BigOrangeTrain
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Caught on a hot mic while talking to fellow Sen. Jack Reed, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine (a Republican) agrees with Reed's assessment that Trump is "crazy" and "goofy". I would be willing to bet that this is how most Republican members of Congress talk about Trump when they don't think anyone is listening. He is a joke.
So is tRump, that's why the estab repubs don't really like him. He was a dem for most of his life. :yikes:
but the rubes are too dumb to realize it. With his loud mouth, the way he bellows, he is particularly good at it. He can bellow about keeping trans-people out of the military--all ten of them!--and the old white rural folk, who are paranoid and angry about change of all kind, who sit around listening to REAL fake news on fox all day--can wave their canes in the air and cheer him. Trump doesn't give a damn about 90 percent of the silliness that agitates his base. But he will pretend--and pretend LOUDLY--that he does. Bellowing about "merry christmas" and the "liberal media" is the same. He knows its red meat to low information southerners and middle Americans. He doesn't give a damn about ACA either. He simply picked up on that because, as a Republican, he knew he had too to get the yahoos to support him--because right-wingers had been screaming about it for years. As the poster above noted, Trump was a Democrat for years--he used to praise the Clintons. He lived in NYC all his life (where he is hated). He doesn't give a damn about abortion or gays or any of the issues that agitate rural Americans. But he knows how to play low-on-reality crowds.
You should like him then, if he is just in it to throw a few bones to the rubes while secretly implementing the Democratic agenda.but the rubes are too dumb to realize it. With his loud mouth, the way he bellows, he is particularly good at it. He can bellow about keeping trans-people out of the military--all ten of them!--and the old white rural folk, who are paranoid and angry about change of all kind, who sit around listening to REAL fake news on fox all day--can wave their canes in the air and cheer him. Trump doesn't give a damn about 90 percent of the silliness that agitates his base. But he will pretend--and pretend LOUDLY--that he does. Bellowing about "merry christmas" and the "liberal media" is the same. He knows its red meat to low information southerners and middle Americans. He doesn't give a damn about ACA either. He simply picked up on that because, as a Republican, he knew he had too to get the yahoos to support him--because right-wingers had been screaming about it for years. As the poster above noted, Trump was a Democrat for years--he used to praise the Clintons. He lived in NYC all his life (where he is hated). He doesn't give a damn about abortion or gays or any of the issues that agitate rural Americans. But he knows how to play low-on-reality crowds.
Just because there's silence doesn't mean that stuff isn't happening.