Coal Miners Crushed As White House Admits Trump Lied About Bringing Back Coal Jobs

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160. TGF and Roy Cohn

That was Trump's answer to everything -- they're (T)errible, I'm (G)reat, I'll (F)ix It.

TGF, TGF on every answer. He didn't care who he was lying to or how far he took it. I kept thinking this is exactly what he learned from Roy Cohn, and the way Roy Cohn would conduct a presidential campaign.

It drove me nuts because I knew there was potential for it to work in 2016, given the frenzy of Simplistic Angry Males and with Hillary owning such low upside. She was never going to get 51 or 52% or thereabouts. My argument was always that if you're going to run Obama and Hillary back to back then Hillary has to go first. There was great tailwind in 2008. Hillary would have cruised. Then you save the more likable candidate for the much more problematic cycle in 2016 when you've already held the White House for two terms and voters are somewhat restless and with inept memories toward how bad things were in late 2008.

Hillary may have had the correct proposals but she took a ridiculous and pathetic professorial approach instead of hammering the themes very early in debate one when it would have diffused Trump just enough to get her over the finish line...Comey and fake news notwithstanding. Instead, whenever the carnival barker was allowed to loudly shout Ohio in those debates then all of the miners and steel workers and manufacturing workers lapped it up as if it were personal attention directed at themselves and their children.

I've hosted debate parties many times, albeit not recently. I used to mention it somewhat frequently on this site, circa 2004. It was primarily for betting purposes. Bottom line, it's unbelievable what the uninformed voter will react to in those debates. They immediately tune out anything that sounds like complex policy. Big picture simplicity sells.

I attended Easter services with my aunt, who knows nothing about politics but voted enthusiastically for Trump. Inside that church I was all but oblivious to the music and the themes while looking around and thinking to myself that this the crowd who can't distinguish real from fake or lie from astute. It reminded me of that original Star Trek episode when Bones and others are absorbed by the Body of Landru. That's where we are now. They'll walk out of that church with glazed eyes and a smile..."Hello friend"...while totally unconcerned about what Trump is doing today or tomorrow. They'll learn about it on their smart phone from fellow Trumpeteers, and it will be great.