StrangeSox Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Ezra KleinVerified account @ezraklein 2h2 hours ago The problems the Republican Party is going to have governing run deep: https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/845390660802920449 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Trump hates being President Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Trumpcare is just another check box in the line of failed endeavors. File it with trump steaks and trump U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKWz5iCIh9o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 (edited) So time to take a deep breath? I’d say a shallow one. I can see two possible scenarios that could follow a drawn-out Trump slump. One is the nightmare I’ve been having for more than a year now. A president hobbled domestically by his own party’s divisions and the opposition’s new energy may be tempted — Putin-like — to change the subject in a way that vaults him back to popularity. A foreign altercation from which he will not back down? A trade war? A smidge likelier, I’d say, is an over-the-top response to an inevitable jihadist terror attack in a major American city. A demagogue loses much of his power when he tries to wrestle complicated legislation through various political factions, in the way our gloriously inefficient Constitution requires. He regains it with rank fear, polarization, and a raw show of force. Heaven knows what the Constitution will look like once he’s finished. The other possibility is that Trump really does at some point realize he’s sinking fast and decides on a hard pivot. He wants to win and be loved, and if he keeps losing and becomes more widely loathed with his current strategy, it’s by no means out of character for him to recalibrate. He could use the possible failure of Trumpcare to feed Paul Ryan to the Breitbartians, and reach out to Democrats on a tweaked Obamacare and infrastructure package. He could dump Bannon the way he dumped Manafort and bulls*** his way through all the inconsistencies (the one thing he remains rather good at). He could wrest himself like Kong on Skull Island from the giant lizards and become the tribune of the forgotten men and women he wants to be, and combine nationalism and protectionism with, er, socialism, like his heroine Marine Le Pen. He could finally realize the potential he has thrown away so far, and become an American Perón. The only snag with this strategy, of course, is that he could hard-pivot only to find himself a Kong who’s alienated from the GOP and obstructed by the emboldened Dems, a rogue, bleeding president without a party, marooned on his own island of polarized irrelevance. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/...nald-trump.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the...m=.751d2e694763 Edited March 25, 2017 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 So basically all Trump is capable of with a house and senate majority is signing symbolic or unconstitutional exec orders domestically. Hopefully he doesn't try to make his name in foreign policy where there are less road blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 https://twitter.com/cafedotcom/status/845277043663212544 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Trump workin' hard Bradd Jaffy ✔ @BraddJaffy President Trump is now at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, per pool; it's his 12th golf course trip since taking office 9 weeks ago 10:11 AM - 25 Mar 2017 https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/845654354308812801 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 25, 2017 -> 10:46 AM) Trump workin' hard https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/845654354308812801 Unlike Obama he is working for the people getting s*** done, maybe grabbing a few p*****s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago White Sox Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 25, 2017 -> 03:58 PM) Unlike Obama he is working for the people getting s*** done, maybe grabbing a few p*****s. POTY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Over 200 Iraqi civilians killed by US air strikes. Probably just the first step in quickly getting rid of ISIS. Commander in Chief is on a roll. Believe me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 25, 2017 -> 05:26 PM) Over 200 Iraqi civilians killed by US air strikes. Probably just the first step in quickly getting rid of ISIS. Commander in Chief is on a roll. Believe me. Remember, he campaigned on committing war crimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/protesters-arr...s-during-march/ Three protesters arrested for illegally using pepper spray on Trump supporters. So basically, it's pretty much all even now between the two sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 And it begins. Trump tweeted to watch Jeanine Pirro on Fox News last night. She called on Paul Ryan to step down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Middle Buffalo Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 This administration has already been reprimanded for endorsing individual companies & attacking others (Ivanka brands, Nordstrom....) How is Trump's constant endorsement of Fox vs. other media outlets any different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 https://www.yahoo.com/news/angry-over-u-hea...-001902655.html Trump voters (largely) spare him blame for health care debacle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 (edited) So it turns out that Trump handed Merkel a NATO invoice for $374 billion dollars during her visit. What a despicable conman and an embarrassment to the US. Edited March 26, 2017 by BigSqwert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 26, 2017 -> 12:17 PM) So it turns out that Trump handed Merkel a NATO invoice for $374 billion dollars during her visit. What a despicable conman and an embarrassment to the US. Great things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 lmao he still doesn't understand the very basics of how NATO works and why nobody "owes" money to NATO or another country. Trump: Greatest President ever, or Greatest Leader in Human History? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 (edited) QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 26, 2017 -> 11:17 AM) So it turns out that Trump handed Merkel a NATO invoice for $374 billion dollars during her visit. What a despicable conman and an embarrassment to the US. And that adjustment to 2% of GDP isn't even a rule/law...it's a "guideline," and those 23/28 countries under 2 all still have until 2024. Not to mention Merkel is dealing with the refugee crisis and immigrants that the US is largely responsible for...they're spending is over 2% already including their "soft" spending on unwinding the crisis in that region. That doesn't even include the political costs and consequences. Edited March 26, 2017 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 (edited) QUOTE (Tony @ Mar 26, 2017 -> 05:43 PM) FOX NEWS ALERT: https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/846112245797007360 Watching Fox News, that's working.he is a workaholic. Edited March 26, 2017 by Dick Allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 I like that it's unusual enough for Trump to be trying to do his job that it's big news. Plus didn't he spend the day on the golf course again yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanUhl/status...re_for_meetings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 26, 2017 -> 12:17 PM) So it turns out that Trump handed Merkel a NATO invoice for $374 billion dollars during her visit. What a despicable conman and an embarrassment to the US. Laugh all you want but he just solved the national debt problem. Once all those countries promptly pay those invoices in full, there will be money for everyone. Businessman of the century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexSoxFan#1 Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 I don't mind Trump not working. We can get past 4 years of a do nothing President, then we'll vote him out in 2020 and get a Democrat in there. Let the adults do the work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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