y66 Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 The Republican party has serious problems going forward as their base of older white evangelicals dies out piecemeal while new voters overwhelmingly chose the Democratic party.Ditto going backward as their disastrous policies since Eisenhower have shown. The only thing more disastrous has been the Dems failure to provide electable alternatives with some notable exceptions on both sides. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2018 Raw Story: JPMorgan is telling investors that Trump’s declaration this week that China will immediately drop all tariffs on American cars has no basis in reality.In particular, the note said that investors should have “valid reason for caution” when it comes to investing on the hopes that Trump is on the verge of a major breakthrough with China. “It doesn’t seem like anything was actually agreed to at the dinner and White House officials are contorting themselves into pretzels to reconcile Trump’s tweets (which seem if not completely fabricated then grossly exaggerated) with reality,” the note states. Amazing that a bank is warning investors that the president is full of crap - or maybe it is just the alternate reality where the intraday yield curve did not invert yesterday. B-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2018 Alan Dershowitz https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/no-single-news-event-will-take-down-trump/577264/ The admission that the Trump Organization was working secretly—colluding, one might say—with the Russian government on a business deal late into the campaign and that Trump knew about this activity led many observers, including those quoted above, to treat this latest plea as the turning point for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. But the underlying metaphors are wrong. There is no sudden bend in the path of the investigation. There is no house of cards. The dominoes will not fall if gently tipped. The administration is not going to come crashing down in response to any single day’s events. The architecture of Trump’s power is more robust than that. Joshua Zoffer and Niall Ferguson: Mueller and a blue House could bring down Trump We need to stop thinking of it as a fragile structure waiting for the right poke to fall in on itself. Think instead of the myriad investigations and legal proceedings surrounding the president as a multi-front siege on a walled city that is, in fact, relatively well fortified. Siege warfare is not a matter of striking precisely the correct blow at the correct moment at a particular stone in the wall. It is a campaign of degradation over a substantial period of time. While those inside the fortified city may rely only on the strength of their walls and their stored resources, the attackers can take their time. Volleys of projectiles—arrows or trebuchets—pepper the city walls and those atop them, while the strength of the defending army diminishes as soldiers slip away and food dwindles. Moreover, active conflict is an episodic, not a constant, feature of siege warfare; the enemy army can encamp outside the walled city and blockade it without firing a shot. Over time, the walls and defending forces become degraded to such a degree that the invaders are able to scale the walls and sack the city. No, Mueller and his forces are not a Mongol horde, but the Trump White House is very much under siege. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 Wapo reports: President Trump’s claims of a new trade agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping showed signs of crumbling Tuesday, with senior officials seeking to play down expectations of a breakthrough and acknowledging that major provisions remained in flux. Dennison-to-English translation: He lied. Again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 Dennison-to-English translation: He lied. Again.And, it seems, the masters of the financial universe fell for it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 In Stunning Power Grab, Wisconsin Republicans Pass Bill Weakening New Governor by Kevin Robillard at HuffPo. The cheese curds are in the fryer now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 And, it seems, the masters of the financial universe fell for it again.Yep. Trump is Lucy, Wall Street is Charlie Brown, and we're now flat on our backs after she pulled the football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 It is hard to imagine that the Republicans are so insulated inside their Fox and Friends bubble that they do not realize that they lost the midterms by 10 million votes - but that is the recent count. A complete repudiation of Dennison and his hateful policies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 It is hard to imagine that the Republicans are so insulated inside their Fox and Friends bubble that they do not realize that they lost the midterms by 10 million votes Is that not in the realm of stealability, 2020 general wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 It is hard to imagine that the Republicans are so insulated inside their Fox and Friends bubble that they do not realize that they lost the midterms by 10 million votes - but that is the recent count. A complete repudiation of Dennison and his hateful policies.Winston, wasn't Hilbilly a lock for 2016? Were all those in the CNN/MSM bubble so insulated from reality as well? Politics, like climate, appears to be a non-linear, chaotic and coupled (2-party) system that cannot be predicted long term (bubble-wise). ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 Winston, wasn't Hilbilly a lock for 2016? Were all those in the CNN/MSM bubble so insulated from reality as well? Politics, like climate, appears to be a non-linear, chaotic and coupled (2-party) system that cannot be predicted long term (bubble-wise). ;) The best prognosticators gave Dennison a much better chance - especially in the last 2 weeks after Comey's faux pas. It was still an upset, but not a repudiation. Dennison won by minus 3 million votes. B-) The midterms have raised that number to minus 10 million. That is what repudiation looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 Is that not in the realm of stealability, 2020 general wise. No doubt there will be more repudiation to come in 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 From The Wisconsin power grab is part of a bigger Republican attack on democracy by Zack Beauchamp at Vox: The GOP’s turn against democracy may be a greater threat to the American experiment than President Trump.May be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnu Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 The best prognosticators gave Dennison a much better chance - especially in the last 2 weeks after Comey's faux pas. It was still an upset, but not a repudiation. Dennison won by minus 3 million votes. B-) Yep, Dennison's primary campaign theme the last couple of weeks was "Lock her up" and Clinton's poll lead was severely eroded by the terrible publicity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnu Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 Dennison on Coming Debt Crisis: ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up The friction came to a head in early 2017 when senior officials offered Trump charts and graphics laying out the numbers and showing a “hockey stick” spike in the national debt in the not-too-distant future. In response, Trump noted that the data suggested the debt would reach a critical mass only after his possible second term in office. “Yeah, but I won’t be here,” the president bluntly said, according to a source who was in the room when Trump made this comment during discussions on the debt. Wow, long term strategic planning by Dennison Individual-1. I didn't see that one coming B-) Could that be a blueprint for his Mueller report strategy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 The best prognosticators gave Dennison a much better chance - especially in the last 2 weeks after Comey's faux pas. It was still an upset, but not a repudiation. Dennison won by minus 3 million votes. B-) The midterms have raised that number to minus 10 million. That is what repudiation looks like.No doubt that the result was "surprising" to many that felt Hil to be the only choice. That was their bubble I suppose. The game, such as it is, is played by the rules, such as they are. Hil lost, fair and square, if not numerically but popular vote for president was not part of the rules that ensure that each of the states gets their relatively proportional say. As you know, perhaps the Dems will win 2020 by a Johnsonian/Goldwater type landslide. One of those longer term or even last minute shifts in public sentiment that affect those things. Rallying behind a popular movement is getting more common (Arab spring, gilets jaune etc.) but oppression and suppression are most often the causes. Disgruntlement, not so much. Trump has certainly flipped the script on US politics as usual so at least there is that. Will it result in a rethink or even refinement of the US system? A return to classic norms? A new paradigm? Interesting times are for the brave, so they say, but who are "they"? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 The best prognosticators gave Dennison a much better chance - especially in the last 2 weeks after Comey's faux pas. It was still an upset, but not a repudiation. Dennison won by minus 3 million votes. B-) The midterms have raised that number to minus 10 million. That is what repudiation looks like. Just saw this and it is pertinent to this discussion. From WaPo: And departing members report that the most active Republican partisans in their state believe there is nothing — absolutely nothing — wrong with a political party that lost 40 House seats in a time of relative peace and unprecedented prosperity. If anything, one soon-to-be-former member told me, the Republican base believes its party lost ground because it wasn’t true enough to Trump’s agenda. In this parallel political reality, building the border wall would have stopped the Democratic wave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 From The Wisconsin power grab is part of a bigger Republican attack on democracy by Zack Beauchamp at Vox: May be? Any time any group chooses self-interests over country, democracy is eroded - sometimes dramatically so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 The next step is to cement control of the news media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 Life is getting interesting: Note that this is being filed by SDNY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 Also this from Special Counsel's sentencing memo: Cohen told prosecutors that in November 2015, he “received the contact information for, and spoke with, a Russian national” who called himself a “trusted person” in Russia and offered “political synergy” for the Trump campaign. In 2015, the offer was made by Russia to "collude" (synergy) yet the Trump Dennison Individual-1 caravan continually stayed in contact with Russians right up to the day of the inauguration. And Daily Beast is reporting this: Another bombshell lobbed by Michael Cohen exploded late Friday night: He says he told Donald Trump about a phone call to the Kremlin asking for the Russian government’s help to build a Trump Tower in Moscow in 2016. And Cohen also claims he was talking to Trump’s lawyers and White House staff in 2017 while he crafted a misleading statement to Congress seeking to cover up the truth about the Moscow project and the level of Trump’s involvement. Wow. WH invovled in crafting false statements to Congress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 Wow. WH invovled in crafting false statements to Congress. Perhaps, however, the real story is that State and Federal prosecutors are charging that "Individual 1" has committed felonies... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 In chronological order: Twitter Whether I choose him or not for "State"- Rex Tillerson, the Chairman & CEO of ExxonMobil, is a world class player and dealmaker. Stay tuned! Twitter I have chosen one of the truly great business leaders of the world, Rex Tillerson, Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, to be Secretary of State. Twitter The thing I like best about Rex Tillerson is that he has vast experience at dealing successfully with all types of foreign governments. Twitter Congratulations to Rex Tillerson on being sworn in as our new Secretary of State. He will be a star! Twitter The media has been speculating that I fired Rex Tillerson or that he would be leaving soon - FAKE NEWS! He’s not leaving and while we disagree on certain subjects, (I call the final shots) we work well together and America is highly respected again! Twitter Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him. His predecessor, Rex Tillerson, didn’t have the mental capacity needed. He was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell. Now it is a whole new ballgame, great spirit at State! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 It's almost as if ***** for brains like ldrews are being lied to, and, being ***** for brains, they believe it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 It's almost as if ***** for brains like ldrews are being lied to, and, being ***** for brains, they believe it! Best to avoid mentioning certain individuals by name, least they consider this an invitation to return Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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