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Any person who performs sexual acts for money would be considered a porn star, as a oppose to those who just pose nude. The difference between Stormy Daniels and Sara Jean Underwood.

My favorite is, "I am not a racist. I am the least racist person you have interviewed." Well, which is it? Within the same breath he contradicts himself. He can't even keep his lies straight.

 

"Why don't people flee here from countries you don't need to flee from?"

 

In 2016, 1114 Norwegians moved to the US.

... and 1603 US citizens moved to Norway.

 

This is trivial, but there is no chance in hell Donald Trump is only 239 pounds.

Fake news! I refuse to believe it.

 

Well, a book was released indicating all of Trump's colleagues think he's mentally unfit for the job and then he calls Africa and Haiti ****holes, and guess what? Trump's approval rating has steadily improved from a low of 36% a month ago to 40% today.

At the same time, his approval rating among African-American voters has fallen from a high of 16% in March to 6% today. So, I'm wondering what segment of the population is more than offsetting that fall among African-Americans...

Just who could those people possibly be?


It's official. I'm joining #TeamAppleseed.

 

Approval ratings are overrated

 

I don't doubt your statement, Darth Nerdling. But which poll says that? If true, then this article must have used flawed data. Yet it appears to touch on the accurate sentiment of how embarrassed many people are of Trump.http://www.newsweek.com/trump-resistance-half-country-opposed-poll-781867

 

It's fivethirtyeight's weighted average of all polls: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo

But it's certainly good to hear that the number of those who strongly oppose Trump is increasing. Of course, when 39% of the population is non-white, acting openly racist would tend to increase hostility in a large group of voters.

 

Good point. Trump must think he's Triple H.

 

I wonder if that number holds up once you control for Rasmussen Reports’ notorious conservative bias.

 

Thank you for the clarification. With all this nudity on Instagram I’ve heard about, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. However, I think a person can be both.

Trump is a psychological mess, and he’s extremely impulsive and insecure. We could ask, “Which is it?” whenever he contradicts himself.

 

Actually I think Triple H maybe the lone Democrat in the McMahon family (granted he married into it, but still...)

 

Oh, okay. I just heard his name used in online news in reference to how some Republicans think they're supposedly tough like him.

 

So Trump aced the cognitive test.

I think that's actually worse. It means he intentionally does this ****. At least before when he was considered a "dotard" there was some element of an excuse. Now though, he's apparently not showing signs of dementia that this test should have gotten. And from what I'm reading, the test was pretty thorough and before anyone claims the doctor is a quack like the other hippie doc from Independence Day, this one was hired under Obama. So yeah... Trump's not losing his mind yet. Which makes everything he has done this year something he intentionally chose to do. I find this more terrifying.

 

The test was for dementia. Pretty sure if he took like a psychoanalytic test he'd be branded a psychopath at the very least.

 

I don't think his ability to pass that test means much at all. A 10-year old could pass that test.

Here's the test that he took:



What animal is this, Trumpy?
It's a lion! Yay! I'm a stable genius!

This test is designed to test whether there's been cognitive decline greater than what's expected with normal aging. My mother-in-law, who is clearly starting to suffer from serious mental decline, took a similar test and missed only a single point. Even her 94-year old boyfriend recognizes that she's suffering from problems with memory loss and judgment. She's forgotten entire vacations that she took less than 5 years ago. She has no problems with eyesight but got lost driving at night less than a mile away from where she's lived for the last 40 years. She can't shop for clothes for herself without getting confused and giving up. Put another way, I would be extremely concerned if she were the potus.

I don't know whether Trump is just plain dumb, dealing with the early stages of age-related mental decline or dementia, or suffering from a personality disorder, or a combination of all three, but that test above does little apart from tell us that Trump doesn't need the help of an assisted-living facility. That's about it.

 

The answer is: conservatives.

 

*comes back to people talking about what makes some one a pornstar* um,uh, why do i hear the twilight theme music?

 

Meh, not that surprising about the mental test. Maybe it could have helped build a case for the 25th amendment, but even if Trump fell apart on national TV it still would have required his Cabinet to act and considering their collective competence and ethics (probably somewhere between 0 and 1) which would have been a longshot at best. Unless Pence got really ambitious but they're probably all happily bleeding the government dry at the moment.

The problem isn't that Trump is mentally unfit for the job due to age or an earlier disorder, the problem is that Trump is and always has been a jerk (greedy, racist, corrupt, insulting, etc.). He's not completely stupid, even with all the "help" he got (one poll says 40% of Republicans think all unflattering stories are fake news, so how are you supposed to negotiate with those in a different reality?) from a rigged system and Russia, he's good at sound bytes and elections have always been popularity contests. So I'm not surprised about his health and still more curious about his tax returns. Though even if his current ones leaked, not like anyone with power in the government would do anything (and those inclined are unable to do anything).

Unfortunately, aside from belittling people and demanding respect/money, there's not much else in Trump's mind, which makes him an easy target for whoever has his ear. As that televised negotiation showed, he'll sometimes agree to anything, because he has no idea what any of it means (or perhaps rather doesn't care what it means and only cares how it'll affect his image). Apparently Congress was nearing a deal (probably too generous of a deal but that's compromise for you) then Trump's lackeys got him angry again and well, now they're disputing it was ****house not ****hole that Trump said, since one is way better than the other and that Durbin's obviously deaf and stupid to have mixed those two words up. Its hard to negotiate with those who won't honor a deal in good faith, and each week shows has a new example of how unreliable Trump is.

 

I just heard that Tim Tebow is 6 foot 3 and 239 pounds.

Yup. Trump looks exactly like Tebow.

 

you have to take into account all that hot air tho .

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Bannon stonewalled the House. They are vowing to force answers from him. It's 2018, boys and girls. You probably don't want this constantly in the news going into the midterms.

On another note, yesterday this happened. Another district has fallen. The Democrat won by nine points, unseating an incumbent who'd won re-election by 26 points in a district Trump won by 17 points. The trend of Democratic sweeps at the state level has been all but ignored by the national media, and it shouldn't be. It will matter a great deal come 2020 redistricting time.