Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

1) I am silly...that's true, because I enjoy humor and fun.

2) I am neither 60 nor close to it.

3) I am no actor, so if you think what I write is "smart" then it just is...no acting on my part.

4) I also do not act tough, so if you think what I write makes me tough, then I guess that is so. I take that neither as a compliment nor as a slight.

5) You Trumpers are hilarious by saying that Mueller hasn't found this or that yet. The investigation isn't over yet, brother, and he's only 7 months into it and already has 4 dead to rights. Time spent getting those goons first and then (now) time spent on getting to Trump and his inner circle.

6) There is no desperation on my part. I don't live or die with a certain president, and besides, if the way they tax plan is being described, it will benefit me greatly as I am currently above the income limit (and will be way above it in retirement) Democrats say it will hurt. That isn't the way I believe wealth should be dispersed in this country, so I'm against it, but personally for me, it help me financially.

7) Trump is simply a bad person and an incompetent person. Bad people need not be in positions of power. Matt Lauer, Franken, Conyers...good riddance to all of them because of what they did. I have no allegiance to party when it comes to people behaving badly.

Mueller is coming...believe it, brother for it is true.

Trump is done.

There must be a future LRC punishment administered to Flagpole when his "Trump is done" fails to materialize. Perhaps, 2 year posting ban would be appropriate. He has doubled down from his 2016 guarantee and his impending doom will be epic. I will refer to it as "mega- flagpole(d)"

L L wrote:

nontrumper wrote:

I hope Democrats realize that for Jones to beat Moore many Republicans chose country over party.

I don't know about that.

Democrats had a huge turnout.

Republicans, almost all of them, voted for Moore, voted for a write-in Republican or chose not to vote.

So, they didn't choose country over party. They still voted for their party and chose not to vote for the Democrat.

Their Republican senator, Richard Shelby, voted for a write-in Republican rather than voting Democrat.

He chose party first.

And Shelby was originally elected senator of Alabama as a Democrat back in the day before he switched sides.

Country over party would be voting for the person who won and who was not part of your party.

The Jones win is really finishing out a Jeff Sessions' term and keeping the seat warm for another GOP candidate to take back.

Some thoughts on numbers...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that 80% of Republicans still favor Trump. About 40-45% of voters identify as one party or the other and those voters will never switch their vote. It’s that 10-20% in the middle that you need to worry about. 80% seems actually kinda low.

Alan

Runningart2004 wrote:

Some thoughts on numbers...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that 80% of Republicans still favor Trump. About 40-45% of voters identify as one party or the other and those voters will never switch their vote. It’s that 10-20% in the middle that you need to worry about. 80% seems actually kinda low.

Alan

crucial to this discussion:

Trump is driving people out of the Repub party. And driving indies to leaning Dem. So that 80% number reflects a hardcore base, but is 80% of a shrinking number. That is why the Dems keep hitting over their weight in elections.

That, and the enthusiasm gap. Dems are far more motivated to vote than dems now. I mean dems are doing 15-20% better than they should in almost every election. Astonishing.

Read this on Twitter today:

Day 327

Wall length: 0

Wall height: 0

Pesos from Mexico: 0

Healthcare reforms: 0

Tax reforms: 0

Mining jobs: 0

Clintons jailed: 0

Illegal votes found: 0

Senate seat total: -1

Hands: tiny

Swamp: yuge

Voters: black

Alabama: blue

Best new character: Roy Moore's horse

Winning bigly

eric a blair wrote:

crucial to this discussion:

Trump is driving people out of the Repub party. And driving indies to leaning Dem. So that 80% number reflects a hardcore base, but is 80% of a shrinking number. That is why the Dems keep hitting over their weight in elections.

Yep. Also, older Americans (65+) are more heavily Republican while the 18-64 crowd is more liberal. As the old Republicans die off, Republicans need to do something different to attract those younger voters, and as history is our guide, Populism doesn't last longer than usually one or two election cycles.

With the caustic nature of Trump and his Diet Coke White House, expect that populism stance to fall away sooner than 2 election cycles.

As a Republican said to me, "Why is populism so bad? Doesn't that just mean he's popular?" [sigh]

Mueller is coming.

Trump is done.

Runningart2004 wrote:

Some thoughts on numbers...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that 80% of Republicans still favor Trump. About 40-45% of voters identify as one party or the other and those voters will never switch their vote. It’s that 10-20% in the middle that you need to worry about. 80% seems actually kinda low.

Alan

To that point:

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The poll found that 41 percent approve of the job Trump is doing, compared to 59 percent who disapprove.

Trump’s favorability rating is even lower than his job approval rating, at 39 positive and 57 negative.

**only 38 percent of independents are satisfied with Trump’s job performance.**

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The independents strongly disagree. That's terrible news for the Dear Leader and the Vice Dear Leader and there is no indication of any interest in retaining independents. Not a good choice.

nontrumper wrote:

Read this on Twitter today:

Day 327

Wall length: 0

Wall height: 0

Pesos from Mexico: 0

Healthcare reforms: 0

Tax reforms: 0

Mining jobs: 0

Clintons jailed: 0

Illegal votes found: 0

Senate seat total: -1

Hands: tiny

Swamp: yuge

Voters: black

Alabama: blue

Best new character: Roy Moore's horse

Winning bigly

You Dems get excited about one seat???

nontrumper wrote:

Read this on Twitter today:

Day 327

Wall length: 0

Wall height: 0

Pesos from Mexico: 0

Healthcare reforms: 0

Tax reforms: 0

Mining jobs: 0

Clintons jailed: 0

Illegal votes found: 0

Senate seat total: -1

Hands: tiny

Swamp: yuge

Voters: black

Alabama: blue

Best new character: Roy Moore's horse

Winning bigly

Guilty plea or indicted from Administration or campaign: 4

Trumps in legal trouble: 3 (Donald, Don, Ivanka)

Kushners in legal trouble: 1

Heads in the White House mistaken for a pumpkin: 1

Teeth in the White House mistaken for those from a horse: 1 (Ivanka)

Slimeballs in the White House or were there in this Administration: throw a rock

[sigh] I will try to help you grasshopper.

1) The still of the first YouTube video you have there is NOT of a wall replacing a fence. That fence is temporary fencing for the construction area of them repairing the existing wall that was put up and then continued to be maintained by Bush and then OBAMA! That is not evidence of a Trump-dreamed wall being put up.

2) Border wall prototypes are just that...prototypes. No funding for this stupid wall yet, and since Mexico won't pay for it like Trump promised, it won't happen. Maintenance of existing walls/fencing is all that will happen just as under Bush and Obama before The Orange One.

3) I'm not excited by one seat, but it certainly doesn't help Republicans to lose it. I AM excited that the correct moral stance was taken here in this election.

Do some research before you post links that you believe prove anything.

Even though it is tough to get Trump out of office when he has know-nothings like you supporting him, it will be done.

Mueller is coming.

Trump is done.

Average number of tweets per day: 7

Average number of hours spent watching TV per day: 4

Golf outings: 79

Here you are, little man. Tick Tick Tick

Trump is done.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/12/13/trump-insider-obvious-mueller-will-bring-charges/23306340/

foo wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Guilty plea or indicted from Administration or campaign: 4

Trumps in legal trouble: 3 (Donald, Don, Ivanka)

Kushners in legal trouble: 1

Heads in the White House mistaken for a pumpkin: 1

Teeth in the White House mistaken for those from a horse: 1 (Ivanka)

Slimeballs in the White House or were there in this Administration: throw a rock

Average number of tweets per day: 7

Average number of hours spent watching TV per day: 4

Golf outings: 79

Average number of lies from Trump per day as determined by a fact checker: 5.5

More news of interest:

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/364679-watchdog-trump-administration-improperly-withheld-funds-for

Rigged for Trump wrote:

More news of interest:

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/364679-watchdog-trump-administration-improperly-withheld-funds-for

Of COURSE they did! Everything they do is improper.

Here is a typical Trump voter...a Roy Moore supporter interviewed by Jake Tapper yesterday before Moore got it handed to him:

The whole interview is crazy, but the best part begins at 8:55.

Mueller is coming.

Trump is done.

I think you're the one who should be banned for two years when the Republicans go down hard.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/alabama-exit-poll-analysis/index.html