US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

Trump neither smoking nor drinking does about 98% of the heavy lifting, so to speak, healthwise. Genes help, too. Fred lived to 93.

well shit

Plus if you pathologically believe yourself to be infallible, that's got to be a great stress reducer in and of itself.

the thing is rich ppl tend to have really good health care

― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, January 18, 2019 1:01 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right, but trump's most recent doctors are a midtown crank and *makes drinky motion*

lmao worry I was thinking of WARREN buffett

https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-diet-2017-10

*sorry

Doctors HATE him!

No worries, Simon, people are always mixing up the Buffett Brothers.

You guys are neglecting to consider the deleterious effects of snorting Adderall for fifteen or twenty years.

This pretty unusual investigation must be giving Mueller some trouble. What do you do if your subject(s) keep committing crimes, and that every time you go home to type something up he does something else? I assume you just keep letting him commit crimes and keep documenting them, right? Some of the worst stuff (national security and such) I assume Mueller and DOJ et al. have figured out how to negate, so letting Trump and friends continue to build the case against themselves seems like the way to go. Still, Mueller has to stop somewhere, doesn't he? Can he? Obviously we are in uncharted territory, but isn't it in his/our/the country's best interests to release his report before any impeachment hearings are held? More so than it's in the interest of Dems to wait for Mueller before initiating hearings?

there's little I'd rather see than Trump joining Scalia in sudden death, but speculating on the immanence of his demise when he's still upright and tweeting daily seems like a distraction.

It’s my binkie

it's about time

― Trϵϵship, Saturday, January 19, 2019 4:00 AM (one hour ago)

there were less than 34 hours between the end of the hearings and the publication of this piece

Josh that was Manafort's legal strategy and it didn't work out too well for him

Manafort did it after he was indicted! Trump, Jr., Stone, Page, and many of the other usual suspects haven't been charged or indicted yet. And in the case of Jr. and dad, their ongoing shit is in covering up their earlier shit.

What is even happening? https://t.co/pCIL4avLSS

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 18, 2019

Cohen must've been playing with Barron as well

You can't just keep a kid shut up in a closet all the time and expect him to emerge non-feral.

Lock him up!

Look, I'm not going to jump to conclusions and assume this was done by an angered citizen and say that I hope this is the beginning of a precedent for those who are or have been in Trump's circle. I'm not going to say it.

there's little I'd rather see than Trump joining Scalia in sudden death

I want President Pence. And I want him NOW.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) January 18, 2019

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxN_q7pU8AE4Y74.jpg

lmaoooooo

Mommy Hitler

doo doo doo doo doo doo

heh

Yeah, like I said...https://t.co/LZZCykdTSC via @jasonleopold

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) January 18, 2019

Four surveys released this week show Trump’s approval rating slipping substantially, thanks in large part to a drop in support among non-college educated white voters.

A Pew Research Center survey released Friday shows Trump’s job approval rating at just 37 percent, near the lowest point that survey has ever found.

Among non-college whites, 50 percent approve of Trump’s job performance, while 48 percent disapprove. That’s a net 15-point swing from a Pew poll conducted a year ago; in that survey, 54 percent of whites without a college degree approved of Trump’s job performance, while just 37 percent disapproved.

“This obviously is a key group for the president,” said Carroll Doherty, the Pew Research Center’s director of political research. He said Trump’s ratings among those voters have fallen this far only once before, in the fall of 2017.

A survey conducted by SSRS for CNN found Trump’s job approval rating among whites without a college degree at just 45 percent, down nine points since early December. A Quinnipiac survey out this week showed Trump’s job rating among those voters slip from a net 19-point positive margin to a net 10-point positive margin.

And a survey conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion for NPR and the PBS NewsHour shows Trump’s approval rating slipping — and his disapproval rating rising — among Republicans, white evangelicals, suburban men and those without a college degree.

“It’s the first time that there’s been significant erosion in the base,” said Lee Miringoff, who runs the Marist poll. “An erosion of the base is the last thing he needs. His whole strategy has been base-focused.”

A stunning 57 percent of voters said they would definitely vote against Trump in the 2020 elections, according to the Marist poll, while just 30 percent said they would vote to re-elect him. Among non-college whites, 42 percent said they would vote for Trump again, while 44 percent said they would vote for someone new.

A majority of non-college educated white women, 53 percent, said they would definitely vote for someone else.

get back to me when those "would you participate in a mob to lynch the president: Y/N" numbers start ticking up

i want trump to live long enough that he's fully aware of having been the worst* president in us history and that basically the entire world is laughing at his utter stupidity

the aware part seems unlikely no matter how long he lives, though

I, on the other hand, want him to still think he's president when he's shuffling aimlessly down the street and rooting through garbage cans for a morsel of food.

I liked to see this, though: A stunning 57 percent of voters said they would definitely vote against Trump in the 2020 elections, according to the Marist poll, while just 30 percent said they would vote to re-elect him.

That's just the sort of numbers that should make congressional representatives blood run cold.

Back when presidents had the gumption and know-how to start keeping a fake diary in order to cover up their crimes instead of blabbing about them on Twitter https://t.co/gkCTOdI8o5 pic.twitter.com/GHdlHnNELz

— Corey Pein 😃🤑😐😩💀 (@coreypein) January 18, 2019

xpost Seriously. The Death Cult Caucus is unbreakable only until they're revealed to be unelectable.

lol Cohen had surgery on his shoulder and everyone on Twitter thinks he got jumped by MAGA goons

wishful thinking probably

TBH, if Cohen has in fact developed some nascent simulacrum of a conscience over the past several months, living with what he's done is punishment enough for me. Well, that and prison, but y'know.

Heard a minute of Hannity while driving back from lunch. Basically said DT knows not to leave a trail of his criminal orders to underlings, so anyone saying there is documented evidence is lying.

Lol

They say that’s true—he doesn’t use email or text

And eats his notes!

As Georgia goes, so goes something something

More voters in Georgia, a GOP-leaning state, view President Trump unfavorably than Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.), according to a new poll released Friday by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The poll found that 55.6 percent view Trump unfavorably, compared to 37.4 percent who view him favorably.
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In comparison, 47.6 percent held an unfavorable view of Pelosi, compared to 38.7 percent who held a favorable view of the Speaker.

AJC surveyed 702 registered voters between Jan. 7 and 17. The is a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points for the sample.

honestly surprised that 86% of georgians know or have an opinion on nancy pelosi no matter how much the GOP has vilified her over the years

I liked to see this, though: A stunning 57 percent of voters said they would definitely vote against Trump in the 2020 elections, according to the Marist poll, while just 30 percent said they would vote to re-elect him.

That's just the sort of numbers that should make congressional representatives blood run cold.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, January 18, 2019 3:29 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw yesterday (but cannot now find) a poll in which 7% of people who voted for trump said they would definitely vote *against* him (i.e. not just "unfavorable"). we're a long way out, and i couldn't find any equivalent polls for previous presidents going for a second term, but that seems oh shit very high from trump's POV (and obviously bleakly low from the republic's POV).

Trump won by such a sliver that if even 7 percent of 2016 Trump voters turned against him or stayed home he loses reelection easily

I can see those numbers very easily dropping even lower for him. Seems very unlikely they'd improve.

Just wait till there's a flesh and blood Dem nominee and then watch them get eviscerated while Trump gets rehabilitated all by Russian Facebook bots

more interesting to me is, have they found anyone who didn't vote for Trump in 2016 who plans to in 2020? (barring those who were too young the first time)

Trump won by such a sliver that if even 7 percent of 2016 Trump voters turned against him or stayed home he loses reelection easily

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 18, 2019 4:35 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can see those numbers very easily dropping even lower for him. Seems very unlikely they'd improve.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, January 18, 2019 4:36 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Narrator:

Haha

The shade of it all! #PresidentPelosi
pic.twitter.com/3uNK5wMyDC

— Nick Westrate (@westratenick) January 18, 2019

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that look at the end is great

Would be so great if the title President was one that Trump was barred from using after he was removed from office. Normally a permanent title even after the incumbency isn't it?