Guess who DID NOT VOTE at all?

Bernie Sanders. https://t.co/TVJd7sahSn

— Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈 (@leahmcelrath) January 16, 2019

I have to laugh at the media's little dears, Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney, puffed up to no end as the intelligence and conscience of the GOP,  voting to help Putin.

 

Not that most of the establishment media will care, as they love Putin and hate America too.

Edited January 16, 20196 yr by DRW50

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat," Will Rogers famously said. So far, in the shutdown fight, extremely disciplined Ds are proving Rogers wrong. @jenhab with the details: https://t.co/ALYkKucSjh

— David Lauter (@DavidLauter) January 16, 2019

I thought that was going to be about the "Problem Solvers" (why does that sound like a Bible group) meeting with Trump. 

I HATE the headline for that L.A. Times article.  "Oddly aligned"?  It's like they're saying, "Wait, you mean the Democrats actually have their [!@#$%^&*] together for once?"

 

Don't look now, L.A. Times, but your political bias is showing.

boom https://t.co/w1gC1bBrjf via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 16, 2019

This is likely one of the reasons Trump is happy to keep the shutdown going. He is using furloughed workers to do whatever he wants. I won't be surprised if he keeps this up for months, knowing the media, and many in the public, will ultimately blame "both sides" or the Democrats.

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/16/trump-free-government-labor-shutdown-1106637

 

 

"We are getting crushed!" Despite his public bravado, President Trump is said to be frustrated with aides and a shutdown with no end in sight. https://t.co/MLne10rPRv

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 17, 2019

Oh my God:

 

 

Rudy said this when Chris Cuomo confronted him with the Special Counsel’s claim that Manafort shared campaign polling data with Konstantin Kalimnik.

— Todd Zwillich (@toddzwillich) January 17, 2019

I canceled Shaun King in 2016 when he posted on Facebook that his "council of advisers" told him that Hillary Clinton was planning to have him killed. He's completely unhinged and the way he exploits black pain is infuriating.

1 hour ago, marceline said:

I canceled Shaun King in 2016 when he posted on Facebook that his "council of advisers" told him that Hillary Clinton was planning to have him killed. He's completely unhinged and the way he exploits black pain is infuriating.

 

...but he's a Sanders supporter, so I guess that made him aces in some people's books.

 

I've never followed him and I try to avoid his tweets.  The ones that I have somehow seen all seem to be videos of black people getting shot.  No thanks, life under Trump is hard enough.

Pelosi uninviting Trump to the SOTU was a brilliant move on her part. She has played the shutdown damn near perfectly.

I posted this info before, but the still says it all:

 

 

Rudy: I Never Said There Was No Collusion with Russia https://t.co/pUB5IzYXmM via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 17, 2019

WSJ reports Michael Cohen hired someone to try to rig an online CNBC poll on influential business leaders to get Trump on the list (https://t.co/JQAllzAwCx); Cohen now says he did it at Trump's direction; when Trump lost anyway, he tweeted this (found by @kyledcheney): pic.twitter.com/9d9MCFtAfW

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 17, 2019

As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging, what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t deserve it.

— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) January 17, 2019

The data here on eroding GOP support is important:

 

 

Trump approval: 39%, down 7 points from December
Trump disapproval: 53%, up 4

Support among Republicans: 83%, down 7
White evangelicals: 66%, down 7
Men in small cities / suburbs: 42%, down 9

45% strongly disapprove of Trump's job, 24% strongly approvehttps://t.co/XcZdRVI47q

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 17, 2019

That ends today's episode of "Bernie Sanders' A Series Of Unfortunate Coincidences"

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 17, 2019

Well, not yet. The New York Times version of this story gets pretty brutal. https://t.co/oBch4NSCf1

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 17, 2019

1 hour ago, juppiter said:

Pelosi uninviting Trump to the SOTU was a brilliant move on her part. She has played the shutdown damn near perfectly.

Frankly it's ridiculous regardless of security concerns. Deliver a state of the union when the gvmt is not even functioning at full capacity? When employees including those who supposedly "protect" us like Border Patrol and TSA are forced to be on the job and not being paid. And lord who exactly wants Air Traffic controllers disgruntled. That job in particular is one of the most stressful jobs period.

 

Pelosi is  a real strategist. Take note the only people that have stood up to the so called President who is not a king by the way are women. All the white men cower and snivel to him and end up resigning anyway,

Edited January 17, 20196 yr by JaneAusten