President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Ask 'em how they voted in non-Presidential elections. That'd be good to know, because it's a clue as to their actual political sentiments. Also, people who feel abandoned by both parties tend to take it out on the one in power if they do vote.

 

I think he may be losing some support among those who thought he'd be sticking it to politicians as a group.

The shine of Trump as the chaos candidate who's going to straighten out Washington is wearing off. Rather than draining the swamp of the elite, he's doubling down on them. Instead of increased transparency and reduced corruption, he's doing the inverse. He's less the domineering [no] puppet master making McConnell and Ryan bend to his whim than he is useful idiot for passing legislation he doesn't (and could possibly never) understand. Now that the shock waves of "shaking up Washington" are rattling the windows in their own homes, those voters would probably welcome back some old fashioned Clinton / Bush cronyism.

He will not lose support among those who think he's simply sticking it to Democrats. Every "Crying Chuck Schumer," callback to election night and tweak of Hillary Clinton is a bolus of dopamine to those voters. They don't care that they're part of an experiment nor consider its potential outcomes; they just know it feels really good.

 

Yep, hints of canceling press briefings and intimidation of Comey suggesting there may be "tapes" of their conversations.

 

Trump just tweeted that Comey had better hope there are no "tapes" of their conversations. His quotation marks, not mine. Some poli sci grad student 30 years from now will write their PhD dissertation on Trump's use of quotation marks in tweets.

 

As an occasional reminder, I'd like to reiterate that this president is a total fucking idiot.

 

Republicanism and Trumpism are one in the same:

Rick Scott to chair pro-Donald Trump ‘New Republican’ super PAC | Post on Politics

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who is widely expected to run for the seat of Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson next year, will chair a super PAC that aims to “re-brand and re-invent the Republican Party” to better support President Donald Trump.

 

"Donald Trump’s election was a complete shock to the system in Washington. This is the perfect opportunity to do things differently. Donald Trump needs a Republican Party that supports him with ideas that will make American Great, and ideas that the American people want. New Republican will be an idea generator."

One of the things that will apparently not make America(n) great is proofreading.

 

God-Emperor Trump, so immensely proud of himself, has no idea how often, and how easily, he gets played ...



On Wednesday morning before meeting with Trump, Lavrov even cracked a joke about his hosts’ political predicament, laughingly claiming not to have heard of the Comey firing while standing alongside Trump’s secretary of state, Rex Tillerson.

In other words, Lavrov was right where he has always wanted to be Wednesday: mocking the United States while being welcomed in the Oval Office by the president himself.

Russia’s longest-serving foreign minister of the post-Cold War era, Lavrov has worked alongside Putin since 2004 with a single-minded goal: to make Russia great again—and all the better if he could do so at America’s expense.

Russia’s Oval Office Victory Dance

 

The lesson Scott and other Republicans seem to have taken from Trump is "Lies work. They're all you need in politics." They forget lies are like everything else. They only work if you're good at them.

 

A little late to this party, but Ryan's a lightweight piker. McConnell is the one you'd want gone in this scenario.