false alarm. still hillary's / dem's fault
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― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 30 December 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
Trump found an “oppressive regime “ he doesn’t like. No shock, it’s Iran. He and his twitter followers are convinced of course that his vocal support for protesters there will work better than Obama’s quieter methods.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 December 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
Two new pieces of fuckery:
the DOT has declared the deal they had with the governors of NY and NJ to pay 50% of the costs of rebuilding the Hudson River train tunnel, one of the most heavily traveled train routes in the US, null and void; and
the Interior Department is rolling back safety rules put in place after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 30 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
this must be the great infrastructure plan we've been waiting for this entire infrastructure week
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
Yeah, who would have guessed the goal of his infrastructure plan would be to make American infrastructure weaker. Savvy operator, that Trump.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 December 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
Keeps us on our toes.
we need to cripple that liberal outpost, NYC, in order to make america again
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 30 December 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
I'm sure a certain kind of Republican agrees!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
NYC hated Orange Don first
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 December 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
Some echoes here of my feelings about the stock-as-fuck "Cletus Safari":
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/media-trump-country_us_5a449e8ae4b025f99e199ef8?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
― twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 December 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
That's funny. I've actually never heard the term "Cletus Safari," which I like almost I much as I liked the Idaho militia people getting tagged Y'all Qaeda.
Have we had an actually helpful piece on all the supporters apparently changing their mind, as reflecting in the polls that show how far even his numbers have dropped over the last year? Or maybe that gets filed under those pieces I've scanned where people like him but don't support him or support him but don't like him or don't like or support him but still want to give him some time.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 December 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
Cletus safari was invented here iirc?
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 31 December 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
It wasn’t nevermind
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 31 December 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
hello, hello, hello how lowwwwww
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 December 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
I thought you were humming "Hello" by the Beloved.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 December 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
all the supporters apparently changing their mind, as reflecting in the polls that show how far even his numbers have dropped over the last year
Those people exist but I don't think they can be located and interviewed.
Trump's approval declines because some of the people on the "Trump Train" were only on it because they reflexively vote Republican. They could stomach Trump (with whatever degree of enthusiasm) because they aren't capable of voting for Democrats at all (let alone for Clinton). People who voted for Trump a year ago and are now disappointed with him DO exist, but they're not the sort of people who are going to go talk to a reporter in a diner about it.
The Cletus Safari, always and everywhere, will only locate diehards, because those are the people who want to talk about it.
― twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 December 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
YMP otm. On Friday night I was reminding my brother in law that Nixon still had well over a 20% approval rating on the day he left office. It was shamefully easy to find voters who insisted Watergate was a ginned-up partisan witch hunt over nothing, because "you know as well as I do that everyone does it, and it's no big deal".
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
New York "Failing" Times going hard at Trump, just spotted this in my inbox
NYTimes.com » TOP STORIESPresident Trump has brought a reality-show accessibility to a once-aloof office, invigorating voters who felt alienated by the establishmentSunday, December 31, 2017 2:11 PM EST
― omar little, Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
I was reminding my brother in law that Nixon still had well over a 20% approval rating
yeah if 100% of the people that voted for him never back down that's a bottom floor of ~25% of the population. only about half the country voted at all and we are at a 20 year low in turnout because the two party system just keeps offering worse and worse candidates.
a general approval poll will include a whole bunch of people that didn't vote at all and thus only add statistical noise to the proverbial crystal ball. the two-party system deludes us into thinking half the country supports something when in reality even at his peak it was probably like 1 in 4 people. so not only are polls that ask about general approvals more or less meaningless they are misleading as well.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
only about half the country voted at all and we are at a 20 year low in turnout because the two party system just keeps offering worse and worse candidates.
citation needed
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
"In 1984, Ronald Reagan debated Walter Mondale in Louisville and plainly had no idea where he was"
i lived in louisville for ten years, i can't blame reagan for this at all
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 31 December 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
Actually, Turrican is right insofar as the Davis-Murray years go from 1976 to 1971. And only one album was recorded in Berlin.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 December 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
Nice wrong thread response.
From 1976 to 1971?
― Mark G, Sunday, 31 December 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Carlos Alomar for prez 2020
― 29 facepalms, Monday, 1 January 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
Turrican / Gabbneb 2028
― El Tomboto, Monday, 1 January 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"
― maura, Monday, 1 January 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link