Here’s a funny thing. Every day since Donald Trump won the presidency, I have gone to bed embarrassed and pissed.
Returning from a high-dollar fundraiser in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, an infuriated President Donald Trump watched aboard Air Force One as Fox News called the Alabama Senate primary for Roy Moore against Trump’s favored candidate, Luther Strange.
What ensued was a barrage of angry venting at his political team and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had consolidated establishment GOP support behind Strange.
Trump, officials and informal advisers say, felt misled by McConnell and his political team, who encouraged him to endorse and campaign for Strange…
…He went to bed “embarrassed and pissed” following the election loss, according to a person familiar with his mindset. Trump, multiple sources said, is furious with McConnell, and feels outdone by his former aide Bannon.
That’s why I don’t have any guilt about my schadenfreude in this particular case. If the president is humiliated and angry, then he’s only feeling what all decent folks have been feeling for nearly a year now. And it’s his own fault. What kind of politician needs a political team to tell them who to endorse? I thought he had the best education and the highest I.Q., so why is he so easy to mislead?
So, he’s mad that he didn’t endorse a man like Roy Moore whose understanding of the law is so flawed that he’s twice been kicked off the Alabama Supreme Court?
He should be embarrassed. And he should be pissed at himself for being such a lousy person.
Trump is going to be more embarrassed and pissed if Judge Roy Moore is elected to the U.S. Senate. Moore likes to get attention for doing and saying outrageous things and the media will gladly report it.
Sounds like a Trump boost to me.
What I meant was that Pres. Trump would not like Judge Roy Moore getting lots of attention by saying outrageous things. This is Trump’s role and Moore could be competition for the “Most Outrageous Award.”
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That’s the one thing he has going for him, Booman. He is never pissed at himself. Instead, he gets pissed at everybody else. The only way he will ever feel pissed at himself will be if and when he is punished on a truly serious level…more serious than a mere impeachment…for his career in business and government.
I mean…he can’t fire himself, right?
Except of course…
I would bet anything that when Hitler took himself out,…if he really did, of course…he stillwasn’t pissed at “himself.” He was pissed at all those who had failed him.
So it goes in the Land of Megalomania.
Watch.
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“So it goes in the Land of Megalomania.” And malignant narcissism, but I’m being redundant.
Yeah, I never feel guilty about experiencing Schadenfreude.
Maybe this is just another head fake and he’s going to pivot toward expanding medicaid for all and increasing corporate tax rates.
Or, more likely, the Republicans are just bat shit crazy.
Trump does not know how anyone feels, and he is incapable of feeling embarrassed.
https:/datingasociopath.com/sociopath-character-traits/lack-of-empathy-guilt-remorse-or-shame
We’ve been over this before. Trump’s campaign was an egotistic rampage against Obama/Hillary and he never expected to get elected. Once elected, he has tried to reign as “king”. He has no clue about actual politics and so will continue to be the ineffective executive while his Cabinet appointees do their best to destroy the federal government agencies they’ve been charged with sabotaging in the name of corporatism. That’s the scenario for the next 2+ years.
Trump is a nincompoop; H L Mencken’s “downright moron”.
Only 8 months down 40 more to go.
The reputation of the country will be completely irredeemable in the short run by then. If he’s re-elected, the rest of the world will simply continue figuring out how the post-US dominant world will operate.
Even electing another charismatic Obama in 2020 (who would that be?) won’t be very reassuring to the international community because they clearly realize already that America is an unreliable ally on every level. Economically we trashed the world economy in 2007 to present, diplomatically Bush II/Cheney and Trump have been willfully ignorant, non-strategic, and generally as stupid as a country can allow itself to be.
It doesn’t matter if Democrats win the national popular vote like clockwork, the limitations of the political structure, the extreme evil in applying the extreme stupidity of the Republicans in amplifying the limitations of the political structure, and the lack political dexterity by the Democrats in sabotaging themselves with regularity (appointments, etc) are patterns the rest of the world just can’t overlook.
I’ve lived in overachieving red states like Indiana, I’ve lived in underachieving blue states like Michigan, and I’ve lived in a corrupt blue state – New York, and a better led, better nature blue state – California.
The US as a whole is underachieving radically on almost every dimension and unless it straightens itself out, we’ll just end up being the world’s largest banana republic with cronyism ruling a greed rigged political economy as all the red states clearly prefer.
“… the rest of the world will simply continue figuring out how the post-US dominant world will operate.”
Is this the single silver lining in this whole thing? That the Republican party will–and should–drive a stake in the US dominance, and balance things out so we’re just one country among many?
He’s an amateur in the political process. Did Obama ever endorse in a contest like this? Or Bush I, II? Mostly Presidents stay out of such contests, because of the outcome here – if you win, you get a small bump, but if you lose, you look like an idiot. Especially in this case. Moore is very popular with the people who vote in Republican primaries in AL. He went in for Strange, and that’s another loss for him. He’s racking up the losses.
I suspect its not any political planning or anything – he’s mostly pissed that he endorsed a LOSER, and is thus himself a loser. When it comes down to it, all he really cares about in life whether in his businesses, presidency, or ability to get hot women, is whether he is a loser or not. Not in what he is actually winning.
Or pissed that his endorsement didn’t carry as much weight as he expected.
This primary was a pissing contest among several individuals and factions. Bannon’s war against Kushner and McConnell and vice-versa. McConnell had the bucks and Bannon had the odds. Kushner got it half right in that at the moment, Trump doesn’t need to further his alignment with another known bigot who was also flaunts the law as he was twice removed for cause from the AL Supreme Court. But Trump isn’t inclined to walk away from controversy if he can smell a win in it for himself.
Best guess is that Kush softened up Trump and then McConnell demanded some compensation for carrying water for Trump. A political pro in Trump’s position would have remained neutral in the primary. Getting neither Moore’s or McConnell’s yucky stuff on his shoes. However, Trump can’t stand sitting on the sidelines if there’s a possibility of another win for himself.
Interestingly, Moore has only done well in judicial elections. Was easily defeated for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in 2006 and 2010. That’s not irrational as those that share Moore’s “big things,” anti-abortion/contraceptive, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, and anti-separation of church and state, view the courts as the enemy. There’s no shortage of elected officials, usually GOP, that share those positions and pass legislation in support of them, but they keep getting knocked down by the courts. The results of Moore’s 2012 win was 51.8% to 48.2% on a general election ballot where Romney won with 60.7% (and there were few dropouts from the presidential ballot line to the Chief Justice ballot line).
Other than immigration, Trump isn’t as strident on these issues as Moore. If bluster is all those voters can get, might was well go for the most extreme voice. In 2016, the most extreme voices on these issues at the time of the AL GOP primary were Cruz, Rubio, and Carson. Those three collected 50% of the vote to Trump’s 43.4%, and had one of the other three been leading at that point, Trump’s vote share would have been less.
(Mo Brooks, a Cruz tea-bagger, who finished 3rd with 20% in the first round of the primary declined to endorse in the run-off.)
Doug Jones may not be as much of a pushover as pundits expect. OTOH, the AL Democratic Party has little infrastructure, a more critical component in special elections (this one is scheduled for Dec 12).