My Comment: Take that
you bunch of evil liars. Trump, et als gaming the system will soon end
in monumental failure and Trump will be the first president not to be
impeached but to be convicted and impeached. The utter saturated
stupidity of Trump lies not in his vying for the presidency but actually
believing that with so much of his international money corruption,
money laundering and other schemes as well as surrounding himself with
the most dishonest, craven, greedy bastard Russian oligarchs and
billionaires who would steal their grandmother's eyeballs to make a buck
that he actually could, by becoming president, steal the American
taxpayer blind and get away with it.
The
enemy of the people he called the press is in reality the enemy of him
because to create the gargantuan schemes while president the national
and world press would have to be silenced. So far we are NOT the banana
Republic of Trump and guess what, you evil unstable moron, the United
States of America never will be. Nice try though but you cannot win an
election by merely capturing the deplorables of your base. The rest of
us with the nation's national security patriotic force who put their
lives on the line for us remain vigilant to your unconstitutional
emoluments, to all your other illegal money schemes and to your support
of an adversarial power, Russia with your arms around its murderous
leader Putin. You, Mr. Trump, will have to declare bankruptcy yet again
and this time you may ultimately be measured for red, white and blue
pin stripes made in China!
By
Murfster35 -- Daily Kos
Let's start our Saturday rime together off on
a lighter note. By far and away, my choice for "Comment of the Week"
goes to Chuck Rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor. Talking on MSNBC
about Trump's invitation for Vlad the Imp to pop over this fall and
plant some bugs in the Oval Office,
Rosenberg quipped, "I just hope that Mr Putin doesn't decide to bring
his children with him, because they'll be forcibly separated at the
border." Priceless.
No matter how you cut it, this was a disastrous week for Trump.
Starting with his "The Gimp from Pulp Fiction" performance, publicly
fondling Putin in Helsinki, to his invitation for Putin to darken our
shores before he even told us if he had ceded Alaska because "Putin can
see Alaska from his back porch," to committing legal suicide by
releasing a Michael Cohen secretly recorded tape, this week had it all.
And bless his little heart, Rudy Ghouliani desperately tried to keep up
with his boss. Only a drooling dotard can say that Donald Trump
discussing with Michael Cohen about whether to pay Karen McDougle
directly to shut her up, or repaying AMI for doing it for them with a
check rather than cash was somehow exculpatory. Personally, I think it
just meant that Trump didn't trust Cohen with 150 large. He learned from
Paul Manafort that giving his kind of friends oodles of walking around
cash wasn't a great idea.
But, watching the events of this last, hectic week highlighted
something that has been going on for over a month now. When you talk to a
Trumpcake, their greatest admiration for Trump comes from the fact that
he's "a mans man," and that he "never backs down, he always doubles
down." Trump's success, going all the way back to the campaign was that
he set the dynamic,
he set the
news cycle
for the day. Trump called a morning show and said something stupid, and
that became the topic for the day. Which is what Trump wanted. If
something negative about Trump broke, Trump said or tweeted something
stupid on a completely unrelated topic, and
that became the story, drowning out the negative press. No matter
what happened, it was Trump who was driving the conversation and coverage, and always to his advantage.
But that changed, more than a month ago. Trump had KKKeebler the Elf
roll out his shiny new child abduction policy at the border, and in
doing so, knocked over a hornets nest. The media latched onto this story
like a lamprey on a shark, and wouldn't let go. Trump tried his normal
tactic of doubling down, but that only doubled the recrimination, easily
drowning out his supporters racist
cheers.
Even GOP incumbents who weren't slinking out the doors of congress next
January criticized Trump. Even Trump's quick capitulation didn't stop
the coverage of the basically nonexistent reunification plan, but the
media gleefully chortled about His Lowness' humble capitulation, adding
personal humiliation.
The same has happened with Trump's trade war. The reasoning for the
action was so convoluted that even Trump supporters could see "Stupid"
written all over it. Non retiring GOP incumbents like Jodi Ernst and
even
Mitch McConnell
have directly criticized the tariffs, and there is even talk of
legislative action to take Baby Trump's toy away from him. once again,
Trump went to Old Faithful, and is threatening to double down with more
sanctions on China and the EU. And as a result, some of Trump's
greatest supporters, Midwest soy farmers, are converging on Washington,
to try to convince Republican lawmakers to give The Cheeto Prophet more
of whatever it is that they use to keep him docile.
And now the debacle in Helsinki of disappearing into a closet for two
hours to play a game of slap-and-tickle with Vladimir Putin. Robert
Mueller rained on that particular parade before it even left the staging
area, by indicting the 12 GRU intelligence officers. Now, not only is
everybody screaming bloody murder about his press conference, but Putin
is slyly sticking it to Trump by leaking some of the goodies that Trump
may or may not have agreed to in that private meeting to the world.
Trump has tried a twofer here. First, he had Sarah "Who's a pretty
birdie" Sanders tweet out his invitation for Putin to the Casa Blanco.
This idea is going over like a lead balloon, so he went to his backup,
misdirection, leaking the story about the secret Cohen recording to
change the subject. But, while the media is more than happy to remind
everybody what a sex degenerate Trump is, there's plenty of time left in
the hour to hammer the $1 Store Caligula about his black fishnet scene
with Putin.
This is dangerous to Trump for two reasons. First, the events of the
last month or so have shattered his invincibility with his base. Tough
guys don't back down, and Trump had to back down on his immigrant
kidnapping scheme. And he looked pathetically weak in doing so. And as
much as invertebrates like Marco Rubio may grasp the "Should have been
wouldn't instead of would" straw from Trump, nevertheless, it was the
weak showing of a kid called to the principals office. And while
Trumpaholics will continue to shout his praises from the rooftops,
remember this, you can always tell when somebody bought a piece of shit
car, by how loudly they proclaim what a great deal they got. With
Trump's name not on the ballot in November, a Duck Dynasty marathon may
prove to be a tantalizing reason to not bother driving over to the high
school gym to pull a lever. The Democrats have already targeted at least
40 districts as being vulnerable, and each of those representatives on
the GOP side has an uncomfortable decision to make regarding Glorious
Bleater.
But more dangerous to Trump is the fact that GOP incumbents are
slowly, and in some cases not very meekly, peel away from Trump. Texas
GOP representative Will Hurd just wrote a blistering NY Times op-ed,
saying that Trump had been openly "manipulated" by Putin on the world
stage, embarrassing not only himself, but the US as a country and it's
intelligence services. Hurd is not ensconced in some ruby red district,
he's in a competitive swing district. If incumbents like Hurd start
campaigning against Trump, no matter how gently, it is a disaster for
Trump. If they run against him and lose, that means a Democrat in that
seat, opposing Trump. And if they run against him and win, then they are
on a short leash, and they are going to have to pay attention to
constituent concerns, and oppose him when necessary in congress to be
reelected again in 2020. Either way, his House caucus is weakened. And a
sufficiently weakened Trump in the House may make some of the 20+ GOP
Senators up for reelection in 2020 think twice about any articles of
impeachment that may bubble up from the House in 2019.
Donald Trump could remain successful only as long as
he could control the narrative. It didn't matter what the topic was, or how stupid Trump was, as long as
he was the one standing on something, and everybody
else was
back on their heels opposing him, Trump was the "strong man," the guy
in control, the man of his supporters dreams. But, even if he blusters
and holds his ground, if Trump is the one
responding to the narrative, and not the one
driving the narrative, he no longer looks like the one in charge. And with Trump,
image is everything, simply because there is no substance.
I see no reason for this trend to reverse itself, Trump has
lost control of the narrative for the foreseeable future. Trump-Russia
will continue. Even if Mueller "goes dark" after Labor Day, Manafort's
second trial is scheduled for mid September. And if Cohen is indicted
before Labor Day, there will be court hearings between then and
November. DHS and HHS have only reunited 437 out of 2,550 immigrant
children, that will drag on, with continued media attention for months
yet, especially when lawsuits start piling up. The rich shitpokes got
their tax cuts, but John and Jane Q Public aren't feeling the love,
it'll be Democrats running on Trump's tax cuts in November, instead of
Republicans. The Trump tariffs will start to bite after Labor Day, and
Democrats will gleefully remind everybody who to thank. And lo and
behold, in mid October, only weeks before the election, the new health
insurance premiums for 2019 will be announced.
Donald Trump lost the narrative for two reasons. First, through
stupid and harmful actions taken purely to satisfy a base that isn't
large enough to get elected to a school board seat. But more
importantly, he lost the narrative because he ran out of easy, slam dunk
GOP issues to trumpet. And there are no more of those to be found under
the sofa cushions. The narrative is gone, and I don't see it coming
back for him anytime soon.
The wait is over! Volume two of the trilogy,
President Evil II: A Clodwork Orange
is now available. Amazon is whining about me crashing their site, but
the hell with them, I ain't in this for their health. You can also find
volume one,
President Evil as well. And fear not, work on volume three is just beginning.
