Thank you for pointing out the pulling of persons from Congress which will be changing the margins until they are replaced. Granted they may be red replacements but during that special election time the margin will be less and sometimes enough for people to cross sides of the aisle. No one else seems to be mentioning this. Of course, if we had real journalism anymore, some smart reporter might be keeping track and question this. This may be one time when we all rejoice that the filibuster is still in place. If I remember correctly a few years ago Congress decided not to recess and members met every day. So asking for a recess could be a sticky wicket.
He really is incompetent. Pulling the margins in the House is a self own. But on the other hand, another two years of needing Democratic votes to pass anything? Helpful.
Historian Michael Parenti used to issue an important warning to people laughing at Ronald Reagan, who said he had no idea what he was doing -- Parenti said "Just because you don't understand what he's doing doesn't mean they don't understand what their doing."
Trump is less a person who "understands" things than he is the front man for an awful lot of awful people (Leonard Leo, Vlad Putin, Vic Orban) who have clear goals and clear strategies for accomplishing them, and have managed to install their tool in a position where they can use that tool to pursue their aims. Whether the character we call "Donald Trump" understands the script is beside the point -- the people feeding him his lines and his positions sure understand things.
to some degree...but the thing is that trump is easy to manipulate by the next person who talks to him, so it's not necessarily the case that any one individual is going to get what they want. it's very, very chaotic.
I've thought we should try to keep quiet about Trump's acting to destroy his House majority. Don't want to jinx the process. But I guess everybody knows already and the Republicans are just too paralyzed to do anything about it. Great post.
Thank you for pointing out the pulling of persons from Congress which will be changing the margins until they are replaced. Granted they may be red replacements but during that special election time the margin will be less and sometimes enough for people to cross sides of the aisle. No one else seems to be mentioning this. Of course, if we had real journalism anymore, some smart reporter might be keeping track and question this. This may be one time when we all rejoice that the filibuster is still in place. If I remember correctly a few years ago Congress decided not to recess and members met every day. So asking for a recess could be a sticky wicket.
I’ve seen journalists discussing it on Twitter…so I’m not the only one!
He really is incompetent. Pulling the margins in the House is a self own. But on the other hand, another two years of needing Democratic votes to pass anything? Helpful.
Historian Michael Parenti used to issue an important warning to people laughing at Ronald Reagan, who said he had no idea what he was doing -- Parenti said "Just because you don't understand what he's doing doesn't mean they don't understand what their doing."
Trump is less a person who "understands" things than he is the front man for an awful lot of awful people (Leonard Leo, Vlad Putin, Vic Orban) who have clear goals and clear strategies for accomplishing them, and have managed to install their tool in a position where they can use that tool to pursue their aims. Whether the character we call "Donald Trump" understands the script is beside the point -- the people feeding him his lines and his positions sure understand things.
to some degree...but the thing is that trump is easy to manipulate by the next person who talks to him, so it's not necessarily the case that any one individual is going to get what they want. it's very, very chaotic.
I've thought we should try to keep quiet about Trump's acting to destroy his House majority. Don't want to jinx the process. But I guess everybody knows already and the Republicans are just too paralyzed to do anything about it. Great post.