Colbert: Insiders Call the White House ‘Crazytown’
Bob Woodward’s book ‘Fear’ paints the White House as a dysfunctional, off the rails disaster that Trump’s own aides refer to as ‘Crazytown.’
Bob Woodward’s book ‘Fear’ paints the White House as a dysfunctional, off the rails disaster that Trump’s own aides refer to as ‘Crazytown.’
I’m normally a person who says we can do multiple things at once, but, was Kavanaugh a weasel about everything today?
re: #1 Belafon
I’m normally a person who says we can do multiple things at once, but, was Kavanaugh a weasel about everything today?
Always.
“I have never even heard of Mike Pence.” pic.twitter.com/qDWFlAYclL
— Diane N. Sevenay (@Diane_7A) September 6, 2018
Isn’t he the coffee kid? Goes on Starbucks runs? You know the guy—slim build, shit-faced grin, always looks adoringly at his boss.
— KansasCityFish (@kansascityfish) September 6, 2018
“I thought Lodestar was that theft-deterrent thing they put in cars.”
— Mark W (@B9lyEquivocal) September 6, 2018
What is happening?? pic.twitter.com/L8gwufpiDV
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) September 6, 2018
I’m going with a short mindless flag waving MAGA tweet of some sort
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 6, 2018
WATCH: #DeltaFire burning south of Dunsmuir, California.
MORE: https://t.co/ALFuIChlOP pic.twitter.com/NfWq7UgnMT— Brian Schnee (@brian_schnee) September 5, 2018
There is zero chance Trump makes it to 2020. Consider how grim it looks for him today. It will get worse tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. It’s all downhill for him from here. I’m feeling better about democracy surviving.
— Tony Schwartz (@tonyschwartz) September 6, 2018
re: #8 gocart mozart
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I continue to believe he will end up resigning before 2020, playing true to form in declaring himself a “winner”…as he runs away while leaving the GOP holding the bag.
#WhenIWentToTheMall I never found out what was on the second floor. pic.twitter.com/69KdC4omyt
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) September 6, 2018
re: #8 gocart mozart
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I feel we’re reaching the stage where people should start thinking about what they’re going to do to help build a better country than we’ve been.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) September 6, 2018
re: #9 Targetpractice
I continue to believe he will end up resigning before 2020, playing true to form in declaring himself a “winner”…as he runs away while leaving the GOP holding the bag.
Is that resignation with assurances he won’t get indicted by like 10 different jurisdictions the minute he’s gone?
re: #9 Targetpractice
I continue to believe he will end up resigning before 2020, playing true to form in declaring himself a “winner”…as he runs away while leaving the GOP holding the bag.
I don’t see that as a remote possibility. He will either be 25A’d (either from a stroke or from just general mental deterioration) and eventually committed, or he will get impeached when the Democrats win in November. He will never willingly abandon ship.
re: #11 Belafon
We still have a lot of work to do before we get the fire out - that’s 2020 - but things are starting to spin out of the ability for Trump to control the narrative. And that’s really the worst thing for him.
re: #12 JordanRules
Is that resignation with assurances he won’t get indicted by like 10 different jurisdictions the minute he’s gone?
Very likely. He’ll take the Nixon Exit Plan: “I resign of my own free will…after you guys promise not to send me to a prison cell for the rest of my life.”
We have discovered evidence that Judge Kavanaugh misled the Senate during his 2004 and 2006 hearings. Truthfulness under oath is not an optional qualification for a Supreme Court nominee. Watch as I question him here: https://t.co/twNcwl91PR
— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) September 5, 2018
Whatever else you think of the anonymous NYT op ed, it certainly knocked this story off the front page. https://t.co/soHHKZncKy
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 6, 2018
Semi-CL’d:
Look, there are Constitutional mechanisms for limiting the power of a President or removing him/her. You can invoke Article 25 and put a caretaker in charge, or you can impeach.
That’s it. Those are your options.
What you CAN’T do is what this Op/Ed writer has said “he” and his co-conspirators have done, which is basically deciding to hamstring the guy in the Oval without letting him know or telling him why.
This is outside of Constitutional norms. This an admission that they have independently decided to create a Constitutional Crisis from inside the White House.
That’s is. Full stop.
This is a Palace Coup and should be the only thing that is being talked about. Who are they? Who outside of the WH supports this? This is an unelected group (unless Pence is in on it) who have subverted our Government.
Historians can bark about the situation after Wilson had his big ass stroke, but this isn’t about a health issue per se. Trump is exactly who and what he was when elected. He hasn’t changed a bit. He has done exactly what he said he was going to do. And these people have done their best to de-fang him.
This is what is unprecedented. This is all that should be discussed. Republicans have attempted to decapitate the vested power within the Republican White House.
re: #16 jaunte
I doubt that was going to be very big news anyway. I think the $200K in debt suddenly disappearing is a way bigger story.
Harris: Have you heard the term “racial spoils system”?
Kavanaugh: Yes.
Harris: You twice used that term in a WSJ piece. “Spoils” is defined as goods stolen. What does that phrase mean to you?
K: (after back/forth) I’m not sure what I was referring to then, to be frank.— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) September 6, 2018
Harris: are you aware the term “racial spoils system” is used by white supremecists?
Kavanaugh: I wrote that 20 years ago and the answer is no.— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) September 6, 2018
re: #18 Belafon
I doubt that was going to be very big news anyway. I think the $200K in debt suddenly disappearing is a way bigger story.
I guess we’ve grown used to conservatives lying under oath.
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hey now, can’t we cut this guy a break because he loves Ma, apple pie, and puppies?
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Harris: Can you think of any decisions that give the government the power to make a decision about a man’s body?
Kavanaugh: Uh, (asks for clarification), no I’m not aware of any.— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) September 6, 2018
Kamala is taking no prisoners
When the Democrats are back in power, hopefully in 2021, they really should add two seats to the Court because Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were both stolen.
re: #21 Targetpractice
Hey now, can’t we cut this guy a break because he loves Ma, apple pie, and puppies?
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Norman Bates loved all three of those things, too!
.@senkamalaharris asks if Judge Kavanaugh has discussed Mueller Investigation with anyone at Kasowitz Benson Torres law firm.#Kavanaugh: “I would like to know the person you’re thinking of.”
Sen. Harris: “I think you’re thinking of someone and you don’t want to tell us.” pic.twitter.com/pI2XEHNba9— CSPAN (@cspan) September 6, 2018
Unpopular opinion. I want trump still in the WH until Nov. 2020 when he loses in a landslide. The day the new Democrat President is sworn in, I want the marshalls cuffing him once he leaves the inauguration, and the whole crowd chanting LOCK HIM UP to his smug fucking face.
Barring any acts of God we’re stuck with President Fuckface Von Clownstick until 20 January 2021, that is if he’s voted out of office. That’s the reality.
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Kamala is taking no prisoners
Barbara Boxer chose not to run again so now we have Kamala. If only Feinstein would take the hint.
re: #20 jaunte
I guess we’ve grown used to conservatives lying under oath.
It also has the “That was 14 years ago” smell on it.
Regarding Harris’ question whether Kavanaugh discussed Mueller’s investigation with anyone at Kasowitz’s firm, a Democratic aide says they have reason to believe that a conversation happened and they are continuing to pursue it.
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) September 6, 2018
Maybe there are tapes.
This really was a totally surreal moment - Kavanaugh looked like a deer in the headlights and never answered whether he had discussed Mueller’s probe *with anyone at Trump’s lawyer’s firm*. https://t.co/ujivxnzN11
— Ian Sams (@IanSams) September 6, 2018
re: #29 Belafon
Having seen Kavanaugh in action, I’m sure there are more recent lies.
re: #28 Skip Intro
Barbara Boxer chose not to run again so now we have Kamala. If only Feinstein would take the hint.
Is there another Kamala waiting?
re: #32 jaunte
Having seen Kavanaugh in action, I’m sure there are more recent lies.
I’m sure there are.
Brother update.
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the letters to the editor will all begin with “now let me get this straight…”
— Carlos Lozada (@CarlosLozadaWP) September 5, 2018
re: #34 Belafon
Is there another Kamala waiting?
Kevin DeLeon got the second slot to run against Feinstein in November.
This is the second California Senate election in a row where NO F’N REPUBLICAN is on the November ballot for Senator.
Adults stole children from their parents. Adults funnel taxpayer $ into their own pockets, endanger the sick and the environment, gaslight us all about what the administration is doing. These rooms are full of adults. Selfish, opportunistic, underhanded, complicit adults.
— Deborah Roseman (@roseperson) September 6, 2018
From the previous thread …
re: #212 HappyWarrior
If you want to argue that McCain paved the way for Trump, I won’t argue. Just a different perspective. The bigger point is that the GOP establishment is directly responsible for why Trump has been able to flourish in right wing circles due to their own actions and cowardice.
I’ll argue. McCain didn’t pave the way, nor did Romney. Both were just points on the continuum of conservatism which led to Trump.
Joe McCarthy led plenty of bat guano in his day as a conservative, but was ultimately hoisted by his own petard.
I still maintain it was Barry Goldwater’s run for President, when he invited the Klan and John Birch Society (the Infowars of print) into the GOP. Nixon continued it with his Southern Strategy, Reagan with his opening campaign speech on the site of slain Civil Rights workers killed there only seven years before and weaponising Evangelical Christianity (which before had been mostly apolitical, and strangely using a Catholic, Paul Weyrich).
The GOP has been demonising education all my life, to the point many people believe higher education institutions are overrun with “Marxists” (though I doubt they could identify Karl Marx), and that things like critical thinking undermines parental authority.
re: #17 austin_blue
Exactly. There is no constitutional mechanism for what the author is describing is the way the government functions right now.
Reconsidering Pence at the moment. Pence leading a 25th coup with a handful of cabinet secretaries sounds… Jeez. At this point, nothing surprises me. Also worth mulling: what if there’s something grave inside the WH the public doesn’t know about yet.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) September 6, 2018
re: #38 Joe Bacon 🌹
Kevin DeLeon got the second slot to run against Feinstein in November.
This is the second California Senate election in a row where NO F’N REPUBLICAN is on the November ballot for Senator.
Feinstein at least has some fight in her. Much like people trying to push Pelosi out, I don’t want someone in there just to replace Feinstein. The replacement has to be more than that.
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
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First assumption: Trump is exhibiting signs behind closed doors that he’s on the verge of a total mental collapse and the staff are worried about what comes next after that. Namely how the fuck they get the Congressional GOP to take steps to remove him from office without sending everything wingnut from to Azerbaijan into a frothing rage at the “conspiracy.”
re: #38 Joe Bacon 🌹
Kevin DeLeon got the second slot to run against Feinstein in November.
This is the second California Senate election in a row where NO F’N REPUBLICAN is on the November ballot for Senator.
In California, the GOP now has third party status.
re: #45 Big Beautiful Door
In California, the GOP now has third party status.
And it couldn’t be more glorious. Go fuck yourself, GOP.
The best kind of chocolate.. pic.twitter.com/x3ZinFTP8U
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) September 6, 2018
re: #44 Targetpractice
First assumption: Trump is exhibiting signs behind closed doors that he’s on the verge of a total mental collapse and the staff are worried about what comes next after that. Namely how the fuck they get the Congressional GOP to take steps to remove him from office without sending everything wingnut from to Azerbaijan into a frothing rage at the “conspiracy.”
Its not possible. Even if Trump is in a coma, or dead, it will be because The GOP establishment participated in a “Deep State” coup.
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
Aide: They’ve uncovered your darkest secret
Trump: Not the corpse orgy!
Aide: No, the golden showe..wait, the corpse what?
Trump: Nothing— joe heenan (@joeheenan) January 11, 2017
wow
This is amazing. Tyrone fisherman Raymond McElroy caught this in his fishing net while out on Lough Neagh today…the antlers and skull of a Great Irish Elk! An animal that has been extinct for thousands of years. pic.twitter.com/0DYOoB1av2
— Patricia Devlin (@trishdevlin) September 5, 2018
re: #34 Belafon
I’m sure there is. We have 33 million people here.
heh
If Ben Carson wrote the op-ed:
I am choosing to remain anonymous. But I’ve always been a risk-taker. I once tried to stab someone.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz— Brandi, #1 Duckburgh Reconstruction Researcher (@ItsTheBrandi) September 6, 2018
video:
.@senkamalaharris asks Judge #Kavanaugh: “Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?” pic.twitter.com/HbmkmIzuJg
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 6, 2018
It doesn’t usually come up in a Supreme Court confirmation hearing that a nominee is accused of having repeatedly lied under oath the last time he or she appeared before the senate, but… pic.twitter.com/xpCsItgZGO
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) September 6, 2018
President who surrounded himself with scorpions outraged at being stung.
Hannity guest: “science and real data and true psychological theory”shows “this president is the most sound minded person to ever occupy the White House” pic.twitter.com/355E21kxW5
— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) September 6, 2018
“Science and real data and true psychological theory” LOL! https://t.co/giGbzHkrYV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 6, 2018
Hannity guest: “science and real data and true psychological theory”shows “this president is the most sound minded person to ever occupy the White House” pic.twitter.com/355E21kxW5
— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) September 6, 2018
Who is Hannity’s guest? John Barron or John Miller? Or maybe David Dennison? #resist https://t.co/DOqANg2eWL
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) September 6, 2018
re: #56 Charles Johnson
Jesus H. Fucking Christ, that man is desperately invested in Trump. It’s almost like he has a personal stake in the current charlie foxtrot.
re: #56 Charles Johnson
Don’t they realize that the more they deny Trump’s unsoundness of mind with these over-the-top claims the more people disbelieve them?
The lady doth protest too much.
Kavanaugh is really struggling. Asked about racially loaded language he used in previous writings, Kavanaugh pretends he’s unfamiliar with his own work. And instead of expressing his own current views about race relations, he lamely uses “precedent” to deflect Booker’s questions. pic.twitter.com/IYeVpSHKiV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 6, 2018
Challenged by @CoryBooker to defend a transparently racist South Carolina voter ID law he upheld, Kavanaugh deflects by pointing out he wasn’t the only judge who concluded it wouldn’t have disparate impact on black and poor voters. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/nOhnE3MAtC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 6, 2018
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone needs to ask him “Considering that the Supreme Court has occasionally overturned their own precedent, why should we accept you falling back on it instead of answering the questions?”
Sometimes you just have to laugh at these dim-witted grifters on Fox News. To keep from weeping.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 6, 2018
Former Obama Secretary of State @JohnKerry: “We have a presidency which is off the rails… we have a President who is not capable of doing the job… doesn’t know enough to be making many of the decisions he makes… This is a genuine constitutional crisis.” https://t.co/Yjemd6ehXX pic.twitter.com/plyYtLSNXb
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) September 6, 2018
Doesn’t matter how much Kavanaugh struggles, or how much drama there is. He’s going to be confirmed.
re: #57 The Vicious Babushka
Who is Hannity’s guest? John Barron or John Miller? Or maybe David Dennison?
Gotta be his “doctor” who said he’d be the healthiest person ever to take office.
re: #70 Charles Johnson
Doesn’t matter how much Kavanaugh struggles, or how much drama there is. He’s going to be confirmed.
Yeup. It was a foregone conclusion from the moment the GOP rammed through the hearings over the objections of the Senate Democrats.
re: #69 Belafon
I think the story was that a tweet went out with the pronoun “he,” but then the Times clarified that the person who tweeted that did not know the gender of the author.
Radley thinks it’s a ‘she.’
Some speculation on the op-ed author: It contains a lot of op-ed-ese — transitions and terms generally used by people with experience writing for opinion pages. That suggests a think tank background, where op-ed writing is a regular part of the job. /1
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) September 6, 2018
Next is the use of the phrase “free minds, markets,” which is the motto of Reason, which suggests someone from libertarian circles. The op-ed also mentions deregulation as one of Trump’s successes (if in spite of himself). /2
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) September 6, 2018
Highest-ranking person who meets the criteria — regulatory expertise, think tank background, libertarian exposure, likely anger at Trump’s violations of norms — is Trump’s “regulatory czar” Neomi Rao, appointed in April 2017.
Just speculation. But she checks several boxes. /3— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) September 6, 2018
re: #12 JordanRules
Is that resignation with assurances he won’t get indicted by like 10 different jurisdictions the minute he’s gone?
Hell no!
He has to pay. He needs to be made an example.
re: #70 Charles Johnson
Doesn’t matter how much Kavanaugh struggles, or how much drama there is. He’s going to be confirmed.
Best to have him leave a huge dirty wake so when he does rule out of line, there’s something to go back to.
re: #75 teleskiguy
Radley thinks it’s a ‘she.’
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re: #76 ObserverArt
Hell no!
He has to pay. He needs to be made an example.
Oh I definitely agree. I just don’t think he resigns without that though.
I hope that deal isn’t made.
Derp-throat will reveal his true identity when he gets a book deal
— Rachel Figueroa (@Jewyorican) September 5, 2018
re: #70 Charles Johnson
Doesn’t matter how much Kavanaugh struggles, or how much drama there is. He’s going to be confirmed.
With Kyl appointed to the Senate, even Collins can’t stop it. The Left will have a conniption if Manchin, Heitkamp and other red state Democrats in tough races vote to confirm, but they can’t stop the Republicans, and we badly need as many Red State Democratic Senators to survive as possible.
Where is the world is Mike Pence (Besides grabbing a fap with every buzz today)? I bet he can taste it.
re: #81 Big Beautiful Door
With Kyl appointed to the Senate, even Collins can’t stop it. The Left will have a conniption if Manchin, Heitkamp and other red state Democrats in tough races vote to confirm, but they can’t stop the Republicans, and we badly need as many Red State Democratic Senators to survive as possible.
Come on. Nobody needs to confirm him to win their race.
I guess if this were a TV show, it would be Stephen Miller who wrote a false flag op-ed as a way of triggering Trump and launching an internal purge.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 6, 2018
re: #84 teleskiguy
But fiction has to make sense.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) September 6, 2018
TREASON?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018
They flattered me like a dog and told me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones were there. To say “Ay” and “No” to everything that I say “Ay” and “No” to was no good divinity…Go to, they are not men o’ their words. They told me I was everything. Tis a lie.—King Lear https://t.co/6KOuHp0ode
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) September 6, 2018
Adam Schiff breaks out the ultimate liberal secret weapon: Shakespeare.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 6, 2018
re: #44 Targetpractice
First assumption: Trump is exhibiting signs behind closed doors that he’s on the verge of a total mental collapse and the staff are worried about what comes next after that. Namely how the fuck they get the Congressional GOP to take steps to remove him from office without sending everything wingnut from to Azerbaijan into a frothing rage at the “conspiracy.”
This segment is about the process in the House.
re: #83 JordanRules
Come on. Nobody needs to confirm him to win their race.
I don’t know that. I’m just sayin I’m not going to crucify them if they do think they need to vote to confirm since the GOP has the votes they need anyway.
It’s either Pence or somebody who was trying to set up Pence.
Which means it’s Pence.
Fucker probably thought he was being SO clever, but couldn’t resist dropping the lodestar.
Now he’s at home like … pic.twitter.com/PAswrfX39o— Sweaty-Toothed Madman (@goddamnedfrank) September 6, 2018
DONALD MY WIFE LEFT ME FOR AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. PLEASE DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!
— Barry McCockiner (@Sp0rtsTalkJo3) September 5, 2018
re: #84 teleskiguy
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— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 6, 2018
TREASON?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018
He’s becoming self-aware. https://t.co/49Qv7iW0nU
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) September 5, 2018
re: #92 jaunte
It never ends well in movies when the monster reaches that stage.
LOL
Conan reads my hometown newspaper:
On my way to Conan Town. It’s time to settle this. #ConanJapan #ConanTown pic.twitter.com/kQhtHwzrBW
— Conan O’Brien (@ConanOBrien) September 6, 2018
#NowPlaying Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros > The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver > Wooden Indian https://t.co/IZ7RpuZsoL
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 6, 2018
Occam’s Razor and all that.
Dear @realDonaldTrump: The anonymous New York Times op-ed writer used the unusual word “lodestar.” FREE CLUE: Ask Mother if there’s anyone in your administration who *loves* using that word … pic.twitter.com/EUHWGpyn0N
— Wanda Ransom (@wandaransom) September 6, 2018
Lodestar is an archaic term that absolutely nobody else uses, except Pence. It’s Pence.https://t.co/VM3jTMdfAA
— Sweaty-Toothed Madman (@goddamnedfrank) September 6, 2018
re: #75 teleskiguy
Radley thinks it’s a ‘she.’
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It was Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout.
Obvious question: If the quotes were fabricated why bother finding out who said them?https://t.co/QltXRg85qc
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) September 5, 2018
re: #96 goddamnedfrank
Occam’s Razor and all that.
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re: #92 jaunte
Soon he’ll develop object permanence and peek-a-boo will be a lot less fun. 🎃
Especially funny given Woodward’s book. (Yes, it’s funny. It’s not that other emotion we use humor to hide.)
re: #96 goddamnedfrank
Occam’s Razor and all that.
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What? I like old words too.
Watching Kavanaugh and thinking about the anonymous op-ed in the Times, part of the conservative White House rebellion against Trump is that he’s so lazy and distracted by ego that he falls short of the ideal calculating, nasty, committed destroyer of legal protections for the vulnerable in the mold of the Federalist Society judges list.
re: #88 Big Beautiful Door
I don’t know that. I’m just sayin I’m not going to crucify them if they do think they need to vote to confirm since the GOP has the votes they need anyway.
In fact, looking at it from the other side, as long as the GOP has 50 votes they ought to let Collins vote no so she can maintain her pro-choice bona fides.
Lawrence O’Donnell is thinking the Times op-ed was written by Dan Coats.
He said it had all of the old time Republican things that were positives in the piece. Tax reduction, Military, Regulatory reductions.
And all the mention of Russia, which he knows all too well now in his recent appointment. Helsinki and McCain passing may have made him think about the mess it all is.
And, he is 76, a former respected Republican Senator and will have no further political job in the future, so he doesn’t give a shit.
re: #70 Charles Johnson
Doesn’t matter how much Kavanaugh struggles, or how much drama there is. He’s going to be confirmed.
That may be. Every Democrat running from Senate to dogcatcher can hang Kavanaugh over the necks of their opponents as an example of both parties are not the same to the endless dupes who believe that zombie decades-old conservative lie.
Kavanaugh has apparently admitted to lying under oath to Senator Leahy. That can be used to remove him via impeachment later, if for some reason his confirmation isn’t derailed.
As for my own so-called never-Trumper Senator Ben Sasse, he’s like the rest of them, oh so concerned but will put party over country. With a dollop of misogamy on top. Even local radio stations today excoriated him over his “hysteria” comment.
Heh, Lawrence just said Trump is on the hunt and thinks it is someone in National Security or Justice Department.
Gonna be some heat and maybe some Friday Newsdumping!
There are ways I could go off on the word ‘lode’ but this is a family website.
Tomorrow is going to be absolute war between Trump and Pence. One of the reasons that Pence thought he could get away with this is that he can’t be fired. He felt safe enough to backstab Trump, who could demand that the House GOP impeach him as VP but that is NOT going to happen.
— Sweaty-Toothed Madman (@goddamnedfrank) September 6, 2018
#NowPlaying The Jerry Douglas Band > What If > Freemantle https://t.co/LfSDOHDxdn
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 6, 2018
re: #99 calochortus
On the other hand, maybe someone wanted to implicate Pence so that all the knives would be out and everyone would turn on everyone else.
Steve Bannon speaks about tearing down the “Administrative State.” Considering my now-cancelled subscription to The Economist for normalising that fascist under the imprimatur of their magazine, and the fact the Times has been fascist-curious since Hitler, I’ll put a fin on him.
Trump can’t fire Bannon, but his wingnut backers can.
re: #99 calochortus
On the other hand, maybe someone wanted to implicate Pence so that all the knives would be out and everyone would turn on everyone else.
None of these people except Coats are that clever and I think he’s both too aware of the risks to himself and the destabilizing impact this would bring / has brought. Coats also doesn’t have the potential personal upside reward that Pence would obviously see in such a move.
Pence is the only one who truly personally benefits from destabilizing Trump further.
re: #96 goddamnedfrank
Occam’s Razor and all that.
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“It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t,” says a senior Trump administration official https://t.co/l2C9qONCHt
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) September 5, 2018
The @nytimes just published an anonymous op-ed from a “senior administration official.” I’d like to posit a guess as to who wrote it. Getting my @ashleyfeinberg on began with a single word that jumped out at me… https://t.co/ajS2JI8WH2
— Dan downLODESTAR Bloom (@danbl00m) September 5, 2018
The weapon is “lodestar.” The suspect is Pence. https://t.co/FhFlB5fS3B
— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) September 5, 2018
Kissinger - a Kushner counselor - used “lodestar” similarly to memorialize McCain on Saturday… https://t.co/EqguWX9TJa
— Kayla Tausche (@kaylatausche) September 5, 2018
re: #116 JordanRules
“We have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda.”
Any evidence of said thwarting?
re: #118 jaunte
“We have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda.”
Any evidence of said thwarting?
Well, he hasn’t nuked Mexico City.
Freepers are flipping out. Treason, sedition, we need to force the NYT to give up the person who wrote the opinion piece, etc., etc.
re: #118 jaunte
“We have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda.”
Any evidence of said thwarting?
LOL I thwarted myself.
I love mysteries. Our Republic is on life support. I gotta do something to keep from screaming.
Back to Google, my Cabot Cove, for more sleuthing!
Mother is probably deeply disappointed in Pence right now. pic.twitter.com/z4G0QRZ455
— Sweaty-Toothed Madman (@goddamnedfrank) September 6, 2018
re: #118 jaunte
“We have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda.”
Any evidence of said thwarting?
Supposedly, Trump wanted to assassinate Assad early in his term.
“We stand thwart history, yelling Stop.”
History, of course ignores our futile effort to impose stasis on what must be by its nature fluid.
“I trust no one, not even myself,” said Stalin, late in life.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) September 6, 2018
re: #120 calochortus
Freepers are flipping out. Treason, sedition, we need to force the NYT to give up the person who wrote the opinion piece, etc., etc.
They surely love the Constitution don’t they?
McCain used lodestar in his 60 Minutes interview.
I’m finding more lodestars y’all!
re: #128 HappyWarrior
They surely love the Constitution don’t they?
Well, of course they do. And they have as deep an understanding of the Constitution as they do of the Bible.
Tropical Depression Gordon is expected to bring heavy rains to Iowa and Illinois, along with the usual threat of tornadoes from a dying tropical storm over land.
BULLETIN
Tropical Depression Gordon Advisory Number 15
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD AL072018
1000 PM CDT Wed Sep 05 2018
…GORDON CONTINUES TO WEAKEN OVER WESTERN MISSISSIPPI…
…THREAT OF HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING WILL CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL
DAYS…
SUMMARY OF 1000 PM CDT…0300 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…33.2N 91.0W
ABOUT 80 MI…125 KM NW OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…25 MPH…40 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNW OR 330 DEGREES AT 8 MPH…13 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1013 MB…29.92 INCHES
WATCHES AND WARNINGS
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Flash Flood Watches are in effect over portions of Mississippi,
northeast Louisiana, and Arkansas.
There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.
For more information on Gordon, please see products issued by your
local National Weather Service office.
For storm information specific to your area, including possible
inland watches and warnings, please monitor products issued by your
local National Weather Service forecast office.
DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
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At 1000 PM CDT (0300 UTC), the center of Tropical Depression Gordon
was located near latitude 33.2 North, longitude 91.0 West. The
depression is moving toward the north-northwest near 8 mph (13 km/h)
and this motion is expected to is expected to continue overnight.
Maximum sustained winds are near 25 mph (40 km/h) with higher
gusts. Some weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 1013 mb (29.92 inches).
HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND
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RAINFALL: Gordon is expected to produce total rain accumulations of
2 to 4 inches over portions of western Mississippi, southern and
western Arkansas, and from western to northern Missouri into
adjacent parts of Illinois with isolated maximum amounts of 6 inches
through early Saturday. This rainfall will cause flash flooding
across portions of these areas.
For more information on rainfall totals please see the Storm Summary
available at wpc.ncep.noaa.gov
WIND: Wind gusts to tropical storm force may occur in showers
and thunderstorms associated with Gordon overnight.
NEXT ADVISORY
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Next complete advisory at 400 AM CDT.
$$
Forecaster Hayes/Gallina/Rausch
FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS
INIT 06/0300Z 33.2N 91.0W 20 KT 25 MPH…INLAND
12H 06/1200Z 34.0N 91.6W 20 KT 25 MPH…INLAND
24H 07/0000Z 33.8N 92.8W 15 KT 15 MPH…INLAND
36H 07/1200Z 34.3N 93.6W 15 KT 15 MPH…INLAND
48H 08/0000Z 35.3N 93.9W 15 KT 15 MPH…POST-TROP/REMNT LOW
72H 09/0000Z 37.2N 92.2W 15 KT 15 MPH…POST-TROP/EXTRATROP
96H 10/0000Z 39.9N 88.7W 20 KT 25 MPH…POST-TROP/EXTRATROP
Friday would be the perfect time for Mueller to drop another news item, or the NYAG office to file charges against the Trump Foundation. Trump is so close to cracking right now with the Woodward book, the NYT op-ed and the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing drama.
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.— William Shakespeare (@Wwm_Shakespeare) September 6, 2018
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹
I predict Trump and Co. will do nothing in response if there are flooding emergencies in any areas where minorities live.
“Who then shall blame
His pestered senses to recoil and start,
When all that is within him does condemn
Itself for being there?”
re: #120 calochortus
Freepers are flipping out. Treason, sedition, we need to force the NYT to give up the person who wrote the opinion piece, etc., etc.
Top article over at RedState:
Boston Police Captain’s Islamic Terrorist Son Sentenced
(not linking, you can find it yourself if you wish to read that)
They are also busy flying the bullshit flag on the New York Times op-ed piece, but for different reasons than discussed here.
ChairGrassley to SenLeahy - If you were interested in the material you’re talking about - it’s been available for weeks
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) September 5, 2018
Senator Leahy indicates twice now that he hasn’t even made an attempt to look at the material on Kavanaugh that he has access to, both committee confidential and otherwise.
Says “he’s not even sure if he has interest in seeing it.” https://t.co/WVstHgNROW— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) September 5, 2018
Wrong, so you should remove this. I’ve already seen the material. I’m interested in SHARING IT WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, and doing so NOW…which Senate Republicans have tried to prevent by keeping it nonpublic with a faulty claim of committee confidentiality. https://t.co/uFfLyQpgg0
— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) September 5, 2018
Kamala Harris is a goddamned assassin.
.@senkamalaharris asks if Judge Kavanaugh has discussed Mueller Investigation with anyone at Kasowitz Benson Torres law firm.#Kavanaugh: “I would like to know the person you’re thinking of.”
Sen. Harris: “I think you’re thinking of someone and you don’t want to tell us.” pic.twitter.com/pI2XEHNba9— CSPAN (@cspan) September 6, 2018
I know it’s late.
I know you’re weary.
I know your plans don’t include admitting or denying under oath whether you, as an appeals court judge who could well rule on the Mueller probe, discussed the Mueller probe with someone at a law firm that has represented the President. https://t.co/k7XEGGZvsr— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) September 6, 2018
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹
Top article over at RedState:
(not linking, you can find it yourself if you wish to read that)
They are also busy flying the bullshit flag on the New York Times op-ed piece, but for different reasons than discussed here.
So they’re choosing the “la, la, la. I can’t hear you” coping mechanism?
re: #140 JordanRules
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Grassley and Hatch, two longtime GOPers. Trump’s not the only problem by a long shot.
Trump thinking abt staff meeting tm pic.twitter.com/mD8LP0bk1L
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 6, 2018
CSPAN has posted the entire nearly 8-minute exchange between Kamala Harris and Kavanaugh on the Mueller probe. It is worth your time. pic.twitter.com/ezJVEuDeUK
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 6, 2018
Would you like to teach your toddler the ABC’s and D&D: amazon.com
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 6, 2018
re: #148 teleskiguy
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Nike is an international company. Stop fucking bullying companies over shit that doesn’t involve you because you need Kaepernick to distract your base from what a traitorous scumbag you are.
Forget him getting out of office. He needs to be institutionalized.
I’m draining the Swamp, and the Swamp is trying to fight back. Don’t worry, we will win!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 6, 2018
THE SWAMP IS A MONSTER! https://t.co/n5SX2zdSg0
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 6, 2018
re: #152 teleskiguy
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You are the swamp. Go to bed and hopefully wake up with an arrest warrant.
New Republican take on @realDonaldTrump:
**Yeah, we heard the racism and the misogyny and the lies and the dim-witted nonsense and the dick joke during the debate, but we thought he was our racist, pussy-grabbing, mendacious, ignorant, dick-joke guy. Go, Kavanaugh!**— Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) September 6, 2018
re: #142 goddamnedfrank
Paul Begala
✔
@PaulBegala
I know it’s late.
I know you’re weary.
I know your plans don’t include admitting or denying under oath whether you, as an appeals court judge who could well rule on the Mueller probe, discussed the Mueller probe with someone at a law firm that has represented the President.
We’ve got tonight, who needs tomorrow?
We’ve got tonight Brett
Why don’t you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut? Take a flying fuck at the mooooon.
Our political leaders are so owned by the NRA that they have successfully turned America into a country that gets more offended over flagpole or pair of shoes then kids getting slaughtered in school and on our streets every day.
The only way to fix this is to#VoteNovember6th— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) September 6, 2018
re: #154 jaunte
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It’s really a lot like the German right and Hitler. Damned assholes were too concerned with their ideological whims that they didn’t care about unleashing a fascist know nothing on the rest of us. They all need to be held responsible.
re: #36 mmmirele
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Give A Flake. It’s caring enough to back up your beliefs with action. Protect your passion & join the movement. #GiveaFlake https://t.co/0R3vYj0I3d pic.twitter.com/sprRWzkieA
— Aspen Snowmass (@AspenSnowmass) September 5, 2018
Great companies lead.
First Nike,
Now Aspen. https://t.co/L2c5HDtFjz— annie p (@yessmiss) September 6, 2018
re: #144 HappyWarrior
Grassley and Hatch, two longtime GOPers. Trump’s not the only problem by a long shot.
It is quite disappointing how much being a fucking hack is rewarded by the GOP establishment.
re: #161 KGxvi
It is quite disappointing how much being a fucking hack is rewarded by the GOP establishment.
They’re all rotten.
re: #154 jaunte
So basically still on “but the judges!”?
It’ll never happen but the GOP needs to get the same treatment Communists did under McCarthy. I’m dead serious.
re: #164 KGxvi
So basically still on “but the judges!”?
All they care about are their stupid Scalia clones dominating our federal courthouses.
re: #107 Hecuba’s daughter
So Lawrence goes with Coats.
And Jennifer goes with a 2nd tier staffer; someone who has experience in writing material for newspapers. She was skeptical that someone at the top level would actually expose themselves this way. But we will probably know sometime this week.
People seem to be wondering who wrote the OP-Ed in the NY Times.
Based on several lines from the OP-Ed it seems to indicate to me that the source is either Nikki Haley or Kristjen Nielson…THREAD— 🇵🇷🇺🇸Alexander Hamilton (@AHamiltonSpirit) September 6, 2018
Local Houston news (CBS) just conducted a viewer poll to see who thought the NYT editorial was real or fiction (fake news!). Just 56% of respondents voted that it was real.
I burned a bunch of Nike shoes in my backyard.
I don’t have anything against the company, I just like the idea of my conservative Trump voting neighbors breathing the smoke.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 5, 2018
We’re leaving for a long weekend tomorrow-far from TV, internet, and cell phone service. I wonder if this is good or bad?
On the one hand, I won’t have to be glued to media of one sort or another waiting for a shoe to drop. So, it’s probably good. On the other hand, if something does happen, I won’t know about it until Sunday-unless it’s really amazing, in which case a new arrival where we’re staying would probably share the news.
re: #165 HappyWarrior
It’ll never happen but the GOP needs to get the same treatment Communists did under McCarthy. I’m dead serious.
Actually, they need the treatment McCarthy got at the end of his reign of terror…
re: #169 jaunte
Local Houston news (CBS) just conducted a viewer poll to see who thought the NYT editorial was real or fiction (fake news!). Just 56% of respondents voted that it was real.
Yet Trump is raging about and calling it treason. Pick a narrative you cultist losers.
re: #172 KGxvi
Actually, they need the treatment McCarthy got at the end of his reign of terror…
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That would be fine too.
“For national security purposes, turn him/her over to the government at once!”
That sounds like a perfectly sane and rational person who should have the ability to launch nuclear weapons whenever he wants.#nytoped #NYTimesOpEd pic.twitter.com/QFSZFjhuAp— VoteVets (@votevets) September 5, 2018
re: #175 Ace-o-aces
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Right Senator Graham or are you too busy being peed on by Trump to comment?
re: #171 calochortus
We’re leaving for a long weekend tomorrow-far from TV, internet, and cell phone service. I wonder if this is good or bad?
On the one hand, I won’t have to be glued to media of one sort or another waiting for a shoe to drop. So, it’s probably good. On the other hand, if something does happen, I won’t know about it until Sunday-unless it’s really amazing, in which case a new arrival where we’re staying would probably share the news.
I recommend Yukon.
re: #17 austin_blue
Semi-CL’d:
Look, there are Constitutional mechanisms for limiting the power of a President or removing him/her. You can invoke Article 25 and put a caretaker in charge, or you can impeach.
That’s it. Those are your options.
What you CAN’T do is what this Op/Ed writer has said “he” and his co-conspirators have done, which is basically deciding to hamstring the guy in the Oval without letting him know or telling him why.
This is outside of Constitutional norms. This an admission that they have independently decided to create a Constitutional Crisis from inside the White House.
That’s is. Full stop.
This is a Palace Coup and should be the only thing that is being talked about. Who are they? Who outside of the WH supports this? This is an unelected group (unless Pence is in on it) who have subverted our Government.
Historians can bark about the situation after Wilson had his big ass stroke, but this isn’t about a health issue per se. Trump is exactly who and what he was when elected. He hasn’t changed a bit. He has done exactly what he said he was going to do. And these people have done their best to de-fang him.
This is what is unprecedented. This is all that should be discussed. Republicans have attempted to decapitate the vested power within the Republican White House.
Can’t agree with this take. You’ve identified maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the problem - no way should it be okay for the Executive Branch to be failing to carry out the President’s will.
However, also no way should the President’s will include killing the entire Syrian Government on a whim.
Also, no way should the Cabinet, knowing what they know about Trump, have NOT put the 25th Amendment into action, and no way should the Congress have any difficulty coming up with a 2/3 majority to kick Trump to the curb.
But here we are. If the Cabinet and the Congress won’t act to remove him, despite the majority seeing him as unfit for the job, what should they do? Just let him run wild?
The problem is not JUST the usurpation. It’s the unwillingness of the Cabinet and the Congress to act to remove him, instead picking and choosing what they like.
But you know, he’s the boss. If he asks for something to be done, and it’s not done, it’s kind of up to him to raise a stink, demand it be done, fire the person(s) who failed to act. If he doesn’t do that, maybe he didn’t really mean it? The guy I used to work for would often tell me to do stuff I knew was stupid. I would say, “Okay” and not do it, knowing he’d forget, or that he’d be fine with how I did it, once it was done, even if it wasn’t how he’d demanded it be done.
re: #177 Anymouse 🌹
I recommend Yukon.
Kind of far for a long weekend. We’ll settle for Lassen Volcanic Nat’l Park. The southeastern corner has a lovely little rustic resort.
I’m just going back to November 2016 and still wondering what the hell did we do. To quote Yeats, all’s changed utterly. As much as we may like, we’ll never go back to where we were before this.
re: #78 jaunte
re: #167 Hecuba’s daughter
And Jennifer goes with a 2nd tier staffer; someone who has experience in writing material for newspapers. She was skeptical that someone at the top level would actually expose themselves this way. But we will probably know sometime this week.
Omarosa going with 2nd tier too. I think those are the only people who are pulling guesses from that group.
Mueller should find a way to use “lodestar” in his next indictment.
re: #41 Scottish Dragon
Exactly. There is no constitutional mechanism for what the author is describing is the way the government functions right now.
Exactly. Why is this not the story?
The tcot hashtag is lit up tonight on Twitter.
Apparently conservatives can be simultaneously “censored” from Twitter, yet plaster a ton of tweets there. Truly a marvel, Schrodinger’s conservatives.
— Sweaty-Toothed Madman (@goddamnedfrank) September 6, 2018
I suppose I’d better go pack a few things.
Hasta mañana proxima semana
Be good.
And these guys were SHOCKED to find racists on their email listserv.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 5, 2018
TRUMP: A lot of people are saying that you are #lodestar.
PENCE: Mr. President, that’s simply not true.
TRUMP: No one uses that word Pence. No one.
PENCE: Sir, how can I further prove my loyalty? I am your guy. Your lodestar.
TRUMP: My what?
PENCE: Fiddlesticks. Mother!— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) September 6, 2018
Yep. @AlexWardVox’s latest:https://t.co/m2g0RdYmOm
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) September 5, 2018
I imagine a different set of concerns among Pyongyang’s America Hands as they read Woodward: that Trump lacks leadership skills & his admin lacks the coherence necessary to deliver on & sustain a diplomatic process. https://t.co/Ax1VaGSjMC
— John Delury (@JohnDelury) September 6, 2018
Quite correct. That’s a point I argued long ago against the Singapore summit - namely that Trump is woefully unqualified to negotiate with N Korea and shows no inclination to learn either.We should reduce our expectations dramatically and look to S Korea who is serious about this https://t.co/VUqokh34pv
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) September 6, 2018
Yes, this is a thing.
Everything about the owners at ICANN’s whois page is listed as “private.” I wonder who’s running this grift?
re: #17 austin_blue
Semi-CL’d:
Look, there are Constitutional mechanisms for limiting the power of a President or removing him/her. You can invoke Article 25 and put a caretaker in charge, or you can impeach.
That’s it. Those are your options.
What you CAN’T do is what this Op/Ed writer has said “he” and his co-conspirators have done, which is basically deciding to hamstring the guy in the Oval without letting him know or telling him why.
This is outside of Constitutional norms. This an admission that they have independently decided to create a Constitutional Crisis from inside the White House.
That’s is. Full stop.
This is a Palace Coup and should be the only thing that is being talked about. Who are they? Who outside of the WH supports this? This is an unelected group (unless Pence is in on it) who have subverted our Government.
Historians can bark about the situation after Wilson had his big ass stroke, but this isn’t about a health issue per se. Trump is exactly who and what he was when elected. He hasn’t changed a bit. He has done exactly what he said he was going to do. And these people have done their best to de-fang him.
This is what is unprecedented. This is all that should be discussed. Republicans have attempted to decapitate the vested power within the Republican White House.
The 25th Amendment is really designed to address times when the president can’t perform his duties due to health reasons - it’s basically a response to things like Wilson’s stroke or the possibility that a president could survive an assassination attempt that leaves him unable to conduct his duties (imagine Kennedy surviving Dallas).
I mentioned in an earlier thread, if the Cabinet invokes the 25th Amendment, Trump could immediately send a letter to Congress saying he’s fine, thereby reassuming the powers of the office, and immediate fire the entire cabinet (they serve at the pleasure of the president) before they could send the second letter that would trigger Congressional review. That’s a real constitutional crisis that (hopefully in a rational world) results in impeachment proceedings.
Trump’s unfit for office. And that in and of itself is grounds for impeachment, based on what the Founders themselves said of impeachment. And really, that’s our best option. But there doesn’t seem to be the political will to make it happen.
re: #116 JordanRules
Put some roux in the plot.
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And John McCain used the term himself:
“I was raised in the concept and belief that duty, honor, country is the lodestar for the behavior that we have to exhibit every single day,” he said.
If that’s all they have to point to Pence, I think it’s pretty weak sauce. (And it doesn’t sound at all like anything Pence has ever said or written)
I wanna see burned TVs after that Kap ad airs. If y’all gonna be committed, be committed. Throw your flatscreens in the fire right with them weak ass Mr Belvedere Nikes you burned a few days ago
— Beyonce has an uncle named Larry Beyince. Bruh…. (@DragonflyJonez) September 5, 2018
Well I knew Pence wrote The NY Times piece because Lodestar is also his name on Grindr
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) September 6, 2018
re: #195 BeachDem
Yeah. Mother isn’t mentioned.
re: #195 BeachDem
Pence definitely moved to the bottom of my list now. He would have inflected it with more values bullshit too I think.
I believe we also have a Bloomberg lodestar sighting. Someone said he’s used it before.
re: #189 Ace-o-aces
This has been a far right hobby horse for a while. I saw more than a bit of it in my Federalist Society days. The idea is based on some arcane notion of how one’s birth determines one’s loyalty. As if there’s a difference between being born 20 miles north or 20 miles south of a river. And then there’s a whole thing about how because a parent might not “be subject to the jurisdiction” of the US (which they take to mean “illegal”), then that calls into question an infant’s loyalty. None of it makes any kind of sense in the modern world if you think about it for more than 15 seconds.
re: #168 Ace-o-aces
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Nikki Haley is too far removed from the action and SHE IS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO HAVE WRITTEN THAT. (She is slimy enough to stage a palace coup, though, so there’s that.)
re: #169 jaunte
Local Houston news (CBS) just conducted a viewer poll to see who thought the NYT editorial was real or fiction (fake news!). Just 56% of respondents voted that it was real.
Was this a viewers call in poll? Cause the people who watch broadcast TV news and call in are significantly older than the electorate.