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A day without stupid?

funinspace said:
This would be some extremely stupid shit if they actually try to use cold war laws to force electric companies to buy more expensive coal/nuclear derived electricity. Of course the Congressional Repugs won't fight this Dotard...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ne-to-money-losing-coal-power-plants-jhv94ghl
Trump administration officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants in an effort to extend their life, a move that could represent an unprecedented intervention into U.S. energy markets.

The Energy Department would exercise emergency authority under a pair of federal laws to direct the operators to purchase electricity or electric generation capacity from at-risk facilities, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The agency also is making plans to establish a "Strategic Electric Generation Reserve" with the aim of promoting the national defense and maximizing domestic energy supplies.

“Federal action is necessary to stop the further premature retirements of fuel-secure generation capacity,” says a 41-page draft memo circulated before a National Security Council meeting on the subject Friday.
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I’m thinking the natural gas plants will take that to court. Jebus!
 
Shockingly, just like the National Anthem, Trump doesn't know this old patriotic diddy despite the fact that this was about 'Murica Music and nasty black folks kneeling in order to show how much they hate the soldiers that Jesus himself fathered with the Holy Spirit (who does have a vagina, from what I've been told by many smart people).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozz7K-QNF4Q

It's all so stupid.

Remember that heady day, when he didn't say or do something stupid? I miss that day (I think it was on a Tuesday).
 
If you don't know the words, don't pretend to sing to it. No one will take notice. Trump always seems to take the path lined with bear traps instead of the one without bear traps.
 
When Justin Trudeau asked how Canada could be a National Security Threat to the U.S., Trump brought up the War of 1812.


(Reporters followed up by asking President Trump when the War of 1812 took place.)
 
Today: "I believe we're going to have a terrific success or a modified success. But in one form or another, if it all goes. And things can happen between now and then."
 
blastula said:
Today: "I believe we're going to have a terrific success or a modified success. But in one form or another, if it all goes. And things can happen between now and then."
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... and people say Trump never tells the truth... UNFAIR!
I mean, that there is God's Own Gospel Truth, and no one else is saying it!
MAGA!
 
blastula said:
Today: "I believe we're going to have a terrific success or a modified success. But in one form or another, if it all goes. And things can happen between now and then."
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To this day I still despise W, and I don't for a second forget what he did. But his then-legendary gaffes now seem so quaint. Just a few, for a stroll down memory lane:
"As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." –on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., September 26, 2007
"I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." –presidential debate, St. Louis, Missouri, October 8, 2004
"I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." –Washington, D.C., October 3, 2001
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." –Townsend, Tennessee, February 21, 2001
"They misunderestimated me." –Bentonville, Arkansas, November 6, 2000
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." –LaCrosse, Wisconsin, October 18, 2000
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." –Greater Nashua, New Hampshire, January 27, 2000
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" –Florence, South Carolina, January 11, 2000
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The thing about Bush II was that you knew what he was trying to say, and he knew what he was supposed to say, but he'd just flub it in a way that made it an instant, flash-frozen classic.

Trump though, that fucker shows up and seems to have little, if any clue why he is wherever he is. And while it's a pretty good bet he's been told what to say about the thing he's attending, you can tell he wasn't listening or just doesn't give a fuck. He just opens his mouth, horror copulates with stupid, and out flows Trumpspeak. That's really what it is (Trumpspeak) because the guy doesn't gaffe. To gaffe is to err. Trump isn't trying to get it right in the first place.
 
Opoponax said:
The thing about Bush II was that you knew what he was trying to say, and he knew what he was supposed to say, but he'd just flub it in a way that made it an instant, flash-frozen classic.
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The thing about W - and I have a personal grudge which goes back to when he was governor in Texas - is that I think he actually thought that what he was doing was good for the country. He was spectacularly wrong, but to trot out an old cliche' his heart was in the right place.

In his own way Dubya was trying to serve the country like his father had done. He was and still is a patriot. A misguided patriot, but still...I think he genuinely loves his country and wanted to serve.

Trump is only interested in serving himself. Period.
 
Ford said:
Opoponax said:
The thing about Bush II was that you knew what he was trying to say, and he knew what he was supposed to say, but he'd just flub it in a way that made it an instant, flash-frozen classic.
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The thing about W - and I have a personal grudge which goes back to when he was governor in Texas - is that I think he actually thought that what he was doing was good for the country. He was spectacularly wrong, but to trot out an old cliche' his heart was in the right place.

In his own way Dubya was trying to serve the country like his father had done. He was and still is a patriot. A misguided patriot, but still...I think he genuinely loves his country and wanted to serve.
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Yah, bless his heart. :rolleyes:

Trump is only interested in serving himself. Period.
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Right. Fuck Trump and the horses' asses he rode into office on.
 
Ford said:
Opoponax said:
The thing about Bush II was that you knew what he was trying to say, and he knew what he was supposed to say, but he'd just flub it in a way that made it an instant, flash-frozen classic.
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The thing about W - and I have a personal grudge which goes back to when he was governor in Texas - is that I think he actually thought that what he was doing was good for the country. He was spectacularly wrong, but to trot out an old cliche' his heart was in the right place.

In his own way Dubya was trying to serve the country like his father had done. He was and still is a patriot. A misguided patriot, but still...I think he genuinely loves his country and wanted to serve.

Trump is only interested in serving himself. Period.
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It was for the good of your country that candidate Bush didn't make sure that every single Florida vote was counted in 2000?
It was for the good of your country that Pres. Bush ignored warnings that Bin Laden was planning a strike--ignored those warnings because they ere coming from Democratic-regime appointees, because taking the warnings seriously would cut into his vaycay time that summer, because the Bin Laden family were friends of the Bushes.
 
The main differences between W and Trump is that 1) W isn’t a sociopath and 2) while they were both political simpletons, W gave way to Cheney and company where as Trump has deluded himself into thinking he is a master, no wait, THE master statesman.

Trump has a good deal in common with the Neocons. They both thought the world behaved differently for them.
 
jab said:
It was for the good of your country that candidate Bush didn't make sure that every single Florida vote was counted in 2000?.
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Probably.

Bush seemed to REALLY BELIVE that what was good for the oil industry was good for all of America. So keeping an environmentalist like Gore out of office = big oil good = USA good.

Similarly, having friends in the oil countries....
 
jab said:
Ford said:
Opoponax said:
The thing about Bush II was that you knew what he was trying to say, and he knew what he was supposed to say, but he'd just flub it in a way that made it an instant, flash-frozen classic.
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The thing about W - and I have a personal grudge which goes back to when he was governor in Texas - is that I think he actually thought that what he was doing was good for the country. He was spectacularly wrong, but to trot out an old cliche' his heart was in the right place.

In his own way Dubya was trying to serve the country like his father had done. He was and still is a patriot. A misguided patriot, but still...I think he genuinely loves his country and wanted to serve.

Trump is only interested in serving himself. Period.
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It was for the good of your country that candidate Bush didn't make sure that every single Florida vote was counted in 2000?
It was for the good of your country that Pres. Bush ignored warnings that Bin Laden was planning a strike--ignored those warnings because they ere coming from Democratic-regime appointees, because taking the warnings seriously would cut into his vaycay time that summer, because the Bin Laden family were friends of the Bushes.
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I didn't say that I thought it was good. I said that he thought what he was doing was for the good of the country.
 
Ford said:
I didn't say that I thought it was good. I said that he thought what he was doing was for the good of the country.
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Every Republican President seems to get very confused about the difference between "the country" and their personal interests.
 
Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together

But White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him, in order to make sure that the president wasn’t violating the law.

Staffers had the fragments of paper collected from the Oval Office as well as the private residence and send it over to records management across the street from the White House for Lartey and his colleagues to reassemble.
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ZiprHead said:
Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together

But White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him, in order to make sure that the president wasn’t violating the law.

Staffers had the fragments of paper collected from the Oval Office as well as the private residence and send it over to records management across the street from the White House for Lartey and his colleagues to reassemble.
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This was the most bizarre news of the week. Or it would have been if not for Trump's tantrum with Trudeau and the G7. Who in the holy fuck-knuckles has a filing system where they tear up papers they've read and just throw them on the floor, only to have his aides pick them up and put them back together with scotch tape for posteriority?

At least it explains why Trump's desk is always empty.
 
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