had people willing to help him learn how to do the fucking job! And it's already fucking June!
I am so sick of these lame excuses from the GOP and from Trump's supporters. That's yet another reason I won't vote for the GOP until the unlikely event that they Grow. The. Fuck. Up.
Disgusted, but not surprised![]()
Exactly. It feels like they expect us to treat him like a college intern.
None of the professors, save maybe the ones least concerned with teaching, at Berkeley would have put up with that kind of lazy-ass ignorant behavior from an intern.
Shit, that kind of obstinate refusal to learn how to do the job or even pretend to give a single FUCK wouldn't be acceptable from a fast food joint cashier!
edited 9th Jun '17 10:18:04 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised![]()
All in all, a college intern as POTUS would be a marked improvement over Trump.
edited 9th Jun '17 10:17:57 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary![]()
I'm pretty sure that at least some of them were doing so right after Election Day in '08.
I'm pretty sure they were already planning to do everything they could to make him a one-term POTUS at that point.
TBF, a lot of Democratic officials probably thought the same way after Trump won, aside from those still idealistic and naive enough to "give him a chance". Not that I blame them...it took me a week or two to realize Trump wasn't going to somehow become a good POTUS.
edited 9th Jun '17 10:29:40 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedEh, I don't think "give him a chance" is necessarily naive or idealistic so much the reality of the situation. Even though you know there's like a 99.99% chance he's going to be a train wreck, that .01% is still something to consider.
At least at this point he's been so incompetent things haven't been nearly as bad as they could have been...which considering the state of affairs says a lot.
It was absolutely naive and idealistic, because we'd just watched him spend an entire year throughly describing all the reasons he'd be a terrible president.
That year was the time when he deserved to be given a chance. Back when the stakes were low enough that giving him a chance didn't involve risking letting the country get into the ground.
edited 9th Jun '17 10:44:38 PM by Gilphon
Well, I mean, kind of, but in a way that makes 'give him a chance' a really asinine thing to say.
Like, if you're strapped to a chair, and a creepy looking guy comes with a bunch of unsettlingly shaped knives, 'I should give this situation a chance' is not a rational thought process. The rational thought process is 'what, if anything, can I do to get out of what's about to happen?' And if you cannot, in fact, do anything, you're still not giving the creepy guy a chance in a meaningful way.
I think you already did give Trump his chance, if only because you had no choice, and with this chance, he nominated his cabinet: A climate change denier in the EPA, a private school nut at Education, an anti-Net-Neutrality at the FCC, and Mr "too racist to be a judge" as Attorney General. It was clear by this point that he wouldn't need a second chance to prove himself awful.
edited 10th Jun '17 1:56:04 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Th Constitution is still a combination of practice and ink & paper. The former started to unravel with Mc Connell and neither mean anything w/o defenders in position of power. note
GOP senator admonishes Democrat Kamala Harris for persistent questioning
Harris pressed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, asking him if he would send a letter to Special Counsel Robert Mueller giving him unlimited authority in his probe into possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia.
The exchange was tense, with Harris interrupting Rosenstein as he said there wasn't time to explain the answer. Eventually, Burr interjected and asked Harris to suspend.
After the hearing, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, a senior Democrat on the panel, tweeted that Harris was "getting facts onto the record" and that he wasn't interrupted [Senator Burr] when he asked tough questions.
An old white male GOP fart talking down to a young biracial female Democrat? Wow, total shocker.
"Give Trump a chance" is a meaningless statement. If, once in office, Trump had done a sudden give-no-fucks 180 and proved to be competent and progressive, I'd have admitted that he was a good President then. As it is, I encourage Democrats to encourage and work with any random good ideas that Trump comes up with and that his handlers don't manage to squash, while I also hope for a 2018 blue wave that finally reins him in for good.
(As for impeachment, I'm against it unless we have a 2/3 blue Senate, which is code for "Pence, if you don't do exactly as we say, you'll be joining him." Impeaching Trump with Republican support just gives us Pence unchained.)

There's nothing about Japanese policy that's inherently anti-environmental (except for whaling) that I'm aware of, however. I would also expect their tech sector to be poised to capitalize on the renewables industry. It's the "standing up to America" part that likely worries them.