He will not last long enough to get to the white Northern Europeans, his goose is cooked. I see a straight jacket in his very near future.
By the way - where is his very special top Senior Adviser Ivanka who is supposed to control the appearance of the “Real Donald”?
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When a Republican “speaks out” on an issue but is unable to exert leverage or, more often, unwilling to take action on the matter - then they become a bit like a Supreme Court Justice who chooses to write a strongly worded and principled - distinctly differently framed opinion - but yet still casts a vote in the majority to sustain a horrible law on a very very technical basis.
Collins, Flake, Corker, Graham, Scott, McCain and others have opened their mouths on various occasions - but when it came time to stand by their principles - they were not to be counted - so, voices of support may be laudable - the lack of courage of their convictions is essentially a betrayal of principle
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My first reaction when the Oprah buzz started was “Oh no, not another ‘celebrity’”, but you do make a reasonable case. I still have trouble with her support for pseudo-scientific fads and gimmickry., Dr. Oz and whatnot, but it would be nice to at least be able to believe that we were dealing with a nice person…
Hugging her husband (I’m guessing).
Yes that is one huge drawback I agree. I don’t like it either - those guys need to shut up and go away. So I"m with you there.
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And then there is also how that “speaking out” never seems to have any actual impact on their actions or the way they vote or any of the other ways they material prop Trump and his fellow delinquents up…
17th shithole at Mar a Lago…
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trump’s a racist and he’s now insulted and alienated anyone with two synapses to rub together. This is not the way to influence people and gain allies.
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The thing is that PP doesn’t have a legislative agenda. What’s being called his agenda is the Republican agenda and has been since long before he even became a Republican. They’d have all signed onto the shit legislation they’ve voted for no matter which Republican was president. It’s not so much about supporting PP as much as it’s about voting for things that have long been apart of the Republican agenda. Republicans aren’t going to morph into Democrats because they oppose PP personally.
Let me put it another way. Imagine if somehow that animal had been directing all his hate at Republicans and had somehow gotten elected president as a Democrat. Would anyone expect liberals in Congress to vote against single payer of a public option because they personally opposed the president?
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From Taibbi’s take on the Wolff book:
Trump has almost no ideological convictions and is motivated almost entirely by the classic narcissistic value equation, i.e. how much praise or scorn he gets on a second-to-second basis, from whom, and why. Had he not run as a Republican – and in particular won on a platform scripted by a nationalist true believer like Bannon – he might very well by now have been pushed into a completely different kind of presidency. Trump wants so badly to be liked that, especially with the influence of Kushner and Ivanka, he might easily have allowed his White House to drift back toward his original politics, which (as New Yorkers and furious conservatives alike will clearly remember) was once squarely in the Bob Rubin rich-guy sort-of Democrat mold.
I just don’t understand all these folks are willing to damage their own credibility for trump he doesn’t have their back he will screw them over the first chance he gets
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If she changes her mind about 60% of her votes, I’d be glad to praise her as another thoughtful, conservative Democrat. Let her change to independent if she were sincerely offended enough to deserve being taken seriously./
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Oooooops
Suck that Cotton.
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I’m talking about strategy. The Lakoff piece explains this.
If we get stuck in their swamp, we lose.
Of course, we need to understand that the GOP is basically evil. But when they are supporting our points, we need to stand apart from their otherwise awfulness.
I think we need to focus on our audience, not on the GOP.
Use the GOP fallbacks to amplify our messages, if we have any.
Don’t praise her!
Use her rare opposition to the Orange Menace here to put forward our agenda.
Do we have one, other than spasmodic opposition?. I’m not sure, and don’t hear one on this forum.
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We can BS about racism all day but often essential truths go unacknowledged.
“it’s the denials from those who stand in strong opposition to this president that are more frustrating to me: denials that their attacks on identity politics are racist. Denials that the paltry number of people of color in elite spaces marks racism.
Those denials echo the same ones that frustrated Dr. King in 1963 as he sat in a Birmingham jail cell and wrote, “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”Mr. Trump, I suspect, will go to his grave with his heart beating in denial of the ill will of racism. Many others will as well.Because we naturally want to look away from our ugliness. We paint over racist reality to make a beautiful delusion of self, of society. We defend this beautiful self and society from our racist reality with the weapons of denial.Denial is fueled by the stigma associated with being a racist. Feeding the stigma is how “racist” is considered almost like an identity, a brand.But a racist is not who a person is. A racist is what a person is, what a person is saying, what a person is doing.
Racist is not a fixed category like “not racist,” which is steeped denial. Only racists say they are not racist. Only the racist lives by the heartbeat of denial.The antiracist lives by the opposite heartbeat, one that rarely and irregularly sounds in America — the heartbeat of confession.”
[quote] Hillary Clinton joined a chorus of major figures denouncing President Donald Trump’s comment about immigrants from “shithole countries,” saying he has “ignorant, racist views.”
The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee tweeted that Friday is the eighth anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed as many as 300,000 people. Instead of marking the anniversary, she said, “We‘re subjected to Trump’s ignorant, racist views of anyone who doesn’t look like him.” [/quote] http://time.com/5101737/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-shithole-reaction/
[quote]Two top House Democrats said Friday they will introduce a resolution to censure President Trump in the wake of vulgar comments he made Thursday about immigrants coming from “shithole countries.”
“We were deeply disturbed and offended by President Trump’s remarks regarding Haiti and African countries,” Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond, D-La., and House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said in a statement.[/quote]
If you’re truly interested in knowing what Democrats are saying, you can Google it. It’s quite easy.
By the way, Democrats are the ones that first reported what he said in that meeting. But I’m sure that doesn’t matter because that doesn’t support your narrative.
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I am going to reply to all the comments to my post so here goes:
No, you don’t understand what I am saying at all. What I as saying is we are all hypocrites. We are all bigots. But we are all so self-righteous, we just cannot or will not see it.
You are asking Mia Love to change her affiliation. She is not going to do that. She asked on CNN why we cannot seek common ground and come together to solve the problem.
We’ve all dug in our heels. Let’s just stop, please.
I’ve come here for the commentary, news and analysis just as I always have since TPM’s inception. I have not come here for the comments which are honestly, mostly so completely inane and repetitive. You all rush to beat each other to say the exact same thing. FIRST!!!
Ford Prefect wondered why humans state the obvious. You are all just stating the obvious every single day.
So now you want to trash me, go ahead, I can take it. Have fun. And vote.
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Well honey there is a quick fix for that - stop commenting. You don’t like it, don’t do it - none of the rest of us who do enjoy it feel the necessity of keeping those who don’t around.
good grief - there is nothing sillier than coming on a board to comment and bitch about the comments board. I’ve never understood it.
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Earth ti Mia Love…
You really do not want to know what is said about you amongst the GOP faithful.