Politics

The Republican Party Is a Threat to the Constitutional Order If conservatives want to save the GOP from itself, they need to vote mindlessly and mechanically against its nominees. "The Republican Party, as an institution, has become a danger to the rule of law and the integrity of our democracy" They should vote against Republicans in a spirit that is, if you will, prepartisan and prepolitical. Their attitude should be: The rule of law is a threshold value in American politics, and a party that endangers this value disqualifies itself, period. Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/boycott-the-gop/…

It’s Now Likely Mueller Thinks Trump Obstructed Justice Thursday’s bombshell news points toward one conclusion: The special counsel has the goods on the president. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/26/mueller-trump-obstruction-of-justice-russia-216532

WaPo: Mueller seeks to question Trump https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/politics/mueller-question-trump/index.html

No, not our poster PopeFrancis! The real pope! He's down in Chile crying with the victims of predator priests. (Don't get excited bibttmboy.) Then, before he leaves, he undoes all the good he has done by saying that people criticising a bishop for shielding one of the worst predators are being libelous! "Show me proof," he said. People were aghast! The bishop's role had been widely accepted, and now the Pope was undoing it all. In the process, Chileans who looked to him with hope were saying that the pope is a dope! http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pope-shocks-chile-accusing-sex-abuse-victims-slander-article-1.3765039

The Incredible 50-year-old Plane on the Front Lines of the North Korea Standoff https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/20/b-52-bomber-history-north-korea-216486

I now think Bannon, though crazy (not much by the standards of these times of course), is the one wily enough to take down Trump. For Bannon's own crazy means. Good enough for me. Something is happening here, I think (we'll see), faster than we ever thought. Get out the popcorn. And believe in the Constitution meanwhile.

Now HERE we go... Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days. By MICHAEL WOLFF http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html

Did Jeff Sessions Just Increase the Odds Congress Will Make Marijuana Legal? The attorney general has created intolerable uncertainty for a growing industry that is now demanding legal protections from Congress. And lawmakers are listening. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/06/jeff-sessions-marijuana-legalization-congress-216251?lo=ap_a1

The noose tightens. This is big. Russian Social Media Giant Gave Info on Trump Contacts to Senate Probe The Russian social media giant Vkontakte has given information to Senate investigators about contacts between an executive at the company and the Trump campaign, TPM has learned. The Russian tech firm appears to be cooperating with the Senate Judiciary Committee by providing documents related to communication between Russian nationals and Dan Scavino, a Trump campaign staffer who now works as the White House social media director. Vkontakte, a social network similar to Facebook, ranks as the most popular website in Russia and is o…

Paul Ryan Says He Will Retire Once He Has Wrecked Country WASHINGTON —Starting 2018 with a political bombshell, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday that he will retire once he is satisfied that he has completely wrecked the country. “I came to Washington with the goal of destroying life in the United States as we know it,” Ryan said in an emotional press conference. “Once I look around me and see nothing but smoldering ruins, I’ll call it a day.” Asked by a reporter whether, by passing the Republican tax bill, he had not in fact already wrecked the country, the House Speaker responded, “That was an important step in the right direction, but, make no…

Trump's approval rating just entered a league of its own President Donald Trump's approval rating sank to a new low in CNN polling on Tuesday, earning the approval of just 35% of Americans less than a year into his first term. That's a significant drop from the 45% approval rating that Trump had in March, shortly after taking office. It marks the worst approval rating in a December of any elected president's first year in the White House by a wide margin — and only the second time since the dawn of modern polling that a president's approval rating sank under 50% at this point. A broad 59% of Americans said they disapprove of how Trump is handling his job…

Pretty interesting. Words fail Trump but for supporters his message is loud and clear Language experts have pored over speeches that have translators tearing their hair out and some find his macho bluster surprisingly effective Presidents are often remembered for their words as well as their actions but at the close of one of the most tumultuous years in White House history, Donald Trumphas linguists scratching their heads. He is routinely mocked as incoherent, yet gets his message across to supporters clear as day. Philip Roth has declared that Trump “speaks jerkish”, while Columbia University p…

And tweets up a storm.... Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump FollowFollow @realDonaldTrump More Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE! 5:04 AM - 29 Dec 2017 What the fuck is wrong with this Asshole ? Doesnt he realize that many of the Dumber and Poorer that work there are HIS supporters? This should give them a wake-up call ?

“The way to understand Trump, I think, is pretty simple,” Chomsky said. “Apart from the pathological megalomania, he is an astute enough politician to understand that his only hope for power is to keep his adoring base in line, and they relish the fact that he is lashing out at those they see as their enemies and persecutors: Muslims, elites, foreigners … Not unknown in history, and not with welcome outcomes.” https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/01/meghan-markle-could-shake-up-monarchy-says-noam-chomsky

Being from the state of Alabama and having many friends there now, I do believe that no matter what is said or done that Roy Moore will still get elected to the Senate to fill the seat the Sessions left. They have a really great Democrat candidate but that does not matter.

A full page ad in Friday's Wall Street Journal raised my eyebrows. Titled "Allied Against Terrorism", the script reads as follows: Until now, counter-terrorism efforts have been fragmented, with nations and groups often taking isolated initiatives against the growing threat of terror. From November 26th, international counter-terrorism efforts will take a new dimension. Forty-one Muslim countries are coming together in Riyadh to launch a global, multi-disciplinary strategy that aims to tackle terrorism at its deepest roots. Under the banner of the IMCTC, these nations will forge an unprecedented and powerful coalition against terror- a coalition that will source…

Emails Dispute White House Claims That Flynn Acted Independently on Russia WASHINGTON — When President Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in February, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official during the presidential transition and then lied to his colleagues about the interactions. But emails among top transition officials, provided or described to The New York Times, suggest that Mr. Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents filed on Friday, showed that Mr. Flynn was in close touch with other senior member…

Ex-Russian Ambassador: List Of Trump Officials I’ve Met Is ‘So Long’ Alexey Agarishev/SPTNK Matt Shuham November 17, 2017 10:13 am Russia’s former ambassador to the United States said Wednesday that it would take him more than 20 minutes to list all of the Trump administration officials with whom he’s met or spoken to on the phone. “First, I’m never going to do that,” Sergey Kislyak said in an interview with the state-owned network Russia-1, CNBC reported. “And second, the list is so long that I’m not going to be…

A very powerful closing on Richard Engel’s “On Assignment” in Panama, from this past Friday. It’s well worth the time viewing to even further understand the corruption all around the Trump organization. And here’s the full video:

Top general says he'd push back against 'illegal' nuclear strike order Washington (CNN)The top US nuclear commander said Saturday he would push back against an order from President Donald Trump for a nuclear strike if it were "illegal." Speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada, Gen. John Hyten, who is the commander of US Strategic Command, shared what would happen if he were ordered to launch a nuclear strike. "I provide advice to the President," Hyten said. "He'll tell me what to do, and if it's illegal, guess what's going to happen? I'm gonna say, 'Mr. President, that's illegal.' Guess what he's…

Caught! He's been diddyling guys for years! http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ohio-lawmaker-craigslist-men-article-1.3643680

Well, isn't this pleasant? The Uninhabitable Earth Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. By David Wallace-Wells I. ‘Doomsday’ Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. And yet the swelling seas — and the cities they will drown — have so dominated the picture of global warming, and so overwhelmed our capacity for climate panic, that they have occlude…