President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Whose clearance did Obama revoke? Asking for @YankeeFan.

 

Obama liked dogs, so ...

 

Think of the noun that begins with 'b' and that is the word for female dog that he really meant.

 

Got to love this one.

 

“The Republican Party has shifted. It is the era of Trump and I’m just not a Trump-like politician.”

The phrase “Trump-like politician,” it turns out, is basically a euphemism for a “politician who is willing to defend President Trump at his most reprehensible moments.” The man who decisively defeated Pawlenty, local commissioner Jeff Johnson, actually ran an ad that blasted Pawlenty for failing to stand by Trump after the news broke of the “Access Hollywood” video, which featured Trump boasting in extremely lewd fashion about his ability to carry out sexual assaults with impunity.

......multiple Republican candidates have been placed on the defensive during this cycle for the same thing: failing to support Trump not just in a general sense, but more precisely for failing to support Trump when the “Access Hollywood” tape surfaced.


Opinion | The new GOP litmus test: Defending Trump at his absolute worst

 

Is there anything as predictable as Trump accusing others of doing what he does?

 

The problem isn't so much POTUS, it is that every designed check on the executive: the judical, the legislative and a big chunk of the media, are doing his bidding. The staggering thing of this episode of American history isn't the election of Trump, he's just one guy - but hundreds of public officials aiding and abetting him.

Even more bizarre is that I would say a good 80 percent of the GOP in Congress took a pay cut to serve - so it isn't like they're just staying quiet to stay on the good side of their voters and keep the paychecks coming.

 

In order to defend trumps use of THE pejorative insult against African Americans, I expect his defenders to start using it publicly. It’s their 1st amendment right they’ll say. It’s no more insulting then what those people say about us, they’ll say
And then, since it will be assumed that trumpdefenders usethe term, andwill be defended by Bovine Huckster Slanders, the closet racists, like those who defend trump on message boards and twitter, will begin to use it more and more fr the shock value, but in order to demean people, in the most hurtful way.
It’s part of the trump/Nazi plan, normalize deplorable reprehensible and de-civilized public discourse.

 

He's just trying to hide his Muslim roots.

 

You have the power relationship wrong, Dan. The average Republican member of Congress couldn't make it in private business and is using Congress to feather his nest (so are more than a few Democrats). A poli sci professor did a paper back in about 2001 or 2012 showing that the ONLY investors who didn't lose money in the 2008 financial crisis when markets shrank by 35 percent were members of Congress. The way it works is, you do the bidding of really rich people, and they give you tips. It's like lap dancing, but less honest.