How messed up are Trump Supporters?

[Angrboda]

A Democrat was passing out fliers on a city sidewalk. A Trump supporter called police.

The fliers passed out by a New York state senator spoke of uniting Democrats and resisting President Trump — a common strategy used to solidify the “blue” voting base before the midterms. But that message proved to be too much for a self-identified Trump supporter who on Thursday called the police to make him leave, according to the lawmaker’s account.

Jesse Hamilton told The Post that he and his aides stood in front a Brooklyn metro stop to pass out fliers to constituents while they traveled to work.

“Rising up Democrats!” the flier said, above a picture of Hamilton and two of his supporters.

Everything was going well . . . at least for three minutes. After Hamilton passed a flier to a white woman, who could not be identified by The Post, she began to speak of divisiveness, work ethic and Trump.

“Some immigrants don’t have a good work ethic,” the woman said in a Slavic accent, according to Hamilton’s retelling. After ten minutes of conversation, Hamilton offered to have a meeting in his office at a later date. She was taking his time away from other constituents, he said. The woman, who told Hamilton she immigrated to America to flee communism, refused. That’s when one of Hamilton’s aides pulled out his phone and started recording.

“I support Trump,” the woman said. “And I see the difference between Democrat and Republican. And I see the difference between you and Trump.”

“If you really want the nation to be as one and fight for the better life . . . you would not have put this here,” she said, pointing to a slogan that said ‘fighting back Trump.’ The woman praised Trump for improving her finances and making America better, Hamilton said.

Hamilton told The Post that after a while, the woman requested he and his aides leave. They refused. Why should they leave a public sidewalk? But the refusal angered her. So she called the police, Hamilton said.

The police soon arrived to defuse the situation, Hamilton said. But the woman would not let up. And she demanded the police remove the lawmaker and his aides from the sidewalk. They told her that could not happen and left.

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Epic trolling tweet by Trump:

Democrats, please do not distance yourselves from Nancy Pelosi. She is a wonderful person whose ideas & policies may be bad, but who should definitely be given a 4th chance. She is trying very hard & has every right to take down the Democrat Party if she has veered too far left!

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Most rich people find loop holes so they pay much less tax than most. That's because they set the rules. You live in a society built purely for the gratification of the top few rich people.

Yeah, that's why there aren't any people from other countries trying to sneak in.  

I would not move to the US however people from third world countries with massive gang problems would go there. (Fueled by the use of drugs by entitled americans). There are also some nice areas on the edges of the US that attract people. But the mass of the US does not appeal, full of uneducated yokels.

[Angrboda]

Washington Post | Your everyday Republican has some galling views

The views of rank-and-file Republicans, captured in voter surveys, are nothing less than galling.

Let’s lead with a poll conducted by the global marketing firm Ipsos and reported by the Daily Beast. It found that 43 percent of self-identified Republicans said they believed “the president should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior.”

When asked if President Trump should shut down The Post, CNN and the New York Times, 23 percent of Republicans said yes.

These findings are obviously troubling to me as a member of the Fourth Estate. But in the Trump era, assaults on the media come with the territory.

More disturbing to me as a citizen is that those Trump cultists would knowingly and willingly give him the power to trample on the First Amendment, destroying an essential part of our democracy that he doesn’t like. That is appalling.

They either don’t know or care about what Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote in New York Times Co. v. United States in 1971: The Founding Fathers intended that “the press was to serve the governed, not the governors.”

Get this: In a Yahoo Finance-SurveyMonkey poll conducted from July 25 to 27, 11 percent of the Republicans surveyed said it would be “appropriate” for Russia to interfere in the midterm elections if it helped their party keep control of Congress, and 29 percent said it would not be “a big deal.” Yes, a majority of Republicans (55 percent) opposed the idea. But the fact that 40 percent of Republicans would be okay with Russian interference in a U.S. election if it helped their side speaks to a lack of allegiance to our democratic institutions.

Here’s another scary story. Nearly a quarter of Republicans (22 percent) believe Trump tells the truth only “some of the time or less,” but more than half of that group still approves of the job he’s doing as president, according to an NBC News-SurveyMonkey online poll. They seem to believe that Trump can do no wrong, even though they know he’s likely lying to them.

[Angrboda]

The Myth of Watergate Bipartisanship: The Republicans stuck with their president, right up to the end.

Reporters and political commentators often express frustrated surprise at the steadfast support of President Trump from most Republicans in the House and Senate. But they shouldn’t — it has happened before.

In fact, when these critics refer back to the Watergate era as a time of bipartisan commitment to the rule of law over politics, they get it exactly wrong. Defending the president at all costs, blaming investigators and demonizing journalists was all part of the Republican playbook during the political crisis leading up to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Despite the fact that 32 people and three companies have been indicted so far by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, only four of 11 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee joined Senate Democrats earlier this year in an effort to protect Mr. Mueller’s investigation. The House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy of California, said in June that he thinks “the Mueller investigation has got to stop.” Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Devin Nunes of California, have joined Mr. Trump in calling the investigation a “witch hunt.”

Dispiriting, perhaps, but not shocking or unprecedented....

[Fireball]

The Myth of Watergate Bipartisanship: The Republicans stuck with their president, right up to the end.

Reporters and political commentators often express frustrated surprise at the steadfast support of President Trump from most Republicans in the House and Senate. But they shouldn’t — it has happened before.

In fact, when these critics refer back to the Watergate era as a time of bipartisan commitment to the rule of law over politics, they get it exactly wrong. Defending the president at all costs, blaming investigators and demonizing journalists was all part of the Republican playbook during the political crisis leading up to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Despite the fact that 32 people and three companies have been indicted so far by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, only four of 11 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee joined Senate Democrats earlier this year in an effort to protect Mr. Mueller’s investigation. The House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy of California, said in June that he thinks “the Mueller investigation has got to stop.” Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Devin Nunes of California, have joined Mr. Trump in calling the investigation a “witch hunt.”

Dispiriting, perhaps, but not shocking or unprecedented....

I'll keep buying Lotto tickets. It's the nation's only hope for funding this investigation to the logical end, I think. But then there's that pardon at the "end of the rainbow".

[Angrboda]

Embracing Conspiracy Theory, Trump Escalates Attack on Bruce Ohr

President Trump on Friday attacked Bruce Ohr, a little-known Justice Department official, calling him “a disgrace” and threatening to revoke his security clearance “very soon.”

Mr. Ohr, a career official who has worked on antidrug and anti-gang initiatives at the department, has been targeted by conservative conspiracy theorists who say he helped start the investigation into Russian election interference. Mr. Ohr’s wife was at one time a contractor for Fusion GPS, which participated in compiling a dossier about Mr. Trump during the 2016 campaign.

Mr. Trump has embraced the conspiracy theory, casting Mr. Ohr and his wife, Nellie, as central players in what he calls the “rigged witch hunt” and accusing the couple of having what he claims are indirect contacts with Russians — apparently a reference to Christopher Steele, the British spy who compiled the dossier with the help of Russian sources.

“They should be looking at Bruce Ohr, and his wife, Nellie, for dealing with, by the way, indirectly, Russians,” Mr. Trump said as he boarded Marine One for a fund-raising trip to the Hamptons. Asked about Mr. Ohr’s security clearance, Mr. Trump added: “I think Bruce Ohr is a disgrace. I suspect I will be taking it away very quickly.”

[Angrboda]

President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani: "No, it isn’t truth. Truth isn’t truth."

[Anomalocaris]

the difference between the US and Venezuela is there is much more bulk in the case of the US for the poison to disperse before it drops dead.

[Fake Messiah]

[vorlon13]

Abortion as a sacrament is so close, so very very close !!!!