The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

[96583UP]

i dunno i figure there probably is audio/video of the 'grab em by the pussy' guy out there somewhere that is incriminating enough ... just a matter of getting Mitch McM and Paul "RATM" Ryan on board to make the switch

[tragabigzanda]

this guy is the king of self-inflicted emergencies

I'm becoming less scared of him and more scared of a Pence presidency each day.

I think some other scandal needs to come up / something else needs to happen for this to even become a possibility. As murky, fishy, and weird as all the Russia stuff is, unless there's some shocking proof that the campaign was in on the hacks of the DNC, it's a lot of smoke with no fire.

Not just that, though. I just don't think it's within his capacity to not torpedo his own presidency.

I am on board with that, I think, but there's a chance that he's a more scandal-prone Carter than a stupider Nixon, if you know what I mean.

I don't know what you mean. My sense of Carter has always been that he was a contentious president, but respected by liberals in the years since. I must be missing something?

[tragabigzanda]

i dunno i figure there probably is audio/video of the 'grab em by the pussy' guy out there somewhere that is incriminating enough ... just a matter of getting Mitch McM and Paul "RATM" Ryan on board to make the switch

I'm sure there's already a playbook drawn up.

[96583UP]

dibs on melania

[BurtReynolds]

Watching this walking trainwreck of a human being stumble his way through the presidency is a thing of beauty. My only hope is that the Republicans don't get sick of him. He is a great wrecking ball of the status quo, in a horribly accidental sort of way.

But if Russia was fishing for preferential treatment, they seem to have failed. I'm not sure one can truly be an ally of Trump.

[Simple Torture]

this guy is the king of self-inflicted emergencies

I'm becoming less scared of him and more scared of a Pence presidency each day.

I think some other scandal needs to come up / something else needs to happen for this to even become a possibility. As murky, fishy, and weird as all the Russia stuff is, unless there's some shocking proof that the campaign was in on the hacks of the DNC, it's a lot of smoke with no fire.

Not just that, though. I just don't think it's within his capacity to not torpedo his own presidency.

I am on board with that, I think, but there's a chance that he's a more scandal-prone Carter than a stupider Nixon, if you know what I mean.

I don't know what you mean. My sense of Carter has always been that he was a contentious president, but respected by liberals in the years since. I must be missing something?

What I was going for was: I think, in general, that if he continues down the path he's going down, he could end up as a one-term president that leaves very unpopular (like Carter) as opposed to someone who's forced from office (Nixon). Carter has certainly grown in stature over the years, but his rhetoric during some tough economic years in the late '70s set the table well for Reagan's "morning in America" schtick.

[96583UP]

i can't wait for all the tell-all books that will come of this trainwreck

[PHATJ]

[McParadigm]

i can't wait for all the tell-all books that will come of this trainwreck

I was pondering about a week ago how many Oscar-grab biops would come out of this. Steel for sure.

[McParadigm]

For the love of Christ.

[McParadigm]

White House director of message strategy.

[digster]

He has a point about Clapper, though he's by no means the only one saying there was no wiretap.

Thing is, not to minimize the importance of this, but it can't be that surprising. It's Donald Trump; he just says shit the minute it pops into his mind. This is the guy that read some stupid article about Ted Cruz' dad, and suddenly Cruz is related to the man who killed JFK. It is darkly humorous seeing his comms staff to try plan strategy around whatever word salad came out on Twitter today, but I can't imagine they didn't know the score going in.

[McParadigm]

I don't find anything unconcerning about a president who has trained his rabid followers to disbelieve the media, lies rather obviously but is received by his base as the most honest source for news (that's amazing...the idea that the best source for news on how the president is doing is the president), and is willing to fall into a battle of wills with the FBI over a Breitbart headline.

When the Republican president can hear second-hand about a radio show host's conspiracy theory, repeat it as fact, and be immediately believed by a majority of his base...it's pretty clear that there's no reason for the democrats or the media to do any soul searching. Sorry, but that's actually why Trump won.

[McParadigm]

[LoathedVermin72]

Holy shit, what the fuck man

[jwfocker]

Damn. New low.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

He's just shaking things up. Challenging the status quo. No big deal.

[96583UP]

He's just shaking things up. Challenging the status quo. No big deal.

[wease]

What a dick move.

[McParadigm]