What your analysis forgets is that the Democrats are supporting an investigation that threatens to put his family enterprise out of business and his family in jail. And it threatens to derail the donor class agenda. Even if this year’s elections are free of Putin’s meddling, the Democrats won’t be able to retake congress in numbers sufficient to force Trump from power. I hate to tell you but this is not 1974 and we’d better start understanding that fact. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try to impeach him – they should. But Trump has made outrage normal - any single one of the hundreds of not thousands of insults to democratic norms we’ve been subjected to over the past year would have been a scandal for any other president - certainly would have been for a would-be female president, certainly would have been for Trump’s black predecessor. But Trump has baptized us in outrage - over and over again. It’s not just the GOP that have normalized him; millions of people made a decision to normalize him on November 8, 2016, and whether they realized it or not, they made a decision to normalize him and everything he does.
Of course I don’t think that’s the worst of it - Putin is at war with us. Not with the Democratic party, not with the Republican party. Not with Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump. He’s at war with American power. He wants and needs an America at war with itself. I think we can expect another November surprise, and it could be even more spectacular than last year’s.
Yeah, you guys are ultimately right. It’s just that I gel so annoyed with the Republican shenanigans that I want to turn it all around and give it right back to them…HARD. But then I remember that it’ll be the same kind of disaster for the Dems. Best to stick to the high road, as much as I sometimes want to go low just to give them a taste of their own medicine.
Buts it’s totally not the right thing to do. I just like my revenge fantasies.
But a little flattery goes a long way with Trump, as does the idea of winning. So maybe while everyone is doing everything they can to get rid of him ( which I hope happens as soon as possible) someone can compliment his hair then slip him a universal health care bill to sign. Because I think he can be swayed on that issue.
Stephen Miller was on Jake Tapper’s show on CNN today and went ranting about how Trump is a genius and CNN is fake news, so Tapper cut him off and said it was a waste of the viewers’ time. And Miller refused to leave the set till he was escorted off by security.
It is impossible that Trump will switch teams. The opposition party wants to impeach him and could ruin him. From his point of view, there’s only one way out: replace the rule of law with the rule of men. And from the Republican / donor class point of view, there’s only one way to maintain power: rig democracy so that some votes count more than others. That is the bottom line, the alpha and the omega. That is the one and only thing to remember here, folks. The right wing is waging a counter revolution which wants to replace our modern democracy with one that is values wealthier citizens - and their votes - more than others. And if they have to get help from Vladimir Putin to cheat the system, who gives a fuck as far as they’re concerned. That’s what you’re up against. Expect outrage in 2018. Expect jailed political opponents. Expect rigged elections. Expect chaos and unrest. America voted to fist fuck itself in 2016 and you can stop fantasizing: there are going to be consequences. Nothing you can do about that now.
This is the first WWF (World Wrestling Federation) presidency. Stephen Miller came out looking very tense and ready to fight. I am surprised he didn’t hit Jake Tapper with a chair.
Back in 1964 when Goldwater was given the nod at the Cow Palace, we said “this GOP is not the GOP that elected Ike.”
In the 1980’s and 90’s when Gingrich and Reagan were the face of the GOP, we said “this is not the GOP that stood up to Goldwater.”
In 2008, when McCain chose Palin as his running mate, we said McCain is a sensible man who doesn’t hate America. Give him a break — he needs to appeal to the bat-shit insane wing of his Party.
And now, Sarah Palin is just another laughing-stock on YouTube. Oh, how we long for those days.
In 2012, when Romney chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, we gave Romney the same pass as we gave McCain: He had to select a hateful Ayn Rand fanatic to get votes from the morons and imbeciles in his own Party.
But Ryan … has become the Speaker of the House! :eek: and the architect of the greatest transfer of wealth from the needy to the already-rich since the Colonization of Africa!
If the Republican Party hadn’t inherited the mantle of the Party of Abe, Teddy, Ike and, yes, Ronnie, it would be condemned today as a terrorist organization.
This is why whenever I see comments like the following, I wonder if we’re living in alternate realities.
Do you think Pence and Ryan would have chosen more centrist Judges?
And Cabinet appointments like DeVos and Pruitt are precisely who Pence and Ryan would have chosen on their own if they knew they could get away with it — if they understood the depth to which American politics have sunk. Palin and Ryan are worthy of consideration for the Vice Presidency? :smack: With that as the standard, appointments like DeVos or Pruitt now go almost unnoticed.
Trump’s incompetence is the only thing shielding us, slightly, from rule by the Deplorables.
“He’s unfit; He must go” ? … I’d rather say He’s incompetent; that’s why he must stay.
Impeachment to give Pence and Ryan even more power? * Just say No.*
The response came back pretty quickly – someone who’s a “genius” shouldn’t actually have to point that out. It weakens their case. And anyone who says they’re “like, really smart” probably isn’t.
It sometimes seems as if Donald Trump’s purpose is to be a walking example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. The D-K effect has been invoked many times on these pages, but it’s wortb restating:
Has anyone had the temerity to point this out to Trump?
We al ought to be cautious, by the way, in bring up the Dunning-Kruger Effect. By its very definition, anyone is susceptible to it, since they don’t realize the extent of their ignorance. We are arguably all subject to the law, at least in some area of expertise.
“Ask not for who the Dunning Krogers. It Krogers for Thee.”
Ah. Sorry. It sounded like you might have been complaining.
Exactly.
Trump is not the disease. He’s the symptom. I don’t even blame him so much. He’s been what he is all along. It’s the ones that enabled him, that allowed him to gain the presidency, and that support him now that he’s there that are to blame. This thing is not a snake. If you cut off it’s head, it’s not going to die. It’s more like one of those creatures that if you smash it, it just multiplies.
The entire GOP; Pence, Ryan, McConnell, the cabinet, all of them, needs to go and that is extremely unlikely. The propaganda and the dumbing down that the right has indulged in since the 60’s has finally born fruit. Orange fruit.
Do you think Pence and Ryan would have chosen more centrist Judges?