Perspective
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The Republican share of votes would average what, ~15% without social issues rallying their coalition (with White Nationalist issues pushing Reps over the top in key Electoral College states)?
Democrats agree to confirmations of 15 Trump judges
Senate Democrats accepted an offer Thursday from Senate Republicans to confirm 15 lifetime federal judges in exchange for the ability to go into recess through the midterms, allowing endangered Democrats to campaign.
The calculation by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his caucus was simple: That Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would be able to confirm roughly 15 judges if he kept the Senate in session for the next few weeks anyway. So Democrats OK?d an offer to confirm three Circuit Court judges and 12 Circuit Court judges as the price to pay to go home for election season.
McConnell and President Donald Trump will now have confirmed 84 judges over the past two years, including two Supreme Court nominees, after the deal. Democrats also allowed a package of judges to be confirmed in August as a condition of going home.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/11/senate-democrats-judges-895168
Perspective said:Kanye and Trump. The great minds of our age. Anyone read the transcript of that Oval Office meeting yesterday, occurring in the midst of a devastating hurricane relief effort?
eyephone said:Perspective said:Kanye and Trump. The great minds of our age. Anyone read the transcript of that Oval Office meeting yesterday, occurring in the midst of a devastating hurricane relief effort?
I can?t stop laughing. Watch the video.
Perspective said:eyephone said:Perspective said:Kanye and Trump. The great minds of our age. Anyone read the transcript of that Oval Office meeting yesterday, occurring in the midst of a devastating hurricane relief effort?
I can?t stop laughing. Watch the video.
Just stop for a moment, and think about it. That really happened. That wasn't an SNL skit. That was the POTUS, in the Oval Office, holding that meeting, with those thoughts being shared. Amazing stuff.
fortune11 said:Perspective said:eyephone said:Perspective said:Kanye and Trump. The great minds of our age. Anyone read the transcript of that Oval Office meeting yesterday, occurring in the midst of a devastating hurricane relief effort?
I can?t stop laughing. Watch the video.
Just stop for a moment, and think about it. That really happened. That wasn't an SNL skit. That was the POTUS, in the Oval Office, holding that meeting, with those thoughts being shared. Amazing stuff.
Kanye s cellphone password is 0000.. the camera caught this very well
zubs said:Kanye wants to be the L. Davinci of this time period. A few years ago, he tried to get Elon Musk to invest in his awesome ideas to make humanity better. The goal is to make humanity better. The methods need a lot more work and details.
Iforce 1 y'all!
Happiness said:fortune11 said:Perspective said:eyephone said:Perspective said:Kanye and Trump. The great minds of our age. Anyone read the transcript of that Oval Office meeting yesterday, occurring in the midst of a devastating hurricane relief effort?
I can?t stop laughing. Watch the video.
Just stop for a moment, and think about it. That really happened. That wasn't an SNL skit. That was the POTUS, in the Oval Office, holding that meeting, with those thoughts being shared. Amazing stuff.
Kanye s cellphone password is 0000.. the camera caught this very well
Many great visionaries were mocked in their time.
morekaos said:Look at all you guys and today's shiny object...back on story, this guy is gonna go down in flames and all the Dems want is to throw their money at their new shiny object.....this must be Smart Power!!
Beto O'Rourke raised $38.1 million in last three months, smashing all records in bid to oust Ted Cruz
But the two most recent polls show Cruz with a solid single digit lead. A Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday puts him ahead by 9 percentage points. A New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll that ended Thursday shows an 8 point lead.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/10/12/beto-orourke-raised-381-million-last-three-months-smashing-records-bid-oust-ted-cruz
morekaos said:Look at all you guys and today's shiny object...back on story, this guy is gonna go down in flames and all the Dems want is to throw their money at their new shiny object.....this must be Smart Power!!
Beto O'Rourke raised $38.1 million in last three months, smashing all records in bid to oust Ted Cruz
But the two most recent polls show Cruz with a solid single digit lead. A Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday puts him ahead by 9 percentage points. A New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll that ended Thursday shows an 8 point lead.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/10/12/beto-orourke-raised-381-million-last-three-months-smashing-records-bid-oust-ted-cruz
Trump May Not Be Crazy, But the Rest of Us Are Getting There Fast
Psychologists? couches are filling up as Americans seek relief from Trump Anxiety Disorder.
During normal times, therapists say, their sessions deal with familiar themes: relationships, self-esteem, everyday coping. Current events don?t usually invade. But numerous counselors said Trump and his convulsive effect on America?s national conversation are giving politics a prominence on the psychologist?s couch not seen since the months after 9/11?another moment in which events were frightening in a way that had widespread emotional consequences.
Empirical data bolster the anecdotal reports from practitioners. The American Psychiatric Association in a May survey found that 39 percent of people said their anxiety level had risen over the previous year?and 56 percent were either ?extremely anxious? or ?somewhat anxious about ?the impact of politics on daily life.? A 2017 study found two-thirds of Americans? see the nation?s future as a ?very or somewhat significant source of stress.?
These findings suggest the political-media community has things backward when it comes to Trump and mental health.
For two years or more, commentators have been cross-referencing observations of presidential behavior with the official APA Diagnostic and Statistical Manual?s definition of narcissistic personality disorder. Journalists have compared contemporary video of Trump with interviews from the 1980s for signs of possible cognitive decline. And even some people on his own team, according to books and news reports, have been reading up on the process of presidential removal under the 25th Amendment of the Constitution?fueled by suspicions that the president?s allegedly erratic and undeniably precedent-shattering approach to the Oval Office might prove eventually to be a case of non compos mentis.
A more plausible interpretation, in the view of some psychological experts, is that Trump has been cultivating, adapting and prospering from his distinctive brand of provocation, brinkmanship and self-drama for the past 72 years. What we?re seeing is merely the president?s own definition of normal. It is only the audience that finds the performance disorienting.
In other words: He?s not crazy, but the rest of us are getting there fast.
Jennifer Panning, a psychologist from Evanston, Illinois, calls the phenomenon ?Trump Anxiety Disorder.? She wrote a chapter on it in a collection by mental health experts called ?The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.? In an interview, she said the disorder is marked by such symptoms as ?increased worry, obsessive thought patterns, muscle tension and obsessive preoccupation with the news.?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/12/donald-trump-anxiety-disorder-pscyhologists-221305