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Heh, not good enough for

artappraiser — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 05:24:21 +0000

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Heh, not good enough for Pacific Life, Tucker

A message from Pacific Life: pic.twitter.com/bDq9hzia53
— Pacific Life (@pacificlife) December 14, 2018

I wonder who individual 1 in

rmrd0000 — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:29:20 +0000

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I wonder who individual 1 in the Mueller filings might be.

a reminder from Natasha:

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 21:09:23 +0000

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a reminder from Natasha:

Well, according to Chris Steele's sources, Moscow had a say in it. https://t.co/Jtdj72CjJi https://t.co/LNV4brplig
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 7, 2018

Trump just demagogued the

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:56:59 +0000

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Trump just demagogued the issues for his populist base.

And that's what Carlson is basically saying is the #1 qualification, and it's like he's admitting they could do better with someone who could actually execute these things. But to say so is defeating the purpose of demagoguing. So you don't do that on Fox News, but you can say it to a furriner journalist because the base isn't paying attention there. Hah.

To me it's basically the political spin/political activist thing writ large. You keep it simple:i.e., they are all snowflakes, or they are all racists or Nazis. You can be a nuanced elitist but only in secret among other elites.

You know, this somehow reminds me of how it always irritated me that Josh Marshall wanted to have all his real conversation in private email, and then edit what he learned for the great unwashed. The great unwashed who were participating in comments unmoderated. If you do that you are admitting that there is a great unwashed who are hopeless who demagogue and can be demagogued. It is a Fox News attitude: don't tell them the real truth of the gray shades, they can't handle the gray, they need black and white stories that rile their emotions.

To sum up:

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:43:05 +0000

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To sum up:
-Trump hired a person he considered “dumb as a rock” to be Secretary of State and kept him there for over a year.
-Tillerson worked for a man he considered an unbalanced criminal and stayed there for over a year.
— Seth Masket, another political scientist (@smotus) December 7, 2018

Trump hasn't begun a

ocean-kat — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:34:51 +0000

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Trump hasn't begun a conversation about things that matter. All the things Carlson mentions have long been a part of republican politics. Repealing Obamacare, the wall, defunding Planned Parenthood have all been discussed for years among republicans. Trump just demagogued the issues for his populist base.

She says it like she was

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:07:13 +0000

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She says it like she was wondering why it took so long:

And, there it is https://t.co/9I3nBcrBMh
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 7, 2018

SHOCK AND AWE!

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:59:43 +0000

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SHOCK AND AWE!

Tucker Carlson says Trump is ‘not capable’ and hasn’t kept his promises

By Deanna Paul @ WashingtonPost.com, December 6 at 6:31 PM

Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson set straight any misinformation concerning his views on President Trump: “I don’t think he’s capable,” he said during an interview on Tuesday.

Urs Gehriger, an editor at “Die Weltwoche,” Switzerland’s leading German-language opinion weekly, noted that Carlson’s new book, “Ship of Fools,” is silent on Trump but comments on his critics. And so, Gehriger jump-started the conversation by asking what Carlson thought of Trump’s first two years in office.

Carlson said he cannot stand Trump’s self-aggrandizement and boasting. Then, when asked whether Trump has kept his promises, the usually quick-witted and long-winded Carlson had just one word: “No.”

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[...] he continued to disparage the president when Gehriger probed for more.

“His chief promises were that he would build the wall, defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare, and he hasn’t done any of those things,” Carlson said, adding that those goals were probably lost causes. Trump, he said, doesn’t understand the system, and his own agencies don’t support him.

“He knows very little about the legislative process, hasn’t learned anything, hasn’t surrounded himself with people that can get it done, hasn’t done all the things you need to do, so it’s mostly his fault that he hasn’t achieved those things,” he added.

Carlson has come to believe that Trump’s role is not as a conventional president who promises to achieve certain things and then does. Instead, it’s to “begin the conversation about what actually matters.”

For the Fox News host, that issue is immigration [....]

Rex Tillerson on Trump:

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:41:17 +0000

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Rex Tillerson on Trump: ‘Undisciplined, doesn’t like to read’ and tries to do illegal things

By Aaron Blake @ WashingtonPost..com, December 7 at 9:31 AM

Rex Tillerson came a little bit closer Thursday to saying what he actually thinks of President Trump.

The fired secretary of state, who while in office reportedly called Trump a “moron” (and declined to deny it), expounded on his thoughts on the president in a rare interview with CBS News’s Bob Schieffer in Houston.

It wasn’t difficult to read between the lines. Tillerson said Trump is “pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read” and repeatedly attempted to do illegal things. He didn’t call Trump a “moron,” but he didn’t exactly suggest that Trump was a scholar — or even just a steady leader.

“What was challenging for me coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented ExxonMobil corporation,” Tillerson said, was “to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says, ‘This is what I believe.’ ”

WATCH: Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is speaking publicly about what led to his firing in March by President Trump.

CBS News political contributor @bobschieffer interviewed Tillerson in Houston last night, at a dinner to benefit MD Anderson Cancer Center. pic.twitter.com/47qDqcsrMs
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) December 7, 2018

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NEWS from @DanaBashCNN:

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:19:45 +0000

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NEWS from @DanaBashCNN: Giuliani says Mueller believes Manafort is lying about Trump.... for one, they think Manafort lied when he says Trump didn't know about the Trump Tower meeting with Russians. (How does Giuliani know? He talks to Manafort's lawyers.) https://t.co/Y0tFNHzQja
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) December 7, 2018