rn the president is rooting for isis to attack inside the usa so he can tweet that he was right

Don't know if you know this or not but Donald Trump is president of the United States.

Is there some established narrative tradition I don't know about where everything Trump, the GOP and their fan base are doing right now isn't evil? I mean, I can't claim to have read every book, seen every movie, or listened to every fable passed down through the generations, but I have been exposed to quite a lot of them. Based on all the stories we tell ourselves to help us understand who we are, I'm pretty sure Trump is the bad guy.

I saw things on Twitter today saying that Van Jones sort of hinted at the idea he thinks Trump may orchestrate a fake terrorist attack using secret service whereby nobody gets killed or hurt in order to try and justify his order.

There's 160 EC votes bound to the compact. If the states the GOP moves to proportional put that at or above 270...

The GOP narrative is all about deflection and projection right now, the most common being Liberals are the ones harboring the hatred

Political gaslighting has won them everything

I wish I could witness the GOP reaction in the alternate universe where Obama or Clinton said what Trump said to O'Reilly in that interview.

SNL opening with President Bannon and Trump at a kiddie desk will undoubtedly infuriate trump. Here's hoping all the attention Bannon's been getting will drive a wedge between the two, Trump obviously being the jealous type.

Yeah, I think the problem is that you don't understand how it works.

There are 160 right now. It can't go above 160 without adding states. For all the other states are not in the compact, it doesn't matter what GOP does in those states.

Furthermore if those states were to join the compact at some point, then they would cease being proportional. Compact requires that they are winner take all based on national popular vote. It is not possible to both be part of the compact and be proportional (after it's triggered).

Yea especially when they got so mad Obama "apologized" for the US doing wrong things in history. Their hypocrisy is truly a marvel.

Last week liberals were pussies with safe spaces. This week they are violent leftists wreaking havoc and harboring hatred!

Who knows what they'll be next week??


The propaganda machine on the right is strong and Trumpers eat it up.

Yea the easiest way to put Trump on tilt is to make it look like he's the beta in the relationship. They should do it with Melania/Ivanka too.

Melissa McCarthy as raging Sean Spicer was pretty funny, especially when she accidentally read her password in the presser.

No, that wouldn't work. Proportional doesn't satisfy the compact. The compact is that once enough states join the compact that all the compact states have a combined 270 Electoral votes, then the compact kicks in and those states will all award their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner on a winner takes all basis. This would effectively make the popular vote winner always the electoral vote winner since they would get at least 270 electoral college votes from those states. Awarding the votes proportionally does not satisfy that (nor would it work), because it wouldn't necessarily mean the national vote winner would get the 270 electoral votes.

Melissa McCarthy as Spicer on SNL tonight was pretty funny

It is not just the electoral college. It is that they have figured out that 100% partisan politics is not punished by the public. Nor is absolutely blatant hypocrisy where the jobs report is fixed literally until Trump is president and then it is real, until it stops being positive, then it is fixed again. Our political system requires that both parties operate with some amount of good faith or the public punishes them for not doing so.

Man Trump's gonna go ballistic when he sees that isn't he? A woman playing the man that is seen as his puppet master.

There's a non zero chance he does something crazy enough that the Super Bowl isn't played. (Granted it's 0.0001% but still)

Excellent point

FU selfies are from the debil!

Each state has a certifying official, the compact means that they must accept each other's certifications. I can envision a situation where the official in say Missouri declares that the certificaton in California is not valid because of the inclusion of invalid votes and it changes the national result. Literally every state becomes the judge of every other state's procedures and the officials (who are elected with R or D behind their names) will believe it is their duty to not accept tainted results from any other state. Ask youself would both Democrat and Republican officials from dozens of states have accepted the Florida 2000 result with unanimity? It could be a big mess.

I've actually brought this up w/ conservative friends. I'll mention the metrics under Obama are the same metrics under Bush and Reagan. Then I'll mention how the Baby Boomers are now retiring. It just goes in one ear and out the other. *shrugs*

pure genius

Why doesn't he put it on his hip like a normal person?

I so want all this to be true: http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/02/medi...ump/index.html

I mean, I'd bet on all of that being true at evens if it were possible (maybe not that he ran specifically to get money out of NBC, but that he didn't run intending to make a serious effort to win).

I also think it's inevitable that his mental health is going to decline, how could it be otherwise? Take a narcissist, someone who constructs their entire world around their self-image, and subject them to constant questioning, criticism, hatred etc. It's their kryptonite.