Trump isn't a rational choice for anyone since his instability leads to far greater future uncertainty. Also he's a giant moron who shouldn't be in charge of an EZ Bake oven, let alone a damn country. There was never any rational reason for anyone to support Trump except fringy dumb reasons like racism and having abortion/guns as your single issue for voting.

Sessions reminds me of this guy from Curb Your Enthusiasm:

Yea the problem with assuming that Trump is too dumb to bring down democracy is the implication that guys like Erdogan, Orban, or Duterte are actually smart.

Also forgetting whether these people are dumb, the fact that the world has a bunch of examples of backsliding, regressive tendencies in former democracies or countries that were trending toward freedom, and the fact we are seeing reflexive moves to authoritarianism is itself suggestive of a problem that doesn't fit neatly on the smart/dumb axis. You forgot some other important examples of authoritarianism and repression rising (Poland, Venezuela).

Minor but while I like Timothy Snyder and think he does important work especially now -- there should be more historians talking directly to the public (the nation's best selling historian right now is Bill ****ing O'Reilly) -- I think he's telling too much of a just-so story at the moment.

This is the first time RASMUSSEN has tracked him at sub 40%, big news imo.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 39% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Sixty-one percent (61%) disapprove.

The latest figures for Trump include 26% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 49% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -23. (see trends).

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ...ez_track_jul31

drudge has it highlighted red on his page as he slowly turns against the clown show

Just went on there for maybe the first time ever.

That's seriously what the website normally looks like‽

Those alt-right sites have some of the worst web design I've ever seen. Some look like Geocities web pages from the late 90s.

Drudge *is* an early 90's site. He's never updated the design. That's the OG alt-right.

No, you are doing exactly what Puppy Friday was doing: posting a video with minimal description or context of some obscure but true fact, and then insinuating that it is proof of something nefarious and covert, and what exactly that is is left as a exercise for the reader. It is terrible.

Gotta stick with a winner.

You watched the hearing?

I don't think I have ever watched a utoobz where the only context given to it was "watch this," and I am not about to start.

Cheese's rule is a good one, imo. The risk that you dismiss a unique perspective from credible expert due to horrible posting is very small compared to the chances you found another loon, especially if you are casting a wide enough net that you are reading such posters on the regular. If the person with bad grammar is indeed an expert, it is likely another expert who can actually write is saying the same thing.

Need rjoe's youtube cat up in here

Republicans sourced their amendment to investigate Hillary through the /the_donald subreddit
On one hand I guess it should be appalling. On the other, it seems like the same reaching out to the most extreme base and crafting legislation that's probably going to fail, just to rile them up. See also abortion, gun, and Muslim legislation.

https://www.wired.com/story/republic...ld-resolution/

What can we get from China? With Trump running the country, it's nearly impossible. He won't offer anything other than an insulting tweet or two after every test launch, used up a bunch of their influence on personal nonsense last meeting with Xi at Mar-a-Lago, and who knows if there are any other personal factors (like Scaramucci's $85 million) and if they're compromising the situation.

This is a huge problem with Trump. The more we learn about his shady, hidden (and later exposed by the media, or himself) activities, the less we can rule out shenanigans from non-exposed activities that appear similarly shady.

looool, came here to post the same thing. 22 points underwater on Ras. Great job, Donny.

Ding ding ding.

I mean, I'm stealing this from Chapo, but the idea that Vladimir Putin, SuperSpy, has a grand scheme to steal the White House and his chosen tools are

Donald Trump, a senile old racist
DJT Jr., a man so stupid he literally posted incredibly damaging and possibly incriminated emails on Twitter
Mike Flynn, the Pizzagate General whose primary skill is getting fired

makes Putin seem like a fish who got hit by the deck than an actual mastermind.

Baby Gaetz, making Florida proud.

Well, the amendment didn't touch on Crooked Hillary's Seth Rich murder capers and I'm pretty sure there aren't any pictures of Pepe in it, so give these guys credit for filtering out all of the white noise from /the_donald and keeping it strictly business, James Comey's shocking refusal to indict the Clinton Foundation for treason.

I also think this is the first time Trump ahs been at 61 percent disapprove in ANY major tracking poll. His base is slowly withering.

in before "hey guise, 39% isnt even that bad" - orange turd

You guys see what I'm having to put up with today? This can't be a real post outside of the Twilight Zone.

An uncut Congressional hearing is not "a utoobz" by any stretch.

3-4 mid-sized posts of context is not "watch this" by any stretch.

Why are you trying to make me sound like a conspiracy theorist without needing me to actually be one? This is exactly how pile-ons gain momentum.

Dude you're not some MAGA chode, don't post like one. Have a thesis.

Really? That's pretty bad news if Trump ever decides "military takeover" is the best or only way out.