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Late Night Open Thread: When Is It “the Right Time” to Protest?

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Trump’s a gift that keeps on giving… like an overbred little dog that takes surreptitious dumps indoors, so you’re always tearing different rooms apart to find the source of the bad smell.

Notice, in the clip below, how it’s also (still) okay to talk right over a woman asking an important question to which these good conservative men have no godsdamned answer…

Team TellUsMore, working really hard to justify that book deal…

… Over the weekend, Mr. Trump, while with a small group of advisers in the dining room of his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., asked a few members what they thought of his attack on Mr. Kaepernick. The response, according to one Trump associate, was polite but decidedly lukewarm.

Mr. Trump responded by telling people that it was a huge hit with his base, making it clear that he did not mind alienating his critics if it meant solidifying his core support…

The president’s provocations are a real-time expression of his emotions in the moment and his feel for a crowd. More than anything, such fights are a reflection of his focus on what it takes to keep his restive populist base behind him, and a ritual of self-preservation intended to divert attention from other, more damaging narratives.

“He intuitively understands that making compromise with the Democrats is sort of the opposite of what he told his base he was going to do,” said Alex Conant, a veteran Republican consultant who was part of Senator Marco Rubio’s campaign team in 2016.

“It’s not a coincidence that the same week he did the DACA deal that he just flooded Twitter with a bunch of red meat for the base,” Mr. Conant added. “I think his fundamental problem is he needs to figure out ways to grow his base, and his instinct is instead to double down on what he’s already got. Whenever he tacks to the middle, his numbers tick up. But he just can’t bring himself to move beyond his base.”

That is not how Mr. Trump sees it…

Well, it is a big hit with his in-every-sense base — and it’s getting ‘President’ Comment Section lots of attention! Is there, to him, a more important metric?

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  2. 2.

    Frankensteinbeck

    First, the vast breadth of casual “I wouldn’t use the n-word, but it makes me angry when people suggest black lives matter,” racism is disgusting, especially when you consider how freaking racist that is.

    Second, let me try to make up for it with some schadenfreude. It may not be my preferred emotion, but I know it is popular here. Imagine the mood of the Kochs, right now, seeing Graham-Cassidy defeated and the reconciliation ticking away.

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    ThresherK

    Isn’t Ken Cuccinelli supposed to.be in prison, or did they let him out in anticipation of more treasonous R’s needing cells?

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    Oppressors never recognise a right time for the oppressed to complain. They and their sycophants (including those they oppress in other ways, alas) figure they’re doing people a favour by oppressing them, so how dare the oppressed ever complain?

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    I have decided on some minor modifications for The Girl: black pickguard screws matching the pickguard to replace the original white-metal ones, and a roller string tree to help her B and high-E strings stay in tune better. I’d also like to shield her cavities with copper tape, once I get (and learn to use) a soldering iron.

    I may also get a new pickguard on which I can mount the neck pickup — on an Affinity Tele, it’s mounted to the floor of the cavity instead, which means that to adjust the pickup height I’d have to remove the pickguard. Or maybe get a drill and put holes in the OEM pickguard.

  13. 13.

    Antonius

    OT:
    Hi folks.
    Decade-long lurker, perhaps 5-time commenter. Half my family is in Puerto Rico, and our family friends Darwin and Guadalupe Torres haven’t checked in from Barrio Collores, Jayuya.
    If you can pass the word to anyone who might know anything, please help.

  17. 17.

    bystander

    Why did Corker resign? Time to start raking in the real bucks? It cannot be because he was afraid of being seated next to stinkpile Roy Moore.

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    eclare

    @bystander: From the beginning he said he’d only serve two terms. Extremely wealthy businessman, so maybe money, but to me not likely. Rumor is that Bannon was coming after him, and Corker has always struck me as mild mannered. Full disclosure: live in Memphis

  20. 20.

    eclare

    @Antonius: Good luck finding word, prob want to post in several threads to get your request to as many as possible. Hope your friends are safe.

  21. 21.

    SFAW

    @eclare:

    Rumor is that Bannon was coming after him,

    I realize Bannon is perhaps the most toughestest guy EVAH, but it would surprise not one iota were an RNC “voter edumacation” bus to accidentally jump the curb in his vicinity, and mow down pedestrians, of which he was one.

    Well, actually, it would surprise me in two ways:
    1) The last time the Rethugs did any REAL “voter edumacation” was before I was born
    2) The day Bannon is seen anywhere in the vicinity of us peasants, i.e., pedestrians, is the day the Pinch-owned FTFNYT admits it screwed over Hillary.

    So I guess I won’t need to re-up my nitro pills any time soon.

  22. 22.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @Antonius: Wishing your family all the best in a dire situation, and hoping the friends are well and the comms problems are the only reason no one has word.

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    SFAW

    @eclare:

    Bannon has Mercer money.

    Understood. I was just speculating that some “mainstream” (for them) Rethug strategic genius might decide that the world might be a better place without Bannon.

    IYKWIMAITYD

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    Booger

    @ThresherK: You may be confusing him with former Governor McDonnell, who was caught up in some simple bribery. Kenny C is the failed candidate of the god-botherers who started a law firm dealing in murder futures. Retain them for cheap, so when you kill an unarmed black person they’ll defend you. For some reason, he’s still popular among the reich wing evangelicals in Virginia. Must be the expensive haircut and photogenic jawline.

  29. 29.

    Ohio Mom

    @Antonius: Welcome to delurking, sorry it is under such awful circumstances. Please keep us updated, let us know when it is confirmed that your family and friends are safe and sound.

    We’re all pulling for them!

  30. 30.

    hitchhiker

    Josh Marshall has a pithy little essay up on the question of whether or not our president is a white supremacist. It’s one of the times when he gets his finger directly on the spot that hurts.

    Antonius, please do post that message every little while. You never know who among the jackals could help — but all of us want to, for whatever that’s worth.

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    NorthLeft12

    @Amir Khalid:

    Oppressors never recognise a right time for the oppressed to complain.

    THIS^^^^ a lot. From what I have picked up in various comments from the anti-protest crowd, they are okay with protests as long as they don’t impact them, or virtually anyone else like them in any way whatsoever. Mailing a sternly worded [as long as it is not rude or insulting] letter is probably acceptable.

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