Oooh, wouldn't it be wild if it were a secret medical diagnosis?  I don't think he'd want the world to know he is really suffering from Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia (even though most rational people have guessed already that he is).

25 minutes ago, JaneAusten said:

I still believe the dirt that the Russians have is financial. Remember he could not get a loan from a US bank in 2011 so he went overseas.  And money laundering.

This is almost certainly true. They may have other things too, but I would bank on the fact that the Trump/Kushners have been involved in money laundering.  The sheer hubris it takes to do that and them run for high office amazes me, yet here we are two years in and most Republican lawmakers won't even admit there is a problem.

Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates - The New York Times https://t.co/mXDv6ovt2s

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 26, 2019

This will sting. Trump watches Dobbs constantly. https://t.co/gvWIfwGdn3

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 26, 2019

McConnell spoke to Trump twice yesterday. First time, he told Trump about the contentious Senate GOP lunch and said he didn’t know how much longer he could hold the line. Second time: Trump called and said he wanted to open govt, leading to today’s deal. https://t.co/OpJbvfGOzQ

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 25, 2019

Quite a meeting — folks denounced before Trump not only about transgender people serving in the military but women, too, @maggieNYT & @anniekarni report https://t.co/w9N1tE7Fhc

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) January 26, 2019

Privately, several veterans of Trump's 2016 effort say either that they can't see his road to 270 right now, or that they think he can but he needs a course correction, and he is squandering time https://t.co/HWfe1jjDTs

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 26, 2019

I haven't been a huge fan of most SNL political sketches in many years for reasons I know Carl shares and can enumerate for all of us (with a few exceptions, like the Matt Damon Kavanaugh sketch which largely just traded on actual quotes and his performance), but Steve Martin and co. do a solid job with this:

 

 

Not sure they needed yet another Kate McKinnon impression, hilarious though she is. I honestly haven't seen much of Wilbur Ross so on its face it just seemed like another excuse for her to be there

Edited January 27, 20196 yr by Vee

All Kate McKinnon impressions are pretty much the same, just with different hair and makeup. 

 

They commit hard to the idea that Democrats and Republicans are the same, it's just Republicans are smarter and less hypocritical while Democrats are craven and weak. That's why I'm not surprised they didn't have a Pelosi and Trump sketch this week. Instead they had Michael Che stumble his way through a shaming session of liberals for being too smug, just to remind viewers again of who the real enemy is. 

Anyway, I thought the guy who played Tucker Carlson was pretty good. Sad to say I didn't laugh once at Steve Martin - the makeup job was so bizarre and the lines weren't funny. 

6 hours ago, DRW50 said:

All Kate McKinnon impressions are pretty much the same, just with different hair and makeup.

 

Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you!  I've been saying the same, damn thing forever!

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/ann-coulter-flattens-newt-gingrich-trump-flattery-shutdown-disaster-least-dont-kiss-ass/?comments=disqus

I can't believe this ban is still in effect.

 

BREAKING: The longest government shutdown ever cost the economy $11 billion, and $3 billion could be permanently lost, Congressional Budget Office says. https://t.co/l2cMfG38ME

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) January 28, 2019

Sign of a new policy at the cable networks? Only ⁦@FoxNews⁩ is carrying the (rare) White House briefing live today. ⁦@CNN⁩ and ⁦@MSNBC⁩ are not. pic.twitter.com/l2iDP3NKgQ

— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) January 28, 2019

Apparently, the GOP doesn't want brown grand-babies and the "intermarriage that's going on" and the "conflicting with cultures." Also, "the Hispanics should be working harder on assimilation."

WTF has happened to Tom Brokaw. pic.twitter.com/DEJXuj8ZK6

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) January 27, 2019

i feel terrible a part of my comments on Hispanics offended some members of that proud culture

— Tom Brokaw (@tombrokaw) January 27, 2019

my tweet portal is whack
i hv been trying to say i am sorry i offended
and i so appreciate my colleague

— Tom Brokaw (@tombrokaw) January 28, 2019

Former "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw has apologized after saying that Hispanics need to "work harder" at assimilating into the U.S. "I never intended to disparage any segment of our rich, diverse society which defines who we are," Brokaw tweeted. https://t.co/LsD9tXkCYN

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 28, 2019

Just own what you said Brokaw. I never cared for him

I found what Brokaw said just odd.  It's mean spirited (to say the least) to expect first generation people of any culture to speak a new language well. Children tend to assimilate for better or worse. That's what the American public school system is designed to do, along with turning us into good workers of course. I'm not saying that's good or bad, it just is.

Go home, Tom.  You're drunk.

Awful news out of Singapore.