‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

[Dick Foster]

Trump's economy is a fake bubble waiting for the orange prick to burst it.

Trump's economy GDP is rising ~2% while budget deficit and debt increase is rising at~5% of GDP. The Trump economy is negative by about 3% of GDP.

Trump Casino Bankruptcy Economics 101, chapter 11.

... and an old lady is kicking Trump anus while Trump blubbers and whines.

Tell me does TDS hurt much? Is it painless, or more like a dull throbbing constant headache that flares with stabbing agonizing pains every time Tump WINS again? What do you do to keep all that drool cleaned up?

 

[sealybobo]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric.

They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

The GOP lawmakers tried to assemble a Trump howling mob to attack the investigators, but fell short of a quorum and disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public by a howling example of lawlessness.

GOP lawmakers are whimpering louder than Al Baghdadi.

Don't worry ladies and gentlemen, your horror and pain will be over soon.

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‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Oct. 28, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+7

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.
Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.
President Trump on Oct. 25 repeated his claim that he had a “perfect conversation” with his Ukrainian counterpart. (Reuters)
Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.
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In hushed conversations over the past week, GOP senators lamented that the fast-expanding probe is fraying their party, which remains completely in Trump’s grip. They voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted, with neither convincing arguments from the White House nor confidence that something worse won’t soon be discovered.
“It feels like a horror movie,” said one veteran Republican senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the consensus.
What you missed this week in the impeachment inquiry
The Republican Party’s strategy is being directed almost entirely by the frenzied impulses of Trump, who has exhibited fits of rage over the Democrats’ drive to remove him from office for abuse of power.
“I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters Friday. “This is a takedown of the Republican Party.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Although Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has been a loud dissenter, he has been speaking for himself as opposed to acting as a frontman for some silent caucus of like-minded Republicans, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Most GOP senators have been taking cues from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose paramount concern has been maintaining his party’s control of the chamber in next year’s election.
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“They’ve decided that they’re going to take it all grudgingly — and privately, perhaps, in disgust — but they’re not going to give up the farm,” said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union. But, he added, “It’s been piling on, piling on, piling on, and I see defense fatigue on behalf of the Republicans in the Congress.”
Graham condemns House impeachment inquiry, slams process as ‘dangerous to the country’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution denouncing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a news conference on Oct. 24. (The Washington Post)
Trump and his allies have strained to focus the debate on the process, but Republican officials have struggled to answer for the substance of the startling statements made by the growing list of credible witnesses from the national security and diplomatic realms.
Trump’s season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
“There’s frustration. It feels to everyone like they’re just digging a hole and making it worse. It just never ends. . . . It’s a total [expletive] show,” said one Republican strategist who has been advising a number of top senators and who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
McConnell, who has shared related concerns in private conversations with other senators, has been preparing for a possible Senate impeachment trial. And earlier this month he showed a dry PowerPoint presentation to Republican senators explaining how one might unfold.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
McConnell remains engaged with Trump but has a mixed view of the president’s advisers, several Republicans said, noting that he misses his productive working relationship with former White House counsel Donald McGahn and is “less enamored” with his successor, Pat Cipollone, according to a McConnell ally. A Senate GOP aide said McConnell and Cipollone have a good working relationship.
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As they went about their work at the Capitol this past week, many Senate Republicans were all but mute when reporters asked questions about impeachment — a stark snapshot of a party rattled not only by the House inquiry but also by Trump’s removal of U.S. troops from northern Syria; his decision, later retracted, to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort; and his claim that the investigation into him amounted to a “lynching.”
“I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking,” Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said. Pressed again for comment, he reiterated, “I said I’m comfortable not speaking.”
“I’d be a juror, so I have no comment,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.

John Kelly says he warned Trump hiring a ‘yes man’ for chief of staff would lead to impeachment

• Kelly, in an interview with the Washington Examiner Saturday, seemed to pin responsibility for the most serious political crisis of Trump’s presidency on acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
• Kelly expressed regrets about leaving, saying he believes that Trump would not be facing impeachment if he had stayed.

Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly says he told President Donald Trump during his final days on the job not to hire a “yes man” to succeed him, warning the president that he risked impeachment if he did so.

“I said, whatever you do — and we were still in the process of trying to find someone to take my place — I said whatever you do, don’t hire a ‘yes man,’ someone who won’t tell you the truth — don’t do that. Because if you do, I believe you will be impeached,” Kelly told the Washington Examiner at the Sea Island Summit, a political conference hosted by the paper.

Kelly resigned as chief of staff in December 2018 after clashing with national security officials as well as First Lady Melania Trump. The retired Marine Corps general and former Homeland Security Secretary succeeded Reince Priebus, the former head of the Republican Party who spent less than a year in the position. Kelly sought to bring order to a chaotic administration, limiting access to Trump and disciplining staffers who sought to circumvent his authority.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Democrats are hated as well.

You are right there, but there are more Democrats than Republicans. I wonder who the Independents hate? Being one, I hate the media.

I used to be an independent, but I've gotten by that. I want the Democratic Party politically neutralized. MSM is the public face of the the party.

Not a big fan of Republicans either, but it's all there is to work with.

You don't even see how you are brainwashed. And your reptilian brain has you leaning right.

You've never been a independent. You were a moderate conservative. Stop with the fake news.

What do you do for a living that makes you feel like you are a member of the GOP? Are you well off? Did you benefit bigly from the Trump tax breaks? Do you not see a recession is coming? Do you not see Trump just spent his way into a one year good economy and after that tax giveaway to the rich, the prosperity is over? He supercharged the economy and it only bought him a year. If the stupid **** didn't start a trade war with China he would have sailed into a second term and a great economy. Instead he blew it.

My company just let 8 people go because they know a manufacturing recession is coming

The most-anticipated recession in history is coming, and it’s tying investors in knots

It's also tying manufacturers and CEO's in knots.

Well, if I were you, I would not vote for Trump in 2020. Those of us who make out better, probably will.

Why? Do you think he deserves all the credit? I don't. He took over a great economy and super charged it with tax breaks we can't afford. And next year the economy will be slower than it is this year and Trump will have to take credit for that. In other words, maybe you are doing better this year and maybe you credit trump, but then you'll have to credit him with the economic downturn too right?

Americans’ anxiety is among the consequences of economic expansion, which has benefited the most affluent far more than it has others

Americans are generally satisfied with their personal finances, but many lack confidence in their ability to afford retirement, an emergency expense or even their daily living costs.

Roughly two-thirds, 67%, describe their financial situation as generally good, up slightly from 62% who said so at the start of the year, according to a survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Their brighter economic outlook reflects in part a decade-long U.S. economic expansion that is now the longest on record. The expansion has slashed unemployment, revived the housing market and boosted overall household wealth. But some groups, especially young adults, racial minorities and the poor, say they remain financially insecure.

Did you hear that? A decade long expansion. Most of it on Obama's watch. He got us out of the Great Recession. Don't downplay that.

The richest Americans now hold a greater share of the nation’s wealth than they did before the Great Recession began in 2007.

Housing and college costs have imposed a much heavier strain on today’s young adults than they did on older generations. And four decades of sluggish pay growth have depressed staring salaries for people who are beginning their careers.

Nearly four in 10 Americans say they lack confidence in their ability to pay an emergency expense of $1,000. At the same time, only about 1 in 10 say it’s very likely they wouldn’t pay the bill at all, even if it meant taking a loan, relying on a credit card or borrowing money from relatives.


Just two in 10 are very confident that they’ll have enough savings for retirement. Nearly half have little to no confidence.

A quarter of Americans say their expenses are rising faster than their incomes. Just 11% say their salaries have outpaced their costs. (The rest say their incomes have largely kept pace with expenses.)

Many older Americans have managed to build financial security through home ownership and traditional pensions, which most employers have now phased out. About three-quarters of those ages 60 and over report feeling good about their financial situations.

By contrast, four in 10 Americans under 30 describe their financial situation as poor. Half say they doubt their ability to handle an unplanned bill — twice the proportion of people ages 60 and older.

“Millennials are on a much lower path of wealth-building than their older predecessors,” said Reid Cramer, director of the millennials initiative at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank.

The generational wealth gap that emerges from the survey coincides with findings last year by researchers at the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Those researchers studied six groups of families born between 1930s and the 1980s. The youngest group, they concluded, was essentially a “lost generation” for accumulating wealth.

The median family led by someone born in the 1980s had only two-thirds the wealth that earlier generations did at the same stage in life. The same study found that the median inflation-adjusted income for people younger than 40 had declined 10% since the Great Recession. By contrast, incomes for those older than 62 had jumped 24%.

Younger workers are not only earning less. They are also clustering in large cities, where many major employers have increasingly placed their jobs. This often means moving to neighborhoods with higher housing costs.

Joshua Beard, 35, recently left an information technology job in Loretto, Tennessee, whose population is under 2,000. That next job might have to be in someplace like Nashville or Huntsville, Alabama, where there are more opportunities in his field.

“I think I’ll be able to earn as much as I was getting before, as long as I’m willing to move to a bigger area,” Beard said.

If faced with an emergency expense, Beard said he would likely charge it to a credit card. Yet he sees the economy as solid.

With their disproportionately higher wealth, older Americans and those earning more than $100,000 are generally more confident about managing emergency expenses and retirement savings.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Democrats are hated as well.

You are right there, but there are more Democrats than Republicans. I wonder who the Independents hate? Being one, I hate the media.

I used to be an independent, but I've gotten by that. I want the Democratic Party politically neutralized. MSM is the public face of the the party.

Not a big fan of Republicans either, but it's all there is to work with.

You don't even see how you are brainwashed. And your reptilian brain has you leaning right.

You've never been a independent. You were a moderate conservative. Stop with the fake news.

What do you do for a living that makes you feel like you are a member of the GOP? Are you well off? Did you benefit bigly from the Trump tax breaks? Do you not see a recession is coming? Do you not see Trump just spent his way into a one year good economy and after that tax giveaway to the rich, the prosperity is over? He supercharged the economy and it only bought him a year. If the stupid **** didn't start a trade war with China he would have sailed into a second term and a great economy. Instead he blew it.

My company just let 8 people go because they know a manufacturing recession is coming

The most-anticipated recession in history is coming, and it’s tying investors in knots

It's also tying manufacturers and CEO's in knots.

Well, if I were you, I would not vote for Trump in 2020. Those of us who make out better, probably will.

I'm killing it by the way. I'll make over $100K this year easily. Still not going to vote for Trump. He's not worth it. I would have made over $100K without him.

Vote for Democrats, and that will drop to a net of $58,000 by 2022.

 

[wamose]

.[/QUOTE]

I'm killing it by the way. I'll make over $100K this year easily. Still not going to vote for Trump. He's not worth it. I would have made over $100K without him.[/QUOTE]
Hey Hunter. Where you hiding nowadays? I see daddy still didn't lose his touch.

 

[toobfreak]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric. They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

 

[Third Party]

Democrats are hated as well.

You are right there, but there are more Democrats than Republicans. I wonder who the Independents hate? Being one, I hate the media.

I used to be an independent, but I've gotten by that. I want the Democratic Party politically neutralized. MSM is the public face of the the party.

Not a big fan of Republicans either, but it's all there is to work with.

You don't even see how you are brainwashed. And your reptilian brain has you leaning right.

You've never been a independent. You were a moderate conservative. Stop with the fake news.

What do you do for a living that makes you feel like you are a member of the GOP? Are you well off? Did you benefit bigly from the Trump tax breaks? Do you not see a recession is coming? Do you not see Trump just spent his way into a one year good economy and after that tax giveaway to the rich, the prosperity is over? He supercharged the economy and it only bought him a year. If the stupid **** didn't start a trade war with China he would have sailed into a second term and a great economy. Instead he blew it.

My company just let 8 people go because they know a manufacturing recession is coming

The most-anticipated recession in history is coming, and it’s tying investors in knots

It's also tying manufacturers and CEO's in knots.

Well, if I were you, I would not vote for Trump in 2020. Those of us who make out better, probably will.

Why? Do you think he deserves all the credit? YES I don't. He took over a great economyNO and super charged it with tax breaks we can't afford. And next year the economy will be slower than it is this year and Trump will have to take credit for that. In other words, maybe you are doing better this year and maybe you credit trump, but then you'll have to credit him with the economic downturn too right? IF so then yes

Americans’ anxiety is among the consequences of economic expansion, which has benefited the most affluent far more than it has others

Americans are generally satisfied with their personal finances, but many lack confidence in their ability to afford retirement, an emergency expense or even their daily living costs.Personal problem

Roughly two-thirds, 67%, describe their financial situation as generally good, up slightly from 62% who said so at the start of the year, according to a survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.I don't think they know-that's why they are shaky financially.

Their brighter economic outlook reflects in part a decade-long U.S. economic expansion that is now the longest on record. The expansion has slashed unemployment, revived the housing market and boosted overall household wealth. But some groups, especially young adults, racial minorities and the poor, say they remain financially insecure.

Did you hear that? A decade long expansion. Most of it on Obama's watch. He got us out of the Great Recession. Don't downplay that.Don't buy it myself-I lived thru both

The richest Americans now hold a greater share of the nation’s wealth than they did before the Great Recession began in 2007.Who cares-good for them

Housing and college costs have imposed a much heavier strain on today’s young adults than they did on older generations. And four decades of sluggish pay growth have depressed staring salaries for people who are beginning their careers.Don't go to college, and where I worked immigrants started at 20 per hour with great benefits-its a great economy

Nearly four in 10 Americans say they lack confidence in their ability to pay an emergency expense of $1,000. At the same time, only about 1 in 10 say it’s very likely they wouldn’t pay the bill at all, even if it meant taking a loan, relying on a credit card or borrowing money from relatives.Then they spend too much-sell the cell phones, extra TV's, vacation once every two years-how the Hell do you think I got my money? I saved instead of spending or borrowing!


Just two in 10 are very confident that they’ll have enough savings for retirement. Nearly half have little to no confidence.Bad planning.

A quarter of Americans say their expenses are rising faster than their incomes. Just 11% say their salaries have outpaced their costs. (The rest say their incomes have largely kept pace with expenses.) Then downsize

Many older Americans have managed to build financial security through home ownership and traditional pensions, which most employers have now phased out. About three-quarters of those ages 60 and over report feeling good about their financial situations.I've seen low cost housing-its great.

By contrast, four in 10 Americans under 30 describe their financial situation as poor. Half say they doubt their ability to handle an unplanned bill — twice the proportion of people ages 60 and older.They can't do simple math

“Millennials are on a much lower path of wealth-building than their older predecessors,” said Reid Cramer, director of the millennials initiative at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank.

The generational wealth gap that emerges from the survey coincides with findings last year by researchers at the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Those researchers studied six groups of families born between 1930s and the 1980s. The youngest group, they concluded, was essentially a “lost generation” for accumulating wealth.

The median family led by someone born in the 1980s had only two-thirds the wealth that earlier generations did at the same stage in life. The same study found that the median inflation-adjusted income for people younger than 40 had declined 10% since the Great Recession. By contrast, incomes for those older than 62 had jumped 24%.

Younger workers are not only earning less. They are also clustering in large cities, where many major employers have increasingly placed their jobs. This often means moving to neighborhoods with higher housing costs.

Joshua Beard, 35, recently left an information technology job in Loretto, Tennessee, whose population is under 2,000. That next job might have to be in someplace like Nashville or Huntsville, Alabama, where there are more opportunities in his field.

“I think I’ll be able to earn as much as I was getting before, as long as I’m willing to move to a bigger area,” Beard said.

If faced with an emergency expense, Beard said he would likely charge it to a credit card. Yet he sees the economy as solid.

With their disproportionately higher wealth, older Americans and those earning more than $100,000 are generally more confident about managing emergency expenses and retirement savings.

i have to go now, but most of this boils down to personal responsibility-or lack of it.

 

[Denizen]

Trump's economy is a fake bubble waiting for the orange prick to burst it.

Trump's economy GDP is rising ~2% while budget deficit and debt increase is rising at~5% of GDP. The Trump economy is negative by about 3% of GDP.

Trump Casino Bankruptcy Economics 101, chapter 11.

... and an old lady is kicking Trump anus while Trump blubbers and whines.

Do you get your news from comic books or CNN? Oh well, same thing. ALL that means nothing-
Trump is still YOUR PRESIDENT!

Your adoration and loyalty to Donald Trump have won you a declassified photo of a dog.

 

[Third Party]

Trump's economy is a fake bubble waiting for the orange prick to burst it.

Trump's economy GDP is rising ~2% while budget deficit and debt increase is rising at~5% of GDP. The Trump economy is negative by about 3% of GDP.

Trump Casino Bankruptcy Economics 101, chapter 11.

... and an old lady is kicking Trump anus while Trump blubbers and whines.

Do you get your news from comic books or CNN? Oh well, same thing. ALL that means nothing-
Trump is still YOUR PRESIDENT!

Your adoration and loyalty to Donald Trump have won you a declassified photo of a dog.

Is that the hero dog from the raid? Who got a call from DT before Pelosi or Schiff?

 

[Denizen]

Trump's economy is a fake bubble waiting for the orange prick to burst it.

Trump's economy GDP is rising ~2% while budget deficit and debt increase is rising at~5% of GDP. The Trump economy is negative by about 3% of GDP.

Trump Casino Bankruptcy Economics 101, chapter 11.

... and an old lady is kicking Trump anus while Trump blubbers and whines.

Do you get your news from comic books or CNN? Oh well, same thing. ALL that means nothing-
Trump is still YOUR PRESIDENT!

Your adoration and loyalty to Donald Trump have won you a declassified photo of a dog.

Is that the hero dog from the raid? Who got a call from DT before Pelosi or Schiff?

The dog is the only one that understands Donald Trump's blithering and responds appropriately.

 

[Third Party]

Trump's economy is a fake bubble waiting for the orange prick to burst it.

Trump's economy GDP is rising ~2% while budget deficit and debt increase is rising at~5% of GDP. The Trump economy is negative by about 3% of GDP.

Trump Casino Bankruptcy Economics 101, chapter 11.

... and an old lady is kicking Trump anus while Trump blubbers and whines.

Do you get your news from comic books or CNN? Oh well, same thing. ALL that means nothing-
Trump is still YOUR PRESIDENT!

Your adoration and loyalty to Donald Trump have won you a declassified photo of a dog.

Is that the hero dog from the raid? Who got a call from DT before Pelosi or Schiff?

The dog is the only one that understands Donald Trump's blithering and responds appropriately.

Well, Trump has been accused of using a dog whistle.

 

[Denizen]

Trump's economy is a fake bubble waiting for the orange prick to burst it.

Trump's economy GDP is rising ~2% while budget deficit and debt increase is rising at~5% of GDP. The Trump economy is negative by about 3% of GDP.

Trump Casino Bankruptcy Economics 101, chapter 11.

... and an old lady is kicking Trump anus while Trump blubbers and whines.

Do you get your news from comic books or CNN? Oh well, same thing. ALL that means nothing-
Trump is still YOUR PRESIDENT!

Your adoration and loyalty to Donald Trump have won you a declassified photo of a dog.

Is that the hero dog from the raid? Who got a call from DT before Pelosi or Schiff?

The dog is the only one that understands Donald Trump's blithering and responds appropriately.

Well, Trump has been accused of using a dog whistle.

As a means of qualifying his administration hires?

 

[Third Party]

Do you get your news from comic books or CNN? Oh well, same thing. ALL that means nothing-
Trump is still YOUR PRESIDENT!

Your adoration and loyalty to Donald Trump have won you a declassified photo of a dog.

Is that the hero dog from the raid? Who got a call from DT before Pelosi or Schiff?

The dog is the only one that understands Donald Trump's blithering and responds appropriately.

Well, Trump has been accused of using a dog whistle.

As a means of qualifying his administration hires?

The Democrats sure won't confirm anyone without a three ring circus. Bring them in the back door, I say.