Trump has a Pecker problem and there is a blue pill to make it grow bigger - midterms! Trump threads contd.

[ohmymimi]

Titled with Across in mind

May all the Oaf's problems be big ones, and the events of this week at least be the beginning of the beginning of the end.

Old thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3337261-Theres-a-pony-in-there-somewhere-Trump-cont?pg=39&order=

"If he does, they will be far bigger than ever before."

. Sigh. He just never quits, goes he.

Does.

No, he doesn’t, Across, and there is a troubling vein of childishness and playground tit-for-tat in the way Trump communicates. His insults aren’t intelligent and his names for others pick on obvious traits he thinks they have. This might have worked in his form of business dealing, but a statesman and diplomat cannot exist with that level of skill.

He really thinks that's how diplomacy works.

A new Suffolk University poll has found 55% of Americans trust Robert Mueller’s investigation and just 35% trust Trump’s claims of a witch hunt

I think Mueller is winning through on this because he is silent. There are no leaks, no response to any slur by 45. Whereas Trump just digs a hole for himself every time he opens his gob.

He has tweeted the words 'witch hunt' 100 times this year alone. Whilst that might brainwash his cult fans, it alienates others.

I do hope Mueller just keeps going

The Oafspawn thought this was a good idea, according to Lawrence O'Donnell
thehill.com/homenews/administration/404253-trump-asked-rob-porter-last-year-if-he-would-take-over-for-mcgahn

'Fifteen individuals will carry the Vietnam War veteran’s coffin at the Washington National Cathedral memorial service before he is laid to rest at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on Sunday.'
Including:
'Vladimir Kara-Murza
Kara-Murza (shown during a hearing on Capitol Hill in 2017) is a Russian activist and an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last year McCain praised Kara-Murza on the Senate floor as “a great friend and a fighter for freedom” after the Russian dissident was hospitalized in Moscow for the second time after an apparent poisoning. In a Washington Post editorial on Monday, Kara-Murza credited McCain with saving his life by advocating for him and his recovery — which he said “is often the only protection in these situations.” '
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mccain-pallbearers-washington-memorial_us_5b869d67e4b0cf7b0030de36

“Trading this many lifetime positions away for a couple days back home in the dead of August is a metaphor for how myopic the Democrats’ approach has been at this dark moment in history,” said Brian Fallon, who, awkwardly, was previously Schumer’s chief spokesperson. He is now the executive director of Demand Justice, a progressive judicial advocacy group.
“An entire branch of government is being lost for generations, and Senate Democrats are willfully blind to it,” Fallon said. “In the coming months and years, these same Democrats will issue outraged statements about the rulings issued by the very judges that they could not be bothered to try to slow down. It is pathetic.”
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/senate-democrats-trump-federal-judges_us_5b86c0eee4b0cf7b00313783

'Trump Revives Criticism Of Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria Death Toll Jumps.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz slammed the president for being "incapable of feeling solidarity and empathy." '
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-hurricane-maria-criticism-puerto-rico_us_5b86efdbe4b0511db3d4415f

Trump personally lobbying GOP senators to flip on Sessions.
Opposition to the attorney general's firing, long seen as a red line by lawmakers, has softened in recent days.'
www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/trump-sessions-firing-senators-white-house-803922

From Politico:
Seized by paroxysms of anger, Trump has intermittently pushed to fire his attorney general since March 2017, when Sessions announced his recusal from the Russia investigation. If Sessions’ recusal was his original sin, Trump has come to resent him for other reasons, griping to aides and lawmakers that the attorney general doesn’t have the Ivy League pedigree the president prefers, that he can’t stand his Southern accent and that Sessions isn’t a capable defender of the president on television — in part because he “talks like he has marbles in his mouth,” the president has told aides
So, that was what Graham meant when he said the Oaf's animus went deeper than the recusal

Not completely Trump-related but may be of interest to our Colbert fans

The Triumph of Stephen Colbert
The host on anxiety, Trump and the difficult journey to the top of late night
www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/stephen-colbert-late-show-rolling-stone-interview-716439/

"As chief executive, the President has access to every piece of classified information in the holdings of the US government," said Josh Campbell, a CNN analyst and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent. "In the amount of time it took him to draft a tweet spreading unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo, he could have picked up the phone and gotten the actual story from the agency heads who report to him."
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/08/29/politics/donald-trump-china-hacking-clinton-emails/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

More top trolling from Kellyanne's better half:
ChuckGrassley
@ChuckGrassley
@realDonaldTrump I hope it’s not true McGahn is leaving WhiteHouse Counsel. U can’t let that happen

George Conway
@gtconway3d
Replying to @ChuckGrassley, and @realDonaldTrump
remember the eighth amendment, senator

'He can't stand his southern accent'

Tell that to his base

If only someone had a tape of him dissing his supporters for their accents and lack of Ivy League credentials. Now that might be interesting

Thanks mimi

Michael S. Schmidt
@nytmike
"McGahn? Nay, Macduff," a source just messaged me. We'll have to wait a few more acts to find out whether that turns out to be true.

(@joe_manniello Replying to *@nytmike McGone)

mobile.twitter.com/nytmike/status/1034915403263365135

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/winter-is-coming-allies-fear-trump-isnt-prepared-for-gathering-legal-storm/2018/08/29/b07fc0a6-aba0-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html

"Winter is coming,” said one Trump ally in close communication with the White House. “Assuming Democrats win the House, which we all believe is a very strong likelihood, the White House will be under siege. But it’s like tumbleweeds rolling down the halls over there. Nobody’s prepared for war.”

Trump has told confidants that some of his aides have highly competent lawyers such as Lowell, who represents Kushner, and William A. Burck, who represents McGahn as well as former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon.

“He wonders why he doesn’t have lawyers like that,” said one person who has discussed the matter with Trump.

Another adviser said Trump remarked this year, “I need a lawyer like Abbe.”

Giuliani said that he has not heard of Trump considering adding Lowell to the team but that he would be a great choice because of his thorough and aggressive style.

“This president might like that better,” Giuliani said. “If he thinks someone isn’t being tough enough, he has a tendency to go out to defend himself. And that’s not good.”

Lowell declined to comment, and people familiar with the talks said it was unclear whether he would have the time for or interest in working for Trump, considering that he already represents Kushner."

Winter is coming
Just listened to Phillip Rucker speaking about this on 'The 11th Hour', Gump. Hope it is a long, brutal, arctic one, with everyone deserving it swept away by a legal snowmageddon or buried by a Mueller avalanche!

He wonders why he doesn’t have lawyers like that
He is the only one

Rep. DeSantis appears on Fox News nearly 100 times this year
SharePlay Video
ELECTIONS

'How Ron DeSantis won the Fox News primary.
In his primary campaign for Florida governor, the cable network made all the difference.'

President Donald Trump, ... endorsed him on Dec. 22. Since then, DeSantis made 121 appearances on Fox and Fox Business — his campaign estimates it would have cost his campaign $9.3 million to purchase all that airtime.
..... DeSantis’ campaign research made one thing clear: a Fox first campaign was superior to a Florida first effort. For Republicans, all politics isn’t local — it’s on Fox News.

“We are in a political environment where far more attention is being paid to what is happening in Washington than what is happening in Tallahassee. Putnam’s Florida strategy effectively took himself out of the conversation,” said Todd Harris, a lead consultant for DeSantis.

Harris said that while it’s not a mystery that Republicans watch Fox, the campaign’s polling and research provided it with a solid idea about how the primary electorate got its information and how it sees itself. One revelation from the data: Fifty-two percent of GOP primary voters saw themselves as supporters of the president first, while only 37 percent saw themselves as Republicans first.

DeSantis’ combination of Fox appearances and Trump boosterism was perfect for both Fox’s general Republican audience and its audience of one: Trump.........

Trump’s endorsement proved priceless. His approval rating among Republican primary voters is in the low 90s, according to public and private Democratic and Republican polls. In 2016, Trump won the state so handily in the presidential primary that his main opponent, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, carried only one county — Miami-Dade, his home base.

This year, the DeSantis campaign’s polling showed that more than half of the primary voters in the governor’s race identified themselves as Trump supporters, and slightly more than a third identified themselves as Republicans primarily. The campaign’s polling showed that 37 percent of the party’s voters watched Fox daily and of those who called themselves Trump Republicans, the daily viewership was higher still: 47 percent.'
www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/ron-desantis-fox-news-florida-governor-primary-800706

Just highlighting this from the above piece, it shows the hold the Oaf has.in repuglyville:
Harris said that while it’s not a mystery that Republicans watch Fox, the campaign’s polling and research provided it with a solid idea about how the primary electorate got its information and how it sees itself. One revelation from the data: Fifty-two percent of GOP primary voters saw themselves as supporters of the president first, while only 37 percent saw themselves as Republicans first

'Monkey it up' explained:

Respectable Lawyer
@RespectableLaw
I want to talk about the phrase “monkey it up,” because as someone who managed a car repair shop in Texas, I know what that phrase means.

A lot of people have been commenting that “monkey it up” is not a phrase people say. And it’s true that when you google the phrase and filter out today’s news, you won’t find much.
But you will find a couple of references to the phrase on car repair forums. The phrase means “messing up a repair badly because you don’t know what you’re doing.” Here are a couple of examples. It is very, very common in southern repair shops.
And importantly, the phrase is a first-cousin of another more well-known racist phrase, “n***-rigging.” It has the same meaning.
When a redneck auto mechanic scolds a colleague for “monkeying something up,” it means he did the repair like a black person would.
The same thing holds true for a far-right wing GOP governor candidate from Florida.

If you're curious, come learn about the origin of related phrases, such as "grease monkey," "monkey wrench," and "jury rigged," which has nothing to do with a courtroom.
We’re all learning a bit about etymology today.
link: twitter.com/respectablelaw/status/1034916502347161600?s=12 twitter.com/respectablelaw…
Let's me be clear. I concede you can use the phrase ignorant of its cultural baggage, especially outside the south (that's how dog whistles work). But in my job, I knew what it meant when a white Florida mechanic said "Give me this job, not Darnell, he's gonna monkey it up."
Respectable Lawyer
mobile.twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1034905986040057858

Smelly:
David Sirota
@davidsirota
EXCLUSIVE: The administration of Trump ally Gov. Chris Christie funneled $500 million of NJ workers’ pension cash into the owner of the media company that Robert Mueller’s indictment alleges helped bury negative stories about Trump
capitalandmain.com/ohio-new-jersey-pension-funds-invested-625-million-dollars-in-national-enquirer-parent-0829
mobile.twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1034877485622616064

Evan Siegfried
@evansiegfried
The number of Americans identifying as Republican has dropped over 15 million people, nearly 20%, since Trump took office
mobile.twitter.com/evansiegfried/status/1033878965780459520

'It has become a commonplace among journalists and pundits to observe that Republican voters have remained largely behind President Trump. Recent polling still shows job-approval ratings for the President among Republicans remaining in the 85 percent range. But that focus on individual polls obscures a more complex trend, one that does not bode well for President Trump and his Republican Party.'

www.politicsbythenumbers.org/2018/06/19/are-some-republicans-leaving-donald-trump/

'The Election in Pictures.
Sunday, July 29th, marked the point when there are just 100 days left until the November midterm. In this post I will try to pull together my various writings and predictions for both the 2018 House and Senate elections. I begin with the most important factor that influences both types of races, the President’s job-approval figures.'
www.politicsbythenumbers.org