You people are game planning for a significantly more popular and competent version of Trump. Embrace the farce.

The guy's base of support is literally the least economically and culturally relevant segment of society. He's not a dragon, he's a speed bump. The rascal scooters will not be able to catch the transexuals running for/or to the border.

Even people who are in favor of the deepstate underestimate its power.

A buracret Trump tried to remove just referred a cabinet member for prosecution. The amry won't even ban transgender people. The govt will be not be defining sex as 100% binary. The 14th amendment thing will be forgotten in a week. There is zero prospect for genocide and mentioning it is stupid. The SCt allowed the ungerrymandering of PA to stand, losing the GOP like 3 seats. Trump is empty calories. Smoke less pot in your dorm rooms. Even Kanye has been freed.

It's easy to cheat on taxes and launder money. They basically accept your word. It's really hard to force the government to do unconventional and unpopular things. Hell, confirming Kavanaugh was downright conventional and they has to kill the filibuster to do it. That will make a nice precedent for completely removing it to enact single payer.

Is it?

I highly recommend clicking through to that and reading the thread. Comedy gold.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-p...ction-results/

Check out the 8 or 9 precincts around Newport Beach. They are as much as 70% for Trump.

and..

People earning under $50k vote 53/41 Clinton
$50-$100k voted 46/49 Trump
$100k+ 47/47

Liberal white dude in OC making good money, you are in the minority.

What about angels of mercy? Might be coverage for an accelerated time line.

Yeah. This isn't a tactic that worked one time by dumb luck. Simplicitus may or may not be right about the long term trend, but there has been significant research about these kinds of strategies in the short term. The more you talk about race, the more conservative people get and the more they vote for republicans.

That said, I'm not sure how effective this particular tactic will be. For one, there are a lot of stories in the news right now, and this might get drowned out. Plus, it's such a transparent move that people might not engage with the question of whether or not birthright citizenship should exist. So far, the vast majority of discussion has centered around whether or not it's a good move politically, and whether or not it could be done legally.

I live in newport beach. You wouldn't think it to look at the campaign signs around here - almost all Rouda. I've actually tried to find a rohrbacher sign and have yet to see one, other than the "Republicans against Rohrbacher" signs.

Newport beach's political and cultural demographic has been noticeably changing, and I'm not really sure why. Most of the beach front properties are vacant 90% of the year, or air bnb'd. I think this has something to do with it, but again I'm not sure, just what I (and basically everyone I know) have noticed.

Balboa island in particular used to be a deep red sector of NB. Now it is a literal blue wave of rouda signs. My neighborhood I'd put in a similar category, and it went purple in 2016.

They know it's socially frowned upon to broadcast that they vote for the lunatic bigots. My city went fairly strongly Clinton, but still the significant minority of Trump voters didn't put up any signs.

The LOUD Trump supporters may largely be from the living-in a-van class, but there are a lot of deplorable Kavanaugh types in the world too and they only scream and cry when they are testifying before the Senate.

George Sorros is the most low profile demo demon in history. I assume 999.9999% of soros decries could not identify him in a line up with Boy George, the Rock, Cindi Lauper, and John Cena.

rohrbacher is nationally famous for being a russian collaborator. i'm nowhere near your district and i've heard audio of the house majority leader saying he believes putin pays him. and when people around the house majority leader nervously laughed, he cut them off and clarified that he was not joking by insisting, "i swear to god"

i don't think he had that kind of notoriety last time he was up for election

I’m not saying you’re wrong I’m just saying times are changing quickly. I mean even rouda is about as blue blood Newport Beach is you could possibly get, part of the reason I liked his opponent more. But I ended up voting for him anyway because I thought he had a better chance at winning.

Lol wut?

Haha ye is a doof

Haha I love this Jacob stuff. Dude was playing 8d chess in his moms basement love it.

I know Trump is an absolute lock with older white Christian males with no college, but rich white people are slightly red and the blame shouldn't all be cast in the rabble.

Rich whites are very much motivated by self interest, and while the tax cuts are undoubtedly popular with that group, i think a lot of the other stuff isn’t - especially the trade war stuff. Anyone with a small amount of education can immediately see how damaging a trade war is to their own economic interests, and with rapid inflation almost unquestionably on the horizon, they will certainly see their wealth shrink by a not insignificant factor. and it’s not like democrats have been entirely unfriendly to the wealthy’s interests either. I’m not trying to argue that they’ll vote blue, I just think trump’s main platforms are VERY much against their interests and I think a lot of them are aware of this on some level.

I’m obviously talking out of my ass and anecdotally so feel free to disregard anything I’m saying, I think CA48 is very much up for grabs and this demographic will play a part in it.

A world wide rise of far right authoritarianism is a speed bump? Even if we get around this, everywhere else isn't.

Isn't there too much credit being given here? Trump is simply a racist and it worked in his favor the first go round. There's no thought or planning, it's just who he is.

Trans Lifeline, a crisis hotline for trans people, received 4x normal call volume after Trump announced plan to erase transgender identity

I think everyone is saying Trump is just clicking buttons. Sometimes it will work, but no one seems too confident in what will happen next week.

I mean

This is the threat we are facing. It's time to panic. Genocide is just around the corner. #holidayinn


https://twitter.com/GideonResnick/st...659370498?s=19

Holy *uck NBC

Everything is fine because one really dumb guy who looks like he's dying of liver cirrhosis can't draw a crowd, seems legit.

NBC News has become ****ing garbage. They did everything they could to squelch Ronan Farrow's groundbreaking #MeToo coverage, they hired Megyn Kelly to the tune of $60M, and the chairman Andrew Lack overlooked a bunch of internal sexual harassment scandals. They've surpassed the NYT editorial pages as America's premiere source of gaslighting agitprop.

Fox news draws enough viewers to reliably contribute $1 bn/yr to its parent company and to generously pay its hosts and contributors. If you were a politically agnostic but even semi-ambitious exec you would not mess with the formula much. Most of the true believers are now gone, and the only question is how to present "news" such that you don't lose too many eyeballs and have to answer tough questions about numbers from parent co's management.

But even though it makes money and is influential, there's no real reason to believe that amplifying its signal will allow you to win a midterm election. In fact, that'd be pretty damn amazing, given that most voters don't watch cable news, and the combined ratings of cnn and MSNBC are greater than fox (and MSNBC is, I think, greater in the demos advertisers pay for).

Trumps Fox strategy for the midterms, I believe, is like the drunk looking for his keys under the lamp post, not because he lost them there but because "that's where the light is." And I don't think that will work out.