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((((Peter Sagal)))) @petersagal
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The other day, a Person in a Position to Know told me the reason that no GOPer in Congress who's not retiring has ever broken with Trump is that the GOP base is completely loyal to Trump, and that 30% of the country is 60% of their primary voters. See: Mark Sanford.
Fine: but why is that 30% so loyal to Trump, despite everything? Even Bush lost GOP support, after enough had happened. And why is there no one -- not a single GOPer -- willing to take concrete action even if it affects their political future?
I genuinely don't know.
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I am obsessed with the ever-shifting conspiracy theory being created in real time to discredit the Mueller investigation, by Nunes, Meadows, K Strassel, Mollie Hemingway, et al.

1) What's the theory called? (eg, "QAnon.")
2) Who's got a good rundown of the state of play?
Like all conspiracy theories, it:
A) Seeks evidence to prove an unshakeable point of faith (in this case, NO COLLUSION!)
B) Ignores/dismisses all contrary evidence
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D) If any contrary witness makes a minor mistake of fact or ethics, then anything from that person is discredited.
E) Anybody attacking the conspiracy theory is part of the conspiracy (Cabal of FBI/CIA/Dems/Liberal Media!)
F) Memory-holes any prior claims if discredited
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More about GHWB. I've argued for a while that not only does satire have no effect on the actions of the powerful, it shouldn't. You don't want a President caring about what somebody like me might say about her when making important decisions.
Thanks to a great talk by @jeffreyaengel, I learned about a real life situation which proved my point. To grossly oversimplify, as the Berlin Wall fell, the nations of Europe were on the edge of violent chaos. If anybody overstepped or provoked, war could break out.
So Pres. Bush got on the phone to leaders, East and West, and said: Do nothing. Don't provoke. Don't react. We promise not to interfere. And then got up in front of the press and basically said that. "We're being careful. Gonna monitor. Keep a close watch," etc. In other words:
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I have some sympathy for USAToday's editors. He's the President! Of the United States! How do you say to the President, I'm sorry, unlike every other President since we were founded, we're not letting you print your Op-Ed in our paper, because you're a liar and these are lies?
This is part of the larger problem afflicting journalism writ large -- Trump takes advantage of ethical norms -- good ones! Ones that were very useful in The Before Times! -- that he in no way honors himself, and it's still hard to adjust to it.
A number of people have responded: yes, they should have said just that. Or taken other steps to highlight that the President is lying. Perhaps they should have — but if they had, it would have been the first time that’s ever been done. It would shatter a norm. And that’s hard.
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Here’s how #Trump has achieved #Russia’s policy goals. It’s not just Syria. Trump’s most inexplicable or controversial foreign policy moves begin to make sense when viewed as Trump capitulating to Russian policy objectives thinkprogress.org/trump-achieve-… via @thinkprogress
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AMERICA!!! AMERICA!!! This is what we need to do!!! AGAIN!
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Wait...what? What does AGAIN mean?

Well, let’s just see...shall we?
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So #Trump is holding a news conference in about five minutes. I’ll be watching (and probably tweeting). Follow/mute at will!
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#Trump is now saying that China wants to "see me lose an election because they've never been challenged before."

It's not just China, pal.
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(1)
 This should put an end to it.

As I have been correctly reminded by many, the #Trump administration does not signal any tactics beforehand, especially when the military is involved.
#WalkAway
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 Theory #1:
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(Remember, all other policies against Tehran's mullahs have failed.)
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