President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Whenever Republicans in Congress have told Trump "don't do this" he hasn't done it. Things like closing the borders, getting out of Afghanistan and other actions they felt were politically unpalatable. They haven't objected to much, mind you, but defying the Supreme Court they would.

 

It’s sweet you think that there will be a Democratic President or a future

 

Abbott- The bad guys have never won in the history of the country.

 

They already have. The bad guys won reconstruction. And in 2000 & 2016.

 

i always assumed Biden was in not to win, but to trade haymakers with Trump so everyone else could fly under the radar. I stand by that.

 

Weird how Trump associates have ties to people like this ...

Perhaps the most unusual public episode in Mr. Ray’s career came in 1997 when he arranged a City Hall meeting for Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Earlier in the 1990s, Mr. Ray became close to Mr. Kerik, whom Mayor Giuliani had appointed as New York’s City’s correction commissioner and later named the police commissioner.

Mr. Ray was the best man at Mr. Kerik’s wedding and paid for part of the celebration; a short while later, Mr. Kerik helped Mr. Ray get a $100,000-a-year job with a construction company, Interstate Industrial Corp. Part of Mr. Ray’s responsibility was to help the business get a license from city regulators, despite allegations it was tied to organized crime.


Sarah Lawrence Parent Accused of Sex Trafficking and Abusing Students

 

That’s Bloomberg from here on out

 

Want to circle back to this. There is no problem with calling white supremacists "deplorables." The problem was that Fox News took that quote, completely distorted it out of context and turned it into a rallying cry for ALL Rs in 2016. I don't think that base was entirely motivated until that happened.

 

Random comments:

1) Has anyone read Klobuchar's 1986 book on how the Metrodome was built?

2) The race for the second Georgia Senate seat (ex-Isakson, now Loeffler), which will have Rs and Ds in a combined primary/general in November, is going to be interesting. The Club for Growth has started an ad blitz on behalf of Loeffler arguing that Doug Collins is a big spender who supports leftist priorities like welfare. Dear God. Collins is blasting Loeffler for donating to Romney in 2012 and not Trump in 2016. I assume Collins's people haven't yet figured out that Loeffler's WNBA team at one point employed Stacey Abrams' legal consulting firm.

3) With a still-crowded field and no sign that African-Americans are enthusiastic about any viable candidate (assuming Biden's done), I wonder if this would be a good time for one of the candidates to name an African-American running mate. I think it's been done a few times as a Hail Mary by faltering candidates, but it might be a (risky) way to jump ahead of the field at this stage. There was talk some months ago of Biden picking Abrams early, but I doubt she'd be interested now. Bloomberg-Harris might be the best fit as far as adding an African-American woman with Washington experience to a male outsider candidate, if she'd be interested. Maybe Buttigieg-Harris, but I don't see her being as willing to play second fiddle to him - she's too midcareer to play the experienced elder statesperson with less personal ambition that Biden was for Obama or Cheney was for Bush 43. Abrams is an outsider and so wouldn't help Bloomberg or Buttigieg as much, and a woman and so wouldn't help Klobuchar or Warren as much. Booker as an insider wouldn't help Klobuchar or Warren as much and as a man wouldn't help Bloomberg or Buttigieg as much.

 

I'm talking big picture.

The Radical Republicans and the Bush Republicans were repudiated by the Civil Rights Act and the Obama wave, respectively.

Nobody knows how this will end. But there will be a president after Trump and the cockroaches will not be able to hide forever beneath his billowy underskirts.

 

"They" say that was part of the reason he wanted the whole Ukraine thing done and in turn take Russia off the hook for 2016, to get Manafort out because he knows as much as anybody about trumps secrets.

 

He was on Maher last week. Did a lot of avoiding the questions (of course Bill let him) and talking in circles.