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What stupid shit has Trump done today?

CRI said:
Even better, hacked to death by one!

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You don't fuck with an Okapi.
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So glad of these sorts of posts.
 
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I see he's going a bit nuts on Twitter.

Is there any logic to this? I've seen it suggested that it happens when Mueller makes a move (he's requested some more documents I just read), or he wants to distract from something else...

Usual subjects really: I'm great, you're all shit, basically (coincidence surely that so many people he slams on Twitter are people of colour or women).

It looks like Don Jr must have given him a ring to explain that "hunters are the real conservationists" etc.
 
MightyTibberton said:
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I see he's going a bit nuts on Twitter.

Is there any logic to this? I've seen it suggested that it happens when Mueller makes a move (he's requested some more documents I just read), or he wants to distract from something else...

Usual subjects really: I'm great, you're all shit, basically (coincidence surely that so many people he slams on Twitter are people of colour or women).

It looks like Don Jr must have given him a ring to explain that "hunters are the real conservationists" etc.
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Is there any logic to this?

I know people monitor his tweets for "signs" like he's the Oracle at Delphi or something, I think they're mainly random bullshit. I suppose if he's anxious about something, he'll spew more and weirder shit than usual, but I don't think there's any grand plan behind it.
 
This is a long read, but provides an excellent historical and cultural context for Trump's support, even by those who ostensibly will suffer economically from the policies he pushes. And yes, the problem is racism, deeply entrenched white supremacy, but explained away as something else.

The Nationalist's Delusion

The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.
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Among the most popular explanations for Trump’s victory and the Trump phenomenon writ large is the Calamity Thesis: the belief that Trump’s election was the direct result of some great, unacknowledged social catastrophe—the opioid crisis, free trade, a decline in white Americans’ life expectancy . . . White people without college degrees are living in deprivation, and in their despair, they turned to a racist demagogue who promised to solve their problems.

This explanation appeals to whites across the political spectrum. On the right, it serves as an indictment of elitist liberals who used their power to assist religious and ethnic minorities rather than all Americans; on the left, it offers a glimmer of hope that such voters can be won over by a more left-wing or redistributionist economic policy. It also has the distinct advantage of conferring innocence upon what is often referred to as the “white working class.” After all, it wasn’t white working-class voters’ fault. They were suffering; they had to do something.
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When you look at Trump’s strength among white Americans of all income categories, but his weakness among Americans struggling with poverty, the story of Trump looks less like a story of working-class revolt than a story of white backlash. And the stories of struggling white Trump supporters look less like the whole truth than a convenient narrative—one that obscures the racist nature of that backlash, instead casting it as a rebellion against an unfeeling establishment that somehow includes working-class and poor people who happen not to be white.
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ruffneck23 said:
everyday , my jaw drops even further
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How's this for jawdropping:

For 23 years, LeVar Burton (Star Trek) attempted to teach the joys of reading to millions of youngsters on the PBS series “Reading Rainbow.”

If only Trump supporters had paid heed to that message.

It seems that a lot of Trumpers are confusing Burton with basketball dad LaVar Ball, or just assuming all LaVars are alike.
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You can feel the hate from here.


Trump Supporters Are Confusing LeVar Burton With LaVar Ball, And It's Painful

Brent Spiner (also of Star Trek) tweeted:

If you cared about our President, you’d change your name.
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:D
 
Ian Crouch on why the feud with LaVar Ball could last a while:
Trump’s way of resolving a personal dispute to his satisfaction (he’d call it winning) has been to rely on the reasonableness of his opponent to emerge—a spark of intelligence, integrity, grace, shame, or self-awareness; a line of sanity across which he or she will not trespass—at which point that person walks away in disgust and leaves Trump satisfied ... Unfortunately for Trump, and for the rest of us, LaVar Ball has nothing better to do, and would like nothing more than to continue preening and sparring back at the President.
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LaVar Ball Drives Trump to All-Caps Twitter Rage
 
About the only time my jaw really dropped with Trump was when the Republicans failed to stop him getting the nomination.

Probably because I've known a few full-on narcissists, albeit either failures or only low level successes in terms of their businesses etc. I only have to transplant all the comedically bad shit they came out with and got up to into my impression of trump, and then nothing he says is at all surprising.

Now admittedly when I do this I conclude he will not last a full term. So my jaw will drop again in future if he does.
 
:hmm:

Tax Returns Identify Dark Money Organization As Source of GOP Supreme Court Attacks

The Wellspring Committee, a Virginia-based nonprofit, donated more than $23 million last year to the Judicial Crisis Network, which spent $7 million on advertisements pushing Republican senators to block President Barack Obama’s court pick, Merrick Garland. After the election, the network spent another $10 million to boost President Donald Trump’s pick, Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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Wellspring received more than $32 million in donations last year, with $28.5 million coming from a single, anonymous donor. Before 2016, Wellspring had never received more than $13.2 million in annual donations. As a social welfare organization, Wellspring is not required to disclose its donors.
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The Time poll is just clickbait that doesn't determine who gets Person of the Year, the company makes the choice and they're unlikely to pick the same person two years in a row - the San Juan mayor might have a chance, but my guess is that they'll opt out of choosing a person this time around and declare #MeToo "hashtag of the year" or something.
 
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