Sadly, Trump Is Winning

[jimnyc]

Sadly, Trump Is Winning

Despite low approval ratings, Trump has delivered on specific promises to wealthy donors and the far right.

This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to write and admit: Trump is winning. In the brief space of a week, he won a court fight to shove Mick Mulvaney to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Mulvaney wasted no time in unhinging a spate of consumer protection rulings, regulations, and personnel hires made during the Obama years.

His SCOTUS pick, Neil Gorsuch, eagerly cast a vote to impose the Muslim travel ban. His EPA head, Scott Pruitt, delivered a couple million acres of public monument land in the West to oil, gas, and coal industry developers. Trump busily continues to pack the federal judiciary with a parade of ultra-conservative, strict, constructionist Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia clones.

He switched gears and backed alleged pedophile Alabama judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race, who almost certainly will win. The Republican National Committee, which had practically declared Moore a pariah, quickly jumped in and said it would back him. He got another sweet perk when Senate Democrats turned with a vengeance on Minnesota Senator Al Franken and virtually ordered him out of office. His subsequent resignation got rid of a pesky thorn for Trump. Franken had a big voice, lots of name recognition and popularity, and was not afraid to take shots at Trump.

He pooh-poohed the guilty plea of his former National Security Advisor Mike T. Flynn as no big deal while shouting “no collusion, no collusion” and got away with it.

He got his tax heist for the rich and corporations through the Senate, and as an extra bonus, brought his long-held dream of dumping the Affordable Care Act closer to reality when the Senate tacked on a provision to the bill wiping out the individual mandate. When the markets took another tick up he crowed even louder that he was the man who brought the good times rolling to America. As always, he did all this with the sheepish connivance of much of the mainstream media, which is always off to the races in giving round-the-clock coverage to his self-serving, vapid tweets as if they were the word from the Mount.

Trump’s biggest win, though, has come on three fronts. One is the GOP. It can rail and curse at him publicly and privately, but it needs Trump. He is more than the titular head of the GOP. He is the point man for GOP policy and issues and, in a perverse way, the spur to get action on them.

Rest - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b022ec613b823f

[Gunny]

Sadly, Trump Is Winning

Despite low approval ratings, Trump has delivered on specific promises to wealthy donors and the far right.

This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to write and admit: Trump is winning. In the brief space of a week, he won a court fight to shove Mick Mulvaney to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Mulvaney wasted no time in unhinging a spate of consumer protection rulings, regulations, and personnel hires made during the Obama years.

His SCOTUS pick, Neil Gorsuch, eagerly cast a vote to impose the Muslim travel ban. His EPA head, Scott Pruitt, delivered a couple million acres of public monument land in the West to oil, gas, and coal industry developers. Trump busily continues to pack the federal judiciary with a parade of ultra-conservative, strict, constructionist Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia clones.

He switched gears and backed alleged pedophile Alabama judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race, who almost certainly will win. The Republican National Committee, which had practically declared Moore a pariah, quickly jumped in and said it would back him. He got another sweet perk when Senate Democrats turned with a vengeance on Minnesota Senator Al Franken and virtually ordered him out of office. His subsequent resignation got rid of a pesky thorn for Trump. Franken had a big voice, lots of name recognition and popularity, and was not afraid to take shots at Trump.

He pooh-poohed the guilty plea of his former National Security Advisor Mike T. Flynn as no big deal while shouting “no collusion, no collusion” and got away with it.

He got his tax heist for the rich and corporations through the Senate, and as an extra bonus, brought his long-held dream of dumping the Affordable Care Act closer to reality when the Senate tacked on a provision to the bill wiping out the individual mandate. When the markets took another tick up he crowed even louder that he was the man who brought the good times rolling to America. As always, he did all this with the sheepish connivance of much of the mainstream media, which is always off to the races in giving round-the-clock coverage to his self-serving, vapid tweets as if they were the word from the Mount.

Trump’s biggest win, though, has come on three fronts. One is the GOP. It can rail and curse at him publicly and privately, but it needs Trump. He is more than the titular head of the GOP. He is the point man for GOP policy and issues and, in a perverse way, the spur to get action on them.

Rest - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b022ec613b823f

I don't consider delivering a couple million acres of land to the oil, gas and coal developers as ANY kind of a win. It's a loss. So rich men can get richer by raping the land and erecting a bunch of ugly boxes on it? No thanks.

[jimnyc]

I don't consider delivering a couple million acres of land to the oil, gas and coal developers as ANY kind of a win. It's a loss. So rich men can get richer by raping the land and erecting a bunch of ugly boxes on it? No thanks.

He's had so many wins though, even if this one isn't the so called scorching earth type of win.

Take away Obama's lame attempt at taking credit for the economy, which is full of shit - Trump has really been one long winning streak on almost every facet that one measures a presidents success - minus the niceties of Twitter aside.

[Gunny]

He's had so many wins though, even if this one isn't the so called scorching earth type of win.

Take away Obama's lame attempt at taking credit for the economy, which is full of shit - Trump has really been one long winning streak on almost every facet that one measures a presidents success - minus the niceties of Twitter aside.

I've taken nothing away from Trump. I've been more than fair considering I don't like bullies and/or him personally.

Man destroys everything he touches. The land was set aside by Teddy Roosevelt for good reason; which, is as valid today as it was in 1903. Unscrupulous developers will suck what they want out of it and leave nothing but waste. Or they'll find a place with water and build a bunch of ugly boxes for ugly people to live in. People in this country are like locusts. They're no different now than during the Gold Rushes in the 1800s. There are thousands of ghost towns in the west just rotting away. People came and took what they wanted and left.

My own city is a perfect example. It used to be a nice little city until some yankee developers decided to move in on it and bring a bunch of yankees with them. Now I don't recognize the place. What was once beautiful ranch and farmland is now shaved hills dotted with ugly houses and golf courses.

I'm sure it's what God intended.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Despite low approval ratings,

I don't believe that for one second either. These polls are a farce. The man can still pack them in to the rafters with standing room only at a his rallies.

I think if the election were today, he'd still beat Hitlery like a red headed step child.

[Black Diamond]

I don't believe that for one second either. These polls are a farce. The man can still pack them in to the rafters with standing room only at a his rallies.

I think if the election were today, he'd still beat Hitlery like a red headed step child.

Most pollsters or polling companies had his approval rating around 36% on Election Day.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Most pollsters or polling companies had his approval rating around 36% on Election Day.

Says it all right there...