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Sessions is a bad liar. I'm Team Northam mainly because as I've stated here many times reproductive rights is a dealbreaker issue for me. He also opposed reinstating the assault weapons ban.

Seriously?

The weird thing is that it wasn't Donnie who said he might fire Mueller. It was Chris Huddy who is basically that guy you see on every nightly newscast mugging for the camers telling everyone that he saw the whole thing go down. Donnie and his cabal can't seem to STFU and the more they talk the worse they make it for themselves.

Yes. Only members of the party are allowed to vote on who should represent it. Somehow this became radical this year because...Bernie. A lot of people who wanted to vote for him didn't even know what kind of primary they were trying to vote in and instead of taking responsibility for their ignorance the Berniacs have decided they were the victim of voter suppression (because remember, it's always someone else's fault). Oddly enough they don't seem nearly as concerned with the poor and minorities who are actually removed from the voter rolls. Firing Mueller would essentially be shooting himself in the head, not the foot, the head. Donnie thinks he can fire his way out of this. Adam Schiff is now at the point where he can't even pretend to take this mess seriously. I read this tweet in Jenifer Lewis' voice.

Calling closed primaries rigging or voter suppression is another attempt by the far left to minimize the concerns of minorities. Apparently the clarion call from BernieCon was that the revolution should work to destabilize the primary process. I suspect that's going to work out just like everything else that involves more than hashtag activism. We have open primaries in Ohio (which I've already sent a email to the state party about closing). I know someone who crossed over to vote in the Republican party to vote for Trump because he would be easier to beat than Kasich. That kind of game playing was in existence long before Bernie and I've always hated it.

Even if they don't think it was good for him, I doubt anyone is going to say that. There's a lot of desperation to save face. They will never publicly admit they got scammed.

Fox is another (former) world leader who I've been fangurling over. He's been trolling Snatchgrabber hard from the moment "Mexicans are rapists" came out of his mouth. Never in my life did I think I would enjoy seeing the POTUS humiliated. I actually felt kind of sorry for W sometimes. But Donnie? Every world leader could spit in his face and I would cheer.

It does seem like America's role in the world is to serve as a cautionary tale.

Dear Lordt, they misspelled "President."

I didn't see him but social media quickly went from "LOL Johnny Mac is an idiot" to "This guy needs a doctor, stat."

They'll complain anyway. Hence my point about their hypocrisy. That's why that party has to be burned to the ground. Hopefully this investigation will take out a bunch of these traitors.

I loved when Comey said that he took Donnie at his word when he said he fired Comey because of Russia. Comey made the case for obstruction and did it with Donnie's own stupid words. This is why, as awful as he is. we need him to keep tweeting and doing interviews. Every time he does it's a gift to the resistance. Trumpers believe what they are told to. It's kind of like how Trump says he doesn't watch CNN then in the next sentence says he saw something on CNN. Someone on Twitter explained it perfectly. We're in an information war. Trump and his supporters will say and believe whatever serves their purposes in that moment regardless of whether it counters something they previously claimed to believe and if in an hour/day/week/month/year later they need the opposite to be true then they'll just pivot to that. That's why pointing out their hypocrisy is a waste of time.

After some thought I think I've figured out why the Senate is choosing to vote on the House version of the AHCA. It's so the moderates can vote against it and they can get some cover in time for the August recess. Just like when Collins and Murkowski were allowed to make show votes against DeVos. It simply doesn't make sense that after weeks of "The Senate will craft it's own bill" and Burr saying just a week ago that he didn't foresee a deal on health care that they would turn around and vote to pass the toxic AHCA. There's only two groups of people who say things like the Republicans and the far left. Both groups want Russia to go away. I'm tired of people acting like we can't multitask. For all these votes in the House, how many of them have made it through the Senate? The House makes show votes to appease their base and look like they're getting something accomplished. Just like that fake EO signing ceremony Snatchgrabber had. They've been reduced to pantomime and Russia is a big part of the reason why.

This is why I'm done trying to save these folks. They deserve what they get. I'll fight to protect the innocent but anyone who voted for Trump deserves every bit of pain they get.

I'm confused. Didn't the Senate say they were working on their own bill?

IMO the unity tour was an experiment to see if there was a way to heal the rift. It was an abysmal failure but necessary. I think the lines are pretty clear now between Bernie and the Democrats. Ever since then with the exception of a minimum wage bill, Bernie's pretty much been left to his own devices. I think messaging has gotten way better. The strategy seems to be for everyone to talk about certain issues like health care or climate change but to tailor it to their constituencies. For example all the Dems are talking about climate change but in different ways. Some reps talk about their states agreeing to abide by the accords. In Ohio, MI, Pennsylvania, etc the focus is on the Great Lakes (Trump's budget cut Great Lakes funding by 97 percent.) and the economic benefit of green energy (which is why Donnie taking a shot at Pittsburgh was perfect). Out west like the talking point seems to be about protecting public lands. Same for health care. Discussion of health care is about single payer in some states. In Appalachian states Dems always bring the health care issue back to opiates and prescription drugs. Even the Republicans have been forced to talk about health care in those terms. In states that didn't expand Medicaid the focus is on that program and possible cuts. While all this is going on you have a small handful of Dems (Waters/Cummings/Franken/Schiff) who keep mentioning Russia and others in safe blue states who have found their niche trolling Donnie on Twitter like Ted Lieu and Bill de Blasio. Democrats will never have a message as simplistic as Republicans because we're a coalition but I think the party has made real strides.

Democrats should be talking about Kansas nonstop as an example of failed economic policy and they should be doing it in the simplest possible terms. "Republicans always screw up the economy. Just look at Kansas." "Tax cuts don't work. Just look at Kansas." "They tried that in Kansas and look what happened." When it comes to talking about economic policy, we should talk about Kansas the way the right wing likes to talk about Chicago and Detroit. Especially now when the Repubs are trying to tout their "tax reform."

I doubt that. This is the difference between open and closed hearings. A lot of things are just not going to be discussed on open hearings because they are classified or bump up against national security. When you hear "I'm not going to answer that" you should mentally add "...in an open hearing."

Right here is the difference between real and fake allies. Maher managed to not get fired so he doubles down on his privilege and white progressive butthurt by bringing back Milo. I assume so they can commiserate on how the coloreds are the real fascists.

My guys are just trolling his sorry ass now.

Yeah, Sherrod is going full Hulk on Twitter while Portman is being his usual craven self.

He's not thinking. He's obviously cognitively impaired. I'm guessing he's at Stage 4 or 5 dementia which would be bad enough with a decent person. Throw in Donnie's personality disorder and we end up with Suntan Satan. https://www.dementiacarecentral.com/aboutdementia/facts/stages/

At some point even his supporters have to admit that he's trying to lose this job.

There's a promo. It includes so many of my favorite scenes. I notice that it stays away from pretty much anything after S5 or so.

He has but that's by design. The only thing Donnie wants from the State Dept. is the removal of Russian sanctions. Every thing else has been designed to cripple that department. Tillerson wasn't even Donald's pick, he was Putin's.