The failing New York Times? Not so failing.
“Shares in the publisher rose 8 percent after quarterly results on Thursday showed digital-only subscribers rose to 3.1 million at the end of September, the result of a combination of aggressive discounting and heavy spending on marketing. The company’s stock has now risen 54 percent in value this year.”
Because everything that Trump says is bullshit.
tldr: “I will prevail by making your head hurt so bad you will be defenseless”
“Well, I try. I do try … and I always want to tell the truth,” (CFSG) told ABC News, “When I can, I tell the truth. And sometimes it turns out to be where something happens that’s different or there’s a change, but I always like to be truthful.”
“When I can,” yeah, right. When is that?
And also because Trump doesn’t care about policy. Or Party. Or even a fucking wall when you get right down to it.
He’d switch to the Socialist Party tomorrow if it increased his chances of staying in office and riding around in Air Force One a few more years.
I think that is not quite accurate. He does care about policy that facilitates his and his family’s grift. If a Congress dominated by Democrats started to put the squeeze on this erstwhile pauper, he would get upset and his rhetoric would trend even more toward encouraging RW nastiness (i.e., violence).
Trump is probably not going to be fazed at all by having to deal with a split congress. For one thing, history shows that 1st term presidents can actually do surprisingly well working with a split or even a minority in congress. I think Reagan won with a split (or minority in congress). So did HW Bush. So did Clinton and Obama, and both were some of the most humiliating mid-term ass whippings in the last 50 years. So history shows it’s not a problem at all.
But another factor is that Trump loves to fight, and he loves to put on a show while fighting. He could flip the script on Democrats if they go after impeachment, especially if the economy deteriorates. Not that Democrats will necessarily get blamed for causing it, but if their priorities are more about investigating Trump and not in alignment with economic concerns and other concerns that voters have, then Trump could reverse the advantage.
Trump has released a racist anti-immigration ad ahead of the midterms.
…Which has the distinct virtue of keeping any voters from remembering that GOP candidates plan to remove protections for those with pre-existing conditions, and ultimately plan to gut Medicare and Social Security.
Look at this! Not at that!
Not to mention that he fails to note that the killer entered the country during Dubya’s presidency, not a Democrat’s.
Besides, this reality show hasn’t had a good plot twist in a couple of seasons, and this would be a good one.
To be specific: the killer was deported during the Clinton administration, sneaked back in a year later and was arrested, but released for “unknown reasons” by Joe Arpaio’s crew and was later deported for a drug charge. He re-entered in 2001 while GWB was president, and committed the murders that earned him a death sentence 13 years later. Cite.
David Fahrenthold is reporting that the judge in the Trump emoluments lawsuit has ruled that Trump’s argument that he’s too busy to deal with lawsuits is invalid, since he’s basically tweeted “bring it on” when faced with past lawsuits.
There’s also the fact that apparently he only “works” about three hours a day and goofs off for nine hours of “executive time”.
Put this in the “Stuff We Already Knew” folder in the “No Shit Sherlock” drawer: Michael Cohen reminisces about Trump being racist.
Protesters in Nigeria threw rocks at military members and then opened fire. The government used Trump’s words about shooting rock throwers for justification.
umm,
ignorant fuck
Scaramucci says Trump is an “intentional liar. It’s very different than just being a liar-liar.”
Trump’s philosophy is now, has always been, the ends justify the means. Nothing says you have to be the least bit honest or ethical if you think your goal is worthy.
The Mooch has been all over the talk circuit lately. I correctly guessed that he has a new book out.
Here’s another summationof the thump way:
The article is about thump’s assertion that the caravan is going to invade the USA with disease-ridden thugs and gang members.
I’m guessing many of the deplorables are wrestling fans, so this may be another reason why they understand and relate to him. I dunno.
Well, we’d already noticed he looked like a supervillain and that it was a family trait. Thing is, aren’t heels supposed to eventually lose? If Donald Trump is Kingpin with worse hair we’re kind of in luck: the majority of his brand’s opponents do have law degrees, that’s got to count as a start.