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DetlefK

(16,494 posts)
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:14 AM Tuesday

Can you feel it? Trump's "Hurricane-of-bullshit" is back.

Picking fights with China, then Mexico, then Canada, then Panama, then Greenland...

Trump has ADHD or something like that. He has already lost any interest in anything he promised during the campaign. And instead he does whatever spontaneously comes to his mind.

From making his son's ex-girlfriend ambassador, to trying to buy Greenland again, to suddenly having an issue with Panama....



It's like 2017 all over again. Trump will have a new outrage next week. And then a new outrage the week after that. And then a new outrage the week after that. And then a new outrage the week after that.

The only thing that he will actually deliver on are tax-cuts, because he literally cannot remember what he did last week.

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Can you feel it? Trump's "Hurricane-of-bullshit" is back. (Original Post) DetlefK Tuesday OP
His constant whining makes me want to puke! Emile Tuesday #1
Hurricane of Bullshit. I really like that. Mike 03 Tuesday #2
Nuclear Hurricane of Bullshit Diraven Tuesday #31
I like that terminology also. I'm going to give it a try and see how it flies chicoescuela Tuesday #32
There was the Kari Lake two-fer... Hugin Tuesday #3
This is a guy who gets a standing ovation every night at dinner underpants Tuesday #4
Right?! KPN Tuesday #34
Trump is under Putin orders to destroy the democratic alliances. Irish_Dem Tuesday #5
As I've said before, don't give him more power than he's due. paleotn Tuesday #9
Trump will do what he wants to do. Irish_Dem Tuesday #11
No, actually, like the debt ceiling, he won't. paleotn Tuesday #13
We shall see. You have more confidence in the GOP than I do. Irish_Dem Tuesday #14
He isn't President yet. travelingthrulife Tuesday #26
So what. He was once. paleotn Tuesday #39
I don't allow him to have any control over me. n/t rasputin1952 Tuesday #49
And just like Putin and the Russian people, the rest of the world will chicoescuela Tuesday #33
Oh yes, we will all be painted with the same brush. Irish_Dem Tuesday #37
Part of his chaos is due to an ego-driven need for attention. But another aspect is a allegorical oracle Tuesday #6
Absolutely right. Ligyron Tuesday #7
Exactly. He's trolling. Don't be trolled. paleotn Tuesday #10
I disagree orangecrush Tuesday #18
What he thinks our wants does not equal what will happen. paleotn Tuesday #38
7 years later I'm still waiting for Mexico to pay for the wall 😅 Blue_Tires Tuesday #46
Unlike 2017, his bs is being turned off bronxiteforever Tuesday #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Tuesday #12
It's taken over GD Kaleva Tuesday #15
The first thing he reversed was his promise to lower grocery prices IronLionZion Tuesday #16
Yup orangecrush Tuesday #17
CNN headline I shit you not: "Trump considers US expansion" Mr.WeRP Tuesday #19
Watch the flying monkeys; ignore the Eelon behind the curtain & Herr Miller behind the other curtain. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Tuesday #20
This message was self-deleted by its author Submariner Tuesday #21
Remember the media ( all of them ) are complicit oldmanlynn Tuesday #22
Lets not be fooled by it...It's like the old "Look! Squirrel!", they allow him to be stupid without resistance Escurumbele Tuesday #23
It actually began with Reagan... rasputin1952 Tuesday #48
Did he ever have any real interest? EllisWhy Tuesday #24
I feel it. In addition to all mentioned here, he wants to change Denali back to 2 Meow Momma Tuesday #25
He's not done erasing Obama's legacy... lame54 Tuesday #41
It still burns him up to know that somewhere Blue_Tires Tuesday #45
Bulwark is correct Johonny Tuesday #27
All Shiny Objects!💎 Linda ladeewolf Tuesday #30
Exactly Blue_Tires Tuesday #44
Look at my thumb. Gee, you're dumb. EVERY OUNCE OF BULLSHIT IS A COVER FOR GRIFT, GRIFT AND MORE GRIFT. pardon the caps usonian Tuesday #28
owes Kali999 Tuesday #29
I can only hope its out of his mouth slightlv Tuesday #35
If MSNBC thinks I'm going to tune back in, they're wrong. CrispyQ Tuesday #36
Was anybody expecting anything any different ? republianmushroom Tuesday #40
orange monster is transactional and mentally ill vapor2 Tuesday #42
The media has secretly missed the chaos... Blue_Tires Tuesday #43
How true... rasputin1952 Tuesday #47
He will give tax cuts to wealthy & deregulate Meowmee Tuesday #50
Nope....just reading DU OP's. I know what's coming, but I guess we deserve it as a society. OAITW r.2.0 Tuesday #51

Mike 03

(17,379 posts)
2. Hurricane of Bullshit. I really like that.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:19 AM
Tuesday

IMO it's better than "Firehose of falsehoods."

Hope it catches on.

chicoescuela

(1,649 posts)
32. I like that terminology also. I'm going to give it a try and see how it flies
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:55 AM
Tuesday

with similarly thinking friends and family
Thank you

Hugin

(34,755 posts)
3. There was the Kari Lake two-fer...
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:23 AM
Tuesday

From the Ambassador of Mexico to Voice of America in less than twelve hours.

I suppose maybe she was out bid.

underpants

(187,387 posts)
4. This is a guy who gets a standing ovation every night at dinner
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:23 AM
Tuesday

He has a circle of sycophants who constantly praise him and live in fear of being cast out of the circle.

He not just lives but requires attention and praise.

KPN

(16,167 posts)
34. Right?!
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 11:02 AM
Tuesday

And on top of that, he’s frigging nuts and sees the world as a “Game of Throne's”.

Irish_Dem

(59,741 posts)
5. Trump is under Putin orders to destroy the democratic alliances.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:27 AM
Tuesday

Trump is taking a wrecking ball to global democratic relationships.

paleotn

(19,532 posts)
9. As I've said before, don't give him more power than he's due.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:06 AM
Tuesday

He doesn't get to make those decisions or implement them on his own. We're not Assad's Syria.

Irish_Dem

(59,741 posts)
11. Trump will do what he wants to do.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:10 AM
Tuesday

It remains to be seen if anyone will stop him.

That said, the damage is already being done.
Trump is harming the alliances just with his bullying and threats.
He is turning our friends into enemies.

Irish_Dem

(59,741 posts)
14. We shall see. You have more confidence in the GOP than I do.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:24 AM
Tuesday

But as I said, great damage is being done just with the threats.

paleotn

(19,532 posts)
39. So what. He was once.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 11:59 AM
Tuesday

But hey! Sit around, wringing your hands in a constant state of terror. You're doing exactly what he wants you to do. Since he's in doddering old fool, he may not know it rationally, but that's his intent. Hope you're on some good blood pressure meds. You're going to need them. I don't let him have that much control over me.

chicoescuela

(1,649 posts)
33. And just like Putin and the Russian people, the rest of the world will
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:59 AM
Tuesday

find it hard to differentiate between tsf and you and I. We will, as citizens, be hated as much as tsf.

allegorical oracle

(3,400 posts)
6. Part of his chaos is due to an ego-driven need for attention. But another aspect is a
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:34 AM
Tuesday

strategy that aims to keep people confused and shaken -- too busy maintaining their own balance to notice what fresh travesty or dishonesty he's up to. His grifting skills are well honed.

Ligyron

(7,910 posts)
7. Absolutely right.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:59 AM
Tuesday

It’s a way for him to get attention each and every week with some new, ridiculous complaint or outrage..

Don’t know why he bothers, the MS legacy media covers him 24/7 regardless.

paleotn

(19,532 posts)
10. Exactly. He's trolling. Don't be trolled.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:08 AM
Tuesday

Please use your rational brain, people, not you emotions. Don't allow yourselves to be manipulated.

orangecrush

(22,131 posts)
18. I disagree
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:39 AM
Tuesday

When he says he is going to do something, I believe him.

It's one of the ways of surviving autocracy.

paleotn

(19,532 posts)
38. What he thinks our wants does not equal what will happen.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 11:55 AM
Tuesday

He's not god for heaven's sake and being in a constant state of terror over his latest spewing is not healthy and exactly where he wants you. Congrats for falling in line.

It's not that he can't cause some major wreckage but he's not invading Canada. Or Greenland. Or anywhere else. That's fucking nuts. Jebus!

bronxiteforever

(9,560 posts)
8. Unlike 2017, his bs is being turned off
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:00 AM
Tuesday

I think it won’t be long before the majority realize they have elected a doddering old man for the next 4 years. As an entertainer, his act is very thin and his talk is all bull. World leaders, friendly or not, know his words are worthless and his threats are toothless.

Response to DetlefK (Original post)

IronLionZion

(47,129 posts)
16. The first thing he reversed was his promise to lower grocery prices
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:26 AM
Tuesday

the reason so many idiots voted for him.

So he needs to distract the dumbest Americans, which are apparently half the population.

Mr.WeRP

(661 posts)
19. CNN headline I shit you not: "Trump considers US expansion"
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:02 AM
Tuesday

The fucking media is against the world FFS

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,277 posts)
20. Watch the flying monkeys; ignore the Eelon behind the curtain & Herr Miller behind the other curtain. . . . nt
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:07 AM
Tuesday

Response to DetlefK (Original post)

oldmanlynn

(512 posts)
22. Remember the media ( all of them ) are complicit
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:16 AM
Tuesday

If Biden had put his son’s girlfriend in as ambassador the entire media eco system would be in uproar

Escurumbele

(3,649 posts)
23. Lets not be fooled by it...It's like the old "Look! Squirrel!", they allow him to be stupid without resistance
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:22 AM
Tuesday

because the thugs who are not stupid and ignorant as he is will work behind the curtains while the clown performs his act of stupidity, it is a strategy, and I remind everyone that Grover Norquist gave them the idea many years ago when he told republicans that all they needed was "a monkey who could use a pen, he doesn't have to come up with legislation, or provide any ideas, he just needs to be able to use a pen." I am paraphrasing, of course, but that was pretty much the idea, so first they got G. W. Bush, that was their first monkey, but he was not noisy enough, they needed one who constantly outraged the country, who was good at creating division, anxiety, not only in the USA but around the World, they found trump. Some of those republicans are pro-Putin, anti-USA, so trump's leanings towards dictators and communists is OK with them, and most importantly, trump can use a "Sharpie".

So please, do not be fooled by the buffoon being what he is, what we need to do is ignore him, we should have done that from the beginning, but then again the media feeds from his stupidities because we all love to pay attention. The best tool to weaken a buffoon like that is to ignore him, just continue to call Musk "president" an keep him outraged, then we will win the war because once trump is weakened, the rest will fall.

Lets make sure we look behind the curtain to disallow the other criminals to commit crimes against the country and us.

EllisWhy

(11 posts)
24. Did he ever have any real interest?
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:25 AM
Tuesday
He has already lost any interest in anything he promised during the campaign.


Of course...he doesn't have to pretend to care about things that got him elected and can now focus on the only thing he actually cares about--himself.

2 Meow Momma

(6,782 posts)
25. I feel it. In addition to all mentioned here, he wants to change Denali back to
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:28 AM
Tuesday

Mt. McKinley.

So many things to cause outrage that we get exhausted from the hurricane of a shit.

I saw Denali this past summer. The tourism industry leans heavy on indigenous tribal history. It seemed to me that the locals respected the culture very much, too, so changing the name back to Mt. McKinley is a real slap in the face of Alaskans.

Blue_Tires

(56,752 posts)
45. It still burns him up to know that somewhere
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:05 PM
Tuesday

There's a black man more accomplished and more popular than he is...

Johonny

(22,245 posts)
27. Bulwark is correct
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:38 AM
Tuesday

Only pay attention to what he does, ignore what he says. The bullshit chaos is tiring and distracting.

Blue_Tires

(56,752 posts)
44. Exactly
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:03 PM
Tuesday

I fell for the trap of hanging on every outrageous statement and angry tweet the first time around. This time he gets absolutely none of my attention. As far as I'm concerned, the White House is officially vacant.

usonian

(14,638 posts)
28. Look at my thumb. Gee, you're dumb. EVERY OUNCE OF BULLSHIT IS A COVER FOR GRIFT, GRIFT AND MORE GRIFT. pardon the caps
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:39 AM
Tuesday


slightlv

(4,445 posts)
35. I can only hope its out of his mouth
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 11:13 AM
Tuesday

And then out of his mind. His last admin left me with PTSD, I swear. I'll not survive another one intact. Ive been hanging onto my marbles out of necessity... God help me if the next who knows how many years kicks in dementia or Alzheimers. For sure I'll need counseling regardless. Wonder if I can get one of my cats registered as a comfort animal...

CrispyQ

(38,598 posts)
36. If MSNBC thinks I'm going to tune back in, they're wrong.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 11:13 AM
Tuesday

I signed up in 2015 & cancelled after the J6 hearings. I resubscribed when Harris became the candidate & cancelled the day after the election. I won't be tuned in this next four years like I was before. It's exhausting & in the end it didn't make a damned bit of difference being informed about his every BS phrase & lie. I'll get my news here & the TV will stay off.

Here's a DU thread about CNN normalizing the idea that Trump wants to "expand the US." They even liken it to the Louisiana Territory purchase. JFC, these fuckers are complicit, every one.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219847169

vapor2

(1,633 posts)
42. orange monster is transactional and mentally ill
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:43 PM
Tuesday

I read he wants the Panama Canal so Elon can have access to shipping privileges.

Blue_Tires

(56,752 posts)
43. The media has secretly missed the chaos...
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:00 PM
Tuesday

The voters have secretly missed the reality TV idiocy, the childish tantrums and grade school insults to other world leaders on social media...

The clown and his freakshow circus of incompetence, hatred and lawlessness is back in town, baby! The reality show nobody wanted just got renewed for another full season!!

rasputin1952

(83,229 posts)
47. How true...
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:18 PM
Tuesday

However, I do believe his "outrages" will be on a near-daily basis (if not hourly)!

Science can't fix stupidity.

Meowmee

(6,127 posts)
50. He will give tax cuts to wealthy & deregulate
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:49 PM
Tuesday

But the middle class in every category will be screwed as usual. And d will vote for it too.

OAITW r.2.0

(28,667 posts)
51. Nope....just reading DU OP's. I know what's coming, but I guess we deserve it as a society.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:57 PM
Tuesday
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