President or King ?

[Auld Phart]

Why was this:

"<Godfather voice > That's an awfully nice country you've got there, it would be a shame if something was to happen to it......"

Removed as "no content"?

It's a direct commentary on the subject of the OP.

I'm sorry if you don't like it, but that's not how this works guys.

Its still there.

I got the "you post has been deleted for" message.

not for that post

 

[bigrebnc1775]

So where does Trumps behaviour fit between these two extremes?

He chose to base the aid conditional on their assisting him to investigate a political opponent to help him win an election. Therefore Trumps behavior fits what you use in your first example.

If Trump is a narcissist why do you think he believe he thought he needed help beating anyone in the clown car?

 

[easyt65]

Try and think of it as a rhetorical question. There will be other Presidents and the issues will come back again.

'Rhetorical'? NO. Ignorant, emotionally-manipulated, intellectually void, demonstrating a lack of knowledge of the law / how govt works, etc....okay.

 

[my2¢]

My view is that Trump thinks of himself as king based on his being a political amateur who fails to protect himself through appreciation and practice of plausible deniability.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Trump doesn't think he's King. The Trumpsters don't think he's King.

The problem here is that Trump lacks the intellectual capacity to grasp or appreciate the gravity of the office, and his Trumpsters are more than willing to remove all standards for him, as long as they get what they want.

Is this another one of those “billionaires are stupid, I’m smarter than billionaires” sort of posts posted by someone who often posts begging for free shit and semi-socialism?

 

[easyt65]

My view is that Trump thinks of himself as king based on his being a political amateur who fails to protect himself through appreciation and practice of plausible deniability.

?!

So.......because President Trump has been under constant attack from sedition, coup attempt after coup attempts from former Presidents, his proven criminal administration, and lying, leaking, seditious treasonous Democrats who have sought to undermine this President since BEFORE he entered the WH and who have violated his Constitutional Rights in their constant and latest coup attempt....Trump, in your opinion, considers himself to be a 'king'?!

Because he is not a criminal, corrupt, career, Deep State, Washington Insider, Status Quo professional politician who does not play by their Un-Constitutional / Illegal rules he believes himself to be a 'King'?!

Again...

?!

 

[MisterBeale]

This is an interesting POV.

The establishment generally likes to discredit his journalism and history, and he himself has admitted to writing up to 40% false propaganda in order to not get assassinated. . .

But for those who have served, it remains an interesting take if they refuse to be influenced by the ruling elites.

I include two mirrors, as it is often hard to access his work, some establishment IPO's are restrictive of his sites.

Make of it what you will.
NEO – Russophobia and the impeachment of Donald Trump
NEO – Russophobia and the impeachment of Donald Trump – Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services

Russophobia and the Impeachment of Donald Trump
Russophobia and the Impeachment of Donald Trump | New Eastern Outlook

". . .Few today understand the disaster of the Reagan presidency. Those then working in America’s intelligence community soon found themselves no longer tasked with intrigue against the Soviet Union.

Washington’s business became arms dealing and chasing oil. This gave rise to massive financial crimes, the BCCI, one example of many. From the New York Times, July 28, 1991:

“More than 12 years ago, a major U.S. bank decided not to do any business with a Luxembourg-based institution called the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.

One of the American executives recalls that something about BCCI just didn’t add up. They were reluctant to provide information about the sources and uses of funds,” he said last week. ‘We got bad vibes from them … so we just put them on our internal blacklist.’

A lot of other people got bad vibes from BCCI, and among bankers it acquired the nickname of “Bank of Crooks and Criminals.” But it took a dozen years for regulators overseeing BCCI’s far-flung empire in Britain, Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to reach the same conclusion.

In the interim, BCCI wove what its auditors, Price Waterhouse, belatedly discovered and now describe as “probably one of the most complex deceptions in banking history.”

BCCI made phony loans, concealed deposits, hid huge losses, and was the bank for a host of shady customers ranging from terrorists and spies to drug runners and dictators.”

It was BCCI cash that founded al Qaeda and paid for Saddam’s WMD program, all financial deals that backwashed into the pockets of American political leaders.

Within weeks of his inauguration, Reagan was shot down in the streets – a “lone gunman” again – surviving but quite probably diminished intellectually according to reliable reports.

What sprung up around him, led by former military officers, was the seeds of what we have today − a privatized military and intelligence capability that, though nominally “American,” serves corporate or nation state clients at will, while corporate owners or shareholders hold or control the highest public offices inside the US.

Many now claim that Erik Prince runs American foreign policy through Chinese shell corporations. Those saying this are not uniformed, they are not “amateurs.”

Reagan’s shadow cabinet of advisors took over CIA operations through the Vice President, a former CIA director himself, and created al Qaeda, an organization intended to be a “jack of all trades” for the CIA to use against the Soviet Union.

They also built a cocaine empire which, later through NAFTA, a supposed trade agreement between Mexico, the US and Canada, created a money laundering empire that embedded itself within America’s subculture of banks and hedge funds.

Banks have always ruled America, no secret there.

This is the America inherited by Donald Trump. Those around during its creation long gone, those who understand its mechanisms, dead, retired or silenced.

The institutions capable of resisting were long ago destroyed, and, as the impeachment process will prove, the endeavor itself will be fruitless except, of course, for airing the “dirty laundry” of the criminal underbelly that existed long before Trump took office.

Then again, with controlled press and rigged elections, nothing can or will be fixed. All mechanisms of informing the public are now subject to newly minted “fake news filters” under the control of the “worst of the worst” fabricators and deceptionists.

Conclusion . . "

 

[colfax_m]

So where does Trumps behaviour fit between these two extremes?

He chose to base the aid conditional on their assisting him to investigate a political opponent to help him win an election. Therefore Trumps behavior fits what you use in your first example.

If Trump is a narcissist why do you think he believe he thought he needed help beating anyone in the clown car?

Because he knows he needed help last time.

 

[colfax_m]

My view is that Trump thinks of himself as king based on his being a political amateur who fails to protect himself through appreciation and practice of plausible deniability.

?!

So.......because President Trump has been under constant attack from sedition, coup attempt after coup attempts from former Presidents, his proven criminal administration, and lying, leaking, seditious treasonous Democrats who have sought to undermine this President since BEFORE he entered the WH and who have violated his Constitutional Rights in their constant and latest coup attempt....Trump, in your opinion, considers himself to be a 'king'?!

Because he is not a criminal, corrupt, career, Deep State, Washington Insider, Status Quo professional politician who does not play by their Un-Constitutional / Illegal rules he believes himself to be a 'King'?!

Again...

?!

“Not playing by the rules” is exactly why impeachment exists.

 

[Nostra]

So where does Trumps behaviour fit between these two extremes?

He chose to base the aid conditional on their assisting him to investigate a political opponent to help him win an election. Therefore Trumps behavior fits what you use in your first example.

Bullshit.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

So where does Trumps behaviour fit between these two extremes?

He chose to base the aid conditional on their assisting him to investigate a political opponent to help him win an election. Therefore Trumps behavior fits what you use in your first example.

If Trump is a narcissist why do you think he believe he thought he needed help beating anyone in the clown car?

Because he knows he needed help last time.

Nope you leftist call him a narcissist, and narcissist believe they don't need help.

 

[colfax_m]

So where does Trumps behaviour fit between these two extremes?

He chose to base the aid conditional on their assisting him to investigate a political opponent to help him win an election. Therefore Trumps behavior fits what you use in your first example.

If Trump is a narcissist why do you think he believe he thought he needed help beating anyone in the clown car?

Because he knows he needed help last time.

Nope you leftist call him a narcissist, and narcissist believe they don't need help.

They also think that everybody owes them.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

So where does Trumps behaviour fit between these two extremes?

He chose to base the aid conditional on their assisting him to investigate a political opponent to help him win an election. Therefore Trumps behavior fits what you use in your first example.

If Trump is a narcissist why do you think he believe he thought he needed help beating anyone in the clown car?

Because he knows he needed help last time.

What "help" did he receive, other than an incompetent opponent?

 

[BluesLegend]

President or King ?

Its Emperor Trump snowflakes!

 

[BluesLegend]

The problem here is that Trump lacks the intellectual capacity to grasp or appreciate the gravity of the office

I see, are you a multi-billionaire who defeated over a dozen GOP candidates in a presidential primary, then the entire liberal media and Democratic party in the general and became POTUS? You are not even qualified to grade Trump on intellectual capacity.

 

[Siete]

I have been following the impeachment hearings with a lot of interest. It is shown live over here and my confinement gives me a lot of spare time.

My understanding of it all is that it boils down to the limits of Presidential power and whether Trump breached those powers in pursuit of personal objectives.

The left seem to think he has clearly done so but the right do not seem keen to grapple with that issue and are focussing on discrediting the witnesses.

My question relates to where the line is drawn. Is a President able to act like a King in pursuing any policy he sees fit ? Or is he bound by constitutional constraints that make him accountable?

As an example -

If a President offered aid to a country in return for favours to a business he had an interest in. We could all agree that it wd be an abuse of power.

But if a President asked a leader to deal with corruption in his own country as a condition of aid then that would be legitimate.

So where does Trumps behaviour fit between these two extremes?

<Godfather voice > That's an awfully nice country you've got there, it would be a shame if something was to happen to it......

Hey Will. Its a reasonable question. Maybe some of these responses are more about me than the subject ?

unless you kiss trumps fat ass, your questions and opinions are baseless, and you are crazy - facts be damned.

 

[Mac1958]

The problem here is that Trump lacks the intellectual capacity to grasp or appreciate the gravity of the office

I see, are you a multi-billionaire who defeated over a dozen GOP candidates in a presidential primary, then the entire liberal media and Democratic party in the general and became POTUS? You are not even qualified to grade Trump on intellectual capacity.

Aw, I struck a nerve again.

Too bad.
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[Tommy Tainant]

My view is that Trump thinks of himself as king based on his being a political amateur who fails to protect himself through appreciation and practice of plausible deniability.

I think the unqualified support of some of his fanbase would also help foster that belief. It also appears that senior figures in his party reinforce that for political partisan reasons.
The question is who is telling him that something is wrong ?

You cant do that Mr President.

 

[Siete]

My view is that Trump thinks of himself as king based on his being a political amateur who fails to protect himself through appreciation and practice of plausible deniability.

I think the unqualified support of some of his fanbase would also help foster that belief. It also appears that senior figures in his party reinforce that for political partisan reasons.
The question is who is telling him that something is wrong ?

You cant do that Mr President.

seriously ?

like he pays attention to outside advice.

Trump's own staff repeatedly warned him that his theory about Democrats and Ukraine had been debunked

yet he continued to spread his fake conspiracy bs and his drones parrot the lie.

questions now ?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

My view is that Trump thinks of himself as king based on his being a political amateur who fails to protect himself through appreciation and practice of plausible deniability.

I think the unqualified support of some of his fanbase would also help foster that belief. It also appears that senior figures in his party reinforce that for political partisan reasons.
The question is who is telling him that something is wrong ?

You cant do that Mr President.

seriously ?

like he pays attention to outside advice.

Trump's own staff repeatedly warned him that his theory about Democrats and Ukraine had been debunked

yet he continued to spread his fake conspiracy bs and his drones parrot the lie.

questions now ?

Oh dear. I suppose the structure of US politics means that loons can thrive as long as there are enough loons to bak them.