President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

The current president's only campaign platform was unabashed hate and assholery.

This is what happens next.

 

You're kidding, right? The man was elected by large margins twice and had an approval rating of 59 pct. when he left office.

 

I'm not a fan of that commercialization either, but the 45 folks have been doing that even during the election cycle. And it was a clue that helped me think Trump could win. Why?

All those yard signs and big 4' x 8' signs were not given out for free like most every major campaign in recent history - they were SOLD. I think the yard signs were like ten bucks and the 4x8s were $250

That told me that not only were people going to vote for him, they were buying in.

What remains to be seen is if the hate and narratives turn out to carry the day in 2020, or is there a silent majority quietly sitting back, pissed at all this negativity, ready to fuck up more polling data, and double down for another four years.

I'm thinking the latter. And then heads really will explode, and Trump can paint AF-1 and Marine One to look like this:

 

Good point. I don't believe polls anymore though.

 

Only those predisposed to hate Obama could hate Obama. There was nothing about his personal behavior that ever invited hate.

If you did hate him, then that may say more about you than him.

 

There is no silent majority. Trump did not improve on typical GOP vote share in recent elections.

 

This is hilarious.

 

I didnt say I hated him. Lots of crap I didn't like, starting right out of the gate by accepting that stupid Nobel Prize, which he should have respectfully declined and said get back to me in 4 or 8 years and see if I've earned it.

A lot of the anti-Trump stuff sure seems like hate to me. And from a Secret Service standpoint, he's probably much higher risk to guard. I mean, people are getting completely unhinged, and of course, his Presidency-In-Training doesn't help one iota.

 

I wish I could have found a longer version of that focus group clip I posted last night. There was a Trump voter (named Tony!) who said something like "I wish he believed the opposite of everything I believe in. It would be better for my side."

 

He has picked fights with a vast majority of this country's population, all because they had the gall to refuse to swallow the incoherent bullshit he spews on a daily basis.

So, cry me a river for poor Donald.

 

At first I think there's no way this could have happened, but then I remember the guys I went to high school with who became cops:

"WE ONLY KILL BLACK PEOPLE, RIGHT?" Video shows interaction between police officer from Georgia and woman during traffic stop

 

Yes it is.