The Donald Trump Score Card

If the Finnish president really wanted to rub it in to Trump, he could have made goofy faces throughout Trump's tirade like the young Plaid Shirt Guy did on stage next to Trump at one of his rallies before Trump's handlers finally yanked him off the stage.



Finns who watched the Trump news conference describe a parallel reality resembling a circus
by Rick Noack
October 03, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...-describe-parallel-reality-resembling-circus/

excerpt:

"Meanwhile, Finnish President Niinisto largely looked on in silence. Photos of his bewildered face quickly circulated online. But when Trump began responding to a question addressed to Niinisto, he interrupted: “I think the question is for me.”

In what Finnish commentators suggested was a subtle dig at Trump, Niinisto at one point also said: “Mr. President, you have here a great democracy. Keep it going on.” (Trump appeared to interpret that remark as praise.)"


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Manafort had a long sordid history as a campaign consultant who groomed dictators and autocrats to make them look more palatable to the public, including politicians in Ukraine.

Manafort has consulted for the dictator of Philippines Ferdinand Marcos, a guerilla leader Jonas Savimbi of Angola, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine

Not surprisingly, Trump made the now convicted Manafort his campaign manager in 2016.

For Trump, it's back to Ukraine again for the 2020 campaign.



Trump, Giuliani, and Manafort: The Ukraine Scheme
Murray Waas
September 25, 2019, 3:40 pm

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/09/25/trump-giuliani-and-manafort-the-ukraine-scheme/

excerpt:

"These new disclosures emerge as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that the House would open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s conduct. What prompted her actions were the new allegations that surfaced last week that Trump had pressured Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Trump’s potential 2020 campaign rival, Biden, and his son Hunter, placing a freeze on a quarter of a billion dollars in military assistance to Ukraine as leverage. The impeachment inquiry will also examine whether President Trump obstructed justice by attempting to curtail investigations by the FBI and the special counsel into Russia’s covert interference in the 2016 presidential election in Trump’s favor.

New information in this story suggests that these two, seemingly unrelated scandals, in which the House will judge whether the president’s conduct in each case constituted extra-legal and extra-constitutional abuses of presidential power, are in fact inextricably linked: the Ukrainian initiative appears to have begun in service of formulating a rationale by which the president could pardon Manafort, as part of an effort to undermine the special counsel’s investigation.

From 2004 to 2014, Manafort had advised President Viktor Yanukovych, who advocated that his country sever ties with the United States and other Western nations, and align itself more closely with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. After Yanukovych fled the country in disgrace in 2014, a ledger was recovered from the burned-out ruins of his Party of Regions. Its records showed that Yanukovych and his political allies had made some $12.7 million in secret cash payments to Manafort. The disclosure led directly to Manafort’s resignation in August 2016 as chairman of the Trump presidential campaign."

 

The Fins are tough, tough, tough, and showed Hitler what real men can do.

 

The Clintons haven’t been relevant for 20 years?!? I recall she was Secretary of State under Obama and was the Democrat presidential candidate in 2016.

I gotta stop reading this blog. You people are delusional.

 

Bullshit !!! - The Finns fought WITH the Nazis, not against them !!!

 

Finland participated in the Second World War, twice battling the Soviet Union, and then against Nazi Germany. As relations with the Soviet Union changed during the war, Finland was placed in the unusual situation of being for, then against and then for the overall interests of the Allied powers. Wikipedia

They fought both the Soviets and the Nazis, successfully, despite being a tiny country with no advanced technology.

 

Libertarians would argue there is no shame in arguing mindlessly, and no shame in asking for anything your little heart desires. How much do you want to bet the Pentagon is figuring out ways to kill the bastard right now. They are the last line of defense between the American government and the international cartels, and draw very clear lines in the sand as to how much of our government and entrenched wealth other countries and the international cartels can touch or even breath on heavy. If congress does not impeach him, there may not be a country left by the time this is over.

You cannot have a country without entrenched wealth and you cannot have entrenched wealth if the government is open to the highest bidder. Someone will buy you out, real fast, and your entrenched wealth will merely collect the rent for some other country. The US military is equal to the next six largest combined, at least, and either works for the US or they are hired thugs for sale to the highest bidder and civil war is inevitable.

 

Is that the act of a desperate man, or a mentally ill one? After bullying China and its leaders, does he realistically think they will obey his whim and desire to investigate Biden? Does anyone in China care about Trump's political desire?

 

China would love nothing more than to make a deal with Donald Duck, except he's the worst liar imaginable. Nobody in their right mind, which excludes Putin, would have anything to do with the man. They know damned well what the Pentagon can do to make them pay. Stealing cookies from the high tech cookie jar is understandable, but you don't fuck with our government. Ukraine could maybe get away with a little of that sort of thing, just because they are small potatoes and oppose Russia. China, the US could easily bring to its knees over the long run. Which is why Putin is insane enough to deal with Donald Duck, because we brought Russia to its knees and made him impotent.

The Chinese are nuts in their own damned weird way, and their spies showed the NSA a few interesting new tricks, but the Pentagon has a handle on them. You can never forget that the Pentagon has been spending more money in a year than most countries make, for the last 70 years off and on. Whatever Chinese secrets they had, are now well known, with the possible exception of some of their analog technology.

 

And Australia said they have no interest in helping trump out.

 

So let me get this right. It's ok to launch an investigation against Biden, or the Clintons, but not ok when it's directed toward trump. Got it.

 

Neither of those things are that important compared to the boogy man she has been made into. This was going on in the 90's too when she was a first lady. Same stuff I see now. Some picture of her with an awkerd face is the funniest joke in the world to cons. The kind of picture we all have when the camera catches us wrong. In 2016 this was on t-shirts.

She was a man and a lesbian at the same time too somehow which in 1997 was a big deal. What does that tie into? Same shit as now to you people. Trans and gay is wrong and we know anyone dealing with Bill is like that.

She was not a popular presidential candidate. Most of her voters came from 2 camps

1. Women who felt it was their feminist duty to support her
2. People who hated Trump so much they accepted her. This was her clear message as well. "You kind of have to like me. Our nation depends on it".

I personally saw a few interviews she she would get an arrogant smirk and say she was "chosen" when Sanders or anyone else was brought up. She counted on this lack of choice and without the electoral college it would succeed. She did receive over 51% of votes.

 

You want to hear the funny thing about all this? Mark Meadows just went over to Nancy Pelosi's office to ask her real nice to withdraw her impeachment inquiry! I laughed so hard that I had to make a run to the … border!

 

Finnish President encourages Trump to keep democracy 'going on'
Maegan Vazquez
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 5:44 PM ET, Wed October 2, 2019

Finland President encourages Trump to keep democracy 'going on' - CNNPolitics

excerpt:

"Niinistö also said environmental issues pose a great challenge to Finland and other Arctic nations, telling reporters in the room that "if we lose the Arctic, we lose the globe."

"I'm very glad that we started to talk two years ago in this house about black coal. It is not maybe the worst which causes climate problems but it is everybody can understand that if black comes down to ice and snow, when the sun meets it, it melts down. And melting of sea ice in Arctic is very crucial," he said.

The Trump administration has come under scrutiny for its lack of efforts to address the climate crisis. The administration has been criticized over Trump's absence at key global meetings on the issue, the administration's deregulation in environmental space, and the US's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords.

And while Trump has repeatedly praised the strength of the coal industry and touted the use of what he calls "clean coal," Niinistö oversaw the country's initiative to phase out coal entirely by 2029 and "stopping fossil oil in heating" by 2030."

 

Speaking of which. . . . . . . .

 

That meeting with the Finnish prez was cringeworthy

 

The whole Trump administration is cringeworthy

 

It really is

 

But why didnt he shut it down?, or get an aid as a buffer to talk to the press, say things like The President will only be taking questions about Finnish relations etc

Trump comes off looking however you want to think he looks like

But the press do come off looking pretty hostile

I still think at least part of it is strategy