"What do you have to lose?"

 

My safety, well-being, and possibly even my life when some Dylan Roof wannabe all hopped up on their white fragility and illusions of "winning" decides to open fire on black people.

http://thegrio.com/2016/08/16/trump-supporter-urges-patriots-to-shoot-black-women-and-children/

Edited August 20, 20169 yr by marceline

This is the GOP's tactic to reach out to the African American community? I'd laugh if it wasn't so tragic.

Inside the fall of Paul Manafort

 

 

Trump’s adult children and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who have a significant hand in almost every major personnel and strategic decision, were concluding that the distractions were outweighing the benefit of keeping Manafort on board, according to campaign sources.

 

They had pushed to elevate Conway to campaign manager, in part, because Ivanka Trump believed the campaign was too much of an all-boys club to begin with, sources said. Also, she liked the way Conway was able to manage her father.

 

“Kellyanne is not a campaign manager in the traditional sense of the word. She got the title as part of combat pay,” said one source involved with the discussions. “She’s the candidate manager, which considering how tough it is to manage someone like Donald — who has the temperament of a 12-year-old who always gets what he wants — is a far harder job. So far, it’s working. But it’s only been a few days.” 

Edited August 20, 20169 yr by Vee

"What do you have to lose?"

 

My safety, well-being, and possibly even my life when some Dylan Roof wannabe all hopped up on their white fragility and illusions of "winning" decides to open fire on black people.

http://thegrio.com/2016/08/16/trump-supporter-urges-patriots-to-shoot-black-women-and-children/

 

And when some face-eating frat wearing a 'Make America Great Again' cap goes roaming around.

Between Trump's non-apology apology, his insulting claim to white voters that black voters need to vote for him in order to be wealthy and happy, and his trip to Louisiana, the media must be pulling their puds 24/7. Many of them desperately want a Trump win and they think they can make it happen with this type of spin. And it means they can dust off their old "Can Republicans win minority votes this year...maybe they can!" articles that they update every 4 years.

I think what they really want is a horse race narrative for ratings vs. a win, which is why they're giving him the room. (A few like Halperin definitely want the latter, though; he's become Trump's Baghdad Bob.) Allowing Trump to 'rehab' a little gives the race a little more juice and gooses the numbers, until his next massive gaffe. Which is coming.

 

Many of the old guard also despise the Clintons and always have, or at least Hillary. But in the end they'll take her over Trump. The Beltway press will just always try to finger-wag to make sure any Democrat 'knows their place.' But Hillary won't care anymore than Obama did, in fact she'll care even less.

I think CNN wants it too, but then, Jeff Zucker is a stain on television and culture anyway. At this point I'd even take Faux News over that network. 

I don't think CNN does, though they're pretty bad. I do think Jeff Zucker is starstruck by Trump and Lewandowski in a vapid and apolitical way. I know there's been a lot of talk that many at the network are disgusted by the hiring since Lewandowski is still basically on the Trump payroll and that some were near open revolt.

Edited August 21, 20169 yr by Vee

Speaking of:

 

 

CNN hired Lewandowski as a “commentator” on June 23. Two weeks later, on July 6, Trump paid Lewandoswki for “strategy consulting.”

— Matt Viser (@mviser)

August 21, 2016

 

NYT on l'affaire Manafort and other scandals: 

 

 Mr. Trump never developed the sort of chemistry or comfort level with Mr. Manafort that he had with Mr. Lewandowski, campaign aides said. Mr. Trump has continued to seek out the advice of Mr. Lewandowski, who remains a fierce rival of Mr. Manafort.

 

Nor did Mr. Trump ever quite buy into what Mr. Manafort was selling.

 

Just as Mr. Trump has resisted behaving like a traditional presidential candidate, he has also felt little need to construct the sort of hierarchical organization typical of a campaign for the White House. This is in part, Mr. Trump’s advisers say, because he relies on his instincts and the counsel of his family. But it is also because he simply prefers to improvise, unconstrained by convention or by a chain of command.

 

A change in the leadership of his campaign may not stop Mr. Trump from making abrupt decisions based on news coverage, playing advisers off one another and following the guidance of whoever may be traveling with him or has just spoken to him on the phone.

 

But what Mr. Trump loses in Mr. Manafort is somebody who has had decades of experience in campaigns and relationships in the party that made him a useful ambassador for a candidate who lacks both, and is given to angering fellow Republicans.

 

Jason Miller, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, wrote on Twitter on Friday that Rick Gates, Mr. Manafort’s deputy, would leave New York for Washington, where he would serve as “the campaign’s liaison to the R.N.C.”

 

But it remains to be seen who will step into Mr. Manafort’s role of chief strategist for the final 11 weeks until Election Day.

 

Mr. Manafort’s exit came as Mr. Trump had been trying to reboot his campaign after a disastrous stretch in which he committed a series of self-inflicted wounds — belittling the mother of a Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq and threatening to withhold an endorsement from House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, a fellow Republican. Aides have tried a range of efforts to rein in Mr. Trump’s impulses. But they have been unsuccessful in taming his propensity to respond sharply to media coverage of his campaign.

 

It was an article in The New York Times last weekend — about frequent but frustrated efforts by Mr. Trump’s top advisers to curtail his pugilistic instincts — that set off the series of events leading to Mr. Manafort’s departure.

 

On Saturday, Mr. Trump raged at Mr. Manafort, holding him responsible for the article, according to people familiar with the episode. On Sunday, Mr. Trump hastily convened a meeting of paid and unpaid advisers including the pollster Kellyanne Conway; Roger Ailes, the ousted Fox News chairman; and Stephen K. Bannon, the chairman of Breitbart News, a conservative website. Mr. Manafort was present for part of the meeting.

 

Mr. Ailes urged Mr. Trump to reconfigure the campaign’s leadership, according to a Republican briefed on the meeting. A former Republican strategist and ad man who was friends with Mr. Trump long before his ouster, Mr. Ailes had reviewed some of the initial television commercials Mr. Manafort had overseen and told Mr. Trump in blunt terms that they were lackluster.

 

Only on Tuesday was Mr. Manafort informed of the campaign’s impending shake-up, to be announced the next day: Ms. Conway would become campaign manager, and Mr. Bannon would become the campaign’s chief executive, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussion.

 

At the same time, the new accounts of Mr. Manafort’s ties to Ukraine quickly eroded the support that he had from Mr. Trump’s family during his earlier battles with Mr. Lewandowski.

 

According to people briefed on the matter, Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, expressed increasing concern after a Times article published on Sunday about allegations of cash payments made to Mr. Manafort’s firm for his work on behalf of his main client, Viktor F. Yanukovych, the former Ukranian president, who is an ally of Mr. Putin.

 

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign has repeatedly sought to yoke Mr. Trump to Mr. Putin, citing Mr. Trump’s praise for the Russian leader. And the avalanche of stories about his work for pro-Russian entities in Ukraine were becoming untenable for the campaign, according to people briefed on the discussions.

 

“The easiest way for Trump to sidestep the whole Ukraine story is for Manafort not to be there,” said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who has become a counselor to Mr. Trump.In North Carolina on Thursday, Mr. Trump was informed of the newest such report: an Associated Press article that, citing emails, showed that Mr. Manafort’s firm had orchestrated a pro-Ukrainian lobbying campaign in Washington without registering as a foreign agent.

 

That was enough, according to people briefed on the calls, for Mr. Trump to call Mr. Bannon and Ms. Conway.

 

He had the same message for each: It was time for Mr. Manafort to go.

Edited August 21, 20169 yr by Vee

I think CNN wants it too, but then, Jeff Zucker is a stain on television and culture anyway. At this point I'd even take Faux News over that network. 

To me they want that just as much as MSNBC. Trump surrogates on the network are just awful people. but as long as they draw ratings Zucker doesn't care IMPO. Then we look at the show hosts. There are only one, maybe two IMO who actually call out both sides and try to be equal. Burnett is one for sure to me. ND didn't start doing it until Trump called the one reporter a sleaze at a PC months ago. Ever since that moment, the tv press has went all over Trump on everything he does...where as before all they did was smile and report on his poll numbers and primary wins. It also seemed like the still on both networks they are practically demanding that trump stop his garbage and 'pivot'. Halprin is just a lost case...I still remember seeing a picture of him and Trump together on Trump's plane smiling like two morons. But Zucker? what do we expect from one of the men who helped make "Airplane!"

Uh... he didn't make Airplane!

True, although the guys who did are also GOP hacks.

Colin Powell is quoted saying that Clinton’s people are trying to blame the emails on him.

Can we get the quote where he says he didn’t save his emails?

Or the quote where he admits this “scandal” is all politics?

Oh wait. We can’t because that stuff is actually pro-Hillary and no matter what Trump or his supporters say, she is NOT protected by the media.

Her campaign needs to issue a statement. I support Hillary, but keep her away from email questions. 

 

Looks like the media has its story of the week. People are making it seem like she is blaming this on a "black man." (their quote, not mine). I thought she was just pointing out that it wasn't uncommon for people in their profession to use personal accounts. 

 

BTW, this is all apparently being revisted, courtesy of the GOP leaking FBI notes. 

Edited August 22, 20169 yr by Ms. Quartermaine

Between Trump's non-apology apology, his insulting claim to white voters that black voters need to vote for him in order to be wealthy and happy, and his trip to Louisiana, the media must be pulling their puds 24/7. Many of them desperately want a Trump win and they think they can make it happen with this type of spin. And it means they can dust off their old "Can Republicans win minority votes this year...maybe they can!" articles that they update every 4 years.

What frustrates me is that most of the talk on these shows is nothing but the cult of Trump's personality. There's very little discussion of actual policy.

This morning in the 2016 presidential election:

 

 

Tried watching low-rated @Morning_Joe this morning, unwatchable! @morningmika is off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

August 22, 2016

Some day, when things calm down, I'll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

August 22, 2016

 

The Washington Post returns to the longstanding rumor - that what Trump really wants is to create a "Trump TV" media empire. 

Edited August 22, 20169 yr by Vee