Head of a Crime Family
Trump stormed out of negotiations yesterday when Nancy Pelosi refused to cave to his stupid wall. He’s starting to figure out that the advice he got from the White House Resident Nazi, Stephen Miller, to shut down the government was not any more smart than separating tender-aged children from their parents at the border.
The wall is idiotic and will never happen. Think about it; even when Trump controlled the WH, House, and Senate he couldn’t get the wall funded. Even the invertebrates in Congress refused to acquiesce to such folly, so Trump decided to turn to his mafia upbringing to extort what he wants. First, it was the government shutdown. Second it was threatening to declare a national emergency to get what he wants. After Pelosi just sat there staring at him yesterday, Trump stormed out and went straight to twitter, announcing he was shutting down FEMA funding for California wildfire relief funding. Never mind that he probably can’t do that, the tactic is clear.
Trump is running the US government like a crime family, not the open and free society that we are. He sees himself as the absolute authority. If he doesn’t get what he wants, he turns Full Mafia, threatening millions of innocent Americans with cruelty never before seen in a US president. What he’s saying to Pelosi is, “Nice little state you have there; it would be a shame if something bad happened to it.” That is the only explanation of Trump’s bizarre behavior that makes sense. Watching this train wreck reminded me of Sean Connery’s explanation to Kevin Costner about “the Chicago way” in the Untouchables.
https://youtu.be/xFWfOBfTQLg?t=60
Trump’s problem is that he’s so goddam stupid he doesn’t understand that Mafia tactics only work in the dark. In the light of day it is completely ineffective. If he thinks that Pelosi will clutch her pearls and suddenly cave in to his threats in fear of his retribution against her constituents, he’s dumber than he looks, and that’s pretty goddam dumb.
Trump’s Mafia tactics will simply not work with the sole exception of seriously damaging millions of Americans and the Constitution that he swore to protect and defend (before the largest inauguration audience in history) on January 20, 2017. This episode won’t end well for anyone.
I think this whole government shutdown is an attempt to divert attention from investigations into his financial dealings.
1Donald thinks he’s Don Vito Corleone but he’s actually Fredo.
2A successful negotiator knows the rules of the road before entering into negotiations. Trump, and many of his advisors, do not understand how the three branches of government operate. Moreover, they are short-sighted and do not foresee the impacts of their decisions.
Pelosi, McConnell, Hoyer, etc. are successful because they understand the rules and effectively use them. Trump uses empty threats and fear but it is not working. Frightening the only things he has been successful at is stacking the judiciary, removing regulations, and lining the pockets of his children, his friends, and himself.
3Trump is a Bully.. That’s all he knows how to do. Nancy may have to put him over her knee and paddle him.
4McConnell is being awful quit, what’s he up too I wonder?
Can’t be good.
@Mike
Trump actually thinks he is James Conway but he is really Spider.
5“Waste of time” is what a day-trader would think. Not something a actual legit President would cogitate.
6Demanding unconditional surrender is not negotiating.
On a side note, most of the areas in California that the wildfires hit are heavily Republican. Threatening to take away FEMA funds from the parts of California that vote Republican isn’t going to do anything other than give Nancy trouble keeping a straight face.
7He’s trying to run the government like a crime family because, well, let’s face it, that’s all he knows how to do because that’s all he’s ever done. Learned it all at Daddy’s knee. And all of his business skills are really only knowing how to run stuff into the ground and then let Daddy bail him out.
He’s never had one single ounce of responsibility. He’s always lied and cheated and stiff people and companies, even into bankruptcy. He’s a thug and a criminal. And his 3 oldest kids are cut from the same cloth. (Junior is getting indicted soon! Got a bottle of bubbly set aside for that day!)
This is the first time he’s actually faced with something bigger than his fat ego, with the power and the money to push back in ways he never, ever, ever imagined in his life.
He doesn’t understand the world any more. He can’t understand that when he was an insignificant but marginally amusing (sometimes) nobody, he could get away with his mafiosi tactics.
No more.
Waiting for him to be assigned a number and an orange suit.
I will dance and party that day as I never have before!
8RepubAnon I do not believe trump understands that Pelosi represents a District not the entire state of California.
The funds he wants to cut are disaster funds which are authorized under the Stafford Act. I do not see where in the Act he has the authority to decide who gets the funds after he already declared through a Presidential Declaration that the funds are authorized. Of course he and his cronies have not read the Stafford Act nor probably know it exists.
9At what point does the Toddler-in-Thief cease pounding on his highchair tray and realize he is out of shiny objects to throw? Unlike the rest of us this ***king moron is unable to process one thought in his head much less simultaneously track several issues. Those with children, nieces & nephews or grandchildren and/or educators recognize the stages of infant development that are fun like when the infant begins to discover object permanence. Donnie missed that stage of development which is compounded by his rapid descent into dementia.
In short: time to 25th the 45th.
Handy checklist for those of us tired and frustrated with debunking the same talking points from the same lying Donnie enablers, an op-ed by Sally Kohn of 9 of Dotard45’s gaps in his wall:
http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2019/01/nine-border-facts-that-trump-ignores-or.html
10@Mike
I agree that His Fraudulency resembles several characters from The Godfather. But I think he thinks he’s Barzini, the shrewd manipulator. Ironically he’s prolly Sollozzo or Tattaglia. In one sense either works. But Corleone was an equal amongst equals. His Fraudulency is not equal to Pooty in the present sense. And ultimately His Fraudulency may pay the same price as Barzini and Sollozzo and many others paid in the fictional account of the Five Families.
11America’s crime family.
Trump certainly surrounds himself with the “best people”.
12“Micr says” Primus inter pares is a more appropiate description of Don Corleone. I really don’t see the Donald as even an equal among equals,ie the NYC reality business world.
13Reading his view of himself in The Art Of The Deal and Tim OBrien’s book on DJT, the image and reality are very far apart.
@ Rasty Bob #4
McTurtle is hiding and afraid of being branded the “bad guy”. But he is, and he’s just as treasonous as Rump.
When you see a turtle on top of a post, you just know it didn’t get there by itself.
14NEVER underestimate the depth, breath, or power of human st00pidity!! And his level is so high in st00pid that he will try anything to pleasure his narcissism.
15@J7915
16Not to be argumentative, but I love that piece of fiction. I never understood from it that Corleone was boss of bosses.
The Wall was never a reality and even trump knows it. It is 1. A desperate distraction from the combined Mueller and House investigations, and 2. A technique for riling up the MAGAts at hate rallies. He can’t back down because Coulter and Limbaugh would say mean things about him. And today he had to cut Executive Time short, put on pants and fly all the way to Texas. Trumpty-dumpty is trapped by his own wall. This would be hilarious if it didn’t entail the suffering of millions of government workers and their families, and the folks who depend on them paying their bills, and the rest of us who benefit from the work they do.
17We, obviously, no longer even have the pretense of being a nation of laws and must give up that charade.
Supporting facts.
At this time we have a gov. shutdown over an acknowledged lie.
An acting AG who is completely unqualified, appointed with very dubious authority allowed to stay for months in office.
We have executive branch officials flagrantly violating rules and laws.
A judicial system being daily even more corrupted by ideologues and hacks.
Legislatures who state they feel more loyalty and obedience to demented donnie than the constitution or the country.
At least one congress critter king of iowa who is publicly an out and out white supremest whackjob and no one in the thuglican party blinks.
A military that increasingly falls back upon the nuremberg defense to protect themselves from any responsibility for war crimes.
We have “spiritual” leaders defending a cult of personality and all sins for access to even greater personal wealth and political power. can achieve
The list goes on and on and on.
Yet some people argue as though we have to protect what has already been destroyed.
18It is the left that should be crying out to recover our country from these thuglican traitors who are nothing more than useful idiots and fellow travelers of the purveyors of the filth that is the worst of humanity.
California is a net loser in the tax paying scheme. It pays more in taxes than it gets back from the federal government. If push comes to whatevers then my guess would be that California would have to retain taxes to care for itself.
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