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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOK, so I'm sitting here watching Lawrence O'Donnell.
He's showing a clip from 1999 when Trump was on Meet the Press. Tim Russert is asking him about a pre-emptive strike on N. Korea. Trump, of course, advocated striking first. My question here is, who the hell was he in 1999 to be on Meet the Press being asked questions like this??? Why the hell should anyone give a damn what he thought? Was the press trying to groom him?
bdamomma
(63,955 posts)how stupid he was then and continues to be. Fucking stupid man. Its all about him and who can puff out their chest or stomachs in their cases.
NanceGreggs
(27,821 posts)CNN just showed the same clip at the same time - and I wondered the same thing.
malaise
(269,254 posts)Didn't he float that idea
underpants
(182,988 posts)In looking for this - holy cow he has a book almost every other year.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)I was wondering the same thing.
JI7
(89,283 posts)benfranklin1776
(6,453 posts)...the scarier thing is David Cay Johnston having to remind the military that they have no duty to follow an illegal order. Things have deteriorated so badly it has come to this.
MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)Saw your "post-name" and pic - can you imagine what that marvelous, brilliant statesman would have thought about our having placed Orange-Cheato in the Oval Office?
He probably would have taken one more boat ride to Paris to stay!
benfranklin1776
(6,453 posts)I think he and the other founders who are children of the enlightenment would have been overcome with revulsion as Agent Orange is the antithesis of reason. He is the personification of the howling mob they feared as they understood from living under King George that ignorance and avarice melded with great power can lead to horrific results for civilization. I think,though, Ben worried whether our democracy would survive against the countervailing forces of popular passions incited by low and venal men who turn those passiona against the very institutions that they built to ensure we could use peaceful means to effectuate needed changes in the affairs of governance for tge advancement of the public good, a concept he was greatly motivated in his life to put into practice. Hence his comment to the woman in the crowd outside the constitutional convention in Philadelphia who asked him "what form of government is it?" And he responded:"it's a republic madam if you can keep it." So it's incumbent on us to "keep it" and use every available tool of democratic governance to drive this nightmare of a small minded, small handed would be despot from the position he used treasonous means to attain. Hence, not voting or surrendering to cynicism or defeatism i.e. "we can't do it" is simply not an option. In 2018 we CAN retake congress and use the legislative branch to stop his nascent despotism in its tracks. That task is every bit as vital to the survival of our country and the principles of enlightenment democracy as the original seemingly impossible task begun 241 years ago. The sacrifices of unheralded millions over that timespan for this great cause of humanity must be honored by us now In this perilous time.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)I've been asking that since the 80s.
Sneederbunk
(14,318 posts)They considered him rich and famous. We did not realize he was certifiable until his birther stunting.
spanone
(135,919 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)Pat Buchanan from Virginia, former speechwriter and senior advisor to President Richard Nixon
John Hagelin from Iowa, Ph.D., past and then-current Natural Law Party candidate
Donald Trump from New York, had left the Republican Party in 1999[13][14] due to conflicting ideas on key issues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000#Reform_Party_nomination
October 25, 1999
Web posted at: 3:36 p.m. EDT (1936 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Real estate developer Donald Trump officially changed his party affiliation on Monday to the Independence Party, New York's version of the Reform Party.
Trump had his voter registration form hand-delivered to the New York County Board of Elections on Monday, officially putting him in the New York branch of the Reform Party, according to his political adviser Roger Stone.
Stone told CNN that Trump will soon begin travelling to Miami, Los Angeles and other cities to meet with Reform Party leaders to assess the prospects of winning the party's presidential nomination.
Trump has not yet formally declared he would seek the Reform Party nomination, but he announced Sunday he was quitting the Republican Party, a key step in a possible bid for the Reform Party nomination for the 2000 presidential race.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/25/trump.cnn/index.html
Phoenix61
(17,023 posts)Why wouldn't they? He was too easy a mark for them.
LisaM
(27,848 posts)in that job. He pulled crap like that all the time and people treated him like some mighty guru. He was basically a starf**cker, excuse my French.
blitzen
(4,572 posts)for decades.
Stone and Manafort literally invented the PAC and lobbying in its current corrupt form. In true Trumpian doublespeak, those who coined the "drain the swamp" bullshit were the ones who first built the swamp and were its most dangerous creatures. Contrary to the prevailing media narrative, Trump is a product of the most consequential and harmful of the post-Reagan GOP insiders. Not to mention that Stone and Trump were the hellish brood of mob lawyer Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy's right-hand man and one of the most evil figures in American history. They both follow Cohn's playbook to the letter. No doubt Stone, Manafort, and Trump, back in the early 90s, had already envisioned an eventual Trump run for the presidency. So it's no surprise that he was talking stuff such as N. Korea and nukes back in 1999.
The documentary is on Netflix.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,059 posts)But I have a feeling it's gonna get me ranting. Can't wait!
blitzen
(4,572 posts)but it explains a lot about how we got to this place. A big part of the multifaceted GOP scheming that has given us a government that can be controlled by a minority of the electorate.