Comments on: Reading Into Trump and the Republican Regime

By: Lionel A

Lionel A — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:23:07 +0000

In reply to Lionel A. Furthermore I think Trump is, and always was, a place holder.

By: BBD

BBD — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:11:04 +0000

In reply to Lionel A. MikeN Pence is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries. Why are you trying to divert attention from this well-documented fact? It makes you look like the very worst sort of shill.

By: Lionel A

Lionel A — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:59:37 +0000

Trump’s stated plan during the campaign

But Trumps a puppet and also gets ideas put to him which he then repeats, sometimes in mangled form.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:55:12 +0000

In reply to Lionel A. The Pence immigration alternative isn't that far away from being Trump's stated plan during the campaign. Illegals leave and then they are allowed to come back.

By: BBD

BBD — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:37:20 +0000

In reply to Lionel A. I didn't realise that Pence was the Kochs' man until I read Dark Money. Not something that Trump should be too sanguine about, IMO.

By: Lionel A

Lionel A — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:05:39 +0000

Indeed, Mike Pence is a big danger to millions of Americans, many of them oblivious to this. I have just seen an article which has it that Pence would not assist in invoking the 25th Amendment, I am not so sure. For on Jane Meyer and the excellent New Yorker article this has been reprised elsewhere with 5 Facts About Mike Pence's Close Ties to the Koch Brothers Not Included in Jane Mayer’s New Yorker Article. Pence could have much to gain by helping invoke the amendment and more to lose by not doing so.

By: Gregory Laden

Gregory Laden — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:46:15 +0000

In reply to Christopher Winter. Yes, it was seeing JM's piece in the New Yorker that ultimately led to this post, through various turns if thought.

By: dean

dean — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 21:08:09 +0000

There’s no doubt that VP Pence and President Trump are not to be trusted, and that both hold horrible views: Pence’s center on begin anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-poor, and the Republican standard, anti-minority, but he should be seen as far scarier than the president, because he is able to cast his repressive views as religious belief, and when hatred, misogyny, and racism, are couched in religion they’re viewed as perfectly acceptable. The president’s dishonesty, racism, etc., seem to be slightly more troubling to some on the right simply because of the way he displays them: he comes off as simply a worthless prick, and only people with similar attitudes support that.

That said — I have no time for “clinicians” who put forth diagnoses of all sorts of issues the president exhibits without ever having had any examination time with him.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:59:30 +0000

In reply to Christopher Winter. Translation: Russia angle isn't panning out like we hoped, so we need to soften the blow for our audience that we riled up. Also, it might even come back to bite us now that Fusion GPS is pleading the 5th, so we need to get rid of the story.

By: Christopher Winter

Christopher Winter — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:16:54 +0000

There’s also a very good article about Mike Pence coming out in The New Yorker on 23 October (and available online right now.)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/the-danger-of-president-pence