Is Trump angling for an incompetency defence?

[goaded]

"They had an almost billion-dollar cost over on the magnetic elevators. Think of it, magnets," he told the crowd for some unknown reason. "Now, all I know about magnets is this. Give me a glass of water. Let me drop it on the magnets. That's the end of the magnets."

"Why didn't they use John Deere?" he asked. "Why didn't they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere."

(He has no clue what a catapult on an aircraft carrier is, nor why it might be a a good idea to use something that only requires electricity over something that uses steam. You know, like those trains he's never been on.)

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+1 y

“Nikki Haley, you know they, do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it because of lots of things like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people." Trump 19 Jan 2024.
Uh, who?

[DryGermanGuy]

Certainly not. To us he sounds and acts like a sociopathic lunatic, but in his own mind he is a "very stable business genius". Thus he would never accept that.

[goaded]

Very good point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8otwr7ArmA

[msc545]

The thing is - he probably IS incompetent.

[DryGermanGuy]

@msc545
Oh, most certainly, by many accounts of his former staff (not reading intelligence briefs, etc.). He reminds me of Sovereign Citizens in court, trying to fire their public defenders because they think they know the law better than someone who went to law school.

[msc545]

Good comparison!

[msc545]

Tempting as itis to say otherwise, I don't think these things are volitional or deliberate on Trump's part. There is no advantage to him in this at all.

[goaded]

No, I agree. I think he's feeling stressed.

[msc545]

I think he has some cognitive impairment.

[exitseven]

I think he really did not know military hardware. As usually his mouth overran his headlights. He is not incompetent. In 2016 when he was running he described volunteering to manage the renovation of a recreation facility in New York City. Part of that renovation included an indoor skating rink. The refrigeration equipment was old and no longer worked. He described calling the facilities guy at the Bell Centre where the Canadiens play. He knew this guy from working with him in a project they were both involved in. Trump recounted the steps that he went through to diagnose the problem which was leaks in the refrigeration pipes and what he had done to correct the problem. He also discussed money saving measures that he took to stay within the budget that he had to work with and a couple of problems that popped up and how he addressed them. This was long before he became president and I really was not a big fan of his. That account of project management and problem solving really impressed me and made me think that maybe he could be just the president that America needs right now.

[goaded]

Once he'd finished using it to make himself look good...

"The New York City ice rink run by former President Donald Trump’s business organization was a visible wreck. Located in Central Park, Wollman Rink has been a staple of wintertime recreation in the city since 1950, but in the years since being taken over by the Trump Organization in the 1980s, maintenance had fallen by the wayside. The clubhouse where you rent skates and lockers was a jumble of crowded spaces and decaying storage facilities. Some of its bathrooms lacked basic plumbing. Its exterior trellis was falling apart. Of more than 50 doors in the clubhouse and concessions building, only three worked.

Gushee says updating the rink was no small task. “It was run with very little maintenance, no [capital expenditures] for many, many years. So it went downhill,” he says. “We basically gutted the inside.”"
www.fastcompany.com/.../trump-let-this-beloved-ice-rink-fall-to-pieces-a-new-partnership-is-bringing-it-back-to-life

He's doing the same to your country.

[msc545]

That was in 2016. This is 2024. Things have changed and not for the better.

[exitseven]

No this was the Javits Center.

[msc545]

So? Why does that matter?

[exitseven]

@msc545 The little article you had said that there was no money budgeted for maintenance. This is a common practice with government run entities. i see it all the time. So the city fails to pay for maintenance the the fake news blames Trump.
The thing that I was talking about was how Trump fixed the Javits Center. He really didn't say this but listening to him talk it funded by private donations and Trump managed the project.

[msc545]

If Trump was in charge, he was also at fault - common practice notwithstanding.

[exitseven]

@msc545 He managed the project, it was up to the foundation to secure funding. I suppose that you also think Trump was responsible for the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby too.

[msc545]

No actually Trump was in charge of the project so it was up to him to make things turn out correctly. He didn't. Please stop defending this guy against anything and everything. It's a bad look.

[exitseven]

@msc545 The project he described did turn out good. I never heard of thr other one.

[msc545]

How do you know it turned out good?

[exitseven]

@msc545 I just figure if it was a disaster the press would have been all over it. But I did some research and it was built in the 1980s and underwent several expansions. I was not able to find out which expansion fixed the skating rink but I did find out that later President Trump retrofitted part of the place with hospital beds to provide a place for Covid patients. I guess he was already familiar with the place and it must-have been a slam dunk.

[msc545]

Why has it been that everything he touches turns to crap?

[AviatorTom]

I'm just curious... if Trump is convicted of bad business dealings, how does that affect his qualifications to be President?

To use an analogy... Isn't it possible for a football player to be bad handling money but be an excellent player?

To make it clear, I don't support either party's current front-runner.

[goaded]

You do know Trump's also on his way to four other, criminal, trials in 2024, right?

[RainbowMarinade]

@AviatorTom
I disagree.
I believe Trump’s inability to run his business within the confines of the law is evidence of his inability to run the country.
I don’t understand how you can separate two.

[Dargil]

That's too complex, Captain. Gotta return to ignorance!
If I could snap my fingers, it would be a classic conservative Republican (Ramaswamy) against a classic Democrat, RFK Jr. OK to spice up with Box Checking for VP. Marsha Blackburn for GOP and Jeh Johnson (who?) for Democrats. Time for the Grand Dads to retire.

[PrincessAlis]

I actually don't think so especially cause he spent so much time talking about mental tests he's taken being better than others. I kinda think he's just talking lol.

[Dargil]

is that what you think

Trump is angling for an I'm gonna win and kick Democrats' ass defense!Biden is angling for an I'm gonna be beamed up before election day defense!

[goaded]

“I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa... It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward,”

[Snakeyes7]

Where is all this effort to stop the corporations who engage in anti-consumer practices on a daily basis?

[msc545]

Considering that those corporations own the same people that regulate them, they really cannot be stopped.

[Snakeyes7]

@msc545 I don't know about owning them but they sure love to bribe them to not go after then for it.

[goaded]

Guess what. Republicans are defunding the IRS again, so that the deficit will increase.

[msc545]

That is what is meant by "Owning " them. Think about this, please.

[exitseven]

We don't need more IRS. Agents. We need more ICE agents.

[goaded]

@exitseven Every dollar spent on the IRS increases tax revenues by much more.

"CBO estimates that portions of the Administration’s proposal to increase funding for the IRS by $80 billion over the 2022–2031 period would increase revenues by approximately $200 billion over those 10 years."
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444

But, sure, believe the people who won't be audited because the IRS is underfunded,

[exitseven]

Biden will just have Republicans audited. He already got the logs from Twitter that had everyone who followed president Trump and anyone who re tweeted him. They also have Bank o America data of everyone that used a credit card in DC on Jan6th. They will go after them first

[goaded]

@exitseven No, that's what they want you to believe. The extra people audited wil lbe "earning" over $400,000 a year.

[msc545]

@exitseven Stop this crap already!

[exitseven]

@goaded i have some land in Maine i think that you might be interested in buying as an investment.

[Snakeyes7]

@goaded The government doesn't need anywhere near as much money as they ask of us to do their job. They'd rather waste it on pointless crap like Pakistani gender studies than let people actually keep the money that they worked to earn.

[goaded]

More money to the IRS always produces far more in tax revenues, especially when they can target the kinds of people who can afford dodgy accountants. Why wouldn't you spend money to reduce the deficit?

[Snakeyes7]

It would be a lot easier to reduce the deficit if the government learns to budget their money like everyone else has to do but they are too good for that and spend our hard earned money on bullshit we don't need or something that actually harms us like pointless involvement in the affairs of other countries.

If they actually cared about the working class by cutting all that out then maybe I'll be happier to let them extort me.

[goaded]

A government is not a household. There are different rules.

This is what Republicans in the House want to cut:
"Using new funding earmarked for the IRS to target wealthy and corporate tax cheats, the IRS since mid-2022 has collected more than $520 million from about 1,600 households with income of more than $1 million and that are known to have unpaid tax bills of more than $250,000."

[HouseMoat]

Probably, not. If he was "incompetent", we wouldn't have seen him as president, right?

This is just him being a dumb mans, smart man

[goaded]

The question is whether his competence is in marketing or governing. Unfortunately, it is only the former.

[msc545]

This would be him being "incompetent" in the psychological sense.

[Juxtapose]

I can't wait for him to assblast all these shitlids.