Trump 2018: Resistance is Never Futile

[lionheart]

To pick up on the Star Trek motif.

I'm not so sure - his latest tweets sound.........tired. (Prepared to stand corrected of course.)

Happy New Year Trump watchers

The "it's a miracle" post on this thread series after the election surprise was my fave of 2017.

You have me at a disadvantage. I don't remember that one.

Anyone else wondering if the release of the Woolf book is not entirely coincidental? This level of provocation, scrutiny and media ridicule is sure to rile Trump. Could throw up some interesting results in his medical on 12 January...

< doffs lazy hat and goes off to find post>

Possibly another distraction.Time will tell.

It’s very entertaining, even if it is a stinky old dead cat.

I know the button thing was a million years ago only this week but...
Button disfunction?
Use viagraggedon.

I think the rift between Trump and Bannon is significant, though what real impact it will have is hard to say. Whatever Trump may now try and claim they were very much joined at the hip during and just after the campaign. Bannon was widely touted as a king maker. When he left the White House it was by no means certain that he had fallen so far from grace or that the split between him and Trump was so deep.

The fact that Bannon has been prepared to sit on this stuff while a book was written also demonstrates he is far better at holding back so as to deliver a more calculated revenge than Trump (who would have tweeted every bit of this month's before publication). I wouldn't be surprised if he has more to say on this as things progress.

If nothing else, it is well worth some popcorn. I will never get bored of watching Nazis punch each other repeatedly in the face.

Long time lurker here. I don't know how you keep up with it all.

Just seen buried in the Washington Post that Bannon is considering suing Trump:
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/01/04/with-book-blocking-effort-trump-is-living-his-authoritarian-fantasy/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.ac14ee209aa3

.....and now the Mercers have just disowned Bannon:
www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/01/04/mercer-issues-rare-public-rebuke-of-former-ally-bannon/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_mercerbannon-530pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c0362c5c6e9a

As I said upthread somewhere, 45 doesn't have the best lawyers.

Ginandtonic - you may not post often, but you’ve been prolific in the last 5 mins.

bigly

gin gosh, this is escalating deteriorating fast!

As I said upthread somewhere, 45 doesn't have the best lawyers.

He scares them or annoys them away.

Plus, does he really have the cash to pay them?
Tax returns!

I suspect the Mercers of 'getting out of politics generally'. That last donation they reportedly made was just weird.

Apologies if already posted

Laurence Tribe
‏*@tribelaw*
Among Michael Wolff’s most explosive revelations: Trump's legal spokesman quit upon concluding he’d personally witnessed President Trump obstructing justice on Air Force One:

uk.businessinsider.com/trumps-spokesman-quit-because-he-thought-air-force-one-meeting-was-obstruction-of-justice-2018-1?r=US&IR=T

Ah Yes. Ms Maddow noticed that one. (Although I think it was the spokesman for 45's lawyer or some such.)

The shit seems to be hitting the fan at increasing velocity. Will Trump see his first year out, or strop off stage left in the next 3 weeks?

I just hope that we get that far. As a planet.

Amen to that Cozie.

And yes yes, I know there's a danger in getting drawn into the gossipy shock schlock emanating from the White House - quite agree with Maddow that treating 45 like a silent movie and watching what he does is usually more important.

But this is the architects of the current regime setting each other on fire. In public. And flushing the billionaires out in public too.

End of the beginning?

Almost like the French Revolution where pretty much everyone ended up losing their heads. Or murdered.

I think it's a bit more than that.

But I've been wrong before.