Aug. 3 Open Thread: Just Ignore Trump’s Tweets. That’s What His Wranglers Do
Remember when Donald Trump said he was pulling out of the G7 meeting agreement? Apparently neither does he, which is just how his wranglers want it. The have a long-standing habit of failing to follow through on nonsense Trump says, and unless someone reminds him later, there’s rarely any follow-through on Trump’s part.
That’s probably because those closest to him realize something most of us can only speculate about: The severity of his mental decline. A new book by former reality-show contestant and White House something Omarosa Manigault-Newman is getting quoted a lot for its passage about Trump “speaking gibberish.”
The Law of Trump is that everyone who touches him comes away diminished. Even the National Enquirer is trying to downplay its Trump connections, and it’s costing the shock sheet circulation. May I suggest more Sasquatch coverage as a solution?
Opposing him doesn’t help, either, especially if you’re a conservative. The Koch brothers spent 40 years and hundreds of millions of dollars building a supposedly intellectual framework for selling expanded profits for millionaires as a political philosophy, and where are they now? One brother is dying — I don’t care enough which one to look it up — and both are demonized by Trump’s cult of personality as apostates. Another real-life example of somebody’s karma backing over their dogma.
The result of all this chaos might ultimately be good for the rest of us. Consider that, by undermining the conservative-developed ACA, which went to great lengths to keep insurance companies profitable, Trump is making Medicare for all look like a more viable option every day.
“One brother is dying — I don’t care enough which one to look it up — and both are demonized by Trump’s cult of personality as apostates.”
The living will envy the dead.
I know, or at least assume, that footage of Trump frothing at the mouth at his campaign rallies must attract viewers, but it’s long past time to stop having these campaign performances occupy so much screen time.
All it does is to give him a megaphone. Take away the cameras and focus instead on what he’s doing. Or focus on anything else. There’s no news at these rallies. Trump and the Mouthbreathers, we get it. Move on.
There is definately a great deal to find out about
this subject. I really like all of the points you have made.
Wherein tax cuts and incentives to oligarchs generate… More wealth for oligarchs!
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/business/2018/08/03/amid-lawsuits-and-higher-costs-chemours-shoveling-cash-onto-shareholders/896896002/
Stock buybacks…. Like we said.
Oh, fuck you John Carney. I mean that sincerely. RE Vanella…
The Power of Abolish ICE
https://nyti.ms/2OcjaAm
“While some saw this as a sign of her political weakness, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was tapping into a sharp shift in the way that Democrats understand immigration. In much the same way that the Democratic Party has had a reckoning on financial deregulation, the punitive 1994 crime bill and the callous welfare reforms of the mid-90s, incumbents are now facing criticism for their votes on immigration.
From the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996 to the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Democrats have voted overwhelmingly to help construct the apparatus that President Trump is using to engage in a campaign of mass deportation. And candidates like Ms. Ocasio-Cortez are forcing them to take those votes seriously. Ayanna Pressley, who is challenging another incumbent, Michael Capuano, in the Seventh Congressional District of Massachusetts, has also called for abolishing ICE. In Delaware, Kerri Evelyn Harris, running against Tom Carper, another incumbent who supported the creation of the agency, has too.”
Carper voted to create the racist, unaccountable, paramilitary agency – and he’d vote to do it again. It is the moderate choice.