Lordy! Trump admits there are no tapes of his chats with Comey President Trump has, in a tweet-burst today, backtracked on his earlier menacing claim that he may have secretly recorded his meetings with then-FBI boss James Comey. ...whether there are "tapes" or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings. — Donald J. Trump (@ …
is this because of the constant negative press covfefe?
Sure he doesn't have the recordings, he gets the Russians to do that for him.
This is sarcasm by the way but it could actually be true and that's the scary part.
I'm not sure what's real anymore, I think I'll just sit down and watch Horizon later about the end of the universe with a nice cup of tea and a couple of hob nobs. That'll take my mind off all this.
Sure he doesn't have the recordings, he gets the Russians to do that for him.
This is sarcasm by the way but it could actually be true and that's the scary part.
No it couldn't, because that's neo-Mccarthyist nonsense. When the Soviet Union collapsed the world realised just how weak a regime it really was. Russia is significantly weaker still, by comparison, today.
But by all means, carry on believing that Trump is a Russian plant and that the mastermind Vladimir Putin managed to remotely reprogramme the brains of tens of millions of Americans to vote for him. After all, the world is oh so much simpler to comprehend when there's a scary bogeyman on which to rally against and apportion blame.
When the Soviet Union collapsed the world realised just how weak a regime it really was. Russia is significantly weaker still, by comparison, today.
I think you are confusing economically weak with militarily, politically or technologically weak. Whilst Russia has serious economic problems, it is still a powerful country controlled by a powerful leader. I don't see people writing off North Korea as threat just because it has a GDP smaller than Trinidad's.
After all, the world is oh so much simpler to comprehend when there's a scary bogeyman on which to rally against and apportion blame.
Thank goodness we KNOW that this isn't the case with Hillary! She is indeed a servant of the anti-christ, and, with her husband, is amassing a great fortune through the the crooked Clinton Foundation that soon will be turned over to Satan; perhaps with a goodly portion going to Vladimir Putin.
Why is she still running free? LOCK HER UP, Donald! Before it's too late!
> How can you tell Trump's lying?
Trump is beyond lying. That implies some sort of sense of right and wrong, fact and fiction.
He just says whatever he wants to be true right this minute - it's pure bullshit, not even truth or lie, and he probably even believes it at the moment. Ask him tonight and you'll get a different answer that's just as true for him at this minute.
Why does it matter? Well, you can at least deal with liars once you identify them. You certainly can't believe Trump saying there aren't any tapes - there might be tapes but now they're inconvenient so he is willing them out of existence.
"there might be tapes but now they're inconvenient so he is willing them out of existence."
He only said he didn't make any tapes, nor does he have them. That still doesn't preclude someone else making a recording and keeping it at Trumps behest, either specifically in this case or simply as a matter of course. It does all rather sound like lawyer-speak and out of character for a TrumpTweet.
My son (brainwashed by drive-time talk radio) has simplified all this for me:
ALL the news is fake; there is nothing credible. Not only that, but the TRUE news is never reported. Big Liberal Media suppresses the truth. But if it WERE reported, all of that new news would be fake, too.
There is a Deep State conspiracy. The Radical Liberal Leftist Industrial-Military-Socialist Elite Intelligence Operatives are conspiring against Trump. And succeeding.
Trump is being stymied by a Minority Cabal of Recalcitrant Hard-Headed Republicans in the US Congress who are obstructing the Trumpian vision of Perfect Healthcare Delivery, Total Employment for All, Equitable Taxation, Right-Sized Government and a Return to Greatness for America.
Wake me when it's over. It's time now for my nap.
That's gonna be one hell of a nap if you're not waking up until everything is over
"hey la, Rip van Winkle's got nothing on me, I'm a-going to sleep for a whole centuree.."
(Bizarre things cross my mind on a friday afternoon. Must be the celebratory dead-cow[1]-inna-bun)
[1] Actually dead-chicken-inna-bun today. But from the usual DCIAB vendor.
We only just dodged a likewise duff candidate this side of the pond, making promises he had no intention of paying for just to give the incumbent a bloody nose.
When you have 2 poor choices then there really is no choice at all.
I do wonder what kind of scary hell we'd be in if Hilary / Jeremy had won their respectives.
making promises he had no intention of paying for just to give the incumbent a bloody nose
You must have enjoyed yesterday's Queen's Speech, which St Theresa used to make it clear she was not going to go ahead with everything she'd promised in her election manifesto.
If you can lambast one candidate for what you personally think he wasn't going to do, surely you'd feel compelled to lambast the candidate who has declared that she isn't actually going to do what she said she'd do?
Do you feel cheated? Do you feel that your vote was gained on false pretences?
"You must have enjoyed yesterday's Queen's Speech, which St Theresa used to make it clear she was not going to go ahead with everything she'd promised in her election manifesto."
Remember that the Queen's Speech only covers 2 years of a 5 year Parliament (or so May hopes) so on that basis you wouldn't expect all the manifest to be in it. Whether the Parliament will last for 5 years and how long May will remain PM are matters that remain to be seen.
Remember also that without an overall majority what a government actually achieves is going to be a compromise between the parties which form the consequent government and there's always going to eb something that gets dropped; just ask the Lib-Dems.
And last but not least "Events, dear boy, events".
Remember that the Queen's Speech only covers 2 years of a 5 year Parliament
It's supposed to be a longparliament to try and quell problems with a separate bill next year. But I think it was fairly clear that the Queen expects to be back soon enough, just hopefully not in Royal Ascot Week.
"I do wonder what kind of scary hell we'd be in if Hilary / Jeremy had won their respectives."
I suggest it would probably be far better that the hell hole lunatic asylum you no doubt voted for, didn't get and now gave to live laughing stocks on both sides of the Atlantic.
People thought Bush/Blair was bad. Don the Fart/Bedlam May could be far worse.
making promises he had no intention of paying for
Actually, given the politician involved, he may well have an intention to pay. Whether he could[1] is an exercise left to the reader..
[1] Of course, he personally probably wouldn't pay any of it. As with all governments, it's the taxpayers[2] that do.
[2] By which we mean, anyone with some cash that the government is able to grab. Which includes pretty much everyone other than the utterly destitute.
Too bad the US system seems to make any kind of thrid party virtually impossible.
That's the ground-state of any "first past the post" voting system. Having more than 2 parties, certainly more than 2 viable parties, is a temporary aberration in that election system, which will then make its way back to the ground-state over a few election seasons.
The problem with FPTP and its inherent bias towards a two party system is that you end up with polarised politics and policies which lurch violently from government to government.
Proportional representation (done right) means that government is generally by concensus, the central ground dominates and the extreme policies of either side simply don't get through.
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