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You are here: Home / Politics / Domestic Politics / Open Thread: Gimme Sanctuary

Open Thread: Gimme Sanctuary

by Anne Laurie|  March 28, 20176:17 am| 103 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Immigration, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Trump Crime Cartel, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Get Angry, Rare Sincerity, Security Theatre

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"Things really aren't going well and people have noticed. We should hate on brown people more."

"Get Jeff Sessions on the phone."

— phillip anderson (@phillipanderson) March 27, 2017

Cue the Malevolent Leprechaun, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III :

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces actions against sanctuary cities https://t.co/6OZtrfIwim https://t.co/xQolsUrtWY

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 27, 2017

Sessions says Americans do not support sanctuary cities.

— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) March 27, 2017

I support sanctuary cities, I’m American, and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III of the Confederate States of America can fuck off https://t.co/OMjTOdP5Gt

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 27, 2017


Trump can't stop blue states from resisting https://t.co/GRef6XOWCr

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 27, 2017

Cops are already conscripted soldiers of the four-decade drug war, don't let Steve Bannon's ethnic cleansing fetish be added to their plate.

— Father Guido SarDShK (@ZeddRebel) March 27, 2017

One of the most important ways to oppose Donny & The Putin Puppets is not let them define people who disagree w them as less or not American

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 27, 2017

While we're talking sanctuary cities, this is important context from @myhlee https://t.co/dbvB5TtbGE

— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) March 27, 2017

… In an August 2016 study of roughly 80 jurisdictions, University of California at Riverside and Highline College researchers used FBI city-level crime data to see how violent and property crime rates changed after sanctuary policies were adopted. Then they compared each sanctuary city to a similarly situated, non-sanctuary city, based on census data and other variables. They found that “a sanctuary policy itself has no statistically meaningful effect on crime.”

University of California at San Diego professor Tom Wong looked at 608 sanctuary counties and found lower rates of crime in those counties than in non-sanctuary counties. His research was published in January by the progressive think tank Center for American Progress…

If Trump is so worried about Sanctuary Cities, he should stop making taxpayers pay about $1 million a day so his family can stay in one.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 27, 2017

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    March 28, 2017 at 6:36 am

    Obligatory?

  2. 2.

    p.a.

    March 28, 2017 at 6:39 am

    With perseverence and the knowledge that they are outside-the-mainstream freaks (even dawning idea among some of Donnie’s voters) we can preserve the superstructure from the wrecking ball. So they invariably go to Plan B: rats gnawing at the foundation.

  3. 3.

    opiejeanne

    March 28, 2017 at 6:43 am

    King and Snohomish Counties in WA are targeted by Sessions, but officials here just shrugged.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 6:44 am

    I opposed sanctuary cities. Let’s end them by giving folks a path to citizenship.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 6:44 am

    Oh, and yay states rights!

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 6:50 am

    @Baud: States don’t have rights, they have powers. Only citizens have rights.

  7. 7.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 28, 2017 at 6:51 am

    Woke up at 3 am, never fell back to sleep due to anxiety.

    A guy in my office who has a collection practice just drew the legal equivalent of the Big Chicken Dinner out of the blue. He’s in his 70s and should have been winding down, anyway.

    Basically, Indiana actually suspended his law license for 90 days on kind of a bullshit case, but he was stupid in how he handled himself and didnt crack open his wallet when it could make a difference. They set some restrictions on reinstatement that are a little problematic and time consuming.

    Kentucky just did a reciprocal suspension, and will also wreak a delay of at least 4-6 months, probably a year by the time they get around to it. He didn’t crack his wallet here, either. They issued the order Thursday and gave him 10 days to notify courts and clients. He can’t so much as touch money that is coming in right now, and the order is immediate and devastating – it can destroy the practice – any value it has, anyway. He wants me to step in to stopgap the thing (presumably to hand it back to him when he reinstates, assuming he doesn’t just retire), and it involves a ton of work, scary variables, around $90K in annual additional payroll (which needs about a 10K increase) and a rent obligation that I understand he’s behind on.

    Good part is that it is a volume practice, heavy on paper flow without a lot in the way of court appearances. Bad part is that it really doesnt fit my current practice profile. My assistant is very young, and I’m inheriting a part time lawyer paid outside the payroll system, two assistants and a skip tracer that she’s going to have to integrate with and ride herd over. it is daunting, but could in theory get me debt free in 18 months so long as the clients stick.

  8. 8.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 6:54 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: A Confederate like Sessions doesn’t believe that, however.

  9. 9.

    rikyrah

    March 28, 2017 at 7:01 am

    Good Morning, Everyone ???

  10. 10.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:02 am

    @rikyrah: Good morning.

  11. 11.

    debbie

    March 28, 2017 at 7:08 am

    How do tax funds get to the federal government? I’d think the cities collecting them could just hold onto them.

  12. 12.

    MattF

    March 28, 2017 at 7:09 am

    But… but… but… they’re brown.

  13. 13.

    Kay

    March 28, 2017 at 7:10 am

    A bunch of weird resentful misfits with nothing good to say about anything or anyone. They sent this one out like a wind-up doll to make threats. Embarrassing performance from a low quality Trump hire, as usual.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:15 am

    @debbie: Cities don’t collect federal taxes.

  15. 15.

    amk

    March 28, 2017 at 7:16 am

    After the trumpcare debacle, twitler, bannaonatzi & co have to rile up the base to raise the dwindling fanbois interest in him. This is the main issue the trumpanzees voted for him.

  16. 16.

    PaulW

    March 28, 2017 at 7:16 am

    where’s the link to Ossoff’s fundraising again?

  17. 17.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:18 am

    Vegas Raiders!

  18. 18.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 28, 2017 at 7:18 am

    @Baud: A reason Conservatives will learn to love the IRS.

  19. 19.

    amk

    March 28, 2017 at 7:19 am

    @PaulW: He has already raised 3 mil.

  20. 20.

    Kay

    March 28, 2017 at 7:20 am

    They’ll trot him out before elections to threaten black and brown voters, too. You watch. He’ll be god-awful.

    The unrelenting nastiness of the Trump Administration is what gets me. They’re all supposedly these super-duper salesmen and they’re all assholes. Trump was Tweeting belligerent demands and insults last night to the Democrats he’s supposedly courting for his crap bills. This is the “master marketer” we’ve heard so much about. The only people he gets along with are members of his family and they don’t have any choice- they all work for him.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:23 am

    @Kay:

    They’re all supposedly these super-duper salesmen and they’re all assholes.

    You’ve never bought a used car?

  22. 22.

    bystander

    March 28, 2017 at 7:24 am

    Julius Caesar is on TCM now. What’s striking me this time is the portrayal of the mindset that leads people to assassination. I never realized how much the movie edits Shakespeare.

  23. 23.

    bystander

    March 28, 2017 at 7:25 am

    @Baud:

    Vegas Raiders

    Those guys who sacked the Bellagio the other day?

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    March 28, 2017 at 7:26 am

    @Kay:
    Love your morning truth, Kay
    ??

  25. 25.

    Nicole

    March 28, 2017 at 7:26 am

    A friend who designed a Trump puppet that has a bit of a following on Twitter (and follows the Trump cabal for material) noticed that Jared Kushner scrubbed his Twitter feed sometime yesterday. He said it’s weird because he only ever had like two tweets on it that he had deleted a long time ago; he wonders if he was using it for private messages and wiped it to be safe.

    Come on, it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

  26. 26.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:27 am

    Thank God Nunes didn’t meet his “source” on a tarmac, or we’d have a real controversy on our hands.

  27. 27.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:27 am

    @bystander: Oakland Raiders are moving to Sin City.

  28. 28.

    satby

    March 28, 2017 at 7:28 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: That’s enough to keep anyone up at night. Lot of work, but sounds doable. Is the risk that taking on his problems might pull you under too, or just that it’ll be an overwhelming mess until you sort it?

  29. 29.

    rikyrah

    March 28, 2017 at 7:28 am

    @Kay:
    This entire new thing of the Democrats will be forced to work with me gets on my last nerve.

    You muthaphuckas ? control both houses of the legislative branch.

    PHUCK OUTTA HERE ?

    On what the Democrats should do.

  30. 30.

    debbie

    March 28, 2017 at 7:29 am

    Someone forgot to put the muzzle on him.

    Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 11m11 minutes ago
    More
    Watch @foxandfriends now on Podesta and Russia!

  31. 31.

    debbie

    March 28, 2017 at 7:30 am

    @Baud:

    My understanding is that Nunes met the “source” and then informed Trump. Are there people in the WH who wouldn’t have told Trump to begin with?

  32. 32.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 28, 2017 at 7:32 am

    @Kay:

    American businessmen turn out to be the mendacious, overly privileged idiots we’ve all been saying for years.

  33. 33.

    debbie

    March 28, 2017 at 7:32 am

    @rikyrah:

    I can only assume you saw this Tweet last night?

    Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 9h9 hours ago
    More
    The Democrats will make a deal with me on healthcare as soon as ObamaCare folds – not long. Do not worry, we are in very good shape!

  34. 34.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 7:33 am

    @Kay:

    The only people he gets along with are members of his family and they don’t have any choice- they all work for him.

    They can always quit. I would.

  35. 35.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 28, 2017 at 7:33 am

    @satby:

    More overwhelming mess than anything. He’s local counsel for my pro hack in one Indiana probate, but I’m OK with ditching it.

  36. 36.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 28, 2017 at 7:33 am

    @Baud: The salesman when I bought my Prius was OK.

  37. 37.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:34 am

    @debbie: Obviously, you don’t understand how these things work.

  38. 38.

    amk

    March 28, 2017 at 7:34 am

    Apparently, twitler is trying to push ‘infrastructure plan’ along with tax reforms cuts to get dems support. It’s a trap. Old piece, but still valid.

  39. 39.

    maurinsky

    March 28, 2017 at 7:35 am

    Shouldn’t he be losing his job because of perjury?

  40. 40.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:36 am

    @debbie:

    Do not worry, we are in very good shape!

    That means they are in bad shape.

  41. 41.

    debbie

    March 28, 2017 at 7:37 am

    @Baud:

    About as much as taxes. ;)

  42. 42.

    satby

    March 28, 2017 at 7:37 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Then if the return can be potentially that good for the effort, it’s probably worth it. You got this.

  43. 43.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 28, 2017 at 7:37 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    He’s lonelier than Nixon, judging by that photo of him watching golf. Nixon also at least had valuable core competencies, and “got” the function of the job.

    Deadbeat Donnie has nothing – no friends, his wives all hate him, his kids barely tolerate him, no genuine hobbies.

  44. 44.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:39 am

    At this point, I see Dems working with Trump only in three scenarios. (1) Some red state Dems peel off on specific issues. (2) The legislation is so good the entire caucus, including Warren and Bernie, sign on to it. (3) Trump somehow becomes really popular.

    I only see # 1 as reality based.

  45. 45.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 28, 2017 at 7:39 am

    It’s been windy here, so I was hoping to go out and take some landscapes; I’ve contracted a cold so no hiking?.

  46. 46.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 28, 2017 at 7:40 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: You left out no sense of humor.

  47. 47.

    JPL

    March 28, 2017 at 7:40 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: SAD

  48. 48.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 7:41 am

    @debbie: They needed 1 degree of separation.

  49. 49.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:42 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, I insulted used car sales people by comparing them to Trump.

  50. 50.

    different-church-lady

    March 28, 2017 at 7:42 am

    It’s amazing how many times they have to re-learn that 46% does not equal 100%.

  51. 51.

    Humboldtblue

    March 28, 2017 at 7:43 am

    California Chief Justice weighs in again on Trump and his gang of merry dickheads

  52. 52.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:43 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I’m not sure Nunes is competent enough to be a degree.

  53. 53.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 7:45 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: He does too have a hobby! He’s obsessed with self promotion!

  54. 54.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 28, 2017 at 7:46 am

    @Humboldtblue: And she was appointed by the Governator*.

    *Of course he’s now a RINO.

  55. 55.

    Iowa Old Lady

    March 28, 2017 at 7:46 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Good lord. No wonder you’re stressed. Strength to you.

  56. 56.

    amk

    March 28, 2017 at 7:47 am

    teh librul trump will be better than HER susan should be so happy.

  57. 57.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 7:48 am

    @Baud: But he makes a pretty fair fiddle when played right.

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    March 28, 2017 at 7:51 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I’m with satby on this. If there isn’t a worry that it could pull you under, I would go for it. And I say this as someone who took on a very messy work situation in late November that is a ton of hours (it was 60-80 hours a week for a couple of months, now down to 40) and is paying off my new porch from last summer. Debt free, here I come. Totally worth it to me.

    But forget logic and advice, what does your gut tell you to do?

  59. 59.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 7:51 am

    @amk: It’s amusing seeing all these articles now about how Trump was progressive on the campaign trail and that’s why he won and he should get back to that now. White people really want to believe….

  60. 60.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 7:55 am

    @Baud: Everyone knows progressives are the real racists.

  61. 61.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 28, 2017 at 7:58 am

    @Baud: Tinkerbell is real damnit!

  62. 62.

    rikyrah

    March 28, 2017 at 8:03 am

    @debbie:
    I heard about it. They had a Democratic congressman on who called Dolt45 evil after this tweet. Made my night.

  63. 63.

    rikyrah

    March 28, 2017 at 8:03 am

    @amk:

    The infrastructure plan is nothing but a privatization scheme ??

  64. 64.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 28, 2017 at 8:09 am

    @WaterGirl:

    Gut says do it – head tells me there’s pitfalls.

  65. 65.

    amk

    March 28, 2017 at 8:10 am

    @rikyrah: Hope the dems don’t get their usual go along to get along urge. The shouty emmessem will do their best to propagandize the thugs’ lies.

  66. 66.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 28, 2017 at 8:16 am

    @WaterGirl:

    And I’ll add – he’s way overstaffed for the revenue level. A friend of mine and his wife run maybe 20% more in gross collections on higher percentage contingencies, with $100000 less overhead.

  67. 67.

    sherparick

    March 28, 2017 at 8:17 am

    @Kay: For the 35% (60% of the Republican Electorate), this is a feature, not a bug. This is also the day Trump throws the environment under the bus.

    I can tell you who is a good American or not. If their first political principle is “Dedicated to the proposition that all men (and women) are created equal,” then you are a good American. If not, then like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, you are UnAmerican.

  68. 68.

    Jeffro

    March 28, 2017 at 8:17 am

    @Baud:

    Vegas Raiders!

    The numbers are just crazy:

    Clark County taxpayers will contribute $750 million to the new arena, a record for a sports facility—about $354 per resident, taken from an increased tax on hotel rooms. That tax currently pays for schools and transportation, in addition to tourism-related expenditures.
    Stanford economist Roger Noll said it was the “worst deal for a city” he had ever seen…
    When Nevada and Clark County approved the hotel tax hike, then, the split was three-way: $500 million from the Raiders, $650 million from Adelson (the board of his Sands Corporation rejected the idea of investing company money), and $750 million from a hotel room tax hike.

    Three quarters of a BILLION dollars from taxpayers…and a casino owner so wealthy he can drop over a half billion of his own money into this thing. Almost two billion dollars total, for a sports stadium. Everybody pick your favorite benchmark or comparison and have your mind blown as you wish…all I know is, if $1400 (for my family of four) had just gotten diverted from my local schools and roads to help pay for a football stadium? I’d. Be. Piiiiiiissed.

  69. 69.

    Jeffro

    March 28, 2017 at 8:18 am

    I can haz unmoderation please? Will skip the P-word next time I guess…

  70. 70.

    MrSnrub

    March 28, 2017 at 8:27 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: That is quite the situation. I’m not sure what I’d think or do. Best of luck to you.

  71. 71.

    sherparick

    March 28, 2017 at 8:29 am

    @Baud: No, Villagers really want to believe. All the articles are by Villagers who want to escape responsibility for the atrocious media coverage of the 2016 campaign and who constantly pouted about what a “B” Hillary was and her “e-maiils” and how Obama could not lead and kept writing that Trump was about to “pivot” and become something he had never been in seventy years of living on Earth.

    Hundreds of thousands of people have died if the Ryan-Trump End Health Care law who health care law had passed. Thousands are probably going to die as Trump and Pruitt basically tell polluters that the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts are “dead letters” and they won’t enforce them (and millions will die as Human Caused Global Warming and Ocean Acidification really accelerates), and thousands are dying, directly and indirectly in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq as Trump’s message “we don’t care about civilian casualties” filters down with predictable results. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/u-s-acknowledges-deadly-mosul-airstrike.html. And it is not just Trump and Republicans who don’t care, the Village media do no care either.

  72. 72.

    satby

    March 28, 2017 at 8:35 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: so you’re facing having to reduce staff at some point too. Which is always hard. But go with your gut.

  73. 73.

    Aleta

    March 28, 2017 at 8:38 am

    “Patchy freezing drizzle” — the dog was gullible and habitual enough to leave the house. Checked his messages, came home a frozen sponge. For the rest of the day he will politely overlook any insane invitations to go out again, because he’s rational.

  74. 74.

    satby

    March 28, 2017 at 8:39 am

    @sherparick: I agree. They enabled and covered up for Trump, and his evil incompetence is on them too now. And they want to believe that magic will happen and they will somehow be absolved because it won’t be so bad. But every day it is so bad, and gets worse.

  75. 75.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 8:39 am

    @satby: The only time my gut has ever been right was it told me to shit, and even then it was wrong a couple times and I only farted.

  76. 76.

    Sab

    March 28, 2017 at 8:40 am

    I thought Jeff Sessions was all about States Rights. So if my Ohio city wants to be friendly to immigrants because they are all great for us (which is actually true) then the Federal government should keep its nose out of our business. Unless our top law enforcement guy is a white supremecist from alabama. Okay. Now I see how it works.

  77. 77.

    Baud

    March 28, 2017 at 8:41 am

    @satby:

    they want to believe that magic will happen

    aka that Dems will protect them.

  78. 78.

    laura

    March 28, 2017 at 8:44 am

    @Baud: Check out Jack Ohman’s editorial cartoon in today’s Sacramento Bee. He really captured Mark Davis’ swinging ‘do.
    I was soo hoping Ronnie Lott’s group could have pulled off a miracle and kept them in Oakland where they belong. That’s a working class town that’s had the slats kicked out from under them at every damn turn.
    Don’t get me started on the public financing of stadiums for the obscenely wealthy “owners.” Fuck those fuckers.

  79. 79.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    March 28, 2017 at 8:44 am

    @Baud:

    A Confederate like Sessions doesn’t believe that, however.

    Confederates believe only REAL American states have rights, other states have the right to do as they are told.

    It’s American Mythology that the South succeeded because Lincoln was going to free the slaves, the South succeeded because Lincoln refused to allow the South to force slavery into the free states as per the Dred Scott Decision .

  80. 80.

    Jeffro

    March 28, 2017 at 8:45 am

    Btw for those rattled by Adam’s North Korea post last night…here’s an opportunity to take your mind off of international troubles, by worrying about what the future holds right here at home: American War, by Omar El Akkad.

    Yikes…it feels like all too many lights are blinking red these days…

  81. 81.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 8:46 am

    @satby:

    And they want to believe that magic will happen and they will somehow be absolved because it won’t be so bad.

    To my eyes they believe magic IS happening and they are absolutely gleeful over the fact that they won’t have to deal with another boring 8 years of trying to manufacture stories out of GOP misrepresentations of facts. The stories these days, they write themselves.

  82. 82.

    amk

    March 28, 2017 at 8:46 am

    Heh, but the kenyan golfed too!!! They lie so glibly and the fucking teevee heads just swallow it.

  83. 83.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 28, 2017 at 8:50 am

    @amk: You don’t seem to understand: when the kenyan golfed it was goofing off, when Dolt 45 golfs it’s work.

  84. 84.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    March 28, 2017 at 8:54 am

    @Jeffro:

    “Casino owner so wealthy.”

  85. 85.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 28, 2017 at 8:55 am

    @Steeplejack (phone): The c-word will get ya everytime.

  86. 86.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 8:59 am

    @Steeplejack (phone): You spelled ca$in0 wrong.

  87. 87.

    satby

    March 28, 2017 at 9:01 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: LOL, but there’s actually studies about “following your gut instincts”.

  88. 88.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 28, 2017 at 9:07 am

    @satby: I know, Dr. Stephen Colbert told me about that.

  89. 89.

    Chris

    March 28, 2017 at 9:08 am

    @Kay:

    They’ll trot him out before elections to threaten black and brown voters, too. You watch. He’ll be god-awful.

    Yep.

    Selecting Sessions was a clear cut message to everybody concerned: we know we’re in demographic trouble, the fact that we won this election but still lost the popular vote isn’t making us feel any more secure, and we’re going to deal with it by going all-out on suppressing the voting rights of immigrants, blacks, and pretty much anyone else who votes Democrat. 2018 and 2020 are when Sessions is really going to go nuts.

  90. 90.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 28, 2017 at 9:08 am

    @satby: I know, but every time I hear “follow your gut” I have to mention that my gut invariably leads me to either the dinner table or the toilet. ;-)

  91. 91.

    cmorenc

    March 28, 2017 at 9:11 am

    @debbie:

    My understanding is that Nunes met the “source” and then informed Trump. Are there people in the WH who wouldn’t have told Trump to begin with?

    Nothing about Nunes’ actions nor explanations adds up – beyond the glaringly obvious fact that as the chair of the House committee investigating Trump’s russian ties, Nunes (by his own account) accessed classified information he didn’t make available to other members of the committee, and passed it along to the subject of the investigation (Trump) specifically in order to give Trump the appearance of tangential support for his baseless allegations against Obama on wiretapping that Comey and the Justice Dept had said were totally baseless. And Ryan sees no need for Nunes to step aside.

  92. 92.

    Shalimar

    March 28, 2017 at 9:27 am

    @debbie: From the questioning about Nunes would have had to sign in to use a secure room with a source and the fact that none of the info he gathered last Tuesday night has been turned over to any other members of his committee, I think the inference is that Nunes met someone from White House staff to develop a distraction game plan going forward and then met Trump last Wednesday to brief him on how the press conference went and get further orders. The press members asking these questions don’t think he signed in to a secure room because there was no source. All of this has been an intentional distraction.

    RNCC was sending fundraising emails within hours based on their intentional misinterpretation that Nunes’s bombshell revelation of something no one can figure out somehow vindicated Trump’s initial libel of President Obama. This whole line of crap has replaced all the Monday hearing revelations as the story. And they cancelled today’s hearings, so there will be no more public info if Nunes can help it.

  93. 93.

    Jeffro

    March 28, 2017 at 9:34 am

    @Steeplejack (phone): @?BillinGlendaleCA: Thank you both, had no idea!

  94. 94.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    March 28, 2017 at 9:57 am

    @PaulW:

    There was a link in this post yesterday.

  95. 95.

    Ruviana

    March 28, 2017 at 10:06 am

    @rikyrah: So happy to see you smiling again! I’ll probably say this a few more times, that’s how happy it makes me.

  96. 96.

    Aleta

    March 28, 2017 at 10:14 am

    In the week running up to the Women’s Marches sales of poster boards were up 33 percent and foam boards by 42 percent compared to the same weeks in 2016.

    Other tools used to make posters that saw increases on the year before, includ(ed) paint markers (+35 percent), glue (+27 percent), adhesives (+12 percent), and paper punches (+4 percent). (Also sales of fabric paint)

    (from The Independent or H Po)

  97. 97.

    O. Felix Culpa

    March 28, 2017 at 10:15 am

    Breaking news from WaPo: White House tried to stop former acting AG Sally Yates from testifying on Russia in Congress. Racist, xenophobic handwaving just might not save 45 and cronies. I fervently hope.

  98. 98.

    D58826

    March 28, 2017 at 10:40 am

    @O. Felix Culpa: and more –

    Amid the fresh outrages over the Trump administration’s budget proposal, the GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and Muslim Ban 2.0,another scandal is quietly simmering. It’s a story about big oil’s lies and Wall Street corruption that hasn’t gotten anywhere near the attention it deserves.
    It starts with a shady character named Wayne Tracker – or, as you may know him, Rex Tillerson. Tillerson, of course, is Donald Trump’s secretary of state. Prior to joining the Trump administration, he served as CEO of the fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil for over a decade.

    I think there is one infrastructure project that most people would support – a new federal prison for all the crooks and/or traitors in Der Fuhrer’s administration. Of course there is one slightly used facility that would do nicely – GITMO – and the weather is hugely pleasant.

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rex-tillerson-may-be-in-hot-water-over-exxonmobil-emails/ar-BByU741?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp

  99. 99.

    Aleta

    March 28, 2017 at 11:04 am

    @O. Felix Culpa: I’m guessing Nunes wants to step down, to save himself. I hope he can be made to answer questions under oath.

  100. 100.

    Miss Bianca

    March 28, 2017 at 11:48 am

    @cmorenc: Yeah, but HER EMAILS! And OMG, Big Dawg and Loretta Lynch on the tarmac with a pipe wrench!

    Seriously, where’s the media outrage among the VSP? I kn ow, I know, it’s still out on the tarmac…

  101. 101.

    Greg in PDX

    March 28, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    I live in Portland, OR and the general attitude around here and throughout the state (except in the sparsely populated Eastern end of the state which is Bundy land) is that the Trump administration can pass whatever laws or write whatever EO’s and we will simply laugh at them and ignore them. Whenever this administration talks about what “Americans” want or don’t want, I can guarantee you that Portlandia wants the opposite.

  102. 102.

    Sandman

    March 28, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    @D58826: there’s not a pit in Hell deep enough for that lot.

    Though I’m sure that Halliburton could dig one, if the terms were right.

  103. 103.

    Starfish

    March 28, 2017 at 6:18 pm

    Do we have any juicers in or near #ks04? What’s going on with the race there? This guy is running but has not raised much money.

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