Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

increasing big business resistance (led by Exxon, of all entities) to the administration's desire to hasten the destruction of the ecosystem

market forces have long been moving in this direction (as a result of both gov't policies/incentives and a general acceptance of the science), corporations that care about their profit margins make moves accordingly

Charlie Dent just said the Senate should handle the Russia probe

Trump will be like "WEAK GUY THAT VOTED AGAINST HEALTH CARE WANTS TO INVESTIGATE MOI?"

Timing!

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/847083958659661824

Roger Stone documentary to premiere in May on Netflix

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8FyXoTXQAMRsYI.jpg

nice martini, I must say

i hope it's 90 minutes of him flexing his back muscles to make his nixon tattoo talk

xp it's just water with olives in it

lol

i'm glad you didn't say "good hair"

Roger w the good hair

i heard Stone interviewed on The Takeaway (NPR) yesterday and he basically strikes me as the same kind of 'performance artist' Ann Coulter is.

Yeah, the whole 'sartorial splendor of Roger Stone' is performance art, when you consider he really looks like Zippy The Pinhead.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6pxIppWoAABNi9.jpg

Because you posted that, that means I'm not a bad person for having already thought that

Is he wearing a bathrobe? It kind of looks like a suit kimono.

kimono, tomato. last pres was an empty chair; current one's campaign was managed by a russian fence. let's call the whole estate tax off : )

ugh hes the kind of east coast douchebag Im glad I never have to encounter here in LA

idk i always though Rog looked a bit like Melissa Etheridge.

give me a roger stone over a mike pence any day tbh

Granted nothing more than a random voice right now but:

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/847131758445416449

Carly Fiorina: 'Special prosecutor or an independent commission' needed for Russia investigation

The Dent statement noted above has more relative weight, but given Fiorina seemed to be nothing but a generic Trumpbot in recent times, it's something.

carly trying to rebrand herself for her next losing election campaign in some random state she doesnt live in

Right on track!

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/847131904994398209

Trump down to 35-59, per Gallup.

It actually seems possible that his approval rating could dip into the 20s. Wow.

Happened to W IIRC, but that was after, you know....years. Not WEEKS.

It's going to take some strong medicine to drive him below 35% approval, but I am sure he'll find a way. I must say he's thrown an interesting light on the concept of "winning so much you'll get tired of winning."

Can't we whip up a law that when no more than 1/3 of the populace approves of an elected official we officially, I dunno, throw them under a riding mower or something?

W's low point was 25%, just prior to leaving office

the Trump team appears to have zero awareness of how to even start turning this around

Is there a critical mass of losers he's run over that will finally chain react into "lock him up" generally?

The Trump team has zero awareness of how to turn this around because all of them consider themselves to be brilliant political experts, but none of them have any practical political experience and they disdain anyone who does have such experience on the grounds that, in their expert view, real politicians always do everything exactly wrong.

yah the fact that everything is fucked up and not working is evidence of their MASSIVE success! you fuckin dummies!!!

pretty sure the last 3 years of his Presidency will just be selling White House stuff on ebay

How many of that 65% are not even citizens? Probably at least 120% of them.

you guys this is just a head fake

a trial balloon to see how they can weather bad approval ratings before the real shit starts going down

i've observed this tactic used in numerous authoritarian regimes

whats sorta confusing to me, and maybe its explained by spin, but when trump was a candidate his businesses were hurting, except now as president it seems like all the reports are that business is booming.. people love a winner a guess? the grift is real?

the Trump team appears to have zero awareness of how to even start turning this around

Is there any reason to think they care?

The Baby-in-Chief doesn't; he professes to not believe in the polls. (And with good reason! Every poll said he'd never get this far.) For him, the only poll he needs is the front six rows of one of his rallies. Since he can always have a rally (and a bunch of red-hat yahoos will always go), he can continue to ensconce himself in a bubble of approbation.

The powers-behind-the-throne - e.g. Bannon - have ideological goals to pursue that don't require high job approval. Indeed, for culture warriors, being embattled on all sides feels right. They know it will feed the base's sense of grievance, which is the fuel that keeps their engine turning.

The court servants - Conway, Spicer - will just keep heading out to do their assigned spinning no matter what. And the more negative the reception they get, the better. The more media hostility the better, obv. Because, see above.

As long as the red hatters view their cause as an embattled and storm-tossed ship, with enemies all around, they will cling to the rigging with ever more tenacity. To do otherwise would require admitting they've been conned.

lol marcos

I think Trump would absolutely love to have high approval ratings and be universally loved and praised and seen as a big success. He seems to think the way to get there is by whining, complaining, and shifting blame for everything.

xp

As long as the red hatters view their cause as an embattled and storm-tossed ship, with enemies all around, they will cling to the rigging with ever more tenacity. To do otherwise would require admitting they've been conned.

― been there, not done that (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:59 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and it seems that all trump needs to do is 'do what he promised' on the campaign to make these idiots happy.

so far he hasn't delivered on a goddamn thing

There seem to have been a measurable number of trump voters who viewed him as a high-risk candidate but found the risk acceptable. I recall one news story just before the election where a trump voter said trump would either be one of the best presidents ever or one of the worst, but he (of course it was a man) was voting for him anyway. I presume that voters like that guy are starting to swing toward the realization he's one of the worst.

all is forgiven b/c Gorsuch

wow: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/446224/looking-trump-record-after-69-days

nice

Eduardo Porter in the NYT biz section today starts off w/ calling Yam's campaign 'economic populism'... "brilliant." (As a means to an end, I suppose.) Then he comes around to "Could it have all been a CON?"

gee how will we ever know

he's learned so much

Four days after blaming Democrats for the failure of the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare — and vowing to let his predecessor’s signature health care law “explode” — President Trump told a roomful of senators that he expects lawmakers will easily be able to reach a deal on health care.

“I have no doubt that that’s going to happen very quickly,” Trump said at a bipartisan reception for senators and their spouses at the White House Tuesday night. “That’s such an easy one.”

where's the tax returns?

xp I saw that "such and easy one" clip on the news this morning and my eyes still hurt from all the eyerolling.