And I’ll bet you more Zimbabwean dollars than you can imagine that President Empty-Headed Animal Food Trough Wi-per will just double down instead, and claim that he’s already clobbering the unfair Chinese in the trade war and how thankful we should be for it. Of course I don’t have the faintest how Il Douche would try to substantiate such a bonkers claim, and trying to get inside his head is probably not the most advisable thing.
I fear Navarro is too in lockstep with His Cheetoship to get canned - the former makes too good a footman for the latter.
If congress prioritizes social security and medicare over defense spending, I’ll eat my chapeau.
A great interview last night by PBS’s excellent Amna Nawaz had Scott Shuchart (formerly of Dept. of Homeland Security and now senior immigration fellow at the Center For American Progress) talking about the border situation. Starts at 0:18.
I find that image perplexing. Evidently he is on stage at an auditorium that is set up with a steep seating arrangement so that the whole audience will have a pretty good view of the stage. The podium is set up facing away from the seats (presumably toward the cameras, which must be backstage). So the attendees get to have a good view of his back (perhaps there is a Jumbotron behind the camera, so that they can see his face).
Why the fuck would someone go to a rally in order to look at the speaker’s ass? Are his words even distinguishable from his farts? And, good lord, I cannot even begin to imagine seeing that face on a giant Big Brother display.
What an absolutely horrific image. Bone chilling. Broken me to my core. Caused involuntary spasms from my sphincter north. Grisly beyond human expression.
I figure eventually it’ll go down like this: the tariffs will keep negatively affecting Americans until the grumbling from his own base starts to become unbearable. At which point, Trump will declare that we have “won the trade war” and remove the tariffs because we are victorious, despite no supporting evidence. And his followers will crow about the glorious victory, even though we accomplished nothing other than shooting ourselves in the foot for a while.
I was telling Trumpsters during the campaign who wanted Trump to disrupt DC and upset the status quo that any idiot with a book of matches can burn a house down; to rebuild one you need an architect, contractors, labor, building materials,…
This video is from a guy who was at a Trump rally and recorded his own footage of the event. He shows how large the hall actually was and how people were packed into a small section of it that was shown on camera while the rest of the hall was mostly empty.
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That was great, thanks for sharing. Of course Trump packs the people in behind him because the assumption would be that the rest of the place was also filled. News organizations with eyes toward credibility should cover these events and pan the cameras about.
“Jim, I’m here at the rally and the crowd is really packed in directly behind and in front of Trump. I’m going to head the other direction and set up a monster truck rally in the space left in the auditorium. Jim, back to you in the studio, Jim.”
In 2012, Obama received 10% of the white vote in Mississippi, lowest of any state (neighboring Alabama was next with 15%). For context, in that election Obama received 48% of the white vote in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and 51% in Iowa.
The Gulf Coast South is full of really fucked up white people. (They also gave LBJ single digit vote totals in 1964 when he was winning in a landslide natiowide.) :mad: