President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Speaking of someone who's "triggered" - do you expect that stammering doofus Spicer to be hostile or self-congratulatory today?

 

Yes

 

Anyone want to predict how soon the Republicsns shitcan the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees?

 

Whichever time Bill Pryor gets nominated and Democrats scream bloody murder.

 

The RoguePOTUS twitter account said day before yesterday that Trump wanted them both there, but that Bannon was afraid that paying for the one not chosen to come would be used against them. And yes, I understand that account is in no way verified... but it keeps getting things right.

 

Good article on J.D. Vance, where he discusses the future of Real Americans who are exploited and given lip-service by both parties.

“We need a better leadership class to set the tone for the discussion,” Vance tells TAC. “The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society. They don’t talk about the church, about local community organizations, about businesses as anything more than providers of jobs.

“We’re very good at talking about the individual in American politics, and excellent at talking about the government,” he continues. “But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.”

Hillbilly Energy

 

No admirer of the last president, as my good chums here know, but at least he wasn't so fucking needy.

 

Such as?

 

I like J.D. Vance. But at bottom, his message is always that poor people need to just stop being poor, but stated in a non-crazy way. He's fast become liberals' favorite conservative.

 

I think this is a conspiracy theory they actually may have something to it.

If that's the playbook he's using, fuck, man.

 

I foresee him reaching the same dead end Harry Caudill did coming from the left, winding up bitter and disillusioned that his people will ever do better or pull themselves out of the muck.