American Politics thread: No Nazis Allowed
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Why are Alex Jones and Marco Rubio trying to pretend to be Mitch Green and Mike Tyson?
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Subtracting resignations and death, it happened the following times:
Lincoln switched from Hannibal Hamlin to Andrew Johnson to appeal to Southern voters.
FDR replaced Henry Wallace with Truman to placate party leaders who were unhappy about Wallace's past as a Republican.FDR also had John Nance Garner replaced with Wallace because he ran against Roosevelt in the 1940 Convention; Schuyler Colfax was also replaced by Henry Wilson by Grant for running against him for the 1872 Presidential nomination.
Good to know. But that's still only 3 presidents out of 45. Very unusual.
Trump can't get rid of Pence anyway. Pence was picked by Putin. He certainly wasn't Trump's choice.
snort This is true.
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Good to know. But that's still only 3 presidents out of 45. Very unusual.
snort This is true.
Actually, 8 different presidents have had multiple VPs, with the switch usually occurring between terms. Twice it was because of death in office, and two of the others were resignations (Calhoun and Spiro Agnew for being shits in different ways). So there's a fair amount of precedent.
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Well yes, but those others were death and resignation. We're talking about presidents who chose new VPs.
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Jeez Kamala Harris completely t-bagged Kavanaugh
I love her so much!
Sucks that this "good" moment is her being a responsible senator asking legitimate questions to a "judicial" nominee, but eh. I'll take what I can get in the middle of this shit show.
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anonymous op-ed news-cycle is up there with my least favorite news-cycles
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Good to know. But that's still only 3 presidents out of 45. Very unusual.
We've had more presidents win through electoral college that lost the popular vote.
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anonymous op-ed news-cycle is up there with my least favorite news-cycles
Let’s combine it with the other worst news cycle and suggest that the writer is John McCain, Resisting from beyond the grave.
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Grassley is such an odd combination of devious and stupid
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Grassley is such an odd combination of devious and stupid
Guess he's looking to replace Jeff Sessions.
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They STILL haven't called my district. Damn, this is one intense election.
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Some genuine backbone and cleverness from Senate Dems today, and mostly the younger ones. Good sign.
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Some genuine backbone and cleverness from Senate Dems today, and mostly the younger ones. Good sign.
I think it goes without saying that the next Democratic leader of the Senate should be a person of color.
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Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo both strongly denied authoring the anonymous op-ed published yesterday in the New York Times. "The Vice President puts his name on his Op-Eds," Pence's spokesperson said on Twitter. "It is sad that you have someone who would make that choice,” said Pompeo. "I come from a place where if you’re not in a position to execute the commander’s intent, you have a singular option, that is to leave." Social media speculation that Pence wrote the op-ed comes from the use of word "lodestar" in the piece, a word that Pence has used multiple times over the course of more than a decade
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-pompeo-deny-authorship-of-anonymous-new-york-times-op-ed-on-trump/2018/09/06/ca116fd2-b1c3-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.ea66a563afb6
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Going back to an oldie but a goodie:A government photographer edited photos of Trump inauguration to make the crowd look bigger than it was after Trump personally intervened. Newly released documents show that the photographer cropped out the empty space "where the crowd ended" after Trump requested a new set of pictures on the first morning of his presidency. The newly discovered details were not included in the inspector general office's final report on its inquiry into the situation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited
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Also, a reply to that op-ed from the Los Angeles Times, calling the anonymous writer a coward:The truth is, Republicans don't want Trump out of office. They're clearly pleased with this “two-track” arrangement. They're advancing the right-wing economic agenda that President Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz would have been championing while preserving their popularity with Trump's base.
If you're reading this, senior White House official, know this: You are not resisting Donald Trump. You are enabling him for your own benefit. That doesn't make you an unsung hero. It makes you a coward.
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I think it goes without saying that the next Democratic leader of the Senate should be a person of color.
And preferably be someone willing to call out Israel for being hypocrites instead of enabling them.
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/09/06/day-595/
Day 595: Total meltdown.
1/ Brett Kavanaugh challenged whether Roe v. Wade was "settled law of the land" in a leaked 2003 email he wrote while serving in the George W. Bush White House. A lawyer for Bush deemed the email "committee confidential" when turning it over to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which meant it could not be made public or discussed by Democrats during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings this week. In the email, Kavanaugh wrote: "I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe v. Wade as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so." Following the publication of the Kavanaugh email, two Democratic senators unilaterally released several other "committee confidential" emails. (New York Times / Washington Post)
READ: Kavanaugh's email on Roe v Wade.
2/ Senator Cory Booker released 12 pages of confidential Kavanaugh emails on racial profiling, affirmative action, and other racial issues. Booker acknowledged that he would be "knowingly violating the rules" for releasing the "committee confidential" emails, adding: "And I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate […] I openly invite and accept the consequences…the emails being withheld from the public have nothing to do with national security." Booker then invited Republican Sen. John Cornyn to "bring the charges." (The Guardian / ABC News / CNN / The Hill)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/kavanaugh-hearing-document-booker-testimony/index.html
Separately, Senator Mazie Hirono published a "committee confidential" email about policies for Native Hawaiians. The leak was aimed at Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, who guards the interests of Native Alaskans. In that email, Kavanaugh questioned whether Native Hawaiians should be protected like Indian tribes. (CNBC)
READ: The Kavanaugh emails released by Cory Booker. (DocumentCloud)
3/ Kavanaugh refused to answer a yes or no question about whether he had discussed Robert Mueller's investigation with one of Trump's attorneys. During a tense exchange, Sen. Kamala Harris asked Kavanaugh whether he had spoken with anyone at Kasowitz Benson & Torres, a law firm founded by Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz. Kavanaugh dodged the question, responding: "Is there a person you’re talking about?" Harris responded: "I think you are thinking of someone, and you don't want to tell us." A Democratic aide said that some in the party "have reason to believe that a conversation happened and are continuing to pursue it." (Politico / CNN / The Hill)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/05/kavanaugh-mueller-probe-hearings-809115
Marc Kasowitz: "There have been no discussions regarding Robert Mueller's investigation between Judge Kavanaugh and anyone at our firm." Sen. Kamala Harris responded to Kasowitz's statement, saying his denial wasn't "under oath." (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/marc-kasowitz-denies-kavanaugh-ever-spoke-to-anyone-at-his-firm.html
4/ The White House is in a state of "total meltdown" with Trump "absolutely livid" and reacting to the anonymous op-ed with "volcanic" anger. The op-ed by "a senior official in the Trump administration" who claims to be part of a "resistance" protecting the U.S. from its president, has set off finger-pointing within the West Wing at the highest levels of the administration. Aides and outside allies say "the sleeper cells have awoken" and that "it's like the horror movies when everyone realizes the call is coming from inside the house." (Politico / Washington Post / New York Times / Talking Points Memo)
Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo both denied authoring the anonymous op-ed published yesterday in the New York Times. "The Vice President puts his name on his Op-Eds," Pence's spokesperson said on Twitter. "It is sad that you have someone who would make that choice,” said Pompeo. "I come from a place where if you're not in a position to execute the commander's intent, you have a singular option, that is to leave." Social media speculation that Pence wrote the op-ed comes from the use of word "lodestar" in the piece, a word that Pence has used multiple times over the course of more than a decade. (Washington Post / HuffPost)
Notables.
The Trump administration rejected an intelligence report last year showing refugees are not a significant security threat to the U.S. Hardliners inside the White House then issued their own report earlier this year that misstated the evidence and inflated the threat posed by those who were born outside the country. (NBC News)
The Trump administration plans to ignore a court ruling in order to detain immigrant children with their parents indefinitely. The proposed changes by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services would end the Flores Settlement Agreement, a federal consent decree that banned indefinite detention 20 years ago. (NBC News / Washington Post)
A government photographer edited photos of Trump inauguration to make the crowd look bigger than it was after Trump intervened. The photographer cropped out the empty space "where the crowd ended" after Trump requested a new set of pictures on the first day of his presidency. The details were not included in the inspector general office's final report on its inquiry into the situation. (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited
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As per AP: "Twitter is permanently banning conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behavior"
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As per AP: "Twitter is permanently banning conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behavior"
Good! I bet it turns him a even deeper shade of red at hearing this.
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As per AP: "Twitter is permanently banning conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behavior"
I'am shocked I tells you and also not expectant that it'll lead to Twitter culling other shitbirds like Jones from the site.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Alex's very public argument with Marco Rubio had been part of the reason behind this.
Because I mean clearly Twitter didn't give a shit until they got called before a Senate committee about letting the asshole make them money.
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That Kim tweet was so adorable. Ganbatte, you two autocratic fatsos.
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Warren is calling for the 25th amendment to be invoked.
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It's nice to see someone on the good guy team has a goddamn spine…
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Of course the moment Alex Jones touches a conservative like Little Marcobot Twitter immediately takes action.
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Assault is still technically a crime, but when it's a neo-Nazi you won't get punished much.
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Assault is still technically a crime, but when it's a neo-Nazi you won't get punished much.
I can't see it, it says 404 page not found …
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I can't see it, it says 404 page not found …
Huh, it's working for me.
Anyway, long story short, the person who was convicted of punching Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally organizer and human-shaped pile of shit Jason Kessler was facing fines up to $2,500 and possible jail time was instead forced to pay just one dollar. All the jurors were dumping on him too.
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A theoretical removal via the 25th Amendment is actually harder than impeachment; the latter requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate to remove but only a simple majority vote in the House to send the process to the Senate. The 25th Amendment requires two-thirds of both House.
With the current makeup, Democrats would need an additional ninety-four votes for it to pass that threshold in the House. Impeachment would just require twenty-five.
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As per AP: "Twitter is permanently banning conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behavior"
So the reason why Alex Jones got banned had nothing to do with Sandy Hook but for Jack of Twitter getting mad at him at DC for calling him his f**kboi.
And now, Jones has become more powerful than ever.
You might think its funny now? But wait a few years and it won't be funny then once you see Jones replace MSM in the near future.
The Streisand effect is proving that you can't censor something online forever. This is bad.
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A theoretical removal via the 25th Amendment is actually harder than impeachment; the latter requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate to remove but only a simple majority vote in the House to send the process to the Senate. The 25th Amendment requires two-thirds of both House.
With the current makeup, Democrats would need an additional ninety-four votes for it to pass that threshold in the House. Impeachment would just require twenty-five.
Yep. The 25th Amendment is nice to dream about, but it would be chaos in action, not to mention what happens if it fails.
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Roy Moore is suing Sacha Baron Cohen, CBS, & Showtime for 93 million.
Seems like overkill just to get 250,000 dollars…...which'll likely increase when he loses this lawsuit.
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Well, it's his fault for testing positive for the pedophile detector.
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The truth is, Republicans don't want Trump out of office. They're clearly pleased with this “two-track” arrangement. They're advancing the right-wing economic agenda that President Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz would have been championing while preserving their popularity with Trump's base.
If you're reading this, senior White House official, know this: You are not resisting Donald Trump. You are enabling him for your own benefit. That doesn't make you an unsung hero. It makes you a coward.
This commentator calls the official a coward. I would say it would be even more cowardly not to had written that OP-ED if the official felt that strongly about it.
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Gee it would've been nice if this Obama had been around between 09 and 16.
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Aside from his tack to the left on policy, that seems like a classic Obama speech.
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/09/07/day-596/
Day 596: Your fault.
1/ Trump called on Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department to investigate and uncover the author of the anonymous op-ed that described an effort by members of the administration to subvert his agenda. "Jeff should be investigating who the author of that piece was because I really believe it's national security," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. He added that he's also "looking at" possible legal action against The New York Times, though he did not elaborate. (ABC News / NBC News / CNBC / CNN / New York Times)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-investigation/index.html
2/ Trump tried to refute the quotes in Bob Woodword's new book, claiming "I don't talk the way I am quoted" in Fear: Trump in the White House. "The Woodward book is a scam," Trump tweeted at 5:30am, claiming the "quotes are made up" because "I would not have been elected President" if they were true. Trump also denied that he called Sessions "mentally retarded" or a "dumb Southerner," as the book reports. However, Trump is on record calling somebody "retarded" on a Howard Stern episode in 2004, and a former deputy editor at the New York Post said Trump once described his in-laws as "an entourage of dumb Southerners." (New York Times / Washington Post)
3/ Trump will not answer Robert Mueller's questions about obstruction of justice, according to Rudy Giuliani. "That's a no-go. That is not going to happen," Trump's lawyer said. "There will be no questions at all on obstruction," whether in person or in writing. (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/fd82c9d1dab7431db1635d9473c3d30e
4/ Hours later Giuliani walked back the comments, saying te possibility of answering questions about obstruction of justice are "not ruled in or out." One person with direct knowledge of Trump's legal strategy said "there is no strategy" aside from PR tactics of threatening Mueller. If negotiations break down, Mueller could be forced to subpoena Trump to testify. Giuliani previously said they would fight any subpoena to the Supreme Court, which has never definitively ruled on the question of whether a president can be forced to testify. (NBC News / Axios / Reuters)
5/ Elizabeth Warren called on White House officials to invoke the 25th Amendment and begin the process of removing Trump from office. "If senior administration officials think the President of the United States is not able to do his job," Warren said, "then they should invoke the 25th Amendment." Warren's comments come a day after an op-ed by an anonymous senior administration official who attacked Trump's "amorality" and "anti-democratic" policies, saying staff is "thwarting" Trump's "misguided impulses" and "worst inclinations." (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/elizabeth-warren-25th-amendment/index.html
6/ Trump told his supporters it'll be "your fault" if he gets impeached. During a rally in Montana, Trump told supporters that they "aren't just voting for a candidate, you are voting for which party controls Congress." He then brought up "the impeachment word" and said "you didn't go out to vote – that's the only way it could happen." (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/trump-impeach-your-fault/index.html
7/ Obama called Trump a "threat to democracy," while accusing Trump and his Republican supporters of practicing "politics of fear and resentment" during a speech at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He added that the "resistance" within the administration is not the right way to stop the "crazy stuff" coming out of the White House. He blamed Republicans in Congress for being "utterly unwilling to find the backbone to safeguard the institutions that make our democracy work" and that Republicans "who know better are still bending over backwards" to protect Trump. "This is not normal," Obama continued. "How hard can that be, saying that Nazis are bad?" (NBC News / New York Times / Politico)
Notables.
George Papadopoulos will be sentenced today after pleading guilty in October to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians. Papadopoulos was the first campaign adviser to be arrested in connection with Mueller's investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election. He faces up to six months in prison. (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/papadopoulos-sentenced-russia-investigation/story?id=57658992
A former Roger Stone associate and longtime Trump ally appeared before Mueller's federal grand jury. Randy Credico is one of at least 10 people associated with Stone who have been contacted by the special counsel. (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roger-stone-associate-appears-mueller-grand-jury/story?id=57657066
Trump "most likely" won't "shut down government over border security" after all. Trump has gone back and forth about the possibility of a government shutdown, and recently said he'd prefer to wait until after the midterms because "we need Republicans elected in the midterms. We are getting the wall done." (NBC News / Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/07/trump-government-shutdown-border-wall-810638
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The Kavanaugh confirmation process is really giving us some nice microcosmal moments in the world post-Trump and how much it will suuuuuck, namely with the fact that we'll eventually have to deal with all the Never-Trumpers and Resistence Grifters.
In particular, it's fascinating watching the Never-Trumpers completely turning their back on all their principles of fair play and law and order and skepticism of all things Trump when it comes to Kavanaugh. Regardless of his qualifications as a Supreme Court Justice–and from a strict legal perspective, he's been rated pretty qualified--the process of his nomination and confirmation as well as the inconsistencies within it would be a major red flag in any other situation. But folks like Rick Wilson and Ben Wittes are reaaaaallly ok with letting it slide this time; I wonder why.
Wittes and Lawfare et all are especially interesting to watch right now. After a series of his usual "I'm usually skeptical of these people who work for Trump but this is a personal buddy/connected with Old Stock Republicans" speeches, a la Comey/Haspel, it turns out Wittes was in some of the Committee Confidential emails that made it very clear that Kavanaugh, even if he didn't reach the legal definition of perjury, lied to the Senate on multiple occasions and was intentionally misleading on others. His response, after literally dozens of back-and-forths where he played the part of enlightened Never-Trumper on other subject matters, was to mostly shutter his twitter account, with the rest of the Lawfare staff pretty much declaring a lid on the subject.
Again, Kavanaugh is 100% in keeping with the Trump Process, down to lying in his first appearance that this was the most careful research and process ever undertaken by any President.
Anyways, tldr, Never-Trumpers are not your friends, and anyone who still makes a claim to some high-minded conservatism probably isn't either. Probably also true of Old-Line Democrats. Also probably true of a lot of people who will be wielding the Progressive/Socialist banner in the near future.
Good luck!
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Anyways, tldr, Never-Trumpers are not your friends, and anyone who still makes a claim to some high-minded conservatism probably isn't either. Probably also true of Old-Line Democrats. Also probably true of a lot of people who will be wielding the Progressive/Socialist banner in the near future.
Definitely agree with the first two but curious as to why you place that last group with them.
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Definitely agree with the first two but curious as to why you place that last group with them.
Should have said "some," not "a lot."
Has nothing to do with Progressivism or Socialism as a value system, just the usual trend of grifters trying to take advantage of a political opening if they see one. FWIW, that's where my sympathies currently lie.
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/09/10/day-599/
Day 599: Quite enthusiastic.
1/ The Trump campaign team was "fully aware" of George Papadopoulos' efforts to setup a Trump-Putin meeting. "I actively sought to leverage my contacts with the professor to host this meeting," Papadopoulos said. "The campaign was fully aware what I was doing" and that Trump was "open to this idea," but deferred to Jeff Sessions, who was "quite enthusiastic." (ABC News / NBC News)
2/ Trump is expected to declassify documents about the government's surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the investigative actions by Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr. Republicans on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees allege that Ohr was an improper intermediary between the Justice Department, Christopher Steele, and Fusion GPS — the opposition research firm that created the Trump-Russia dossier. (Axios)
3/ Trump won't enforce the $130,000 hush-money nondisclosure agreement between Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, claiming he has "never taken the position that he was a party" to the NDA because Trump never signed the agreement. Trump's attorney, Charles Harder, called for Daniels to "immediately dismiss" Trump from her defamation lawsuit. (ABC News / CNN / New York Daily News)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/08/politics/donald-trump-michael-cohen-stormy-daniels/index.html
Michael Cohen agreed to tear up the nondisclosure agreement barring Stormy Daniels from discussing her alleged affair with Trump and requested that she pay back the $130,000 she received. Michael Avenatti, who represents Daniels, called it a "legal stunt" in order to avoid Trump being deposed in the case. (CNN / ABC News)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/michael-cohen-stormy-daniels-deal/index.html
Stormy Daniels said she "vigorously opposes" Trump and Cohen's offer to not enforce her nondisclosure agreement, claiming their "sudden desire to escape" the agreement is a signal that they have been "shamelessly deceiving this Court and the American public for more than six months." (Daily Beast / Courthouse News)
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stormy-Trump-Stormy-Reply-Trump-Suppl.pdf
4/ The Trump administration discussed plans for a coup in Venezuela last year with rebels who were rebuffed by the Obama administration. The secret meetings involved a Venezuelan military commander who is on the American government's own sanctions list of corrupt officials in Venezuela. The U.S. eventually decided not to help the rebels, and the coup plans stalled. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/americas/donald-trump-venezuela-military-coup.html
5/ Jeff Sessions defended the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy as "perfectly legitimate, moral and decent." He also argued that in order to deter a large number of migrants, the U.S. need to adopt a tougher stance on immigration, saying: "The world will know what our rules are, and great numbers will no longer undertake a dangerous journey." Sessions plans to increase the number of immigration judges by 50% by the end of the year. (NBC News / Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/10/sessions-immigration-judges-813573
poll/ 38% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president – down three percentage points since August. 60% say Trump is not honest, 55% say he doesn't care about Americans, 55% also say he is not fit to serve as president, and 42% say Trump is not intelligent. (Quinnipiac)
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2567
Notables.
Federal prosecutors admitted that they wrongly accused Maria Butina of trading sex-for-influence with high-level Republicans on behalf of the Russian government. Butina is a Russian citizen who is currently in custody and facing charges of conspiracy and illegally acting as a foreign agent. Prosecutors acknowledged in court filings that they were "mistaken" in their interpretation of what were apparently joke text messages between Butina and a friend. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/us/politics/maria-butina-sex.html
The Trump administration is expanding U.S. drone strikes in Africa. The Obama administration curtailed the program toward the end of his term after a series of highly publicized civilian deaths as a result of the strikes. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/world/africa/cia-drones-africa-military.html
John Bolton will threaten the International Criminal Court with sanctions and other penalties if it proceeds with an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Americans in Afghanistan. "The United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court," reads a draft of Bolton's upcoming speech. The Trump administration is also expected to announce the closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington due to concerns over Palestinian attempts to convince the ICC to launch an investigation into Israel. (NBC News / Washington Post / CBS News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/bolton-wants-sanction-icc-judges-who-probe-alleged-u-s-n908011
Omarosa Manigault Newman released a recording of Trump discussing Hillary Clinton and the Russia investigation. In the October 2017 meeting with the White House communications and press teams, Trump claimed that the "real Russia story is Hillary and collusion." He alleged that the Clinton campaign paid $9 million for an unidentified "phony report." Manigault Newman added that Trump frequently crashed meetings at the White House, "rambling from topic to topic," because he got bored "very often." (NBC News / The Hill / Daily Beast)
The White House changed its phone policy believed to be in direct response to Manigualt Newman's recordings. Staffers will now have to put their White House-issued devices in their offices or in lockers with their personal phones near the West Wing entrances before being buzzed into the Situation Room. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/politics/white-house-phone-policy-situation-room/index.html
Pence offered to take a lie-detector test "in a heartbeat" in order to prove that wasn't the anonymous author of the New York Times op-ed. He also said he is "more than willing" to sit down for an interview with Robert Mueller's team as part of their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. (Washington Post / The Hill)
Trump promised to "write the real book" about his administration, calling Bob Woodward's new book a "joke." Trump claimed that Fear: Trump in the White House is "fiction" because it uses "now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources." (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/10/trump-woodward-book-write-813569
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About the "coup", let me call to attention the only petition made by the anonymous agent, "an encrypted radio". Cuban intelligence police combined with the one land line company, the biggest internet company and the biggest cellphone company being state owned has made secure communications an imposibility. So they ask for an encrypted radio, instead of asking how to sidesteep the cellphone tracking, or any measure that would leave no physical evidence.
BTW weekly reminder that Venezuela is still very screwed up.
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Hey, sgamer82… just want to say thanks for your efforts in making these 'day # summary'. I may not reply to every one, but I appreciate you posting them.
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Hey, sgamer82… just want to say thanks for your efforts in making these 'day # summary'. I may not reply to every one, but I appreciate you posting them.
I feel the same, for what it's worth.
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Hey, sgamer82… just want to say thanks for your efforts in making these 'day # summary'. I may not reply to every one, but I appreciate you posting them.
I feel the same, for what it's worth.
You're welcome. I've wondered now than once if flooding the board with these was more annoying than helpful, do nice to hear people like them. Though thanks should probably go to the guy who maintains the WTF Just Happened Today website, Matt Kiser
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/09/11/day-600/
Day 600: Reckless escalation.
1/ Trump began the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11. 2001 terror attacks by tweeting a defense of himself in the Russia investigation while also attacking the FBI. In a string of tweets, appearing to quote from a segment on Fox News, Trump blamed FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for employing a "media leak strategy" to undermine his administration. He then blamed the FBI and Justice Department for doing "NOTHING" about it. Almost two hours later, Trump tweeted: "17 years since September 11th!" (NBC News / Washington Post / CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/11/politics/donald-trump-september-11-hurricane/index.html
A History Trump's comments about 9/11. For instance, in November 2015, he claimed, without evidence, that "thousands and thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey had celebrated the news of the attacks. (HuffPost)
Trump bragged that one of his buildings was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan hours after the World Trade Center collapsed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. "40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest," Trump said during a telephone interview on the afternoon of Sept. 11 with local New Jersey television station WWOR. "And then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest. And now it’s the tallest." (Washington Post / HuffPost)
Trump pumped both fists after deplaning Air Force One in Pennsylvania, where Trump paid tribute to victims of crashed Flight 93. (CNN / CNBC / The Independent)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/11/politics/trump-9-11-pennsylvania/index.html
2/ The Trump administration plans to make it easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere. The EPA plans to weaken an Obama-era requirement that companies monitor and repair methane leaks, while the Interior Department wants to repeal a restriction on intentional venting and burning of methane by drilling operations. Methane is among the most potent greenhouse gases and is roughly 25 times more effective than carbon dioxide when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/climate/methane-emissions-epa.html
The United Nations Secretary-General: "We face a direct existential threat" because "climate change is moving faster than we are." António Guterres urged world leaders to combat "the defining issue of our time." (Common Dreams)
poll/ 36% approve of the way Trump is handling his job, down from 42% in August. Trump's approval with independents from from 47% last month to 31% now. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/politics/cnn-poll-trump-approval-independents/index.html
Notables.
Officials consider Russia to be the main suspect behind the mysterious "attacks" on U.S. personnel in Cuba and China. The U.S. believes sophisticated microwaves or other electromagnetic weapons were used against government employees, which led to brain injuries. There is not enough conclusive evidence for the U.S. to officially blame Moscow for the alleged attacks. (NBC News)
Trump has canceled a planned trip to Ireland in November due to "scheduling reasons." However, immediately after Trump's visit was announced, the leader of Ireland's Green Party called on the Irish people to "show their disgust and rejection of the Trump administration's policies by turning out […] in large-scale mass protest around the country." (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/11/trump-cancels-planned-trip-to-ireland-reports.html
The Trump administration is considering sanctions against senior Chinese officials and companies over Beijing's detention of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in large internment camps. It would be the first time the Trump administration has taken action against China over human rights issues. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/world/asia/us-china-sanctions-muslim-camps.html
Two political action committees based in Maine raised nearly a million dollars for Sen. Susan Collins nonexistent opponent if she votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Collins' Democratic opponent raised $2.3 million during Maine's most recent Senate campaign. (Daily Beast)
The Trump administration is expected to close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington. Senior Palestinian officials strongly condemned the decision and described it as a "reckless escalation." (Wall Street Journal)
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You're welcome. I've wondered now than once if flooding the board with these was more annoying than helpful, do nice to hear people like them. Though thanks should probably go to the guy who maintains the WTF Just Happened Today website, Matt Kiser
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/09/11/day-600/
Day 600: Reckless escalation.
1/ Trump began the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11. 2001 terror attacks by tweeting a defense of himself in the Russia investigation while also attacking the FBI. In a string of tweets, appearing to quote from a segment on Fox News, Trump blamed FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for employing a "media leak strategy" to undermine his administration. He then blamed the FBI and Justice Department for doing "NOTHING" about it. Almost two hours later, Trump tweeted: "17 years since September 11th!" (NBC News / Washington Post / CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/11/politics/donald-trump-september-11-hurricane/index.html
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BREAKING: President Trump says federal gov’t is "ready" for Hurricane Florence, and reflects on what he describes as "incredibly successful" response to Puerto Rico hurricane disasters in 2017 – “one of the best jobs that’s ever been done.”
In perhaps another facepalm moment, Trump has this to say about the upcoming storm.
I'm half joking, but I'm actually more worried about this now.
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White people live in the Carolinas so presumably there won't be another Trump FEMA misadventure.