None, and everyone knows it, which is why she’s just going to get the votes and send it to Cocaine Mitch, who in turn will send it to the president hoping he doesn’t get in his own way.
It’s not Nancy Pelosi’s job to punish the Republican party - that’s the job of informed voters.
They brought Pence to a migrant detention center in Texas to view the ever so comfortable living accommodations for himself. What he found was 400 unshowered men stuffed into “sweltering hot” cells. Even Pence stated, “This is tough stuff.”
Imagine the centers that weren’t cleared up ahead of time for his photo opportunity.
Headline in today’s *Atlantic *online:
Consider that this is one of the oldest, most esteemed publications in the country. It was founded in 1857 by Francis H. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier. James Russell Lowell was its first editor. <Info from Wikipedia>
Today it used the word MALARKEY in a headline to refer to statements made by the President of the United States.
Ponder that for a moment. This is what we have come to.
They choked in the subhead, however, and used the euphemism “snow,” when they should have gone all in and said “can’t stop LYING to the public.” But baby steps.
I believe Emerson would approve.
Good additions. Lewinski = Lewandowski, I presume. Mattis is already there.
Yesterday, the Rachel Maddow show grappled with the long list of departures, and showed some more names, including Flood and Shanahan.
Mr Trump, you’re no Chet Roosevelt.
Conspiracy theorists will always remember him for his membership in the Warren Commission.
The two assassination attempts in a seventeen day period (both by women) is also memorable.
I am not a fan of Donald Trump or Mike Pence and I have no intention of voting for them in 2020.
That being said, after watching the video of Pence at the detention center I must say i think the Democrats might have mis-calculated by referring to the centers as “concentration camps”. Because those words conjure up images of the Nazi camps and anyone who has seen videos of the actual camps the Nazis kept the Jews might come away thinking that the condition the detention centers are in really** are not **that bad.
For months, federal prosecutors in New York have examined whether company officials broke the law, including in their effort to reimburse Michael Cohen for hush-money payments he made to women alleging affairs with his former boss, President Donald Trump.
I don’t get it. Don’t you normally know something is a crime and then investigate to see if someone did it? We know the payments were made, they were illegel or not.
While there may be some calculation involved, calling it a mistake to name them concentration camps when they are, in fact, concentration camps is the sort of Orwellian bullshit we need to avoid.
No, they aren’t death camps. Yes, they are concentration camps. They are, in fact, a step down from the concentration camps the US has previously run during WWII. Do we really need to pander to people who might think “Oh, they aren’t death camps so they are not that bad?”
‘If you are on the right side of history, you don’t have to argue the semantics of what a concentration camp is or is not.’
‘Stop thinking that if you didn’t do all the same things the Nazis did, you didn’t really run a concentration camp.’ – Mark Godwin, 18 June, 2019
ETA: Actor George Takei tweeted: ‘I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again.’
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Mike Godwin.
That is all.
I stand corrected.
The Trump defense (in most things): We’re not as bad as Nazis.
There are good people on both sides.
If you are running for President and want to win, you may have to pander to the *perceptions * people have and not the actually reality. Or maybe I have just become really cynical as I have gotten older.
That’s my point though. By making Nazi comparisons, the Left is basically giving people an excuse that supporting Trump really isn’t as bad as it seems. I’ve heard relatives of mine who support him already say that.
They already support him. Some of them will always support him. I don’t believe that any adjustment that we make to verbiage is going to change that. We need to clear about what we (as a country) are doing, how it is wrong, and what it can lead to. There is no point in dancing around it because some people are insulted by the descriptions or find them inaccurate.
It is, but at the same time conservatives have used the specter of DEBT as a hammer against Dem administrations at every turn ; and sell themselves as the guys who don’t spend, only tax(cut). Calling them on their bullshit is fair game.
That’s just the public confusing concentration camps with extermination camps. Different birds. But hey, call them internment camps if you like : it was a bullshit semantic game then, it’s a bullshit semantic game now ; but the general opinion today (I think ?) is that Japanese-American internment camps were a black mark on US history regardless, so that works.
I don’t think the redhats are looking for excuses or rationalizations to support Trump. Being a racist and misogynist is openly accepted by enough people that you don’t have to worry about being branded one. Trump is going to get almost the same number of votes he got in 2016, because we have that many irredeemable shitheads in the country. The Democrats need to win over the “didn’t bother to vote” demographic. I think it makes sense to convince those people that things really are much worse than they think, and they need to get off their asses before the smokestacks go up in the camps.