So we're all in agreement that the Madman's completely random ZTE tweet on Sunday was...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

...a half assed attempt to get ahead of the inevitable quid pro quo story with China that will eventually blow up even more than it already has so far. Correct?

That's what it was, right?

The only reason that Donald Trump, supposedly the President of the United States, would take to Twitter and start hawking a Chinese company for Chinese jobs is that he knows something's coming down the pipeline regarding that payment from China he got for his Indonesian resort, right?

There couldn't possibly be any other more innocent explanation, could there?

I'm just asking because it all just seems so incredibly brazen and bizarre.

[dhol82]

1. And his supporters just will not care.

[beveeheart]

2. Nor will elected Republicans.

[dhol82]

3. Yup. Congress will just stand around and ask 'what is the problem?'

I feel so frustrated.

[uponit7771]

14. They would if McTurtle and Russian Ryan would care, they don't they've allowed Benedict Donald to

... do what he wants to no end.

I have no doubts the Russian hack on the GOP was to blackmail those two to the hilt

[orangecrush]

4. The bastards are sowing chaos

at an increasing rate every day, worldwide.

Bloodbath in Gaza, pulling out of Iran agreement.

Higher oil prices to give Putin a buffer against sanctions.

The idiots cheering for this insanity won't be so loud when the chickens come home to roost.

[mopinko]

7. f'ing over boeing

and airbus, our ally.

russians get the contracts.

suspect this list goes on and on.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Nobody cares anymore...

until it is too late. This is another domino in the decline of our country that has been going on since 1980 (at least). Is the US really a great country anymore? I keep hearing we are "the greatest country on the planet". I have had my doubts for a while now. Too damn depressing.

[trof]

6. Follow the money.

That usually works.

[Rustynaerduwell]

8. He's the reverse Midas Man.

Everything he touches is corrupted. Everything.

[AdamGG]

9. But, Hillary met with people as Sec'y of State that donated money to the Clinton foundation...

and Benghazi and the emails and the child sex ring!!!

It's stupefying how the right will latch onto any far fetched supposed scandal when it's about Hillary, but Trump's personal lawyer can be soliciting and raking in millions in influence payments and they're utterly silent.

The degree to which the selective alternate reality has been mainstreamed to 40% of the population is beyond alarming. Over 1/3 or Americans are already living in an Orwellian state.

[wolfie001]

15. Plus they have just enough....

....Supreme Court nutjob hacks to give them immunity. I think that's one of the reasons they seem to be pushing the envelope with fucking everything. Scary bunch of m$ther f$ckers.

[Anon-C]

10. We are TOTALLY agreed!

[SergeStorms]

11. "Brazen and Bizarre".

Add "Betraying" to those two and you'd have a great title for Trump's biography.

'Betraying, Brazen, and Bizarre: The Life and Imprisonment of Donald J. Trump'

[BobTheSubgenius]

12. An alternative that seems both equally plausible, considering the source, and equally bizarre,

considering reality, is that he really believes this is somehow Good News.

Anything is possible, as we've seen over and over and over.

[kentuck]

13. Is that why he got out of the TPP?

Would it have prevented him from making such a deal unilaterally ?