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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

A friend of a friend can confirm that he was an excellent surgeon. The problems come when he discusses literally anything else.
 
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There was a good deal of talk over the past month (and bragging by right-wing media outlets) about Trump's "surge" in the polls recently. The latest NBC News poll put him at 46% approval, Fox News had him at 46%, and his RCP polling average rose above 45% for the first time in well over a year. It appears that his rise was short-lived. The latest RCP average has him dropping back to below 43% approval again (with 53.5% disapproval, for a nearly 11-point disadvantage). A spate of polls released this week shows his approval rating underwater by double-digits: CBS News, Reuters, Monmouth, Economist, and Politico all have him underwater by anywhere from 10 to 14 points, and Quinnipiac has him down by 19 points. Even Rasmussen has him down by seven points, a large margin for him in that poll.
 
Highland Deac said:
There was a good deal of talk over the past month (and bragging by right-wing media outlets) about Trump's "surge" in the polls recently. The latest NBC News poll put him at 46% approval, Fox News had him at 46%, and his RCP polling average rose above 45% for the first time in well over a year. It appears that his rise was short-lived. The latest RCP average has him dropping back to below 43% approval again (with 53.5% disapproval, for a nearly 11-point disadvantage). A spate of polls released this week shows his approval rating underwater by double-digits: CBS News, Reuters, Monmouth, Economist, and Politico all have him underwater by anywhere from 10 to 14 points, and Quinnipiac has him down by 19 points. Even Rasmussen has him down by seven points, a large margin for him in that poll.
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What did you expect? It's Infrastructure Week.
 
Have their been any dips or rises beyond the margin of error? He has a consistent base that isn't changing.
 
PhDeac said:
Have their been any dips or rises beyond the margin of error? He has a consistent base that isn't changing.
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The rolling average on 538 doesn't really move more than 1% and hasn't dipped or risen significantly in months.
 
Deadbolt said:
The rolling average on 538 doesn't really move more than 1% and hasn't dipped or risen significantly in months.
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It's dropped to between 41-42% over the last few weeks. It got as high as 43% a month or so ago. Been between 40-43% for a good long time now. I think the polls will only be a story if they get > 43% or < 40%.
 
Well, it looks as if the GOP's stacking of the SC with right-wing justices is about to pay off on the issues that really matter to them. Today the Supremes halted lower-court rulings that required the states of Michigan and Ohio to redraw their legislative and congressional districts, as the federal judges in those courts had ruled that the districts as drawn were unconstitutional due to such extreme gerrymandering that it virtually guaranteed GOP control for the entire decade following the 2010 Census. Anyone want to bet on what the 5-4 decision in late June will likely be? If they overturn the lower court's rulings in Michigan and Ohio, it will also overturn the similar lower-court rulings in NC as well. If that happens, the GOP may well have a virtual permanent majority in the NC state legislature, and the Democrats would have no chance of ever winning back a majority, at least for decades.

Link: https://news.yahoo.com/high-court-halts-electoral-map-redrawing-michigan-ohio-190628305--politics.html;_ylt=AwrC0wzkcehcdxwA_wDQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByOHZyb21tBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--
 
Highland Deac said:
Well, it looks as if the GOP's stacking of the SC with right-wing justices is about to pay off on the issues that really matter to them. Today the Supremes halted lower-court rulings that required the states of Michigan and Ohio to redraw their legislative and congressional districts, as the federal judges in those courts had ruled that the districts as drawn were unconstitutional due to such extreme gerrymandering that it virtually guaranteed GOP control for the entire decade following the 2010 Census. Anyone want to bet on what the 5-4 decision in late June will likely be? If they overturn the lower court's rulings in Michigan and Ohio, it will also overturn the similar lower-court rulings in NC as well. If that happens, the GOP may well have a virtual permanent majority in the NC state legislature, and the Democrats would have no chance of ever winning back a majority, at least for decades.

Link: https://news.yahoo.com/high-court-halts-electoral-map-redrawing-michigan-ohio-190628305--politics.html;_ylt=AwrC0wzkcehcdxwA_wDQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByOHZyb21tBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--
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but personal morality and professional ethics!
 
Saw this on the Fox News website this morning and just had to post, because the article is a great example of the cluelessness and hypocrisy of the GOP. A Fox columnist, Steve Hilton, said on Fox that the liberal DC political and media establishment are "losing their minds" because of Trump's great success, and so they're engaging in worthless investigations to try and bring him down. Hilton said that "Democrats should be subject to the same type of investigations as President Trump, arguing that impeachment appears to be the strategy for resolving the parties' political differences...Hilton said the next Democratic president should immediately face the same investigations, "obstruction and vilification" Trump has received since his victory in 2016...They must go through the exact same process they've put this president through. It's only fair," he said.

LOL. What does Hilton think the GOP did to Obama from 2009-2017? Remember Mitch McConnell saying that Congressional Republicans would oppose everything Obama wanted to make him a one-term POTUS? Or McConnell refusing to even give Merrick Garland a hearing in the Senate? Hell, the GOP has been blindly obstructing and attacking Democratic Presidents since Bill Clinton. They certainly have convenient memories, as well as a wonderful double standard. If it's Congressional Republicans investigating and obstructing Democratic Presidents it's perfectly fine, but if the shoe is on the other foot then it's whine, complain, and moan about what terrible meanies and bullies the LibDems are.

Link: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/steve-hilton-washington-political-and-media-establishment-have-lost-their-minds
 
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BS investigations are a great tool so you can shift to “both sides” when they investigate your side for actual crimes.
 
I thought the BS investigations started before he was elected. Isn’t that why heads are gonna roll?
 
This won't surprise anyone, I know, but Mitch McConnell, that bastion of Senate tradition and integrity, announced in Kentucky that if another vacancy opens on the Supreme Court in 2020, he would ensure that a Trump nominee got a hearing and an appointment, even though in 2016 he refused the same courtesy for Obama and Garland. In 2016 McConnell piously announced that he wouldn't allow Garland even a hearing because it was an election year and the voters would decide, but he now says bluntly that with a Republican in the White House his previous objections no longer apply. He openly says that putting right-wing judges and justices on the federal courts is one of his top priorities, and then this kicker "What can't be undone is a life time appointment to a young man or woman who believes in the quaint notion that the job of the judge is to follow the law...That's the most important thing we've done in the country, which cannot be undone." The guy has ruined the Senate and its generations of traditions, imo, for nothing but partisan gain. I have no doubt that if McConnell is re-elected in 2020, a Democrat is elected POTUS, and there is a SC vacancy in 2024, he will return to his pious phrasings about "letting the voters decide." He is the Swamp personified.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-2020/index.html
 
"I was not involved with that."

Kushner has been married to Ivanka since 2009. His father-in-law was the lead birther.
 
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