Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

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In a new interview, President Trump praised his use of the word “fake," saying he thinks it’s “one of the greatest” terms he’s used.

“I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with is ‘fake,' ” Trump said in an interview with TBN host and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R). “I guess other people have used it, perhaps over the years, but I’ve never noticed it.”
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http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...f-the-greatest-terms-ive-come-up-with-is-fake

Dementia is a terrible thing.
 
Garrison said:
Already posted in the health care reform thread, but it's yet another example of Trump pandering to his base:

Trump rolls back access to free birth control

This is a pathetic display even by Trump standards and a reminder he is doing real damage every day he remains in office.
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People who were bragging about their protest votes for Stein because "it doesn't matter" have been remarkably silent lately.
 
jimbob said:
CNN opinion piece on this story

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/politics/trump-corker-attack/index.html

"Trump is playing zero dimensional chess"
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Yeah the search for any grand strategy in Trump's victory looks increasingly futile. The awful truth may be that it was a freak accident of circumstance and there is no specific thing anyone can do to prevent it happening again.

The only good news here is with Trump alienating the Senate his agenda is harder to get through, but even there I think there's pretty broad support amongst the Republican's to cut taxes for the rich.
 
Travis said:
People who were bragging about their protest votes for Stein because "it doesn't matter" have been remarkably silent lately.
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Sorry, did you think they should come out and talk again about their protest votes?

I didn't vote for Stein. I threw away a vote for Clinton in a state that she was bound to win quite handily (MA). But your comment is honestly mindboggling, seeming to presume that every single time something about Trump comes up, Stein voters have a duty to pipe in and say, "Yeah, I voted for her and I still feel good about it!"

Most Stein voters were not in battleground states, for goodness sake. I could have voted for Stein, had I liked her, and it would have made no difference in the world. Turns out that I favored Hillary and took the time to cast a vote that also made no difference in the world. (I honestly usually don't bother to vote, but Trump was such an abhorrent candidate that I made an exception. For what it was worth. Which was, of course, exactly nothing, because Trump was not going to win MA with or without my vote.)
 
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Garrison said:
Yeah the search for any grand strategy in Trump's victory looks increasingly futile. The awful truth may be that it was a freak accident of circumstance and there is no specific thing anyone can do to prevent it happening again.
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It's probably very difficult, if not impossible, to measure the effect of any... external influence, but just knowing what we know about it would seem to make Trump's win less of a freak accident...
 
Cl1mh4224rd said:
It's probably very difficult, if not impossible, to measure the effect of any... external influence, but just knowing what we know about it would seem to make Trump's win less of a freak accident...
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Of course, I really meant in terms of any domestic factors.
 
Garrison said:
Yeah the search for any grand strategy in Trump's victory looks increasingly futile. The awful truth may be that it was a freak accident of circumstance and there is no specific thing anyone can do to prevent it happening again.

The only good news here is with Trump alienating the Senate his agenda is harder to get through, but even there I think there's pretty broad support amongst the Republican's to cut taxes for the rich.
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I wish I could remember if it was for an upcoming special (CNN or MSNBC likely) or a print report, but I half caught a teaser for a report whose predictive analysis concluded that the EC win without the popular vote will begin to happen more... about once in every three elections, unless something changes.

Too much gamesmanship by the GOP over who can vote and when and where among other factors I presume. Redistricting and their whole Red Map strategy make State and DC House elections further lopsided as well.

It could be a shift that takes a generation or more to reverse. :(
 
Um wow. I've got nothing. A sitting senator suggested that the Whitehouse was an adult daycare and the person assigned to watch the president didn't show up. I can't really say that the senator is wrong. If you could just muster up a small amount of live of country in our president, he would resign.
 
Craig4 said:
Um wow. I've got nothing. A sitting senator suggested that the Whitehouse was an adult daycare and the person assigned to watch the president didn't show up. I can't really say that the senator is wrong. If you could just muster up a small amount of live of country in our president, he would resign.
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A sitting senator from the president's own party!
 
Craig4 said:
Um wow. I've got nothing. A sitting senator suggested that the Whitehouse was an adult daycare and the person assigned to watch the president didn't show up. I can't really say that the senator is wrong. If you could just muster up a small amount of live of country in our president, he would resign.
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But wait! There's more!

Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.”

In an extraordinary rebuke of a president of his own party, Mr. Corker said he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something.”

“He concerns me,” Mr. Corker added. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”

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“A lot of people think that there is some kind of ‘good cop, bad cop’ act underway, but that’s just not true,” Mr. Corker said.

Without offering specifics, he said Mr. Trump had repeatedly undermined diplomacy with his Twitter fingers. “I know he has hurt, in several instances, he’s hurt us as it relates to negotiations that were underway by tweeting things out,” Mr. Corker said.

All but inviting his colleagues to join him in speaking out about the president, Mr. Corker said his concerns about Mr. Trump were shared by nearly every Senate Republican.

“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” he said, adding that “of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.”

As for the tweets that set off the feud on Sunday morning, Mr. Corker expressed a measure of powerlessness.

“I don’t know why the president tweets out things that are not true,” he said. “You know he does it, everyone knows he does it, but he does.”
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How is he not pushing for impeachment and the 25th Amendment to be used at this point? Are tax cuts for the rich that all consuming to the GOP?
 
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