NYT: The Trump Budget Looks Less Like A Political Philosophy & More Like A Sexual Fantasy.

[kpete]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/let-bannon-be-bannon.html?ref=opinion&_r=0&mtrref=t.co&gwh=F31B546EB3D7EA2A05E4B53AA3F7917A&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion

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[BeyondGeography]

1. That part is spot-on, but "unleash Steve Bannon"?

Brooks hardly ever gets through an entire column without a howler.

[hopeforchange2008]

8. The full article is appalling, but the OP's snip is right on.

"Let Bannon be Bannon"? What a horrible thought.

[KittyWampus]

10. isn't there a blogger whose sole focus is ripping Brooks?

[teach1st]

2. From the comments on this NY Times article

DH, Miami:

It doesn't matter that in reality Trump is taking a buzz saw to government policy that help the working class. Trump supporters don't read the NY Times, or any "liberal" media. Trump supporters suffer from epistemological closure: they only believe what comes out of Trump's mouth. That is their reality. Any decrease in benefit can be blamed on Obama. Perhaps the saddest story to read is in today's Washington Post. A small town in Kentucky has some of its residents interviewed by a reporter. One woman says Trump policy is already working, because she got a tax benefit that helped her buy her Obama health care. Unfortunately, she was wrong about there causation. In reality, a tweak sponsored by the Obama Administration was responsible for the help. But she remained adamant in her support of Trump. She went on to sat that she wouldn't believe anything she saw on TV, and she would only believe what Trump said. I am confident if she loses her health care, she will blames Obama for it. After all, Trump will tell her that, and she believes only that.

If it wasn't for the fact that millions of others who voted against Trump are going to suffer too, I would say frankly I don't care that this misguided woman would lose her health care, which she needs for her family. Believing only in Trump, she deserves some comeuppance for her willful ignorance. In the end, though, I feel despair at her blindness and despair for the others who voted against Trump and will now suffer.

[Vinca]

3. It's so depressing. They're like a brainwashed cult.

[Scarsdale]

5. Kentucky

keeps re-electing McConnell, so how smart can they be?? tRump seems to think he is still a TV reality host, and someone else will clean up after him. Just come in, say his lines and leave. Looks as though it is getting more and more difficult. Too bad for Spicer. SAD.

[ashredux]

4. Marco Rubio was correct...."little hands"

[world wide wally]

6. It's hard to feel sorry for this woman

If she is too stupid to learn about gravity and she keeps falling off the roof and breaking her legs, WTF can anyone do about that?

[not fooled]

11. It's like a fundamentalist religion

people like this woman just want a jebus figure to worship. Black and white, all the answers provided, you get told what to do, no thinking involved--you just believe and faith takes care of everything.

That's why so many extremist (fake) Xtians went for dump--they are preconditioned to mindlessly follow an authoritarian ideology (apologies to the real Christian philosophy of Jesus which these people disregard).

[world wide wally]

12. And then they pick the wrong one

[OnDoutside]

7. Money allotted for the poor is spent straight away, driving the local economy. So they are

taking that money and giving it to the rich who will bank it. Recession here we come !!!

[IronLionZion]

9. Compensating for something?

Trump isn't manly or muscular at all. I know many combat veterans who think he is such a joke and would laugh at his idiocy if it wasn't so sad and disappointing.

And his own voters depend on social programs to survive in impoverished Appalachian states and rust belt towns that are still waiting for the jobs he promised them.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. A poor person's idea of a rich man, a stupid person's idea of a smart man,

a desperately weak and insecure person's idea of a strong man.