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Unfortunate that people find

artappraiser — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:16:04 +0000

In reply to I am sure DT has the "moral

Unfortunate that people find it useful to spend energy this way, but there is a group of scholars who have expertise at Trump Twitter now and I am finding that they can always attest to his flexibility as to ideology and policy. For example, today:

There.
Is.
A.
Trump.
Tweet.
For.
EVERYTHING.

Baltimore edition.

#Nostradumbass strikes again!

h/t @atrupar for finding these gems.#TrumpIsARat #WhitePeopleAgainstRacism #sundaymorning pic.twitter.com/U9GpL3hcbp
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) July 28, 2019

I am sure DT has the "moral

moat — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:41:00 +0000

In reply to Strikes me that Kristof is

I am sure DT has the "moral flexibility" to swing that way. But doing so would belie the evidence of Kompromat from the Russians and the GOP.

All the rational sounding parts of the 2016 campaign have been subsumed by the need for a corral filled with Jordans, Meadows, and Mitch. The cabinet filled with Lobbyists also puts a clamp on much freedom of movement with actual policy.

The problem was the Louise

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:37:06 +0000

In reply to I rarely watch tv news. Just

The problem was the Louise Mensch "the Supreme Court has sent out special Marshals to deliver sealed indictments" kind of craziness, which Maddow likes latching onto. The accusations themselves have never been as unlikely as the thigh-rubbing certainty that Mueller was about to bring the whole government down with his super-exposé, but the end product while damning is a lot less sexy and wow-factor than predicted - it's a terribly damning lawyer's piece, but hard to get us out of our overwhelmed catatonic state, and still short a "he raped an underage girl on Main Street" super-bullet that we seem to require. (yes, Epstein may give us that yet, but then again, Roy Moore still ended up with nearly half the vote, so the new normal's shifted quite a bit)

I rarely watch tv news. Just

ocean-kat — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 18:49:41 +0000

In reply to thanks I like that, it sort

I rarely watch tv news. Just the Sunday round table shows and occasional videos linked in the news articles I read. It likely that there was too much time and focus on Mueller and the collusion story. It may be they predicted too much from the probe. But I dislike calling it Russian conspiracy stories equivalent to infowars. I'm convinced there was real criminal activity and sufficient coordination with Trump's campaign to warrant impeachment. Impeachment in the end has to be somewhat political in that the process needs to educate the people about the crimes and convince them it warrants removal. Perhaps democrats don't want to do that but that doesn't mean the allegations are not real and supported by the evidence. They are not conspiracy theories.

thanks I like that, it sort

artappraiser — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 06:02:44 +0000

In reply to Now Daily Beast:

thanks I like that, it sort of pegs what I felt about it especially this line Russia conspiracy was great for ratings among the key demographic of empty nesters on the coasts with too much time on their hands. Though she is doing some hyperbole herself there with the "irreparable damage to the left" thing. Sort of giving MSNBC more power than it has, methinks. It's more like this--the longer these show memes go on, the longer they milk it, just like Alex Jones or Qnon, eventually everyone hears about it and it becomes a label or a "brand" that the whole population understands. While if it's just milked for like a month or so, you're still only talking about a brand that only a very few news junkies and fans recognize. Here's the way I see it: junky fans wake up from gorging after months and go: what kind of bender did I just go on, why did I do that, lose all perspective and sense of balance?

Now Daily Beast:

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 04:54:07 +0000

In reply to Daily Howler's been

Now Daily Beast:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-msnbc-host-krystal-ball-msnbcs-russia-c...

& unveiled the infantruppen

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 05:34:00 +0000

In reply to Speaking of 1973, John Dean

& unveiled the infantruppen

Infant Troopen mobilize! pic.twitter.com/DfAV8OdGj9
— UncleWeez (@UncleWeez) July 25, 2019

Daily Howler's been

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:38:59 +0000

In reply to It's beginning to look a lot

Daily Howler's been complaining about Rachel for .>10 years.

Strikes me that Kristof is

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:55:59 +0000

In reply to Good enough

Strikes me that Kristof is making a good point with this from his op-ed today:

Representative Ken Buck, Republican of Colorado: “Could you charge the president with a crime after he left office?”

Mueller: “Yes.”

Buck (sounding startled): “You believe you could charge the president of the United States with obstruction of justice after he left office?”

Mueller: “Yes.”

I wonder how that went over in the Trump family. This shouldn’t have been a surprise, but it creates one more reason Trump will be desperate to win re-election: Winning might keep him out of prison.

And I'd add I think it's important to never forget that Trump is a narcissist uber allles. That there's no ideology there. I.E., in six months time he could be bashing Putin and Russia and claiming he can execute Elizabeth Warren's plans for the country better than she can...

It's beginning to look a lot

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:35:33 +0000

In reply to Wishful thinking. I wouldn't

It's beginning to look a lot like Fitzmas?

Edit to add: Just askin', not concluding. One thing I learned in the past: the bubble of what was once known as "the progressive blogosphere", it can get to be a delusional influence if one is not careful about bias confirmation. Sometimes can get nearly as crazy as Qnon types. I read something a rightie wrote about the Rachel Maddow show a couple of weeks ago, how she appears to be feeding a need for her audience to have this and that gleeful new bit of discovered info. every day, that it's become like a reassuring daily ritual--this struck a cord with me. Sometimes I come across it playing and feel the need to scream "don't you ever cover anything else?" It also strikes me similar as months of nightly Geraldo show during the Clinton "vast right wing conspiracy."