No WH chaos!

Some events happened today that got little attention:

1) Trump violated a direct order from Putin! He signed the sanctions bill. Symbolic or not, this is his first public statement or action AGAINST Putin/Russia ever, and just look at the reaction...

2) Russia slapped Trump back hard into place for his betrayal. Medvedev taunted and humiliated him across the world with Russia's first ever attack on Trump, calling him weak, impotent, a victim of the establishment, powerless - owned by Congress, etc. etc.

It's uncertain if Trump will ever side against "the family" again, but it's certain as anything we're in an incredibly dangerous situation. These comrades don't **** around.

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If left unchecked, MUCH greater. Let's not forget how anxious Trump has been to share our cyber intelligence and vulnerabilities with them. We also don't know how far this joint cyber program got since Trump's 2nd attempt to create it, because the White House started hiding everything that could expose any of their acts.

What are odds trump gets re-elected (let's say based on today's opinions on him from general public)? Urgh I know this is a derpy question

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Look if you want to see chaos go to Huckabeast's living room, where her kids are running a Baby Fight Club and launching mini nukes at each other in a modernized version of Crossbows & Catapults.

Very bad if we run it literally tomorrow. He won the election by tiny margins (1% and under) in a few key states. His favorability has gone down since then, so it's hard to imagine he wins. He will benefit from a long campaign though.

Yeah in one of his recent interviews or speeches he had some rambling thing about how he won Michigan and Ohio by huge margins. He didn't, at all. He won Michigan by 0.23%. He won PA and WI by less than 1 percent, Florida by 1.2%, and AZ and NC by <5%.

Just repeating a 46% turnout is almost a guaranteed loss without such high 3rd party candidate results, and he's gotten less popular since then.

David Sklansky vs David Sklansky LSAT HU Challenge imo.

It's the Secret Service, probably there for Melania and Barron?

The military part is different than the secret service.

This is the story that came out today.

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/03/541483..._medium=social

Looking at the whole story, this isn't some kind of mixup. Trump Tower created the dispute and is telling SS to get lost and "find another building" while SS is saying even though they're 50 floors away from the Trump office it's their duty to protect the first family and they still plan on working things out.

It really appears that we're peeking at Trump's paranoia again. He doesn't want prying eyes near his family's office, and Secret Service may have Clinton donors among the ranks.

This is the same city from Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution show where he attempted to get better meals for schoolkids and to teach these pigs how to feed themselves. They tried to run him out of town.

BREAKING: Keep a close eye on what happened with Mike Flynn today. He updated his filings to include previously undisclosed income and links to (Big Data through?) SCL/Cambridge Analytica, which has been brought up here before but never caught fire. I feel it's extremely important in conjunction with several things...

This looks very related to McMaster's purge of the IC data guy Ezra Cohen-Watnick (who helped get data for Nunes) and the rest of the Flynn people at the NSC that Bannon and Trump have been kicking and screaming about wanting to keep as staff.

We should examine this for an overall theme that includes the voter fraud commission data, any files Trump may have given to Putin, with or without Tillerson's presence. Leaders in the Middle East may have some connection as well, since Flynn also added cash/visits there in today's filing update. Hell Flynn-Russia, Flynn-Turkey, Flynn-Middle East...check ALL places with authoritarian governments or ambitions.

Not saying I have anything to back up all of the paragraph above, however there are strong indications that something pretty substantive is up with this, especially because of Trump's insane overprotectiveness of Flynn (which really hasn't come to fruition yet).

I believe we'll be hearing about this a lot in the near future. Probably right up there with the news about the DC Grand Jury. Thanks Joy Reid (or Lawrence, I forgot who broke the Flynn update story). We'll watch this space.

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Think this is the correct take. I'd feel confident he'd get crushed in some hypothetical universe where the election was tomorrow. Give him two years get the media back into horse race mode and reintroduce the specters of Hillary Clinton, a new Democratic opponent, and brown people continuing to live and come to America and add in the powers of the federal government now at his disposal and it's harder to guess.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/893330916495552512

First Burr, now McMaster going against Trump for a 2nd time yesterday. The trend is refreshing. Let's see how many kicks to the head Trump can take from the world before deciding to snap retaliate.

Cue up the, "BUT HE'S WORKING FOR FREE AND DONATING HIS SALARY CAUSE DADDY IS SO DAMN PATRIOTIC!" from the Trumpkins.

I think if the election was today he'd get crushed, partially due to losing some support but mostly due to the higher turnout and third party voters going to his opponent. People that said, "They're both the same," and pulled the lever for Johnson or Stein would now have seven months of Trump to realize how wrong they were. People that stayed home would have more reasons to go out and make their voice heard.

As others have pointed out, 2020 is so far away that it's impossible to predict. Wild cards include the horse race coverage, right wing mudslinging at whoever the nominee is, and whether or not Trump is primaried and how serious the challenge is. Like, if it's McMullin, it won't matter. If it's Romney, Kasich or Cruz, it could take his odds of retaining the presidency very, very low.

this is an example of a bad post. In a vacuum it is not bad, however you clutter this thread with these types of posts all the time. You take any story that has the word "data" and assume they must all be tied together

Well said. I just wish more people were smart enough, informed enough and open-minded enough to realize this.

Nope. I live a comfortable urban lifestyle.

People like to zoom way in on stock market graphs.

Lol, Kelly's getting fired in like two weeks.

Yes, please.

It doesn't seem implausible. If you own a bunch of coal mines and the price of coal drops to the point where it is unprofitable to mine, you are basically left with mining equipment and a way out of the money option on coal prices.

lol that rally last night

Somehow the DEMOCRATS, who hold literally 0 branches of government, are somehow still powerful enough to get a special counsel appointed and then sic it on the prez and his peeps. This is what Trump is selling, and idiots are standing in line to buy.