The Donald Trump Score Card

Shanahan's defense secretary nomination collapses, leaving another void in Trump's Cabinet
By DAVID BROWN
06/18/2019 01:05 PM EDT
Updated 06/18/2019 01:45 PM EDT

Shanahan's defense secretary nomination collapses, leaving another void in Trump's Cabinet

excerpt:

"The end of Shanahan's nomination ends a protracted and unprecedentedly long audition for the top job at the Pentagon, during which the White House offered no explanation for Trump's failure to send the nomination papers to the Senate. In the interim, critics questioned the former Boeing executive's lack of military experience, his extensive ties to industry, and complaints by his underlings that he tolerated White House intervention in the chain of commmand."

 

Any political party that suggests we continue down the road to the tyranny of corporate monopoly is in fact part of the problem. When corporations own everything they also own opportunity.
I've no beef against corporations existing however as they've learned to use the tools of campaign finance ( both Democrat and Republican ) to finance the election of persons friendly to their cause those people in turn enact legislation, regulations etc that strengthen them against any competitors.
This is crony capitalism and it is antithetical to what the American dream was and is all about.

 

In Trump's mind, those are assets, not liabilities.

 

Conflict of interest really is ugly and destructive. We all suffer from Trumps abscence of ethics in government (and in the private sector).

 

Is it really that he didn't want to go thru the vetting process, or is it that he doesn't want to work for a megalomaniac?

 

Only a homicidal or suicidal maniac would jump into the middle of Donald Duck's war with congress and the legislative branch at this point. His money can't buy life itself. Liberty for all means what you can afford.

 

Come on now... He didn't mention Obama? I don't believe that...

 

But,but I thought Hillary wasn't running this time !

 

Trump Is Betting That Anger Can Still Be Power
Trump 2020 may sound a lot like Trump 2016, but this time around the fusion of president and party is complete.
By Peter Wehner
Contributing Opinion Writer
June 19, 2019

Opinion | Trump Is Betting That Anger Can Still Be Power

excerpts

"Until Mr. Trump, the Republican Party was committed, at least philosophically, to free trade. It is now led by a man who is instinctively protectionist and refers to himself as “Tariff Man.” The pre-Trump Republican Party championed limited government and entitlement reform; today it shows no interest in either. It was once unthinkable that a Republican president would target private companies in order to settle personal scores. For Mr. Trump, this is routine."

"Past Republican presidents were deeply committed to American global leadership, the Atlantic alliance, good relations with allies like Canada and publicly calling out brutal regimes like North Korea. No more. Today the Republican Party is led by a man who levels attacks on Canada even as he admits he “fell in love” after exchanging “beautiful letters” with the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. Mr. Kim, it used to go without saying, rules what is arguably the most repressive government on earth; this is the man to whom Mr. Trump makes enormous concessions while getting almost nothing in return."

"Republicans once fashioned themselves as members of the party of ethics, morality and law-and-order; today they fiercely defend a president who is essentially an unindicted co-conspirator for authorizing hush money payments to a porn star, who is a promiscuous liar, a man whom Robert Mueller could not clear of obstruction of justice and who just last week indicated he would eagerly listen to a foreign power that offered damaging information on his opponent during the upcoming president race. He even criticized the F.B.I. director he chose for saying that the agency would want to know about any foreign election meddling."

"All of this has come at a crushing price, including driving away young people in huge numbers. The Trump ascendancy has made far too many Republicans increasingly contemptuous of serious intellectual and policy argument, indifferent to empirical truth and disdainful of governing. They prefer to turn politics into an ongoing freak show. But the greater price is the indelible stain all this places on the integrity of a party many of us once believed in, served in and took pride in."

 

Rubbish !
The Republican Party has never been home to young people and never will be.

 

Amen!

 

This is an example of trump's mental illness. He has a fixation on things he doesn't like.
That is not normal.

 

Seems to be true of Republicans in general. They seem at a loss without Hillary and Obama to kick around.

 

Well, he hired Bolton and Pompeeon who wanted war with Iran two years ago. It looks like they pissed Iran off this time. Iran is going to the UN to present evidence that Trump & his people are not telling the truth. Saudi Arabia and Israel want war with Iran too. The arms manufacturers are just drool at all that money. Kushner is so happy he got all that cash from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to protect MBS after the Kashoggi murder. Boy, everything is running so smooth in Trump world. You'd never know he has a three quarter empty cabinet!

 

Recall that Trump declared another one of his emergencies to bypass Congress to sell $8.1 billion worth of arms.

A few members of Congress appear to have at least some sense of the demented behavior of the Trump administration.



Senate Votes to Block Trump’s Arms Sales to Gulf Nations in Bipartisan Rebuke
By Catie Edmondson
June 20, 2019

Senate Votes to Block Trump’s Arms Sales to Gulf Nations in Bipartisan Rebuke

excerpt:

"But the administration’s argument ultimately fell flat even for some of the president’s closest allies, like Mr. Graham, who co-sponsored the legislation with Mr. Menendez.

“The reason I’m voting with Senator Paul and others today is to send a signal to Saudi Arabia that if you act the way you’re acting, there is no space for a strategic relationship,” he said. “There is no amount of oil you can produce that will get me and others to give you a pass on chopping somebody up in a consulate.”"

 

I was pondering that and went back to see what might have led to his bi-polar decision. First I saw that China had sent fighters and bombers to the South China Sea. I also saw that China had warned him about attacking Iran. I think they told him if America attacks Iran then they will RECLAIM Formosa/Taiwan. I also did read that Putin called him on the telephone and gave him a stern lecture. Then the Washington Fence-Post gossip told of a fight between brain dead Pompeeon and psychotic Bolthead about this very important international matter. The geographically worthwhile point is that the Iranians were standing on their own ground when they shot an American Drone which happened to be 15000 miles away from the oil thief's coastline.

 

they don't have enough votes to override a veto, though.

Mommy, what should I do?

Maybe Vlad told him he was going to release the pee pee tapes.