The Politics Thread

[DramatistDreamer]

By the way, this is the "journalist" who did the Trump "interview" for Axios.  I think people need to get reacquainted with the 14th Amendment.

 

[DRW50]

You'll be shocked to hear that the AP was running Trump's lies (about the US being the only country to have citizenship) as truth until they were called out. 

 

If this really does "change the narrative" and helps Republicans keep Congress (although given all the voter suppression and vote rigging that may already be an absolute), then it just shows how far gone we are as a country.

[Vee]

The Axios guy was getting roasted. He's furiously backpedaling on Twitter.

 

I don't think it will change the narrative, but it's still a vile stunt.

[Juliajms]

I guess it's not surprising that they tried to come for Mueller.

This isn't going to happen. That's the real answer. However, even if it did (which it won't) it would likely apply only to babies being born now to people who are undocumented. You're stuck here in either case.

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Edited October 30, 2018 by Juliajms

[Khan]

Did I miss something (again)?  Who is "they," and what did they attempt to do to my baby daddy, Robert Mueller?

 

 

As Ralph Furley would say, "DAMN!!".

Edited October 30, 2018 by Khan

[Juliajms]

Things are getting worse by the day.  You can feel it happening.  The open racism is just appalling. I can only hope that it abates a bit after the midterms.

[DramatistDreamer]

 

This thread moves at a furious pace these days but I posted this tweet this morning.  I can't see the original tweet but if you click the link, it'll probably take you to the original post where the reporter's tweet is embedded. 

 

[Vee]

tldr: Right wing rags tried to offer money to women to mock up a #MeToo case against Mueller and got outed.

 

Meanwhile:

 

 

[Khan]

 

 

Why does this not surprise me at all?  Ugh!

 

Thanks, DD and Vee, for catching me up!

[DramatistDreamer]

People are also talking about this HRC tweet from two years ago.  What a bizarre, surreal situation this country has found itself in.

 

[DramatistDreamer]

Bizarre, surreal and incredibly messy 'Merica.

 

Edited October 30, 2018 by DramatistDreamer

[I Am A Swede]

^^

I shouldn't be surprised, but unbelievably I still am. I was sufficiently naive to think that no-one would stoop that low. I obviously underestimated the depths people would sink to....

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I won't make that mistake again......

Edited October 30, 2018 by I Am A Swede

[DramatistDreamer]

I didn't know who this Jacob Wohl person was until today but it seems like he's in for a spot of trouble with the FBI.

 

[DramatistDreamer]

Absolutely wild.  All these GOP operatives who are trying to frame Mueller while simultaneously seeking to diminish the #MeToo movement.  The women were the ones who were approached by this man and they reported this.  So yes, do believe the women because they refused to perpetrate a fraud.

 

[Juliajms]

Yes. I see people saying that white liberals are the only ones surprised by this, but I don't believe it.  I do think that other people have wrapped their heads around it faster because they've been here before in a sense. I find I just can't adjust to were we are.  It feels deeply unreal to me.  That so many people have fallen for it is incredible to me.