Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) said on Sunday that President Donald Trump doesn’t have any real solutions to the issues, just a “hate agenda.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1238482
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1238482
Maybe.
But I don’t think tRUMP has any agenda at all, how could he implement an agenda when he has a shorter attention span than a gnat?
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Nice. Because it’s not just about racism, it’s about incompetence and corruption.
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Well, let’s say he has a set of go-to topics and screeds which he knows–via the incessant rallies, which provide him on-the-spot market research and audience feedback–will work with his rabid base. I’ve said before that I think some observers underestimate how much his rhetoric and performance personality at the rallies was shaped, not by his Apprentice stints, but by his pro wrestling experience. Similar rhetoric, tone, rhythmic emphasis. A friend wrote an essay about WWE’s aural experience which he titled “Soundscapes of Rage.” I think he’s spot-on.
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My wish is that Trump’s proctologist is a frustrated trombonist.
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“Hate agenda”, “crooked CEO in the White House”, just two revealing quotes from Tlaib in the posted interview. Obviously, the gloves are off -Trump’s opposition is not backing down - and I’m not sure Trump anticipated the backlash his incendiary declarations have generated. But this is his “strategy” apparently and he’s too stubborn to back off the ledge, so further down we go…
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and…
DISTRACTION
Keep focused on the High Crimes and Misdemeanors
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Many tRUMP supporters think pro wrasslin’ is real. 
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Yeah. I think he learned how to manipulate such folks, with great precision, during his pro-wrasslin stint.
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To be clear I was talking about her, there, and not him. She talked about how divisive and hateful he is but moved on to bread and butter things that aren’t happening, although he promised them, because he’s not competent in any way to make them happen. From everything I’ve read that’s good politics.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) said on Sunday that President Donald Trump doesn’t have any real solutions to the issues, just a “hate agenda.”
Or, as I prefer to call it, the Hateful Slate.
tRump also seems to think he has the best genes in a master race kinda way of course. He is hate-filled but also delusional.
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How do elected Republicans continue to hang with Trump and his obvious “hate agenda?” I am not sure they don’t all have the same agenda. It is time for Democrats to point out how unAmerican elected Republicans are when they stand silent in the face of Trump’s racism.
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It’s actually a rally his base political agenda that happens to be based on hate, bigotry, resentment, fear, confusion, ignorance, tribalism and division, that works mostly on less educated white working and middle class people who live in homogeneous communities and mostly associate only with their own kind, and see their way of life and racial and cultural privileges ebbing away.
Only a hardcore subset of these people are true haters, vile and mostly incorrigible racists who form his core base. The rest are mostly either white folks who lean right and usually vote GOP, who are concerned and confused about the ethnic, racial and economic change and upheaval going on in the US and world and feel left out and behind, who are either struggling economically or fear that they soon will be as a result of all this change, whom he and Repubs expertly and cynically exploit, or single issue RW voters like fundies, gun nuts and libertarians.
The ultra-racist core group and single issue voters are beyond Dems’ reach. Everyone else is up for grabs. We’re talking 10-25% of folks who usually vote GOP, when they vote. That’s enough for a comprehensive mandate at the national and state level. It’s not enough for Dems to retain and rally their base voters and get them to vote. They also need to win over as many of these soft GOP supporters and voters as possible, and discourage the rest from voting.
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Power—having it, getting more of it, and using it to advance their horrid and unpopular agenda.
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Just echoing, amplifying, and egging on his deplorable base.
Sad!
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You just know if the Whiner in the White House hadn’t dodged the Draft, he would have acted just like the door gunner in Full Metal Jacket.
“Get some! Get some! Get some, baby! Get some!”
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I agree. If this continues, some are going to have to break with him. And more than concerned furrowing of brows … . But it is fun knowing they’re probably, um, “in disarray.”
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Either that or they will relabel their party the NSGOP.
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Yeah, for most of the folks at the top of the Republican food chain, it’s less about hate and more about creating an environment that will keep them there.
Those with any understanding of ecology will note that food chains collapse from the bottom up.
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