Trump’s assaults on the media represent behavior by a president that I never thought I would live to see. Even if Trump quits, or is impeached, or whatever, this is unprecedented territory in American history. We’re witnessing an American president expressing outright contempt for the Bill of Rights, and I would wager that most of his supporters are cheering him on.
America is in deep shit tonight.
Didn’t Nixon do something similar?
I find that a lazy position, “they’re all alike”.
Of course, his takeaway from “90% of news coverage of Trump has been negative” is “so there’s a problem with the news !” rather than "Gee, even Dubya didn’t catch that much shit, maybe I’m doing something wrong ? "
Nixon created an “enemies list” that contained lots of unfriendly media—but unlike Trump he realized this was shameful and tried to keep it secret.
Cory Lewandowski pulled a Bannon and refused to testify before the House Committee, but he didn’t get a subpoena, though Adam Schiff wants one.
Interesting. In all the past year (two years, if you count the campaign), Krugman has been blasting Trump non-stop, yet I don’t recall ever seeing or hearing or reading a word from Trump about him. I don’t recall reading about any tweet that mentions him. I’ve wondered all this time: Where is Krugman on Trump’s shit-list?
Have I been living under a rock?
Don Jr. retweeted an article that seriously trashes his father, obviously only having read the headline.
http://addictinginfo.com/2018/01/17/don-jr-shares-article-while-somehow-totally-unaware-that-it-savages-his-father/
Like i said, Krugman’s columns are way over thump’s head. The fact that thump has never read him is THE primary qualification for getting the award.
I don’t know that any of the Trumps are capable of reading. They have people for that.
wow… just wow…
Not at all what I said. I prefer Democratic positions to Republican ones almost every time, which is why I am a Democrat. But I don’t pretend it’s because a bunch of slaveholding white guys in the powdered wigs wrote down all of our modern principles on a parchment 200-odd years ago. The fact is, the “spirit of 76” is much closer to the small government, deregulation ethos than it is to the progressive, activist government I prefer. So it’s freeing not to have to pretend fealty to the ideology of those rich old white guys from the 1700s.
The Frisch School, the Jewish high school that Jared attended, and where Trump’s Middle East advisor sends his kid(s), has told its students to send letters of support to Trump, without input from the parents of the school’s students.
Jared Kushner's High School Is Making Children Write Letters of Support to Donald Trump?
And he’s not even quite finished his first year, yet.
He’s done something neither Obama nor Bush managed until their 8th year. Way above average.
:smack: You’re right; I’m so ashamed of myself. Please forgive me! :o
And please allow me to redeem myself with this adorable kitten.
They’re just threatened by the greatness of America soaring back again !
With Friday’s possible shutdown looming, one of my biggest heroes for some time now - Lisa Dejardins - was saying on PBS tonight that without McCain around, the required 60 senate votes will be reliant on ten Dem votes. She feels it’s not clear, tonight anyway, if that’ll happen - she thinks it’ll come down to the wire.
No. 2 in senate John Cornyn told her there’ll be no vote on DACA ths week, and so Dems have to decide if they’ll swallow this CR, or do they try to shut down gov’t to force a vote, and she figures enough moderates could possibly vote for the CR.
She added that this, in turn, would push the solution to the Feb. 16 spending deadline, making that an important date for the dreamers and DACA, and, because that’s closer to the March DACA deadline, Dems will feel they have more momentum that DACA could be reality.
Bannon has agreed to appear before Mueller, just as the House Intelligence Committee was on the verge of subpeoning Bannon to do so. Meuller subpeoned instead, according to AP (through the Guardian Steve Bannon to meet with Mueller’s investigators instead of testifying | Steve Bannon | The Guardian)
Wow, misspelling a hero - DeSjardins.
