Cont: President Trump: Part 3
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Well tbh he is passionate about tax reform, not least because of the amount he personally stands to gain from it
Well tbh he is passionate about tax reform, not least because of the amount he personally stands to gain from it
No, he's passionate about tax cuts. He's extremely lazy and tax reform will be very hard. Tax cuts will be very easy with a Republican congress.
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And when he doesn't go to Mar A Lago, he goes to Trump National Golf Club in Virginia like this weekend.
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I find his style and taste to be kitsch and facade. I suppose it is luxury, but it lacks class. It is not high class.
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Trump supporters think he can divide by zero.
My favorite claim is that he took all these actions in support of the ahca because he opposed the ahca.
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Exactly. Trump couldn't even bring people from his own party together on the health care bill. And Obamacare was something Republicans were chomping at the bit to dismantle for years. It was a crap bill so I don't think the blame is 100% on Trump. Still, it's a pathetic fail. He said more than once on the campaign trail that Obamacare would be gone on Day 1.
I've said before that anything requiring the building of a coalition of allies will be hard to pull off if his administration continues this way. I'm fearful that he can't go any deeper than "bomb the **** out of them."
I hope nothing happens, but something always does happen.
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Millions did. The dumbing down of America?
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No, not exactly. There's a reason they tried to pass this terrible bill down everyone's throats to start with and that was to make the two trillion dollar tax cuts for the rich more palatable and doable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ublicans-were-in-such-a-hurry-on-health-care/
Now it gets much harder.
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Which is why I keep repeating, the lesson from the last election was not "don't underestimate Trump" but "don't underestimate the stupidity of the American people."
I'd prefer to characterise it as "blind optimism". IMO many people knew it was too good to be true - they weren't stupid - but went along in the hope that it could somehow magically, schmagically, come to pass.
A more cynical, harder bittemn public wouldn't have been that optimistic. It's not just a matter of intellect, some comparatively smart people were also swept along.
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Yes, and that is stupidiy.
For pete's sake, 60% of Republicans still think Obama ordered surveillance of Trump. These people are morons.
I've had enough of giving morons the benefit of the doubt for their stupidity.
I disagree (but then I would, wouldn't I
). I reckon that the Democratic Party could attempt to restructure and rework their message to exploit that same blind optimism without flat-out lying like Trump and sections of the GOP.Well that's what they've been told by the media they access and the people they trust. It's only natural that they should come to believe it's the case. IN light of that, 40% thinking otherwise is a good indication of their critical thinking.
Well if GOP supporters are that stupid, you're ******. Ignorance can be addressed but stupidity is permanent. It it's true that many/most GOP supporters are stupid then unless the Democratic Party can somehow exploit it, they're doomed to decades, generations even, in opposition.
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I don't underestimate Trump nor the stupidity/gullibility of humans. Trump is really smart about a few things including how to manipulate the media. All the crazy crap he says is part of his process. He's trolling the media and the public and most everyone falls for it every time. We're all watching to see what batcrap crazy thing Trump will do next all the time he's sodomizing us.
It's misdirection taken to a whole new level. If he can get enough people to pay attention to his left hand we won't notice what he did with his right until it's too late.
That said Trump is stupid and ignorant about so many things. He may know how to manipulate the media but Congress is another thing and another game. Trump doesn't do his homework so that means it is up to everyone else around him and their priorities. Trump will take credit but he's not interested in doing the work. Trump likes being the boss. He's never had so many noses up his ass and the feeling is great. But there is little reason to believe he can be an effective leader. What he has going for him is a Republican congress. The problem is these are also egomaniacs who have their own priorities and who secretly and some not so secretly hate his guts.
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Regardless of other argument, I believe demographics belie that notion. Whereas it remains true that the design of the federal system favors the land-dominating and population-wise less-favored conservatives, this shifts the bar to a larger majority required, and so only postpones. Some hard work will be needed in states that are going or go blue to redemocratize the rigged voting systems. Larger cities in some red states may also help push for better districting. All to say, as with Obama, the presidency is relatively easier to keep blue, while Congress will take longer. The doomsday scenario, in fact, is what drives Republicans, not Democrats, which explains the panicked aversion to argument and knee-jerk circling of mental wagons.
ETA: In this light, extreme vetting, voter id laws, and walls across borders should be understood in terms of white conservative backlash, and are a rather blatant thumb on the scale for white Europeans.
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In early March, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, the local newspaper, reported in the first 31 days of the Trump presidency:
This doesn't surprise me. Trump is just about as big a phony as you're ever going to see on the national stage. Wait until this summer. Have you ever been in DC in July?
This doesn't surprise me. Trump is just about as big a phony as you're ever going to see on the national stage. Wait until this summer. Have you ever been in DC in July?
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In early March, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, the local newspaper, reported in the first 31 days of the Trump presidency:
This doesn't surprise me. Trump is just about as big a phony as you're ever going to see on the national stage. Wait until this summer. Have you ever been in DC in July?
It's not as bad as Florida in July.
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If Trump is impeached and the rest of his businesses follow his business failures of the past;
Perhaps he can try another business: Trump Dump Trucks
Perhaps he can try another business: Trump Dump Trucks
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