No lie, they keep resigning this fast Imma start running out of peak 90s R&B

 

(goes to re-check Anita Baker catalog)

 

9 minutes ago, Wendy said:

Sadly, I think he'll serve the full term. And think his base will get out to vote him in for Round 2.

 

What base? it's shrinking by the week.

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It's so odd to me seeing some of the reporters on CNN say things like the president "missed an opportunity" or he missed his moment.  What does he have to do before these people admit he is a white supremacist? Does he have to raise the Confederate flag over the white house?

 

I hadn't actually seen the Nazis march before today, but CNN was practically playing it on a loop.  I have to wonder if all of this coverage won't embolden them further. 

David Axelrod just said on CNN that "several people in the administration think they have to protect the country from what he wants to do".

Isn't his latest approval ratings, like, the lowest EVER for a sitting president?  And that was before The Jawdrop Heard 'Round the World.  The numbers might not keep falling, but they're certainly not gonna improve now!

Edited August 15, 20178 yr by Khan

Just now, Juliajms said:

It's so odd to me seeing some of the reporters on CNN say things like the president "missed an opportunity" or he missed his moment. 

 

Large portions of CNN especially will always think it's just a game, a political calculus. But there are some people there who do take it seriously. That whole organization has tried to play it down the middle for years. What the media is rapidly learning over the last eight or nine months is that this is no longer a game.

13 minutes ago, Vee said:

"several people in the administration think they have to protect the country from what he wants to do".

 

If it involves me wearing a loin cloth and answering to the name of "Toby," I am so out.

Edited August 15, 20178 yr by Khan

Loud protest on Fifth Avenue kept a couple blocks from @realDonaldTrump home. pic.twitter.com/xE4IJQKC3f

— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) August 15, 2017

8 minutes ago, Vee said:

 

Large portions of CNN especially will always think it's just a game, a political calculus. But there are some people there who do take it seriously. That whole organization has tried to play it down the middle for years. What the media is rapidly learning over the last eight or nine months is that this is no longer a game.

Don Lemon was doing well today.

16 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

What does he have to do before these people admit he is a white supremacist? Does he have to raise the Confederate flag over the white house?

 

Two reasons: one, they have to be careful not to leave themselves open to any lawsuits; and two, they don't want to admit that he IS a white supremacist, because they cling to the notion that everyone, even Donald F**king Trump, has a better side to his nature, a side that will ultimately win out over evil.  They don't want to think that sometimes, no matter how hard you look for goodness in a person's soul, they just ain't got none.

Edited August 15, 20178 yr by Khan

I think a lot of people know. But not everyone is able to safely say that on national television.

 

Even Lil Paul is feeling feisty:

 

 

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.

— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) August 15, 2017

LOL:

 

 

“This wasn’t our plan,” top Trump advisers say after his news conference went off the rails, a WH official says https://t.co/7zm0RwYnGQ pic.twitter.com/nH6wZ6C5KS

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 15, 2017

9 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

I think it's two reasons.  One, they have to be careful not to leave themselves open to any lawsuits; and two, they don't want to admit that he IS a white supremacist, because they still cling to the notion of everyone, even Donald F**king Trump, having a better side to their natures, a side that will ultimately win out over evil.  They don't want to think that sometimes, no matter how hard you look for goodness in a person's soul, they just ain't got none.

Yeah, I tend to fit that category. Or I look for reasons why people are the way they are, so that I can understand and maybe not hate them. I'm working hard to get over all that.

Charles Pierce on today.

Top GOP strategist emails that a break between Trump and the GOP now "inevitable."

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) August 15, 2017

White House official: Once in front of press, president "went rogue;" team members stunned by the president's actions.

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) August 15, 2017

^ I hope so. I guess it will be true if the GOP thinks this is the point where they are stronger without him. I'm not giving them any points for breaking with him though. After everything that happened in the primary they never should have stood by him in the first place.

2 GOP congressman, 2 senators out of gates criticizing Trump. pic.twitter.com/huSRlJQUB2

— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) August 15, 2017

I'll believe it when I see it, Julia, but I think every mistake he makes brings them closer to the edge and makes him fall further. I think this may be his biggest mistake of all.

trump: both sides are bad

schwarzenegger: I'm slinging 100,000 clams to a charity named after a nazi hunter pic.twitter.com/Cf8RJI1OJy

— I'm Edward now (@macaulaybalkan) August 14, 2017

7 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

I'm not giving them any points for breaking with him though. After everything that happened in the primary they never should have stood by him in the first place.

 

IA -- and really, if they DO break from him, it'll only be because they recognize, however begrudgingly, that they just can't control him.  In their heart of hearts, they probably agree with Trump more than they disagree with him.  But there probably comes a point when they realize saving the party means more than remaining behind someone like him.

 

Seriously, John McCain was right when he said (after he and Palin had lost) that the then-nascent far right was dangerous and unprecedented in the history of American politics.

 

Meanwhile, how ironic is it that Arnold has stepped up and pledged money to the Wiesenthal Center?  IIRC, wasn't he dogged for years with rumors that either he or his father had been a member of some white supremacist group?

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