Yeah. Time for a independent investigation. Setting up ACA to fail, bank speech money and failing to vet Flynn!

Of course none of this is to say the media does an objectively good job handling Trump or that people who interview Trump aren't getting effectively bowled over by his gibberish, they are making lots of mistakes and many people who interview him are unprepared for the Trump style.

I just wanted to point out that on some level, the media writ large has in many ways covered the story that Trump is a moron just like GJ and Palin but the reason why he hasn't been as impactful is the audience, not the media. Palin and GJ primary mistakes are that they let self-doubt creep in, that they stop self-promoting, that they eventually kowtow to the notion that knowing things and facts matter. The Trump Style of deflection/self-promotion/ham-handed promises is perfected over decades of selling fraudulent bull**** and there's not much Consumer Reports can do if people want to keep buying HeadOn Apply Directly to the Forehead to stop it despite all evidence the product is a total sham.

tl;dr summary of this exchange: Trump is a 4d chessmaster at snake oil scams and his verbal diarrhea gibbering is a huge component of that, and I don't think there's any hope this question or that question can trip him up at this point. By any objective measure he's basically tripped by almost all questions but humans very rarely collectively join together to allow 'objective measures' to rule the day.

I have thought he was for peace while elections were. But now...

Oh, Trump is bitching about judges again!





https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...80178736459776
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...77434210304001
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...82179469774848

Odds the case actually makes it to the SCOTUS? o/u 5%?

Under, President Dip****'s handlers aren't going to waste time appealing this.

I assume his 80% figure is a lie?

Re: Sanctuary Cities court order

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.5c9f95f9417a

It appears that it's ok to withhold money based on immigration-related conditions, but the Government just can't say, oh hey, no more ROADZ money for you either.

Update from suburbia: my surgeon neighbor continues to support Trump because liberals are snowflakes.

Of course another tweetfest this morning. He got embarrassed again. Here's the WH statement:

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/stat...92314212667392

So if the fed is going to with hold money from sanctuary cities does that mean as someone who lives in one, I don't have to pay federal taxes anymore?

That's something everyone should've been doing anyway. Boycott paying taxes until Trump releases his.

I haven't been active in this thread but I have a question for anyone who wants to give their opinion. Do you think there's any likelihood that Trump becomes savvy enough to accomplish anything positive or productive as POTUS? He's going to be put in a lot of different situations, do you think he could ever find the right chord and start doing things that undeniably benefit the USA? (Also I apologize for my naivety)

This Taibi column is painfully stupid:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...rrives-w474771
Calling giddy partisan speculation a "conspiracy theory" makes no sense, but it's also telling that he is using Glenn Beck as an example of a conspiracy about Russia instead of, you know, someone who is actually concocting a conspiracy about Russia.

Okay, he does bring up Louise Mensch, but who listens to her?

I don't know if a tweet that reads like a joke is an accusation.
This is nonsense. Tracey in particular was denying--and might still be--that Russia was responsible for hacking the DNC and Podesta. Unless Taibi thinks the Russian hacking is a conspiracy theory...

This is balls-deep stupid. Does Taibi not know what "unwitting" means?

They sound dumb and WaPo did add a disclaimer about the group to its article. I still don't see evidence of "mass hysteria."

He was kidding, Matt. Are you really this dumb?

Let's see what the Times actually wrote:

So Matt Taibi just made some **** up about Mark Warner. Mass Hysteria is so widespread he has to invent examples.

This is the Salon article Taibi is referencing.

Basically nothing that Taibi alleges is in that article. The sentence he quotes refers to fake news sites, not "bots." And the article talks mostly about for-profit fake news sites rather than any Russian-sponsored sites, even going so far as to point out criticism of The Huffington Post for focusing too much on Russian fake news sites. That Taibi sees such an even-handed article as part of this "mass hysteria" is bizarre.

This is more manufactured nonsense. Who is saying this? No one as far as I can tell.

For the record, it's much, much, much more likely that Taibi is dumb and sloppy than he is some kind of Russian agent.

It's hard to envision tbh because he just hates learning so much. He may sign off on a good piece of legislation, but he won't have had any real hand in creating it.

If an infinite number of trumps signed an infinite number of bills they'd still all be garbage.

If we're playing Axis & Allies this seems like a good place to use the Carpet Bombing perk

Yikes, I didn't know how old that Taibi article was. My pony was hacked.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58...9cb917f7ca/amp

These quotes never fail to amaze me. He has to be the most unintelligent person ever elected to any office.

Yeah, I know quite a few well-educated Trump supporters whose reaction, whenever they hear a liberal upset about something, is to instantly support whatever it is that has them upset.

Those people are commonly known as morons.

That is so weird, all of the Trump supporters I know have recently become sensible people with reasonable views and a clear sense of the world as it actually exists.

3 weeks? None of it's wrong, and I posted an article back around inauguration where Matt did pretty much the same sort of handwringing. He's drank all the anti-conspiracy kool-aid.

If those guns are all pointing out to sea to hit US ships it's pretty funny.

If they are pointing over the river to S. Korea, less so.