Yea, I don't get it. I really don't. I mean everyone has neighbors, friends and family that work in the government. I have a friend that hates government and wants it completely abolished. Yet, she's married to a mailman and her father worked in the CIA for 20 years. It's just so *head explodes* sometimes.

I think it depends on what the bad thing is. If it's another 9/11, Trump will scream "I told you so!" and when they are incompetent afterwards, they'll blame it on the LIBRUL SHEEPLE that were too stupid to see it coming.

But if it's something bad like a national disaster, then yea, you are probably right. Even then, liberals will probably still get blamed. Like if there's a huge earthquake in Cali, it will be the liberals fault for not preparing properly. "Maybe you should have spent more time preparing than protesting!" would be a popular phrase from the right.

The economy has been growing yet trump got elected because at least in part, many people are clearly doing worse. He could funnel $ to every single trump voter at the expense of every single clinton voter. Market would tank, but it doesn't matter, it's all relative. For the most part, only rich people own stocks so the stock market is mostly irrelevant.

In fairness, @POTUS did tweet about the tornadoes:


While looking for that tweet, I saw this one that's flat out hilarious though:


The ****ing President has to ask aides about basic **** he should know.

Close to half of Americans have a 401k.

The mail has been losing a **** ton of $, trump's really gonna be pissed at them when he figures that out.

Yeah, it's annoying when people are literally arguing against themselves but what can ya do.

That story about the Putin call is completely and totally bonkers (and horrifying obv).

What an absolute lunatic this guy is.

ISIS lands a terrorist attack that kills 100 Americans tomorrow....Trump nukes the god damn middle east because, ISIS. What in the actual ****

Kafja,

Good post.

Freudian slip or precognition? Spencer will be Spicer's replacement.

Trump told Putin the 2010 treaty was one of a number of bad deals negotiated by the Obama administration — and also bragged about his own popularity during the call, Reuters said.


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Where was this anger 6 months ago?

I'm optimistic about this too. A couple reasons: Trump doesn't have 40% of voters locked up. In terms of eligible voters he had 27%, a lot of those were anti-Hillary, and I expect more Trump voters to leave his camp than to join, even considering the fact that a lot of his voters will never leave his camp no matter what he does. Second, I'm cautiously optimistic that we won't straight up ban massive numbers of Democratic leaning voters. Ramp up suppression techniques that depress turnout, sure, but there's a limit to how much of that you can get away with. Those who understand statistics (like most of this forum) understand that these techniques ultimately have the effect of giving Republicans an x% advantage, which is enough to win swing states that otherwise would have been lost. But that same line of thinking should lead you to believe that a Democratic candidate that excites voters and 4 years of a disastrous Trump presidency will likely lead to a Democratic advantage that more than makes up for the suppressed votes.

This is all dependent on the Democratic party selecting a candidate that can actually encourage turnout and most of our democracy surviving the next 4 years, neither of which are locks, but if those two conditions are met I wouldn't expect Trump to win in 2020.

Megan McCain can go **** herself. She was shilling for Trump on Fox News TODAY.

McCain bent the knee pretty damn fast when it came to confirmation votes.

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Spicer's going to do an exclusive interview with breitbart. **** him straight to hell

You can't know that, but I wasn't talking about myself regardless. I am talking about public figures.

FAKE NEWS!!

lol chuck tingle

I like the pundits who didn't get cucked, OK?

In other unsuprising news, the unemployment numbers were fake until they looked good for Trump. Now they're gospel.

Sean Spicer: I can only hope that if Coretta Scott King was still with us, that she would support Senator Sessions's nomination.

If only there were some document or correspondence where she expressed her feelings about him

Should be fun to see this so-called decision in the next 3 or so hours.

I agree with this although I still think she's the best option (probably because I'm biased). I was watching the OJ American crime story on Netflix, and Marcia Clark reminded me of my first choice, Warren, and just how misogynistic people are in this country. But dammit, that's even more of a reason to demand a female president. No better time to stomp on the throat of sexism.

As far as charisma and likability, Bernie never even combed his hair yet people loved him anyway. Can't Warren just attack the 1% and citizens united all the way to the white house?

And let's not forget that sushy wants liberals to think she can't win, so that's some good evidence I'm right.