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On September 25 2018 02:40 Plansix wrote:

Trump is to chicken shit to fire him and he isn’t going to resign. Unless Trump grows a spine, he isn’t leaving.

On September 25 2018 02:51 xDaunt wrote:

You really think that there is a chance that Rosenstein survives the NYT story? No way. Trump is chewing his food. He is perp-walking Rosenstein. The ax will fall soon enough.

On September 25 2018 02:51 xDaunt wrote:

You really think that there is a chance that Rosenstein survives the NYT story? No way. Trump is chewing his food. He is perp-walking Rosenstein. The ax will fall soon enough.

Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that all 100 senators will soon vote on President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, no matter what results from a closely watched Judiciary Committee set for Thursday.

'Judge Kavanaugh will be voted on here on the Senate floor. Up or down on the Senate floor,' an indignant McConnell said in a fiery speech.

'This fine nominee to the Supreme Court will receive a vote in this Senate in the near future,' he pledged.

On September 25 2018 06:42 xDaunt wrote:


Source.

Good to see that McConnell and the GOP are showing some spine. This nonsense that has been sprung by the democrats should not be tolerated or given any quarter. If there were any corroboration to any of these allegations, fine, hold up the vote. But like Grassley said, there's no point ruining a man's life over baseless smears.

On September 25 2018 06:42 xDaunt wrote:


Source.

Good to see that McConnell and the GOP are showing some spine. This nonsense that has been sprung by the democrats should not be tolerated or given any quarter. If there were any corroboration to any of these allegations, fine, hold up the vote. But like Grassley said, there's no point ruining a man's life over baseless smears.

On September 25 2018 07:21 Danglars wrote:

You know, I think this justice issue is only going so well because the Democrats are clearing overreacting to uncorroborated accusations, and Americans don’t want a standard of “believe all accusations from anyone” in politics. The move from Monday to Thursday hearing is returning some undeserved leniency, but only a measured amount, which is appropriate. I can accept that and it puts them in the clear.

I only hope enough of America is tuned in to some capacity on this farce from the Democrats so they can get up and vote. They need a serious realigning in 2020 for the good of the country and moderates. The Republicans are spineless grifters and most deserve to get hauled out of there ... but not to be replaced by these thoroughly despicable characters.

On September 25 2018 07:09 GreenHorizons wrote:


My opinion if Democrats actually wanted to take a stand on this they should have just refused him outright and held him up by not participating in the judicial committee and making Republicans find some procedural work around to get him out of committee without any Democrats there (they can't bring the vote to move him out of committee without a quorum which requires at least 1 Democrat).

I mean it's not exactly the hill I would have chose to die on as McConnell but I can understand being hopeful that he does. If 2016-1018 was any sort of preview for 2018-2020 it is going to be obnoxiously stupid and Democrats will probably lose. Which is hard to even say because Trump is so awful at damn near everything except for what we reward in our society, which imo, are some of the worst qualities he possesses.

But centrists that don't put social issues high on their list (focus more on "the economy" and how they feel about their life/position) are going to have a hard time ignoring that Trump isn't doing half bad from a neoliberal economics perspective. Especially if you're not big into the welfare part of neoliberal economics.

On September 25 2018 07:21 Danglars wrote:

You know, I think this justice issue is only going so well because the Democrats are clearing overreacting to uncorroborated accusations, and Americans don’t want a standard of “believe all accusations from anyone” in politics. The move from Monday to Thursday hearing is returning some undeserved leniency, but only a measured amount, which is appropriate. I can accept that and it puts them in the clear.

I only hope enough of America is tuned in to some capacity on this farce from the Democrats so they can get up and vote. They need a serious realigning in 2020 for the good of the country and moderates. The Republicans are spineless grifters and most deserve to get hauled out of there ... but not to be replaced by these thoroughly despicable characters.

Forty-five percent of Americans now have a favorable view of the Republican Party, a nine-point gain from last September's 36%. It is the party's most positive image since it registered 47% in January 2011, shortly after taking control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections. Forty-four percent give the Democratic Party a favorable rating.

The parity in Republicans' and Democrats' favorable ratings marks a change from what has generally been the case since Barack Obama's election as president in November 2008. Republicans have usually been rated less positively than Democrats over this time, with the Republican Party's favorability rating for the last decade averaging 39%, compared with the Democratic Party's 44%.

On September 25 2018 10:31 xDaunt wrote:
See, liberals and leftists? GH is a prophet. You should start listening to him more instead of dismissing his comments out of hand:



Source / Gallup.

Take special note of the huge swings towards the GOP among the middle class and among women. Looks like pussy grabbing is in!

You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so goddamn always?

On September 25 2018 14:38 GreenHorizons wrote:
Buried in the drama recently, turns out Democrats desperately want to lose 2020.

(reporter for national journal)

https://twitter.com/HCTrudo/status/1044261399441100800

It blows my mind these people can find work at all let alone on the campaign that's supposed to be carrying the progressive banner for the party.

On September 25 2018 23:50 xDaunt wrote:
Looks like the purpose of this speech is to announce the Trump doctrine (which is a return to a classical understanding of nationalism -- right of self-determination) and take a giant shit on Iran.

EDIT: He also took a dump on China over trade stuff and announced that the US not only will not rejoin the human rights council, but also that it will not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC.

EDIT2: Excellent, Trump is going to start pulling foreign aid.

EDIT3: Trump announced the right policies, but he definitely did not look like he enjoyed himself up there.

On September 26 2018 01:55 Danglars wrote:

Trump plus influence of Bolton maybe (hell, Haley too)? Whoever’s the reason his foreign policy speeches/positions is less crazy and more focused deserves a raise.

I’ll have to watch the vods tonight. I’m very against the tariffs, but the Iran, Israel, multinational feel-good do-nothing-but-harm orgs is so fucking good. America’s been missing a leader that reminds the world it really comes down to the nation state and not pretenses of a global world order.

On September 26 2018 02:11 xDaunt wrote:

Huh? That speech is 100% Trump and entirely consistent with what he said during his campaign. Rejecting globalism and promoting nationalism has always been the cornerstone of Trump's foreign policy and is what separated him from most every other republican/conservative of note.

On September 26 2018 02:34 Danglars wrote:

He strikes me as the kind of person that would say he’s cutting a new deal with Iran, he’s going to cut a new deal with Palestine. The problem with his predecesors was stupid deals. He’s the one that’s going to make a great glorious deal that respects Iran’s needs and Palestine’s needs and will be great for America.

Now, these are states that use terrorism and aren’t ashamed about it. I know that’s going to make Trump distrust and deal with them frankly as they deserve. But the unabashed support for Israel and hammering on conservative foreign policy against bad actors surprises me. Where’s the Jared Kushner peace plan that was touted I think in June? I thought we’d have compromises in slighting Israel to win favor from Abbas for a year now. Is it a nod to evangelicals, is it some honest Kushner/Trump take on Abbas and Rouhani, or is it advisors (because Trump has good appointees in this area)?