The "Trump will learn from this" aspect is a complete and utter, evidence free, crock of a take, and I would say there is an extremely high chance that Trump will utterly ruin their fantasy in his State of the Union address.
After all, Trump views everything in the most narcissistic way possible, and he knows his "base", with their self induced blindness and cult membership, thinks he did absolutely nothing wrong and that Joe Biden is the one who is shown to be corrupt. They (encouraged now by most of the Republican Senate) are simply impervious to the objective reporting that there is no evidence that Biden was pushing to have Shokin sacked in order to help his son.
Here's Axios reporting:
Trump's sense of invincibility
President Trump often says he's the smartest person in the room on virtually every topic. Now, after taking several risks on what he privately calls "big shit" and avoiding catastrophe, Trump and his entire inner circle convey supreme self-confidence, bordering on a sense of invincibility.The state of play: Three years into Trump's presidency, their view is the naysayers are always wrong. They point to Iran, impeachment, Middle East peace. Every day, Trump grows more confident in his gut and less deterrable. Over the last month, 10 senior administration officials have described this sentiment to me. Most of them share it....Between the lines: Over the past month, Trumpworld's sense of being unbeatable has only grown. This is partly because the president sometimes defines victory in narrow terms, like pleasing the base and juicing the markets.
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The Democrats should have taken more time.
Bolton would have had to testify once his book's revelations were public and then the pressure on the Whitehouse to allow people to testify like Nixon and Clinton both did would have been enormous.
He's going to be unbeatable if you dumb leftists don't get your act together and start hammering him on real stuff. Not on bullshit stuff. If you stick with global warming and pleasant phone calls to foreign leaders you will fail.
He just killed a delegate on the way to peace talks. Thats outrageous. He's given over his foreign policy to an overseas terrorist entity and the dumb left has nothing to say about this. He cut food stamps because of bullshit employment figures. He's done nothing to deal with the debt crisis. He's bleeding red ink everywhere.
He'd be easy to beat if the dumb left weren't so dishonest and mentally challenged.
He cut food stamps because of bullshit employment figures. He's done nothing to deal with the debt crisis. He's bleeding red ink everywhere.
He'd be easy to beat if the dumb left weren't so dishonest and mentally challenged.
The Dems are a lost cause.
The Dems could be attacking Trump on the wage growth figures because it appears much of that is due to States raising the minimum wage and military wage increases. So the stat looks good but has nothing to do with Trump's policies. Trump and Co will use the massive deficit arising because of the tax cuts as an ongoing excuse to keep cutting back on welfare. The individual tax cuts are something of a con because the changes also involved not being able to deduct State taxes so for many the net effect is an increase in taxes.
The Dems supporting Biden is beyond my comprehension. He is an old fool who should be pushed out. Simply as a conflict of interest issue Biden Snr should never have been involved in Ukraine issues because of his son's interests there. Sanders is more popular but just as they hobbled him in 2016 so their establishment candidate HRC got the nomination the same will happen again. The establishment though only has Biden and Sanders, the rest of the field seem to be challenging the old guard.
Even the comedians Meyers and Colbert are continually complaining about Trump the man and failing to recognise that so many policies being enacted under his reign will hurt huge numbers of Americans. Not that they care because both of them are filthy rich and don't give a damn about the cuts to welfare or general cost of living issues.
You're right though Graeme, the Dems have exhausted themselves on an impeachment process that the general public was not particularly interested in and with considerable justification see it as a sour grapes exercise over the 2016 incident.
I'm beginning to worry that democracy broadly is in trouble. The McKenzie affair here in Aus was blatant pork barreling but it was only public perception that made Scotty from Marketing crumble on the issue. Johnson looks like passing a very weak Brexit so after all the ranting it may amount to little more than a token gesture. Stephen Fry has released a video arguing that behind the scenes corporates are fighting for Brexit so Britain can further erode worker protections. Hell they probably will even try to bring back the Poor Laws. Work for the Dole is a step toward that in Aus and the federal government is committed to a nation wide roll out of the cashless welfare card. So in the USA, Britain, and Aus we are witnessing the creation of an underclass that will be brutalised by the elites and the Labour here, in Britain, and the Dems in the USA, have nothing to say about that.
See they don't want to listen to Andrew and Tulsi. And they don't care to nail Trump on real stuff because they are up to their eyeballs in related wrong-doing.
Trump didn't just kill a delegate to the peace talk. The stupid mislead nincompoop killed the entire delegation. He didn't have the excuses that the King of Sparta had in the movie "The 300". This is a complete catastrophe. There has to be so much bad karma coming from that over the decades. But the deep state under the prior administration has very much poison-pilled everything. To create a proxy group of terrorist attack dogs, and to use these very attack dogs as an excuse to enter Syria and to wage war on Syria .... So much evil has to flow from this.
But take the situation circa 2000. The Americans were in a fantastic position. All they had to do is move resources to South East Asia, get their own internal act together, and wait for Chinese demographic collapse. Such a simple geo-political task and someone didn't want them to pull it off. Now they are on the edge of ruin for themselves and everyone else.
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