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Bear in mind, of course, this is from the NYT, who, among many others, want re-election BADLY: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/upshot/trump-electoral-college-edge-.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Oh, for God's sake. Michael and Laurie are the Victor and Nikki of the slasher film genre.

Unfortunately, humans never choose the hard truth over the easy lie. That's why, even today, we still have people insisting (among other things) that Oswald had help in killing Kennedy, or that the moon landing was a NASA-perpetrated hoax in order to beat the Russians in the Space Race. Progress and enlightenment have always been made by dragging people toward it, kicking and screaming every step of the way.

Frankly, I'm tired even of the few, rare moments of lip service that they (meaning, of course, Trump, his minions, and the GOP in general) pay the rest of us. It always comes across half-hearted and insincere, so why bother anymore? Just call a spade a spade (no pun intended?). It's not as if their voters would care anyway, or that they'll listen to us when we tell 'em it's racist, misogynistic or xenophobic. Just cut the crap, as Y&R's late Kay Chancellor once said, and stop hiding behind masks y'all were never good at hiding behind in the first damn place. Sigh. Meanwhile...American politics, in the year of our Lord, two thousand and nineteen, where it's all about who will win immunity from the week's challenges: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/us/politics/next-democratic-debates.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Same here. Or how they act as if the GOP gives a damn about anyone's concerns other than their own. Or believe that the WWC who voted for them and keep voting for them have to be won over to the other side. This "we go high" garbage has to stop, and now.

I wouldn't have bothered even talking to the man. We know he listens only to the sound of his own voice.

Mind you, I'm not laughing at the workers. They deserve to be paid $15/hr. (and more) for their labors. I'm laughing at Bernie's blatant hypocrisy.

For some reason, Trump is walking back (for lack of a better word) the Chant Heard 'Round the World: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/us/politics/ilhan-omar-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

At this point, I don't think Trump would care whether Melania were sent back home. He got what he wanted out of the relationship: another (male) heir to his so-called throne.

House votes to table impeachment motion -- for now: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/us/politics/house-impeachment-trump.html

Case dismissed! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/arts/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-case.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

I want to commend President Trump and Fox News for achieving the impossible. Together, they have convinced my mother, an African-American who once marched with Clara Luper, that his tweets from last weekend were not the least bit racist. Bravo, gentlemen, and well played.

It's funny how Trump has supposedly made an enemy out of CNN; yet, if you ask me, I think Trump has been helped enormously by the network -- more so than even Fox News, on some levels.

His breed is certainly vanishing among the judicial branches of our government. May he RIP. I agree. But I don't think the divisions that continue to eat away at us will subside peacefully either. Meanwhile, CNN gave airtime to Richard Spencer to talk about Trump's tweets and, uh, it didn't go well? https://thehill.com/homenews/media/453419-cnn-slammed-for-having-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-on-to-talk-about

Sometimes I wonder whether we are more divided now than we were at the start of the Civil War. I really do. Meanwhile, does anyone else suspect Trump will dismiss the Apollo 11 landing as a hoax? The 50th anniversary is in a few days, and I just have that feeling that, at the very least, he's bound to make some disparaging remarks about the astronauts, the landing, NASA. He can't let one day pass without saying something that'll piss off half the country.

The events that have unfolded today on the House floor have me shaken. I'm just so worried that the hateful, racist rhetoric that has engulfed this country since that man took office will culminate one day in literal bloodshed.

Oops, lol! Thanks, @Wendy, for the clarification!

Roger Stone in "Can't Stop, Won't Stop": https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/roger-stone-banned-from-social-media-after-judge-rules-gag-order-breached.html

There's an episode of "Law & Order: SVU" where (I think) Malcolm McDowell plays a Rupert Murdoch-esque figure with an Asian wife. (Murdoch, if you recall, was once married to Chinese-born Wendi Dang). As viewers, we're supposed to believe theirs to be a happy, loving relationship. However, at the episode's climax, when Vincent D'Onofrio (or whoever was his surrogate for that season) exposes McDowell's culpability in the Murder of the Week, his true feelings toward his wife and Asians in general is revealed...and no, it's not pretty. Similarly, like I always said about my now-ex-sister-in-law: just because you lay with us and you make our babies, that doesn't mean you're not racist. In fact, she proved time and time again just how racist she really was, and continues to be. (And then there's my second cousin, who said -- and I quote -- "When I marry, I'm marrying a white man, because black men are ugly"; and who, when busted by her mother, busted my ex-cousin-in-law, saying, "Well, didn't you say that the next time you got married, it would be to a white man, too!?") Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell share similar attitudes toward their respective spouses. Just because they married women who are not American-born (and in Chao's case, are non-Caucasian), that doesn't mean they are racially tolerant. If anything, it shows how desperate both men were to find wives who were NOT American-born and therefore, were more submissive toward them than their previous wives had been -- which is misogynistic AND racist.

At the risk of sounding like Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof," they did not have permission?

Is anyone surprised by this turn of events? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/nyregion/eric-garner-case-death-daniel-pantaleo.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Yep. The media's always on the hunt for the next Watergate. I've no idea either. I THINK it's because much of the media seems to love AOC and her Riot Girl Squad, but that's only my guess. To quote NYT's Paul Krugman (yes, I know, it's from the dreadful, POS NYT, lol): "Sorry, there’s no way to both sides this, or claim that Trump didn’t say what he said. This is racism, plain and simple — nothing abstract about it." And, well, I think he's right. What Trump tweeted was unequivocally racist, with no wiggle room for defense. So, that might be why many within the media are now calling him racist, too. Here's the article in full: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/opinion/trump-twitter-racist.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

It's Jim Jansen. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418012/?ref_=tt_cl_t10

"Make America Great Again," my ass! America ain't never been great! We won't. If/when Trump is re-elected, I guarantee that America as we know it will breathe its' last.

That is beyond terrifying. I mean, how the [!@#$%^&*] did we get to this point!?