US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

Isn't that like three weeks ago?

Forgot to add, he refused to apologize or retract today those statements on there being zones where cars and politicians are being set on fire.

The only upside of the current popularity of 'fake news!' is that overemployment will cause it to lose what little efficacy it may currently enjoy.

I would say it has been and remains pretty efficacious. It won the white house and has established a floor of around 40% approval rating for the president

the people being duped never see embarrassing gotcha clips like the one above

their media doesn't include it

Forgot to add, he refused to apologize or retract today those statements on there being zones where cars and politicians are being set on fire.

― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre)

second part of statement is clearly just wishful thinking

or maybe he's confused the netherlands with portland again

Fake News is just a more acceptable way of saying "fuck you."

"Why, bless your fake news!"

Fake News is just a more acceptable way of saying "fuck you."

― Josh in Chicago

i thought that was what #MAGA stood for

i mean really when was the last time a republican said something that didn't directly translate to "fuck you"?

Feel like general public reaction to the phrase will shift (however slowly) from 'huh, maybe this news isn't actually accurate' to 'huh, I wonder who feeds this person who's using a phrase which indicates that he is of insufficient cognitive capacity to do it for himself'.

I hope so.

But for now, in addition to "fuck you" it keeps doing double service as a legit argument for an audience that has been poisoned against journalism. I don't see any evidence that this function is on the wane

was trump supposed to be pay taxes on the (former) KGB's contributions to his campaign's PR?

can we sue him?

where are the tax returns

who are the brain police

who is galt whitman?

The fact that Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between Trump/Russia has not been found, would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way, totally without authorization, is a disgrace. Must have tough Primary!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 10, 2018

this stupid nicknames are so weak

Weaky Nicknames!

Why not Dianne Feinsneak ffs?

stun’ feinsneak

dyin’ feinsneak rather

His insults, like his vocabulary, ceased to evolve somewhere around the age of seven.

Booger-Eater Poo-Poo Smell Steve Bannon!

ah I see they're still on the "real crime is leaking" bandwagon

in which case each and every member of team trump should go directly to jail

Look forward to the day when they start using 'fake imprisonment!' to describe their clearly illusory status as federal inmates.

'No prisoner, no prisoner. YOU'RE the prisoner. Sad!'

In a way, being trapped in the moldering hulk of Donald Trump's body is the worst kind of prison, if you think about it.

had a dream a few months back where djt resigned because the country found out he was closeted due to his queenie nicknames. he found love & happiness there after with a boy harem. then I woke up and saw the trans military ban eo headline and nearly puked

Those two scenarios are not necessarily mutually exclusive and may in fact be directly related.

Was listening to Slate's Watergate podcast in the bath this morning and thinking about how, even if the worst of all the collusion, etc, rumours are true, Trump and his cronies will still probably never see jail for their crimes. And how the Repubs are still desperate to see Hillary behind bars, even though she did nothing.

The single greatest Witch Hunt in American history continues. There was no collusion, everybody including the Dems knows there was no collusion, & yet on and on it goes. Russia & the world is laughing at the stupidity they are witnessing. Republicans should finally take control!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 10, 2018

he's just found out it's continuing, which is not what he was told by his lawyers

what an asshole

Was listening to Slate's Watergate podcast in the bath this morning and thinking about how, even if the worst of all the collusion, etc, rumours are true, Trump and his cronies will still probably never see jail for their crimes. And how the Repubs are still desperate to see Hillary behind bars, even though she did nothing.

― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Wednesday, January 10, 2018 9:49 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, yeah. Just so we're clear, I'll be surprised if anyone in Trump's circle will do one minute of jail time.

same, except shocked.

isso out?

ISSA RETIRING, per local media. https://t.co/4GZ1PbONz1 This rumor has been bouncing around all morning….

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 10, 2018

trump is asking around about how he can get tiffany sent to jail

niiiiiiiiiceeee xp

He is right that Russia and the rest of the world are laughing at the stupidity we are witnessing in the US - the Oprah for President thing being the custard pie in the face.

You've all heard that CA has 7 GOP congressmen sitting in Clinton districts. 2 of them have now retired in a roughly 24-hour span.

— Taniel (@Taniel) January 10, 2018

5 remain: Denham (#CA10), Valadao (#CA21), Knight (#CA25), Walters (#CA45), & Rohrabacher (#CA48).

All voted for AHCA; all but Rohrabacher voted for CA-slamming tax bill.

— Taniel (@Taniel) January 10, 2018

Meanwhile, for you poll-followers: since mid-December, POTUS's approval has been quietly but pretty steadily inching up. 538 has him now at 54.6% disapproval to 39.3% approval. That's utterly terrible compared to any previous President and still doesn't bode well for the GOP at midterms, but it's worth noting, as these are his best numbers since late September.

the more he golfs, the better his polls

I assume the internal polls these retiring guys are getting are absolutely brutal

H to the Issa

Issa barely held onto his seat in 2016 and it's pretty clear the Trump era is not playing well in CA. Don't need a weatherman...

putting aside the general opportunity to add his seat to the Dem column, fucking HOORAY for the retirement of Issa. what a supreme asshole that guy is

Doc, yes but he's "inching up" from a historic low net (-21 on the RCP average shown here).

https://i.imgur.com/tjcZpNN.jpg

He's had some temporary upward periods before, but the overall picture doesn't change much. Possibly the current rebound is due to positive feelings rank-and-file GOPers have about the tax bill. Most people hated that bill, of course, but its passage temporarily quelled the storyline of "gang who couldn't shoot straight" that was fed by many LOL GOP FAIL moments on the Hill. Now, when asked "where's the winning?", GOP folks can say that Gorsuch and the tax bill constitute "winning" from their perspective.

Personally, I'd like to see things go back to an ever-more-negative slope post-Wolff/"stable genius." Not because the Wolff book is perfectly factual or because it changes a lot of minds. But because from now on, all Trump's infantile outbursts will create a confirmation loop. Every time he acts like a toddler it strengthens the message "ah, so he IS a toddler."

that low bar

To be clear, this literally happened. I am not exaggerating for effect. pic.twitter.com/pSotUXK3bW

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 10, 2018

@mattyglesias
Yesterday, professional journalists praised Donald Trump for remembering the names of members of congress who were *sitting around a table with name placards in front of them*

xposts to YMP - not disputing any of that - see my "that's still utterly terrible and doesn't bode well" comments. just figured since i've previously come forward to note continuing dips in the line, it's fair to acknowledge when it goes up for something more than a day or two. and indeed it opens the question of what might be motivating those 2 out of 100 statistical human stand-ins to switch their vote. tax bill business seems plausible enough - plenty of repubs getting what they want and back to being ready to write off all his monstrosities as a sideshow to "getting the job done."