Showing Up To Riot

Now if only conservative(?) Canadian politicians could learn this lesson.

Why is there almost always the assumption that when Trump talks about grabbing things, it is an assault rather than something welcomed? In my younger days I grabbed a few without objection. When deciding who to support, is a BSer like Trump worse than a rape enabler like Clinton? I don't think so.

Trump has historically bad job approval, and the Dems are possibly on course to take back the house. The pollsters were right in 2016 they're probably right now, so this notion that 'the media' don't matter and can be spurned is just a delusion. Pure and simple. Trump is a temporary fluke whose main accomplishment will be to hand power back the Dems and progs and turn the next back of youth to the left. Bush redux IOW.

Oh and Trump's 'transformation' of rural America pales in comparison to the transformation wrought by economics. Rural America is simply more and more obsolete. That's why it's depopulating. Urban cosmopolitanism is the crucible and foundry of wealth creation and cultural trend-setting, and there's no reason to believe that will change.

This article really does confirm that the Trump Thang is a dysfunctional cult of whiny, thin-skinned and delusional baby-boomers who spent too much time in Backwater, Nowhere.

Andrew Scheer, please take note.

What is interesting is that the Republicans passed a new health care bill every week while Obama was president but can't come up with any at all when they know Trump will sign it. Why are Republicans afraid to be conservatives when that's what got them elected?

Republicans in Congress assembled are afraid to get things done.

They are afraid of possible blowback from repealing Obamacare, how it would be spun that Republicans want Grandma to die, or how poor little Billy will suffer if he can't be covered by his parents when he's 25 and living in their basement. They have the thinnest of skins, and worry what people who didn't support them will say, while the people who did support them are ignored and demoralized by their lack of backbone.

They need to repeal the ACA in its entirety. Then they need legislation that opens up the insurance market nationwide regardless of State borders. Finally, they need legislation to make possible large purchasing groups (Health Unions) to negotiate prices and manage care and supplies for people to join with existing, chronic conditions.

Insurance is for acute conditions and occurrences. If you have a chronic or recurring condition, you need something else. Insurance needs to cover emergencies. Health Unions need to cover chronic conditions. Health Savings Accounts need to cover elective treatment and normal, foreseeable events, like pregnancies, cosmetics surgery, and minor illness.

If the Dem's or the GOPe's believe that the Trump voter can be shoved back into the backwater towns from whence they came, they have another thing coming. As is typical with TRUE revolutions (not all the FAKE, fabricated ones invented by the Left) ... the other side never sees them coming. Trump's presidency is revolutionary. He is America's FIRST modern 3rd Party candidate to win the Presidency. His WINN is empowering disenfranchised voters throughout our nation. The more obstruction, foot-dragging, FAKE investigations, and chaff launched at OUR President ... the more isolated and irrelevant the establishment becomes. One only need consider the mainstream media ... they're DONE. FINISHED. The people will NEVER take their editorials, let alone "news" seriously ever again. They sh*t on the hand that feeds them for too long. So, they can take all their "falling approval ratings" and stack them up with "HER 99.7% chance of victory".

The establishment (both R and D) appear to believe they can run out the clock on Trump (and his voters), then return to "normal". Return to establishmentarianism business as usual. They are delusional. Trump's voters are clear eyed and clear minded. We know EXACTLY who is doing the foot-dragging and blocking of our President. If the weak-kneed GOPe's think they will thwart Trump and return to the globalist, corporatist, anti-American malaise ... they've got another thing coming. And the Dems have simply made themselves totally irrelevant outside the hardcore leftist enclaves.

Trump is just the START.

yup Trump will keep triumphing and UnMe will have to change his name again

@unme: I never get tired of pointing out that the most unpopular President in U.S. history was elected in 1860. So unpopular that fear of assassination required him to literally sneak into Washington. So unpopular that 11 states succeeded from the Union. Although pilloried, hectored, and mocked by a good part of the press for the next 3 years, he managed to stay firm. Yeah, A. Lincoln..... the renegade Republican.

@Grey: Have to admit I think you are mostly right. One thing I've noticed is that mainstream press coverage on the Health care issue is very vague. Now why is that?

Also, I'm not buying this Urban/Rural divide. It's another sales job (another "division") by the press. I don't live in a big city but just as certain not in the rural countryside......it's a county of 1.7 million people with heavily populated counties surrounding. I consider myself living in an Urban area. Lots of Trump supporters here. We need to stop letting the press define us.

no no Kate, the headline is 'showing up to ROT'.
hard core lefties don't consider the self, ie the 'I' in the equation. its all groupthink.
we need to make Orwell's '1984' mandatory reading starting in grade 3. unless THATS been fcuked up as well.

"You are so full of shit."

H/T scar!

The Country really needs a Grand Jury indictment to reset the angst, or you are right.. and the first 1000 body bags filled will help start the reset, don't want to be near CNN....

The little fool at Justice can't even get the KEY to his private bathroom. they make him use the public rooms... Why Trump selected a "weak" little fool (Forrest Gump) like Jeff Sessions is a mystery...

@scar - that is a fantastic point. After a good few weeks of flirting, one evening I sidled up to this amazing chick, liplocked her and ....
pretty much effectively grabbed her by the p****....you know, to move things along...

8 years and four kids later. Happily married.

Seriously, the only thing that will ever fix this leftist BS permanently is mass executions. There is simply no other way. Queen Elizabeth I knew a thing or two about dealing with sedition.

Oh look SDA commenters don't know the difference between a poll and models/guesses based on those polls. SHOCKING

Educate yourselves, if you can read: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gave-trump-a-better-chance-than-almost-anyone-else/

f y'all want to spend sometime reading the thought development of a Liberal/Progressive type New Yorker; not just the periodical's name; but the skilful word-smith supported by liberal/democrat party support; this is your opportunity.

I leave you to form your thought development except to say I do not recall reading anything about Trump/Russia.