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Maxine Waters grills Ben Carson on Trump’s Puerto Rico tweets
[/QUOTE]Jesus. He sounded like he was stoned.
Wouldn’t you be?
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Maxine Waters grills Ben Carson on Trump’s Puerto Rico tweets
[/QUOTE]The problem being you can’t see the scorch marks.
Wow. A stretch handbasket. With a driver.
He went to a military high school, didn’t he?
Yes. It will be another corrupt, amoral exploiter–but one with an IQ above room temperature.
It’s Rick Scott’s for the taking.
He does have higher standards, and a better record for business ethics, and general sanity. 'Course, so does the Unabomber.
And he thinks he’s the equal of someone who actually served.
The fact is, he is, and always was, a civilian.
It’s hard to say how the 2018 and 2020 races will turn out. People may be wrong in assuming that Trump’s lack of popularity beyond his base spells his doom – I don’t necessarily see it that way. If he can keep his conservative base happy, he has a chance to win, mainly because the Democrats are having a hard time figuring out how to run against Trump and how to stand together. The Obama coalition was a wider one, but it was also more fragile. Hillary Clinton couldn’t keep it together, and I’m not sure Bernie would necessarily be able to do that either.
That’s an Army reg. I don’t know what the DoD reg states, but the Air Force instructions requires those indoors to stand and salute when part of a formation.
Why do you think I forbade the election of any more Republican Presidents?
I was prepared to accept responsibility for the planet falling into the sun, if it ever happened, provided the Pubbies were denied the White House forever. No more.
Also, you seem to be giving Little Ronnie Rea-shit a pass in the rogue’s gallery listed above.* Any particular reason?
*I have to admit, putting them in alphabetical order was a nice touch.
Of course, it may not matter in the least what candidate the Democrats come up with, if the GOP is diligent enough about voter suppression.
An assist from Russian hackers (who, this time, may actually be able to change the machines) won’t hurt, either. (The Russians know they have essentially zero chance of getting their cash via Magnitsky repeal, under a successful Democrat. Same goes for any hopes of a resumption of oil revenue using US technology. So they will go on supporting the GOP, despite less-than-perfect results from their pro-Trump efforts.)
No, not stoned. You might be inclined, eventually, to say to him,
We’re gonna get a little place.… We’re gonna… we’re gonna have a cow, and some pigs, and we’re gonna have, maybe, maybe, a chicken. Down in the flat, we’ll have a little field of … field of alfalfa … for the rabbits.
Can you see it, Bennie? Can you see it …
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a long list where Nixon is the least reprehensible person on it.
Speaking as someone who went to that exact same military academy for more than a few years, if he’s implying that that environment prepared him for anything more than picking up Poughkeepsie chicks: Hahahahahaha! Ha!
Ha!
Hahahahaha… !! etc.
No Randall “Duke” Cunningham?
Forgot John Bolton
That’s because Neil Gorsuch is omitted from the list.
Voter suppression is going to be a factor in some places, but there may be more to it than that. Trump’s victory confounded the experts because it was assumed that we as a society had moved past the point where a racist campaign could win an election and that just relying on white voters wouldn’t work for the GOP. Indeed, even the GOP bought into that with their ‘post mortem’ of the 2012 election.
But it actually did work. Trump used racial anxiety to win a campaign in a country that has racial anxieties. As it turned out, about 30-35% of the country is white and wants this to be a white man’s country. Now that might not seem like an impressive number compared to Barack Obama’s multi-ethnic coalition. The problem is that this white nationalist base, while a distinct minority, is united and motivated to vote. And they have a common cause that unites them in sending them to the polls. By contrast, the moderate and progressive coalition, while capable of winning every election, can be fractured.
There’s talk of campaigning on economics, which is good. But the economy is still relatively strong and stable. Nobody really sees the economy as a problem, and that by the way is why I don’t really buy into this conclusion that Hillary Clinton lost because she didn’t talk about economics – Hillary Clinton had more serious discussions about economics than Donald Trump did. But what Trump did do was to use economic fears of white nationalist Americans against the progressives by saying “My fellow white man, your job is going to be taken by someone who isn’t American or isn’t a “real” American.” Whites have a greater fear of brown people taking over their country - that’s a clear and present danger in their minds and Trump is their superman. By contrast, economic anxieties haven’t really united progressives. If the 2016 election had really been about economics, as some pundits have said, Hillary Clinton – flaws, warts, and all – would have destroyed Trump. But it was never about economics; it was about white anxieties.
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has his own special flag staff on the roof of the Department’s headquarters building. When he comes to the building, a special aide climbs to the roof and raises the Department flag. When he leaves the building, the aide goes and takes it down. If he’s out of town, the flag stays down and only goes back up when he returns.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wheres-zinke-the-interior-secretarys-special-flag-offers-clues/2017/10/12/68672476-aeb2-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?
Just saw a story about this. I guess he thinks he’s the Queen.
Jeezus, this is the stuff Dems should run on. No shortage of material.