Open Thread for Monday, October 30, 2017
For the first time in 51 weeks, today seems a little better than yesterday.
Anybody who claims to know how all this will end is just guessing. We can’t know how Trump will try to fight back, how Congress will react or how the pro-Trump public will react.
Already, after the news broke about Manafort and Gates, the RWM (right wing media) machine began crowing that the charges had nothing to do with Trump. Then, within two hours, the media noticed that another document had been unsealed — former campaign aide George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty back on Oct. 5 to lying to the FBI. As Josh Marshall noted at Talking Points Memo, Papadopoulos’ job on the campaign was setting up meetings with high-ranking Russians. So yes, there is a big connection to Russia.
Other news that was blown off the front page includes a welcome development in Puerto Rico, where that absurd Whitefish Energy contract was cancelled. Remember, though, that this is the administration’s strategy on everything — make enough outrageous moves and some will slip through.
Actor Kevin Spacey is the latest Hollywood star called out as a sexual predator, and his “Oh by the way, I’m gay” response is not going over well.
Quote of the weekend came from Hillary Clinton: “It does strike me that in the last few days at least, Fox News seems to think that’s where I live, in the White House. Because they spend a disproportionate amount of their time talking about impeaching me.”
If we are serious about our responsibilities to PR, we should be talking with Tesla.
Trump’s public will forgive him anything. Beyond that, they will refuse to believe any evidence against him. Once he started spouting the phrase “fake news” they took it up as a mantra, to explain anything they don’t like.
I think the biggest shock to me since the election has been these people- how many of them, how prevalent they are in all walks of life, how some of them turned up among friends and family. Trump is so repugnant to ne, that I have had to reconsider how I feel about a lot of people, once they revealed themselves.
And the fake term “fake news” is an attack on the free press which is an attack on our constitution! Makes me ill how easily people allow themselves to be manipulated by obvious folly and dig in no matter what the verifiable evidence. I used to wonder how the good German people could allow the Nazis to come to power but now it’s horrifyingly clear.
Trump diehards are nothing but run of the mill Republicans. Social station, income, relative sanity, none of that matters. ALL Republicans have decide that loyalty to the GOP is more important than loyalty to the country. It has been that way for a while now. Since before Obama, but it became universal during Obama.
Continuing support for Trump does not surprise me in the least. Unity and loyalty to the party is all they have.
“For the first time in 51 weeks, today seems a little better than yesterday.”
That’s true.
BREAKING: Court tosses out Trump’s ban on transgendered soldiers being able to serve in the military. Day just got a little better still.
Thank goodness for the corrupt left wing media, like you all. Without you, (and my friends at Wonkette) how would I keep up? I might have to actually listen to this marvel of reanimation technology. https://wonkette.com/625026/tell-us-some-horseshit-sarah-huckabee-sanders