I had this thought as well but idk if Kamala really has the star power to do it. If this is her ambition she will have to hit the ground running and make a splash somehow (similar to Warren)
I am so thankful I live in California
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, was just about to post, hopeful talk of fast tracking, but I dunno much about her.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 November 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
xp her father was an American, so she's a natural-born citizen.
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Friday, 11 November 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
Kamala is great, I voted for her, would vote for her for prez w out a second's hesitation
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
shes cozy as fuck with big law tho.. the head of the office a firm in LA I was maybe fired from (lol) is married to her
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article2607685.html
then again if you look at clinton's top donors half of it is big law firms
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 11 November 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
Lol, "big law." Of all the things this election has done, it has doubtlessly raised the bar for what makes me wring my hands.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 November 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
big law defends our civil liberties in its spare time sometimes so
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 11 November 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
I'm on Team Tammy 100% if she's eligible
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 11 November 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
She is unequivocally eligible.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 11 November 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
okay good
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 11 November 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
a big law firm I was not fired from is representing trump in the trump u case.. if I still worked there I would on the brink of killing myself.
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 11 November 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
California is setting itself up as the Opposition.
the west coast, ahem
― Clay, Friday, 11 November 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
what kind of trials/suits is the sitting POTUS protected from? this was a bar discussion last night.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 November 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
anything involving his behavior prior to being elected is open to litigation. once in office, he is only answerable to congress.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Untrue. Remember Clinton v. Jones?
The Constitution does not protect the President from civil litigation involving actions committed before he entered office.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 November 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals.
In the unanimous opinion by Justice John Paul Stevens, the Court ruled that separation of powers does not mandate that federal courts delay all private civil lawsuits against the President until the end of his term of office.
In his concurring opinion, Breyer argued that presidential immunity would apply only if the President could show that a private civil lawsuit would somehow interfere with the President's constitutionally assigned duties.
a disaster for William Jefferson Clinton of course.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 November 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
I think you misunderstood what Shakey was saying; anything he does in office is answerable to Congress
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 11 November 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
anything before assuming office is fair game to anyone involved
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 11 November 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
thx Shakes
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 November 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Friday, November 11, 2016 10:20 AM (three hours ago)
like Jerry Brown, she's someone that kinda sucked when it came to local politics, but at a state/national level, where people are more conservative, and going after the powerful and moneyed is much more necessary, then she would be great.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 November 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
yes DJP that is what I meant
xp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
and speaking of San Francisco politicians, Shakey, our dear friend Gavvy Gav is running for governor.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
oh we all knew that was gonna happen
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
yeah, I dunno if I could vote for him. Like when he ran for Lt. Governor, I voted Republican.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
I assume other Democrats will challenge him (even if they don't have a prayer)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
I just got a sponsored ad on FB for the Newsom campaign asking for my support because the former LA Mayor just announced he is running too.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
ugh so is Villaraigosa.. they're two sides of the same milquetoast coin, imo.
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 11 November 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
sad lol all my LA friends assured me Villaraigosa's career was DOA after his disastrous mayoral tenure
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link
Well, it isn't that Newsom is milquetoast, it's that as mayor, he supported the wealthy over the poor all the time, and did stupid things like make a major statement about public health by banning the sale of cigarettes at Walgreen's stores.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link
didn't he take a fucking 18 year old to the sf opera opener
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 11 November 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
xp - i wonder how much that election will be Bay Area people voting for the guy from L.A. because he isn't Newsom, and vice versa.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
yeah Newsom is v much in the Clinton mold imo - a number of policy things I actually agree w, p loathsome on a personal level, way too comfy w oligarch
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
oligarchy
also looks like American Psycho
I dont think Villaraigosa left office super unpopular? At least in the mind of people not paying a ton of attention. He just couldn't stop fucking tv news reporters. I'd need to look it up. He's currently taking credit for the LA Metro.
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 11 November 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
xp - Well yes, the only enjoyable part of Newsom's tenure in SF politics was comparing him to Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman.
― sarahell, Friday, 11 November 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
@donnabrazile
What's on your menu? Just ran into James O'Keefe in Florida at a conference hosted by David Horowitz. We live in interesting times.
@tinyrevolution
This is like Reince Priebus showing up at an ANSWER conference 3 days after Cynthia McKinney was elected president
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/us/politics/democrats-house-senate.html?_r=0
Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, long a critic of trade deals, said in an interview that he had spoken extensively with Mr. Trump’s trade adviser and would work with him on issues concerning steel workers. “We can work with him on things we agree on,” Mr. Brown said. “On Bannon, no.”
Mr. Brown sent a letter to Mr. Trump urging him to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, make changes to the trade relationship with China and fight currency manipulation, which is also a pet issue of Mr. Schumer. Mr. Sanders put out a statement after the election saying he too would work with Mr. Trump on areas of populist agreement.
At the same time, they remain his adversary on other matters. For example, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, now the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement on Wednesday that “the committee will pay very close attention to proposed nominees to ensure the fundamental constitutional rights of Americans are protected.”
Re NAFTA, there's Brown's above take and then I read the following from mostly liberal Kevin Drum:
The OECD estimates that NAFTA had essentially no effect on employment, and the International Trade Commission estimates that it had essentially no effect on wages. So withdrawing wouldn't do any good for all those working-class folks Trump appealed to, but it would cause plenty of upheaval for businesses that are tightly integrated with their Mexican supply chains.1
Of course, NAFTA's impact hasn't been the same everywhere. There are a few industries where employment has been negatively affected. So Trump could focus on those and boast about how he's bringing jobs back to America. Prices of Mexican imports would go up too, but that's a pretty diffuse effect and most people probably wouldn't notice it.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/trump-talked-big-about-nafta-can-he-deliver
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 November 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
A big deal.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
The case could now go directly to the Supreme Court
Er, lol?
― more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link
This means that it's status pro pre-Nino: the Most Important Man in America will decide the case.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link
status quo
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Putinmongering:
The hysteria being drummed up around Putin’s alleged intervention in the U.S. elections isn’t accidental. Neoconservatives and liberal interventionists have been pumping for a new cold war with Russia. Now, with Trump suggesting that he might seek a new detente with Russia, cooperate to attack the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and cool tensions over Ukraine, hyping Putin’s alleged intervention in our elections makes any cooperation more difficult.
In this situation, the press has to be careful that its reporting doesn’t peddle fear and neo-McCarthyite slurs rather than fact. For example, The Post’s front-page article touted “independent researchers” making the sensational claim that Russian propaganda efforts in the election “were viewed more than 213 million times” on Facebook alone. But the primary source of the report was the anonymous executive director of PropOrNot, which apparently started up just this summer and refuses to release the names of its leaders or the sources of its funds. PropOrNot, The Post reported, maintains a list of more than 200 websites that it claims were “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda” during the election....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/putin-didnt-undermine-the-election-we-did/2016/11/28/b7cd6984-b594-11e6-959c-172c82123976_story.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Sci,Space,&Tech Cmte @HouseScience.@BreitbartNews: Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists
Bernie Sanders @SenSandersWhere'd you get your PhD? Trump University?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2016 12:58 (seven years ago) link
nice to see the execrable Delingpole take one between the eyes there
― Herpes Bizarre (stevie), Friday, 2 December 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Repub concedes NC gov race
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 December 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cy7eZrxUsAAmXe4.jpg
― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 December 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/05/north-carolina-gov-pat-mccrory-r-concedes-closely-contested-governors-race/
Even in conceding the fucker has to play the voting fraud card.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 5 December 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
every losing R is gonna do that from now on
― sleeve, Monday, 5 December 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/pentagon-buries-evidence-of-125-billion-in-bureaucratic-waste/2016/12/05/e0668c76-9af6-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html
These stories have been legendary for eons, but getting a definitive account of over $100 billion a year in waste is pretty damning.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:58 (seven years ago) link