I voted in the NY state primaries, but I’m hearing a lot of these stories:

 

 

 

I can't stand Cuomo, but Nixon's crew blaming high Democratic voter turnout on losing is peak Bernie Sanders.

I wish Bernie and his contingent would stop trying to make their revolution happen.  It's not going to happen.

 

I probably would've voted for Nixon if I was still in NY, but her campaign made a number of mistakes and I am so, so, so tired of the angry white progressive journos whining and gnashing their teeth on Twitter every time their guy/girl loses and making it an all or nothing proposition.

 

Yes, Cuomo sucks.

Yes, I would've voted for Nixon.

Yes, she made major mistakes.

And yes, the will of the actual public has to be acknowledged and not condescended to or blamed. You don't get to blame Democratic voters for actually coming out and voting Democratic.

 

Meanwhile:

 

 

It's a very, very big deal that Dem insurgents are going to knock off six or seven state senators. Cuomo is the headline, but the caucus that kept the GOP in control of the state senate has been decapitated. #NYPrimary

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 14, 2018

Edited September 14, 20187 yr by Vee

It's like what we always say about voters, especially those on the left and far-left, engaging in some ridiculous "purity Olympics" (tm @marceline?).  No candidate, I have learned, will ever be perfect.  But picking off every candidate with even the slightest flaw is what got us where we are now w/ Trump.

Edited September 14, 20187 yr by Khan

Julia Salazar won her primary, lol.  Whew, she had a messy campaign season!

The Intercept world always seems to focus on the most contrived conspiracies - I saw that someone who works with them was saying that Sean Patrick Maloney ran for NY AG to block Zephyr Teachout and how his Congressional district is now "likely R" because he quit.

A superseding criminal information filed against Manafort alleges conspiracy against the U.S. (money laundering, tax fraud, failing to file Foreign Bank Account Reports, violating FARA, lying and misrepresenting to DOJ) and conspiracy to obstruct justice. https://t.co/9mb9DsUp1h

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 14, 2018

NBC News: There's only two counts in the criminal information filed by Robert Mueller so that IMPLIES that not only has Paul Manafort agreed to plead guilty but he's also struck an agreement with Mueller.

No information yet whether there is a cooperation component.

More TK...

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) September 14, 2018

"Trump has been especially piqued by the replaying of footage of him throwing paper towels into a crowd of relief workers in Puerto Rico 2 weeks after Maria, an episode that has come to symbolize the president's lack of empathy in the eyes of his critics." https://t.co/7B64maalDn

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 14, 2018

Ronan Strikes Again - at Kavanaugh.

 

 

Wow. @RonanFarrow got the Kavanaugh story. A woman contacted lawmakers in July and said Kavanaugh tried to force himself on her at a party when they were in high school, holding her down and covering her mouth. Kavanaugh denies it. https://t.co/ZyE6zhMZQZ

— Emily Flitter (@FlitterOnFraud) September 14, 2018

Just this will not be enough to stop Kavanaugh - the GOP will go for a 'boys will be boys' spin which, even if the media hammers them, will not stop their vote. The only thing that can stop him is if there's a lot more, or if the pressure on Murkowski and Collins gets even more intense (voters have been on them, to their credit).

 

Meanwhile, in Manafort news:

 

 

Manafort plea will be to two conspiracy counts but includes all of the conduct he was charged with in DC AND *importantly* even some charges from VA on which the jury hung. Statutory max sentence is only 10 years. Can’t be sure but this reads like a cooperation deal.

— Daniel S. Goldman (@danielsgoldman) September 14, 2018

Ugh - it won't even stop him. 

 

I know 'DiFi' is hated by many on the left but I understand her hesitation.

34 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Ugh - it won't even stop him. 

 

I know 'DiFi' is hated by many on the left but I understand her hesitation.

 

 

She's hated by the extreme left.  She's going to win overwhelmingly in California BUT

 

This reeks of Anita Hill and I am old enough to be glued to the TV with my mom and hating her treatment by the white male dais. Why I can't ever vote for Biden(my vote in 2008/2012 was 1000% for Obama)

 

I would like to know exactly why she held onto this other than to protect the author.  

Edited September 14, 20187 yr by JaneAusten

Manafort flipped. Gonna be an interesting day.

"He's not smiling at all. He's glum and quietly responding, 'yes, your honor,'" CNN's Evan Perez describes the scene in the court room where former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has just agreed to a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller's team pic.twitter.com/aFWEU2MYrd

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 14, 2018

Manafort - in this plea - admitted to every single charge he has spent months fighting https://t.co/1yljC9YSj8

— Ed O'Keefe (@nowthised) September 14, 2018