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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
President H.W. Bush is back in hospital due to fatigue, but he appears to be recovering.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/27/politics/george-hw-bush-hospital-maine/index.html
Put me down in the "Trump is smart enough to listen to smart people" category. His only hope is to conduct a propaganda campaign and force Congress to interfere with the investigation (his only hope, that is, if he's actually guilty of something and suspects Mueller knows what it is).
And that is exactly what he's doing.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.![]()
Perhaps, but Trump's definition of "smart" is at odds with the conventional definition of "smart." Anybody who asks him tough questions that he doesn't want to answer or tells him something that he doesn't want to hear is "treating him unfairly."
edited 27th May '18 4:47:28 PM by pwiegle
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.I dont believe that for a second. I cant prove it, but somewhere in the background is a Koch Bros and/or Putin paid for team of consultants who remind him every once in a while who owns him. Depending on what combination of carrots and sticks they are using, he would listen.
Its like the Mafia. Trump's smart enough to know what his place is.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.If he needs to be reminded every so often of who owns him then he's not smart enough to know his place. I don't think his ego would allow him to consciously live in such a position anyway.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.Yeah, I'm going to have to call "Citation Needed" on that, simply because if he DID know how to listen to smart people, he wouldn't be spouting shit on Twitter 9001 times a day, or refusing to use a properly secured smartphone because it's "too inconvenient", or generally breaking down every time someone bruises his precious little ego
Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
Having a hyperpartisan Congressional majority in one's favor does not make one smart.
Make no mistake here, Trump isn't some genius, 4-D chessmaster who is so skilled that he's basically the legal/political counterpart to Arsène Lupin (I or III). It's just that his whole party doesn't want to punish his blatant crime and corruption because that in turn would wreck their own power (and because they're really quite similar to him in their goals [read:repeated short-term gains for themselves and their 1%er backers/"friends" at the expense of everyone else, and throw some red meat to the base to stay in power longer], if not in his total lack of tact).
Trump is, for all intents and purposes, President Joffrey Baratheon.
edited 27th May '18 5:53:29 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryYeah, if it had anything at all do to with Trump being smart, he wouldn't have, for example, freely admitted to the real reason he fired Comey.
And, like, in addition to partisanship, this has also lasted as long as it has because when we're talking about stuff like this, the case against him has to be 100% airtight, and building a case like that against a man with a lot of power to interfere with your ability to make said case takes considerable time and effort.
edited 27th May '18 5:48:20 PM by Gilphon
The US Civil War and the narrative around it (mostly) are an interesting and annoying aversion of Written by the Victors.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.@ Galadriel: Guessing you would've voted for Henry Clay in the 1844 election, given he was a staunch opponent of manifest destiny and admitting Texas into the union. I wonder what would've changed in Henry Clay became the 11th president instead of Polk
The Whigs should've tried him again in 1848 instead of Zachary "hasn't held a political office before" Taylor. That ended horribly for them
History is not necessarily written by the winners. It's written by the survivors and their descendants. That's why the Lost Cause bullshit has persisted to this day.
And no, I'm not saying the Union should have completely slaughtered the Confederacy. But people should have done more to counter the Lost Cause propaganda.
edited 27th May '18 7:45:37 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
x4 Clay was old and a 3 time loser at that point (He came dead last in the 4-way '24 election, lost to Jackson in '32, and lost to Polk in '44). Running him again would've been absolutely dumb. Plus, Taylor wasn't that bad; he was against the expansion of Slavery into the newly acquired territories, and was against Clay's Compromise of 1850 that really got the Slave issue rolling.
edited 27th May '18 7:49:41 PM by DingoWalley1

Other than that, he's a twat.