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=

www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/remembering-john-mccain/559247/

You're exactly right, Perking. The GOP idea of 'small government' is a govt entirely in their control, not subject to oversight, AND that benefits only the people they think it needs to benefit. "Big government" = handouts to people who have 'brought it on themselves'. "Small government" = less regulation so they and their cronies can get their mitts on piles of cash through govt contracts, bank schemes, and payoffs because they deserve it, 'job creators' that they are!!! .

State vs Fed usually works well. Most times the Fed keeps its nose out of State business, as it should, and only steps in when a state does something that violates civil rights or is truly egregious. But it is also another weakness of our system; that the Fed can step in under the guise of 'Fed trumps State' (no pun intended) to push the agenda of people like Scrotus and his ilk. Of course I'm thinking of my own California and the anti-environmental/pro-lumber and drilling business interests who are influencing the WH to overturn many of our laws protecting our coasts and our forests.

'NBC/WSJ poll: Trump approval 'remarkably stable' after a stormy week of bad news
But 56 percent of voters say Trump has not been honest and truthful about the Mueller probe.'

'GOP with a 14-POINT Lead in the Economy:
The NBC/WSJ survey conducted mostly before the Cohen-Manafort news also finds Republicans with a 14-point advantage in which party better deals with the economy — their biggest lead on this question in the poll’s history.'
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna903626?__twitter_impression=true

What struck me in recent interviews I saw with a small sample of Dems and Independents, who said they voted for the Oaf, after twice voting for BO, was they were vehemently laser focussed on what they saw as an Oaf generated booming economy, business environment and stock market. Their pocket books, bank account and 401ks were their overriding concerns. Not surprising these are big concerns, they are for most, but that is hardly a well rounded assessment. The interviews were short, edited, of course, and hardly in depth, but there was no recognition of the economic environment BO inherited (and vastly improved) or the improving environment Oaf inherited. That is what makes me believe Oaf could serve a second term if the economic climate is favourable.

We definitely need a 'fuck them' emoji, Across

if......if.....if. The current good economic climate won't last, mimi.

'Time' Oaf covers animated are brill! Can't wait for the one when the water has filled the Oval. I can think of a really gruesome one to follow that, but don't think 'Time' would go that far

Deep into the swamp.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/special-counsel-obtains-trump-ally-erik-princes-phones/story?id=56143477

www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/08/america-soured-on-my-multiracial-family/567994/

'When my wife and I adopted our daughter from Ethiopia in 2010, we did so full of hope. In the years since, we’ve faced ugliness that has robbed us of our optimism—and left us fearful for the future of our country.'

shareblue.com/devin-nunes-andrew-janz-fundraising/

'Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is used to coasting to election victory. But a pile of scandals, both national and local, seem to be rattling the Trump loyalist this year. While Nunes deals with the fallout, his Democratic opponent, Andrew Janz, is raising money at a staggering pace.'

Another mass shooting.
edition.cnn.com/2018/08/26/us/jacksonville-madden-shooting/index.html

Oh

Sorry. Posted too soon.

"multiple fatalities". Suspect 'dead at scene'.

I'd just read that David French piece you posted, lion, before returning to this thread. (I agree with him on very little, as I have seem him as an occasional talking head, and read some of what he has written on BLM, 2nd amdt. rights, evangelical Christianity - although he did reject the Oaf , after a brief affaire de coeur.)

Who would not wish for a child in need to be taken to thrive the arms of a loving family? But, evangelicals do it in a specific cause. Therein is my unease.

French on Roe v Wade:
What went wrong? The Supreme Court went wrong .......
........The moral consequences of this intellectual bankruptcy have been profound. Millions of children have been poisoned, stabbed, and dismembered. Our democracy has been corrupted to protect abortion charnel houses even from the most basic commonsense regulations. The precedents and reasoning that created the abortion right have translated into a belief in a “living constitution” that is so deeply embedded into the philosophy of the Left that it now believes that the Court can and should simply decide the correct outcome of any given case and then “find” the right and reasoning in some combination of philosophy, law, precedent, and (sometimes) even selectively chosen foreign legal decisions.'
The death penalty:
www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/death-penalty-defense-helps-preserve-dignity-of-life/
Spreading the 'word':
'Last August[2015] he and his wife, Susannea former youth ministerreleased Reclaim Your School!: 10 Steps to Practically and Legally Evangelize Your School (Pacific Justice Institute). In two months they sold 2,000 copies of the book, without national advertising or media promotions.'
www.charismanews.com/politics/elections/57575-meet-david-french-defender-of-the-faith-and-defeater-of-trump

This is his wife:
www.politico.com/blogs/click/2011/07/meet-bristol-palins-ghostwriter-037383

Oh, the racism and abuse French writes of? Millions of his fellow country have suffered that for years: millions, for a long, long time. He is no more victim than they are.

Another mass shooting. Desperately sad for their loved ones, but there will just be another empty round of 'thoughts and prayers' from those who could work to stop this, but do not actually care enough to do so.

Sorry, cozie, I missed your response to my post. I hate saying that I hope you are right, because a lot of innocents would suffer, but I do hope you are right.

Asked by Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California, whether he ever had any "investments" or "business partnerships with Russian nationals." "Zero," Prince replied. Two of Prince’s former business associates, both of whom asked to remain anonymous, told ABC News they have been contacted by investigators probing a pair of proposed business deals between the Hong Kong-based security firm Frontier Services Group, of which Prince is the founder and chairman, and Russian nationals. One former business associate, who has worked with Prince since the 1990s, recounted a recent conversation with FBI agents from Mueller's office. "Are you aware of any falsehoods in the testimony that Erik Prince gave to the House Intelligence Committee?" the associate said agents asked him. The associate said he told the agents about Prince's previously undisclosed alliance with Dimitriy Streshinskiy, a former Russian special forces soldier turned arms dealer and manufacturer According to a 2015 interim report from an internal investigation conducted for the company by an outside law firm, a man named “Dimitry,” whom two sources later told ABC News was actually Streshinskiy, acted as Prince's partner in an effort to secure a possibly illegal private security contract with Azerbaijan

I've never come across him before ohmy ...

I wonder (but doubt) whether these experiences will change his politics in some ways he did not expect.

French.

www.nationalreview.com/2016/12/black-lives-matter-progressives-radical-dangerous-movement/

Well, he did decide not to support Trumpty, lion, so ......

Sounds like he has a longer road to travel and not supporting Trump is just the start ...

This works as a real document or as a fabrication designed to scare the Trumpties.

Ryan Goodman
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Verified account

@rgoodlaw

"Axios has obtained a spreadsheet that's circulated through Republican circles on and off Capitol Hill—including at least one leadership office — that meticulously previews the investigations Democrats will likely launch if they flip the House."

And if they're scared by that.......

November seems such a long way off.
That 'to do' list will keep them busy, If the Dems get the chance to get down to it. If the midterms do not deliver, 2019 will be grim, with Brexit as a particularly large, putrescent, cherry on top of that cake.