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1st July 2017, 02:08 PM | #1 |
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The Trump Presidency, Part II
He is not campaigning because he will run (too lazy to run twice). He just likes to hear the cheering crowds of supporters. Approval rating will be such that his party will not run him. It is rare, but will happen. They may even run Pence to look like they support Trump ideas but not the blabbering idiot part. |
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1st July 2017, 02:26 PM | #2 |
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On what do you base your claim that she is probably stupid?
She didn't do well against Russell Brand. In fairness he did troll her a bit but she was reduced to blushing and stammering. If you are "bleeding badly" from a cosmetic procedure, and your looks are a key asset, you're not likely to be seeking out social encounters. You shouldn't be bleeding badly to begin with. It appears that every single "fact" in his tweet is wrong and I have yet to read the last batch. I wish he'd get slapped with a few slander/libel lawsuits. He lies purposely and maliciously with flagrant disregard for the truth. Conventional wisdom is not to dignify such remarks with a legal response, but I think it's good to keep Trump feeling harried. The more he lashes out the better we know him. |
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Health issues, mark my words. Not conceding his blabbering idiocy (that raises the question of who hired the guy in the first place) but letting him go all the same.
You're absolutely right : a feature of his Presidency has been his nostalgia for the campaign. Now he's got the toy he's bored by it. |
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1st July 2017, 02:53 PM | #4 |
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I so hate to say this, but compared to Trump, Russell Brand has real substance. And is equally shameless. Actually I'd love to see Trump v Brand in a cage-fight, metaphorically speaking.
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He's on a roll again ... these are tweets I get delivered via RSS and am too lazy to source, you know his ccount:
Originally Posted by Teh Donald
Hahahaha, in that area you just gotta love the leader of the free world for stating the obvious - dumb as a rock is dumb as a rock and the enemy is the enemy. |
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Moving on towards 2018 elections, reluctant Trumpeteers DO worry about insurance etc.
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1st July 2017, 09:42 PM | #14 |
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Here are three snippets from the above quote:
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For example, Trump played NO role in the health care process, yet GOPers not only think he did but approve of his "actions". I don't watch TV - has Fox lauded his role? Is it really possible that 97% of enthusiastic Trump voters are divorced from reality? Only 3% see through him? Really? Is it at all possible to explain these stunning figures? |
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Here are three snippets from the above quote:
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For example, Trump played NO role in the health care process, yet GOPers not only think he did but approve of his "actions". I don't watch TV - has Fox lauded his role? Is it really possible that 97% of enthusiastic Trump voters are divorced from reality? Only 3% see through him? Really? Is it at all possible to explain these stunning figures? |
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2nd July 2017, 03:41 AM | #17 |
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And rising according to Gallup... it's now 85%
http://www.gallup.com/poll/203198/pr...ald-trump.aspx That's enough to get him re-nominated and the GOP "machine" will take care of the rest unless the Democratic Party can find a candidate to really excite people. The two successful Democratic candidates since 1980 have both been charismatic individuals. The unsuccessful candidates have either never been particularly engaging or have had their natural "bounce" beaten out of them by 40 years in the public eye. |
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The election process has changed considerably since 1960, much less 1860. I think that we need to look at postwar elections to see how incumbents fare.
Unless you're tainted by fraud (Ford) then you stand a pretty good chance of being re-elected if you choose to stand. Trump has already announced that he will run in 2020 so unless we have a Carter/Reagan; Bush/Clinton situation where the other side puts up a much more charismatic candidate then I see every chance of Trump being selected as the GOP candidate (as the link above shows, Gallup have Trump's approval at 85% and rising among the GOP) and if that's the case, unless the Democratic Party put up an exceptional candidate then there's every chance he will be re-elected. The reason for this is because Trump is exactly the kind of President that a large minority of the U.S. electorate want, not reluctantly accept because he's the candidate, but actively want. |
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Certainly, no one has put forth that President Trump is especially articulate.
Already mentioned, but seriously... "Trump’s remarks began with the president’s usual boasting: “We’re going to lead again like we never led before.” But he then appeared to claim all of space for the U.S., calling it the “next great American frontier.” Trump also referred to space “providing the security that we need to protect the American people.” And he sent Aldrin’s eyebrows shooting up when he added, inexplicably, “At some point in the future, we’re going to look back and say, ‘How did we do it without space?’” “We know what this is, space. That’s all it has to say: space,” Trump said as he prepared to sign his executive order. He then turned to Aldrin and asked, “There’s a lot of room out there, right?” “To infinity, and beyond,” Aldrin quipped as others laughed. But Trump apparently didn’t get the reference to Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase in “Toy Story.” “This is infinity here. It could be infinity,” Trump answered in a rambling response. “We don’t really don’t know. But it could be. It has to be something — but it could be infinity, right?”" Wow. From The Huffington Post via Apple News. |
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OH!! I didn't realize that was
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For a while now - even before he won office - Trump's popularity with Republicans has been a big part of what unnerves me about all of this. I don't believe that he is a man of such incomparable charisma that he's gotten the vast majority of Republicans on board just by personal awesomeness. I strongly suspect that Trump is the kind of leader that most mainstream Republicans have been wanting for a long time. The alt-right might be the most vocal and vulgar of his fans, but they aren't getting him those sorts of approval ratings by themselves.
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This is interesting. I agree, because his base is often referred to as being the "new" kind of Republican;tea-party, alt-right, uneducated. But with polling at that high a number with Repubs, it does indicate that somehow, someway he is gaining support from more "traditional" Republicans, the kind I thought would have jumped ship (such as many of the same age as my pops).
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2nd July 2017, 09:32 AM | #33 |
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You're ignoring that his overall approval is still in the high 30's so overall number of respondents that approve of his performance isn't changing. This "increase in GOP overall approval" just shows that fewer respondents are identifying as Republican and his approval is higher with the shrinking group of self identified Republicans.
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I'm also mildly disappointed that his approval rating among independents seems to have stabilized. I'd hoped it would keep falling. Still very low, though.
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As a data point, I'm still a registered Republcan and have found Trump repulsive from the get go.
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