Nicker on 30/11/2018 at 17:03
That was great. I laughed too. I love the grim fun that Maddow has with this story and the look of glee on Lawrence O'Donnel's face whenever he gets to report on Trump stepping in his own shit again.
Just a thought about the news that Manafort was feeding information about Mueller's investigation to Trump. I think it's entirely possible that Mueller suspected Manafort might do exactly that and provided sculpted information or outright misinformation to pass along. I can't believe that Mueller is naive enough to believe that career criminals suddenly become totally honest when offered a plea deal.
Starker on 2/12/2018 at 19:43
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Also, in a surprising twist of events, in California's 21st district, that had been called for a Republican, the Democrat is now only 447 votes behind with 15 000 ballots still left.
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The Democrat just pulled ahead by 438 votes. Looks like it's going to be close. It's not like it really matters a great deal at this point, but if Democrats win this one, it would increase their net gain to a nice round 40.
And it looks like the seat is all but certain to go to the Democrats, as their guy leads with 529 votes and there is only a small amount of votes left to count.
Also, Republicans managed to hold on to the Senate seat in Mississippi. The fact that I can even say this sentence shows how massive the blue tsunami really was. As a result, the Republicans increased their majority in the Senate by two seats with a map massively favourable to them.
In another surprise twist, looks like there were some "irregularities" in North Carolina's 9th district where a Republican won by a narrow margin. Someone appears to have messed with the absentee ballots. So they might call a new election, if they find it's serious enough to have skewed the result.
Starker on 4/12/2018 at 19:51
The best people:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/opinion/alex-acosta-jeffrey-epstein-trump.html)
It is the perverse good fortune of Alexander Acosta, Donald Trump's secretary of labor, to be part of an administration so spectacularly corrupt that it's simply impossible to give all its scandals the attention they deserve.
Last Wednesday, The Miami Herald published a (
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html) blockbuster multipart exposé about how the justice system failed the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, a rich, politically connected financier who appears to have abused underage girls on a near-industrial scale. The investigation, more than a year in the making, described Epstein as running a sort of child molestation pyramid scheme, in which girls — some in middle school — would be recruited to give Epstein “massages” at his Palm Beach mansion, pressured into sex acts, then coerced into bringing him yet more girls. The Herald reported that Epstein was also suspected of trafficking girls from overseas.
What's shocking is not just the lurid details and human devastation of his alleged crimes, but the way he was able to use his money to escape serious consequences, thanks in part to Acosta, then Miami's top federal prosecutor. For reasons that are not entirely clear, Acosta took extraordinary measures to let Epstein — and, crucially, other unnamed people — off the hook.
The labor secretary, whose purview includes combating human trafficking, has done nothing so far to rebut The Herald's reporting. (A spokesman for his department has referred reporters to his previous statements about the case.) It should end his career. The story might have been overshadowed by last week's cascading revelations in the Trump-Russia scandal, or the news that acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker knew of numerous fraud complaints against a company he advised, to take just two examples of administration lawlessness. But while Acosta's record covering up for a depraved plutocrat makes him a good fit for the Trump administration, it should disqualify him from public service.
Renzatic on 5/12/2018 at 00:03
Aren't people like him who Trump is supposedly fighting against, per Qanon?
Starker on 5/12/2018 at 21:06
The US national debt has been ballooning a bit out of control, but, not to worry, Lord Dampnut has found a solution that works for him:
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-on-coming-debt-crisis-i-wont-be-here-when-it-blows-up?ref=scroll)
Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt.
Sources close to the president say he has repeatedly shrugged it off, implying that he doesn't have to worry about the money owed to America's creditors—currently about $21 trillion—because he won't be around to shoulder the blame when it becomes even more untenable.
The friction came to a head in early 2017 when senior officials offered Trump charts and graphics laying out the numbers and showing a “hockey stick” spike in the national debt in the not-too-distant future. In response, Trump noted that the data suggested the debt would reach a critical mass only after his possible second term in office.
“Yeah, but I won't be here,” the president bluntly said, according to a source who was in the room when Trump made this comment during discussions on the debt.
robthom on 6/12/2018 at 00:33
Well, I dont really care for British peopel or anybody else's opinions about Americas leadership.
And if you say, but Americas the leader of the free world and so that makes it my business.
Thats what makes it even more none of your business.
Becasue if you knew better then we do then you'd be leader of teh free world.
But since you asked,
Trump is the best thing to happen to this country in my lifetime.
The rest of the world wouldn't know it, becasue all you know is what you read in new york liberal fake news.
But its been new york liberal fake news who have been instigating all the violence on American soil and around the world for 50 years.
So all you know is lies that you heard from the actual criminal of these crimes.
And that may have been one of Trumps greatest attributes, being a new yorker.
He knows those peopel well. He's known them all his life, knows their dirty tricks and doesn't fall for them.
Trump has saved this country and maybe the world.
If it weren't for Trump at the right place at the right time to DEFY a political system that had been rigged,
between liberals who run the media and a false conservative leadership in conspiracy with them,
it probably would have been all over and too late to save this country.
A truly fascist state of liberal extortionists and slumlords,
instigating violence from a slumlords enclave and oppressing and fleecing people who work for a living under the ruse of "socialism".
Before Trump there was no functional system.
There was no true political opposition to them with a republican leadership in conspiracy with them.
Who the liberals had installed themselves through control over media/propaganda,
and through that control over public perception/politics.
Thats why almost all of the republican leadership for the last 30 years,
mccain, romney, bushes, were against him.
AFTER he became the choice of the Republican voter.
Thats why they were AGAINST the CHOICE of the republican voter.
Becasue they were never working for the Republican voter.
Pyrian on 6/12/2018 at 02:24
The U.S.A. isn't the leader of the free world anymore. That's just a fact. Trump has taken us in a different direction and nobody's following. That literally means we're not the leader anymore. Your "Becasue if you knew better then we do then you'd be leader of teh free world" is exactly what has happened, and it's happened precisely because everyone and their kid sister knows better than Trump.
Renzatic on 6/12/2018 at 02:59
I'm still waiting for a conservative to show up here that doesn't sound like they just got through reading The Turner Diaries.
Whatever happened to the Reganite Republicans? Yeah, they were a little cutthroat, but they were smart, damnit. You could trust them with the country, even if they did occasionally start a war or two, or, you know, sell missiles to Iran without congressional approval. These new conservatives, which is something of a misnomer these days, pop in here, sprouting off what's very fucking obviously propaganda per the various repeated buzzwords, focus on a vaguely defined enemy, and healthy heaping of hero worship who will lead them to the promised land, then just fuck off until someone else writes a tract for them to repeat.
Did the old conservatives die with Bush? Is Robthom and his ilk all we have left of the once proud American Right? Please tell me it isn't so, people!
Pyrian on 6/12/2018 at 03:15
Bah humbug - in addition to having a very different definition of "trust with the country" than I would go with, Reagan and his associates did a lot to kick off the rapid departure from basic reality that has been the Republican hallmark ever since. Tax cuts reduce the deficit!
Renzatic on 6/12/2018 at 03:22
They kicked off the fiscal and foreign policy attitudes that are now standard among Republicans, but the tendency towards hyperpartisanship didn't start building until after 2001, and the creepy rhetoric didn't really kick into gear until Trump started running for the presidency.