“RESULTS. NOT COMMON IN WASHINGTON, D.C. 298,000 NEW JOBS 1ST MONTH IN OFFICE. REDUCING EPA REGULATIONS. GREENLIGHTING KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE. WITHDREW FROM Trans-Pacific Partnership. AND IT’S ONLY JUST BEGUN. MAKE AMERICA GREAT TOGETHER.”
While I certainly realize that $1.3M is chump change to the Mercers, this supposed laundry list is pretty damn intangible to most AMericans and even feral trumpers. The stink of failure is very strong on the regime right now and I don’t see that as changing anytime soon. Once the economy really starts to tank, this will be forgotten.
Maybe they read this and are nervous:
In a Politico/Morning Consult survey taken entirely after the GOP withdrew their bill, just 26 percent of voters felt “very confident” in Trump’s ability to serve as commander-in-chief, compared with 36 percent who are not confident “at all.” Trump’s declining approval rating was steeper with Republicans and independents than Democrats. In particular, the support of self-identified Trump voters shrank from 90 percent last week to 84 percent this week. Overall, 38 percent of voters strongly disapprove of Trump, compared with 23 percent who strongly approve.
Also this:
The billionaire class wants to believe that they can control the message through sheer deluge of propaganda. That will certainly work with a segment of the American population albeit a small one. At some point, the sheer incomptance is going to be Rump’s undoing among his “soft support” which helped get him over the finish line. The feral trumpers will never stop supporting him. At some point, it becomes clear that the wall won’t be built because Congress won’t fund it. At that point, Rump lose some of his “hard” support.
The greatest American sin of shredding money for no purpose proceeds apace led by this jumped up bit of tech trash…
tRump is the captain of the Titanic. In his efforts to avoid hitting icebergs, he’s heading straight into the Arctic Ocean. It is only a matter of time, and shrinking rapidly, before his ship gets hit by a Russian chunk of ice, creating a hole too big to conceal. The leaking has already begun. He will soon be known as America’s enemy who engaged in an act of war against this nation. What a loser.
Aren’t those Mercers’ just great American patriots? How you feeling NOW, Justice Roberts???
“…before his ship gets hit by a Russian chunk of ice, creating a hole too big to conceal.”
That’s pretty much the way I’d describe Oleg Deripaska planting ads in the WaPo and WSJ.
Very nervous. I would think that she would do the ad buys not in the Dem seats areas - but in the key demos (regardless of Dem or Rep Senate elections) where trump had support, to save those numbers from shrinking further.
Big money ads came in and virtually stopped Ted Stricklands attempt to oust Portman here in Ohio. If we are going to beat back the facist right wing, we have to open our checkbooks.
The markets sharp rise after Trump’s win can mostly be attributed to forced short covering. Even George Soros recently lost about a billion on his short position. Investors in the Soros class always hedge somewhat to cover losses if they are premature or wrong. Their hedge bets are hardly ever known or covered. Back in 2008 when oil spiked to $147.00 per barrel, it was entirely due to forced short covering. Goldman Sachs was a dirty player in the scheme and profited while the rest of the world paid 500 billion extra in oil costs due to their games. Link to story:
““Over the last couple weeks, we’ve aggressively tried to launch Making America Great.”
“Tried to” is a very odd phrase to use in such a statement. A simpler, more confident sounding statement would have been “over the last couple weeks, we’ve launched Making America Great with great success, blah, blah, blah.” Throwing “aggressively tried” in there implies “tried but failed.”
Now maybe that’s just poor word-smithing…or perhaps it’s a sort of Freudian slip, inadvertently admitting a weak launch.
These billionaires don’t get to buy our country and Democracy. we have come up against their evilness before in the history of America. Resist resist resist Protest protest we are all we have
These guys would argue that they stuck that landing.
The good news is that does appear to be happening already. And the best part is, the surge isn’t just coming from a few large donors who will quickly max out on what they can give, it’s coming from a raging flood of small donations from the rank-and-file.
Democracy threatens Plutocrats’ power so they try to sabotage it with boatloads of cash.
The real tragedy? The itty, bitty school teacher…
Big money will have its way. People be damned.
That ad budget is nowhere near sufficient to get people to buy a shit sandwich.