The Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Episode VI: No Witnesses, One Defector, No Checks or Balances

They talk about the smart lawyers and dumb waiters.

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The British Labour Party has faced the same criticism. It embraced the middle classes from the 90s onwards to gain votes from the Tories but in so doing became quite bourgeois, and the rise in populism has cast it somewhat adrift from its natural bedrock of support, the working classes.

Dow drops under 25k again. This is the mother of all tailspins.

Dow now lower than it was at start of 2018.

We have gone nowhere with the market in over 2 years except we all had to pay higher prices buying the stocks in our 401k which means we got less shares for our money thanks to the juicing of the market, which will cost us thousands in retirement.

Thank you, working hard.

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1233412547958755329
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1233414091353489408
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Ted’s wife is a managing director at Goldman Sachs.

So another day of no official information about Coronavirus while Trump tweets about his poll numbers and his adoring fans. Very normal.

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It was only a matter of time in this administration before the Dow dropped by a KKK in just a few days.

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Great leadership from Diaper Don, total silence after a 15% drop (after years of stock market cheerleading).

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Not total silence

https://twitter.com/wisepaxcat/status/1233211841184092160?s=21

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I would have put that well behind fake news, Bernie polling and the virus on the Diaper Don excuse bingo card.

https://twitter.com/wwm_shakespeare/status/1233420523176124417?s=21

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Trump reminds me a lot of Michael Scott

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That was a funny moment because of how many people it effectively skewered. Trump is just extra extra extra transparent about it… because he’s an idiot who thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room always.

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The scenes that blew my mind were when Michael would need to serve back in a sales role–and he turned into a different person. Not just competent but charming and commanding. But give him an ounce of authority over his team and he turned into a well-intentioned monster.

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I read all parts of this in one sitting

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TY I will read that later!!! I love stuff like this.

I remember reading some conversation from the writers, maybe Michael Schur, about how the show transformed into something else from s1 to s2 when they decided to make Michael well-intentioned instead of malignant.