2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

It's ridiculous that people like Tom Brokaw are so focused on assimilation when we are constantly seeing reports of maladjusted young white men shooting people in schools, churches and banks.   Where is the introspection and serious discussion on that?

 

ICAM.

 

At this point, I think disclaimers and factoids should accompany any public statements made by Trump.  Sort of like Garrett Morris' "News for the Hard of Hearing" character from SNL, or "Angry Obama" from "Key & Peele."

Dan Coats is a hard right conservative. It will be interesting to see how Trump and his flunkies try to discredit this type of Republican.

1 minute ago, DRW50 said:

Dan Coats is a hard right conservative. It will be interesting to see how Trump and his flunkies try to discredit this type of Republican.

 

They'll discredit him the same way they discredit everyone else. They'll claim he's a secret Democrat. The MAGAts don't believe in consistency.

9 minutes ago, marceline said:

The MAGAts don't believe in consistency.

 

Or science.  Or logic.  Or even UFO's (which is weird, when you think about who we're talking about).

Edited January 30, 20196 yr by Khan

I can't believe no one has posted about Jussie Smollett having been attacked by MAGAts, they tied a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him

1 minute ago, dragonflies said:

I can't believe no one has posted about Jussie Smollett having been attacked by MAGAts, they tied a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him

 

It was posted in the Empire thread, I think. It's so awful I don't know what to say.

 

I know that some people wonder if something else is going on, but what we do know is terrible.

7 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

I can't believe no one has posted about Jussie Smollett having been attacked by MAGAts, they tied a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him

 

It was posted here in this thread too, on the previous page.

The major Foxconn jobs deal that Trump and Scott Walker now looks uncertain: Foxconn says it's scrapping plans to build a giant new factory in Wisconsin, opting to hire American engineers and researchers instead of a promised fleet of blue-collar workers.https://t.co/gOXtwDP6GH

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2019

I don't know what to say about Jussie's attack either.  Yes, it was awful to read about; but, in this day and age, when you have a president who emboldens citizens to commit those and other atrocities, should we really be surprised when something like that occurs?

I remember around the time of the elections that people were saying Foxconn was obviously not going to happen and that the GOP would likely just blame it on Tony Evers. Sadly the public will likely go along with this.

4 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I remember around the time of the elections that people were saying Foxconn was obviously not going to happen and that the GOP would likely just blame it on Tony Evers. Sadly the public will likely go along with this.

Doubtful. Foxconn was the icing on the cake for Walker and the taxpayer giveaway of billions was what ended up costing Walker the election. Will the GOP spin it of course. I don't think folks in Wisconsin will buy it other than those that never really cared anyway.

 

But this was also round 2 for Foxconn I believe. Didn't they pull out of a "great" deal in Pennsylvania too?

Edited January 30, 20196 yr by JaneAusten

Sherrod Brown does a very good job of talking about the working class without dismissing the women and the POC that make up so much of it. A lot of people in politics and the media would do well to follow his example. So many think of the white male coal miner when they hear "working class." They don't think about the retail worker or the nurse or the day care worker.

 

(Disclaimer: Sherrod and his wife are friends of mine so I willingly admit to not being unbiased where he's concerned.)

 

 

New: Mueller's team says that discovery materials shared with defense attorneys associated with Concord Management (the company owned by Putin's Chef) appeared online in October in an apparent "disinformation campaign" to discredit the Russia investigation https://t.co/R9dM9CguJh

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2019

Interesting: Mueller's team notes that some of the discovery shared with Concord Management 'appears to have been altered.' https://t.co/3pDkzhFxCP

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2019

This is the majority leader of the U.S. Senate admitting that, if voting were easier instead of harder, Republicans would be in trouble. https://t.co/J9Ul7pSHd2

— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) January 30, 2019

Good example in Christie’s book of Trump walking right up to the line of saying something without saying it - in this case, intimating he might have been able to intercede in the Kushner prosecution back in the day. pic.twitter.com/hkHkjDwjcX

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2019

Bernie is a cop:
 

 

Bernie not only lied about his record on the crime bills ... Bernie Sanders scrubbed his website.

This is a screen shot of Bernie bragging about his crime votes from Wayback. This was scrubbed from Sanders' website during the 2016 primaries.

pic.twitter.com/ce7zANP40H

— ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) January 30, 2019

For some reason the Branch Bernidians have really been refocusing on the crime bill. I assume that's a side effect of going after Kamala Harris because she was a prosecutor.