I want to believe. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure the light is an oncoming train - no, wait, my mistake, it’s a nuclear fireball.
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The ultimate shiny thing.
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I have to.
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I thought it was the hair of Mike Pence.
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I am still asking the same question: what will it take for Trump’s most loyal supporters to question his competence and integrity, and even consider the hypocrisy of wanting to put Hillary in jail for fill-in-the-blank, while they ignore Trump’s very obvious sins.
Is this it?
Maybe for some, but I fully expect all kinds of insanely twisted explanations and excuses and accusations from the entire right-wing turd-o-sphere tonight. They can always find a way to make themselves feel better about supporting this gigantic man-baby crook.
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I’m just waiting for the inevitable tweet-blitzkreig once Fox News tells him what to think about it.
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I think we can safely conclude that the Russian Propaganda Apparatus is in extreme overdrive right about now.
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By now you’ve heard Trump’s speech from Missouri, in which he’s taking credit for the strong US economy. He said that the tax cuts will be “rocket fuel” for the economy. Which, of course, is bullshit. But the GOP is betting that the unemployment rate stays low enough and the stock market indexes stay high long enough to present a facade that the economy is strong. Even if GDP doesn’t grow $0.01 over the next 4 years, they can say that the trickle down worked, and the average voter won’t know any better.
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I dunno about that. Rocket fuel is a highly effective way to burn something to the ground.
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Well, this is where the DNC needs to start working on their message of “Yep, the rich are getting a lot richer, and you poor suckers are still getting paid jack squat and taxed out the ass because the Republicans are conspiring with the richies to rob you.”
A strong economy (using the proxy of the DJIA, etc.) no longer means that everyone gets a cut of the pie, it just means that the ownership class can buy a few more yachts.
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You’ve answered your own question: his most loyal supporters will never question him. They will cling to the flaming shit-bomb and ride it all the way down.
Another question is, how many voters are in that group? Versus the people who are merely fans.
I think the reason that facts don’t sway that 36% who still support him is that, facts were never why they started supporting him. It’s an allegiance, not a rational decision. You can’t persuade someone to stop being a Cleveland Browns fan. The more you try, the louder they cheer. The worse they perform, the more determined the hardcore fan base becomes. The only way you lose that base is by abandoning them.
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be lucky to be able to afford a gold-spray-painted trailer
But if he had handed his assets off to his sons, as part of becoming President, would the sons get to keep the assets?
There’s this idea that Trump gets more animated and goes on the offensive (pun intended) when he feels threatened, so all this recent shit (re-tweeting the anti-Muslim videos, bringing up Obama’s birth certificate, etc.) are really just him trying to strike back at the world for some slight, or trying to assert that nobody can rein him in.
Which brings me to my next point: did the Joint Chiefs ever figure out how to keep the “nuclear football” away from his grubby little hands?
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Hypergolic inflation?
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A couple generals were recently asked if they’d follow an order to detonate nuclear weapons, and said they would not follow an order that is against “the laws of war”.
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Am I late?
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Nope; pass the popcorn.
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Hope that’s not just one fucking scary train we’re looking at.
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