trump is serious!!!!!

[Scooter]

Well in all fairness, we were dealing with a Trump-like character then, too.

Touché

[rubato]

Peggy Noonan made a rookie mistake and failed to distinguish between Woody Allen, the person, and the fictional character he created and played in movies and on TV.

Woody Allen, the person, is one of the most successful filmmakers of all time. A career impossible for someone who actually had the character traits she assigns to him.


yrs,
rubato

[BoSoxGal]

'Brilliant' filmmaker with a propensity to fondle and/or fuck his daughters; I see the comparison to Trump.

[Scooter]

[Scooter]

[Scooter]

[BoSoxGal]

[BoSoxGal]

[Bicycle Bill]

  
Fortunately, I think the so-called 'Incapacity Clause' in the Constitution (Section 4 of the 25th Amendment) would allow us to be rid of him before it ever got quite that bad.

-"BB"-

[Burning Petard]

Unhappily, the 25th Amendment depends on the carefully selected entourage Trump personally picked to have some degree of honor and willingness to act for the greater good.

snailgate.

[RayThom]

Unhappily, the 25th Amendment depends on the carefully selected entourage Trump personally picked to have some degree of honor and willingness to act for the greater good.
snailgate.

The one thing "almost" as scary as Trump as POTUS is Pence as POTUS. Once the court jester ascends to the throne I doubt if there will be any recourse than to put up with his own special brand of pomposity. Plausible deniability will be his defense and he'll probably get away with it.

I pity the women and gays who will have to vigilantly fight his sexist attitudes and anti-progressive policies.

Drumpf Lite:

Et cetera...

[Econoline]

This is why Dems *MUST* take back at least one house of Congress (preferably both) in 2018. Unlike Trump, Pence knows how to work with the Republican congresscritters to get this shit done. With him in the White House and the Republicans still in total control of Congress, the GOP's agenda--in particular, the religious right's agenda--would have no realistic chance of being stopped.

[BoSoxGal]

Pence was begging for McCain's healthcare vote up until moments before he cast it, so I'm not so sure he's any kind of miracle worker? Though I'm guessing some of McCain's motivation was to retaliate against Trump for shitting all over his service record - denying him Obamacare repeal was perfect justice, after all.

[Lord Jim]

Rasmussen joins the ranks of the "phony polls":

Trump's approval rating just dropped to a new low in his favorite poll

President Donald Trump's approval rating dipped to a new low on Monday in the latest Rasmussen poll, the survey that is often most favorable to Trump.

Rasmussen found that just 39% of likely US voters approved of the job Trump is doing, while 61% disapproved of the president.

It was the first time Trump dipped below 40% in the Rasmussen presidential tracking poll.

As recently as mid-June, Rasmussen had Trump's approval rating at 50% — far above where other polls found Trump's approval rating to be.

At the time, Trump tweeted: "The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating. That's higher than O's #'s!"

Rasmussen interviewed 1,500 likely voters over three days, with a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-a ... sen-2017-7

[Scooter]

[Bicycle Bill]

WHERE IS THE REST OF IT????
KARAOKE SINGERS EVERYWHERE DEMAND TO KNOW!!!!

-"BB"-

[Econoline]

[Scooter]

Trump caught in another lie? Say it ain't so:

NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts are denying a claim by President Donald Trump that the head of the youth organization called the president to praise his politically aggressive speech to the Scouts' national jamboree.

Trump told The Wall Street Journal, "I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful."

On Wednesday, the Scouts responded, "We are unaware of any such call." Neither of the organization's two top leaders — President Randall Stephenson and Chief Scout Executive Mike Surbaugh — had placed such a call, the Scouts said.

Surbaugh apologized last week to members of the scouting community who were offended by the political rhetoric in Trump's July 24 speech in West Virginia.

[Bicycle Bill]

Trump caught in another lie? Say it ain't so:

NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts are denying a claim by President Donald Trump that the head of the youth organization called the president to praise his politically aggressive speech to the Scouts' national jamboree.

Trump told The Wall Street Journal, "I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful."

On Wednesday, the Scouts responded, "We are unaware of any such call." Neither of the organization's two top leaders — President Randall Stephenson and Chief Scout Executive Mike Surbaugh — had placed such a call, the Scouts said.

Surbaugh apologized last week to members of the scouting community who were offended by the political rhetoric in Trump's July 24 speech in West Virginia.

I wish I had been a Scoutmaster there with my troop.  I'd have marched them out of there, right past the podium if possible, as soon as he went off-topic.
One of the twelve points of the Scout Law is that "A Scout is courteous", but does being courteous mean we have to put up with this sort of bullshit?  Remember, in the Scout Oath a Scout also promises to keep himself "mentally awake and morally straight".

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

This was encouraging to see...

The first poll that has Trump finally dropping from the mid-to-high 30s down to the low 30s...

Hopefully the results will be replicated:

Poll: Trump's approval rating down to 33%

(CNN)Just 33% of American voters approve of how President Donald Trump is performing as president, a new Quinnipiac University poll has found.

The findings mark Trump's lowest approval rating and highest disapproval rating in the Quinnipiac poll. Sixty-one percent of respondents say they disapprove of the President's performance, with 55% of people saying they strongly disapprove -- the highest share of respondents yet.

Trump's numbers declined more among Republicans than they did among Democrats, who had already viewed the President unfavorably. In late June, 84% of Republicans approved of Trump's performance -- now, 76% of Republicans say the same. Seventeen percent of Republicans now say they disapprove of the way Trump is performing in the job.

The President also reached new lows on a number of other measures. The poll found that 63% of voters say they don't believe Trump has good leadership skills and that he does not share their values. Sixty-two percent do not believe that the President is honest, and just 26% say he is level-headed. The findings are the worst yet for Trump in the Quinnipiac poll.

A majority of voters also say they disapprove of Trump's performance on the economy, foreign policy, immigration, and health care. Voters are roughly split on his handling of terrorism, with 46% expressing approval and 47% expressing disapproval.

Trump's numbers are also historically weak for a president this far into his term. Six months in, Trump had the worst approval rating of any president since modern polling began.

The poll was conducted from July 27 to August 1 among a sample of 1,125 voters nationwide with a +/- 3.4 percentage point margin of error. Live interviewers called both landlines and cell phones.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/politics/ ... index.html

And here's a link to the in-depth poll results:

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-de ... aseID=2476