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QED

(2,747 posts)
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 10:59 AM Aug 2017

The Weekly Standard "gives up" on Two Scoops

It's a good summary of the first 6 months.

Playing Defense

"So far, the president is the picture of a failed leader. His administration is a disaster.

In just the past two weeks, Trump only reluctantly signed a Russia sanctions bill that passed overwhelmingly in both houses of Congress (98-2 in the Senate, 419-3 in the House). He tweeted a policy reversal on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military that neither the Joint Chiefs of Staff nor the secretary of defense knew was coming. He allowed his communications director falsely to accuse his chief of staff of committing a felony by supposedly leaking a document that was already officially public—and then, after the fallout consumed his administration, dismissed them both. He repeatedly attacked his attorney general for his necessary decision to recuse himself from the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He gave a highly inappropriate speech to 40,000 boys participating in the Boy Scouts’ 20th National Jamboree—a speech for which the organization felt compelled to apologize. He followed that up with a speech to law enforcement officials in which he suggested it was okay to rough up accused criminals. Police departments across the country and the acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration publicly rebuked the president.

These sorts of fiascos and misadventures began the moment this presidency began, with the new president’s bizarre insistence that his inaugural crowds were larger than Barack Obama’s. Despite majorities in both houses of Congress, his policy agenda is at a standstill. Hundreds of high-level positions throughout the administration remain unfilled. Members of Congress report to us that the president can’t hold a conversation at even a rudimentary level about issues supposedly high on the president’s agenda—tax reform, for instance, and health care. He lies about matters both large and small and is obsessed with perceived slights in the news media."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/playing-defense/article/2009135#!

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The Weekly Standard "gives up" on Two Scoops (Original Post) QED Aug 2017 OP
It was either MichMary Aug 2017 #1
Both publications were stridently opposed to Trump. EL34x4 Aug 2017 #16
When the republicans elected their Draft-Dodger-in-Chief Achilleaze Aug 2017 #2
True that winetourdriver01 Aug 2017 #3
The Repugs asked for it and they got it. Sneederbunk Aug 2017 #4
They sold their soul QED Aug 2017 #5
What soul? Stonepounder Aug 2017 #6
Yup. It's more the party of Jesse Helms/Strom Thurmond than ever before. oasis Aug 2017 #15
Was all predicted. Not in details, but definitely the broad strokes. Some only are realizing now Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2017 #7
Eat more ice cream, Donnie. Make it four scoops bucolic_frolic Aug 2017 #8
Excellent. The article puts in succinctly, straightforward, and accurate. nt Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #9
The Kristol/Brooks bunch have not been fans of Lazy Boy dalton99a Aug 2017 #10
I can't find it but they did a whole never trump issue during the primaries underpants Aug 2017 #12
It was the National Review dalton99a Aug 2017 #13
Okay. My mistake. underpants Aug 2017 #14
trumpf's been a very public and unashamed dumbass his entire life. why are these people surprised? KG Aug 2017 #11
they hated Hillary so much, they had fantasies about Trump Skittles Aug 2017 #22
The Fanboys didn't want a rational person. Neither did the Russians. Both wanted chaos. Eyeball_Kid Aug 2017 #26
The GOP wanted the Presidency, the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court. Marie Marie Aug 2017 #17
K & R! Mountain Mule Aug 2017 #18
Midterms, baby! Brother Buzz Aug 2017 #19
Imagining Trumps response to: "rudimentary" salin Aug 2017 #20
Very sad - and likely true. QED Aug 2017 #21
Two Scoops wants to forget about his human sex trafficking gambits. Eyeball_Kid Aug 2017 #27
Exactly like TheFerret Danascot Aug 2017 #23
Stephen Hayes? WoW, last I heard he was rationalizing WMD statements about Iraq MiddleClass Aug 2017 #24
"He's a loser" RandomAccess Aug 2017 #25

MichMary

(1,714 posts)
1. It was either
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 11:08 AM
Aug 2017

The Weekly Standard or National Review, or possibly both, that was NEVER on board with Hair Fuehrer, so this isn't a huge surprise.

 

EL34x4

(2,003 posts)
16. Both publications were stridently opposed to Trump.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 12:48 PM
Aug 2017
National Review had their famous "Against Trump" cover and The Weekly Standard is run by Bill Kristol, who endorsed Evan Mcmullen.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. When the republicans elected their Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 11:10 AM
Aug 2017

with the help of the russian mobs, one had the sense it would begin and end in utter ugly - with lots of KGOP pissing on the best of American democracy.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
6. What soul?
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 11:56 AM
Aug 2017

The GOP hasn't had a soul since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and the GOP decided to go all in as the party of hate.

oasis

(49,389 posts)
15. Yup. It's more the party of Jesse Helms/Strom Thurmond than ever before.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 12:40 PM
Aug 2017
We need no recruits from those ranks.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
7. Was all predicted. Not in details, but definitely the broad strokes. Some only are realizing now
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 12:00 PM
Aug 2017

They thought they could direct tRump and that he would happily use his negotiating "skills" to advance their agenda.

Trump (Republican) has really only advanced in any lasting meaningful way only one part of their agenda: Appointing conservative judges rapidly and abundantly.

bucolic_frolic

(43,176 posts)
8. Eat more ice cream, Donnie. Make it four scoops
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 12:05 PM
Aug 2017

can't get fat when you work so hard. more butterfat is good for your arteries

underpants

(182,826 posts)
12. I can't find it but they did a whole never trump issue during the primaries
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 12:36 PM
Aug 2017

I think it was the Weekly Standard.

KG

(28,751 posts)
11. trumpf's been a very public and unashamed dumbass his entire life. why are these people surprised?
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 12:34 PM
Aug 2017

why did they expect him to suddenly become a rational human being?

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
22. they hated Hillary so much, they had fantasies about Trump
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 03:14 PM
Aug 2017

assholes, all of them

I do not trust ANYONE who ever fooled by Donald Fucking Trump

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
26. The Fanboys didn't want a rational person. Neither did the Russians. Both wanted chaos.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 09:27 PM
Aug 2017

The Russians love the chaos, and the fact that they've got Trumpy by the balls, because they can expand territory and resources with little cost to themselves. The Fanboys wanted chaos because they're just stupid fucks who think that chaos is freedom and taxes are slavery. Brilliant.

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)
17. The GOP wanted the Presidency, the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 01:23 PM
Aug 2017

Be careful of what you wish for, you might just get it. Well, they got it all and can't do a damn thing with it.

Brother Buzz

(36,442 posts)
19. Midterms, baby!
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 01:44 PM
Aug 2017

A shitload of Congress Critters are experiencing tight sphincter muscles thinking about the albatross they are saddled with.

salin

(48,955 posts)
20. Imagining Trumps response to: "rudimentary"
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 02:14 PM
Aug 2017

from the sentence: Members of Congress report to us that the president can’t hold a conversation at even a rudimentary level about issues supposedly high on the president’s agenda—tax reform, for instance, and health care.

Trump: I am not Rude. I am the least Rude person in the world. I have the world's best mood. Lyin' fake weeklystandard. Sad.

(of course he won't understand they are calling him an uneducable moron.)

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
27. Two Scoops wants to forget about his human sex trafficking gambits.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 09:34 PM
Aug 2017

Katie Johnson won't forget. Nor will those who knew "Maria". And Eric Schneiderman will bring it all home with one of his GJs that's targeting Trumpy's Model Management and Escort companies.

And let's not forget this one happy fact: Trumpy's business has just been granted a trademark for a Trumpy ESCORT service in... wait for it... CHINA! Now that's what the Fanboys call "Presidential"!

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
25. "He's a loser"
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 08:49 PM
Aug 2017

Unfortunately, not enough of Trump's base reads the Weekly Standard, probably. And I'm not sure if they'd be swayed by these arguments anyway.

But someone - forget who - floated the idea a while back that if we could get that Loser narrative going, that's something that would erode his support. Bigly.

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