Personally, I looked at it as the difference between “stupid American assholes being stupid American assholes, and $#%# they need to stop” and “a foreign power attempting to give stupid American assholes a push off the edge”.
At least with the first, there’s a chance that more sane, everyday Americans can talk them down or isolate them. With someone from the outside stoking the fire, however…
I have always thought that they initially promoted Trump to cause the US media and government to take their eyes off the ball in the ME and the Far East, very successfully. At this point weakening Trump provides more grist for the mill, so from their point of view it’s all good.
Currently Russia seems to be making all the running in the Middle East, and everybody in Washington seems to be looking at the White House. Having a crazed President who actually is stupid enough to stir his own pot is a bonus.
Like many commenting on it, I don’t generally do bumper stickers, but I’m so tempted to try to find this one or, failing that, make a copy…
That’s sooo good!
He is so fucking crazy.
Woah… I’m not sure if this is correct (about what is needed for them to vote), but if so…
id wondered that myself in passing. turns out, according to wikipedia, the answer is yes.
puerto ricans are us citizens, so all they need is residence in a us state. it’s the living in puerto rico that leaves them without adequate representation; not anything about the status of the people living there.
I’m curious about where Trump will rank in terms of proportional land grabs on Native lands, and what recourse tribes have to stop this.
Wondering if we’re in a better place now because the process of passing Obamacare including a long consultation period with Congressional Republicans, or if we’d be in exactly the same place if we’d just jammed it down their throats.
(I know I’m taking liberties with the term “we”, but that’s where I’m coming from: speaking as someone who wants affordable healthcare.)
Well, you and every other American who does is going to need to pick up the phones again.
No Republican Senators are voting “No” on the tax plan which includes: Removal of the coverage mandate and shrinking of Medicare/Medicaid to cover the tax breaks. That’s right, the tax bill just became another repeal attempt.
Use your Thanksgiving wisely, people. (Honestly, I feel sick and helpless just thinking about what’s going on down there).
Obviously not everyone can use the pains.
Also:
It’s like they are trying to be the MOST DOUCHEY PEOPLE EVER.
It’s like their idea of the ideal rich person is circa 1912. Except it’s a nouveau riche clueless type, not an Astor or a Rockefeller.
Which, as the Trump dynasty of rich people is now into its fourth generation, they should have figured out is not good.
And I thought w’s gang was bad. They just keep getting
WORSER and WORSER
Amid all such exciting new lows, let us not forget this older one, now at its entirely foreseeable consequences like some sort of unusually ham-fisted Greek tragedy.
The article didn’t bother mentioning that Trump had stock in Energy Transfer Partners and Phillips 66 when he permitted the project, though of course the fact that it was rejected by Obama was probably enough.