President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Yes, he loves grievance, but he has tended to avoid direct confrontation. Likes to operate through subordinates. Plenty of time to pardon starting on Nov. 4 one way or the other.

 

Stacy Abrams. She’s got the experience of being a Georgia delegate from a liberal district.

 

Ok, so there are a lot more interesting options than Bernie. Should that not worry Bernie?

 

Sanders has name recognition, a large and well-funded campaign organization and a solid 25-30 percent of the primary electorate that are with him all the way. He's got to convince 25-30 percent of the rest of the primary electorate he can too beat Trump. It's doable, but a tough sell. As far as can be told, the support lost by Warren went to Klobuchar and Mayor Pete, not him. This is going to be a long primary campaign. We can't have a real front-runner until after Super Tuesday and we might not even them.

 

There are a lot of people out there who will vote for whatever D candidate is on the ballot just to get rid of Trump, myself included.

But there are a lot of people out there who will look at the successful economy, survey the field and realize that if it's crazy-ass Sanders or milquetoast Buttigieg on the ticket, maybe they'll just sit this one out. Sad, but true. If the D candidate can't rally the voters out of a slumber, we're done here.

I personally don't give a shit anymore about Sanders' cries of Bloomberg being a billionaire just trying to buy the nomination. If he can get in the mud with Trump and suffocate him, he has my vote. And he very well may get it in the Virginia primary, though I still have about three weeks to figure it out.

 

One thing Bloomberg has going for him is that voters never have given a damn about campaign finance and never will. And Sanders has no credible beef about money. He has plenty. He spent like $25 million in New Hampshire.

 

That Klobuchar has no baggage is false. She is a terrible person to work for, according to various and unceasing reports.

Not grabbing someone by the privates level bad, but a contemptible thing to me.

Hey, remember that time Howard Dean couldn't be president because he yelled once?

 

Millions, no, tens of millions of American voters think being a real jerk is a prerequisite for a President, because that's what they think of as "toughness."

 

If he were a Howard Baker type of Republican, yes. Moscow Mitch isn't that principled, at least not anymore. Trump can get away with anything he wants and has ensured that by securing a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court. It's all about power.

 

You don't get my point. The risk of letting Trump do that is that the next Democratic President does the same thing. "ACA unconstitutional? Fuck you. I say it is. Now impeach me."

 

I am surprised we don't hear much from Darth Bannon anymore. But he doesn't need the media oxygen like a lot of them.

 

I get it now. But we’re talking about Trump, not some normal Republican. Don’t put it past him.