Corn nails it

[Laura PourMeADrink]

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Now #fatnixon is aying he was trying to be funny

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. "He should read a book."

Well that's not about to happen. He won't read more than a 1 page summary of critical items that is given to him by his staff.

[BootinUp]

2. I don't think the book will fit up his rear. Nt

[Solly Mack]

3. There's "The Big Orange Book of Beginner Books" by Dr Seuss.

He can start there. Just tell him it's all about him.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Lol. How about "being president for dummies"

[Solly Mack]

17. He'd claim he wrote that for the next president.

Being as he is the bestest most awesome and accomplished president ever! (and the room laughs)

[libdem4life]

5. He could watch the Wizard of Oz...

and discover how to find a brain. BTW...I didn't know he legalized beer...what a guy !!! Love me some David Corn.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. 1933. Prohibition repealed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Happened in FDR’s first year in office

He didn’t really get the credit though.

He didn’t propose it and it was decided by the states.

Still, it happened on his watch

[bluescribbler]

16. Wasn't just beer.

Also wine, whisky, rum, etc.

[Lucky Luciano]

18. Overachiever

[bluescribbler]

21. LOL

Guilty as charged.

[MyOwnPeace]

34. Oh, SNAP!!!!!!!

I'll have you know that your response had me spew some beer over my screen!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. Kinda like the tax cut. Trump offered nothing..and

Any of the 16 other repukes who ran would have signed in a NY minute

[central scrutinizer]

6. Bizarro pResident

Will start a global war, ban beer and destroy social security

[MyOwnPeace]

35. Already.....

working on two out of the three, and we'll need the beer more than ever...........

[Gothmog]

7. Trump does not read anything much ess a book

[malaise]

8. Don the Con is an uninformed buffoon

plain and simple.

[llmart]

10. I do believe Trump has read "Mein Kampf".

So, let's at least give him credit for that.

[LoisB]

24. Who translated the big words into 'trumpese" for him?

[FakeNoose]

37. No it's a different book - a collection of Hitler's speeches

His first wife Ivana said he kept that book on his nightstand, but whether he ever actually read it or not is anyone's guess. Believe me Mein Kampf (Hitler's memoir) would not have been appealing for Cheeto, and I doubt he could get past the first few pages. It's really dense, rant-y and not very interesting.

[MyOwnPeace]

46. He hid........

his "Playboy" inside it between meetings with the "bunnies."

[Haggis for Breakfast]

44. I don't believe that he ever read it.

When I was in college - back in the dark ages - taking German, we each had to translate a chapter of "Mein Kampf." Reading it in German is so high up there on the pain scale, it's unqualifiable. But put into English, it is (besides being a despicable screed) a brilliantly-written treatise (if you're into Nationalism). Hitler is tedious and verbose (even by German standards) in German, but he's worse in English. There is NO way that Stumpy ever read it. It's too academic and dense for him to even begin to understand it.

[NBachers]

11. I believe the Great Depression had ended by the time Franklin D Roosevelt left office.

[First Speaker]

13. His handling of the Depression was good, if mixed...

...when he was sworn in in 1933, the country was on the brink of collapse. He restored confidence, and made some very sensible reforms. The economy grew again, but unemployment remained stubbornly high. Then, after his re-election in 1936, when the economy really showed signs of taking off, he made the dumb decision to try to "balance the budget". Result--another depression, which was quickly fixed when he abandoned budget-balancing and started spending some money. When he died in 1945, the war was all but won, the US bestrode the world like a colossus, and we were ready for the greatest generation of prosperity any nation has ever had. All in all, I'd give him a B+ for how he dealt with the economy.

[Javaman]

20. unemplyment was at 25% when he entered office...

it was at 14% at the start of WW2. I think that's pretty damn good. Considering it was a global collapse.

Also, Truman also tried the balance the budget deal after the war and re-instituted a peacetime economy BUT he didn't count on the corps or the unions wanting to make money and get raises. Can't blame either group.

Because of this we hit a pretty substantial recession in 1947-48. John L. Lewis and the steal, coal and auto magnets met their match in negotiations when dealing with Truman.

Like him or not, Truman did a pretty remarkable job of pulling the US out of a second major depression.

[NewJeffCT]

23. You know why he tried balancing the budget?

because moderate Democrats pushed him to do it.

That, of course, led to Republicans making huge gains in 1938 when they had been on the verge of being wiped out - Republicans only had 88 seats after the '36 election. Democrats had 334, and two minor parties had 13 seats combined.

[Nasruddin]

12. But wait

Other than that, tho, what did he accomplish?

[lunatica]

14. LOL!

[bluescribbler]

15. "He should read a book."

Yeah, that will happen.

[ancianita]

19. Pussy grabbers don't read no books!

[ToxMarz]

22. MMM...BEER

[NewJeffCT]

25. I can't see Twitter in the office

can somebody post a picture of what Corn tweeted?

[BumRushDaShow]

26. The text of it (no picture in the tweet)

David Corn
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@DavidCornDC

FDR won a global war, legalized beer, and created Social Security--and Trump thinks he has done more than any other president. He should read a book.
1:30 PM - Sep 25, 2018

[NewJeffCT]

28. great tweet

but, i would argue that in less than 2 years Trump:

1) Has turned America into an international pariah and international laughingstock
2) Torn down many of the norms of democracy here at home
3) Greatly increased divisions in America while overseeing a rise in racism, homophobia and sexism.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. And that list was just the appetizers!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Funny we don't typically use the word

Accomplishments with bad things but he's got a shitload. It drives me crazy when he and Sanders brag about accomplishments and NO ONE calls them out..."like what?" Someone needs to dig into his hundreds of deregulation moves..bet there's a treasure trove of accomplishments there.

[Denzil_DC]

27. Sure, here:

David Corn
✔
@DavidCornDC

FDR won a global war, legalized beer, and created Social Security--and Trump thinks he has done more than any other president. He should read a book.

[NewJeffCT]

29. Thanks

doubtful Trump will be reading a book any time soon

[Jopin Klobe]

30. "He should read a book" ...

... we don't have the time ...

[elmac]

32. He has done more than any other president

at destroying this country.

[Honeycombe8]

33. Trump has never read a book in his life. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. Not even "art of the deal"

[Honeycombe8]

40. True! nt

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. OMG, he is so stupid he thinks we're stupid enough to believe that n/t

[pansypoo53219]

42. BOOK? the moron need remedial history.

[trof]

43. 'Oh I totally meant to do that.'

'Yeah, I thought the U.N. needed to lighten up a little, ya know?
Those guys are too damn serious. I wrote the whole Speech for Laffs.
I KILLED 'em.'

[Hermit-The-Prog]

45. the whole world is laughing

That's an accomplishment.



(Youngsters may want to search 1968 - the whole world is watching).

[niyad]

47. David, re you assuming he CAN read?