According to the political junkie optics, Trump has had a rough week. Judicial Nonsense, Flynn, the labor secretary. The ongoing drumbeat of Trump is a Russian agent from Johnnie Boy McCain and his all girl chorus of singing and dancing senatorettes.
The media-progressive complex senses blood and is going for a killshot.
BTDT.
Trump is holding a rally in Melbourne Florida. This Saturday. His turf, his audience, his voters. The people who have not gotten any airtime since the election. I bet a few CEOs will be there to tell about investments in jobs and plant.
I expect the media will have to cover it and there is not a dam thing they can do to change the optics except try and send in the goons. This time, the Secret Service will handle crowd control and threatening a sitting President is not a trivial charge.
Bannon and Priebus did a joint interview in the Hill to dispel rumors of internal warfare , it was fairly convincing.
If Sessions can get the EO on immigration on track in the next week and the leakers are outed and charged, this will all be just another “Trump is dead” scenario, just like in the primaries.
The message will swing to Jobs while the Opposition is talking about Russia.



If nothing else it will be interesting. Trump is an existential threat to the media. He knows all he needs is a Twitter account and some YouTube videos. He is not constitutionally required to call on the people who have been bad mouthing him forever. It is truly an opportunity to change the game.
You are 100% correct.
Ditto Dime and Trinity. I am still incredulous that a media “elite” ruminated that Trump has … gasp! … decided to circumvent the MSM and communicate directly with the people.
That’s blasphemy for you.
The media has lost all credibility at this point. A local TV station ran a story about 24 people demanding Goodlatte meet with them so they can voice their concerns and hear his positions. This despite the fact he regularly holds phone-in town halls for hundreds of thousands of his constituents. This non-story attempted to paint him as out of step with his district in his recent high profile moves in Congress. This despite him winning re-election in November by +34%.
The Left is not going to go quietly having been so close to their dream of complete, generational dominance of America, and they will take down anyone they can in their effort to retain some semblance of control. Trump must refocus and not grow weary in fighting the media’s continual lies, but he can’t fight lies with lies. Thankfully, we live in age where we can directly counter those lies ourselves via social media.
You are 90% correct. I see no evidence of Trump lying to combat the media. Don’t believe all you read or see on Fox.
Good to have the Minky in the house again.
Not sure who that is, but you are 100% correct to be welcoming.
Whiskey Sam is the Minky. (Monkey is too hard to say.)
I think the media lost credibility a long time ago. It’s just that the Washington elite acted as if it isn’t so. Had it been otherwise, the election would either gone to the lying bitch (friend’s nomenclature, not mine) or have predicted the Trump win. But no one got it – except the voters.
But the generational control issue is big. Nowadays we have teachers openly socialist or even fascist; there is no longer a need to hide. Yet despite these years of brainwashing, interestingly the youth seem to not really buy into it. Yes, there is some sense of wanting certain things, but they are finding the hidden costs rather more than they had expected. Even the elitist kids are having a hard time.
What a great time to be a right-wing rebel. Maybe we’ll even get to nail McCain’s hide to a tree.
“What a great time to be a right-wing rebel. Maybe we’ll even get to nail McCain’s hide to a tree.”
I like this one. McCain is trying too hard and his brain is struggling with Trump. The very concept of Trump drives him mad.
Deplorables, Rabble, Irredeemable, blue collar, populists, I embrace it all. Call me every name in the book except elite.
I’ve already got dibs on “Irredeemable” just so you know.
You get a 110% rating for the image of McCain’s hide spiked to a tree.
Trump has to reach beyond Washington to the people. If he puts himself as the underdog against the unpopular press and the unpopular Congress he has a chance of winning.
I think driving the media crazy just makes the media seem small.
Again, 100% correct. The upcoming rally will be perfect.
Great critique of the nonsense going on in Washington.
I think Trump’s tactic of holding a rally is a good start. The more he gets out of Washington the better. VP Pence is well suited for the pragmatic diplomacy role back in DC. Trump can rally troops and support on the road.
The Flynn situation is much worse than being portrayed in the media. I don’t know of a political assassination that has taken place in my lifetime. This seems the sort of thing that happens in 2nd terms, not the 2nd month.
Good to see Whiskey here.
The Flynn thing really seems to have wrong-footed them. The more info that is released the less this looks like Flynn did anything wrong and the more it looks like Trump’s people just didn’t handle it right from the outset: a non-event blown out of proportion by everyone acting like something happened that didn’t.
The problem is if a person becomes the story you need to let them go. It is not fair but how the game is played.
100% correct to label it a political assassination. NSA/Dark Govt. conspiracy.
This was aimed at BrentB67.
Yessss! “POLITICAL ASSASSINATION!” No better way to put it.
Too bad Trump doesn’t seem to have the ability to clean house in the intel services. There needs to be some wholesale firing, maybe the top 1/3 just to get them all. If the agencies are Hill 45, they should become Hill 37. Unfortunately one will lose some good men, but you never can make an assault without casualties.
Perhaps Flynn can pick the targets – quietly.
I heard from a friend’s cousin’s sister’s first time acquaintance that Whiskey Sam has drunk vodka. This no doubts make him a Putin stooge. I say we put a tail on him.
“The best defense is a good offense.”
We go horseback riding in the spring. If I play my cards right, I’m getting a dacha on the Black Sea.
You and Putin are horse riding pals?!!! This is worse than I thought. Who is Dacha? Does she have a sister?
“Trump is holding a rally in Melbourne Florida.”
Great demographics for him even if it is on the east coast. It’s middle class, north of Palm Beach and closer to the Panhandle.