I’ll wait before getting my hopes up.
It’s not his performance that’s different.
Just because some folks on Fox News are condemning him doesn’t mean much. I mean it’s njce and all but the benefit of him always being crazy or doing something horrible is these folks will move on in a few days and the media won’t hold their feet to the fire.
I believe it's a slight downward trend--the number of people that identify as Republicans is down from like 34% to 31%. Not a massive shift, but it's also worth noting Trump is not super popular among Independents, and while Independents make up a huge percentage of voters, there's a lot of them that are Libertarians and reliably vote for a specific party.
Yeah I don't buy it for one second. They've played this tune for us before. It's only to make themselves look a little less pathetic at their jobs
Nah, we're on a full blown rocky road now. Media has flipped a script and they actually are going to dig into this Maria Butina indictment. More indictments are coming and will keep coming through the midterms. GOP congress members and other US citizens are going to be indicted shortly.
This is a good point. The US was the superpower that ethno-nationalists wanted to use to spread their ideology, and when it started pushing back, they went to the next superpower. If Putin fell, I'm not sure where they'd go next. To be honest, that part scares me.
I mean, what can they really say?
The media that like a cat moves on to the next shiny light or string dangled it front of it? Doubtful. In terms of indictments? It was 5 months between he last 12 Russians and this one.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I just don’t see how this was any more eye opening than the last billion Russia related scandals. Goal posts always seem to shift back further. Maybe if more people are indicted ...
I keep seeing this... but I also haven't seen a case where he has actually been wrong. Am I missing something?
Fox News does it for them. It's insanity on that network. All of their anchors brushing it off as an unforced error and it's Obama and Hillary's fault.
Eh, beltway addicts were saying the same about family separation, especially after Abolish ICE concern trolling and civility in restaurants and all that happened, but then we got polling and interviews that most people hadn't seen or cared about any of that and were still pissed about the family separation.
He's a Texas sharpshooter. He pushes normal stories along with Mensch-style conspiracies and then pretends like he only pushed the normal stuff (unless a big test was right, he definitely claims credit for that).
I used to enjoy following him, but he has long tweet threads with no great credentials. He does a great job at consolidating stories to put together a narrative... and many times it makes sense. In the end though, he is doing no real reporting, investigating, digging and that eventually puts him into the conspiracy blogger territory., He can link tweets and documents and create a real good story, but that is not the same thing as following a lead and being willing to publish it subject to your company's ethical standards.
Yeah I don’t beleive it either. I have a feeling they just don’t five a fuck anymore and are letting things play out while pretending to be shocked. We have had so much leading up to this that would have clued in anyone that actually cared about US interests to cancel and get on punishing Russia but here we are. We had the events on Friday and he still decided to do it. Everyone here knew how it was going to go down because this isn’t the first time he’s done the same with Putin at his side. I think the people around him just figured he’s such a shithead and everyone is used to it by now that it would blow over after the 24h news cycle is done with it and it still might actually happen. This is shocking but no one will care by weeks end. This is how fucked this country it right now
Yeah, we have had a long enough drip drip drip that until something absolute comes along, people will blow it off. We even have Trump/Putin saying things like they want to see the evidence. This is a key phrase to get stupid people on their side thinking they should be seeing every bit of evidence. It erases any trust in our judiciary and suggests that indictments include no shreds of evidence and carry no weight. Trump having multiple (Deep State) intelligence agencies say it IS Russia and they know for sure, but he refuses to accept reality. He hasn't seen a one arm man so wonders wheres the evidence? It is infuriating to watch.
They're getting their talking points tomorrow and will align and rally around their bitch just in time for a fresh round of Sunday morning talk shows.
Is this from the weeks after he became President? Or tonight? Seems like he would be asleep with all the time changes
I really hope one day one of these traitors just has enough during a live interview and spills all the beans.
Ah, okay. Thanks. I am losing track of how many times he has betrayed us!
Here are two articles that detail Seth Abramson's background and various ways that he has been wrong:
It has changed things. His support among Republicans wont change but at this particular juncture, that isn't something we need to factor in at this point. Yesterday, Trump was exposed on a global level, via a global platform, watched by a horrified global audience and that will have global ramifications. But more importantly, in domestic US politics, that effort to shut down the Muller investigation ended yesterday. No senator in their right mind will want to go near that.
Meanwhile premiums spike because of ACA fuckery and gas prices spike because of JCPOA fuckery. Tax cuts won’t save them
