The Politics Thread

[Khan]

 

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Edited August 17, 2018 by Khan

[DramatistDreamer]

 

+1 on your entire post here.

 

I read about the closure of voting sites yesterday in Georgia and don't expect it to get much notice at all, and the "progressives" of the party are no exception to this neglect.

In fact, I don't remember Bernie or his "Revolution" mentioning Abrams at all but that's no surprise, this falls into his usual pattern of indifference.

[DramatistDreamer]

Halliburton - The Sequel

 

[Juliajms]

^ Good lord, that is just nuts.

[Juliajms]

The police used a taser on an 87 year old Syrian woman with dementia who was cutting flowers with a knife.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/us/georgia-police-taser-woman-dandelions-knife/index.html

 

[Wendy]

Trump blasts the D.C. mayor - who brilliantly blasts right back - after poor toddler's military parade goes bust and Spanky the Treason Yam (not my creation, but brilliant!) gets a case of the madz and sadz.

[Juliajms]

Please, don't let this trial go sideways.

[Wendy]

 

I think it's already toast. Bet Manafort walks. And there have been numerous reports about this judge's bias. While it is not supposed to sway a jury, let's be real. That bias will have some influence.

[DramatistDreamer]

Omorosa plans to drop recordings as if they're the hottest mixtapes of the summer.

 

[juppiter]

 

I could definitely see this being an even bigger fault line in the 2020 dem primary than it was in the 2016 dem primary. 

[marceline]

 

Manafort is on trial for 18 different charges. That bias can have all the influence in the world but he's not going to "walk" on all of them. Based on what I'm reading on the law blogs, it will probably be 10-8. 

Edited August 18, 2018 by marceline

[sivad40]

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/639147599/colorado-baker-sues-state-again-after-refusing-to-make-cake-for-transgender-woma

 

 

The Colorado baker who won a Supreme Court case over his refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple is suing state officials, alleging religious discrimination over his refusal to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.

[DramatistDreamer]

Some of you may remember Grechen Shirley as the Democratic candidate who petitioned the FEC to be able to use some of her campaign funds for childcare. 

She's running against that xenophobe Peter King. 

I wish her well, King represents a district that has repeatedly sent him back to Congress for at least two decades now, so I can only guess that much of his constituency represents his worldview or some variation of it--if not xenophobic like King, then certainly completely insular and quite close-minded which has been the hallmark of a sweeping portion of Long Island.

 

She’s Trying to Pull an Ocasio-Cortez. Her Target: Pete King.

[DramatistDreamer]

[DramatistDreamer]

Wow, we're not hearing anything that's going on in Yemen these days.  

 

Also, last year, the U.S. government decided that the number of casualties in Afghanistan will no longer be made public.