I'm starting to just get exhausted of this adminstration what about you?

[Minimalist]

and it is always a story about Trump.

That's because every day he fucks up something else.  It is the news media's job to report it.

[Cato]

Nobody at this point should be able to credibly feign shock and indignation at Trump's boorish behavior, inability to comprehend the complexity of issues, well evidenced lack of empathy or superficial command of the English language. Sadly, this is all we get from most media outlets. They have done Nigel Tufnel one better by breaking all the knobs off after cranking them to 11.

As an example, the Jim Acostas of the world would rather badger Trump about his use of the word 'invasion' instead of sustaining a meaningful dialogue regarding the long overdue concept of immigration policy reform. This was the press conference after which Acosta was stripped of his White House pass. During the exchange Trump factually declared that sustainable economic growth will require immigration. Instead of using this as an opportunity to press for how Trump would like to accomplish this through Congress, the press continued their quest for a gotcha quote that will provide evidence for the claims that Trump is racist. The routine is banal. What's worse is that it hasn't worked but the quest continues escorted by the sound of rhythmically clapped coconuts.

The media does us a disservice.

[T0 Th3 M4X]

Bush and Obama were both bad with financial matters. 

One half of that statement is true, lol.

When Clinton left office we had a financial surplus, not we're fighting over $20 trillion in debt.  But then again, Clinton was a big of a scrooge sometimes. I was in the U.S. Army during his presidency, and we were always stuck using outdated equipment because they wouldn't fund the supplies we needed.  I can't count the times we had to patch the same five-ton tire because they wouldn't send us a new one.  Remember dot matrix printers with two-tone paper?  That's mostly what I had to use when we weren't deployed, but more times than not we were writing things out with pens and pencils.

Feel ya there.  We were still using alot of the same garbage in Bush the Dumbers years.  Strange, considering the disparity in deployment.  I can understand pinching pennies when you're doing low level regime change and world policing.  You'd think you'd want to buy good shit and get it out there before you launch a couple of wars of foreign adventurism.  

It was kay, though...because we used our garbage pay to buy our own gear...so that our lives were being trusted to something that costs more than 89.31 on a supply summary, we just used those as pillows.  I mean, my life is worth -at least- a few hundred more than that! 

Then there was my -beautiful- hatchet.  Much more useful than a bayonet or that silly folding shovel.  Plus, it scared the piss out of the locals.

We were still using Brads, too.  I never got to play with one of those fuckin LAVs.  

I absolutely can't complain about my 249, though..or the PVS14 on top.  Balla.....balla.......balla.  

Hooah!

Nothing wrong with a hatchet. Those shovels though, had some good uses.  There are certain places you need them, not so much for grenade sumps and trenches, but rather for burying your waste.  Not only can people track you, but animals can as well, and many will.  I was 1-AD and we had boars that would chase people up on to the M1A1s.  I don't want things tracking me when I have to sleep in a tent or on the ground.

I remember the Brads, but we didn't have them.  Mostly M1s and mortar carriers.  Loved the M1s, especially in the winter. Just stand behind one while it's running and you've got the world's greatest heater.

[Amarok]

As an example, the Jim Acostas of the world would rather badger Trump about his use of the word 'invasion' instead of sustaining a meaningful dialogue regarding the long overdue concept of immigration policy reform

So moronic borderline xenophobic fear mongering to win the midterms is not a concern ?

[The Grand Nudger]

Dem shovels.  Nowadays they just take up space and add weight to your ruck...space you need for contraband in search of greater profiteering opportunities!

[Anomalocaris]

Nobody at this point should be able to credibly feign shock and indignation at Trump's boorish behavior, inability to comprehend the complexity of issues, well evidenced lack of empathy or superficial command of the English language.  Sadly, this is all we get from most media outlets.  They have done Nigel Tufnel one better by breaking all the knobs off after cranking them to 11.  

As an example, the Jim Acostas of the world would rather badger Trump about his use of the word 'invasion' instead of sustaining a meaningful dialogue regarding the long overdue concept of immigration policy reform.  This was the press conference after which Acosta was stripped of his White House pass.  During the exchange Trump factually declared that sustainable economic growth will require immigration.  Instead of using this as an opportunity to press for how Trump would like to accomplish this through Congress, the press continued their quest for a gotcha quote that will provide evidence for the claims that Trump is racist.  The routine is banal.  What's worse is that it hasn't worked but the quest continues escorted by the sound of rhythmically clapped coconuts.


The media does us a disservice.

Really?  You would rather the media normalize the behavior of this administration as an acceptable cost of holding open the fictitious hope of actual substantive progress on this elusive issue?

For me, the corrosive effects of the behavior of this administration on the political norms of this country is a more severe threat to this nation’s long term political future than any calamity that might result from its policies.   Delegitimizing this regime in each and every way is the first priority.  That nothing gets done in this four years can be repaired in the next four.  The effect of the precedence that a regime such as this can be installed without permanent and untenable political and personal consequences to those political that worked to install it can not be repaired for many decades, likely not ever.

The single thing that can salvage this 4 years would be the establishment of a clear political precedent that a regime such as this one can not ever accomplish anything for which its supporters, by supporting it, hoped to accomplish, and supporting such a regime Does not merely carry a risk, but assured a certainty, of irreparable long term political damage to any political fraction.

[Brian37]

Seems every day it is something new with this jack-ass and his ban of other jack-asses he surrounds himself with. I turn on the radio in my car to hear the days top news stories and it is always a story about Trump. Turn on the news it's all Trump, go on the internet it's all Trump. Trump this Trump that. Ya-da-ya-da. I really don't know how much more I can take.

I was tired of him the day he came down the escalator to announce his run.

[Fake Messiah]

Yeah, do you remember the 90s when there were other topics on TV and people got excited by stuff like special effects in upcoming movies? I remember I learned about "Matrix" on CNN that had a daily show about new movies.
But today even watching those evening shows is literally like watching "Democracy Now" few years ago.

Not to mention that once Trump is gone all those newspapers will probably again struggle to keep afloat/ alive.
I can't imagine that Colbert will still be watched after Trump cuz that guy is boring the minute he stops mocking the orange turd.

[Cato]

The George Bernard Shaw adage is apropos; don't wrestle with a pig, you'll both get covered in shit, but the pig will like it. That's all this delegitimizing effort has become and it hasn't worked. Continuing this tactic in the hope that 'something' will finally rise to a level that Trump supporters will detest is folly. If the Democrats don't coalesce around a policy platform more substantive than not-Trump, they're toast, because all that will be is putting somebody in the shit ring to wrestle.

If they don't, Democrats will have to rely on someone like Kasich, Flake or Paul going rogue and siphoning votes as an independent.

[DeistPaladin]

If the Democrats don't coalesce around a policy platform more substantive than not-Trump, they're toast, 

Hence why we lost in 2016. And 2004. HRC ran the John Kerry playbook.