Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 -- Dem uprising stuns establishment * Twitter v. Snapchat * Trump is proud of his desk * 16 rules for getting ahead in politics
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Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 -- Dem uprising stuns establishment * Trump is p=oud of his desk * Twitter v. Snapchat * 16 rules for getting ahead in poli=ics

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By Mike Allen = ·Feb 09, 2017

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1 big thing: The resistance persists

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Establishment Democrats have been stunned by the longev=ty and ferocity of grassroots opposition to President Trump, our Jonathan Swa= reports: From the spontaneous airport rallies after his immigration o=der to the sustained opposition to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the le=t is growing stronger rather than retreating after the historic setback on=Election Day:

Centrist Dems were genuinely su=prised by the organic backlash to DeVos.

The left
Social media is more ferocious: DeVos' stumbl=s at her hearing went viral immediately. When Mitch McConnell shut down El=zabeth Warren's floor speech, she became an instant meme.

=att Bennett, co-founder of Third Way, said Trump is the unifier, =nd Dems learned from the Tea Party: "You can't go to town hall and say 'I =emand the following 10 things.' But if you go and say, 'I demand you oppos= Obamacare,' it works."

Dems who're seizing the moment=

As the effort to shut up Elizabeth =arren backfired, she headed for TV hits, streamed live video of herself on=Facebook, and tweeted: "Consider this MY warning: We won't be silent. We w=ll speak out. And we WILL persist." The Boston Globe h=adlined: "Silencing by GOP gives Warren a national boost."
Out in California, Obama alumni Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy=Vietor founded Crooked Media, with the flagship Pod Save America podc=st.

Sen. Cory Booker, before driving home to New =ersey, rallied resistance at Dulles on the Saturday that rallies broke out=in airport terminals.

McConnell's fateful words: "Senator Warren was giving a lengthy speech. She had appeared to violat= the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Neverthel=ss, she persisted."

What he was thinking:<=strong> According to Politico, "There was no gra=d strategy, Republicans said, just a burgeoning anger that Warren was dest=oying whatever vestige of comity remains in the Senate."

T=e reaction: McConnell's quote unleashed a flood of internet jokes=and pics about badass women. Buzzfeed's collection includes a red =ap with the same font as Trump's hats: "NEVERTHELESS SHE PERSISTED."=/span>

2. Megatrends

a) A Wall Street Journal front-pager, "T

The problem
Key stat: American farmers' incomes will =rop 9% in 2017, ... extending the steepest slide since the Great Depressio= into a fourth year."

What it means:=This is another sign of a weakening America: "The U.S. share of the global=grain market is less than half what it was in the 1970s. ... U.S. farmers =owed the fewest acres of winter wheat this season in more than a century."=/li>

b) "Bank tellers are the next blacksmiths ... The new robo-banks t=at have no people," by WashPost's Tom Heath: "Bank of America is working o= voice recognition technology called Erica (as in Bank of Am-ERICA) that w=ll allow people to do virtual banking by voice with a computer, much as pe=ple use Amazon Alexa ... or Apple's Siri."

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3. The family business

Ivanka at Trump Tower in November / AP's Evan Vucci

After Trump tweeted "Terrible!" about Nordstrom's dropp=ng Ivanka's clothing and accessory line, Axios' Dan Prima=k and Shannon Vavra noted: "Other private companies may now be wonderi=g how POTUS would view the "fairness" of ending a relationship with the Tr=mp Organization."

A Democrat and former Justice Department official emails us: "In using the POTU= twitter account [the official White House account, which retweeted @realD=naldTrump] to bully an American company for failing to carry his daughter'= ... line of clothing, Trump converted to his use a thing of value of the =nited States, namely the POTUS twitter account."

The cover s=ory of the WashPost Style section, "ME=ANIA INC.: The branding of the East Wing," says there's a long history=of first ladies using the platform to promote themselves: "During her year= in the White House, [Eleanor Roosevelt] became a paid pitchwoman for hot =og buns, mattresses and air travel."

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4. Proud of his papers

Trump at the Intel avail / AP's Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Maureen Dowd will love this ... President Trump, beginning remarks in t=e Oval Office yesterday with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich: "You've never seen =o much paper on a President's desk. (Laughter.) That's because we=re negotiating lots of deals for our country, which will be tremendous."

5. Ezra Klein calls this "chilling"

The cover of the March issue of The Atlantic is "How to Build an Autocracy," a dark view of Trumpian America=by David Frum, speechwriter for President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2002:="If this were happening in Honduras, we'd know what to call it. It's happe=ing here instead, and so we are baffled." Two key passages:

"The United States =ay be a nation of laws, but the proper functioning of the law depends upon=the competence and integrity of those charged with executing it. A preside=t determined to thwart the law in order to protect himself and those in hi= circle has many means to do so."

"[L]berty is actually threatened in a modern bureaucratic state=... not by diktat and violence, but by the slow, demoralizing process of c=rruption and deceit. And the way that liberty must be defended is ... with=an unwearying insistence upon the honesty, integrity, and professionalism =f American institutions and those who lead them. We are living through the=most dangerous challenge to the free government of the United States that =nyone alive has encountered."

Ezra Klein writes on Vox that Frum's piece is "a chilling =ead": "The argument works because its component parts are so plausible. Fr=m does not imagine a coup or a crisis. He does not lean on the deus ex mac=ina of a terrorist attack or a failed assassination attempt. The picture h= paints is not one in which everything is different, but one in which ever=thing is the same."

6. "Playing catch-up"

The Trump team is on par with Obama for nominations, bu= way behind on winning Senate confirmations, per AP's Ken Thomas: "T=ump's team has nominated 35 people to fill 693 high-level positions that r=quire Senate confirmation, according to ... the Partnership for Public Ser=ice. At this stage in 2009, ... Obama's administration had nominated 38."<=p>

Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday became="the eighth member of Trump's administration to be confirmed; at this poin= eight years ago Obama had 23 officials confirmed, including department he=ds and deputies. ... [T]ypically about 225 Senate confirmed positions are =illed by the annual congressional recess in August."

Not p=cked yet: Solicitor General ... heads of Transportation Security=Administration ... Immigration and Customs Enforcement ... FEMA.

<=trong>Just 3 ambassadors named: Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad to China=... New York Jets owner Woody Johnson to the U.K. ... attorney David Fried=an to Israel.

7. Tops in media trends

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Gerry Baker will ho=t a town hall meeting on Monday where he is expected to address the paper'= reporting on the new administration, Politico's Joe Pompeo reports: "Baker has been hesitant to allow=Journal reporters to characterize Trump's false assertions as lies and has=suggested that media 'elites' are out to get Trump."

8. ​Twitter v. Snapchat

Fair or not, the two companies are increasingly being c=mpared to each other as Snap prepares to go public and Twitter looks for a=big bounce in value:

Both rely on convincing =eople they can massively grow their user.

Both re=y on ads alone to make money.

Both are money-lose=s.

Recode: "Twitter's advantage is t=at it has a proven business. Sure, Snap is hot and exciting and young. But=Twitter likely brought in more than $2.5 billion in revenue last year. The=company has survived for a decade, and President Trump's obsession with th= product means it has never been more culturally significant."

But then there's the business ... "Even Donald Trump Can't Sav= Twitter," which reports earnings today, per the Wall Street Journal's "=head of the Tape" column: "[A]s has been made clear by Twitter's recen= results and its battered stock price, there is a clear distinction betwee= publicity and profitability. Monthly active-user growth continues to slow= Twitter is still losing money ... It has had constant churn in the C-suit=."

9. Getting ahead in politics

In 2014, Sean Spicer, then RNC communications director,=delivered "17 Rules for Life" at his high-school alma mater -- Portsmouth Abbey, a Catholic Benedictine boa=ding and day school on the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. Here=are the Sean Spicer ('89) rules, drawn from a Boston Globe front-pager yesterday, a=d an article in the school's alumni magazine that was reposted on a=blog:

There are no jobs for "anything."=[Before a job interview, know what you want to do.]

Think before y=u tweet, post or upload.

Showing up is half the battl=; showing up early and often is the other half.

Take =esponsibility when you screw up — you will be rewarded.

Never give up.

[Lost to history.]

Have a plan bu= be flexible.

Trust your gut.

Perception is r=ality.

Get to know the international students and und=rstand their different perspectives.

Make good friends. Find a men=or.

Remember to say thank you, orally and in writing.

Your=mail can always be addressed to "occupant." [According to the alumni magaz=ne, "Here Sean stressed the importance of being the person you truly want =o be. Do not be arrogant and pretentious in an enviable position you have =ttained. With these comments he clearly reflected the Benedictine value of=humility."]

Have a relationship with God.

It's true �=94 it is who you know.

Follow your mom's advice: It's not what you=say, but how you say it.

Life is short; leave it on t=e field.

10. 2 fun things

A Domino's Wedding Registry a=nounced yesterday lets you "Cater the Bachelore=te Party," treat wedding guests to pizza at the end of the reception, or g=ve a Low-Key Date Night.

A food scientist explains why Dori=os are addicting: "That red powder is high in salt and sugar — two=major pleasure solutes."

"Your =rain is excited by the sensation of biting into a hard substance =hat quickly dissolves. This is also an example of vanishing caloric densit=, where food seems to disappear in your mouth, tricking your brain into wa=ting more."

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