“Of course, dissent is essential. Democracy without dissent is not democracy. But dissent should be disciplined. It should not indulge in fantasies that make partisans feel good but are profoundly misleading. This inevitable disillusion is where we are today.”
Category: Trump
Petri Satire: ‘I’m Putting My Foot Down – On My Way To Vote Against Icebergs’
“I am shocked and appalled by his behavior. And I am not afraid to say so. At a fundraiser. For him. Before asking for more donations.”
Do Super-Rich Presidents Get A Pass?
“At the heart of the emoluments controversy is President Trump’s refusal to liquidate his business holdings. “
‘Trump Is A Walking Advertisement For Ritalin’
“If you want to look at the bright side of things, at least we’ve learned that the nation can survive for half a year without a sane, functioning presidency.”
Trump Tweets Video Of The Time He Clotheslined Vince McMahon, Tags It #FraudNewsCNN
“Modern presidential.”
Trump Grabs Modernity By The Pussy, Redefines “Presidential,” Says Media Is “Fraudulent”
“I know it wasn’t presidential, but what did you think?”
Matt Tait: That Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians
“Indeed, I still do not fully understand the events I am going to describe, both what they reflected then or what they mean in retrospect. But I can lay out what happened, facts from which readers and investigators can draw their own conclusions.”
“Re: Trump Tweets”: Letters To The NY Times
“A misogynist, a conspiracy theorist and a liar, and he has a large ego, a thin skin, no filter and an unhealthy obsession with what the ‘fake news’ media says about him”…
Is This It For Trump?
“For months, Trump watchers have wondered: What will it take?”
Hot ‘Covfefe’: Trump Blasts ‘Dumb As A Rock Mika,’ ‘Garbage’ CNN, Says States Conspiring Against Him
“They’re crazy, they’re dumb as a rock, and I assume, they’re not bad people.”
The Dictator’s Playbook: From Obstruction To Attacks On The Press, It’s All The Same
“In the case of his attacks against the free press, Trump, like many dictators, calls them the enemies of the people, hoping they will be afraid to report real news. He is wrong. They will not be.”
Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough: “Donald Trump Is Not Well”
” This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We ignored their desperate pleas.”
Marcus: “Authoritarianism Does Not Announce Itself. It Creeps Up On You”
“But other shifts, equally audacious and equally troubling, take a more subtle form. They unfold slowly until, perhaps too late, the change becomes blindingly apparent.”
“Death By A Thousand Cuts”: 8 Ways Trump Could Wiggle Out Of Special Counsel Investigation
“Members of Congress should not sit back and hope that Mueller’s investigation will proceed free from interference, especially given statements by the president and his supporters indicating an interest in derailing Mueller.”
“This Isn’t Hyperbole: The GOP Is Turning Into The Party Of Putin
“This isn’t hyperbole; in fact, it’s hard to overstate just how serious this issue is. Yet President Trump continues to sow doubt about whether Moscow even interfered in the 2016 presidential elections and to suggest the question’s insignificance by ignoring it all together.”
Trump Says ‘Crazy’, ‘Low IQ’, ‘Psychos’ Who ‘Bleed Badly From The Face’ Not Welcome At Mar-a-Lago
Wake up, America, it’s time for your “covfefe“! And President Crazy-Orange-Juice-Man is servin’ that shit
Poll: The Joke’s On You America
“Only 22 percent of more than 40,000 respondents from 37 countries had confidence in Trump doing the right thing regarding world affairs; 64 percent felt that way about Barack Obama at the end of his presidency. The only countries preferring Trump were Israel and Russia.”
“Have They Lost Their Minds?!” Republican Health Bill As Politically- Assisted Suicide
“Sen. Mitch McConnell has called off a vote this week on the Senate Republican health-care bill. That’s a good thing. Because if Republicans want to confirm every liberal caricature of conservatism in a single piece of legislation, they could do no better than vote on the GOP bill in its current form.”
A Brief And Hilarious History Of Trump’s Tweets About Amazon
“A great gift idea is my new book #TimeToGetTough, easy to order on Amazon”
A Covfefe’d Up Trump Blasts WaPo, Amazon In Gibberish Tweet
“Covfefe AF yo”…
If CEOs Are So Damn Happy About Trump, Why Aren’t The Numbers Reflecting It?
“If CEOs are more likely to be Republican, then partisanship could explain the weirdly high CEO confidence numbers.”
Trump Made A Fake TIME Cover Of Himself And Hung It Up At His Golf Clubs
TIME: “That’s not real.”
“A Recipe For Calamity”: Trump Is Quietly Pushing America Deeper Into Mideast Wars
“Across the Middle East, the administration drives the United States ever further into wars without end, increasing the dangers of direct military confrontation with Russia and Iran, with little awareness and no mandate from the American people. This is a recipe for calamity.”
This Is The Most Important Implication Of The SCOTUS Travel Ban Opinion
“I detest much of the president’s norm-defying behavior and have been critical of it. But I worry at least as much about norms related to our governance that have been breached and diminished as a result of, or in response to, Trumpism.”
Feldman: SCOTUS Trying To “Wiggle Out” Of Ruling On Trump’s Travel Ban
“The justices would really like to avoid ruling on the travel ban altogether. They’d like to make the case go away.”
Wall Street Journal Calls Trump A Twitter “Troll,” Says Maybe You Can’t Trust Him
“The episode is further proof that the biggest obstacle to an effective Trump Presidency is Mr. Trump.”
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