Are we missing something?

[angrychair]

This is from a statement released Thursday in response to Canada

The United States has been taken advantage of for many decades on trade. Those days are over ,

“Those days are over?” Seems an odd turn of phrase for an administration that will be lucky to still be in office a year from now.

This is just one phenomenon among many since he took office. He operates as if he has nothing to fear and do as he would please because consequences don’t apply to him. The tenor and demeanor of trump is not just one of someone that does not see himself going anywhere anytime soon but is not leaving at all.

I will never forget a walking interview of Ghoulini, coming out of trump tower, at some point after the election but before trump took office, in which he says something to the effect of seeing the last election of a president.
Almost said in passing and no follow-up.

Did he let the game slip back then
and no one realized it?

[dameatball]

1. I never saw that. I wonder if it is still around for review.

[angrychair]

4. I've looked for it on YouTube

Have not been able to find it though. I’m pretty sure I was on MSNBC when I saw it.

[dameatball]

9. Okay. I was thinking You Tube as well. It may pop up again.

[NCTraveler]

2. Extremely common phrase used by most Presidents.

"The days of providing a blank check are over." Obama

I'm sure there was discussion somewhere about how it was clear Obama wasn't leaving office because he said that.

[angrychair]

5. I dont disagree

Which is why the term, on its own, is easily dismissed as bluster. But in context of their many other actions and their complete disregard for any norms of government that go way beyond any former administration, it’s hard to dismiss completely. This administration conducts itself as if there are no rules or repercussions for their actions.
I’m not a conspiracy nut but I’m not going to dismiss what is playing out in front of me in the false notion “it can’t happen here” because that has been said by others in other places and they were wrong.

[NCTraveler]

6. I don't find it hard to dismiss completely.

I also thought Clinton was going to win.

[angrychair]

7. Well...

So did I.
In the end it’s just my thoughts...not for me to decide anything.

It may be nothing. It may be something. At the very least no one can say “we didn’t know”

[NCTraveler]

8. I do get your point.

And these are strange times. I've simply heard the same thing too many times about Obama and Bush.

[angrychair]

10. I agree

But this is decidedly different. Obama hate was just fear-mongering racism.

Bush and his administration colored outside the lines a lot and the Iraq invasion was likely illegal.

That said, the level of corruption and disregard and disrespect for government norms is undeniably the worst in US history. So much so there is no point of reference to it that in any way compares. That is my concern.

[NCTraveler]

11. +1 nt

[Thomas Hurt]

3. I have no doubt that our malignant narcissist and president fascist

sees himself as an autocrat and he will use fascist ideology to get there if he can.

Read Umberto Eco's essay on Ur-Fascism that should send a shiver down your spine.