Politics Trump - What has he done now???

We'll see what happens when these new Russian sanctions hit his desk...
Veto?
Override??
Backlash?

 

Just brilliant...

Donald Trump Confirms Existence Of Secret CIA Program - On Twitter

And now, just for this reason...as well as a multitude of others, Psychologist are lumping in
Psychiatry group tells members they can defy ‘Goldwater rule’ and comment on Trump’s mental health

Now if they can just explain people who are still cheering on this joker.
I just don't get it.

 

Times are strange when the Boy Scouts have to apologize for your President
From the Chief: Our Perspective on the Presidential Visit - Scouting Wire

 

The scout thing was at once bizarre-o and also entirely expected. Like, putting Trump in front of a crowd always goes exactly the same way. The fact that he'd deem it appropriate to talk about the swamp and sex yachts in front of a bunch of children is as unsurprising as it is insane.

It's really just another gaffe. Add it to the pile The Priebus situation is far more interesting. The Mooch rolls in and tells Donnie, "fire Reince" and Donnie just goes and does it. Hmm.

Some folks are saying this is Trump turning on the establishment Republicans. His base started doing that over a week ago, when McConnell failed for the umpteenth time to ram an Obamacare repeal through. Folks are expecting some kind of rift between Donald and the GOP, and that the GOP is going to come out on top. I don't see it; the Republicans are not going to risk alienating the craziest part of their base. Reince is the sacrificial lamb and he was declaring his love for big brother even as they dragged him up to the altar. If that's not a sign for how the winds are blowing, I don't know what is.

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No, see, this is his base though. The world is black and white. Good guys and bad guys. The people getting arrested are criminals -- why else would they be arrested? -- and criminals are subhuman. Subhumans don't deserve human dignity. In the world of Trump and his followers, showing respect or concern for the wellbeing of someone who is under arrest is nonsensical. Simple, emotional narratives. It's where they're at. Trump is a master craftsman. He can't string three sentences together on the same subject to make a coherent thought, but pushing the right buttons to elicit a response out of his base is something he does like he's Johnny on his goddamned fiddle. It's savant-level stuff, honestly.

 

Actually @martian it's not good vs evil
Although they may rationalize it that way
It's more like the Red Sox vs the Yankees
It's team oriented...fan based
Tribal
Very elemental
Them vs us

 

Tangentially related, but McCain might be one to watch in the coming weeks. Glioblastoma is a tough diagnosis; he's got probably less than two years. Median survival rate is about 15 months I think but he's no spring chicken, which won't help his odds.

At first I thought the fact that McCain was getting all the credit for killing the Obamacare repeal seemed unfair, when Senators Collins and Murkowski were the ones who staunchly opposed it from the start and put a Republican majority out of reach on several past votes. But discussion on Reddit clued me into a senatorial point of order that I was not aware of; by voting in favour of bringing the bill to debate and then subsequently voting it down, McCain created a situation where a full Obamacare repeal would now require a 60 vote majority to pass. 60 votes is not possible without Democratic support, and no Democrat is going to support a repeal of Obamacare, so that dream is effectively dead.

I do think we could be hearing more out of him in the next few weeks/months. He's not going to finish out his term and he knows it. He's spent the past few years following party lines, but he is effectively free from any restrictions now since he doesn't really have to worry about support, and probably thinking a lot about what he wants his last legislative acts to be.

I'm holding out hope that he'll surprise a lot of people in the end.

 

Donald Trump Is A Terrible President, According To His Own Tweets About Obama

Of course, whatever he says is often a lie...so he was likely lying about Obama, so he's safe from himself.
Doesn't mean he's not safe from himself now...still can put his foot in his mouth.

 

And he fails just like the guy at the end.
Neither will learn.
Still appropriate.

 

Add this log to the fire...The US dollar is quickly losing its international value (as well as our reputation)
Trump's Dollar Mess: Losses Pile Up as Political Drama Mounts

 

Mouth of the mouth is out...
Anthony Scaramucci out as White House communications director; John Kelly has ‘full authority’

11 days...
Lost his job...and his family.

Got so good at firing everyone, even got himself fired.
Probably because made the mistake of getting more attention than Trump