The Politics Thread

[DRW50]

Thanks for posting all those. I can imagine someone not in the US looking at them and seeing it as a snapshot of us these days. 

[Vee]

Meanwhile, in the Trump Legal Olympics:

 

 

[Juliajms]

Wouldn't they be right?

[Juliajms]

Rick Santorum doing the Sunday shows saying that instead of asking other people to solve their problems high school kids should be taking CPR classes. What a [!@#$%^&*] idiot.  I wish Ana Navarro had been in that segment.

[MichaelGL]

Anyone else looking forward to the Stormy Daniels interview as much as I am? 

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And the Trumpists are basically saying to the kids who are speaking out about gun violence "Shut up and grieve."

[Ryan Chamberlain]

Watching Stormy right now. This sh-it is nanas. 

 

I'm in tears from laughing about the fact he let her spank him with a magazine with his face on the cover. So narcissistic. 

[Juliajms]

I believe her.

 

Edited March 26, 2018 by Juliajms

[Roman]

can you imagine this creature bending over in underwear letting a woman spank him with a magazine?

[DramatistDreamer]

Very effective of Daniels'/Cliffords' lawyer to repeatedly refer to Cohen's/Trump's tactics as being "thuggish".  A very apt description of how Trump Inc. has been known to operate.

 

Interesting too that this is being seen as being worse than John Edwards' campaign violations, which were pretty darn bad.

[JaneAusten]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/03/25/stormy-daniels-60-minutes-5-new-things/457414002/

 

Interesting not one mention of the potential campaign finance violations. Not salacious enough I guess, even though it was described as worse than John Edwards

Edited March 26, 2018 by JaneAusten

[Khan]

To most who make their living at covering the news, Stormygate must seem mundane compared to the 1,001 other clusterf**ks swirling around TrumpCo.  

[DRW50]

 

None of this will make a dent in Trump, or how his supporters see him. I think the only reason it upsets Trump is because she and her team have capitalized off his name and refused to bow down to him.

[Vee]

It'll make a dent in soft support among women who don't tell their husbands on the right.

 

Also, as Maggie Haberman says, it hurts Trump personally because he can't stand ridicule, especially about his masculinity.

Edited March 26, 2018 by Vee

[Khan]

 

To me, that's the scary part.  Stormy makes him look like...less a man, so I wouldn't be surprised if Trump were to nuke some nation JUST to prove how big a man he THINKS he is.

[marceline]

 

That's always going to be a risk. The closer he gets to the end, the more desperate he will become.