9 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

She didn't say it in public. Her, IMO, vile niece secretly recorded her to get dirt for her book. I'd like to be in the room when those two meet up.

 

Nevertheless, another one off the Christmas card list.

So you see vileness in his niece, but not in Trump himself? Interesting. 

9 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

I reread the article several times and still could not find where it accused Trump of browbeating the FDA against their better judgment.  You're not making that up, are you Tug?

Making things up as he goes along is largely Trump’s MO, isn’t it?

4 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Vindication for Trump.  Others eat crow.

Vindication for Trump? What about his attack on the FDA just the other day? It showed once again his giant ego and never-ending narcissism: a good vaccin becoming available soon would mean the lives of countless people will be saved, but to Trump that is apparently irrelevant, because the only thing that matters to Trump is Trump himself. His obsession with “Deep State” trying to sabotage his every move, including getting re-elected, is just insane.

The other day, Trump floated the theory that the FDA (or “deep state”) were stalling the approval of possible corona vaccins, just so that they would not become available before the election. Just one of the many cockamamie brain farts he throws out there on twitter. 

As per usual, the Orange One has no clue what he’s talking about and makes it all about him. Let’s do a little simple math (although obviously still much too complicate for Trump) and see what the numbers say.
New Zealand, so far, has had about 1,300 people infected and 22 dead, whereas the USA has about 5,4 million people infected and 170,000 dead. But New Zealand has a population of just 4,9 million people, and the USA 328 million, which is 67 times as many as NZ. So if you multiply the NZ figures by 67, this is what you get: 87,100 infected and 1,474 dead. Can you see the staggering difference with the USA numbers?

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Kasich was set to say: "I'm a lifelong Republican, but that attachment holds second place to my responsibility to my country."

I wish a lot more Republicans shared that sentiment.

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

 

'PM keeping a close watch on brewing political tensions, will open forum for youth to air views

 

Translation: he will pretend to listen to you, and then dismiss everything you have said and carry on exactly as he has been doing for the past six years. He is famously short-tempered, though, so maybe he will even lock a few of you up (or worse) for having had the audacity to criticize him and his regime. 

53 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

However, if you actually read that article or watch the video of the exchange, it's relatively clear that she never actually says she listened to Tupac and Snoop Dogg while in college. She talks about getting high in college. Then there are overlapping questions from two different interviewers: the first asks who does she listen to (present tense). Before she can answer, the second one asks who she listened to when she was high. Looking at the first questioner, she says Tupac and Snoop Dogg.

 

Anyway, even if she had got mixed up a bit about what music she was listening to over thirty years ago when high, would it really matter that much?

Who cares if she listens or listened to Tupac and Snoop Dogg? Millions and millions of people, including many on this forum, still listen to Trump, and he’s a thousand times worse than Tupac and Snoop Dogg combined. I really don’t get why listening to Tupac and Snoop Dogg is so reprehensive, while apparently listening to Hannity, Tucker Carlson and the likes spouting the most outrageous nonsense and lies is not a problem to all those Trumpeteers.

6 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

Arguably one of the most unlikeable and unprincipled of them all

As opposed to your sunny disposition and completely unbiased opinions, right?

5 hours ago, Tug said:

Those kids are lucky they dident get shot!idiots!

Anyone want to bet they were white kids?

Trump would still say the coronavirus is under control even if he was the last man on earth and everyone else had died of corona. He's beginning to remind me of that Iraqi minister of information (or spokesman for the Iraqi goverment, something like that) at the beginning of the first Gulf War. He was giving press conferences and assuring everyone that everything was under control and that Iraq was not under attack, while outside you could hear the air raid alarms and bombs and missiles exploding.

7 minutes ago, skytrooper70 said:

"Asked about O'Brien, Trump told reporters he had not seen the adviser lately and did not know when he had tested positive.

 

"An administration official said O'Brien, 54, had not had contact with the president in several days. Another said he had last been at the White House last week."

 

There are two very concerning revelations. First, that the NSA is infected with COVID-19, and second, that trump said he hadn't seen the NSA, lately, while admin official said NSA had not had contact with trump, in several days. 

 

The NSA is the country's top advisor on global security issues. In previous admins, NSA met, regularly, and talked, daily, with POTUS, for intelligence briefings, to stay on top of world affairs. With China, Russia, Iran, N. Korea, all involved in one global crisis/emergency or another, it is mind boggling how trump could not be in contact with his NSA, for several days.

My thoughts exactly. But even if Trump had met with O’Brien just one minute before he was asked that question, he probably still would have denied it. The man just can’t help himself, being the compulsive liar that he is. 

56 minutes ago, webfact said:

“Thai police to examine dropping of hit-and-run charges vs Red Bull heir”.

Oh great, first the OAG pannel and now the Thai police as well. Or is that the same thing? Anyway, it doesn’t matter, because apparently not everyone has been paid off yet and even more people are now rubbing their hands together in expectation of receiving a big fat brown envelope. 

For once I do agree with Pompeo, to some extent at least, but of course it’s a clear cut case of the pot calling the kettle black. I mean, the USA have been the world’s super power for decades, and I imagine it has done a lot of nasty things to get there and to remain in that position. 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

 

China says UK citizenship pathway for Hong Kong residents violates international law

 

Since when does China care two hoots about international law?