US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

good mourning!

I would love to be the producer/director of effective, anti-Trump campaign ads.
So. Many. Good. Ideas

Just show footage of kids watching Trump at his worst. There's no way he'd ever be elected after that.

if there's one thing trump voters care about, it's the welfare of children

pure bliss. happy sunday, friends pic.twitter.com/QiLii4p1gS

— Dave (@dgen912) May 27, 2018

simply amazing

That dave, looks scarily like...

DONALD TRUMP: the sun. It's very small. America's bigger, folks. I love it

MAGGIE HABERMAN: While to us reality appears ineluctable, the president doggedly commits to a different course: one less grounded in veracity, but compelling to his followers and frustrating for opponents

— John Miguel McCauley (@Mickey_McCauley) October 19, 2018

Holy Shit, I just saw Beto doing an Attack Ad on TV!

Parole in libertà.

xp

The Washington Post reports:

Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a whispering campaign against Jamal Khashoggi that is designed to protect President Trump from criticism of his handling of the dissident journalist’s alleged murder by operatives of Saudi Arabia — and support Trump’s continued aversion to a forceful response to the oil-rich desert kingdom.

In recent days, a cadre of conservative House Republicans allied with Trump has been privately exchanging articles from right-wing outlets that fuel suspicion of Khashoggi, highlighting his association with the Muslim Brotherhood in his youth and raising conspiratorial questions about his work decades ago as an embedded reporter covering Osama bin Laden, according to four GOP officials involved in the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly.

“Khashoggi was tied to the Muslim Brotherhood,” Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner asserted on Thursday’s highly rated “Outnumbered” show. “I just put it out there because it is in the constellation of things that are being talked about.” Faulkner then dismissed another guest who called her claim “iffy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/conservatives-mount-a-whisper-campaign-smearing-khashoggi-in-defense-of-trump/2018/10/18/feb92bd0-d306-11e8-b2d2-f397227b43f0_story.html

What was he wearing? Yanno, maybe he was asking for it.

ace priorities:

Chuck Schumer, on MoJoe now: “I think there’s too much political correctness in this country.”

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) October 19, 2018

Tom Perez had a decent slogan: "When they go low, we go vote."

When they go low, we go, "Aww, man."

When they go low, we get polysyllabic.

Holder's line was better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHSK71l7lbk

has been privately exchanging articles from right-wing outlets

which is different from other weeks how

this time they’re looking for an excuse to dismiss the live vivisection of a journalist

well. a former colleague of mine who i only ever saw behave as a tactically brilliant charlatan has gone and done this:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/19/donald-trump-resistance-leader-resigns-build-better-world-column/1589126002/?fbclid=IwAR2DZN_6eTqLNvnh2IG1uduaT4NrPP7JduFHphgd7WO-LabCdiS0jTZPsO0

So my advice to those still in the political trenches is to take a step back and start building up something more people can get behind, because America needs a positive vision of the future now more than ever.

Please consider this my official resignation from the resistance, effective immediately. My current plan is to put on a hard hat and head back to Nipah to help build homes. After that, I look forward to helping people who have experienced trauma to rebuild their lives, which requires us to create a mental health care system where everyone has access regardless of insurance status.

I hope Americans of all political persuasions will join this construction crew, because whether you like it or not, building the future is something we always do together.

the resistance lost its leader?

oh noes whatever shall we do without him

WHCA Statement on President’s Remarks in Montana pic.twitter.com/vOwn6riBES

— WHCA (@whca) October 19, 2018

let's see ol Donny Trump wriggle out of this scolding

I confess my first thought at the Knox tweet is that I hope Trump retaliates by barring all mainstream news outlets from the WH with the unintended effect of forcing them to quit playing nice with him.

we should recoil, never shrug

go hire christian yelich to write your statements. what a bunch of pus . . . hovers

this time they’re looking for an excuse to dismiss way to capitalize politically on the live vivisection of a journalist

Houston Chronicle endorses Beto: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/recommendations/article/Senate-Beto-ORourke-Ted-Cruz-2018-endorsement-13320986.php

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dp5CEn0X0AAxrtL.jpg

cruz started 9th grade at 15?

hmm let's see...born Dec. 1970, started 9th grade fall of 1984--at 13. Good journalism there, guys.

He's from Canada, so they thought he was a little slow, eh.

we're phone- banking for Beto on Monday

Miguel is making brisket, feel free to stop by

ask Miguel to leave the shirt at home while cooking the brisket

oh, right, happy Friday:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/politics/russia-interference-midterm-elections.html

Xp well it's his house so

We clearly need to start making the 'tsk tsk' finger much more emphatically in Russia's direction. And I don't think it's out of line to suggest that we furrow our brows even more deeply.

If we're lucky maybe we'll get another one of these faces!

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/CHKiKaJUgAA1pBH.png

Short-term lease: In interview, Nancy Pelosi says she she's herself as "transitional figure" if Democrats win back House and make her speaker again. “I have things to do. Books to write, places to go...: https://t.co/WjGSfmtYoj

— Mark Z. Barabak (@markzbarabak) October 19, 2018

would kick it with Nancy and a bottle of white wine tbh

Oh man yeah

Pelosi has quietly been grooming potential successors, among them Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank, and though she said she would be delighted to hand the speaker’s gavel to another woman — “Oh, yeah!” she exclaimed — she has no plans to try to force a choice.

“Whoever is next is not up to me,” she said. “If I were saying, ‘I want so-and-so to be my successor,’ that’s not right.”

Hadn't occurred to me before but Schiff seems like a not-bad choice. Younger, decent public profile. Dunno how he is at vote-counting, which is what really matters.

Looks a lot like Andy Kaufman .
has seemed pretty good on pretty much every appearance I've seen by him.

the congressional campaigns of Antonio Delgado (NY 19) and Abigail Spanberger (VA 07) have been inspiring I think

way to fuck it up, Bredesen:

Inside the Blackburn surge in Tennessee: Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the GOP Senate candidate in Tennessee, has argued for months that her opponent, former Gov. Phil Bredesen, is a Democrat and would vote that way, something he says his record belies, reports Yahoo News National Correspondent Holly Bailey. And she has sought to tie him to Hillary Clinton and to unpopular party leaders like Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who helped recruit him for the race.

But the contentious battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court appears to have given her campaign new life. A New York Times/Siena College poll last week had her up 14 points among likely voters, a dramatic shift after spending much of the summer in an average 50-50 tie with Bredesen.

Part of the shift is a turnaround with women. Before the Kavanaugh vote, Bredesen led Blackburn by an average 10 points among likely women voters, but the NYT/Siena poll found the congressman with a 3-point edge — a result still within the survey’s margin of error but a trend that has Bredesen supporters worried. The former governor was attacked by Blackburn for taking weeks to say whether he would support Kavanaugh’s nomination. And when Bredesen ultimately did say he would have voted for Kavanaugh, he appears to have angered some of his own supporters.

I just got a phone call from Russia. They must have forgot to spoof their number.

xo yeah that was unfortunate, seems like a political move. I still hope he wins. I shudder at the thought of Marsha Blackburn being a senator

(xp)

Blackburn’s gonna win, Bredesen just blew any enthusiasm from his base

maybe you're right but in a new vanderbilt poll they are now neck and neck

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/politics/bredesen-blackburn-tennessee-poll-narrow/index.html