“To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.”
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I wanted to take a moment to note here that I have been waiting for a couple of days, and still no response from Powerful Pear (or any MAGAt, for that matter) to tell me how far are you willing to support your glorious leader in his quest to be Americas' first emperor.
Is there a T***pian who will state , with a straight face, their leader is NOT intent on becoming the sole power in this country. And if, as I believe, he will not accept even a sound thrashing at the polls, will MAGAts take up arms against their friends and neighbors to defend his throne. Will you, Pear, kill for the America your hero and his political party are intent on creating?
How far, Pear? How much destruction are you willing to support or participate in to elevate your king?
I've wondered how many Secret Service agents would take a bullet for Trump.
All of them. Those guys take their oaths seriously.
We can hope that a stray clot from one too many buckets of KFC will do the trick. I hear propecia – induced dementia can be fatal, too. No, I don't want a President Pence, but he can hardly be worse for the country than the Mad King.
Meanwhile, keep protecting voters, keep promoting the best possible Democratic candidates at every level, and yes, start impeachment inquiries.
Wrap up all of these miscellaneous investigations under one umbrella, call it an impeachment investigation. That's what smart people like Harvard professor Laurence Tribe, ("Americans could lose their souls and their constitutional democracy") and 962 former Federal prosecutors advise.
So no, wishful thinking aside, we have to do the work, through our duly elected representatives. A stray clot or stray bullet won't do the job for us.
Here’s Randy Rainbow with some constructive suggestions:
Yeah, I have a cousin who has worked her entire career, since college, for the Secret Service. So, wishful thinking on my part.
Has anyone received a solicitation for money from the Ditch Mitch Fund in D.C.? I got one about 10 days ago. It's some sort of PAC to work against Mitch McConnell's re-election next year.
More info here:
http://www.DitchMitchFund.com/Grassroots
I'm on that distribution list. In case you missed this:
Mitch McConnell, the man who broke America
I know you'll be shocked, C.H.B. (he made the good white folk in Paducah, KY very, very happy).
In reversal from 2016, McConnell says he would fill a potential Supreme Court vacancy in 2020
Democratic donnybrook could jeopardize must-win Senate seat
As the article noted, the primary is a year away. Plenty of time for several campaigns to wither on the vine for lack of interest and funding. Also, as noted, Hick's presidential campaign will likely be over in plenty of time to allow him to reconsider his future options, and if desired, would empty the pool by cannonballing into the Senate race.
But, my bet is by the time the primary rolls around next year, the field will have effectively dropped to at most 3 or 4 viable candidates.
What Davey said. Hick would be perfect. Romanoff or Madden can win if we get behind them. And though she's a long shot, I'm getting a bit fond of Trish Zornio. You never know when the voters will decide to settle this thing by reverse alphabetical order.😃
Andrew is going to make a fine Senator (he's now endorsed by more than 250 current and former elected officials).
All aboard team Romanoff! Hick doesn't want the job, as he hasn't worked at a lower than CEO level since the first Bush administration. Johston has a pretty face and cash, but I think he has squandered his once-great potential by over-reaching.
The rap I keep hearing on Johnston is his cozy relationship with big money interests. I don't know him as I do Andrew.
The only person I immediately can think of who might make a better senator than Andrew Romanoff is a guy I know named Bowman, who is a hemp grower, among other things.
In General, people from Wray are smarter and take more baths than those from Yuma!😈
^^^truth^^^
Duke – you'd enjoy visiting one of our hemp projects that involves an Alabama, African-American farmer who nearly died on Bloody Sunday and farms in the Selma area (the klan is alive and well, still, in Dallas County) – and a godson of Congressman John Lewis. This may well turn into one of the best hemp stories of 2019. Their challenges seem almost insurmountable, by design. Decades of lender abuse, oppression and racism have taken a toll – but it hasn't completely extinguished the optimism of a handful of black farmers left in the Black Belt. Stay tuned.
In Johnston's case, he finishes a poor third in the gov. Primary, so immediately files for the next available.opening. It doesn't inspire me.
Madden is a brilliant lady, if she only fires the idiot flack who keeps writing she was the first Democratic House majority leader in 60 years. Not even close. Bob Kirscht was elected majority leader in 1975. a pueblo Democrat. So it was 30 years, not 60, when ds retook the house.
Andrew was very fair and moderate as a speaker. Both andrew and madden are coming off a loss but either could beat Gardner.
Hick is an executive, not a legislative, type. He'd hate the Senate. But he could win that race in his sleep. I still hope he goes for it.
This is all Hickenlooper's fault! He wants to indulge his presidential fantasy and the rest of us run the risk of paying for it.
If Hick finishes somewhere down between Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard in Iowa, and drops out the following day, does he still have time to declare for the US Senate?
Franklin Graham announces 'special day of prayer' against enemies of President Trump
Thank god for Christians, the best recruiting tool atheists could ever ask for.
On a not entirely unrelated note, I started watching Handmaid's Tale this weekend. It look like Mike Pence's wet dream come true.
Which is why I hope Yammie-pie gets through his term whole-skinned and as healthy as possible. He may have to be dragged out kicking and screaming, and he's a hot mess as POTUS, but Pence is not. He would be frighteningly competent and would cheerfully usher in Gilead. I haven't watched the program, but I read the book while on a business trip with my wife and it was one of the scariest things I've ever read. Margaret Atwood makes Stephen King look like a piker. You know his stuff is pure fantasy.
Grifters gunna grift…
I hope PoddyMouth has saved enough from his big ol' tax cut to make his reservation for The Kingdom Business Summit. For the low, low price of $149 Willie will share with you #ProsperityJesus' vision for making every white man rich!! Get activated today!
Isn't Willie one of the younger and relatively more moderate duckers? Isn't Uncle Phil the unadulterated religious nut in that family?
Willie has found a lucrative schtick – pretending to be a backwoods redneck, instead of a millionaire business man and professional actor.
Here's what he looked like in college:
They were a clan of uppity liburals before they discovered
Jesusthe red-neck honey pot! The power of #branding….Unkkkle Phil is kray kray….
The special day for all the Graham Crackers
Thank you Bernie Bros for this Supreme Court…..
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/us/politics/supreme-court-abortion-indiana.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Looks like women need to hold funerals for their feti.
Mitch McConnell gets the (dis)credit for $rump's SCOTUS, not the mythical "Bernie Bros". Sorry to blow your attempts to divide Democrats….yet again. You never get tired of it, though, do you?
Oh, there is blame enough to go around, MJ. Without the tireless efforts of the Bernie Bros and Jilliots, Trump would still be a third rate TV host and couldn't make any appointments. Math is math, oh defender of the flame.
In the last month or so, Neil Gorsuch voted again with the liberals, this time to support Native American treaty hunting rights, I believe, in Wyoming. Their rights are based on an 1868 treaty. The decision in support of the tribes was 5-4.
Gorsuch apparently has a tense relationship with Roberts. They both think they are the smartest guy on the bench and like to demonstrate for the others.
I liked this one more: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/doe-v-boyertown-area-school-district/
Cert. denied.
'splain it, cook. So SCOTUS won't hear the Boyer bathroom case? Is this good or bad news for transfolks?
More or less a win for trans kids. Existing policy lets them use self-idenity, not biology, in choosing bathrooms. Existing policy stands.
A key reason SCOTUS passed is that there was no disagreement at appeals court level.
It's less of a win than if the Supremes had heard case and upheld policy. But, of course, no risk of losing the case.
A key is that self-identification isn't a casual thing. A team of trained experts weeds out phonies, if phonies there be .
See how much sense you can make when you stick to things you have actual knowledge about? As opposed to reading my intent or deliberately misquoting the posts of myself (or others).
This one time that you jumped in to my conversation with another Polster and replied for him/her, is OK, since you stuck to facts without your personal anti-trans spin.
Keep doing that.
While I know that everything is about you, MJ, I don't need your permission to reply to a public posting on a public blog. Nor am I anti-trans, unless you mean Chelsea nee Bradley Manning. In that case, I'm just anti-traitor.
God, you have an ego!
Pot, meet kettle.
Unless there's a Circuit split in the future that requires SCOTUS to step in again, for now, schools will be free to allow kids to go (and dress) where they feel safest and most at ease.
AG Barr 'splainin' why he didn't release the full Mueller Report while doing the chicken dance….priceless.
Somber rumination on the infantilization of our politicians (and politics) from Paul Krugman today (from his email newsletter so I don't think it is paywalled):
It wasn't. Thanks, Davie.
Today, the Supreme Court denied cert (declined to hear) on part of an appeal of an Indiana abortion law that had been overturned by the 7th Circuit. That law purported to prevent abortion based on a knowing choice to abort a fetus based on its sex, race, or the presence of a disability. That decision wasn't made on the basis of the content of the law (i.e. they didn't decide the restriction was counter to "settled law" in Roe v. Wade) but that there was no circuit split (more than one circuit court of appeals ruling on the same matter but with different answers). Cold comfort indeed.
But, even more chilling, was the foreshadowing in Clarence Thomas' concurrence (an opinion saying I agree with the outcome, but here's how I would have gotten there). He calls out, for a number of pages, what he describes as the roots of birth control in eugenics, giving undue weight and inaccurate character to the eugenicist views of Margaret Sanger, the woman who could be considered the founder of modern-day Planned Parenthood. While some of Sanger's views are problematic, they are not the foundation of our modern-day views on birth control and women's right to make use of it. His statements do, however, portend the coming assault on Griswold v. Connecticut, the case which established the right to contraception.
Assault against Griswold v. Connecticut…….again adding what I posted before, from somebody on Yahoo! News.
Visit: the pill kills dot org. Doesn't seem to be an overly active web site right now. But it does give a chilling insight into the plans for the country from the far right wing Christian dominionists.
That is the prize the RWNJ have been after all along….Roe is the "out front"case, but they are going after the underpinnings of abortion rights, gay marriage, right to private consensual relations between adults of the same gender…and that is Griswold.
Hell, not just regulating private consensual relations between adults of the same gender but private consensual relations between any adults. Everyone knows their ultimate goal is man on woman in missionary position only with sole purpose being for procreation. Anything else is an abomination.
…or a good time. 😎
They'll go after this one first:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/405/438/
Intruding on straight marriages would be a step too far, but unmarried couples may be fair game in the future.
First they came for those 'living in sin'.…
In 1988 I was denied a rental in Asheville NC because my housemate and I weren't married. I imagine that happens yet today in those parts.
James Comey: No ‘treason.’ No coup. Just lies — and dumb lies at that.
If you ask me, he's got a lotta damn gall. I still say he sandbagged 2016 with that stuff about the investigation of Sec. Clinton.
Perhaps, Cook, but remember what a pundit said: "I was told that if I voted for Hilary, there would be continuous investigations. Well, I voted for her and there have been continuous investigations ever since."