***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[iamdef]

Donald Trump is actually acting like most CEO's of a very large and established companies. So naturally, he is going to Golf, bluster, expect everyone be deferential to him and ultimately collect his Golden parachute. America, you elected a man who sees us all as his own personal shelf company, his own personal Wolf Cola Inc.

I would said his own personal Ego Fluffer.

Lol dude who kept yelling fake story seems like he don't listen

Talking to walls can be the most frustrating thing

Hate how Donald made it cool to scream fake story whenever you disagree with something

Where was "fake news" when I was failing classes in school and gettin' my butt whooped.

"Nah mama, them ain't even real F's. That's fake news!!"

 

[Peep Game]

You know the jig is up when Don Lemon and Bill O'Reilly can't even back you. This presidency is terribly fraudulent just a little more than a month in. Embarrassing. I'm glad I wasn't apart of aiding in Trump's administration though. You'd have to feel like a scum in doing so.

 

[jape]

what did o'reily say?

 

[brendasdeadbaby]

GM plans to build, test thousands of self-driving Bolts in 2018


http://a.msn.com/r/2/AAn4yfl

Bu bu but da hemi and da trumpster gonna bring back jobs tho

 

[Peep Game]

what did o'reily say?

It was that special leading up to the Super Bowl on Fox. The way Trump was answering questions after awhile you can tell O'Reilly wanted nothing to do with him, which is really saying something doing that they're the same demographic.

 

[ninjahood]

GM plans to build, test thousands of self-driving Bolts in 2018


http://a.msn.com/r/2/AAn4yfl

Bu bu but da hemi and da trumpster gonna bring back jobs tho

GM dont make hemi engines

 

[jthagreat]

"radicalize Don Lemon" my mans has had it

I said this during the campaign, would it be possible to do a news blackout on the president k maybe if you stop giving him attention he'll go away

I thought about this but then all the crazy stuff he is doing will go unnoticed or unchecked.

 

[whywesteppin]

this made me think of ninja and his trucks:

 

[Belgium]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-leaked-audio-clubs-guests-235161

A look at how Trump behaves behind closed doors

 

[Belgium]

The Netherlands' own Trump on steroids back at it again 

Wilders at Dutch campaign launch vows to crack down on 'Moroccan scum'

Dutch anti-Muslim, anti-EU party leader Geert Wilders promised to crack down on "Moroccan scum" who he said were making the streets unsafe and urged the Dutch to "regain" their country as he launched his election campaign on Saturday.

Wilders was surrounded by police and security guards during a walkabout in Spijkenisse, part of the ethnically diverse industrial area surrounding the vast port of Rotterdam and a stronghold of his Freedom Party.

"Not all are scum, but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who makes the streets unsafe," he told reporters, speaking in English. "If you want to regain your country, if you want to make the Netherlands for the people of the Netherlands, your own home, again, then you can only vote for one party."

Crime by young Moroccans was not being taken seriously, added Wilders, who in December was convicted of inciting discrimination for leading supporters in a chant that they wanted "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!" Moroccans in the country.

Wilders - who has lived in hiding since an Islamist murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004 - pledges to ban Muslim immigration, close all mosques and take the Netherlands out of the European Union.

Many of his supporters at the Spijkenisse market, however, said they cared more about his social welfare policies.

"The most important thing for me is bringing the pension age back down to 65," said Wil Fens, 59, a crane operator at the port.

Wilders hopes a global upsurge in anti-establishment feeling that has already helped to propel Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency and to persuade Britons to vote to quit the European Union will propel him to power in the March 15 parliamentary election.

A win for Wilders would boost French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and the Alternative for Germany party, both hoping to transform European politics in elections this year.

"Despite all the hate and fear-mongering of the elite both in Britain and Brussels, people took their fate in their own hands," he said. "I think that will happen in Holland, in France, Austria and in Germany."

Wilders' party leads in opinion polls with 17 percent, a whisker ahead of the pro-business Liberals of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who has closed the gap by matching some of Wilders' anti-immigration rhetoric and received a boost from a surging economy.

But if he wins, Wilders will struggle to form a government, since most major parties have ruled out joining a coalition with him, viewing his policies as offensive or even unconstitutional.

The fragmented political landscape means a coalition government of four or more parties is all but inevitable.

A study published by the Social Affairs Ministry on Tuesday found that up to 40 percent of the Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands do not feel that they belong or are accepted.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...edom-pvv-far-right-donald-trump-a7576456.html

 
The controversial right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders says he intends to govern in the Netherlands after the elections, and expects the electorate to rise up if other political parties deny him that option.

In a rare 40-minute interview with broadcaster WNL, the far-right leader also compared mosques to Nazi temples and the Quran to Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf.

Mr Wilders does not often sit down for in-depth interviews with Dutch media. The founder of the one-man Party for Freedom, or PVV, prefers to control the narrative through Twitter. The “Dutch Trump” knows that the media will pick up news from his timeline.

But with five weeks to go until the elections, Mr Wilders is stepping up his campaign. A new video shows he aims to emulate the changes brought by Brexit and Donald Trump’s victory. His slogan: “The Netherlands is ours again.” His one-page, 11-point programme aims to “de-Islamise” the Netherlands and shut the borders to immigrants.

During Sunday’s interview, he expanded on how he would achieve his goals, some of which contradict the Dutch constitutional right to freedom of religion. Asked how a ban on the Quran would work in practice, Mr Wilders compared it to the Dutch ban on Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf.

He said he would “of course” not confiscate Qurans from people’s homes. Previously he has stated that mere ownership of the book, which he calls more anti-Semitic than Hitler’s tract, should be a crime. He seems to have mellowed that stance but stood by his position that it should be banned from bookstores and only be available to scholars.

He also reiterated his position that mosques should close, saying he would take away their licences rather than closing them by force. 

One of the reasons for watering down his positions could be that Mr Wilders was clear that he intends to govern.  He dismissed vows by other political parties that they would not rule with his party. If his party is the biggest, they would simply have no choice, he claimed. “I am sure that if the voter makes the PVV truly big, they will have to.”

And Mr Wilders repeated his position that he expected people to rise up if his party was not given the chance to govern. “You can’t just ignore the will of 2.5 million people,” he said.

One supporter who was happy to take to the streets if that happens was Dave Wetsteijn, a 40-year-old welder from Rotterdam.  “For sure I want him to be Prime Minister,” he told The Independent, adding “we cannot just be ignored”.

Mr Wetsteijn said he lost his job in the port city when his boss hired cheaper Polish labour instead. He is drawn by Mr Wilders’s message of putting Dutch people first.

Mr Wilders’s pledge that no money would be sent abroad for development is also music to Mr Wetsteijn’s ears. “I am living off unemployment benefits, the government should be supporting the local population, rather than focusing on foreigners,” he said.

Polls predict Mr Wilders will be the biggest winner after the Dutch elections on 15 March, with close to one in five Dutch voters opting for his PVV.  But that will give him only roughly 30 out of 150 seats in parliament, forcing him to rely on other parties to form a coalition.

Almost all of the 28 parties that are running have already ruled out the option of working with the PVV. That includes Prime Minster Mark Rutte’s liberal VVD Party, which is closest to Mr Wilders, both in terms of platform and polling numbers. 

Sunday’s interview caused Mr Rutte to resort to Mr Wilders’s preferred medium of communication for the first time in six years. From his personal Twitter account he reiterated his earlier pledge that there was “zero per cent” chance that the VVD would join a coalition with the right-wing outcast.

Some PVV voters are counting on other parties sticking to their promises. Gerrit van Hes, a wheelchair salesman from the city of Dordrecht, said the reason he was voting for the PVV was to send a wake-up call to the politicians in The Hague.

“It’s a protest vote,” he freely admitted. He said he hoped a large turnout for the PVV would force other political parties to adopt Mr Wilders’s views on immigration and the EU. But he said he did not want Mr Wilders to govern. “Having Wilders as Prime Minister would not be good for our country,” he said.

 

[everysingletime]

President Donald Trump, living alone inside the White House, often hungers for friendly interaction as he adjusts to the difficult work of governance. At his clubs, he finds what’s missing.

That showed last November at a cocktail and dinner reception celebrating longtime members of his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club. Deep into the process of meeting potential Cabinet nominees, the president-elect invited partygoers to stop by the next day to join the excitement.


“We’re doing a lot of interviews tomorrow — generals, dictators, we have everything,” Trump told the crowd, according to an audio tape of his closed-press remarks obtained by POLITICO from a source in the room. “You may wanna come around. It’ll be fun. We’re really working tomorrow. We have meetings every 15, 20 minutes with different people that will form our government."

"We’re going to be interviewing everybody — Treasury, we’re going to be interviewing Secretary of State,” he continued. “We have everybody coming in — if you want to come around, it’s going to be unbelievable….so you might want to come along.”

As he prepares to spend the third straight weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the tape provides a window into how Trump conducts himself away from the prying press and among the loyal faces of his club.
Trump’s comfort level among his members also has raised questions about his discretion. The president last weekend turned the Mar-a-Lago patio into an open-air situation room — discussing the response to a North Korean ballistic missile test while club members snapped pictures that ricocheted around social media and put him in the crosshairs of congressional oversight from Democrats and Republicans concerned about lax security protocols.

The incident received widespread condemnation from national security experts. But club members dismissed it as just an example of Trump being the man he has always been with them — available.

Idk man. I don't approve of any of this.

 

[rolaholic]

Wilders rhetoric is scary,even scarier that he's leading in the polls :x

Former Labor secretary Robert Reich

@RBReich:
I spoke w/ my friend, a former GOP congressman, who’s as worried as I am about Trump’s mental state & potential ties to Russian operatives.

That's what most folks have been suspecting ,the GOP plays along long enough to get most of their agenda passed.

 

[everysingletime]

The problem is they effing around and by the time they wanna take action it's too late.

If Trump was smart he'd flip this on them somehow.

 

[IATT]

The problem is they effing around and by the time they wanna take action it's too late.

If Trump was smart he'd flip this on them somehow.

Did it during the campaign.. it's either obama, Hillary, dems or the non supporting republicans

 

[rolaholic]

@DustinGiebel:
So the new US Ambassador to Somalia gave this to their President.
His look is comment enough.

gcfngfxfgxsdfgbsxg

 

[elpablo21]

They gonna **** around and radicalize Don Lemon

[emoji]128514[/emoji][emoji]128514[/emoji] That was the 2nd time he snapped on him on the show

 

[handullz]

Lemon took an L when he cut homey off the second time.

He stopped him, schooled him, and then let him talk.

Let him get his nonsense so there's NO logical excuse they can make.

 

[Based Jesus]

Lemon was right. You dont come onto our network and attempt to undermine our reputation. 

You were invited here to debate and if you don't want to do that then there's no reason to listen to you talk.

 

[everysingletime]

Oh so dude was a guest. Yea, that's bad form. You don't come on another show and trash their integrity. That's their reputation you bashing. If you wanna say you disagree, that you think the president should be able to go on vacations whenever he wants, that's different.

 

[Belgium]

In light of the senate cabinet confirmations, I figured I'd do some editing to this instagram I had laying around

@Rico x Hood  if you want to take your support for your mans to the next level I'm sure we can work something out 

 

[elpablo21]

Lemon took an L when he cut homey off the second time.

He stopped him, schooled him, and then let him talk.

Let him get his nonsense so there's NO logical excuse they can make.

he did let him get his nonsense out...multiple times yesterday fam

hell he's always on CNN being allowed to do so

I dont see the L with Don finally deading it..show was over anyways

 

[EddieDoyers]

In light of the senate cabinet confirmations, I figured I'd do some editing to this instagram I had laying around
@Rico x Hood
 if you want to take your support for your mans to the next level I'm sure we can work something out 

 

[whywesteppin]

 

[whywesteppin]

 

[Belgium]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-inherited-mess-fake-mainstream-media-235169

I guess when you don't take real statistics or reality into account this makes sense.

 
President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on his claim that he "inherited a mess," urging his Twitter followers again to not "believe the main stream" media.

"Don't believe the main stream (fake news) media.The White House is running VERY WELL. I inherited a MESS and am in the process of fixing it," the president tweeted while his motorcade was en route to Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, according to pool reports.

On Thursday, Trump held a heated press conference where he first claimed he "inherited a mess" and that the "dishonest media" is not giving him the proper credit he deserves.

Following weeks of damaging leaks and reports of turmoil within his administration, Trump is returning to his campaign-trail comfort zone: speaking in front of thousands of supporters and a pool of TV cameras Saturday evening at AeroMod International hangar at Orlando Melbourne International Airport. The event is being held by his campaign.

Twenty minutes after Trump's first tweet, he wrote on Twitter: "Will be having many meetings this weekend at The Southern White House. Big 5:00 P.M. speech in Melbourne, Florida. A lot to talk about!"