A) Right, right.
B) Trump needs to be thrown out ASAP, so Putin won't get opportunities like this. That's terrifying.
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US PoliERA 2019 |OT2| #PresidentPelosi
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A) Right, right.
B) Trump needs to be thrown out ASAP, so Putin won't get opportunities like this. That's terrifying.
I don't think gerrymandering has anything to do with Democrats not having 2 or 3 representatives. The state has been blood shot red since 1861. Last I checked Republican outnumber democrats there 3-1. The only times we ever have won there were through one shot anomalys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Republican_Party
I'm wondering how long people can keep dumping money into him. Over a long enough timeline those donations have to stop coming in, that's a big part of why politicians generally have to pick and choose when to fundraise.
— the CNN new political editor story really is all sorts of fucky.
— anyone also assume Trump spending $100M includes like $99M in graft and self enrichment?
— the McCabe storyline is the hardest to follow so far. He's not Comey or Rosenstein but was there for all the same scenes?
— I'm pretty wary of the "if you think Trump is a Russian asset the American people need to know immmediately" narrative and it should be treated like the FUD that it is. That argument is intended to suggest they don't actually have anything while buying time with the remaining 1-4% of people who aren't already convinced. Watch the people who are saying this.
— anyone also assume Trump spending $100M includes like $99M in graft and self enrichment?
— the McCabe storyline is the hardest to follow so far. He's not Comey or Rosenstein but was there for all the same scenes?
— I'm pretty wary of the "if you think Trump is a Russian asset the American people need to know immmediately" narrative and it should be treated like the FUD that it is. That argument is intended to suggest they don't actually have anything while buying time with the remaining 1-4% of people who aren't already convinced. Watch the people who are saying this.
It sure is. I hate seeing the NHS demonized and I've done my part to put people straight when they start spouting stories about how terrible healthcare is in the UK.
Still, if I got a phonecall from one of these people, I'd cut them off, ask them if they voted to leave the EU and hang up if they did.
So basically admitting that the family and this lawsuit is just a 2020 campaign booster for the base.
Should have put a sure Jan gif after that. They haven't mounted a single response in two years that wasn't Reddit crazy talk and shock when real life doesn't work like a bad internet forum
I am not sympathetic at all to McCabe. And the book excerpts I've read don't exactly paint him in a flattering light. This bit is a perfect example:
Trump is asking if he should visit the FBI. McCabe apparently anguishes over this inside his head, knowing how awful it'll be for the agents whose boss he just fired and is publicly shitting on and also how Trump is going to use the setting as a photo opp for himself (and to shit on Comey some more). Rather than say anything about any possible reason about how, hey, maybe we can wait a week or so before touching that livewire again, McCabe's only two responses are "Good idea" and "Sure." He repeatedly internalizes how problematic, at best, anything Trump says or does is but does absolutely nothing about it, and instead gives off the exact opposite impression. How is this behavior any different from the Gary Cohns and Rex Tillersons and HR McMasters that are regularly derided for their cowardice and dereliction of duty?
Trump is asking if he should visit the FBI. McCabe apparently anguishes over this inside his head, knowing how awful it'll be for the agents whose boss he just fired and is publicly shitting on and also how Trump is going to use the setting as a photo opp for himself (and to shit on Comey some more). Rather than say anything about any possible reason about how, hey, maybe we can wait a week or so before touching that livewire again, McCabe's only two responses are "Good idea" and "Sure." He repeatedly internalizes how problematic, at best, anything Trump says or does is but does absolutely nothing about it, and instead gives off the exact opposite impression. How is this behavior any different from the Gary Cohns and Rex Tillersons and HR McMasters that are regularly derided for their cowardice and dereliction of duty?
This article is a slog but is worth reading beyond the headline. There has to be a solution beyond encouraging people to boycott whichever platform is getting hit.
The entire era is decorated with these figures and these storylines. Is it the courage to stand up and lose your power to protect the republic or the courage to hold strong? Gonna be pretty hard to figure out who the heroes and cowards inside the machine were for a long time to come.
Trump is the 800 lbs gorilla in the room. When you're part of the apparatus he hates and distrusts and you're trying to preserve an investigation into whether he's compromised, unless you're some psychological master, of course you're going to play along with him.
I don't think this is Trump just because it uses the term 'false.' Feel like he'd just say fake news and move on. Calculated denial by Scavino?
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Daniel Dale @ddale8
Is this the first time Trump has singled out a specific media outlet as an "enemy of the people," rather than "fake news" generally? It is bad.
Here's the other time Trump identified specific outlets as enemies of the people. This was the first time he singled out one alone. pic.twitter.com/PnMkWNvckI
9:05 AM - Feb 20, 2019
Is this the first time Trump has singled out a specific media outlet as an "enemy of the people," rather than "fake news" generally? It is bad.
Here's the other time Trump identified specific outlets as enemies of the people. This was the first time he singled out one alone. pic.twitter.com/PnMkWNvckI
9:05 AM - Feb 20, 2019
Thomas has already shown a willingness to fuck precedent. I wouldn't be surprised to see this g
That Obama figure is quite good, pleasant to see
Pretty weak pushback imo
Josh Rogin @joshrogin
Lindsey Graham told Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan if Trump completely withdraws from Syria: "That's the dumbest fucking idea I've ever heard... I am now your adversary, not your friend." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/20/inside-patrick-shanahans-clash-with-congress-munich-over-syria/?utm_term=.89bf4f0d132b … @washingtonpost
9:18 AM - Feb 20, 2019
Lindsey Graham told Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan if Trump completely withdraws from Syria: "That's the dumbest fucking idea I've ever heard... I am now your adversary, not your friend." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/20/inside-patrick-shanahans-clash-with-congress-munich-over-syria/?utm_term=.89bf4f0d132b … @washingtonpost
9:18 AM - Feb 20, 2019
WaPo Op-ed: Inside Patrick Shanahan's clash with Congress in Munich over Syria
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), the leader of the main congressional delegation, pressed Shanahan on whether he was telling European officials in Munich that the full U.S. withdrawal from Syria was a done deal.
"Are you telling our allies that we are going to go to zero by April 30?" he asked Shanahan, according to Graham.
"Yes, that's been our direction [from the president]," Shanahan replied.
"That's the dumbest f---ing idea I've ever heard," Graham responded.
Graham then launched into a list of consequences he feared would result from a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Syria without a follow-up plan: The Islamic State would return, Turkey would attack Kurdish forces, Iran would gain the advantage. Graham asked Shanahan if he disagreed with that analysis.
"That could very well happen," Shanahan said.
"Well, if the policy is going to be that we are leaving by April 30, I am now your adversary, not your friend," Graham told the acting Pentagon chief, according to Graham. (Several other lawmakers confirmed this exchange.)
Graham's alternative idea, which he spent the weekend pitching in Europe, is for European countries to contribute hundreds of new troops to build a safe zone on the Syrian side of the Turkish border. This zone would keep the Islamic State from returning and provide a buffer between Turkish troops and the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces that the United States trained and armed (but now seems poised to abandon).
Gosh do those outliers have anything in common? Guess we'll never know.
I'd actually consider that alternative but no European government (other than maybe the UK and France) would go for that.
And my first reaction is, "Well, guess I'd better go see what fresh dirt the NYT has dug up on Trump."
Will Sommer @willsommer
Laura Loomer is protesting again outside Twitter's NYC headquarters, but she's required to stay across the street from the door she locked herself to last time. She has a permit for 600 people, but only roughly a dozen showed up.
9:30 AM - Feb 20, 2019
Laura Loomer is protesting again outside Twitter's NYC headquarters, but she's required to stay across the street from the door she locked herself to last time. She has a permit for 600 people, but only roughly a dozen showed up.
9:30 AM - Feb 20, 2019
The story yesterday he asked Whitaker to replace the sdny da with his appointee.
This time he's not wrong though - ISIS hasn't been defeated and has significantly more fighters now than it did the last time the organisation was declared dead.
The tweet is about the NYT story yesterday on his attempts to get the Trump-y SDNY AG to un-recuse himself.
Yeah, which is bullshit whether you think we should leave Syria or not.
There needs to be an organized timetable of a YEAR at a minimum.
Got it.
Also, sources never exist unless they are unnamed sources used to say something positive about Trump.
Sara Carter, Daily Caller, Breitbart, etc all use "sources say" and the dipshit believes them.
"You're my enemy, guy who is following the orders of the President whose ass I'm kissing hourly!"
What if the plan is to pull out of Syria, allow ISIS to regain strength, and then campaign in 2020 on striking back at ISIS with a larger commitment in the region?
Just kidding. If there is any plan here it is a Russian one.
I guess my criticism is, right or wrong he's a fucking psycho about this stuff.
One would hope, but the root problem still remains.
Americans are fucking stupid and lack critical thinking skills and basic fact checking abilities and/or are too lazy to do so.
The House should subpoena some Facebook/Twitter executives to come testify. That usually gets them moving.
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