Yes. They’ve been at this for months, and only now are Republicans telling them to knock it off. Standing up to the bully now isn’t going to help. The Democrats already have hours of you endorsing Trump and mouthing his idiotic platitudes.
I guess what I’m saying is, if Trump accepted Christ back in June, either way, saying now that he’s accepted Christ doesn’t help them. If that June conversion was supposed to do the job, it clearly didn’t. And if he had to have a re-do just the other day, there’s no reason to believe it’ll work any better this time than it did previously.
Trump has now progressed to saying that every single poll by dozens of independent professional polling organizations are “rigged”. Because it will be hard to say that the election was “stolen” from him if it’s freakin’ obvious on November 7 that the election will be a blowout for Clinton.
I heard that this morning on gma. it woke me out of my morning stupor. (shuffle, shuffle, cat food, shuffle, huh!!?? what??!!??) I couldn’t believe her word choice.
The whole Trump machine, creaky though it is, is an even bigger devotee than is Faux News of Goebbels’ principle of the Big Lie.
If you say it often enough, and drown out any contrary info, whatever it is *becomes *true. Or at least becomes close enough to true that people act as if it were true. And the latter is all that matters.
“Perception is reality.” It’s a common phrase in politics and business for a reason.
I’ll admit I’m enjoying that. And if Dems get the house and senate, it’s so tempting to just say “we have a mandate.” But there are still filibusters and blocking and it really, really is in the country’s best interest to have a government where the parties are actually capable of working together, and I know that. Clinton has done well with that in the past, I thought. But both sides have to work at it (didn’t happen when Obama got elected), and both sides (but more Republicans, I think) have to worry about being primaried. Provided the GOP stays whole the next couple of years. They are getting more united now, with politicians coming back to Trump, unfortunately, I think they are uniting on the wrong side. And I can’t agree with “meet in the middle” and that tactic seems not to have satisfied GOP in the past, either.
Are we more polarized, politically, than we used to be? Whether we are or just think we are is that just another symptom of 24-hours news media? I mean, I heard Clinton-killed-Foster 15+ years ago. And my dad hated Bush I and Regan (he’s a union fan) back when they were in office. Either way, though, what can be done about it? Does anything need to be? It is okay if a third of the other party believes the President lied about his birth certificate or knew about a major terrorist attack in advance? I can’t think that it is (unless/until actual evidence is provided).
She was freaking out pretty badly on CNN when this first broke when Anna Navarro kept saying “pussy” during the argument.
Only time I’ve ever seen her lose her cool.
Well, prediction number one has already come to pass: republicans are now re-endorsing Trump after dropping their support. Spineless, gutless, soulless – but predictable. Trump-Bart is taking over the GOP (for now). Paul Ryan hasn’t said much since Monday but I suspect he’ll have a change of heart soon.
And I think prediction number two (below) will come to pass as well.
It’s worth mentioning that at a rally in Florida today, Trump accused Paul Ryan of being involved in a sinister deal to not support him. I guess the sinister deal is supposed to be with Clinton? It’s really unclear what exactly he’s accusing Ryan of, but let’s have some more of it.
One of the first and most alarming voices against Trump was the ghostwriter of Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz; not apparently included in this Politico piece. He told New Yorker that he thought Trump would literally bring about the end of civilization.
