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The Trump Presidency: Part 18

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I was a volunteer firefighter/EMT for a while and encountered people in a wide range of mental states. Just from the bits of the letter I’ve seen quoted, if I’d had a patient spouting off like that, I’d have seriously considered asking the cops to EP the guy. (EP = emergency petition, basically a way to allow us to take them to the hospital for their own good, even if they didn’t want to go. In this case, the psych ER.)
 
He couldn't possibly have written that by himself. Pretty likely he didn't write any of it.

Hmm.

WH lawyers were cut out of the process of drafting Trump’s 6-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the House impeachment vote, @jonkarl reports. At POTUS direction, the letter was drafted by Leg Affairs Director Eric Ueland, Stephen Miller & counselor to CoS Michael Williams.
 
"WH lawyers were cut out of the process of drafting Trump’s 6-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the House impeachment vote,"

At which point they sighed in relief that they dodged that bullet.....
 
As I understand it, the document was padded out to 6 pages with a cut and paste exercise from Donald Trump's campaign website - rather like him having piles of blank paper to impress people. :boggled:
 
Trump needs someone like Bannon to win elections - instead, he has lost everyone except Guiliani (who has only lost his mind).
Without extraordinary Electoral College trickery and voter suppression, I really can't see him win in 2020.
 
Trump needs someone like Bannon to win elections - instead, he has lost everyone except Guiliani (who has only lost his mind).
Without extraordinary Electoral College trickery and voter suppression, I really can't see him win in 2020.

I couldn't see him winning in 2016 yet here we are. I'm not underestimating the stupidity of people again.
 
Trump needs someone like Bannon to win elections - instead, he has lost everyone except Guiliani (who has only lost his mind).
Without extraordinary Electoral College trickery and voter suppression, I really can't see him win in 2020.

I don't share your optimism.

Voter suppression is already well under way, the economy is ticking along okay for many people and a surprising proportion of people get their news from right wing sources or friends who get theirs from right wing sources.

Unless the Democrats find an inspiring candidate who motivates people to go out to vote, I can see President Trump being reelected on a wave of "meh". :(
 
I don't share your optimism.

Voter suppression is already well under way, the economy is ticking along okay for many people and a surprising proportion of people get their news from right wing sources or friends who get theirs from right wing sources.

Unless the Democrats find an inspiring candidate who motivates people to go out to vote, I can see President Trump being reelected on a wave of "meh". :(

That's my fear. None of the Dem candidates are all that inspiring. It's not that any one of them wouldn't make a better prez than Trump, but they just don't have that personality appeal that Obama and Bill Clinton had. All we can hope for is that enough people will get out and vote AGAINST Trump.
 
I don't think "it's the economy, stupid" applies to Trump: farmers and miners are being crushed by Trump's polices (and lack thereof), but there is very little indication that he is losing their support. Even if we get another loan crisis (possibly due to car loans), the Trumpista will blame the Dems, not their Dear Leader.

And instead of the Perfect Candidate, I'd rather have a Bannon type working behind the scenes for the Democrats.
 
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Good marks and reviews on the letter I sent to Pelosi today. She is the worst! No wonder with people like her and Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, D.C. has been such a mess for so long - and that includes the previous administration who (and now we know for sure) SPIED on my campaign.
 
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Good marks and reviews on the letter I sent to Pelosi today. She is the worst! No wonder with people like her and Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, D.C. has been such a mess for so long - and that includes the previous administration who (and now we know for sure) SPIED on my campaign.

He does seem to have a very narrow range of sources. Most of the reports I have seen have been quite disparaging of his letter. Then again I inhabit a "reality" bubble as opposed to the "fantasy" bubble where President Trump and his supporters seem to reside.
 
I'm not sure anyone's mentioned it yet, but George Conway and a couple of other Republican characters (Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt and John Weaver) have started a group called The Lincoln Project to prevent trump from winning re-election.

Their aim: "Over these next 11 months, our efforts will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line,"

Their opinion piece is here but it's NYT so it may be paywalled.

One paragraph of the piece reads:
"Congressional Republicans have embraced and copied Mr. Trump’s cruelty and defended and even adopted his corruption. Mr. Trump and his enablers have abandoned conservatism and longstanding Republican principles and replaced it with Trumpism, an empty faith led by a bogus prophet."

It will be interesting to see how trump reacts to this and anyone associated with it. I say 'interesting', but we already know that he's more than likely to just heap ridicule upon them as his comms director, Tim Murtaugh, has already done:
"a pathetic little club of irrelevant and faux 'Republicans.'"
"Calling any of these people 'conservative' or even referring to them as 'Republicans' at this point is an insult to conservatives and Republicans everywhere."


How has Kellyanne avoided trump's pettiness as regards her husband? I'd fully expect him to take his irritation at George out on her.
 
I'm not sure anyone's mentioned it yet, but George Conway and a couple of other Republican characters (Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt and John Weaver) have started a group called The Lincoln Project to prevent trump from winning re-election.

Their aim: "Over these next 11 months, our efforts will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line,"

Their opinion piece is here but it's NYT so it may be paywalled.

One paragraph of the piece reads:
"Congressional Republicans have embraced and copied Mr. Trump’s cruelty and defended and even adopted his corruption. Mr. Trump and his enablers have abandoned conservatism and longstanding Republican principles and replaced it with Trumpism, an empty faith led by a bogus prophet."

It will be interesting to see how trump reacts to this and anyone associated with it. I say 'interesting', but we already know that he's more than likely to just heap ridicule upon them as his comms director, Tim Murtaugh, has already done:
"a pathetic little club of irrelevant and faux 'Republicans.'"
"Calling any of these people 'conservative' or even referring to them as 'Republicans' at this point is an insult to conservatives and Republicans everywhere."


How has Kellyanne avoided trump's pettiness as regards her husband? I'd fully expect him to take his irritation at George out on her.

I have some begrudging affection for the Never Trumper conservatives. There probably aren't enough to fill a high school gymnasium, but it's nice to know there were actually a few mainstream conservatives that believed in their professed ideology. The "Never Trump" rump is tiny compared to the vast bulk of the mainstream conservatives that easily fell lock-step into Trumpism. Mainstream conservatives planted the seeds for this brand of reactionary right wing politics, so I don't really see it as something valuable lost.

I mean, anything that has the potential to damage Trump is good, so there that I guess. I hope they have success in that regard, but I don't see the return of pre-Trump conservatism as a particularly desirable goal.
 
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Maybe chinese consumers are more forgiving over Trump's racism. But I suspect they probably don't look on him too favorably.


Don't forget that Trump is hailing his Great New Deal with China. That they were negotiating at the same time these trademark applications were pending. There's essentially zero chance there wasn't some winking and nodding around these two issues.



It's been written up verbatim from his own blitherings and blatherings and rantings, probably in the Oval Office from a recording or two in the last few days but also pulling stuff from his rallies and Fox & Friends. Then it has been massaged into paragraphs in some sort of logical(?) order and spell-checked by a competent writer who can do this without spontaneously vomiting and then binning the thing as an obvious career-ending landmine.


And that's even worse. If it were possible that Trump could sustain the effort needed to actually write that letter, we could imagine that he'd done it all on his own, in a fit of pique, and had ignored everyone else who tried to talk him out of it. But with this? We now know, for a certainty, that Trump has cohort of enablers who, whenever they see the worst of Trump, will help him make it even more awful.
 
Sadly, Trump's criminal enterprise benefits from the deal with China while the USA is taking an overall loss, since all he's doing is (partially) putting out the fire that he started.
 
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...that includes the previous administration who (and now we know for sure) SPIED on my campaign.

We know for sure they didn't but Trump says they did and so many of his supporters say they 'believe' it, too. As a former Boss of mine once put it: "We believe what we need to believe."
Sen. Richard Blumenthal asked Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz if “the FBI put spies in the Trump campaign.” “I’m going to speak to the terminology used at the department that we oversee, which is ‘confidential human sources,’” Horowitz answered. “We did not find evidence that the FBI sought to place confidential human sources in the campaign or plant them inside the campaign.” Link
 
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