On 2/27/2018 at 10:03 PM, Vee said:

Another Republican to Democrat flip in a state house special election, this one in Laconia, New Hampshire. Trump won the district by 13% in 2016. The Democrat tonight won by 7% #nhpolitics

— James Pindell (@JamesPindell) February 28, 2018

BREAKING: @philyoungct has won the special election in HD120 for the Connecticut House, flipping the seat from red to blue. Congratulations, Phil! pic.twitter.com/qmtIIxmmq4

— DLCC (@TheDLCC) February 28, 201

 

 

I was reading about these special elections and the CT one may not seem like all that much on its face, but considering that the seat had been solidly Republican for at least 40 years and has now flipped to Democrats, this is kind of big news that has implications for the entire state legislature!

Edited March 1, 20187 yr by DramatistDreamer

13 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

I'm just so sick of all of these damn people in this lousy administration.

It's corruption from top to bottom. Ben Carson's scandal is the least of our problems and yet how demoralizing that someone charged with housing the poor would spend $31,000 on a dining set.  If there is one normal person in this administration with a conscience, I don't know who it is.

 

At the same time, Sessions is a monster, so it's somewhat amusing to watch Trump destroy his own.

13 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

I'm just so sick of all of these damn people in this lousy administration.

 

This. The mediocrity. The venality. The entitlement. These people are straight up garbage.

Edited March 1, 20187 yr by marceline

Hm.

 

 

APPARENTLY THE RUSSIANS WERENT THE ONLY ONES SCREWING AROUND WITH OUR ELECTIONS Sanders fined for accepting foreign donations in 2016 election https://t.co/gA70CmRjy5 via@vtdigger

— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) March 1, 2018

In the midst of all this there's a good chance we'll be hearing about tariffs being slapped on more imports, which is likely going to lead us into a trade war we can't afford. I know everyone has been saying the economy is going to crash but I worry it may be worse than we even expect.

33 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

In the midst of all this there's a good chance we'll be hearing about tariffs being slapped on more imports, which is likely going to lead us into a trade war we can't afford. I know everyone has been saying the economy is going to crash but I worry it may be worse than we even expect.

Of course it will. China frankly doesn't even care that much about the tariffs, well that is the steel tariffs. It's going to hurt our allies more than it hurts them. China is looking forward to clean energy, technology, and AI. Tariffs are a 50 year old fix to a modern day problem

Edited March 1, 20187 yr by JaneAusten

Speaking of China, the Communist government is in the process of changing its constitution to remove term limits for the presidency so that Xi Jinping can stay in the office indefinitely.

 

2 hours ago, Juliajms said:

It's corruption from top to bottom. Ben Carson's scandal is the least of our problems and yet how demoralizing that someone charged with housing the poor would spend $31,000 on a dining set. 

 

Except, the employee who was demoted for pointing out the ethics breach is now suing the department.

Nunes in the hot seat:

 

 

NEWS: The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee have privately concluded that the HPSCI majority leaked Mark Warner's private text messages to Fox News. https://t.co/pn9uLfGtZN

— Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos) March 1, 2018

https://shift.newco.co/apples-china-agreement-4e67fa7b38f4

Speaking of China, this is a pretty disturbing development. I wonder how many people will end up in prison thanks to Apple giving the Chinese government this access. I'm not even fully blaming Apple, but I think the point that there are a lot of people in China that don't fully grasp that their info is now available to the government is terrifying.

 

 

4 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Speaking of China, the Communist government is in the process of changing its constitution to remove term limits for the presidency so that Xi Jinping can stay in the office indefinitely.

 

 

Except, the employee who was demoted for pointing out the ethics breach is now suing the department.

Good point. There are a few decent apples in this corrupt barrel.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/jesmyn-ward-mississippi/552500/?utm_source=atltw

 

Until this year I didn't fully realize what hellholes Alabama and Mississippi continue to be.  I feel like I've learned so much about our country in the last two years and most of it is awful.

I just read that Trump is trying to push the idea of the death penalty for drug dealers. 

 

This will just lead to Duterte-style bloodbaths. I'd like to say it won't happen here, but...

42 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I just read that Trump is trying to push the idea of the death penalty for drug dealers. 

 

This will just lead to Duterte-style bloodbaths. I'd like to say it won't happen here, but...

 

And just this morning I read a headline where supposedly Duterte said he wishes to retire.  I guess all that killing drained his enthusiasm for the job of being a despot.

 

Speaking of being tired of despotic behavior.

 

 

White House staffers are scrambling to find ‘a way out’ of the Trump admin — but nobody wants to hire them https://t.co/dWmEP65PMY

— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 1, 2018

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I just read that Trump is trying to push the idea of the death penalty for drug dealers. 

 

This will just lead to Duterte-style bloodbaths. I'd like to say it won't happen here, but...

Artists without training are called "primitive". I feel like Trump is some kind of primitive fascist. He obviously isn't enough of an intellectual to study how to be a fascist. He's just naturally falling into the role. Let's clean up society no matter how many people we have to kill to do it.

The people's princess:

 

 

BREAKING: US counterintelligence officials at the FBI are scrutinizing one of Ivanka Trump’s international business deals, sources tell CNN exclusively https://t.co/LDB9h7NovB pic.twitter.com/ZvmK7KNcjg

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 1, 2018

Behind the scenes, sources suggest that morale is waning at the White House. Two people close to the administration tell @NBCNews that the president is angry and depressed after losing Hope Hicks, whom he had looked upon as one of his own children. https://t.co/syfnYozXld

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) March 2, 2018

Trump tells his daughter and son-in-law to stay in their roles while also asking Kelly to help them move out. Trump’s Chaos Theory for the Oval Office Is Taking Its Toll. @maggieNYT @MarkLandler report https://t.co/6PIph7E56H

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 2, 2018

NEW: A prominent Kremlin-linked Russian politician has methodically cultivated ties with leaders of the NRA, and documented efforts in real time over six years to leverage those connections and gain access deeper into American politics, NPR has learned. https://t.co/sHa5mGS1sN

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 2, 2018