That may well be. Trump puts an inflated value on “The Trump Brand,” but after this, I wonder what that brand will be worth. Will Deutsche Bank and the Bank of China finally stop lending him money? Will anyone be willing to cough up cash for the “privilege” of putting Trump’s name on a project? Will anyone provide him with any goods or services without demanding cash up front?
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The IRS and justice department may rollover for HO, but he had better not cheat the Russians (Putin, mob, doesn’t matter who it is - he hires an awful lot of people on those special visas because Americans aren’t good enough to work for him at Maralago and other properties - and he will not be safe).
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Unless I’m mistaken, you’re saying that only TV coverage makes a story worth following. Believe it or not print still matters. Maybe people don’t have the attention span they need to follow a story, but when there’s 23 minutes of news in a half-hour news report, there’s not much time for anything
@emilianoelmexicano The paper everyone loves to hate gives Clinton a 74% chance of winning. Disregard the rest of the chatter.
@cliffhendroval None of this matters to his supporters. We focus way too much on HO’s supporters. We who support Clinton are in the majority. Let’s talk about us instead of them more often.
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One can hope … but then again it almost seems like a huge part of the population is stupid-drunk and is of the knuckle-head mentality of wanting to drop bowling balls off the top of buildings to see what would happen - with out any consideration of the consequences - so they are saying what the F*** let’s see what happens if we give Trump the powers of the presidency
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And he’s doing the same thing with his campaign donations!
Imagine the shit he’s pulled on his personal returns?
Trump is a greasy rat who would follow you through a revolving door and come out in front of you!
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Even , when the guys in the wrong he defiantly sues you thinking he will beat you by attrition, manipulation and bullying. Just like when he refused to pay the the craftsmans in NJ in order to negotiate a lower price.
This guy has made his name by gaming the tax, bankruptcy and legal system in his favor all his life and people really think that b/c of this he’s presidential.
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Hard to take anything seriously when they use that picture.
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Trump is correct when he says our system is rigged, because he rigged it! And it appears he’s mighty happy that he’s done so.
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Sam Wang has hit a bump. Hill’s probability of winning has dropped precipitously in 4 hours. From around 80% to 71%.
HOWEVER, last week, Sam DID say that there would be some movement toward Trump for about a week.
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Something like 65% of the voting population only get their information from the TeeVee.
85% of people over the age of 55 get almost ALL of their information from TV “News”. They don’t read newspapers. They don’t use social media. They don’t read web sites. They watch TV. They are “not us”.
Millenials get upwards of 90% of their news from social media, they don’t watch TV or read print media, or “news sites”.
That is what we are up against here: The easiest to scare and the easiest to be distracted.
Most of the voters in the middle of those two groups are too busy to do either what with work and kids and only hear the headlines, never read/listen to the actual stories. They are just not paying attention.
That leaves people like us, the 5% who are policy wonks and political news junkies.
That is not enough.
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Or in Nixonese - Well, I am not a crook, when the president does it, it’s not illegal.
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You would hope so - but HO has to win or he takes them down with him - Ivanka with her unpaid interns and unpaid maternity leave policy; Jr. and Eric with their dead animal pics, racist and misogynist posts; not so sure about Tiffany yet.
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It is becoming clear that, with the possible exception of Trump’s lawyers (those he hasn’t yet stiffed), every Trump venture and activity is saturated with sloppy disregard.
The endless stream of lies, rules violations, disregard for contractural obligations, and bullying is accompanied by extremely poor quality work. The Trump organization(s) appear to care only about end results, and don’t give a shit how it is accomplished.
We have read plenty of examples in the news, but I’ve also encountered it firsthand. When Trump put out a letter detailing how he would get Mexico to pay for the wall (by, among other things, changing regulations so that people wiring money out of the US had to prove they had a legal right to be in the country), I looked up the regulations he cited. With no legal training whatsoever:
–It took me 2 minutes to learn that the numbers Trump used in the cite were incorrect.
–It took me 5 minutes more to discover that the corrected citation was in a section of the regulations that had been superseded by new code about 5 years earlier.
–It took me 2 minutes more to find that the specific paragraph of the outdated regulations that Trump was citing applied to casinos rather than to banks or money-transfer businesses.
–It took me less than 10 minutes more to see that Trump couldn’t make the change he wanted to make without defining money-transfer businesses as banks (which would bring so many new and unsuitable regulations to bear on the businesses that stand-alone money transfer activities would cease to be viable).
Those easily discovered (though I didn’t see any media coverage) screwups were in a letter sent by a presidential campaign to a national newspaper to support a central campaign promise. Who works like that?
I have little doubt that, if he wanted to spend the expense and effort, the NY Attorney General could find large numbers of regulatory violations in any Trump venture he dug into.
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I can’t imagine why Mr. Trump doesn’t want to turn over his tax returns.
On another note, since Citizens United is still in force, why aren’t Clintons’ supporters taking full advantage, and bombarding us with negative ads, innuendo, etc., re. Trump?
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It’s clear that the better half and I lead anomalous lives. We get most of our political news from print, and very little from TV. Wonks and Junkies could be categorized as endangered.
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What is this “print” thing of which you speak? 
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I hadn’t even noticed they went with the movie version and not a real picture of the very famous Bernstein.
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Regarding Weld’s statement, it could be that it’s the type of protestation all political figures put up until that moment when they issue their statement of resignation.
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If you follow the link, it doesn’t seem so.
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It’s the stuff which leaves ink stains on the fingers and is good for lining bird cages and wrapping fish.
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