US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

The part of Pierce's post on Manning that Alfred quoted is not the important part. This is:

I would like one person to explain to me how any of the following would improve if Chelsea Manning were the senator from Maryland instead of Ben Cardin.

1) The national government;

2) The lives of the people of Maryland, and,

3) Any progressive policy not drawn up with spray-paint on the side of an abandoned factory.

And please, show your work. Also, any answer containing the phrase, “neo-McCarthyism” is automatically disqualified.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation extending a government program established to gather information from foreigners overseas has cleared a key Senate hurdle.

The Senate voted 60-38 to limit debate on the six-year reauthorization of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program.

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill’s vote to limit debate got supporters to the threshold needed for the Senate to move to a final vote.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had pushed Democrats to oppose limiting debate, saying lawmakers from both parties should get an opportunity to offer amendments.

here are the 18 senate democrats who got it to 60 votes:

Tom Carper (Del.), Bob Casey (Pa.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Doug Jones (Ala.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Joe Manchin (W.V.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Mark Warner (Va.), Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.).

my boy Bill Nelson

MORE POWER FOR THE MAD GOD-KING

so much for my tentative endorsement of Duckworth

so tired of Dems doing this shit under the guise of "bipartisanship" or w/e

primary them all

Yeah, I know Duckworth is a military vet and that probably affects her vote but jfc

wonder if they would have voted down the Shithole Intelligence of Surveillance Act

“Ugh, here we go” for next month’s thread title plz

http://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/stormy-daniels-describes-sex-with-trump-in-cringe-worthy-detail-ugh-here-we-go-please-dont-pay-me/

digression i suppose but charles pierce is the most unreadable writer who evidently puts a lot of work into their sentences this side of james wolcott

Chas Pierce can gtfo

“Ugh, here we go” for next month’s thread title plz

modern life gets snrubbisher

3) Any progressive policy not drawn up with spray-paint on the side of an abandoned factory.

lol what a dumbass, this is literally how you tell if they'll work

This strikes me as not a smart move

#BREAKING: White House told Bannon attorney when not to respond during House interview: report https://t.co/dRTRatkQDr pic.twitter.com/TPpRS5ofkE

— The Hill (@thehill) January 17, 2018

Also, all kinds of fun in here

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/newly-uncovered-russian-payments-are-a-focus-of-election

Yeah, just saw that:

US authorities are poring over hundreds of newly uncovered payments from Russian diplomatic accounts. Among them are transactions by former ambassador Sergey Kislyak 10 days after the 2016 presidential election and a blocked $150,000 cash withdrawal five days after the inauguration.

here's one improvement over Cardin: not fellating Netanyahu

assuming some busybody editor made him cut the brilliant menckenesque epithet he'd prepared for chelsea manning, but while we're here, they're worse than trump's

Bankers flagged it to the US government as suspicious in part because the transaction, MARKED PAYROLL, didn’t fit prior pay patterns.

hahaha

assuming some busybody editor made him cut the brilliant menckenesque epithet he'd prepared for chelsea manning, but while we're here, they're worse than trump's

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12

I've wanted to poll these for a while, suspect that Big Chicken and Huckleberry Butchmeup will win.

be sure to list each of the options 9000 times

digression i suppose but charles pierce is the most unreadable writer who evidently puts a lot of work into their sentences this side of james wolcott

― mark s, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:21 PM

He's terrific when he remembers he was a reporter and writes like one.

Woke Axl Rose is still something to contemplate

Now we know what the W. stands for, huh

well played, sir

Huckleberry Butchmeup

what does this mean

it means someone wants to call Lindsey Graham gay and they also hate southerners

where do the Lindsey Graham gay rumors come from? is there anything behind them beyond his being single?

Isn't that enough in the US?

Y'know, place is full of Christians after all.

that buzzfeed article is fascinating

so fucking sick of this idea that a government "shutdown" stops the military from working it's such bullshit and SHS stands up there and claims it but they say nothing to dispute it.

if you wanted to make a concern troll argument, it's also kind of a dumb thing to say when you allegedly have multiple countries who would like to target the U.S.

"let's get 'em, the military's standing down!"

Porn star Stormy Daniels to 'In Touch': Trump said I was “just like his daughter” https://t.co/hk64QhwTMd pic.twitter.com/CAz9ZxiTBp

— SPIN (@SPIN) January 17, 2018

Trump, one figures, was talking about Ivanka Trump, who was 24 at the time. (His other daughter, Tiffany, would have been 11.)

cool news cycle

sorry just vomited all over my keyboard

Plus he's never fancied Tiffany anyway.

She's not wrong.

http://i2.wp.com/www.mycelebrity.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Ivanka-Trump-Hot-12.jpg

honestly can't tell from the quotes I've seen if SD is a savvy opportunist who's telling everyone exactly what they want to hear to match their (correctly) low opinions of Trump or if he really is just that predictable

I had similar thoughts/conclusions following what I read re: Wolff book

Feels like the outrageousness of a given claim about Trump is the metric by which its likely veracity should be measured. 'I am a campaign aide you've never heard of and I had an affair with President Trump' = not sure; 'I am a porn star who had an affair with President Trump, and also he told me I reminded him of his daughter' = ding ding ding

(c) Dennis Stuff, of the Lincolnshire Stuffs

I mean, it's almost the exact opposite metric you'd use wrt almost anyone else on earth, but he really is that fucking awful.

honestly can't tell from the quotes I've seen if SD is a savvy opportunist who's telling everyone exactly what they want to hear to match their (correctly) low opinions of Trump or if he really is just that predictable

the In Touch interview is supposedly from 2011

it's all Enquirer-level reporting but it's amazing how all these stories form a consistent portrait of Trump that's held steady since at least the 80's. which is consistent with his public persona. Wolff himself expressed surprise at the book's success...he said he thought everyone knew this stuff already. like...the only 'revelation' here is that Trump is exactly the character he plays on TV

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/michael-wolffs-fire-fury-become-tv-series-1075346

kind of redundant

a politico-spiritual successor to the human centipede

In private conversations, Trump has told advisers that he doesn’t think the 2018 election has to be as bad as others are predicting. He has referenced the 2002 midterms, when George W. Bush and Republicans fared better after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, these people said.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/17/16893408/donald-trumps-2018-plan

everything is fine. he's definitely not thinking about exploiting a terrorist attack or taking the country to war for political gain.