xp I think her opponent's case was: we need to teach the Nazi side and the Jewish side, and let the students decide which is better, inside of just saying that Nazis are bad.
my friend got just over 50% of the vote.
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
The KY argument being made was that if the GOP asshole won, that was good for Trump/bad news for impeachment, so it's disingenuous to say that if the GOP guy loses it *isn't* bad news for Trump, however disliked the GOP guy may have been. Trump exemplifies the "he's an asshole, but he's my asshole" mentality, so if even that wrongheaded approach isn't enough to help a guy he explicitly supported in a race he/they explicitly linked to impeachment/national politics, it's not good news for Trump or the GOP, however well they did elsewhere.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
yeah I think at the end of the day the whole "impeachment is actually helping Republicans so Dems should back off" thing seems to be demonstrably not true
ultimately Trump supporters already believe he's the most persecuted president in history, so actually slightly turning the screws on him ain't gonna do much
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, November 6, 2019 8:31 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
It's just a wonder to realize how many people are working overtime to ensure that Godwin's Law will someday be updated to include Americans as an unambiguously-pejorative point of reference.
― I'm scared my but won't fit in it. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
There was that one principal recently who was fired for refusing to acknowledge the Holocaust happened because "some parents might not believe that it did"
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
Needless to say, a lot of smaller local elections got overlooked against the big ticket races, but the trend of suburbs going blue or bluer seems not to be limited to PA. Heard similar stories about little elections in Minnesota, Iowa ...
There was a good NYT feature about this a couple of weeks ago, which says this is definitely a thing but also differentiates between inner-ring and outer-ring suburbs: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/us/democrats-republicans-suburbs.html
― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
lol, so literally moving the goalposts out?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
out to sea
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/11/06/judge-voids-trump-administrations-conscience-rule-letting-health-care-providers-refuse-to-give-care-for-religious-moral-reasons/?arc404=true
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
good
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
i'll take this onslaught of good news for the foreseeable future thanks
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
pessimist in me thinks we're due for more retaliatory prison camps by friday
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
Trump def probably flailing around for some headline-changing stunt at the moment
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
I'm sure that as he watches Fox and Friends, they'll reliably feed him his next tangent.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
John Roberts and His Furious Five are gonna be workhorses by the time the Trump Years end in 2021 or 2025.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
I bet they are so excited about so handling so many cases from an out-of-control executive
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
not sure if this got mentioned up above but a friend pointed out that Virginia could now ratify the ERA (realizing that some deadline passed but I'm sure something could be done about that).
― akm, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
It is completely in line with their historically consistent conservative stances about limiting government power and reserving the rights of states and individuals to... aw fuck it just kidding, it'll be a shitbath
xp and yeah if ERA gets ratified there will be much rejoicing
― tempted by the fruit of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
xp a bit more detail on that from a friend: "Passage in Virginia would be awesome — but alas, would not actually mean formal ratification and adoption. There’s complexities with deadline language in the original measure, and other subtle legalities. But finally having the states needed would definitely help force the question."
― Book Doula (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
Also, a charlottesville friend that was seriously injured during the first night of the white supremacist rally there, his spouse just got elected to cville's city council.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
<3 S3na, old family friend
― Book Doula (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah, the deadline for the ERA was originally set for 1979, and then Congress extended the deadline to 1982. Theoretically, Congress could vote again to extend the deadline, but it's unclear whether the original votes to ratify still count, or whether the amendment would need to be reintroduced.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
xpost Yes! (I only really know him but I was at their wedding a long time ago)
― Yerac, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
First public hearings announced:
House Democrats will begin convening public impeachment hearings next week, they announced on Wednesday, initially calling three marquee witnesses to begin making a case for President Trump’s impeachment in public.The hearings will kick off on Wednesday, with testimony from William B. Taylor Jr., the top American envoy in Ukraine, and George P. Kent, a top State Department official, said Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. On Friday, Mr. Schiff’s committee will hear from Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former American ambassador to Ukraine, he said.
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Also worth reiterating:
The sessions will not look like traditional congressional hearings, where Democratic and Republican lawmakers alternate asking questions in five-minute blocks and witnesses can easily avoid answering unfavorable questions.The House voted along party lines last week to approve rules for an impeachment process for which there are few precedents. Those rules include allowing the top Democrat and Republican on the committee to designate questioning to trained staff and for each side to have up to 45 minutes at a time.
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
Witnesses under Republican questioning will spend their 45 minutes rhapsodizing on the pleasures of drinking beer, while being complimented furiously for their service to the nation. After a time, the House member and witness will weep copiously about how this out-of-control process has ruined their previously idyllic family life.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7uSs_uYCp3GEQLYBR.YdEA--~B/Zmk9c3RyaW07aD0zODY7cHlvZmY9MDtxPTgwO3c9NDQwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/ae37e092512b3edd333393114fe09364
this photo is really begging for some photoshopping
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
why do we always come herei guess we'll never know
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
will the GOP totally fuck up in Alabama yet again? maybe
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to announce plans to run for his former Senate seat before Friday, multiple sources told The Hill.
A source who is in regular contact with Sessions said Wednesday there is “99 percent certainty he will announce today or tomorrow.”
A separate source familiar with Sessions’s plans told The Hill that the former Alabama senator “will come out forcefully in support of [President] Trump’s agenda while denouncing Democrats’ impeachment efforts. And steps have already begun to hire campaign staff.”
The deadline to file for the Senate race is Friday.
Rick Dearborn, a former top aide to Sessions, declined to comment on whether his former boss would announce a bid in the coming days.
Three other sources familiar with the plans said the announcement would be made Thursday.
Jumping into the Alabama race would put a national focus on Sessions’s rocky relationship with Trump.
Sessions held the Senate seat from 1997 until 2017, when he was tapped to serve as Trump’s first attorney general. But he quickly fell out of favor with the president after recusing himself from oversight of the Russia probe, eventually leaving the administration in November 2018, a day after the midterm elections, at Trump’s request.
Despite his turbulent relationship with Trump, Sessions has remained popular in Alabama, a state Trump won with 62 percent of the vote in 2016.
Sessions would be joining a crowded primary field that includes Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, businessman Stanley Adair, state Rep. Arnold Mooney and Roy Moore, the 2017 GOP nominee who lost to Sen. Doug Jones (D) in the special election to fill Sessions’s former seat.
The primary is slated for March 3.
Some Republicans, including his potential opponents, are not keen on Sessions launching a bid to return to the Senate.
“I think it would be a mistake for him and really bad for the state given the president’s extreme displeasure with him. Alabama is very pro-Trump,” Byrne told The Hill on Tuesday.
Sessions also does not have the blessing of key Republicans. Since kicking the tires on a potential run, Sessions has yet to speak with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) or Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), the chairman of the Senate GOP campaign arm, according to a Senate Republican operative.
Sessions also has not spoken to Trump or Vice President Pence directly, although the White House has communicated to Sessions's inner circle that they would view his candidacy “extremely unfavorably,” according to the GOP operative.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
"hmmm, the pedophile or the traitor... so hard to decide"
GOP in a single tweet
Bevin presser just now. He uses GOP cheating in North Carolina and Russian meddling in 2016 to justify his call for a recount.— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) November 6, 2019
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
the White House... would view his candidacy “extremely unfavorably"
Once you're down on the list of "persons showing insufficient fealty" Trump will kick you in the nuts every chance he gets until the end of time. Do it, Jeff!
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FiQ8QDX.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/LYHCZkh.jpg
― esempio (crüt), Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
Getting good here.
Lindsay Graham is now speculating that Gordon Sondland (who donated $1M to Trumps inauguration) is in cahoots with Democrats pic.twitter.com/jjGzmc57uj— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) November 7, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
It's weird how Democrats are powerful enough to be puppetmasters but we can't rig elections well enough to take the Senate
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link
it's also weird how sondland, in cahoots with democrats, managed to convince trump back in 2016 to be obsessed with the idea that ukraine hacked the DNC server, to the point of convincing trump to direct others to use back-channel diplomacy to demand that ukraine at least make a show of "investigating" biden in exchange for a few hundred million dollars. sondland must be very smart and convincing, in addition to being able to see the future
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
also, lol at the idea of sondland donating $1 million to trump for the privilege of eating his shit in the inner circle. fucking pathetic man
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
BREAKING: Footage of Lindsey Graham kompromat finally obtained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im3vHOEm-r4
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
Hmmm.
SCOOP: Trump wanted Barr to hold news conference saying the president broke no laws in call with Ukrainian leader. He's mentioned in recent conversations that Barr wouldn't do it. https://t.co/pB6PkhhUuh w/ @jdawsey1 @CarolLeonnig— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) November 7, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
also, lol at the idea of sondland donating $1 million to trump for the privilege of eating his shit in the inner circle.
The deepest of deep states.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:58 (four years ago) link
Rep. Mark Meadows objecting to MSNBC’s @LACaldwellDC saying that Republicans are struggling to defend the president pic.twitter.com/nkp5Z3gXEq— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 6, 2019
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
that is just about the most strugglingest soundbite I can remember seeing
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
Are we sure it's not the janitor?
1. Exclusive: I've obtained passages from the book by 'Anonymous', the author of the NYT Op-edIn the book, Anonymous claims that senior officials had no doubt that Pence would support invoking the 25th amendment if the majority of the cabinet agreed. https://t.co/MoTiIaQnuM— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 7, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
Pence was thinking that "some have greatness thrust upon them".
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:23 (four years ago) link
Idk, sounds kinda gay
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
still can't get over how sonderland gets to 'revise his testimony'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:31 (four years ago) link
these people are all snakes
― Dan S, Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
Sondland used the Mayella Ewell approach
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 November 2019 04:10 (four years ago) link
If you stare at this long enough, you can hear them ask you if you ‘swing’ https://t.co/YzivL7DiLe— h. jon benjamin (@HJBenjamin) November 6, 2019
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 November 2019 04:45 (four years ago) link
He was in Journey lol
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 November 2019 04:48 (four years ago) link