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US PoliERA 2018 |OT6| An Unmitigated Disaster

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shadow_shogun

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NEW, by me: The wife of White House communications chief Bill Shine spread conspiracy theories about "black boys," shared racist memes and complained about not being able to say the N-word http://mediaite.com/a/cydkj

3:26 PM - Jul 6, 2018
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phisheep

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At Blenheim Palace next week, "Mr Trump, whose mother was Scottish, will then be piped out at the end by the Royal Regiment of Scotland." (quote from BBC)

I have always wondered what Yackety Sax would sound like played by massed bagpipes.
 
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even if you're dumb enough to complain about singing along to kanye as a white person and skipping the N word, how dumb do you have to be to spell it out with the double RR
 
PantherLotus

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(the joke is 'republicans wouldn't treat their dogs the way they're treating these children' coming true before our eyes)
 

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Oh, I'm certainly not encouraging it.

But seriously, somewhere like WI-1 is particularly notorious for DUIs. It's a bunch of rural to small cities, nothing to do but go drink, nothing in walkable range for anyone, zero public transportation and zero taxi or rideshare coverage.
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Even in Milwaukee no one bikes and there aren't enough street lights. In MKE right now and at night have been seeing a ton of questionable driving.
 
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So I was reading DKE, saw this, and then, the kicker...

House: American Action Network, a nonprofit that's close to Speaker Paul Ryan, is spending a total of $2.5 million on TV ads in 10 House seats thanking members for their efforts to combat the opioid epidemic. Seven of those members are Republicans in competitive turf, but there's something a little different about the other three:

CA-11: Democratic Rep. Mark DeSaulnier

CO-06: GOP Rep. Mike Coffman

IL-06: GOP Rep. Peter Roskam

KY-06: GOP Rep. Andy Barr

MA-05: Democratic Rep. Katherine Clark

ME-02: GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin

NY-22: GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney

OH-01: GOP Rep. Steve Chabot

OR-02: GOP Rep. Greg Walden

PA-01: GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick

Republican Rep. Greg Walden doesn't face a competitive contest in his 57-36 Trump seat in Oregon, so it's odd he's on the list.

However, it's even stranger that AAN is also running those ads in support of two Democratic members, Katherine Clark and Mark DeSaulnier of California. Both members are in safely blue seats, but it's still weird that AAN is spending even a token amount across the aisle. Maybe this is Ryan's allies way of apologizing to Clark for that time the two had a friendly airport conversation and Ryan ended up obliviously asking Clark what she did for a living? (Things got even more awkward after she told him.)
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http://www.sentinelandenterprise.co...-congresswoman-pulls-back-curtain-divided-u-s

Right before the New Hampshire presidential primary last winter, U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark was waiting for a plane from Washington, D.C., to Boston when she saw the Wisconsin leader of the U.S. House, and engaged him in friendly conversation, introducing herself as "Katherine Clark from Massachusetts," she told a New England Council breakfast Monday.

After discussion of Clark's plans to campaign in New Hampshire for Hillary Clinton and Ryan's attempts to steer her toward the Republican side, Ryan asked, "So Katherine, what do you do?"

Clark, who has since become one of Ryan's more high-profile critics, told the House speaker she was a member of Congress, leading to an "awkward conversation" where he said he had not noticed the pin she wore identifying herself as a congresswoman.
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This was a fascinating article from a Buzzfeed News writer who lives in Montana.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenp...dale-gianforte?utm_term=.cm3NRM075#.osQzR5adr

Halfway through his remarks, Trump declared that he won Montana "by so many points that I don't have to come here!" Shortly before, detailing all the ways he believes Tester had failed the people of Montana, he asked the crowd, "How did Tester even get elected here?" And while Trump won the state by 20 points, both statements point to a misunderstanding of Montana politics and voters, and Tester's chances in the fall. Trump attracted a capacity crowd of 6,600 in Great Falls — a crowd that cheered for subjects as various as meeting with Vladimir Putin, locking Hillary Clinton up, "beautiful clean coal," job creation, the end of the Paris Climate Accord, and the press being "really bad people." But Trump's misread of both Great Falls and Montana speaks directly to the very real challenges that GOP candidates face in the midterms — especially those running in places often misleadingly labeled as "red states."

Depending on who you talk to, Great Falls is a Trump stronghold or the seat of a highly contested county, a place the president understands as crucial to his 2016 win and to any Republican who runs in this state. The reality is a little more complicated: In 2016, Trump won Cascade County with 57% of the vote. But in 2008, Barack Obama won with 49.9%. Bill Clinton won in 1992 and 1996. Trump's own win in 2016 was offset by 8% of the county who voted for an independent candidate. That same year, Steve Bullock, the state's Democratic governor, won the county handily, with 54% of the vote. And back in 2012, Tester beat his Republican opponent here by 10%.
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All of which is another way of saying that Great Falls — a major city that often gets passed over in favor of its more traditionally photogenic, "cooler" Montana siblings — is a useful stand-in for the politics of the state at large: a state that prides itself on its "purple" voting history, on principles as increasingly foreign as "voting for the person, not the political party," as one resident put it, and maintaining a devotion to voting across ticket. (To state again: 20% of Montanans voted for Trump and their Democratic governor, in the same year, on the same ballot. No wonder that governor is rumored to be considering a 2020 run for president.)

While thousands lined up outside the auditorium, a group of counterprotesters began to grow in their designated spot, right outside the area used for livestock during ag events. While the 100 or so were vastly outnumbered by those in line for the rally, their perspective on Trump, Tester, and their respective relationships to Montana politics echoes those that I've heard all over the state, from ranchers to liberal activists in Missoula: Flatten Montana politics at your peril.
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Swan's customer base is largely retirees, and largely Trump supporters. But that doesn't mean they're against Tester. As Lambaren was keen to point out, "Tester does have a good following of Republicans who are veterans." A veteran holding a "Tester for Montana" sign told me something similar: "I work in an office where everyone but me is Republican," Dave Glaeske said. "Trump makes these attacks against Tester, which might be effective for some people. But they're not effective for vets in Montana, to anyone who's ever met him." And in a place like Montana, that's a surprisingly large percentage of the voting population.

One woman stood at the front lines of the protest with a sign that read, "TOXIC MASCULINITY RUINS THE PARTY AGAIN." Her husband works at Malmstrom Air Force Base, and her friends cautioned me against using her name. "A lot of people at the base are excited for Trump to come. But a lot are peeved, too. He has no plans to come visit. He's not meeting the troops. He's just campaigning for an Easterner." She was referring to Tester's opponent, Rosendale — a real estate developer who moved from Maryland to a Montana hobby ranch in 2002.
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After Rosendale's intro, my phone buzzed with a text from an Eastern Montanan who, last year, had admitted she was one of the fabled cross-ticket voters: She'd voted for both Trump and Bullock. "Absolutely nothing about what Matt would even *do*," she texted, going on to quote the president: "I won Montana by so many points, I don't have to come here."

"First rule of politics," she said. "Never assume you're untouchable."
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Kirblar

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That piece reads as an argument for expanding the house and getting smaller districts to me.
 
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Lol of course he is devastated. He got to do whatever the fuck he wanted, with almost no oversight, and got paid!

Now he has no job and everyone knows what a piece of shit he is.
 
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Just finished today's Majority 54. His wife announced the newest preorder incentive for his book during this week only. If you send them a receipt of a preorder, Kander will record a custom voicemail for you lol.
 
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Nelo Ice said:
Just finished today's Majority 54. His wife announced the newest preorder incentive for his book during this week only. If you send them a receipt of a preorder, Kander will record a custom voicemail for you lol.
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I didn't know Unemployed Man was in such dire straits. Surely we in this thread, who've gotten such joy in joking about him, can make a Kickstarter.
 
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