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Taran Wanderer • 14 minutes ago
Trump apologists have been trying all week to spin this turd. The funniest is the Dilbert guy, who has made a retirement career of saying nice things about Trump right before he asks Trump supporters to buy his book.

Here's some reality for Trump supporters who are ready to face it:

We're going to nuke his whole agenda and leave his presidency a smoldering pile of ash.

You'd think Trump's approval numbers couldn't get any lower but new polling out today tells us they continue to drop. Trump's approval rating today is at 36%, and of that majority who disapprove, nearly all of them "Strongly Disapprove."

How is it that, even after he is already the most unpopular president in modern history, his support continues to drop?

His Tweet the other day taking aim at the Freedom Caucus, Club for Growth, and Heritage Foundation should give you a clue.

At the end of last week he had a tiny coalition of people still hanging on for him, so what did he do? He attacked members of his coalition, dividing it even further.

Go onto the Twitter feeds today of small government conservatives like the House Freedom Caucus. You'll find people spreading their wings a little bit, testing out what the air feels like having just said no to Trump. They're finding that their constituents are pleased with them. They're finding that Trump is a liability and there is utility in going against him.

That's what 36% approval is like.

And while Trump attacks the Freedom Caucus, he forgets that even if he had their votes, there were 30+ moderates ready to sink the bill anyway. For them, the health care bill was too harsh, and for them, the 1000 to 1 ratio of vote-against phone calls was compelling.

They'll get a similar ratio of phone calls when the infrastructure bill comes up and the central project is a giant wall on the Southern border.

Trump has done nothing but lose since inauguration. He will continue to lose and lose and lose again. Then he will be impeached and tossed out of office in disgrace. In the future, when historians rank the presidents, he will have his own special place in the basement.
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BoomerGal Taran Wanderer • 12 minutes ago
BRAVO!!!
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/what-if-friday-was-trumps-best-day-since-taking-office/520896/#article-comments

[Warpy]

1. Saying "no" to Dolt45 is going to be so much fun

that they'll start doing it even when it's something they want, just to see him turn purple, flap his little hands, and rage all over Twitter. It will be so amusing they'll challenge each other to make him madder and madder.

[unblock]

2. surprisingly enough, lying and insulting anyone and everyone isn't a winning political strategy.

[llmart]

9. But it didn't hurt him getting elected...

The lying and insults were in full view for everyone to see.

Never underestimate the stupidity/gullibility of a large majority of our populace.

[unblock]

10. actually, it did hurt him, but the cheating and espionage made up for it....

[llmart]

11. I must disagree with you.

He and his grifter family are ensconced in our White House dipping into OUR money to line their pockets. He being the sociopath that he is, doesn't care one whit. He is incapable of caring. Once he gets everything he wants, he'll ditch the job.

I'm going to go on record her and say that he's also positioning Ivanka to run eventually. Mark my word.

[unblock]

12. i see your point.

i agree he doesn't really care about policy. to him, aside from tax cuts that personally benefit him, policy is mostly just crap you say to get elected.

and yes, he's certainly all about the embezzlement and nepotism.

but if he's enough of a stinker for the republican party, even this congress will have to tie his hands or even give him the boot. still got a ways to go on either front, but he's certainly trying to find the edge of that envelope....

[llmart]

13. I agree.

Americans will be the loser.

This will end up a pissing contest between big-ego Ryan and bigger ego Dump.

[Maven]

3. What is their last resort? War? Letting an attack happen?

My only comfort is that they'd never pull it off with their level of incompetence. Then again, they have the Kremlin advising them. Either way, stay vigilant.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Scott Adams (Dilbert) thinks it is a win for tRump as narrative shifted from Hitler to Incompetent

He thinks that by the end of the year it will shift to "Competent but we don't like him." I don't see that happening even though Adams predicted tRump would win the election a couple of months beforehand.

The Fascist narrative around tRump has NOT gone away. Just this weekend he ordered Fox Noise to say he was working this weekend.

[notdarkyet]

5. He's a natural born loser.

[LakeArenal]

6. Bigly...

[Initech]

8. The Dropkick Murphys describe him very well in their song "First Class Loser".

[ffr]

7. Liked the closing line of a response

Rodmacd Taran Wanderer • 2 hours ago

What's known as the 20-60-20 rule comes into play. Simply put that rule states that in a poll, 20% will approve of you no matter what, 20% will disapprove of you no matter what, and you make or break your popularity on the 60% in the middle. Even Nixon began his last full month in office (July '74) with an approval rating of 28%- and the poll taken on his resignation day still showed 22%. Not a lot of cushion between DT's 36 and Tricky Dick's 28.