That might work on people capable of feeling shame or fearful of accountability. Unfortunately, that’s not how Trump propagandists roll.

Russia isn’t suffering like, say, North Korea, but its economy is pathetically small considering it is the No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world and has an abundance of other natural resources.

I agree that he’s just acting like himself and doesn’t really need outside motivation to be a corrupt asshole. But I think he’s definitely being blackmailed too.

We all know why Trump and Kids suddenly came into cash. Now it’s just a matter of proving it beyond their f’ing plausible deniability, which I believe Mueller and definitely the SDNY are working on.

Rudy is very much the kind of person that sees tragedy as opportunity. Like so many characters around Trump, I don’t think empathy is a part of his personality.

They’re like Matalin and Carville. Many people in DC see politics purely as a game. Approached like that, it’s little different than picking the shoe instead of the battleship in a game of Monopoly.

Also, Trump didn’t invest anywhere near $100 million of his own money. Maybe 10% of that, and even then, as you said, they were short-term loans with interest — and a huge chunk of that money was spent at his own businesses. It was layer upon layer of corruption, and remains so to this day, except now he’s using our…

Just to supplement this comment, I was listening to some podcast recently — I think maybe it was Josh Marshall’s? — and whatever expert they had on basically said the Trump Organization got away with its graft and theft for so long basically because it was usually small-time stuff (at least relative to white-collar…

“I don’t want to demean anyone, but $130,000 seems like a lot of money,” Giuliani said. “It’s not when you’re putting $100 million into your campaign.”

I agree with your proposed spin, but Republicans will definitely call it raising taxes, and that messaging will once again be effective.

It can be changed, but it’ll take another momentous political battle to do so. The Republicans control majorities in both chambers and the presidency and they still barely got this thing passed into law. Also, it’s a much tougher sell to raise taxes than to cut them, so it’s not a given at all that this law will be…

Is this a joke or is this really a thing those morons do?

Grew up in the Midwest, also never hunted, for mostly the same reasons. The other being that my otherwise conservative father hated all guns with a fiery passion after his time spent with the US Army in Vietnam, where he received firsthand knowledge, over and over, of what guns did to human beings.

I lost my shit when I found that out several months ago. The idea that I’m actually older than that smoky-eyed lumpy killjoy blew my mind.

They also represent majorities in virtually everything except political opinion. They tend to be overwhelmingly Christian, which is still the overwhelming religious preference in the US. They tend to be white, which, for now, is still a healthy majority. They tend to be straight, which, barring some kind of sci-fi…

Will anyone on TV ever bother to mention that Trump supporters/Republicans act like absolute assholes to liberals, women, homosexuals, non-whites, non-Christians and anybody else that doesn’t agree with them about everything? I get so fucking tired of hearing about how conservatives are fed up with being picked on by…

So Benny Johnson got to attend the WHCD?

Who is this “they” you keep referring to? Michelle Wolf is not a journalist. She’s a comedian that did the job she was paid to do, and did it well.

“But there’s an under-examined aspect of its deep shittiness: its terrible corporate secrecy laws, which allow all manor of rich bastard to hide their nefarious schemes.”

Maybe it’s because the dinner isn’t about Trump and is specifically intended to bring our leaders down a notch.