I bet he wears lifts.

So what if they really believe or not? When has that ever stopped anyone from using religion as a path to power?

Please, in the 40s we taxed corporations, put returning GIs to work on massive infrastructure projects, and developed the social safety net. Trump wants to take us back to the 20s and the age of the Robber Barons. Where we’re all working for pennies a week in the sweatshops.

It’s almost as if he’s sitting there screaming, “WHY WON’T YOU LOVE ME???”

Somewhere closer to the Midterms, I bet. So they can look like the heroes, saving the country from Big Bad Trump. Keep their seats. Then, clear a path for our new theocracy.

The bootstraps crowd are usually the first to start whining when the odds don’t favor them too. Just look at the number of people crawling out of the woodwork to go, “no, no, that’s not fair!” about public dissension since this election cycle. They want to be able to break the rules with impunity and shame anyone else…

Too bad for him, they’re subject to the Freedom of Information Act now. The ACLU already filed.

160,000 (to 250,000) is incredibly low for a first time president. Obama is the outlier with his million attendees, but they usually run between 800,000 to 300,000 with a drop into the 250,000 range. 160,000 would be something like a record low for recorded attendance.

He wants to be Obama. That’s all I can come up with.

If anyone does that where I can hear them I’m just remind them that W’s second inaugeration had more people and he had a higher approval rating.

Ah, yes, the old “the child is a punishment” chestnut and “men need to make women pregnant” to learn “responsibility”. Thus reframing a woman’s pregnancy to be entirely about the guy who got her pregnant and its effect on him. What feminism! /s

It’s mine too. Also on my list is a person who has books, claims to have read books (impressive books, Ghandi! MLK! Fight Club!) but cannot for the life of them have a conversation about what they read. I cannot be interested in, or friends with, this person.

Is his answer somehow supposed to compare him to Obama, who actually does read books? Or am I reading too much into this and he’s once again just trying to pretend he’s smart?

They’ve been pretty hardcore Right Wing for a while now. The trouble got obvious with Citizen/Soldier. I shamefully still enjoy their music, though.

Welcome back to the fifties, when being gay and a pedophile were one and the same.

The Republicans always do this though, the second they get into office. They start making a big to do about the office of the president and about how you have to respect it. Something “Office not the Man” but never hold to it when the shoe’s on the other foot.

So, what they’re going with now is “our cyber security is the best cyber security. Believe us.”

They’re only for that when they’re in charge of the states and the Dems have the federal government. It will now flip, with blue states like California gearing up to fight for their rights as Congressional Republicans try to rollback progress.

Incumbency. It is almost impossible (though not totally) for a challenger to defeat a sitting rival due to their incumbent status and name recognition. Statistically, voters more likely to vote for a name they recognize. It’s part of the basis of Reagan, Schwarzenegger, and Trump’s success, actually.

My boyfriend floated the nickname “DirtyDonnie” recently. Maybe it can become a hashtag. Clever, catchy, dismissing, and sums up what he is with zero respect. Nothing like a little infantilization to get under his skin.