those are FAKE NUMBERS tho

Wow way to be so critical of Trump's tweets you filthy liberal. /s

Seriously though how many of his supporters would even bother to actually check the poll and come to a conclusion about its reliability, etc.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7601786.html

Only trust Rasmussen

I'm with ya. I would just remind everyone still in the Fog of Trump America that like, the kind of posturing that are tantamount to 'try this one weird media trick to get them to patiently explain to America that the government is chalk full of white nationalists and run by a party built off of ethno resentment and grievance' -- yeah, that won't work.

We can say on the one hand that the GOP isn't holistically popular, and that's true, but let's not also convince ourselves that they don't have tens of millions of supporters. I don't think they're quite like 50% of the population by any stretch; I don't even think they're like 50% of the electorate. But it's a critical mass of people, maybe 30-45%, something like that: people that are basically out of excuses. There are no wake up calls left. This is it. It's what they've chosen. They either deeply desire it or charitably, and it becomes ever more just a charitable interpretation, they maybe tolerate it in exchange for tax cuts or something. But probably lots of people just want America to be dominated by whites and that's important to them.

And globally, not just in the US -- we seem to be deep in a hopefully transitory state of heightened ethno nationalist sentiments. It's not unprecedented for these kinds of feelings to lie dormant and then be stirred. Sometimes they atrophy. Sometimes they metastasize. But I think it's critical to recognize this has been metastasizing for DECADES. Everyone who has talked to an old white relative or been on a chain mail or browsed Facebook or read internet comments or turned on Fox or AM radio or literally just lived, if you've lived with any sort of consciousness for what white people have been saying and communicating amongst themselves for DECADES -- for as long as I've been alive, at least -- this is not new. At all. I think liberals have miscalculated to some extent the political power of these kinds of narratives and assumed the elites had it all under control even when so many in elite circles flattered these kinds of sensibilities if not outright and openly supported them; we really shouldn't have been so confident this moment would never arrive. But I sure hope liberals haven't convinced themselves this is newly emerging or something, and it's going to be bottled back up with a quick lecture from Chuck Todd or something.

So: We got a project on our hands here to disassemble all of this. Not some simple edge tinkering or perfectly threaded needle by the media. Don't sit around waiting for the media to shake everyone up and get everyone to realize the Trump government and the GOP writ large are a bunch of white supremacists or pander to the white supremacist gestalt. We all know. We're not for lack of transparency on that fact. Behave accordingly.

So, 3 of 6 invitees to Trump's spedch are family members of those killed by immagrants. This is really the stupidest version of reality.

Also, https://twitter.com/NickTimiraos/sta...45080215363585

I have a case where a business owner from FL stiffed my recruiter client on 5 employee placements. Guy reminds me of Trump and is trying to lowball us. We'll take the case to trial just to make his life less pleasant.

Gotta be very very careful with sentiments like this. In many ways Trump is the country the United States has always and forever been--a country based economically on exploitation of the weak and minorities, with an apartheid-like legal status for black Americans and a very messy middle status for brown Americans. See slavery, the civil war, the compromise of 1877, the "Redemption" period, the Gilded Age when women gained the right to vote but most blacks still could not, Jim Crow era-south which was essentially to an apartheid state, and school segregation, police brutality, and mass incarceration of African Americans that continues up to this very day.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...protests-leaks

I think the question is who is going to be the target of the 2 mins hate? Clinton? Obama? Soros? You know it's coming soon but who to choose?

Outside chance of McCain?

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...228-story.html

Cliff notes: Trump thinks we have too many brown and black immigrants and/or people in America

Dems should boycott Trumps speech tonight en masse.

Getting out the vote needs to start now with helping people get IDs and checking voter rolls, along with suing and protesting these laws.

It also starts with ostracizing and demonizing the morons who support these measures. Marginalize them. Deny them any air time and shout them down as the bigoted, evil individuals they are.

America has never been more honest. Exceptionally stupid. America first.
Big oil, big banks, racism and pollution. Hiring lobbyist instead of politicians.

Go get a TV dinner and cook it up

This is true. One of the 'nice' things about the status quo is that we've disabused ourselves about the stark and growing differences between the GOP and the rest of the country. One of the bait and switch tactics of the pre-Trump GOP was spending 95% of their time on Trump style grievance and white resentment politics and when you'd call them out for it, they'd make some handwaving allusions to PAUL RYAN SERIOUS BUDGET HAWK as being the real intellectual backbone of the party. Trump laid it bare that the real core of the party is actually angry whites frothing about this and that and even knowing how math and budgets work or really anything at all about governance is simply window dressing.

No talk of the Totally Not Racist Jeff Sessions abandoning the Justice Department challenge to Texas' blatantly racist voter ID law?

Is Trump the next Carter?

Seems interesting and true in retrospect but it has a problem of being a 'just so' story. It doesn't have any predictive application so people can look back and in hindsight highlight and diminish various events to make it fit the narrative.

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/...s-trump-makes/

Oh it gets better, he dismissed the Ferguson and Chicago FBI reports on police brutality as being mostly anecdotal and said that cops need to implement 'pro active' policing to deal with an 'unprecedented crime wave'. The next few years will be fun.

Trump is more like Nixon than Carter (elected as a reaction to focus on minorities, problems with terrorism/war, inherent corruption, narcissism, etc.).

Well to be fair it started with not voting for the guy that pandered to them for the entire election. Which is what the country did, just unfortunately he still won for some reason.

fyp. Let's not pretend Trump is some kind of major outlier on a global and historical scale. We can't ascertain much about how hunter-gatherer societies operated, but only in the final 100-200 out of the last 10,000 years have notions of democracy, equal rights, and individual freedom really taken hold. It is important to remember that oppression and tribalism is completely par for the course. That's just how humans are.