US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

Fun times!

NEWS: National GOP deliberating whether to intervene against DON BLANKENSHIP, who's gaining big mo in the West Virginia Senate race
My piece on what's quickly becoming the most fascinating contest in the country >>https://t.co/rj8HG1aZLr

— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) March 20, 2018

xpost Yes, I suppose you're right. Where 'social justice' means a return to a state of benevolent paternalism where everyone who isn't a white male knows their place and everyone is better off for it.

xp

While some senior Republicans are anxious to block Blankenship, others believe that such a move could backfire and turn him into a martyr— much as it did when the national GOP dropped millions of dollars in an unsuccessful attempt to take down Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore in a Republican primary.

has Moore really become "a martyr"? from what I see it's more like "pariah"

My piece on what's quickly becoming the most fascinating contest in the country

classic POLITICO humility

"Beltway pundits deliberating whether to intervene against ALFRED LORD SOTOSYN, who's gaining big mo in the 'trashing us relentlessly' race. My piece on who's quickly becoming the most fascinating man out of the Miami area."

Finally focusing on the real issues.

I like the brief-like capital letters.

woah Alfred is a Pitbull sock??

Why do you think he has big mo?

https://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/50311766.jpg?w=580

http://images.newindianexpress.com/uploads/user/imagelibrary/2014/6/18/14/original/Pitbull_AP.jpg

please clap

caesar was kind of a leftist

I wrote a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking @facebook to detail the extent of misuse of its users’ private information: pic.twitter.com/N9CYC50AHG

— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) March 19, 2018

dr aleksandr spectre???

"we have videos of a woman calling herself masha evil tying long pieces of string to voting levers in polling places across the country and then pulling on the other end of the pieces of string right before voters cast their ballots. do you still think donald trump won the election fairly?"

trump voter: "well he IS a maverick"

xpost the software architect of all your pain

this NYTimes editorial comes REALLY close to supporting the #SandersLeeYemen bill but never actually gets around to doing it, instead says the bill "must force serious debate and accountability".

"Debate" https://t.co/toa0E1441J

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 20, 2018

Hoping that @KamalaHarris, @SenatorShaheen and @clairecmc will join @SenFeinstein, @SenWarren, @SenGillibrand, @tammybaldwin and @SenDuckworth in voting to support #SJRes54 TODAY to help save the lives of millions of women and children in #Yemen. https://t.co/MxHasxGl6V

— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) March 20, 2018

thomas frank wrote something really long that i didn't finish:

https://harpers.org/archive/2018/04/four-more-years-2/

Susan Sarandon Makes a Scene.

Reaching back to: "The left may hate Trump, but they'd be glad to set up their own dictator".

Very Freudian language there. Seems to me that Erick is implicitly saying that Trump is already a dictator, who the right claims as their own.

ha exactly

As long as he maintains the correct tribal affiliation, they will accept Trump as their whatever he feels like being. Priestfrotterer? Toddlerdevourer?

The left would gladly install their own preschoolteacherimpaler. Gladly

scoop w/ @CarolLeonnig: Trump legal team seeks to add star GOP attorney Theodore B. Olson https://t.co/4nxWjC6K9T

— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 20, 2018

and

I can confirm that @gibsondunn and Theodore B. Olson will not be representing @realDonaldTrump

— Ted Boutrous (@BoutrousTed) March 20, 2018

tough luck, scoops mcgee

They came. They sought to add. They failed.

Meantime...

EXCLUSIVE/BREAKING: Former Playboy model Karen McDougal sues to get out of “catch and kill” deal with National Enquirer parent Co. silencing her story of affair with Trump https://t.co/NIwJA1bneI

— jimrutenberg (@jimrutenberg) March 20, 2018

why have so many people seen the furry furher's dick

so uh is there any evidence to suggest trump voters care if he had affairs or not

Well right now the likes of Jerry Falwell Jr. seem to think he's still a man of god, so.

I don't think any liberals care either. I think the focus is trying to find if he tried to silence people through illicit means.

that better be the focus at least, cos "affairs" = a non-starter of a controversy

either that or they're wanting to upset Melania enough to where she turns on him and reveals all his dirty laundry

It's sort of an extension of the crime/coverup corollary. It's not that he had affairs, it's more what he did to have them covered up. And by extension what other unseemly stuff he may have covered up as well. Like, if there were threats, or if he forced women to have abortions ...

if this development gets pics of Trump's brazole declassified, I'm going to hold a lot of people responsible

BTW, IL primary is today, and while it's not the most exciting of elections there are a few things worth paying attention to. The first is the Gov, to see which Dem is potentially primed to take down Rauner. The other is the IL-03 race, where a (more or less literally) grandfathered-in conservative democrat (Dan Lipinski) is being challenged from the left by upstart Marie Newman. If she can pull off an upset in a safe, guaranteed blue district (this is where the GOP alternative is an actual Nazi) it might hint at future prospects for candidates to challenge from the left.

xp the only hope would be to destroy the illusion that white American evangelicals have any moral authority, but I think anyone who has that illusion anymore is old and not likely to be voting in many more elections.

but white Americans being freed of even the illusion of moral authority is not going to be good for non-whites so basically bleh

ew

Big Stormy story in the WSJ includes details of a phone call between Cohen and Stormy’s lawyer and 2011 polygraph results https://t.co/yepOPs8wd7 pic.twitter.com/gtgLzk2DcR

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 20, 2018

josh is there a primary for the IL AG?

Not only is there one, a friend of his is in it.

yeah that's why i'm asking him!

also jfc this looks like an isis video

Hmmmmm........#basta #searchforthetruth #whosenext? #buckle-up pic.twitter.com/frvAmT7MBf

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) March 20, 2018

Not only is there one, a friend of his is in it.

just voted for him about an hour ago! wish i lived just a couple blocks south so i could vote for newman (or more accurately, against lipinski). newman would definitely be an improvement but tbh she's an ex-advertising executive and acts the part

an isis video.. or fetish porn. xp

xpost Yeah, there are a billion people running for AG (well, maybe 8?) because this is the first time the seat has been open in 15 years. I've got a friend running, our best friends have a different friend running, neither may have a good chance. I suspect it will be Kwame Raoul, who has the support of the Dem party (and currently occupies the state senate seat formerly occupied by Obama, fwiw).

The events leading up to the 2016 election proved that voters were willing to overlook a hell of a lot of sordid ugliness to vote for Trump and against Hillary. But over 3 million more people voted against Trump and for Hillary. And since getting into office, Trump's approval ratings have been in the toilet since week one.

I'm fine with piling up more and more evidence of Trump's vicious nature.

It is defeatist to believe that, just because you think that Trump's approval rating ought to be near zero and it stubbornly flirts with 40%, that the drumbeat of disgusting personal stories about him 'make no difference' to Trump's support. If Trump were as personable as Reagan or even G.W. Bush, Trump's approval would probably be around 50%. His self-evident volatility and nastiness are what undercut his popularity, not his policies.

xpost Looks like a scene from Videodrome.

This is why this shit matters:

President Trump must face a defamation suit filed by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos after a Manhattan Supreme Court judge denied him immunity through his job as the nation’s commander-in-chief.

“In Clinton v Jones the United States Supreme Court held that a sitting president is not immune from being sued in federal court for unofficial acts,” Justice Jennifer Schecter wrote in a ruling released Tuesday, citing the sexual harassment suit that led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

“It left open the question of whether concerns of federalism and comity compel a different conclusion for suits brought in state court. Because they do not, defendant’s motion to dismiss this case or hold it in abeyance is denied,” Schecter ruled.

The decision means that Zervos, who in 2016 accused then-candidate Trump of groping her and pressing his privates against her in 2007, can pursue her defamation case against the president for suggesting she made up the allegations for “10 minutes of fame.”

The drip drip drip has to start somewhere. White Evangelical Women, Core Supporters of Trump, Begin Tiptoeing Away

Barbara Lee vs the DeVos

https://splinternews.com/watch-betsy-devos-get-torn-to-shreds-for-her-pitiful-an-1823925811