TRUMP - Some people think......... How do you feel?
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One of his latest tweets was hitting a golf ball and hitting Hilary Clinton in the back. Again strangely adolescent behaviour for a president, abusive (where's Melania?, and once again showing women everywhere that he feels it is okay to disrespect strong women even through suggestion.
Trump retweets GIF of him hitting Clinton with golf ball - CNNPolitics
Trump retweets GIF of him hitting Clinton with golf ball - CNNPolitics
Send them into a wrestling ring. Leave the rest of the world out of it.
Heads of state going to war 'is' adolescent, imo. Surely, they can do better than that. But these two probably wouldn't even teach their kids to get along in the sandbox like most people would. So, if they don't even have that ethic - makes it all the more scary.
I know right? but the more interesting fact is that not as many Americans think it's as strange as you'd think. Seems there are those that prefer a president that sounds and acts like them rather than have Trump speak more presidential.No, I hadn't noticed.
Which is only fantasy, but what if they had to sign their own children up for the front lines first?
Really, it's the substance more than the colloquial language that bothers me. He doesn't have to give flowery speeches but he does have to be responsible with his words.
They both bother me.
They wouldn't have to. If they did - Trump would veto it - or get them out of duty with hereditary "bone spurs".
If he spoke eloquently but still threateningly I don't think it would be better.
Yes, the "fortunate sons".
It would sound more serious to another country, the way it is he just opens up a stupid dialogue back and forth.
Do we want him to sound more serious, though? In a way...it's better that he 'not' be taken seriously by adversaries...for 3 1/12 more years. Just keep a holding pattern until an adult can be elected again.
I'm sure back channels are working feverishly on damage control.
Well I doubt he would talk more serious (if he knew how to) and know that he would be taken seriously, he would be speaking more carefully.
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A friend of mine noted that he is developmentally like a younger child. I'm thinking an 8 year old, or maybe as old as 13. I can't remember. She pointed out he has an insatiable appetite for attention and "toys". He is impulsive. She wanted to look at what was going on in his life at that age.
I think the fact that he seems so adolescent or whatever developmentally is one of the scarier things for me. Would we let a 13 year old have control over all the things a president or leader at that level has control over?
The trouble is ... much of the general public cannot see what is indicated in this analysis ... then some say not to analyse ... just synthesize! So one must dream that things will change?
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It's a start.
He has had many chances to pivot. What baffles me is that he got elected overnight but it's near impossible for the system to get him out of office. The checks and balances haven't been working, or are not there, like most of us would've thought.
I read comments suggesting that his latest NK Twitter threats must constitute a breach of terms of service. Lol. I would agree. It doesn't get worse than that. It's not actually funny but - in a dark humour kind of way it is - when humour is almost the last tool of sanity and comfort left.
Do you think it would be better or worse if he were banned from Twitter? On one hand - he couldn't conduct outrageous foreign policy in 140 characters at 3 a.m. On the other, how would he react to not having his fix? To having his toy taken away? And how would we know what's going on in his head? It gives the world a more intimate look at how his mind works.
I hope his generals and other cooler thinking heads in the world are keeping things in check. And Mueller. Hurry up, Mueller!
Another thing is - don't they have enough on him and his team now to do 'something'? His corruption trail is making Bill Clinton look like a saint. And the hypocrisy of Kushner (and Ivana's) emails, now! It's hard to believe that what is already known, even half of it, is not enough. It's such dirty business.
In Canada he'd have been out long ago. Trump spend millions of tax dollars every freakin weekend, but Trudeau gets the screws tightened for one overpriced vacation. We look like miserly goody-two-shoes by comparison!
I read comments suggesting that his latest NK Twitter threats must constitute a breach of terms of service. Lol. I would agree. It doesn't get worse than that. It's not actually funny but - in a dark humour kind of way it is - when humour is almost the last tool of sanity and comfort left.
Do you think it would be better or worse if he were banned from Twitter? On one hand - he couldn't conduct outrageous foreign policy in 140 characters at 3 a.m. On the other, how would he react to not having his fix? To having his toy taken away? And how would we know what's going on in his head? It gives the world a more intimate look at how his mind works.
I hope his generals and other cooler thinking heads in the world are keeping things in check. And Mueller. Hurry up, Mueller!
Another thing is - don't they have enough on him and his team now to do 'something'? His corruption trail is making Bill Clinton look like a saint. And the hypocrisy of Kushner (and Ivana's) emails, now! It's hard to believe that what is already known, even half of it, is not enough. It's such dirty business.
In Canada he'd have been out long ago. Trump spend millions of tax dollars every freakin weekend, but Trudeau gets the screws tightened for one overpriced vacation. We look like miserly goody-two-shoes by comparison!
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Their checks and balances aren't based on removing a bad president, unless criminal activity is involved. Then impeachment kicks in.
Their checks and balances are.about dividing up powers and responsibilities such that if the President behaves badly, Congress and the courts check his power. Similarly, if Congress gets crazy, the executive (President) can use the veto to check their power and, again, the courts can come into play. Given Trump's relative lack of success in enacting his policies (Congress has stopped every attempt to undo AHCA, the courts keep nerfing the immigrant ban, the wall will likely die due to budget bartering), I would say that the checks and balances are actually working as intended.
Maybe. A PM can be removed as party leader by his party if he loses their support. In a majority government, that's the only way it could happen. If the PM enjoys the support of his caucus and party, he ain't going nowhere. In a minority situation, of course, the other parties could turf the governing party in a confidence vote. However that just triggers an election, not the removal of the PM. It is still up to voters to then defeat the government and elect a new one.