2814

Very unlikely to afflict Trump.

Korsakoff is caused by a vitamin deficiency, and in the US it is usually seen in long term alcoholics. Trump is a teetotaler and has no other reason for vitamin deficiency.

2815

Elizabeth Warren 2020 hope.

Mitch McConnel may have just given the campaign slogan of a lifetime, in reference to the censoring of Warren’s recital of the Coretta Scott King letter.

McConnell later defended his decision. “Sen. Warren was giving
a lengthy speech. She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned.
She was given an explanation,” he said. “Nevertheless, she persisted.”

I am more and more hopeful of a 4 year term on this garbage, as it really does seem like the large middle-income middle American mass voted for the economy. I think the instability of the administration is not going to do anything to fix things, and things could possibly get quite worse. Whether or not people think he deserves 8 years to give it a shot will be what is up in 2020. Most of what I have been reading is “I don’t care about the anti-muslim stuff, give the businessman a shot to fix the economy” We will see…

2816

Other than a pretty horrendous diet. On the other hand, it’s pretty safe to say he doesn’t lack vitamin D.

2817

Yeah, I think you guys are off the mark. I agree that Trump makes things up. you can often tell when he’s doing this because he repeats the word multiple times and tries to steer the conversation back to what he is prepared to discuss. Perfect example:

FRIEDMAN: Are you worried, though, that those companies will keep their factories here, but the jobs will be replaced by robots?
TRUMP: They will, and we’ll make the robots, too. [laughter]

TRUMP: It’s a big thing, we’ll make the robots, too. Right now we don’t make the robots. We don’t make anything. But we’re going to. I mean, look, robotics is becoming very big and we’re going to do that. We’re going to have more factories. We can’t lose 70,000 factories. Just can’t do it. We’re going to start making things.

But the reason he does this has nothing to do with alcohol, IMO, but because he is absolutely unwilling to admit he isnt an expert on everything. See the recent Frederick Douglass business as another example.

2818

That sounds great…

2819

Except that he eats garbage food.

2820

Makes sense. GIGO.

2821

I guess they’re trying to kill US tourism altogether.

But I mean, who cares. It’s only a trillion and half dollar industry.

2822

Garbage or not, if you eat food then you’re not going to develop a B1 deficiency. It is ubiquitous. You really have to go out of your way to get Korsakoff. Alcoholics get it when all their calories literally come from a bottle. Hunger strikers get it. People who are fed intravenously might get it.

Trump doesn’t have it. And anyway confabulation is a terrible way to diagnose Korsakoff, because healthy people confabulate all the time.

2823

I should have indicated I wasn’t serious when I posted about Korsakoff (and better yet probably shouldn’t have posted anything.) Mea Culpa.

2824

Well when you start low you don’t have much lower to go. As I mentioned before, a number of his fans are still his fans… they like what he is doing and the rough guess of the size of that group was what, 30% of the population (higher if you narrow it to the voting pop).

2825

He’s the President. There’s no amount of unpopular that will make him not the President.

2826

There is a certain amount of unpopular that will make him an ineffective President.

2827

What, because the GOP will stop supporting all of his BS in Congress?

2828

Yeah, unless Congress starts to oppose him, I don’t see much attenuation of his power. People can march in the streets all they want; he doesn’t give a fuck.

2829

Hey, people keep saying “don’t underestimate Trump.” I say he can do it! He has 11 more days to smash low-energy Willliam Henry Harrison’s weak record.

2830

He already lost two Senators over DeVos.

It’s conceivable, though of course not assured, that he could lose another one if his popularity continues to plummet. It’s not like Senators have a longstanding friendship with Trump.

Politicians will do what is necessary to survive, and even the notorious GOP party loyalty is not indestructible.

2831

Those two senators could have stopped Devos in committee had they voted against her there. But no, they voted her out of the committee knowing she would probably get the nod in the full senate and they would be okay.

2832

Well, of course. The goal of all the marching is to make it a foregone conclusion that voters will revolt in 2018, so that the GOP goes into self-preservation mode.

2833

That’s not the point. They saw a greater political advantage in publicly opposing Trump than publicly supporting him. Even if that opposition is ineffective, it’s significant. If the number of people who make the same calculation achieves a critical mass, then their opposition will become effective.

Politicians need to fear association with Trump more than they fear the consequences of disloyalty. The latter is constant, the former depends on Trump’s unpopularity.