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Trump's presidency gets odder.
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Trump's presidency gets odder.


Sep 5, 2018, 4:23 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

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Righttttt.. Because if this was an actual thing,


Sep 5, 2018, 4:25 PM

and someone was actually intelligent or connected well enough to pull it off, they'd obviously write an op-ed.. I swear.

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Re: Righttttt.. Because if this was an actual thing,


Sep 5, 2018, 4:29 PM

You're naive and in denial. Trump is that nuts and out there. The only question is, how actually senior was this white house official who wrote this?

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I'm not naive. I'm not saying there isn't an inside


Sep 5, 2018, 4:38 PM

"resistance". I'm saying they wouldn't write an op-ed about it.

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Re: I'm not naive. I'm not saying there isn't an inside


Sep 5, 2018, 4:43 PM

Well it happened. A WH cabinet official is such a broad term. It happened and it was written though. An op-ed has huge power at this stage. They want to inform the nation.

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Its media propaganda, and you're falling for it


Sep 5, 2018, 7:46 PM

...once again. Even the LA Times isn't buying it.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-no-you-re-not-part-of-the-resistance-1536182473-htmlstory.html

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An op-ed, about an op-ed.


Sep 5, 2018, 8:58 PM



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Except that's not what it says, Memphis.***


Sep 6, 2018, 7:52 AM [ in reply to Its media propaganda, and you're falling for it ]



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Re: Trump's presidency gets odder.***


Sep 5, 2018, 4:36 PM





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What if Trump IS the resistance and


Sep 5, 2018, 4:41 PM

its all a big facade

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lol.. I might actually believe that...***


Sep 5, 2018, 4:42 PM



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Re: What if Trump IS the resistance and


Sep 5, 2018, 4:45 PM [ in reply to What if Trump IS the resistance and ]

That would make a great movie.

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"Manchurian idiot"***


Sep 5, 2018, 4:54 PM [ in reply to What if Trump IS the resistance and ]



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Re: "Manchurian idiot"***


Sep 5, 2018, 5:21 PM

He lost his mind just now.

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He's not the only one, thankfully


Sep 5, 2018, 4:43 PM

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/404933-woodward-gary-cohn-pulled-letters-off-trumps-desk-withdrawing-us-from

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Time to spray for rodents***


Sep 5, 2018, 5:37 PM



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Trump has changed what it means to be Republican


Sep 5, 2018, 5:43 PM

If Trump is a "conservative," then I have been duped for a long time - by Reagan and a lot of people since - about what it means to be a conservative.:


"Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.

In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic."

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My thought on this and Woodward's book...


Sep 5, 2018, 6:08 PM

is that it doesn't really change anything for me. Isn't most of what they wrote pretty obvious and intuitively true, based on the President's public words and actions, even if these two things were never written? So I find them both kind of redundant.

The most interesting thing about them is that someone was willing to write and send in that op-ed. But content is not shocking.

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Re: My thought on this and Woodward's book...


Sep 5, 2018, 6:43 PM

The content of the op-ed was a given to me. I guess the "senior White House official" doesn't think we already assumes as much. The shocking part is that they went out of their was to write that due to their disgust for Trump and worries for the nation moving forward. That's bold.

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Re: My thought on this and Woodward's book...


Sep 5, 2018, 6:50 PM [ in reply to My thought on this and Woodward's book... ]

First, it's The NY Times. Second, it's an anonymous op-ed. An op-ed that's anonymous......................

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The whole point is that most of the content


Sep 5, 2018, 8:58 PM

is obviously true, just based on the actual public words and actions by the President. So who cares where it was published, or who wrote it, or that it was written at all? I don't.

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So we're clear, are you saying that the NYT....


Sep 6, 2018, 8:56 AM [ in reply to Re: My thought on this and Woodward's book... ]

made it up?

Or are you saying that they didn't make it up, but that they didn't confirm the source.

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The President is impetuous and reactionary?


Sep 5, 2018, 9:01 PM [ in reply to My thought on this and Woodward's book... ]

Oh my goodness, I'm glad someone finally uncovered this and wrote about it!

Know what I mean?

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Sorry, reactionary is the wrong word.


Sep 5, 2018, 9:03 PM

Rash is what I should have said. Reactionary doesn't mean that.

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As far as very specific facts...


Sep 6, 2018, 8:43 AM [ in reply to My thought on this and Woodward's book... ]

like whether a specific individual called the President a specific thing...I don't put much stock into that. That's just he-said, she-said, and it doesn't really matter all that much, anyway.

But when you're talking about the book, or the op-ed describing the general tenor of the administration and how the President operates, it just rings pretty obviously true, just based on how we the people observe the President on a daily basis. It's not some scandalous explosive secret. Just use your eyes and ears.

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The laundry list of the President's accomplishments


Sep 6, 2018, 8:48 AM

(the merits of which are sometimes debatable, sometimes not), jives with all of this pretty well, actually. The administration getting good things done, despite some of the President's worse qualities, is pretty much the whole point.

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An honorable man would have resigned.


Sep 5, 2018, 7:42 PM

Perhaps then he would have maintained enough integrity to be credible.

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Don't think it's an issue of credibility...


Sep 6, 2018, 8:07 AM

but I do agree that this was not an honorable thing to do. It's one thing to try to subvert potentially disastrous things from happening...the morality of that is debatable. But I can't think of a good reason to make this sort of public statement.

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Re: An honorable man would have resigned.


Sep 6, 2018, 8:32 AM [ in reply to An honorable man would have resigned. ]

Melania can't just resign. Seriously though, maybe he feels he can do more to protect us from an unhinged Trump by being there. Maybe his honor belongs to the country in his mind. You never know what he is thinking.

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