Hes taking the Piss mate
A bit of UK type humoUr. 
I used to say that too when Trump first got elected. I thought he must be sarcastic. He can’t possibly be that ridiculous. It took me a while before I realized that he was serious because a joke can only go so far until it hurts real lives. It went past hurting real people. At some point, after people got hurt, it doesn’t matter if he’s joking about some of it or not, because he can’t distinguish.
I’d agree - I’ve never seen any indication that Trump has a sense of humour. He does like to laugh at people but that does not count as humour.
How do you work that out?
However, it appears Trump was actually addressing Mercedes Schlapp, his former White House director of strategic communications.
Schlapp posted an article about the apparent mistake and called it “fake news at its finest.”
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dont know to much about the thinking behind American politics.
but this link is interesting.
Big Ugly Shift - Koch Network Drops Haley Support, Retreats to Senate Decepticon Alamo - The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
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There’s a whiff of sense in some of that. The part that doesn’t make sense is why they picked Donald Trump to front their agenda. That’s like saying, the status quo isn’t working, ‘let’s get Hitler to change it’, if Hitler were incompetent also.
Of course, it’s the conservative tree house, so it doesn’t have to make sense.
It is a truly scary article. It confirms the Trump plans to rip up the US governmental and administrative structures and replace them with his own apparatchiks.
“As an outcome of the likelihood for Trump victory, it becomes even more important to prepare for it. By “preparing” I mean, to have the systems in place to confront the professional republican apparatus on day one. The opposition from Democrats is transparent; however, our weakness in 2017 was not having the support system in place to confront the DeceptiCons immediately. In 2025, this must be rectified.”
This will lead to sweeping law and policy changes. And not in a good way.
Further, it promotes pro-Trump bleating about his court cases. He is in court because he broke the law. Civil and criminal. But this article says:
“The Lawfare effort against him is running into the reality of the problem, their fake constructs. People see through the manipulative schemes more than ever …”
That last sentence is not correct. Many people are being convinced to see the court cases through the lens promoted by the MAGA movement. Whereas the New York fraud case was cut and dried - Trump repeatedly broke the law and has been found guilty.
Interesting use of the word ‘Our’ Are you part of a worldwide conspiracy to oust Trump Lincs?
If Trump could do that, he would have done it when he was in office. He didn’t need to wait for a second term for that.
You’ll note that the paragraph that contained the sentence “The opposition from Democrats is transparent; however, our weakness in 2017 was not having the support system in place to confront the DeceptiCons immediately.” was copied directly from the article previously shared. Thus not from me but written by folk who align very much with Trump. Another clue is in the term “DeceptiCons” which demonstrates that the author is fully (mental) MAGA. And therefore, if you’ve paid any attention to any of my posts, it is also clear that this is not a point of view I share.
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According to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation, Steve Bannon and pretty much all Trump supporters - nope. Their claim is that he was not able to replace all senior administrative roles with his own stooges as there simply were not enough ‘suitable’ candidates for that. His claims that he would “drain the swamp” were empty. This time round he is going to “drain then replenish” the swamp. Read up on Project 2025 and listen to what Bannon & Trump are currently saying.
Expect the worst. Banning abortion and liking Putin are simply the very early steps.
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Yes,he had some reasonable GOP’s like Pence (who he almost got lynched).This time will be all MAGA boot lickers.
I kind of read it as.
Spend all the money to winning both houses.
Who ever gets to win the Pres., they can be controled as such
So if Trump wins he could be controled and powerless, as well a a Dem one.
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I usually use italics for quotes Lincs, and then people know it’s not something I said, or someone else.
The “Quotation marks” which @Lincolnshire used are a pretty good clue too! - it has always been the standard way of identifying “quotes” 
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English wasn’t my first subject boot… 
But occasionally I use both methods…
And Lincs was rather generous with his application of “Quotation Marks” also, if you refer to his post…But I digress…
Maybe if you had read the original article, you would have realised the phrases in “quotation marks” referred to passages in the original article - if you refer to his post and compare the bits in “quotation marks” to the original article he is referring to , it seems fairly clear.
It does to me, anyway.
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The reason for that is that there weren’t enough people to break the law. Trump doesn’t have enough persuasive power to get Congress to make new laws, so anything he does has to go around the law. Most people who work in government aren’t going to break the law because in another four years, someone else comes in, and they’ll have no job.
I suppose he could get a team of law breakers together. But that’s what happened with the riots. Would they all paddle in the same direction?
That’s been true forever. If that’s what the article was saying, was there anything new to report?
That’s exactly what Project 2025 plans to do.
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