Pretty sure this isn’t going to happen, there either going to get a permanent funding by the government, or a two year extension advocated by Mitch McConnell (who also has coal miners in his state.).
ShivaX
6599
I’d think that, but Mitch has been extremely “fuck coal miners” in his actions, if not his words.
That “vote to re-elect” poll nicely shows how phrasing can affect the outcome of a poll question. Ask people, “Do you regret your vote for Trump?” and 98% of his voters say, “No.” Ask, “Would you vote for him again?” and the 46% who voted for him in November abruptly shrinks to 36%.
People hate having to admit a mistake more than anything else. That doesn’t mean they don’t know they made one.
Ouch.
Virginia Heffernan: This Is What Makes My Head Spin
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I’m not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn’t care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There’s nothing he would die for — not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He’s not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, “the common man,” veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn’t care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he’s not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn’t — in a more secular key — even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel’s hand. Doesn’t even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn’t live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he’s very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
There are plenty of people like him, but none that have ever gotten near to living in the White House.
Obviously he’s planning on selling off 11 states to the Russians.
I wonder if he is going to sell of the 11 of the original 13, because selling of the last 11 will cost him a lot of electoral votes, or maybe it just the 11 biggest blues states? All in all, I’d rather Hawaii gets sold to the Chinese rather than Russian, China has more money, but sadly Russia has more of a claim.
I’m just saying that the nutjobs in Alberta could probably use some more counterweight. We basically already talk like the praries anyway.
Teiman
6607
Yes, she is missing one obscure moral system:
- 4 chan / The Red Pill / Gamers Gate / Meninism / Right Wing Anarchist / Cryptoanarchist / Freedom of Speech Maximalists
Trump is a walking meme. He is the toad Pepe in human form. He is a failure of human being, and precisely because he is a walking disaster in human form, he is the favorite and avatar of people that feel themselves wronged into become a disaster. The Alt Right identify themselves not with the [black people] that lost their house in the Katrina storm, but with the Storm(Front) itself.
Translating to America 50’s values: Trump is a anti-Hero. He succeed at failing, then drop up (ignoring gravity).
Lantz
6608
The other big factor is that people are not reliable in identifying who they voted for. This goes for all party affiliations. People who regret the decision are likely to claim not to have voted for him.
Yep, but don’t forget that this cuts both ways. Yes, there are people who don’t want to admit they voted for Trump - but there are also people who don’t want to admit they voted for Clinton, because she lost. And there’s no greater shame in American culture than being a loser.
The same poll that found that 98% of Trump voters won’t say they regret it also found out that slightly more people “forgot” they voted for Clinton than “forgot” they voted for Trump.
(The fact that fewer people admit voting for both Trump and Clinton is very unusual - normally after an election the winner picks up people who “remember” they voted for him all along…)
Holy crap. The Simpsons are still on the air?
Timex
6612
Check out Preibus in the background:
His moral idiom is Capitalist greed. That cannot be denied.
His next sentence cleared things up bigly
“I’m not giving him credit or not giving him credit, I’m just saying that’s a very hard thing to do. As to whether or not he’s rational, I have no opinion on it. I hope he’s rational,”
