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applegrove

(118,677 posts) Fri Dec 28, 2018, 02:39 PM Dec 2018

Trump's Reckoning Is Underway

Trump’s Reckoning Is Underway

December 27, 2018 at 11:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard81 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2018/12/27/trumps-reckoning-is-underway/

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Eugene Robinson: “Anyone who thinks Trump is a master politician is wrong. He’s a master illusionist, which isn’t the same thing. Politicians can’t keep pulling rabbits out of empty hats forever. At some point, they face a reckoning, and Trump’s is well underway.”

“Trump is talented at making it appear that he has more than he really does — more money, more respect, more support. All those campaign rallies before the midterm elections were not just an attempt to save the Republican majorities in Congress or feed Trump’s insatiable ego. They were also demonstrations of the fervor of his core supporters — and implied warnings to Republicans who might cross him.”

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Trump's Reckoning Is Underway (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2018 OP

Reminds me of this... Pendrench Dec 2018 #1

Master illusionist? I must disagree. Downtown Hound Dec 2018 #2

What you might call a Rimless Zero. Doitnow Dec 2018 #4

He steamrolled every other GOP hopeful and got nearly 63 MILLION votes - NoMoreRepugs Dec 2018 #5

Observe the line about how there are a lot of feeble minded and emotionally weak Downtown Hound Dec 2018 #7

got nearly 63 MILLION votes... Chakaconcarne Dec 2018 #10

you give this idiot way too much credit onetexan Dec 2018 #11

In three key states. ginnyinWI Dec 2018 #13

And don't forget the massive voter purging that happened Downtown Hound Dec 2018 #14

he played to tv execs and deplorables Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #16

I wish it were true Nasruddin Dec 2018 #6

all those fool Republicans who sold us out because they were afraid of a blowhard flibbitygiblets Dec 2018 #3

Those rallies before the Cha Dec 2018 #8

What's the difference between revenge and "a reckoning?" Cyrano Dec 2018 #9

The only one most fooled by his "master illusions" is the fool perpetrating them. Texin Dec 2018 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author elocs Dec 2018 #15

Pendrench

(1,358 posts)

1. Reminds me of this...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 02:44 PM

Dec 2018

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)

2. Master illusionist? I must disagree.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:17 PM

Dec 2018

A master illusionist is someone who can fool even the most educated and hardened of skeptics. Trump is your garden variety conniving salesman that preys on the the feeble minded and the emotionally weak, but strikes out everywhere else. There happen to be a lot of those types of people in America which is why he is as popular as he is (which is to say, not that popular overall), but he is a master of nothing. He's an empty suit, an empty head, an empty soul, and and empty pocket propped up by Russian and mob money.

He is a master of nothing.

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)

4. What you might call a Rimless Zero.

Reply to Downtown Hound (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:23 PM

Dec 2018

NoMoreRepugs

(9,431 posts)

5. He steamrolled every other GOP hopeful and got nearly 63 MILLION votes -

Reply to Downtown Hound (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:23 PM

Dec 2018

thats some pretty serious smoke n mirrors to me - cuz I agree with your "He's an empty suit, an empty head, an empty soul.. " comment.

Just sayin'

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)

7. Observe the line about how there are a lot of feeble minded and emotionally weak

Reply to NoMoreRepugs (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:28 PM

Dec 2018

people in this country.

Chakaconcarne

(2,453 posts)

10. got nearly 63 MILLION votes...

Reply to NoMoreRepugs (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:36 PM

Dec 2018

Yeah, that's debatable.

onetexan

(13,041 posts)

11. you give this idiot way too much credit

Reply to NoMoreRepugs (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:37 PM

Dec 2018

he did it with the help of a foreign adversary. They swayed the election. That is not a fair, democratic election.

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)

13. In three key states.

Reply to onetexan (Reply #11)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:40 PM

Dec 2018

Take Jill Stein votes and give them to Hillary in WI, MI, and PA and she wins the Presidency.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)

14. And don't forget the massive voter purging that happened

Reply to ginnyinWI (Reply #13)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:51 PM

Dec 2018

Via crosscheck. If that hadn't happened, Hillary would be president.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,348 posts)

16. he played to tv execs and deplorables

Reply to NoMoreRepugs (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 07:56 PM

Dec 2018

A couple billion bucks worth of free air time that other candidates didn't get can reach a lot of deplorables.

Nasruddin

(754 posts)

6. I wish it were true

Reply to Downtown Hound (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:25 PM

Dec 2018

... then what's coming would be easier.

But I think he's quite good at what he does, & many of his people (deplorable or otherwise) are pretty hard headed but still fooled.

Take Scott Adams for example. Could you be more cynical? He even understands the trickery and hypnotism that Mr Trump does. And yet ....

It's easier once the spell is broken. But even that's no guarantee, as Adams shows.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)

3. all those fool Republicans who sold us out because they were afraid of a blowhard

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:17 PM

Dec 2018

They'd rather retire to spend time with their family or whatever nonsense than step out of line and risk being primaried.

The rest only say how they really feel "privately", as cowards do.

Cha

(297,275 posts)

8. Those rallies before the

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:33 PM

Dec 2018

midterms BackFired and were instrumental in securing a Democratic Majority in the House.

Cyrano

(15,041 posts)

9. What's the difference between revenge and "a reckoning?"

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:34 PM

Dec 2018

Every definition I can come up with defines "a reckoning," no matter how it's phrased, as revenge.

I instinctively understand there's a difference. But I can't find the words to define that difference.

Texin

(2,596 posts)

12. The only one most fooled by his "master illusions" is the fool perpetrating them.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2018, 05:39 PM

Dec 2018

Like all narcissists, he is supremely self-delusional. I don't know about a reckoning, but karma's a bitch, and he's due for 72 years worth now. With any luck he'll have a similar fate to the guy that murdered that lion and then managed to fall off a cliff to his death two years later.

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