President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Maria’s only follow up is to ask for a breath mint

 

Altered from Schitt’s Creek...

Malina’s first English phrase she needed to learn?

You’re hurting me.

 

Sorry everyone but this made me laugh.

 

Ranger Rick says "Do not feed the Trolls".

 

Dane County recount shows Biden won Wisconsin as Trump prepares a lawsuit

 

At what point does one of the two following happen because this crap is long since old?:
1. Everyone except Rudy bails on him. (which is happening more and more every day)
2. Someone who can actually get through his addled brain physically grab him by the collar and shout, "FUCKING STOP."

 

Ain't happening. Here's a clear case for the 25th amendment, and no one will step up.

"The 20 days between the election on Nov. 3 and the greenlighting of Biden’s transition exemplified some of the hallmarks of life in Trump’s White House: a government paralyzed by the president’s fragile emotional state; advisers nourishing his fables; expletive-laden feuds between factions of aides and advisers; and a pernicious blurring of truth and fantasy."

"In the days after the election, as Trump scrambled for an escape hatch from reality, the president largely ignored his campaign staff and the professional lawyers who had guided him through the Russia investigation and the impeachment trial, as well as the army of attorneys who stood ready to file legitimate court challenges.

Instead, Trump empowered loyalists who were willing to tell him what he wanted to hear — that he would have won in a landslide had the election not been rigged and stolen — and then to sacrifice their reputations by waging a campaign in courtrooms and in the media to convince the public of that delusion."

20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f45226-2f47-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html

 

He’s got about 21 hours a day of Foxnews, 24 hours a day of OAN and Newsmax. He’s feeding his trolls. Hes got enough media to keep him happy. He’s got 95% of elected republicans and all the money in the party. He’s got the Rudy and Degenova and Toensig and the loser lawyers drawing nice Christmas bonus checks. He’s going to start a shooting war in the Middle East shortly

 

Reagan also did the coin flip for Super Bowl XIX from the White House, which was shown live on the JumboTron at Stanford Stadium.

In 1985 that was considered super-cool wowee stuff.

Before the dark times, before the empire.

 

Trump will arrange for firing squads to be televised by OAN

 

The 'diploma divide' in American politics

What drives the diploma divide? In a word, populism.
Populism entails resentment of elites. Left-wing populism targets the wealthy elite. You see it when Bernie Sanders attacks Wall Street and “the one percent.” Right-wing populism targets the educated elite. You see it when conservatives attack experts and high-minded liberals who use “cancel culture” to enforce political correctness.
The fatal flaw of liberals is condescension. Ordinary voters who lack fancy degrees are quick to sniff out condescension when liberals speak disdainfully of people who “cling to guns or religion” or call Trump supporters “deplorables.” One reason why Joe Biden won: He doesn’t have a trace of condescension.
Donald Trump is not an ideologue. Many conservative intellectuals don’t trust him because he lacks a coherent philosophy of government. He is not a man of ideas. He’s a man of impulses, which he shares with a lot of unsophisticated Americans.