Politics Trump - What has he done now???

So I'm sure we all saw America launch tomahawks at Syria this morning?
That's a radical change from a few days ago when the USA was backing down in the Syrian war.

Most news sites are saying Russia had a bit of prior knowledge of the attack, but it will be interesting to see where this all leads today. Surely Russia will condemn the launch?

 

I wonder what this Syria attack is attempting to distract us from

 

A snuffling, heavy-footed tyrant manipulated by sinister forces into being a pitiless machine for autocratic cruelty was photographed next to Darth Vader today.

Trump stands next to Darth Vader, provoking brief moment of morbid laughter

 

Trump's concern over the children affected by the chemical warfare really touched my heart.

Well, it might've had I believed him.

 

I couldn't watch the video with the kids

 

The installation of the most right wing conservative supreme court justice who will let corporations rule and change the course of society for the next 10 years at least. Although if the far left Democrats can win in 2020 and have 50 senate seats, maybe they will increase the number of supreme court seats to 11.

 

Clarification: I didn't buy into Trump's concern. I wasn't questioning the horror of the chemical bombing.

 

I don't have a presence on 4chan or 8chan or anything like that but i do have a /pol/ group in my fb newsfeed. I found it quite interesting yesterday watching the group attack itself. Different threads kept popping up asking how Trump could do this and the admins kept deleting them and banning members. I can only imagine how crazy and fast paced it was on the boards themselves.
‘I’m officially off the Trump Train’: Trump’s online base is furious about the Syria strikes

 

I am optimistic that the court's balance of power will swing back in 10 years. I'm not sure it is likely though and I know that a lot has to change before that is even possible. There will be a lot of bad decisions that will change society in the next few years I'm afraid.

 

Trump saw himself as a king before becoming POTUS.

Trump as POTUS now sees himself as The King. He and the royal family are going to live royally.

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All those deluded and/or stupid people who bought into what Trump was selling.
All those idiots who thought voting for Trump was a great protest vote against Clinton.

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A Very Scary Thought: What will happen with the SC if Trump somehow manages two full terms, with plenty of Republican support in Congress.

 

Two interesting columns about Trump, one from the right (David Brooks), one from the left (Josh Marshall):

Edit: the NY Times link to David Brooks somehow gets hijacked to "viglink" no matter what I do. Here's something you can cut/paste (don't bother clicking on it):
nytimes.com/2017/04/07/opinion/the-coming-incompetence-crisis.html

• Marshall: "What is key though is to understand that this is not just ignorance. Ignorance is just the first stage of Trump’s fairly advanced problem. He is not only ignorant but clearly unaware of his level of ignorance. This is compounded by a seeming inability to understand that everyone else isn’t equally ignorant to him."

• Brooks: "Up until this period I had always thought of ignorance as a void, as an absence of knowledge. But Trump’s ignorance is not just an absence; it is a rich, intricate and entirely separate universe of negative information, a sort of fertile intellectual antimatter with its own gravitational pull."

• Marshall: "Remaining ignorant is probably a good adaptive strategy for him because it allows him to pretend that everything is obvious, that he can solve any problem and generally act like he can do anything – in a way, this allowed him to become President."

• Brooks: "The normal incompetent person flails and stammers and is embarrassed about it. But the true genius at incompetence like our president flails and founders and is too incompetent to recognize his own incompetence. He mistakes his catastrophes for successes and so accelerates his pace toward oblivion. Those who ignore history are condemned to retweet it."

• Marshall: "So far the Trump Presidency has been a sort of Mr Magoo performance art in which the comically ignorant Trump learns elemental or basic things that virtually everyone in the world of politics or government already knew – things that the majority of adults probably know. Health Care: 'Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.' North Korea: 'I felt pretty strongly that they had tremendous power. But it’s not what you think.' There are perhaps half a dozen examples equally stark."

• Brooks: "It is in its own way a privilege to be alive at the same time as a man who is the Albert Einstein of confirmation bias, a man whose most impressive wall is the one between himself and evidence, a man who doesn’t need to go off in search of enemies because he is already his own worst one."

 

A useful site if you are wondering what 45 is up to.

Is Trump At Mar-A-Lago

 

The war criminals in Columbia just had a meeting with Trump at Mar-A-Lago. Why have peace when that means the conservatives would have to make some compromises? I fear for what might happen in Columbia with media propaganda, education corruption, and whatever new strategies that Trump and his administration & friends might help them with.