âLook at me! Look at me!! Please acknowledge my hard work!â
Braggart Brags: No News Here!
Lies flow from his mouth like water from a spring.
Iâd love to know, exactly, what is meant by âworking hard.â Maybe itâs whatever is not cheating at golf? Having minions fawn over me?
Why Sure First link is the best
Brett McGurk, who I do not knowâŚ
Yet another important thing this f*cking moron doesnât know.
He only brought ISIS brand coffee to a couple meetings.
The next President is going to have to be one heck of a diplomat to put the pieces together, after this fake president has managed to disassemble the workings of a government. Who is the Obama clone?
This ignorance has been on display for the last 3 years. Like Bush, people forgave and were even charmed by the ignorance until they werenât. People forget how dumb Bush was, but he was bone dumb. This is a man who was utterly shocked when told there were such things as Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims just 2 months before he gave the green light to invade Iraq. This feels like weâre close to or at that tipping point when the ignorance isnât funny any more. In Bushâs case, his drop was precipitous because he had always been a high 40s, low 50s President until 2006. Trump has always been a high 30s, low 40s POTUS since about May of his first year and has never been net positive. I would expect that his approval ratings over the course of 2019 take an incremental drop where youâll see numbers in the 36-40 range as more people get embarrassed to be associated with him.
BETO!
The number of willfully ignorant never ceases to amaze me
How ironic - Trump can remember the name of the one man he doesnât know.
If it wasnât so sad, this chain of events might be funnyâŚ
The dodderring dotard of D.C. strikes againâŚ
Wow, this guy had some really good credentials. A terrific background, even if it does go back to the W administration. This is exactly the kind of person who would and should become an ambassador.
But once again, Individual 1 drives the competent people out of his administration (see also Mattis, Jim). 
Agreed, very sad. But donât forget destructive! A Very destructive chain of events (a.k.a. His whole presidency).
If Trump cannot brag about all of the things he knows nothing about, it will seriously limit his tweeting options. (Such a limitation, of course, would be a very good thing if it could be arranged.)
I really donât see this period as much different than the mid 2000s. Itâs just on a much bigger and dumber scale. In the mid 00s, what motivated the GOP vote and fealty to Bush was fear that gay marriage would become legal. The 2004 GOP convention was all about âthis is our last chance, and in 10 years things might be different, but until then weâre gonna fight to keep the gays out.â Gay marriage was viewed as a fundamentally culture altering event. Bush won re-election based on opposition to gay marriage. He attached himself to all of those anti-gay marriage ballot measures across numerous battleground states, shored up his base, got a max turnout and won.
For Trump, the issue is overall demographic change where the white share of the population, the electorate and national income drop. Thatâs what âwallâ, âcaravanâ, isolationism and all that bullshit is about: an attempt to rig the electorate to keep whites in power even as their share of the population, the electorate and national income declines. Democrats have done an effective job at chipping away at this nihilistic vision, but it will take more effort to fully discredit it from the body politic.
From an excellent NYT piece from readers reflecting on rural America. They support Trump and the reason is simple: He acts just like they would if they had money. There is no saving this culture, nor should you want to save it. The people who could have revitalized it have either left for better opportunities or been run off. Itâs a breeding ground for hatred and despair, dying with a Bible in one arm and a heroin needle in the other. Let it die. â Peregrinus, Erehwon
Unfortunately, cutting off subsidies to such voters would perhaps illustrate most clearly their misguided loyalties, but the Democrats (to their credit) wouldnât do it.