How messed up are Trump Supporters?

[Amarok]

I wonder where all the forum's trump supporters are right now? Shouldn't they be in this thread defending their dear leader?

Assholes.

Give it time

[Pat Mustard]

I wonder where all the forum's trump supporters are right now? Shouldn't they be in this thread defending their dear leader?

Assholes.

Give it time

Yeah, they went to the shitter Friday and are still consulting the maps tattooed on their foreheads to find their arses to wipe.

[Angrboda]

Republicans are mischaracterizing nearly all their major policies. Why?

Republicans have mischaracterized just about every major policy on their agenda. The question is why. If they genuinely believe their policies are correct, why not defend them on the merits?

Consider the GOP tax cuts. Last year, Republicans said their bill would primarily benefit the middle class, pay for itself and raise President Trump’s taxes, among other claims.

Not one of these contentions is remotely true.

A more honest defense — and one occasionally revealed via accidentally-told-the-truth Kinsley gaffes — might have been something like: We want to let rich people keep more of their money, regardless of the cost to Uncle Sam. We want this both because we (unlike most of the public) think that’s fair, and also because our donors are demanding a return on their investment in us. Plus, maybe it’s a good thing to reduce government revenue; that gives us motivation to “starve the beast” and cut the safety net, which we think is a drag on the economy that protects people from the consequences of their poor life choices.

Likewise with family separations, a policy Trump is considering reviving.

In the spring, the administration systematically ripped immigrant children from their mothers’ breasts with no plan for tracking where they ended up or how to reunite these families. The rationale, as gaffingly revealed by White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, was that such cruelty would deter asylum seekers.

But when voters recoiled, the administration explained things differently. Officials alternately lied that the policy was designed to help children, was actually a Democratic policy or didn’t exist at all.

Lately, the biggest GOP lies involve health care — the top midterm issue for voters — and especially how Republicans would treat Americans with costly medical issues.

The public has had ample opportunity to learn where Republicans stand on protections for those with preexisting conditions. The party spent the past eight years, after all, trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, including these particular (very popular) provisions.

And while Republicans failed to repeal Obamacare legislatively, they’ve found other means to undermine its protections.

For instance, the Trump administration has expanded the availability of junk insurance. These cheap plans look like regular insurance but actually cover little to no care, something you would notice only if you read the fine print. Such policies are not required to accept enrollees with preexisting conditions or to pay claims related to preexisting conditions — even if the preexisting illness hadn’t even been diagnosed at the time of enrollment.

These policies threaten coverage another way, too. Because they siphon young, cheap and healthy people off the Obamacare exchanges, they drive up prices on (real) insurance and thereby put coverage further out of reach for people who are sicker and older.

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Additional troops set to join National Guard at Mexico Border

After initially praising the deployment, the president of the union representing Border Patrol agents, Brandon Judd, pronounced the Guard deployment “a colossal waste of resources.” Judd, a staunch Trump supporter, has urged a more muscular enforcement role for the troops.

When will the caravan reach the United States?

The caravan is still more than 1,000 miles away from U.S. territory, and the map below shows there’s a lot of Mexico left to traverse. If the group manages to advance 15 miles per day, it would take more than two months for the caravan to arrive at the Rio Grande. And that’s a lot of distance for families with children to cover.

That timeline changes significantly if caravan members manage to board buses, trucks or freight trains, in which case they could reach the U.S. border in less than a week. But that’s a major if, absent a significant fundraising effort to provide mass motorized transport.

(Washington Post)

[Angrboda]

More lies from our 'Liar In Chief'

“We have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me and the Republican party,” Trump said.

The president commented on the news at his rally in Charlotte, North Carolina after authorities apprehended the Florida man suspected of sending pipe bombs to prominent Democrats.

Trump condemned political violence and called for an end to the politics of personal destruction, especially from the media.

“Political violence must never ever be allowed in America and I’ll do everything in my power to stop it,” he said. “The media has a major role to play, whether they want to or not.”

The president paused as his supporters continued to chant “CNN SUCKS!”

“They have a major role to play as far as tone, as far as everything,” Trump said. “The media’s constant unfair coverage, deep hostility, and negative attacks only serve to drive people apart and to undermine healthy debate.”

Trump recalled that Republicans did not use the aftermath of the Steve Scalise shooting by a left-wing radical to score political points.

“We did not use that heinous attempt at mass murder for political gain, because that would have been the wrong thing to do,” he said.
(Breitbart)

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San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi, the leader of House Democrats, responded, "On days like today, there are no Democrats or Republicans, only Americans united in our hopes and prayers for the wounded."

The coming-together recalled a similarly transcendent moment after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when members of Congress, Democrat and Republican, ventured to the steps of the Capitol and side by side delivered a spontaneous rendering of "God Bless America."

But that brief harmony proved a mere pause as the country descended into an even deeper slough of animosity and political loathing.

Similarly, the high-flown words of party leaders were quickly and loudly drowned out Wednesday by partisans grasping for tactical advantage.

Among them was the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., who used Twitter to link the shootings to a controversial New York production of "Julius Caesar," in which a presidential doppelganger is murdered onstage.

"Events like today are EXACTLY why we took issue with NY elites glorifying the assassination of our President," commentator Harlan Hill wrote in a Tweet the younger Trump amplified by sharing with 1.7 million Twitter followers.

"The Left in this country is ushering in a new #CultureofViolence where violent hate is the new normal," tweeted Bill Mitchell, a pro-Trump radio host. "#DomesticTerrorists," he added.

(LA Times)

Not every congressional reaction set aside partisan politics, however. Republican Representative Chris Collins, who was the first member of Congress to back Trump during his presidential campaign, said in an interview on WBEN, "I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric." He went on to say: "The rhetoric has been outrageous: The finger-pointing, the tone, the angst and the anger directed at Donald Trump, his supporters, really then, some people react to things like that, people get angry as well, and you fuel the fires.”

(The Atlantic)

For a split second, the unexpected happened. When Trump addressed the nation from the White House, he was measured, inclusive, resorting to none of the usual snarky references to “fake news” or “Crooked Hillary”. “We may have our differences”, he said, but “we can all agree that we are strongest when we are unified”.

But that rare moment of comity was all too fleeting. Within hours of the shooting, the wider hostility had renewed with a vengeance.

Conservatives saw an advantage to silence criticism. Republicans lined up to accuse Democrats of having fanned the flames of discord, seemingly oblivious to the fact that by doing so they were themselves fanning the flames of discord. “The rhetoric has been outrageous,” said Chris Collins, Republican from New York, chiding Democrats to “tone it down”.

“America has been divided, and the violence is appearing in the streets, and it’s coming from the left,” said Steve King, the Iowa Republican who has often sparked controversy for making incendiary comments about immigrants and once suggested that “radical Islamists” would see Barack Obama as a saviour.

Some of the most vivid language was aired on Fox News by the president’s counselor Kellyanne Conway, who said that personal rhetorical attacks on members of the Trump administration were bound to lead to further gun rampages. “If I were shot and killed tomorrow, half of Twitter would explode in applause and excitement,” she said.

(The Guardian)

[Angrboda]

Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and others stick with conspiracy theories after mail-bomb suspect’s arrest

Conservative commentators double down on "false flag" theory in spite of mounting evidence

In the fever swamps of misinformation and hoaxes on the Internet, the evidence presented on Friday did little to quell the conspiracy mongering. But would the more-established conservative figures who had spread these conspiracy theories admit they made mistakes?

Actually, most continued to dig in.

[Pat Mustard]

Actually, Dumbfuck's reaction to an atrocity (often of his own followers' making) or a problem his party have created follows a pattern.

https://twitter.com/paulwaldman1/status/...8944540673

Stage 1: Grudgingly reads reasonable statement written by others (yesterday)

Stage 2: Full of resentment at being scripted and constrained, lashes out in tweet (today)

Stage 3: Erupts in full-blown rage and hate before lustily cheering crowd of supporters (tomorrow)

Every single time it happens, often with the additional step 4 of blaming the victims of his abuse for causing the abuse.


Also step 1 is always the one where his advisors sit him down and force him to pretend not to be a shitbag, hence it is always done at his most robotic and least convincing.

[Amarok]

“We did not use that heinous attempt at mass murder for political gain, because that would have been the wrong thing to do,”

That's a steaming load of bull they most certainly used that for political gain .

[Angrboda]

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(Hamilton 68)

[Angrboda]

Trump orders refugee from gang ridden El Salvador returned to her country because the country is no longer unsafe, while declaring that the possible entrance of El Salvador gang members to this country is a 'National Emergency' which justifies calling out the army and the National Guard.

(Washington Post)

[GODZILLA]

It's so funny, the right is literally doing everything they are accusing the left of.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...edit-promo