Lord Liaden Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 If anyone can make a press conference like that happen, Sean Spicer is that guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Never seen a press conference like that.... ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 How to Defend Against the Donald Trump Handshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Except for the gooseneck that wasn't so different from Trudeau's solution. Go all in, preventing the illusion of domination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Personally, I've found with guys who shake your hand aggressively, if you use your middle finger to tickle the palm of his hand, it makes him jump like a snake bit him. And when Trump pulls someone toward him while shaking hands, I'd pay money to see some guy move all the way forward and plant a big kiss on his lips, just to see Trump's reaction. Extra money if he dips the Prez during the kiss. "I'm sorry, Mr. President, I thought that's what you were going for." Netzilla, Old Man, Ternaugh and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Trump's approval rating now at 39 percent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylwin13 Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 It's still that high? DasBroot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Alex Acosta is up for the Sect of Labor. Conservative lawyer who clerked under Alito. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 They repealed the rule against mentally handicapped people owning a gun. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 They repealed the rule against mentally handicapped people owning a gun. CES Good. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes. From the linked article: Under the rule, which the Obama administration made permanent on its way out the door, Social Security beneficiaries with psychiatric disabilities who are assigned a money manager for their disability benefits would be reported to the FBI’s background check database as people ineligible to purchase firearms. The article elaborates, and I agree it's a bad rule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 It's still that high? Poll was conducted last week, prior to Flynn's ouster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Yes....but wow...that was unlike any press conference I've ever seen.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 I'm surprised that the reporters didn't all just smile, nod, and back away slowly out of the room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 I'm surprised that the reporters didn't all just smile, nod, and back away slowly out of the room. While fumbling for their car keys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 I'm loving this presidency, especially with PT Barnum closing shop later this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 It's still that high? Unfortunately, it is probably really higher. After the election, I'm taking all polls with a grain of salt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 Yes....but wow...that was unlike any press conference I've ever seen.... It's called refuge in audacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 An amusing twitter takes Trump quotes and puts them in Red Skull speech balloons. https://twitter.com/PresVillain Vurbal, aylwin13, Grailknight and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armitage Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 It's still that high? Apparently, it's very high among Republicans and very low among...everyone else, which skews the numbers upward a bit. Expect it to drop when those YUGE numbers of factory jobs in the Rust Belt and mining jobs in coal country don't magically appear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaspar Hauser Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 I doubt it. Trump will blame any economic decline on scapegoats while making dramatic but substantively trivial gestures like the one he pulled with Carrier to reassure his base that he's fighting for the little guy. His base, living in their ever-expanding Alt Right media bubble, will swallow that swill and cheer for more at the Nurembergian Rallies he's planning on holding throughout his presidency. If facts mattered to his base they wouldn't have voted for him in the first place. And remember that the demographic that tipped the scales for him are people who once had dignity but who have now lived for over a generation in economic misery. The life expectancy of working class white men has actually fallen due to diseases of despair like suicide and addiction. These are people who are seething with psychological trauma, who have been denied decent educations, who have for years been shamed by prominent liberal pundits for their supposed ignorance and stupidity, and who are overflowing with an agony-powered hatred. That hatred simply can't be quelled by critical thinking any more than yoga can alleviate the pain of a broken leg. What the Alt Right and Trump offer is a political narrative that gives that pain an easily understandable and rapturously cathartic ideological form. Thus far, liberals have been unable to even speak to that pain in a language Trump's base can resonate with. Liberals speak to the deliberative left side of people's brains, while Trump speaks to the intuitive right. Liberals speak in philosophy, while Trump speaks in mythology. If you want to speak to people's pain, you have to speak to the right hemisphere in the mythological language it can hear, and that language isn't a language of facts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 https://youtu.be/xnhJWusyj4I On Facts vs feelings. This is a major problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaspar Hauser Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 I deleted this post....it turns out that in my sleep deprived state I posted the same info twice. Whoops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 George Lakoff provides some useful ideas for addressing that problem: http://www.salon.com/2017/01/15/dont-think-of-a-rampaging-elephant-linguist-george-lakoff-explains-how-the-democrats-helped-elect-trump/ ... Robert Altemeyer... Didn't you post this exact same thing a couple of pages up-thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 Another thing to consider is Trump's approval low or not, it might be higher than the approval ratings of everything that is opposing him at the moment. The media war with him (or his war with the media, it's become a chicken and egg thing) hasnt helped people's opinions of the media. Some of the protestors actions over the last few months have made a large section of people think of them as a 3 year old having a temper tantrum on a good day, a disturbingly violent presence on a bad one (regardless of how few those undesireable elements might be) it doesnt look good to go around destroying s*** for not getting your way. Celebrities should just shut the f*** up, because everything they say on the matter is downright silly (but what else is new). Anyway, point is, even if your approval rating is 2%, if all your enemies' are 1%, it might not matter a lot. I guess I am a bit frustrated, I've continued to hope the left could rally themselves and become a voice of reason. And I have been driven to utter disappointment. Everyday get turned into a "who can be the craziest" contest. And Trump doesn't win as consistently as you would expect. On a side note, realizing the millennials will be the leaders in my golden years, hasn't filled me with hope in my future retirement. Edit: The one thing I will give Trump credit for. He has always seemed to be good at preying on his enemies weaknesses. And apparently, the media falls for it like a cat on a laser pointer. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaspar Hauser Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 Didn't you post this exact same thing a couple of pages up-thread? Oh, hell...did I? I apologize. I blame it on sleep deprivation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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