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Is the kind of handshake in the photo signify a dom/sub relationship? Putin is asserting that he is the alpha by twisting the shake with his hand on top and Trump is accepting it by allowing his hand to be on the bottom.
Boy were those innocent times. Remember that first Trump scandal where he ordered Spicer to blatantly lie about his inauguration attendance vs. Obama's? And were all like, "FFS! We can SEE the pictures!"
Simpler days.
"Alternative facts!"
No, actually, I didn't remember that. I can't spare the room in my head for all the batshit insane things he did or I'll go insane.
It was a daily assault on the rational mind.
It numbed everyone to the point where the majority of everyone just ignores politics now. After a president like that, then to switch to an 80 year old man .... the office of president of the Untied States of Anarchy no longer matters any more.
If only it were anarchy, sigh.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
All three of them – and all within the first six months of an administration – suggest an unprecedented (that word comes up a lot with Trump) level of political jeopardy not just for the President but for the Republican Party he ostensibly leads.
Congressional Republicans, to this point, have been willing to ride the Trump roller coaster because they have convinced themselves that despite all of the surprising climbs and gut-wrenching drops, they ultimately can get what they want from him.
And, it is undeniably true, that had Hillary Clinton been elected president, she would have appointed someone far less conservative than Antonin Scalia or Gorsuch to the nation’s highest court.
It is also true that the easiest way for Trump to leave a positive conservative legacy behind him is to hope that another justice retires, with Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg most rumored to head for the exits.
Tax reform, which was rolled out to much ballyhoo by the Trump administration, remains nothing more than a broad outline of proposals – none of which have begun to make their way through the legislative process.
Despite a notable crackdown on illegal immigration, Trump’s long-promised border wall looks more and more like a pipe dream as it’s hard to see wavering Republicans in Congress cowed by a President with the approval of just over 1 in 3 Americans.
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