Google “just world hypothesis.” They see it as “just” that bad people have bad things happen to them (things such as getting trapped in the credit morass that the existence of payday loan agencies encourage and perpetuate). And that attempts to restrain, mitigate, or even prevent the misery caused by this financial infrastructure are attempts to flout the rules by which they believe the universe functions.
It also seems plausible that this explains the anger that they chronically display; that the Universe is assigning them the consequences that are reserved for the bad people (which they’re NOT — just ask them).
ETA : Yeah, also its passage by a Democratic Party-controlled legislature, and the Obama signature at the bottom.
Considering that he’s starting to look like Danny DeVito as The Penguin, I’m not sure Ol’ Rudy has the required charisma. Besides, he’ll be AG once he figures out how to dispose of Sessions.
It actually may not be verbal diarrhea by Giuliani, but a calculated negotiating tactic: let’s see just how desperate Kim is to meet, by seeing how much shit he’ll eat.
It’s probably worked for Trump before, in his real estate dealings; what could go wrong?
A bit off-topic, but I had a flash of insight as to how the Democrats should campaign for the mid-terms (which I will post in Elections, and :cc the DNC.)
Polling shows that the broad electorate does not want to talk about impeachment – Democrats must avoid the “i-word” at all costs;especially since Trump isn’t on the ballot, and a Democratic candidate would love to win back someone who was momentarily misguided into voting for Trump in 2016 without insulting that voter’s intelligence. (Yes, I know. Bear with me.)
The solution: run against Scott Pruitt. Mnuchin. DeVos. Everybody in the administration who’s corrupt, inept, or both. Those guys weren’t elected by anybody - they have no fans, no constituents, and their approval ratings are probably garbage. Run on a campaign of ending corruption, providing a check on the Executive Branch, and otherwise draining the swamp.
It’s running against Trump without ever mentioning him by name. Brilliant.
That would be good. Television ad with picture of DeVos, voice-over “Do you want this moron to be in charge of your child’s education? If you don’t, vote for me”
Ad with picture of Pruitt “Do you want the guy who spent 1000s of dollars of taxpayer money on pens to be in charge of your clean drinking water? If you don’t, vote for me”
On a lighter note, as the national anthem was being played before a crowd on the WH lawn, one anonymous man trolled this madministration by going down on one knee.
What’s worrying about this is less that Trump thinks it was Canada (which didn’t exist at the time) that did it, but that he apparently doesn’t know that it was retaliation for an American attack on York, where they burnt several government buildings. (So it ends up as a very good metaphor for the whole situation - he instigates the situation, then whines about being the victim.)
This is Trump Admin for “we were sitting by the phone for HOURS waiting for him to call and beg. Then we found out all that time he was having a beer with Moon”
He doesn’t appear to pat himself in time with the anthem–just sort of intermittently/continuously throughout the song. Footage of the 2017 Easter Egg Roll tends to focus on the fact that Melania had to nudge him to get him to put his hand on his chest at all, but once he did, he patted away. This version zooms out so you have to look to see his little hand patting away, but then it zooms back in so that it’s clearer:
A more recent "he forgot the words to the Anthem" video shows fewer pats---about ten in the minute-and-a-half running time:
As I said: it's what a little child does. 'Here I am ME ME ME.' It's not something a grownup does.
The War of 1812 was when the bad (or sick!) Canadians sent us their worst people and were VERY UNFAIR to the great General Jackson, who more and more people are finding out went on to be president, and I look forward to meeting with him very soon.
If you told me you thought that the short-fingered vulgarian was able to keep time to music — or even hear any sort of music as anything other than an incomprehensible barrage of sound — I would challenge you on that.
My god, can you imaging DANCING with the man? If you were a woman? He would only be stamping arrhythmically around the dance floor and grabbing at your ass.